We have several clients and projects to choose from this year. In the first class session, you will have the opportunity to list your preferences for which project you would prefer to work on. In collaboration with Dick Brown, I will then assign team members based on your preferences, but also based on getting a mix of expertise, age, and background on teams (just like the real world, folks).
Read the descriptions below to get some idea of the projects, and begin thinking about a rank orderin of the projects for yourself. You should be willing to work on ANY of the projects, but I will try to give folks their preference when I can.
Client |
Socio-Technical Analysis |
Contact Person |
Northfield School System |
Middle and High School Web Guidelines. Design web content production guidelines for teachers in middle and high school. In addition to general usability information, these would need to include information about privacy issues, equity of access issues, copyright, and likely other ethical issues of web content. These teacher produce content primarily targeted at their students. | Hanna Puczko |
Northfield School System |
Elementary Web Guidelines. Design web content production guidelines for teachers in elementary school. In addition to general usability information, these would need to include information about privacy issues, equity of access issues, copyright, and likely other ethical issues of web content. These teacher produce content primarily targeted at the parents of their students. | Hanna Puczko |
St. Olaf Registrar |
Student Users of Online Registration System. The St. Olaf online registration system did its first full test flight this Fall, with both good and bad reviews. Itis currently being redesigned based on feedback. This team will concentrate on feedback from student users of the system. Ethical issues will include equity of access, fairness of algorithims, and useability issues. | Mary Cisar |
St. Olaf Registrar |
Departmental Users of Online Registration System. The St. Olaf online registration system did its first full test flight this Fall, with both good and bad reviews. Itis currently being redesigned based on feedback. This team will concentrate on feedback from departmental users of the system. Ethical issues will include fairness of course assignment, usability issues and fairness of implimentation costs. | Mary Cisar |
Science Center Design Team |
Configuration of Computing in the Science Center. The new science center will have a great deal of computing integrated in it. The Design Team would like advice on the ethical issues that might arise from this. Foreseeable issues include equity of access, privacy, safety, and the use of power. | Matt Richey (tentative) |
Project Kaleidoscope |
Web-based Social Networking. Project Kaliedoscope, a science-related non-profit in Washington DC, is redesigning its website, with help from students here at St. Olaf. They hope to incorprate some social networking aspects into the new version. Ethical issues in clude privacy, equity of access, and use of power. | Dick Brown (tentative) |