Microsoft Research Project

Jan. 23, 2006

• In-class meeting to continue refining and narrowing area of study. Today’s goal is to develop a central topic or theme upon which to build a territory map. Group tries several different ways of framing a sentence based on the overlaps in areas of interest. Group members continue to agree that connectedness and awareness are key aspects of whatever area they finally choose. After some input from Shelley, the group arrives at “New To An Area” as topic.
• Meeting notes

Jan. 24, 2006

• Group meets in the graduate design studio to map out the territory map. Several iterations of the categories and the respective connections entailed in that topic are drawn up on the white board. After several hours of brainstorming and refinement, “knowledge/understanding of an area” emerges as the center of the territory map that will be developed as a Venn diagram.
• The group discusses and assigns roles for the following day’s presentations
• Simon is assigned the design of the Venn diagram.

Jan. 25, 2006

• Presented our area of study to the rest of the project teams and used our territory map to hold a discussion about the many factors we want to consider. Here is a copy of our territory map at the time of this presentation: