Overview of Final Project

One of the goals of this course is to help you develop the skills needed for interdisciplinary research and developing applications for medical areas. The first part of the course taught you about different areas in medical informatics to help you pick a topic for your final project. The second part of the course will teach you the skills necessary to develop applications in the medical area. In this final project, you will develop a prototype (does not have to be fully functional, just has to get an idea across of a possible solution) to help some part of the medical community or greater population with their health needs. Below are descriptions of the parts necessary to complete this project.

There are 4 parts to the final on-campus student project:

  1. Topic Report worth 15 points of total final project grade; 5 points will be subtracted for each day this part is late. 10 points will be subtracted from this part if group members are more than 10 minutes late for topic meeting. (Due: October 10)
  2. Update Report worth 25 points of total final project grade; 5 points will be subtracted for each day this part is late. 10 points will be subtracted from this part if group members are more than 10 minutes late for update meeting. (Due: November 7)
  3. Final Presentation worth 30 points of total final project grade; 10 points will be subtracted for each day this part is late. (Due: Week of December 8)
  4. Final Report worth 30 points of total final project grade; 10 points will be subtracted for each day this part is late. (Due: December 12)

There are 3 parts to the final CAETE student project:

  1. Topic Report worth 25 points of total final project grade; 5 points will be subtracted for each day this part is late.  (Due: October 17)
  2. Update Report worth 35 points of total final project grade; 5 points will be subtracted for each day this part is late.  (Due: November 14)
  3. Final Report worth 40 points of total final project grade; 10 points will be subtracted for each day this part is late. (Due: December 19)

Description of Each final project Part

Topic Report

Topic reports should be no more than 3 pages (12 point font, 1" margins) long describing the following information:
  • What area of medical informatics you are looking in for a final project
  • What is the problem you are trying to address
    • What references did you find to bolster this problem? (List 2-3 references)
  • How do you currently think you will address the problem
    • What related work in medical informatics has addressed this problem? (If there is no work in medical informatics for this problem, find related work for traditional means to solve the problem.) (List 2-3 references)
  • Estimated Time line/Time table
    • Time line should include:
      • Each report, final report and presentation write-up
      • Meeting to discuss topic with an expert (e.g., medical professional, social scientist, etc.)
      • Low and high fidelity mock-ups
      • Quick prototype quality implementation
      • Evaluation (does not have to be with target user group)

Update Report

Update reports should be no more than 3 pages (12 point font, 1" margins) long describing the following information:
  • What is the problem you are trying to address 
    • If the problem has changed from the Topic Report, detail specifically what has changed
    • Describe the problem with IEEE/ACM citation style references similar to the papers we have been reading (2-3 references)
  • How are you currently propose to address the problem 
    • Describe what has been done to address the problem previously with IEEE/ACM citation style references similar to the papers we have been reading (2-3 references)
  • Discuss your meeting with an expert, mock-ups, and (if possible) prototypes
  • Describe your status in regards to the initial time line/time table
    • If necessary, update time line/time table

Final Report

  • What is the problem you addressed [You should be able to copy and paste from Update Report]
    • If the problem has changed from the Update Report, detail specifically what has changed
    • Describe the problem with IEEE/ACM citation style references similar to the papers we have been reading (2-3 references)
  • How you addressed the problem [You should be able to copy and paste from Update Report]
    • Describe what has been done to address the problem previously with IEEE/ACM citation style references similar to the papers we have been reading (2-3 references)
  • Discuss your findings from each step detailed in your time line/time table
    • Meeting to discuss topic with an expert (e.g., medical professional, social scientist, etc.) [You should be able to copy and paste from Update Report]
    • Low and high fidelity mock-ups [You should be able to copy and paste from Update Report]
    • Quick prototype quality implementation
    • Evaluation (does not have to be with target user group)
  • Discuss your mock-ups and prototypes with screenshots/pictures
  • Discuss future directions of this work
    • How could it be improved?
    • What could be added to it?
    • What other populations could it affect?
    • Create a way to encourage people in virtual communities to adopt healthy lifestyles in physical and virtual worlds.

(C) Katie A. Siek