FIT5900 : Assignment Specification

In your assigned group of four students, choose one of the following problems.
Details about the answers you need to provide for assessment are given below.

1. Cartography

Task: Construct an interactive campus map.

Obtain a paper map of the Monash Clayton campus. Your task is to design and implement an interactive online version of this map. You will need to consider how best to utilize the special properties of interactive presentation (Simply duplicating the functionality of the paper map is not sufficient - think about how you can design a better map.)

2. Soccer Offside Rule

Task: Explain the offside rule in soccer.

The offside rule frequently confuses new soccer players and spectators. An explantion might benefit from visual and interactive means of presentation. Present a website which clearly explains the rule making the most of the characteristics of the online, interactive environment.

3. Vision Deficiency

Problems of short and near-sighted vision are very common. Employing the WWW and its special properties, explain the differences between normal vision, short-sighted vision and long-sighted vision to first year optometry students.

4. Melbourne's (unpredictable) weather

Task: Construct a dynamic web page displaying current weather details in Melbourne.

Look at this website which displays the current temperature and the variation in temperature over a period of time. Devise and implement a different system for dynamically displaying the weather data. Ensure the information of importance is effectively presented.

Task Details

• This assignment consists of two parts, each worth 15% of your end of year mark.
  
  
• The parts are to be completed in the same assigned group of four students.

Part 1: Design Document (DD)

Due date: Friday 14th April, 2000

The DD is web-based and will be assessed online. You will need to post it as a web page on the website of a host-student who you select from your group. Details of the means by which the assignment is to be posted and the groups registered will be announced online in the second week of semester.

Before you can post your DD you will need to post a splash page containing:

• Assignment title (taken from above descriptions)
• The group number (to be allocated by the lecturer once groups are nominated)
• The names of students in the groups
• A clear link to the the design document
• A legal message and link in which the site authors may be emailed as a group (check that this works). Marks will be deducted if this legal notice and mailto link are not correctly incorporated...

Submitted in partial fullfillment of the requirements for FIT5900 Multimedia Programming and the WWW (2000)
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia 3168.

This site is the original work of author1, author2, author3, author4

The DD needs to contain [square brackets contain % mark for this assessment]:

• Target audience & concise specification of problem. (~250 words) [5%]
  
  
• Concise description of the proposed solution. (<400 words)
  
  Include at least one (probably more) visual mock-up to clearly explain the functionality of your system. (A visual mock-up is a document that looks like a screen from your proposed web site but the underlying functionality has not yet been implemented. The document might be annotated with text explaining what each of the elements will do in the completed version.) [20%]
  
  
• Description of a typical user interaction with the system from start to finish. This may be in the form of a series of key moments and/or decisions for the user. It can be in text or visual form, or a combination of both. [20%]
  
  
• Give reasons in point form why and how your system:
  
  
  • improves on the model from which it's drawn (e.g. Why is your interactive map better than a paper one?),
  • uses the advantages of the computer medium. [20%]
    
    
• What are the drawbacks (list 5) of using the technology in your solution? How might they be resolved? [15%]
  
  
• Give a brief description of tools and techniques you think will be required to implement your solution (You will need to research this. Don't be concerned if later you discover there are better ways of implementing your solution, you just need to show that you have researched the possiblities). [10%]

The DD will be marked on its design. Don't focus on the technology or your perceptions of what's easy or hard to implement on the web. Marking will be based on the innovation and thought you show in your problem solution (not the difficulty you might have in implementing it) and also the way the DD itself is presented online.

Therefore, the DD should at a minimum include text, images and hyperlinks. You are limited to using a few pages for the DD. Only add material that is necessary to build your case. Unnecessary material will result in loss of marks.

• Overall quality and presentation of design document [10%]

Part 2: Implementation

Due date: Friday, 26th May, 2000

• Add an additional page to your DD from the assignment part 1. This addition should contain:
  
  
  • An analysis of your original DD highlighting any points raised in the feedback to your original submission.
  • Specific improvements to the original specification.
    
    
• Implement your newly revised scheme. You must consider all aspects of designing for the web and information presentation.
  
  
• Pay particular heed to the use of:
  

  imagery (icons and pictures) text (grammar, spelling and expression must all be perfect) page layout information design/architecture programming and interactivity

  navigation systems site labelling typography colour

  
  ...and don't forget, above all else you must communicate effectively with your target audience!
  
  
• Link your assignment to your group's splash page.
• Link your revised DD to the existing DD.
  
  
• Here is the assignment marking breakdown:

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