Report Template

During the last days we have planned on how to structure our report. We have therefore now created a template which we have based on another report template from IDC (Interaction Design Collegium).

The report will be divided into three main parts, namely:

• …an introductory section

• …a report section

• …a closing section

The introductory section should contain the following:

• FrontPage
• Title
• Author
• University
• Publish date
• Report number etc.
  

• Acknowledgements

• Abstract
• Important section since it is here the reader decides whether to continue reading the report.
• Approximately a half page (max one page)
  
• The summary must be informative and include:
• The most important results
• The conclusions drawn
• Enlighten the purpose, the method and the problem definition
• It shall not contain any fact that is not included in the report
• Is to be written last, when the report is already finished.

• Table of contents
• This section shall include both references to page numbers as well as figures.
• Table of contents
• List of figures

The report section should contain the following:

1. Introduction

• Introduce the reader to the subject at hand
• Try to capture the reader’s interest

1.1 Purpose

• Problem definition
• What does the report include, in general
• What results do we hope to achieve
• The stated problem definition must be answered in the report

1.2 Delimitations

• What delimitations have we made
• How did we do them, on what basis

1.3 Targeted Readers

• Who are the intended readers?

1.4 Report Overview

• Provide reading instructions and describe how the report is structured

2. Background

• Provide facts about the different parts that are involved in our project such as ADAS, situation awareness and ecological user interface etc.

3. Theoretical Framework

• Discuss the area based on previously studies
• Very important to provide references
• Only include subjects that are relevant for our study
  
  

4. Method

• This section shall describe our procedure throughout the project to explain our course of action
• Another important factor here is to motivate our choice of methods

5. Result

• Show and describe the results we've reached in our study
• Must be objective, no personal opinions
• Round up the “Results” section with a summary of the results
  

6. Method Critique

• Discuss the methods and material used in the study
• Could it have been performed differently to improve our methodological work?
• How generalizable are your results?
  
  

7. Discussion

• Discuss our results based on...
• Our purpose and problem definition
• Our references in our theoretical framework
• If we are presenting suggestions of improvements it’s important that we have support for these ideas and suggestions based on previously made studies (from our theoretical framework)
• If we are presenting our own thoughts without references etc. it is extremely important that we emerge that in some way

8. Conclusions

• This section should be short, concise and informative
• Try to connect the conclusions with the purpose and problem definition
  

9. Future Work

• Provide examples of future work

The closing section should contain the following:

10. List of references

• Important to list all sources in a standardized manner

• Appendix