Christie's Weekly update

Summary Question (11/7 – 11/13)

1. What did you plan to do?

-Phone dev.

-begin using what I know to start the shell of my iphone game proposal

2. What did you do?

   -recycled code from pong demo to to start shell of game

• recycled code from iphone example to have an animated view transition

• created artwork for the game

• -lab demo for GRAD

3. What problems did you encounter?
- none so far. I am hoping that I have learned enough about objective c and iPhone coding in general to allow me to at least incorporate code from some of the examples I have tried into my game

4. What are you doing next week?

- Phone dev.

- animate the bugs in the game, learn how to instance objects

5. How many hours did you work?
- 11 hours

Drew Hicks -- Fri, Oct 23

We moved to ASSEMBLA!

What I did in the last day / week

Completed the mission page’s functionality:
- List of current and past missions
- Ability to generate a new mission when the current mission is complete
- Ability to select from a few missions to increase mission consistency

What I will do today / this week

Implement difficulty checking when generating missions
Create the networks page and create some interactivity with it

Total Hrs: ~12

Drew Hicks, -- Fri, Oct. 9

What I did this week:

Introduced Katie and Samantha into the code base

Worked with Katie to get mission generation functional

various database tweaks to get rid of redundancy

What I plan to do next week:

Missions - done!

start working on implementing events

brainstorm! new gameplay mechanics

Hopefully get set up on SVN

Get a functional version ready to test

Roadblocks:

Lack of sleep, but that's all!

Hours:

A lot! probably 15-20

Drew Hicks -- Fri, Oct. 2

What I did this week:

Troubleshooting on Spelman implementation of SNAGEM 1

What I plan to do next week:

Resume Development of SNAGEM 2

Create new website

Implement as much old code as possible

Roadblocks I encountered:

None

Total Hours: 8-10

Drew Hicks -- Fri, Oct. 30

What I did this week:

Implemented difficulty checking

Created a frame for the Networks, Groups, Events pages

Started working on improved database

What I plan to do next week:

Create Networks Page

Create Groups Page

Implement event attendance missions

Clean up database

Roadblocks I encountered:

Trouble getting points to register correctly... simple math bug I think but I need to find it

Total Hours: 7 to 8

Drew Hicks -- Fri. Nov 6

What I did this week:

Improved database layout; removed redundant information

Cleaned up the database removing problems

What I plan to do next week:

Create Networks Page

Create Groups Page

Implement event attendance missions

Roadblocks I encountered:

None

Total Hours: 7 to 8

Drew Hicks -- Fri. Nov. 13

What I did this week:

Worked with Sandhya to create Networks page

Worked on expanding the database to include avatar, event, and group information in the most efficient way

Started an E/R Diagram to show the expanded database

What I plan to do next week:

Finish E/R Diagram

Create new tables in database

Implement event attendance missions

Roadblocks I encountered:

None

Total Hours: 10 to 11

Katie's Update, November 6th - November 13th

What did you plan to do?

• Bug tracking and resolving
• Get this game out for playtesting
• Recover the game description/how to/etc that have vanished from the site

What did you do?

• Still nowhere near as much as I would have liked to accomplish
• Met with Dr. Barnes
• Located the issues that appeared to exist with things having been overwritte
  

What problems did you encounter?

• I still have a lack of time :(
• We really need to halt development sometime soon, we keep achieving playable versions of the game and then the next day things will be broken again....
• I think something odd has occurred with registration...as my profile was erased and my re-registered profile does not have proper functionality
  

What do you plan to do next week?

• Figure out where the registration issues are coming from
• Determine an end-point for this version of Snag so play testing can begin
• Release for playtesting!!!
  

How many hours did you work?
~5 total

Samantha update 11/05 - 11/12

What did you plan to do?

Get registration forms working and write more paper.

What did you do?

Read through a lot of form-specific tutorials. I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get this form to work. It won't be complete by the time of the meeting, though I plan to get it done this weekend. I also began working on getting the visual poster done for SNCURCS / other conferences.

What problems did you encounter?

I spent the majority of my time this week on the registration page because that needs to be done before we begin studies. I didn't do as much of the paper as I'd planned due to this.

What do you plan to do next week?

The form will be done.The poster paper will be done, as I'll begin to make the outline and start filling in sections for a real paper. I'll also continue working on the visual poster which we need for SNCURCS on the 21st(?).

How many hours did you work?

~9 hours

Christie Thornton Updates (10/24 - 11/7)

Summary Question (10/24 – 10/30)

What did you plan to do?
- CSS tutorial
- CSS for SNAGEM
- iPhone with remaining time

2. What did you do?
- placed iPhone dev on hold
- began implementation of CSS
- moved all images from the header.php and footer .php files and moved them into the css.
-began the Girly.css style sheet
- added some missing tags into the css files

3. What problems did you encounter?

- not many. Picking up the css wasn’t difficult, my biggest issue was learning how the code base was orgainzed, and after looking through a few files with direction from Evie I was able to catch on.

4. What are you doing next week?
- css tweaks

- iphone dev

5. How many hours did you work?

- 10 hours

Summary Question (10/31 – 11/7)

1. What did you plan to do?
- create CSS for the oringinal black background CSS

- iphone development

2. What did you do?
- Convert orginal SNAG to conform to the existing CSS (Assassin.css)
- Attend iPhone development workshop

- Help prepare laptops for the workshop

3. What problems did you encounter?

-none, but the tutorial was very helpful. It gave me information that I can use to at least start implementation of my game proposal

4. What are you doing next week?
- Phone dev.
-begin using what I know to start the shell of my iphone game proposal

5. How many hours did you work?

- 10 hours

Samantha update 11/01 - 11/07

What did you plan to do?

Write more of the paper

What did you do?

Wrote more of the paper! Abstract and conclusion sections complete, as well as most of the benefits of snag section. I looked over the surveys / pre-tests / post-tests that I wrote and finalized the process for how the study will be run. I've been doing literary criticisms of three papers which have been REALLY helpful for the introduction sections, which are really important for our paper, for Dr. Lipford. I feel very confident about my knowledge of the current research in the area of social networking tools developed for conferences.

What problems did you encounter?

I've been sick and had to spend a few days this week at the doctor's office, so I didn't have as much time as I'd like.

What do you plan to do next week?

The paper will be done by this Friday, aside from some sections (implementation, SNAG games suite) which I'd like to get more information about from other team mates.

How many hours did you work?

~10 hours

Samantha update 10/25/09 - 11/01/09

What did you plan to do?

Begin writing paper

What did you do?

Wrote really comprehensive introduction sections about the importance of networking at conferences and the importance of networking at universities. I'm very pleased with it. I also planned on what will go in the other sections. My meeting with Dr. Lipford went well, and she emphasized the importance of how Snag'em can be used to "turn physical data into virtual data." This is something I've been thinking a lot about, and have been making notes about how we can do this with Snag'em, such as visualizations, drag and drop interfaces to category friends, etc.

I also finalized the registration process with Thomas, and helped design some gameplay issues with Evie and Drew.

What problems did you encounter?

Lack of time. :)

What do you plan to do next week?

Write more write more write more. More papers. Make sure everything is ready to go for running studies.

How many hours did you work?

~11 hours

Samantha update 10/17/09 - 10/24/09

What did you plan to do?

Make official outline of paper, help with development when I can

What did you do?

Finally could good papers, met with Dr. Lipford to discuss important HCI aspects and how we can make this novel compared to current tools, got basic outline of paper finished.

What problems did you encounter?

None!

What do you plan to do next week?

Start writing parts of the paper and filling in citations. I'm meeting with Heather again next week.

How many hours did you work?

~10 hours

Katie's Update October 30th - November 6th (from Wordpress)

What did you plan to do?

• Bug tracking and resolving
• Get this game out for playtesting

What did you do?

• Very little related to this project

What problems did you encounter?

• The game info I had written and posted is no longer displayed on the site, somehow it was overwritten...
• I have had a hectic week and been unable to contribute a significant amount of time to the CREU work this week.
• The only research payment I've received thus far was gobbled up by Student Accounts, so I now work a part time job to maintain an income. Because of this, it is difficult for me to be present at weekly Snag meetings

What do you plan to do next week?

• Bug tracking and resolving
• Get this game out for playtesting
• Recover the game description/how to/etc that have vanished from the site

How many hours did you work?
~2 total

Thomas Bi-monthly update #4

Oct. 16th - Nov 3rd

1. What did you plan to do?

Get Snagem 2.0 working

2. What did you do?
Getting closer to being finished but still need to work on cleaning up the site and adding the last few features.

3. What problems did you encounter?
We now have an excellent project management system with SVN so that problem is not holding us back any more. We still need to make sure everyone does an update before their commit.

4. What are you doing next week?

Finishing Development on SNAGEM v2.0

5. How many hours did you work?
- 20 hrs

Josh Oct 23 - Oct 30th

What did you plan to do?

Work on css styles for website.

What did you do during the week?

Added the database table styles It included two rows called
STYLEID
and
STYLEPATH
Basically the THEME_NUM in the users table corresponds to the STYLEID
and allows the php in header.php to search out what css file it needs to pull.
I also troubleshooted with Christie’s help removing all hard coded images and
turning them into div tags that had id values in a css file.
Christie created snag_Girly.css and I created snag_red.css

What do you plan on doing this week?

This week I want to tweak the code a little bit more and add some commenting into the css file so that we know exactly what is what. (right now it is very messy and hard to follow)

In addition to cleaning up the code I will add a dropdown menu in the top right or left per my discussion with Drew that allows users to select a new theme for their profile. Basically I will refresh the theme value in the browser session as well as updating the database to reflect their changes.

I also may get to bring the asterisk phone server online and at least just see what the state of it is.

What are my roadblocks and what do I need?

Roadblocks would just include my newness to PHP and mysql, nothing I can’t ask the Google about though. Last week I spent a lot of time converting hard coded images to css because I didn’t know that css would not give the
image a 100% height.

Hours worked: 15