Crafting Tech's Project Description

Please fix the team members. Each team should list the five projects from most desirable to least desirable. Please send me your team's 5-element ordered list. The five projects are:

War-Torn Nations
AI Intersectionality (with some ideas from the "hopes and fears" projects perhaps)
Broken Morals
~~What the World Really Thinks About AI – From Hopes to Fears~~
~~Can AI Understand How We Fear... AI?~~

Deliverables? Of course:UPDATED

A report/research paper (maximum 8 pages for main paper, because my attention span is like a goldfish’s).
Short Feasibility Study.
Short RAI Guidelines Test.
A video presentation in the form of: (1) a link to a downloadable video; and (2) a working Youtube video. This should ideally be a 3-minute video pitch of your project (like Nima's. He and his business partner are Master students and won Slush 2024. If they did it, you can do it). More realistically, the "minimum viable video" is a video showing a powerpoint presentation for 3 minutes.

Submission details are below.

Deliverables Deadline: June 2nd (midnight).

Report Grading Criteria

Here’s what matters to whoever is marking this:

(5%) Your team diversity: Different skills, backgrounds, countries. Basically, if everyone’s called “Antonio” and studies Computer Engineering, rethink your team.
(10%) The feasibility study: As per slide 13 in Lecture 7.
(10%) RAI Guidelines Test: As per slide 2 in Lecture 6. In addition to filling the RAI cards in, please list the top 3 cards you found hardest to understand, and explain why.
(40%) Scientific execution. This accounts for a considerable part of your grade because it is extremely important that you are as scientifically rigorous as possible.
(35%) Quality of your report. This accounts for another considerable part of your grade because it is extremely important that your report looks as polished and professional as the research papers you've read in this course.

Incorporating Peer Evaluations into Grades. This is the average score assigned by your team members shortly after submitting your report and video (by "shortly after", I mean within the same day). Peer evaluations are commonly used to assess individual contributions and performance within a group. These evaluations are typically anonymous and designed to provide constructive feedback, promoting accountability and supporting a more holistic learning experience. Therefore, your final adjusted project grade will be 80% group grade (that above) + 20% average peer score (scaled to 100). Also, I will adjust grades manually based on narrative comments and score patterns.

Zero Grade Policy (Brutal but fair):

Grade = 0 if:

You make up the data/analyses/results? Zero.
You forget to submit? Zero.
You’re late? Zero.
You submit not according to instructions (e.g., a report of 9 pages as main paper)

Report Structure (Max 8 Pages for Main Paper)

Here’s the structure. Stick to it. In addition to title and authors' names, the report should contain 4 Sections:

Abstract – 3-4 sentences. Situation, Complication, Proposal.
Methods – How you tortured the data, aka how you analyzed the data. Which methods you applied. Which framework you built.
Results – Results, with interpretations plus your big “Aha!” moment.
Appendix (outside the 8-page restriction) – It should contain:
- Declaration – If you used ChatGPT, just say it.
- Division of Labour – Who did what. Don’t lie.
- Team Diversity – Brag about how “global” and “interdisciplinary” you are.

Final Grading Criteria

Final grade breakdown: 70% project report grade (adjusted), 10% video pitch grade, 20% individual presentation grade. You will pass this course if your grade on each of these three components is equal to or greater than 60 out of 100.

Final Submission UPDATED

Submit your report here. Submissions must be in English, in double-column format, and must adhere to the ACM template and format (also available in Overleaf). Word users may use the Word Interim Template. Submissions must be a single PDF file. This unique PDF file should include:

Eight pages as main paper;
A list of references;
An Appendix containing:
- A link to a downloadable Video Presentation (and its corresponding Youtube link).
- A link to a ZIP archive containing all relevant code and data. The archive must include a clear README.md (or readme.txt) file with step-by-step instructions, dependencies, expected outputs, and documentation of what each file does. A technically proficient user should be able to reproduce all key figures, tables, and metrics from your report using the provided files. All data collected for ground-truthing (e.g., user annotations, crowd-sourced labels, or survey responses) should be included in the submission. In addition to the ZIP archive, you could optionally create a public GitHub repository. This not only facilitates easier access and version control but also helps showcase your project more broadly, including in your submitted report and presentation video.
- Opitonal details on reproducibility, proofs, pseudo-code.

Final Notes (Read this. Or don’t. Up to you)

Pyramids, Pyramids: Use the Pyramid Principle to write your sections.
Stay focused: No rambling about capitalism unless backed by your stats.
Formatting Requirements: 8 pages. Not 9. Not 47.
Make your research questions compelling: Ask yourself “Why should people care about my work?”