CSEP590B/F Smartphone Mobile Computing – Winter 2011


Homework for week #8 – Powerpoint slideshow of your application in typical use

For this assignment you will take your collection of mock-up screens from homework #7 and refine them.  First, you will actually write code (if you haven’t already) to render the different screens – they don’t have to correspond exactly to those of #7 as your thinking may have changes.  Second, you will take screenshots of all the screens from the emulator (add any missing information the emulator can’t provide, e.g., GPS or photos) and link them together in a Powerpoint slide show.  The slides show should include “notes” visible on each slide explaining what is being shown, a big red arrow(s) showing where the user would touch next, and a transition to the next slide (all just use simple transitions).  If you line up screenshots in the exact same place on the all the slides then it will actually look like a use case for your application.  It should be a perfectly linear slide show with slide n leading to slide n+1.  If you need to show going back, add a slide that shows the user clicking a “back” button, and then show how the user would get to another screen.  We should be able to easily view the slideshow in “slide show”mode and see all the notes directly on the slides.

 

Unlike homework #7, in the homework, the slide show is not just a collection of screen but a complete run through a typical use case.  By the end of this assignment you should have all your screen rendering completed and be focusing on the internals of your application rather than on the UI (of course, the UI will be refined some more, but the hope is those changes will be minor).  Furthermore, you should be getting the application ready to try out with real users.  More on that in homework #9.

 

Turn in a single .ppt or .pptx file containing the slideshow named HW8-yourteamname.ppt or .pptx

 


 

Grading criteria

 

10 Full Score

-1 to -4 for incomplete collection of screens

-1 to -4 for incomplete description of screen content  in Powerpoint

-2 for gratuitous use of animation