{"id":3976,"date":"2009-09-21T17:11:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T00:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5.45"},"modified":"2009-09-21T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T00:11:04","slug":"university-design-challenge-09-report-from-sochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/09\/university-design-challenge-09-report-from-sochi\/","title":{"rendered":"University Design Challenge &#8217;09 &#8211; Report from SOCHI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sochi.cms.si.umich.edu\/\">Student Organization for Computer-Human Interaction SOCHI<\/a> at the University of Michigan held their first Design Jam around the Mozilla Labs University Design Challenge &#8217;09.  The event, which drew a strong participation of 26 students, kicked off with some pizza, then went into a quick brainstorming and sketching phase and later into joint-sessions at the whiteboard.<\/p>\n<p>You can read all about the event on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sochi.cms.si.umich.edu\/?q=content\/mozilla-design-jam-kickoff\">SOCHI blog<\/a> and see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sisochi\/sets\/72157622401377762\/\">pictures of the event on flickr<\/a>.  If you are interested in the overall process &#8211; the SOCHI team made their <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/5\/files\/2009\/09\/mozilla-browsing-history.key\">presentation describing the process available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the students at the <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.arch.usyd.edu.au\/kcdc\/\">University of Sydney<\/a> finished up their research and started working on prototypes (after also having built a series of paper prototypes).  For this purpose the students created a database schema which will form the basis of their work:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/5\/files\/2009\/09\/schema.jpg\" alt=\"schema\" width=\"480\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are excited to see the results from all groups and will keep you updated on the progress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update]<\/strong> The team at <a href=\"http:\/\/cdt.parsons.edu\/\">Parsons University<\/a> met recently for a brainstorm\/research exercise and published their results and findings on the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/Design-Challenge\/Uni-Fall09\">Mozilla University Challenge Wiki<\/a>. The students will continue their research this week with user stories and further exploration of existing or potentially interesting solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Student Organization for Computer-Human Interaction SOCHI at the University of Michigan held their first Design Jam around the Mozilla Labs University Design Challenge &#8217;09. The event, which drew a strong participation of 26 students, kicked off with some pizza, &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/09\/university-design-challenge-09-report-from-sochi\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9141,19262,19304],"tags":[16577,19110,22916,22918,19595,22920],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}