All assignments are due at 11:59pm ET on the date specified.
No late submissions! Submit your work early and update it later.
Topic
This is an open-ended individual project. You may work on whichever topic you are most interested in. The only requirement is that the project must use new techniques you haven’t explored before.
Project Pitch
Please give a 15-min presentation:
Motivation & research question formulation
What do you want to work on?
What is the core research question?
Why are you interested in this topic?
Why is it important? Why should we care?
Who is the target audience/user/customer/reader?
Background
What has been done in prior work?
How does your work differ from existing work?
Methodology
How are you going to approach it?
What are the tools (programming languages, platforms, plugins, hardware, etc.) that you’ll be using?
What are some challenges you foresee? How do you plan to address them?
What is the evaluation plan (i.e., how to define a “success” of your work)?
Expected results
What are the expected deliverables (e.g., a physical instrument, a plugin, a web app, a mobile app, a standalone software, an installation, a performance, a composition)?
Planning
What are the milestones? What do you expect to achieve by the end of February and March?
Are you aiming for some conferences or workshops? (This may be helpful.)
Presentation
Please give a 15-min presentation that summarizes your motivations, methods, results, analysis and discussions. You may follow any structure that best suits your narrative.
Report
Please turn in a 3 to 5-page (excluding references) report that summarizes your motivations, methods, results, analysis and discussions. You may use any template for your report.
Rubrics
Presentation (10pt)
Clarity (5pt)
Organization and presentation (5pt)
Draft Report (10pt)
Completion (10pt)
Results (20pt)
System/experiment design (5pt)
Implementation (5pt)
Experimental/analytic results (10pt)
Report (20pt)
Writing clarity (5pt)
Organization and presentation (5pt)
Discussion (10pt)
Suggestions & Tips
An active GitHub repository with many open/closed issues is usually a good sign.
Always look for backup codebase so that you have a plan B. Any online repository is not guaranteed to work.