Instructions

• This is an individual project.
• Please provide proper citations/references for any external resources you use in your writing and code.
• Please submit your work to Gradescope.
• All assignments are due at 11:59pm ET on the date specified.
• No late submissions! Submit your work early and update it later.

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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.

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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.)

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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.