Split Decisions

This week in our group meeting we decided that we should have the following included in a possible interface that would be set up in the lobby of the dorms:

1. Showing weekly results for each tower (includes floor leaders, energy consumption).
2. Show the energy consumption in relational terms, such as money.

By displaying this data we hope that we can encourage a spirit of competition within the towers as well as giving the students a tangible way to learn about energy consumption.

Site Battle:

We also continued to design the user interface. However we are in the process of either using one website to hold all of the data or using two sites to display the data (one site of the competition and the other for education). Currently I am in charge of developing the two site approach. I currently have a rough layout of the sites which can be found here. My sites are distinguished from the others with the heading of Resources_*, or by author (smichaelwong).

Additional Goals:

Also this week we decided that there would be 4 additional groups. Anthony is in charge of creating the mockups for the one website approach, Kelli is in charge of forming focus groups and assessing the RA's reaction to the competition proposals, John is in charge of gathering energy consumption and energy saving resources which will be used to educate people and lastly Wing is in charge of putting together Google charts and visualizations which aid in presenting the energy consumption data to the students.

At the Milestone:

At the milestone we will have the following completed:

1. Either the one site approach or the two site approach will be decided on as the final interface.
2. The resources will be completely gathered and will be ready to be processed.
3. The charts will be finalized (what data will be displayed and how).
4. The questions for the RA's will be designed and implemented after the milestone when the interface is decided on.