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Overview
Your final grade is made up of two major components,
homework assignments, and a project. The
weighting of these components is described below.
Students are expected to do their
own work at all times and to follow the university's
codes of academic conduct and honor code. Cases of
suspected collaboration or cheating will be immediately
forwarded to the Dean of Student Affairs, and will be
pursued to resolution. This is an unpleasant process for
all involved, so please do not put yourself in this
situation.
Grading
is determined by a term-long accumulation of points,
weighed in percentage as stated for each component as
summarized below. Determinations of the individual
category breakdowns will be determined by looking for
gaps or clumps in the final averages.
Homework Assignments
The regular homework assignments will be substantive and you will have about a week to do
them. I anticipate giving around four of these. These regular
homeworks will be worth 15% of your grade. Individual values
will be determined later.
Project
One term-long interface design project will be given in
this course. The project will be broken down into five parts, each around five weeks in duration. Each of the
substantive assignments is worth 16% of your final grade.
The project will have you develop a game. The
assignments will have you specify a game, design it, build it, and
evaluate it. The material which you turn in
should be presented professionally, and should stress
grammatical correctness and clarity. It will be submitted
via on paper, with supplementary material via the Web.
You will be judged on your originality, innovativeness,
quality of writing, and correctness. Each assignment will
be graded on a scale of 0 to 10. Further details will
accompany each assignment.
Class Participation
Reading assignments will be specified for each week. You
are expected to come to class, and be prepared --- that
is, having read and having made an attempt to understand
the material. You should be ready to discuss the material
covered in the lectures and reading. Much of the material
in this course is subjective. Feel free to describe your views This is
worth 5% on the term.
Experiment Participation
My research group is doing user interface evaluation experiments this
spring, and we need participants. We
will "pay" each student who
participates as a subject in our experiments 2 percentage
points on the term's mark. Credit for participation in an experiment can
only be applied to one class.
Summary
Below is presented the weight of the different course
components toward your final grade.
| Component |
|
Weight |
| Experiment Participation |
|
2% |
| HWs |
|
15% |
| Project part 1 - Game Proposal + Design Sketch |
|
16% |
| Project part 2 - Design Specification + Interim Report |
|
16% |
| Project part 3 - Progress Report |
|
16% |
| Project part 4 - Alpha Release |
|
16% |
| Project part 5 - Playtesting and Final Paper |
|
16% |
| Class Participation |
|
5% |
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