CS702 - Proposal

Due: 2015-02-25 @ noon

Deliverable

Thesis timeline

Short version

I would like a timeline that breaks down how you will spend the rest of the semester.

Long version

I’m not giving you a lot of time on this (though I mentioned it on Friday), because I don’t think you should stress on this over much. What I would like to see is a week by week breakdown of how you will spend your semester. Here is an example for my hypothetical study on dance visualization:

Week Dates Activity
01 02/08 - 02/14 Finalize topic, find references, write proposal
02 02/15 - 02/21 Read up on existing visualizations and look into motion capture technology, write outline
03 02/22 - 02/28 Figure out motion capture technology
04 03/01 - 02/07 Write proof of concept motion capture app, come up with at least three ideas for visualizations
05 03/08 - 03/14 Get app to capture movement and display simple visualization
06 03/15 - 03/21 Implement more interesting visualization
07 03/22 - 03/28 Chase bugs
08 03/29 - 04/04 Write first draft of thesis, start recording dancers
09 04/05 - 04/11 Record dancers and start analyzing results
10 04/12 - 04/18 Finish second draft of thesis
11 04/19 - 04/25 Work on final draft of thesis, finish analysis
12 04/26 - 05/02 Work on final draft of thesis, write presentation
13 05/03 - 05/09 Give presentation, work on final draft of thesis
14 05/10 - 05/16 Turn in thesis, make poster, make fixes suggested by thesis readers
15 05/17 - 05/18 Final polish and printing of thesis

As you can see, this is a combination of hard deadlines and educated guesses. Some of the work continues into the writing stages (since this is an implementation based project), but the bulk of it is done before I got into the second draft of the thesis. The only thing left is some last minute analysis time. Be conservative with estimates of what you can get done (but not with your efforts to accomplish them – your goal should be ahead of ,not on, schedule).

Submission

Please submit your work as a PDF on Moodle.