6.831 • User Interface Design and Implementation

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Fall Semester, 2006

GR5: Implementation

Due in 21 days, on Tuesday, December 5th, 2006, by demonstration to the teaching staff.

Overview

In this group assignment, you will do a working implementation of your term project.

By the deadline, your implementation should be complete in the sense that you are ready to test users on the tasks you used for your paper prototype. Your implementation should have both frontend and backend. User interactions should be live, not canned responses. For some projects, we understand that a complete backend may be beyond the scope of this class, and allowances will be made for that.

No written report is required for this assignment. Instead, your group will sign up for an appointment to demonstrate your implementation to the teaching staff. Appointments will start on the due date and run for the next few days. You will have a 20-minute time slot. Within this time, you will have to:

Demonstrations will generally take place in Prof. Miller's office (32-G716). You should make arrangements to bring your interface somehow: putting it on the Web, bringing it on a USB keychain drive or CD, or bringing your own laptop. If you want to use our machines for your demonstration, we have Windows XP, Debian Linux, Java 1.5, Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 6.0, mouse with scroll wheel, and displays with up to 1600x1200 resolution. If your interface has special needs that we can't provide, you can arrange for the demonstration to take place elsewhere, but you must make these arrangements in advance.

What to Hand In

There is no written report to hand in for this assignment.