Conceptual Design Projects

Key Links for Students

Login to Segue to work on your project.
(Class members only.)

When to use Segue: Use Segue for V. 1 and V. 2 of your project and as a place to experiment with designs and prototypes. (Post your project prospectus to your class blog, not to Segue.)

The Assignment:

• Playful Technology Conceptual Design Project (Handout: PDF, 3 pages)
• Project Elements Menu -- see 10/12

Guidelines and Help:

• How to Use Segue to Publish Your Project -- see 10/12
• Fieldwork Guidelines and Consent Forms -- see 10/3
• Writing Requirements and Expectations for this course -- see 8/31
• Finding Outside Sources for Your Project -- see 11/7

Award(s) for Outstanding Design of a Playful Technology

To reward general excellence, a distinguished panel of judges has been assembled from industry to assess the projects in this seminar.

Judging Criteria. Outside judges were asked only to consider general excellence and their own professional experience. Contest results do not influence course grades. Projects do not need to be marketable and students do not need to consider technical implementation. As this competition is intended to reward general excellence, judges may consider any criteria in making the award, and make as many or as few awards as they see fit, in whatever categories.

Each project's V. 1 (at least 5 page) Web site will be judged so that students will have a chance to consider any comments and improve their projects before the final.

Judging Begins: Monday, 14 Nov

Award Ceremony: Wednesday, 7 Dec
James Tsai presiding for the distinguished panel of judges.

Final Awards:

First Prize
Matthew Yapchaian (Ephemeral Mapping)

Second Prize
Nisse Byars (Handie Art Station)

Third Prize
Karen Radakovich (Virtual Reality Screens for Sports Bars)

Best Technology we Hope is Produced so that we Don't Have to Smell the Guy on the Treadmill Beside Us
Kimberly Jacobs (Travel Tron)

Most Masochistic
Dennis Bermudez (Shell Shock)

Most Interesting Project with the Least Chance to be Produced by the Industry
Sarah Martin (The Virtual Realm)

Class Member Segue Web Spaces
(listed alphabetically by netid)

To give out your public Segue Project URL to other people, use:
    http://segue.atlas.uiuc.edu/sites/(YOUR NETID)

• Anita Shankar
  
• Brandon Brown
  
• Bradley Bond
  
• Brian Henning
  
• Dennis Bermudez
  
• Cole Shaner
  
• Daniel Proczko
  
• John Harris
  
• Joseph Doran
  
• Kristin Drogos
  
• Kate Conrath
  
• Kimberlee Guy
  
• Kimberly Jacobs
  
• Kira Kohlstedt
  
• Christine Magbanua
  
• Matthew Yapchaian
  
• Mario Moreno
  
• Eric Muscarella
  
• Nicole Chavez
  
• Nicole Martins
  
• Nisse Byars
  
• Karen Radakovich
  
• Sarah Martin
  
• Thomas Donovan
  
• Travis Hurt
  
• Whitney Hutchinson
  
• Hannah Yeam
  

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