Sketching Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to come up with a visualization or visual analytics tool to help people get a comprehensive answer to your favorite research question from the last assignment (we discussed which one that could be in class). To do this we will practie the 10+10 technique together in class and you will use it again for your assignment. Your tasks are:

Exercise 1: Brainstorming session (spend 1h together)

  • sketch ideas, each on single sheet of paper
  • we will start this in the lab with the 10+10 technique
  • create an affinity diagram with the sketches (what is an affinity diagram you ask?)
  • organize them into groups of sketches that are related in either technique or data shown or ...

Exercise 2: Selecting and polish the most promising ideas

  • from the affinity diagram, select the three or four most promising sketches. Three if you are in a group of three, four for groups of four. The sketches do not have to be from different students.
  • discuss these sketches
  • re-sketch them on a piece of paper neatly, one per student (even if it was not your original sketch)
  • add annotations, provide descriptions where necessary, for example of the research questions or the tasks to be accomplished with the ideas you sketched. Add date and name of re-sketching student. Make sure the sketch is understandable for someone else looking at it.

Deliverable:

  • take the 3 or 4 re-sketched ideas.
  • put them together in a folder.

Your Deliverable

WHAT - To complete the assignment you should:

  1. Hand in the deliverable as outlined above

WHERE - You should bring it to class on November 21st

WHEN - Assignment 5 is at the beginning of class on November 21