Dear students, this is the thread for the upcoming Semester Project.

Here follows some initial information. Please read it carefully!

Themes:

This year’s overall theme is “TRANSITION”. We will still publish our proposed sub-themes derived from “TRANSITION” but at the same time you’re also invited to propose additional sub-themes related to the overall theme.

You can propose your additional sub-themes to (mediatechnology, leiden, edu) until Friday June 22nd, 10h00. The final list of themes will be posted in this thread on Friday afternoon.

After the final list has been posted you’ll have to mail your preferred 3 final themes at the latest on Monday June 25th, 18h00 to Lianne Heun (aheun, liacs, nl). Indicate which is your first, which your second, and which is your third choice. If you want, you can indicate at most 2 names of students that you would rather not be teamed up with. Naturally, this will remain undisclosed.

Teams:

Where possible we will attempt to respect your preferences when forming the teams. The teams, themes and supervisors will be announced through this forum shortly after June 26th.

All the best,

Bas, Edwin, Maarten & Lianne

Hereby our initial sub-themes:

- energy (from fossil to durable)
- population (from growing to stable)
- gas, liquid, solid
- bloom
- Dante’s Inferno
- progress
- separation (the process, not the goal)

(and don’t forget to send your suggestions)

Here follows the list of final sub-themes:

- energy
- population
- gas, liquid, solid
- bloom
- Dante’s Inferno
- progress
- separation
- from buttons to brainwaves
- from real to virtual
- honey bee

Hereby the Semester Project groups:

Please don’t forget that all the sub-themes are derived from TRANSITION, the overall theme. 

One additional note: We’re not sure yet if Marjolein will be studying again from september.

See you tomorrow at the Media Technology Drink!

best,

Bas, Maarten, Lianne & Edwin

Dear students,

these are the assignments of coaches for the semester project. The coaches are there for the groups to discuss progress and content of the project. It is the responsibility of the groups to connect with and maintain contact with the coach, and to use their advice to their own benefit.

“Energy”
Arne Boon, Roy van Rooyen, Ahmad Azizyar
Coach: Peter van der Putten, http://www.liacs.nl/organization/people/showdetails?ID=72

“Bloom”
Tamara Pinos Cisneros, Lisa van Leenen, Arnold Jan Quanjer
Coach: Luuk Groenwegen, http://www.liacs.nl/organization/people/showdetails?ID=32

“Dante’s Inferno”
Esther Schreuders, Rosen Bogdanov, Thomas te Braake
Coach: Fons Verbeek, http://www.liacs.nl/organization/people/showdetails?ID=82

“Separation”
Rick Henneveld, Thomas Haighton, Guido Huijser
Coach: Maarten Lamers, http://www.liacs.nl/organization/people/showdetails?ID=54

“From Buttons to Brainwaves”
Navid Seyed Majidi, Mirela Causevic, Marjolein Spuybroek
Coach: Edwin van der Heide, http://www.liacs.nl/organization/people/showdetails?ID=35

“From Real to Virtual”
Joanna Camargo Coelho, Dimitris Giatras, Grace Gao
Coach: Hanna Schraffenberger, http://www.liacs.nl/organization/people/showdetails?ID=157

“Honey Bee”
Bardo Frings, Terrence Letiche Peter van der Spoel
Coach: Ionica Smeets, http://www.ionica.nl

There are three plenary sessions for the semester project:

- Tuesday October 2nd 13.30 - 15.00
- Tuesday November 6th 15.00 - 16.30
- Tuesday December 4th 13.30 - 15.00

The dates are also announced in the Media Technology Calendar.

For students participating in the Semester Project, we have created a “manual” that offers an overview of what to expect within the project. We urge you to read it. It can be found on the Media Technology website at http://mediatechnology.leiden.edu/programme/semester-project-overview/.

Good luck with the project,
Maarten

A slightly updated “Semester Project manual” was uploaded to the Media Technology website (dated 18/9/2012). It contains some additional information regarding the plenary meetings. It replaces the previous version (dated 14/9/2012), and can also be found via http://mediatechnology.leiden.edu/programme/semester-project-overview/

Hey guys,

We thought it would be a cool idea to share our blog on here, so take a look if you want:

http://buttonstobrainwaves.wordpress.com/

It’s far from finished, but that’s why it’s a blog =]
It would be cool if some of you share your semesterproject-blogs on here too.

best,
Marjolein, Navid en Mirela

I still had to tell you the time for our Semester Project location visit on December 20th

It will be 13:45 at Raamsteeg 2, Leiden.

See you all!

Best,

Edwin

Dear students,

By request of 2 semester-project groups we have decided to relax the deadline for the paper to Monday Feb 4, 18:00h. Send your papers in PDF format to lamers@liacs.nl before this deadline.

No further extension of the deadline will be made, since all the project coaches need time to review all the papers before the grading date.

Best,
Maarten

Dear students,

the evaluation meetingof the semester projects will be on Thursday Feb 7, starting 10:00h at Raamsteeg 2.

The evaluation process is explained in the semester-project manual (see http://mediatechnology.leiden.edu/programme/semester-project-overview/). In short: the evaluation commitee (coaches) will jointly visit each project, where the project-group can verbally explain their work in roughly 10 minutes. The coaches should be able to experience the work and ask questions about the work/process. After visiting all works, the evaluation committee retreats to discuss the works and determine the final grade. Each final grade is accompanied by a short written motivation.

As explained earlier in this forum thread, the evaluation criteria and supplementary rules are mentioned in the semester-project manual.

Make sure that you are present at your functioning work at 10:00h for the walk-through. Sometime between 12:00 and 13:00h, the evaulation committee will retreat to discuss all the projects. At 16:00h, the opening lecture is held by Amalia Kallergi, followed by the official exhibition opening at 17:00h.

See you Thursday at 10:00h. Best regards and good luck finishing the works! We all look forward to the exhibition very much.