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Team Overview - Week 28

Week 28, Meeting 1:
Date: 15/12/2010
Time: 10:00pm until 10:25pm
Staff present: Andrew Williams, Amanda Dewhurst
Location: C2 – 08

In this weeks meeting with Andrew and Amanda, the team received feedback on a couple of sections included in the final report. Both lecturers provided some excellent feedback, giving advice on how to better word particular sections of the report and what elements we could add / alter to potentially receive higher grades. After the meeting, team members took into account all of the feedback given and amended the report where appropriate.

Both Andrew and Amanda stressed that individual reports are also handed in after the Christmas break, advising team members to work with them over the upcoming three week holiday.

Thursday, December 16, 2010 // Labels: M5, Overviews, Week 28 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 27

Week 27, Meeting 1:
Date: 08/12/2010

To allow more time for our data analysis, Andrew and Amanda cancelled the meeting this week while team members spent time working in C2-03. The Wednesday meetings are currently scheduled to return next week, with team members showing off an example of our group report work before the three week Christmas break.

Thursday, December 09, 2010 // Labels: M5, Overviews, Week 27 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 26

To allow more time for our testing process, both University meetings were cancelled for this week. Meetings will resume as normal next Wednesday with the team performing a dry-run of our final milestone presentation. The presentation itself will take place on the following day, Thursday the 9th of December.

Thursday, December 02, 2010 // Labels: M4, Overviews, Week 26 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 25

Week 25, Meeting 1:
Date: 24/11/2010
Time: 09:20pm until 09:40pm
Staff present: Amanda Dewhurst, Andrew Williams
Location: C2 – 08

This week with our meeting with Amanda and Andrew, we were given feedback on a piece of written documentation that was to be included in the groups final report. Both lecturers had lots of feedback to give and all of it was taken in into account and edited to be re-sent to Amanda the following day.

Thursday, November 25, 2010 // Labels: M4, Overviews, Week 25 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 24

Week 24, Meeting 1:
Date: 17/11/2010

To allow for more time between the lecturers and the current Final Team Project starters, this weeks meeting with Andrew and Amanda was cancelled. The Wednesday meetings will resume at 9am next week with the team receiving feedback on one pages worth of written documentation.

Thursday, November 18, 2010 // Labels: M4, Overviews, Week 24 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 23

Week 23, Meeting 1:
Date: 10/11/2010
Time: 10:00am until 10:25am
Staff present: Andrew Williams, Amanda Dewhurst
Location: C2 – 08

In our first meeting this week, the team spent time with Andrew and Amanda discussing the final team report. Both lecturers analysed the table of contents and gave some good feedback on items we could change to help leave us with a better report structure.

We were also suggested to come back in two weeks time with a piece of written work, ideally around three or four paragraphs in length. This work would then be looked at by both lecturers and feedback will be given. The work is to be emailed to both Andrew and Amanda on the 23rd of November in preparation for the meeting the following morning.

There is currently no meeting scheduled on the Wednesday next week, allowing the team more time to spend testing.

Thursday, November 11, 2010 // Labels: M4, Overviews, Week 23 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 22

Week 22, Meeting 1:
Date: 03/11/2010
Time: 09:00am until 09:30am
Staff present: Andrew Williams, Amanda Dewhurst
Location: C2 – 08

In our first meeting this week, the team spent time performing a 'dry run' presentation to both Andrew and Amanda. Both lecturers seemed pleased with our performance and offered useful feedback with advice on what to tweak and improve ready for the assessed run on the 4th.

Thursday, November 04, 2010 // Labels: M3, Overviews, Week 22 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 21

Week 21, Meeting 1:
Date: 27/10/2010
Time: 09:30am until 09:55am
Staff present: Andrew Williams, Amanda Dewhurst
Location: C2 – 08

In the first team meeting this week, Andrew and Amanda looked over our draft table of contents for the final report, providing feedback where appropriate. Both lecturers seemed generally pleased with the current table of contents and mentioned altering a couple of topics (such as the Test Theory and Critical Assessment sections) positions on the hierarchy. We also confirmed our next Milestone presentation with Andrew and Amanda, requesting a dry run presentation on the 3rd of November.

Thursday, October 28, 2010 // Labels: M3, Overviews, Week 21 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 20

Week 20, Meeting 1:
Date: 20/10/2010

To allow for more time between the lecturers and the current Final Team Project starters, this weeks meeting with Andrew and Amanda was cancelled. The Wednesday meetings will resume at 9am next week with the team presenting the contents page of our final report to peers.

Thursday, October 21, 2010 // Labels: M3, Overviews, Week 20 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 19

Week 19, Meeting 1:
Date: 13/10/2010
Time: 09:00am until 09:20am
Staff present: Andrew Williams, Amanda Dewhurst
Location: C2 – 08

Unfortunately, many team members were absent today due to a mix up of the meetings times and also due to one team member falling ill. Fortunately, one team member did attend and discussed with lecturers the current status of the team, the group and individual blogs and also the work required for the following week.

The team also met up later on in the day to discuss level building, urgent work that needs completing and also to prepare for the meeting with Brian and Phil the following day.

Thursday, October 14, 2010 // Labels: M3, Overviews, Week 19 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 18

Week 18, Meeting 1:
Date: 06/10/2010
Time: 11:00am until 11:20am
Staff present: Andrew Williams, Amanda Dewhurst
Location: C2 – 08

In today's team meeting, Andrew and Amanda gave some good advice regarding both the group and individual reports. The deadlines for both were given and all team members were de-briefed on what is to be required.

Andrew also brought to attention that if we're to present lecturers work during our team meetings, sending an email beforehand with the document as an attachment may be a good idea. This will help give lecturers more time to view the work completed and provide useful feedback.

Friday, October 08, 2010 // Labels: M3, Overviews, Week 18 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 17

Week 17, Meeting 1:
Date: 29/09/2010
Time: 11:15am until 11:40am
Staff present: Andrew Williams, Amanda Dewhurst
Location: C2 – 08

Our first meeting back after the summer break had the team giving both Andrew and Amanda a re-cap of our project and an overview of the work completed during summer. Both tutors gave good feedback and seemed to give us a generally positive response in regards to the project as a whole. For next week, Amanda has agreed to look over the research completed over the holidays and will give appropriate feedback during Week 19.

Thursday, September 30, 2010 // Labels: M3, Overviews, Week 17 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 16

Week 16, Meeting 1:
Date: 25/05/2010
Time: 12:00pm until 12:20pm
Staff present: Claire Brierley
Location: C2 – 03

This week's meeting with Claire had the team talking through the work completed in the last few weeks and how our meetings with Andrew Williams went. Mention of the Summer Plan was made in preparation for the verbal report on Friday.

Sunday, May 30, 2010 // Labels: M2, Overviews, Week 16 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 14 and Week 15

Week 14, Meeting 1:
Date: 11/05/2010
Time: 12:00pm until 12:10pm
Staff present: Andrew Williams
Location: C2 – 04a

As Claire and Amanda are absent for both week fourteen and fifteen, the team met up with Andrew Williams to discuss work completed on the project so far. This first meeting saw team members giving Andrew a quick synopsis on the project, with further discussion on what are planning on testing, how and all of the work completed thus far. A very positive response was given with encouragement to continue working over the summer period.

Sunday, May 23, 2010 // Labels: M2, Overviews, Week 14, Week 15 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 13

Week 13, Meeting 1:
Date: 04/05/2010
Time: 12:00pm until 12:30pm
Staff present: Claire Brierley
Location: C2 – 04a

This week's meeting with Claire had the team talking about Milestone II and our meeting plans for the upcoming weeks. We also discussed summer work and the verbal report at the end of May.

Sunday, May 09, 2010 // Labels: M2, Overviews, Week 13 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 12

Week 12, Meeting 1:
Date: 27/04/2010
Time: 12:00pm until 12:20pm
Staff present: Claire Brierley
Location: C2 – 04a

This week's meeting with Claire had the team talking through our Milestone I presentation and discussing the work completed over Easter. We received feedback from Claire on the subject of Milestone I, and also discussed what we were to prepare for next weeks meeting.

Items addressed:
i. Easter Work.
ii. Milestone I Presentation.
iii. Feedback.
iv. Work Preparation.

Week 12, Meeting 2:
Date: 30/04/2010
Time: 01:00pm until 01:30pm
Staff present: Brian Morris, Phil Carlisle
Location: C2 – 04a

This weeks meet up with Brian and Phil had the team presenting the summation of Milestone I. Both lectures gave feedback on the work shown, mainly criticising both the wording of our hypothesis and the lack of research papers presented to them in presentation format rather than in a document.

Individual Week 12 Logs:
Kyle - http://dysc.blogspot.com/2010/10/week-xii-overview.html
Lee - http://las1gcc.blogspot.com/2010/04/level-3-team-project-week-12.html
Adam -
Lewis -
Steve - http://austinfable.blogspot.com/2010/05/steve-week-12.html

Links to individual blogs will be added into this post by members once their weekly journal is complete.

Saturday, May 01, 2010 // Labels: M1, Overviews, Week 12 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 11

Week 11, Meeting 1:
Cancelled due to lecturer absence.

Week 11, Meeting 2:
Date: 23/04/2010
Time: 01:00pm until 01:30pm
Staff present: Brian Morris, Phil Carlisle
Location: C2 – 04a

This week's meeting with Brian and Phil had the team discussing work completed over Easter and our plans for the Milestone 1 Presentation next week. As both Claire and Amanda were away, our refined methods as to how we were going to record test data was pitched to Brian and Phil, with feedback given for each.

The main issue we faced was concerning how we were to gather metrics by using Steam Demo files. Our current method, measuring from the eye, would not give as accurate results as desired. This lead us to discuss other ways we could record this data, such as with heat maps or triggers. The team also spoke about the testing environment, with both lecturers giving suggestions as to how we could help test subjects feel more comfortable. This would ultimately have the empathy they show towards our NPC clearer, as a relaxed environment can help players convey more accurate emotions.

Items addressed:
i. Easter Work.
ii. Feedback.
iii. Test Ideas.
iv. Data Collection.
v. Metrics.
vi. Testing Environment.

Individual Week 11 Logs:
Kyle - http://dysc.blogspot.com/2010/10/week-xi-overview.html
Lee - http://las1gcc.blogspot.com/2010/04/level-3-team-project-week-11.html
Adam -
Lewis -
Steve - http://austinfable.blogspot.com/2010/04/steve-easter-week-8-10-week-11.html

Links to individual blogs will be added into this post by members once their weekly journal is complete.

Saturday, April 24, 2010 // Labels: M1, Overviews, Week 11 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Easter (Weeks 8-10)

During the three week Easter break, team members were set several tasks to complete for the week commencing the 19th of April. The tasks mainly consisted of writing up ideas for what we should include in our test and to have researched existing investigations of a similar nature to ours. Outstanding work was also and posted on the blog either before or during the weekend meeting post the meet up with Claire and Amanda on the 20th of April.

Sunday, April 18, 2010 // Labels: Easter, M1, Overviews // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 7

Week 7, Meeting 1:
Date: 23/03/2010
Time: 12:00pm until 12:45pm
Staff present: Claire Brierley, Amanda Dewhurst
Location: C2 – 04a

This weeks meeting with Claire and Amanda saw a lot of discussion regarding the groups project test. Both Claire and Amanda gave advice on what we need to consider and refine ready for discussion once the group returns after the three week Easter break. We decided to hopefully have our test in final state by the week returning, with research into existing tests of a similar nature being completed during the short holiday.

Items addressed:
i. Pitch Presentation.
ii. Feedback.
iii. Test Ideas.

Sunday, March 28, 2010 // Labels: M1, Overviews, Week 7 // 0 comments //

Team Overview - Week 6

Week 6, Meeting 1:
Date: 16/03/2010
Time: 12:00pm until 12:45pm
Staff present: Claire Brierley, Amanda Dewhurst
Location: C2 – 04a

This weeks meeting with Claire and Amanda had the group performing a 'dry run' presentation, along with engaging in discussion in regards to feedback on the Design Document and the upcoming Pitch Presentation at the end of the week. The feedback we received was on the most part, positive. Claire and Amanda brought up some interesting points, all of which the team plan to address before the Milestone 1 presentation on the 30th of April.

Items addressed:
i. Design Document, Pitch and Plan.
ii. Feedback.
iii. 'Dry Run' Presentation.

Friday, March 26, 2010 // Labels: M1, Overviews, Week 6 // 0 comments //