Coaching Questions Group 17

To help your group and the teachers prepare for the tutor meetings, we would like you to answer a few questions in between sessions. The following paragraphs list the questions for each of the weeks, please write you answers directly underneath the questions.

After the kick-off - Week 1

• What are you expecting to learn during the Robots course?
  • How to effectively work in group.
  • How to properly edit, create and redirect a Wiki.

• What kind of coaching do you expect?
  • Passive support, main focus on progress, report, rather that the specifics of the project.

• What kind of coaching would you prefer?
  • Feedback on content, progress and report.

• What will the coaches expect of you?
  • Actively thinking/contributing to the project.
  • Working properly as a group.
  • Asking questions about matters that are unclear.

After the first tutor meeting - Week 2

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?
  • First of all, we were told our project was not specific enough, which means we have to pretty much redo everything done up until now.
  • Furthermore, the planning of the meetings is outright terrible: our meeting was delayed by 15 minutes before commencing and was also cut short to 15 minutes.

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?
  • We have come up with a new idea, which we have tried our best to make as specific as possible.

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?
  • No new activities were undertaken, we had to redo all previous work.

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?
  • Redo all the work we did for last weeks meeting, to make sure this idea does get approved.

After the second tutor meeting - Week 3

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?
  • Our idea was accepted and was deemed appropriate for the course, if we put focus on the user/use cases.
  • An interview might be a good idea to get insight in the effectiveness of real life applications.

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?
  • We incorporated feedback from the meeting, i.e. choose a more specific/appropriate subject.

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?
  • We interviewed a construction worker on his thoughts on the project.

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

After the third tutor meeting - Week 4

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?
  • That we as "theoretical" engineers definitely do not know how everything works in reality.
  • Our idea is still viable, but we have to put more focus on the user.
  • We have to think about how we want to show our simulation, it has to be insightful and useful.

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?
  • We have updated the wiki by integrating a section with decisions made regarding the user.
  • Additionally, we updated the section regarding assumptions to clear up some misunderstandings.

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?
  • Started working on the User Interface
  • We have tried to create a first working version of the simulation.

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?
  • We have been extensively working on our project.

After the fourth tutor meeting - Week 5

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?
  • We need to be more specific regarding drone movement
  • It would be enough to have 1 test building as to make the project as specific as possible
  • It is unclear what 'interactivity' the simulation will have
  • The test cases page doesn't have a key/index

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?
  • The simulation section on the wiki has been updated to reflect what interactivity (E.g. adding construction workers) is possible
  • A description of the test building has been added to the simulation section
  • Assumptions about drone movement (E.g. 1 drone per transition) have been added and/or made more explicit
  • Many implicit assumptions have been made explicit (E.g. height of floors)

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?
  • More work on the UI was performed. We learned things about Java mouseListeners
  • The wiki was updated. We learned that we have to be very explicit and that every small detail can be very important.
  • More work on the simulation was done.

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?
  • WIP

After the fifth tutor meeting - Week 6

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

After the final presentation - Week 7

• What are the major steps of the project? Please list

• What is the most important thing you learned in this project? (e.g .about design or working in groups, etc)

• What do you wish you had spent more time on or done differently?

• What was the most enjoyable part of this project? Please explain why

• What was the least enjoyable part of this project? Please explain why