Week 21 Journal

Week 21

15/02/08

The main focus of this week has been delivering Milestone 3 to the supervisors. As I wasn’t taking part in the presentation, I took the role of working on the documents, so the rest of the team could concentrate on working on delivering the Milestone presentation to the highest possible standard.

The document that I worked on first was the final team report. I started to plan this document so it was ready to work on. Along with this I moved the literature survey into the final team report. The literature survey needed to be slightly amended before it went into final team document. I placed in the SAM write up which I had written during week 9, so the literature survey was up to date with changes made to the project since the literature survey was first written. The final team document was now ready for the team to start writing. It was also decided that when we started writing the final team report I would help Nick with the editing role for this document. This would work by me reading all the work that the team do to make sure that it has everything that the section needs and any mistakes can be removed before it is placed into the document.

I also worked on the design document during the week. The first thing that I did was to place in the prototype lighting system document. It had been decided that the pictures within this document would be placed within the design document appendix. After fixing some minor problems that occurred with moving the prototype lighting system document into the design document, the design document was nearing completion. The other changes that were made I made with Nick, these were minor changes to the SAM form and the heart rate monitoring sheet. These changes came about due to the control group testing phase last week.

During the week, Nick and James were practicing on delivering the presentation, during this time I would give them my thoughts on how the presentation could be improved ready for Thursday’s presentation.

I have also started to plan my individual report; I made sure that I had all the academic journals and books that I found useful to get through this project, so when I start writing the document I have all the resources to help me write it.

Finally at the end of this week, Nick and I discussed writing the final team report. We discussed who should write each section and handed out tasks for the weekend.

With Milestone 3 now complete, I will now be helping the team with the testing phase of milestone 4 along with writing and editing the final team report.