Final Project Documentation

Each final project requires an accompanying report. The primary purpose of the report is to present the project as an interaction experience, with an emphasis on how gesture, movement, and form created human engagement. Overall, it should document how this inquiry spurred questions, the specific choices made in response, whether they were successful, and how future work could improve the result.

The artifact you constructed was instrumental to creating a performance, but was not itself the outcome. Please briefly explain your design and engineering choices primarily in terms of how they were intended to support interaction.

The report should focus on inquiry and outcome more than development narrative. Please don’t just write the story of everything that happened; please carefully consider whether any mistakes and diversions would be enlightening to the reader.

A video (one to four minutes long) must be included that conveys an impression of the performance. The emphasis should be on recreating as much of the kinetic and interactive expression of the performance as possible rather than technical or development details. It is fine to edit one or more subject studies together.

Checklist for Final Project Documentation

Please be sure to include:

  1. A final title for the work.

  2. A clear statement of the project narrative in a few sentences. What was your final concept for an interaction scenario?

  3. A discussion of outcomes in a paragraph or two. What did you learn?

  4. Attribution of any generative AI usage (as per the syllabus section on Generative Artificial Intelligence)

  5. For each group member, a list of specific technical and artistic contributions attributable to that member.

Supporting technical documentation:

  1. Photographs posted inline to highlight specific design elements.

  2. Documentary video file.

  3. All program source code is required and must be provided as an uploaded file. Source code should be provided in original format packaged in a single zip file.

  4. All original mechanical CAD files should be uploaded in the original format packaged in a single zip file.