Due Date: Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021
Due Time: 11:59pm
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Description
Useful Context
The NSF grant for “CUE Ethics: A Curricular Design Community for Broadening Participation through Computing in the Arts” aims to build a community of universities and colleges with the common goal of creating curriculum for undergraduate programs in the arts and computing. Creating detailed curriculum and curricular frameworks is a long term goal, creating the community is the immediate goal under the NSF program requirements.
To build an interdisciplinary, multi-campus community dedicated to Arts+CS, the vision of the grant proposal was for the campuses to collaborate on a real, significant art project.
Details
As a second step to the semester project, you were asked to create an elevator pitch for a project idea. Out of these projects we selected six, and assembled six 3-person teams to develop them – using iterative refinement techniques, which were taught as needed and with enough detail to be of practical use.
You have been finalizing your project as we speak, using all the identified user tasks, and updating your conceptual model and system, as needed. At the end of the semester, which is upon us, you will have a final (almost?) fully-functional prototype that achieves the artistic and technical vision of the original project pitch.
Nice!!
For the final, you are going to produce a video, as discussed in class. These videos are a great idea, as they can be used to promote your work (i.e., become part of your portfolio, when interviewing and beyond). Also, they will prepare you for what comes next semester in the CITA capstone. Finally, they could be used (as discussed in class) to attract angel investors to provide capital for a start-up (if you wish to go in this direction…).
The videos should follow these instructions / parameters:
- Must be 3 minutes (5 minutes max) in length.
- Must introduce the team members at the beginning.
- Must succinctly describe the concept that the project is based on.
- Must quickly describe the technologies and framework of the implemented system.
- Must demonstrate the project.
- Must be “slick” (professional) or fun and have pictures and/or videos of the team working on the project.
Here are two examples of such videos produced in the CSCI / CITA / DATA capstone class – i.e., the class you will taking next semester:
Again, these videos come from the capstone class.
Video Description
Your video should be accompanied by a short, yet complete textual description. This is similar to the annotations you did at the beginning of the semester. Its goal is to quickly introduce the video to your audience, without them having to watch the complete video (yet).
Your description should address the three aspects of your work – art, technology, and synthesis (as per the rubric below).
See some examples of such video annotations here.
Rubric
The videos will be graded using the following rubric. Use this as an outline (or checklist) to help organize / structure your video. In essence, your video should address / touch upon all of the following. Also, see the above instructions.
This rubric is copied from the SLOs (Student Learning Outcomes) in our syllabus, reorganized by thematic area:
Artistic
- SLO1 – Develop artistic creativity and critical thinking in the context of computing in the arts.
- SLO2 – Specific to project area (music, theatre, art, game development, etc.): Engage / advance intuitive and analytical decision-making, knowledge of history, theory, and practice / performance.
Technical
- SLO3 – Develop quality, depth, thoroughness of algorithm design, computer programming, problem solving in the context of computing in the arts.
- SLO4 – Apply technical concepts to an advanced artistic problem / area.
Synthesis
- SLO5 – Engage / develop ability to create significant original works.
- SLO6 – Develop competency in (a) incorporating computational tools and techniques into the creative process to achieve an artistic vision; or (b) incorporating creativity, aesthetics and design into new computational techniques, innovative products, or improved problem solving and original inquiry.
Other
- SLO7 – Engage / develop presentation skills.
- SLO8 – Develop skills for collaborative learning, and collaborative software development within a team of peers.
Evaluation
Everyone should evaluate everyone else’s videos using this form.
Additionally, you should evaluate your teammates’ effort using this form.
Submissions
- Upload your video source file on OAKS. Also include your video annotation in the text window.
- Upload your video on YouTube or Vimeo (i.e., a publicly available service). Also include your video annotation as the video description.
- Post your video link on piazza, so others can see it (and evaluate it).
- Complete the two evaluation forms (see above – NOTE: this part, and only this part, is due on Sunday at 11:59pm).
- There are four steps – make sure you’ve done all of them. Now, you are done with the final.
Grading
Your grade will be based on (a) how well you follow these instructions and the depth/quality of your work, and (b) how carefully and thoroughly you evaluated your peers’ contributions.