Week 20 Journal

Week 20

08/02/08

During this week I have taken on many roles to make sure that everything ran smoothly, as it was an important week for the team as we would be starting control group testing.

It was decided that I would assist Nick with setting up the arrangements for the control group testing. The first task that I carried out was to make sure that the heart monitor was ordered and would arrive this week. After speaking to Brian Morris, the heart monitor was ordered and it arrived ready for control group testing.

On Tuesday I spoke with Phill about the SAM method, as I wanted to make sure I fully understood it before I went into control group testing. After this discussion, I purposed to the team that we should look into writing a prediction section to show what we believe should happen in our final testing phase. I believe that this will show the supervisors and examiners that we fully understand the SAM method and we understand our results from the testing phase.

During Tuesday I worked with Nick on the presentation, I suggested a few ideas that I felt would help with the presentation and we worked on these during Tuesday afternoon.

On Thursday the team carried out the control group testing. I took the role of making sure that all the paperwork was in order. I made sure that the participant filled out the pre test questionnaire before they started to play through the artefact. Once they had played the first artefact I handed them the first SAM form and asked them to fill it in, in their own time. I did this once again after the second test had taken place. I also made sure that all the relevant data was all kept together so when it come to data analysis it could be done without confusion.

This control group testing proved to be very valuable to the team as it showed us where problems lay and we can now sort them out before the main testing begins. There were a few minor issues concerning the level, which I started to fix on Thursday afternoon.

Next week I will be helping the team prepare for the milestone presentation. I will also be setting out the layout for the final report document. Finally I will also look at the literature survey as this may need altering to fit into our final document report.