HCI 201: Multimedia and the World wide Web
Final Project

Due 11/26

As the vote went against having in class presentations, the final assignment has been tweaked to provide 50 points more of needed details.

The presentations are now worth 50 pt. extra credit and will occur on 11/19.

Objective: Demonstrate your ability to integrate all of the material we have covered during the quarter to create an excellent web site. Recognize the value of heuristic evaluation to assist in creating a usable site. Explore the benefits of presenting your work to your peers.

Part 1. Website (150 pt.)

Complete development and publish your site on the Web:

• Your site must include a minimum of five pages and at least 5 images.
  
  
• You must have one form - that thanks the user for filling it out after they hit submit (onSubmit attribute) and an effect related to the reset button (onReset attribute). The form must use a cgi process for the material- not a mail to action. This will be covered in class.
  
  
• You must use cascading style sheets for all color and font aspects. Use the css for everything dealing with color and font.
  
  
• Incorporate, ALT, and META tags.
  
  
• Embed multimedia into one page (either video, animation, or sound)
  
  
• I will give special consideration to sites that incorporate things we have not gone over in class, and efforts to make your site a creative use of html, css, multimedia. If you choose to incorporate javascript that will also be in your favor.

Part 2. evaluation and rationale defense paper (100 pt.) When you turn this in hand in all the previous papers you did this quarter so I can see improvment.

Return to your initial site rationale document.

• Explain how your finished site meets the goals set by your rationale.
• Explain how the features you have incorporated will be usable, useful, and desirable to your intended audience.
• Explain why your site will generate an online audience.
• Finally return to the list of 10 usability heuristics refer to visibility of system status and 3 additional heuristics of your choice.
  • Explain how your site adheres to those heuristics.
  • Use screen shots (with captions or titles) in addition to your verbal argument to explain how your site incorporates those usability ideals.

Part 3. Presentation of your web site. (50 pt. extra credit) on 11/19.

• You have 5 -10 minutes to sell your site.
• Show what YOU have developed.
• Refer to your paper to explain how your site fits your intended audience, and relies on the usability heuristics to add to the site's appeal.
• Turn in any notes or slides you develop for this.