Project Plan

Our plan is to work consistently on the project over the course of the time we have available. To this end we have divided our group of four into two teams of two. Each of these two sub-groups will be responsible for the two main areas of our project. Team A comprising Victoria and Corrine will be in charge of the physical construction of the wall whilst Rebecca and Michelle will concentrate on the graphical and audio representation. Victoria will be overseeing the entire production and resources can be moved across teams as required.

The major milestones are show in the project plan below. Its shows that all members of the team are responsible for the overall project milestones (Proposal and Presentation, Proof of Concept and End of Semester Exhibition). All members have agreed to this project plan and have allocated the time required to do this. As approximately 24 hours is to be allocated each week, Team A will be spending at least two full days each week at Victoria’s house (where we will be building the touch interface) to ensure that the physical construction is completed in good time. Team B will be working very closely (also over at least two full days) together to develop the image and sound that will be represented. They, and the group as a whole will be communicating frequently via email, MSN Messenger and Twitter to ensure that the project is kept on track and that all members be kept aware of any issues that may arise. Other ideas, communication and thoughts will be added to our blog (http://interactivechilloutroom.blogspot.com/ - the name being a leftover from our initial idea). We have found blogs to be a great way of record-keeping for projects that we have worked on together previously. Each week there will also be a group lunch on Tuesdays where we can then voice any issues that have not been previously dealt with.

The resources required for the assignment were one of the initial main areas of concern for us. Obviously as students, financial concerns are paramount when entering into any project of this magnitude. Many of our ideas were, despite our best intentions, constrained by this factor. Thankfully, for the graphical and sound display, Rebecca and Michelle will be using Adobe Flash, which is available on the University of Queensland’s computer labs. The budget as shown below shows where our money will be allocated. Whilst we have added a contingency of 40%, we feel this is very generous and are quite confident that we’ll be able to bring it in on a budget of around $400 which would mean a contribution of $100 each.