Organizing myself - Time management

Time Management:

So today I had a meeting with my supervisor and it was good to get an idea of what stage we should be at now, and a look at deadlines and where they land. So today I did up a Gantt chart of my own to plan out my project. It was more difficult than I had imagined.

For my project I have broken it down into different a

reas. The reason I did this was because each can be worked on simultaneously and independently for now and have certain deadlines which are the same, for example testing. So my areas are as follows:

• User Studies
• Projection
• Tracking
• Content
• Build

As it is hard to see the image of the Gantt chart on this blog I have detailed the sections.

LIT Review

First Draft - supervisor

Final Draft - supervisor + MF

Final Thesis - softbound

Exam

USER STUDIES

Location choice

Recording of footage of space

Analysis

Initial User Studies

PROJECTION

Email companies request sponshorship

Initial Material Trials

Material Purchase

Screen Imagery Build

TRACKING

Test current code

Camera trials + lighting trials

Re-code

Cooperative Evaluation - Test 1

Re-code

Heuristic Evaluation - Test 2

Re-code

Final Test during Setup

CONTENT

Sketch and brainstorm

Build

Cooperative Evaluation - Test 1

Re-design

Heuristics Evaluation - Test 2

Re-design 3 days

Final Test during Setup

BUILD

Setup and Build

Final Test during Setup

1 Week Installation

Footage analysis

Write-up

Storage Organization:

So from here on in the hard work on my thesis begins. So just a few bits or organization before I begin. I have setup the following...

• Blog - Rachels I-Media Project
• SketchBook - For sketches and details
• Bookmarks - Delicious
• Document sharing and updating - Google Documents
• Reference Store - EndNote
• External hard drive - needs to be purchased this week so I can have three back-ups. One in college, one on my laptop and one on the hard drive. I also plan to have version control which means each back-up will be updated with a new version (not overwritten) every 2 weeks, so at any one time I could only lose two weeks work.