Report Format
For this class, you will be asked to write your report in a professional research conference-style format. There are many templates in use by CHI-related conferences that provide an excellent formatting foundation for your report. You are free to choose whatever template is employed in an existing CHI-related conference, but for the sake of consistency, it's recommended that you resort to the template used by the ACM SIGCHI conference. Click the link below if you wish to use ACM SIGCHI's template for your reports.
Grading Rubric
As you write your report, carefully follow the scoring guidelines in the rubric below in order to help you develop a well-written report. Also be sure to completely address each of the points listed in each section. Your project grade is heavily dependent on it.
For this class, you will be asked to write your report in a professional research conference-style format. There are many templates in use by CHI-related conferences that provide an excellent formatting foundation for your report. You are free to choose whatever template is employed in an existing CHI-related conference, but for the sake of consistency, it's recommended that you resort to the template used by the ACM SIGCHI conference. Click the link below if you wish to use ACM SIGCHI's template for your reports.
Grading Rubric
As you write your report, carefully follow the scoring guidelines in the rubric below in order to help you develop a well-written report. Also be sure to completely address each of the points listed in each section. Your project grade is heavily dependent on it.
CONTENT (50%)
- Clarity (25%)
- There should be no spelling mistakes.
- There should be no grammar mistakes.
- Writing should be clear and cogent.
- Writing should be as brief as possible (i.e., not rambling).
- Uses images when necessary to clarify ideas.
- Sentences flow from one to the next.
- Overall flow is good.
- Does not use 'I'.
- Ideas (25%)
- Ideas are original.
- Ideas are interesting.
FORMAT (50%)
- Overall (5%)
- Title, author, headings, etc. are properly formated.
- Abstract (5%)
- One-paragraph summary of your paper.
- One sentence motivation.
- One sentence what you did.
- One sentence results.
- Do not make this a story.
- People should be able to *only* read your abstract and know exactly what you did.
- Introduction/Motivation (5%)
- Introduce the area.
- Describe the problem you are trying to solve.
- Why this problem is important.
- Provide any background information necessary to understand the problem.
- Any intelligent person should be able to understand -- and be motivated by -- your problem.
- Previous Work (5%)
- List at least 2-3 of the most related work in the field.
- Describe how your work differs from theirs (i.e. why their work does not solve the problem you are trying to solve).
- Does your previous work appropriately set the stage for your work?
- Does it tell a story?
- Implementation/Methodology (5%)
- What did you do?
- How did you do it?
- How can other people reproduce what you did?
- Results (5%)
- What was the outcome of you work?
- What statistical test did you use to determine these results (i.e., a t-test).
- Graphs and tables.
- Make sure there is some way to measure what you have done.
- Discussion (5%)
- Analysis of the results.
- What worked.
- What didn’t work.
- Why do you think things worked.
- Why do you think things didn’t work.
- Future Work (5%)
- If you had more time to work on this, what would you do next give the results of your paper? Why?
- Conclusion (5%)
- Summarize what you told them.
- What were the key findings.
- Similar to abstract, but you can assume people have read the paper.
- What did you want people to get out of the paper?
- What should they walk away remembering?
- Bibliography (5%)
- References are properly cited.
- References consist primarily of archival publications, as opposed to websites.
