Tentative Schedule

Week of
Task/Topic
Details
Sept 12
Research
- Create Blog
- Begin Research on HCI concepts and design and evaluation strategies for educational applications.
Research 
Start to establish a knowledge base of HCI and usability concepts.
Investigate traditional design and evaluation methods and how they may be altered to cater to an educational application
Sept 19
 Research
- Concepts in 'how people learn'
- Investigate effective teaching strategies and key principles in deep learning and knowledge retention





Research
- Establish a general knowledge base of effective teaching techniques in order to properly evaluate what is required (from a non-technical standpoint) for a successful tutoring software
- Research existing educational software  their different approaches/technologies used to educate.
Sept 26
Research
- Continue research in advanced HCI concepts and e-learning design method.

Evaluations
- Conduct usability evaluation #1 on iphone/ipad app 
- Review changes of usability evaluation #1

Oct 3
Research
- Continue research in advanced HCI concepts and e-learning design method.


- Meeting with members of the Cog2 regarding usability evaluations
Oct 10
Research
- Continue research in advanced HCI concepts and e-learning design method.
- Pulling from research, design a tentative evaluation method suitable for Cog2

- Meeting with members of the Cog2 regarding timeline of heuristic and usability testing
Oct 17
Research
- Continue work on evaluation methodology and schedule

Evaluations
- Generate guiding heuristics for round #2, heuristic evaluation

-Establish a timeline and evaluation schedule for Cog2
Oct 24
Evaluations

- Continue document with guiding heuristics for round #2, heuristic evaluation
- Establish schedule for evaluation round #1, Cog2

- Round #1
Oct 31
Evaluations
- Begin evaluation round #1 
 
- Delay for survey, out on 28th
Nov 7
Evaluations
-// Complete evaluation round #1

- Start evaluation #1
-...Compile and analyze results
-...Implement Fixes
Nov 14
Evaluations
-// Begin evaluation round #2, heuristics


Nov 21
Evaluations
- Complete evaluation round #2, heuristics

- Compile and analyze results
- Implement Fixes
Nov 28
Evaluations
- Begin non-technical user evaluations


Dec 5
 Evaluations
- Complete non-technical user evaluations

Report
- Final Presentation 
- Compile and analyze results
- Implement Fixes