Week 6 - Critique

For presentation:

1- Clean up links
a) list of links for participants
b) list of links for moderator

2- Activate checked with GUI. Change stickies logo to thought clouds

3 - Possibly make a flyer. Or just save paper...

Powerpoint Presentation Outline

10 Minute Presentation must answer the basic questions of What, Why, Who, Where and How.

This should take 5-7 minutes and leave 3 minutes for questions and discussion.

What
- A dynamic collaboration tool to help facilitate brainstorming sessions.

Why
- To be portable and easily replicate information.

How
- Using PHP, MySql and WAP standards the software tool will work on any platform with an internet connection and a web browser.

Where
- Since this is essentially a website, this site can be accessed anywhere.

Who
- For anyone that has brainstorming sessions. For companies that have multiple locations and require a tool for collaboration.

Things to do...

1 - Design participant and moderator pages
2 - Put functionality together
3 - Attach to GUI

More Moderator Functions

View a list of raw data with checkboxes:
LINK
After submit is clicked, a list of the items that were just checked are displayed. If nothing is checked, there is an error.

View a list of items that have been checked:
LINK
After submit is clicked, the checked column will zero out to reset the counter.

Duh! Making the checkbox work. (Part 2)

In addition, each item listed needed to be defined in an array:

<input type="checkbox" name="entry[]" value="$row[0]"/>

Then you can call it like this:

$entry = $_POST['entry'];
foreach($entry as $checked)
{
$SqlStatement1 = "UPDATE database_01 SET checked=1 WHERE id=$checked";

Duh! Making the checkbox work.

First get the syntax to UPDATE a database entry correctly. I had quotes where I didn't need them and that broke things.

Should look like:

$SqlStatement = "UPDATE table_name SET table_item=item, table_item2=item2 WHERE table_item="something";

So where it stands now is that the checked entry seems to update, but only one item. If I have multiple items checked, only the last item checked registers. Not sure why my loops are not working.

Week 5 - Critique

1 - Instead of post-its: perhaps thought bubbles or light bulbs
2 - Work on Powerpoint presentation
3 - Have working demo by next week

What needs to happen...

Participants can add their ideas to the pool. Participants can also view the list of ideas.

The moderator can view the same pool of ideas, but with check boxes so that the moderator can select key ideas. The moderator also has the ability to delete ideas that have no relevance.

Issues:
1 - Checking box to change "checked" status on database.
2 - Only post stickies that are "checked."
3 - Make stickies with ideas movable.

Week 4 - Critique

Participants:
Raw capture- Chronological

Moderator:
Sort & Evaluate
Yields GUI

* Select from a list of viable/useful ideas
* Only GUI selected ideas

Possible future addition, posts editable on GUI

Links in progress

Can add new stickies. Can move stickies around. Can poll ideas from database, but can't move.
Add and Move

Can grab ideas from database and randomly post stickies around screen.
Grab from database

Multi-location, single collaborative meeting

This diagram represents one company with departments in New York, Los Angeles and London. They can collaborate together without being in the same conference room. All locations receive the same information at the same time.

Week 3 - Critique

Need to work on more sketches.

Sketch 1: Multiple instances. How the different locations would communicate with each other.

Sketch 2: How moderator shepherds conversation. Maybe showing the moderators touch screen.

Sketch 3: Wire frame network.

Concept, context, sketch

This concept is inspired by corporate brainstorming sessions where a team leader is trying to gather and organize ideas from his/her team. By utilizing tools ubiquitous to the environment, this software would be an inexpensive way to systematically gather ideas without the obstacles of a high learning curve.

Methodology & Timeline

The plan is to be finished with everything by April 9th. April 16th is just in case.

There are 2 rounds for programming. The goal is to finish implementing the software I have outline before week 7. The second round will be for tweaks and upgrades based on suggestions from the evaluators critique.