January 30th Parkview cancelled

Since Brandon and I were both sick last week, we decided not to infect the staff and residents at Parkview.

My congestion has been better and the vaporizor gel has been helping as well. Since I have a few minutes before class starts, I will briefly discuss a few projects I am currently working on.



CICS

ICS600: AT&T Challenge

ATT presented an RFP to our class and as groups we must respond to that RFP by the middle of April. It is a huge project management task to first understand exactly what the requirements are and what they actually would like (from about 60 pages). We, as a division of ATT (ATT Elite), must provide wireless mobility services. The bidders conference is tommorrow, Friday, where they will present our questions concerning the RFP. Our team has a good start but it is a daunting task with all of the extra documents to read as well concerning ATT information such as very detailed pricing and specifications for services.

ICS660: "Human factors, needs assessment, and user-driven design"

The Human Factors Institute (HFI) is a research group operated through the Center at Ball State University. "Its focus is the interaction between humans and technology, and the need for understanding the impact of a good interface. " Dr. Jay Gillette is our professor and involved with HFI. As I see it, HFI is essentially being subcontracted out to our class for six (6) projects. My group will be working on a new usability lab. It will be dedicated to Thomson for donating their equipment to the lab. Our goal is to assess, design, develop, and deploy the Thomson Usability Lab in an existing conference room. It may be used for software testing and a room connected to the conference room will host the control room.

ICS 621: research paper
album
web design (x2)

Time for class.