Week 10 & Reflection for the Quarter

Hello everyone!

Week 10 is officially over and so ends our first quarter working on the Access Lecture project.  It feels like it went by really fast. Over the past 10 weeks, some of the main tasks we completed were...

• Conducting interviews and surveys with our focus groups
• Establishing the applications functional and nonfunctional requirements based off of those responses
• Familiarizing ourselves with the basics of Objective-C, XCode, and ios development
• Working on mock-ups of the applications user interface (look at last weeks entry to see pretty pictures)

Looking back at the initial project time line, we are pretty much on par with where we want to be for the start of the next quarter!

For the next quarter, which will encompass December, January, and February, we will be

• Conducting usability tests with students and follow-up interviews
• Looking into wireless api's and conducting research to see if we can work with the Mimio api's and datafeed
• Eventually we (the Access Lecture team, not necessarily the current members) will possibly develop new hardware, but for now we want to focus on the software and so it makes sense to work with the already existing Mimio.
• Draft the design document
• And start developing/testing for the initial release...
• For the initial release we want the iPad to be able to receive transmitted data (the marker strokes) from the mimo, and display that data on it's screen.

What we've done on the project so far has been pretty interesting, and I think that what we have in store for next quarter will be even more exciting to work on.

We will update you guys in a few weeks when classes & work resumes.

-Lindsey