CMSC 434            Homework #4            Spring 2017


Due on ELMS by 11:59pm on Sunday, May 7th.

For this homework assignment, you will write a proposal to include a piece of software in either the fictional "HCI Hall of Fame" or the fictional "HCI Hall of Shame" (note that we do not have an "HCI Hall of Mediocrity").

The idea is to spend some time thinking about this assignment and then select something that is either very good or very bad, and then express your reasons for thinking that.

You will format your proposal as a PowerPoint presentation. The main slide will identify the piece of software and you. The next slides will each contain a screenshot of one of the things that demonstrates the reason it should be inducted, with text describing those reasons. A nominee should ideally have at least 5 strong things about it to merit a nomination to the Hall of Fame (and at least 5 very frustrating things for the Hall of Shame). The final slide will clearly state into which "Hall" you think it should be inducted, with a brief summary statement.

This assignment is due by Sunday, May 7th at the latest. However, you are encouraged to complete it as soon as you come up with your nominee. Please note that once you have made a submission, you will not be able to make another.

Each weekend, some combination of the teaching assistants and I will review the submissions from the past week. We will then pick what we see as the 'best' one of those to post for the class to see if a HoF/S gallery. Please note that once an application is posted, nobody else in the class will be allowed to use that one for their submission. At the end of the semester, the class will vote on a "best of the best" submission. While there will be no impact on the grade of the students whose homework go into the gallery, there might be some sort of (trivial) prize awarded at the end. If for some reason you do not want your submission to be "entered" into this "competition" just indicate that on the last slide of your submission.

An entry will be added to ELMS to allow you to upload your ppt or pptx file. You can create your presentation using some other tool (like Google Slides) but must export it to one of those two formats for submission.


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