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It’s all over (but the grading)

HCI/d 2 presentations concluded yesterday in our long rescheduled session. Seven presentations in 4-5 hours.

Justin Donaldson, Nate (Finelight, here in town) and Elizabeth Boling stepped in at the last moment as judges. It was a scramble to find three people willing and able to spend a half-day this week absorbing that much information. It was especially nice to have some outside review of the student work, since everyone in class had shared the design process to get to this point. I didn’t envy their task. The Family Access Program team — whose community partner never made an appearance in class — won the class competition with a unanimous vote, but after that the judges had a difficult time separating the groups enough to pick the runners-up.

There were no perfect presentations, but the strengths of each team far outnumbered the flaws. A lot of the work finished at its highest level, and I’m really looking forward to seeing the capstones a year from now.

By Kevin Makice

A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.