Grading
Grading
There is no exam. Your grade comes entirely from the team project and consists of three elements. 40 % is a team grade, 60 % is graded individually.
| Element | What is graded | Graded as | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Team project | Your prototype (both conditions), your user study, and the header and footer of your poster | Team | 40 % |
| 2 Poster section | The section of the poster that covers your own area, graded with the poster coding scheme | Individual | 35 % |
| 3 Questioning | Your answers to questions at the poster fair about a part of the project you did not own | Individual | 25 % |
Your own area. Each team has four members, and each member owns one area:
- Interaction system (VisualSceneMaker, plugins)
- Affect / AET model (ALMA, values, norms)
- Study design and measurement
- Analysis and reporting
Everyone also helps run the study and does one part of the analysis. Since you will be questioned about an area you did not own, make sure you understand the whole project, not only your own part.
Peer assessment. At the end of the term, you give feedback on how your teammates contributed. It is feedback only and does not change anyone's grade. If a team reports that a member did not take part, the teaching team will talk to that person.
Poster fair
At the end of the term, every team presents its project at a poster fair. Presenting your own research clearly and defending it is part of what you learn in this course.
| Dates | Thu 28.01.2027 (poster fair I, half of the teams) and Thu 04.02.2027 (poster fair II, the other half), 10:00–12:00. Your team's date is announced during the term. |
| Your team brings | An A1 poster (a template is provided) and a live demo of both conditions: the AET-based agent and the emotion-adaptive baseline. |
| Poster structure | The poster has a fixed structure: a team header (title, scenario, research question, hypothesis), one section per owned area marked with the owner's initials, and a team footer (take-home message, references, demo video). Each section has required subsections. The teaching team publishes the coding scheme with the template, so you know exactly what has to be on the poster. |
| Poster deadline | Upload the poster as a PDF 2 days before your fair date (Tue 26.01.2027 or Tue 02.02.2027). The teaching team grades the poster sections from this PDF. |
| Pitch | A 3-minute pitch of your project for visitors and the other teams. It is practice in presenting your research and is not graded. |
| Questioning | Every member answers questions for about 2–3 minutes. The teaching team picks a poster section that you did not own. |
| When you are not presenting | You are the audience at the other poster fair and give structured peer feedback to the presenting teams. This way every team experiences both sides. |
| Preparation | About 20 minutes of lecture 12 (21.01.2027) cover poster design and pitching. |
| After the fair | Nothing more to hand in: there is no written report. Everything is graded from your poster and at the poster fair. |