Great session today. As I said at the end I was really pleased with the way you all chose to present your work with a good level of professionalism even though it was billed as an informal session. I thought there was a good range of ideas and some great apps/prototypes to look forward to.
As promised, the scan of your peer feedback sheets are now available online.
In terms of whole-class feedback, I think the main points are as follows:
- Make sure you don't get carried away with doing a cool mashup and forget about the mobile and/or social context. Remember that the prototype/app is a vehicle for you to explore an idea for an interesting/useful/engaging user experience in the social and mobile computing area, and shouldn't be considered an end in itself.
- Think about how data is gathered by/provided for the application--if your system requires explicit input from users (e.g. adding tags or updating location manually) then you need to provide a compelling reason or very easy mechanism for them to do so.
- It is highly likely that you are not the first person/group to have the idea you are exploring. Don't be put off by finding it 'out there' already. Rather, use this as an opportunity to accelerate your project and build upon what others have done. If your idea has already been implemented, spend some time using and exploring it and work out how to make it better, or how you could distinguish your idea. Make sure you document such existing work on the wiki.
- If you have any ideas about other groups' projects, please go to that group's page on the wiki, click on the 'discussion' tab at the top and add the comments there.
--Stephen.
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