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                                                    • Mtg 26 (Mon-01-Nov-2021)
                                                      • Mtg 27 (Wed-03-Nov-2021)
                                                        • Mtg 28 (Fri-05-Nov-2021)
                                                          • Mtg 29 (Mon-15-Nov-2021)
                                                            • Mtg 30 (Wed-17-Nov-2021)
                                                              • Mtg 31 (Fri-19-Nov-2021)
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                                                                    • Mtg 34 (Fri-26-Nov-2021)
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                                                                            Topics

                                                                            Topics and Learning Outcomes for the Knowledge Units, within the Knowledge Areas, explored in this course are based on the ACM/IEEE Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Computer Science (2013) report, a version of which is available in HTML on this website . That report associates one of three levels of mastery with each Learning Outcome. The mastery levels are defined as:

                                                                            • Familiarity: The student understands what a concept is or what it means. This level of mastery concerns a basic awareness of a concept as opposed to expecting real facility with its application. It provides an answer to the question “What do you know about this?”
                                                                            • Usage: The student is able to use or apply a concept in a concrete way. Using a concept may include, for example, appropriately using a specific concept in a program, using a particular proof technique, or performing a particular analysis. It provides an answer to the question “What do you know how to do?”
                                                                            • Assessment: The student is able to consider a concept from multiple viewpoints and/or justify the selection of a particular approach to solve a problem. This level of mastery implies more than using a concept; it involves the ability to select an appropriate approach from understood alternatives. It provides an answer to the question “Why would you do that?”

                                                                            Topics and Learning Outcomes with:

                                                                            • 2 stars ( ★ ★ ) appear in the CS2013 report as Core-Tier1
                                                                            • 1 star ( ★ ) appear in the CS2013 report as Core-Tier2
                                                                            • 0 stars appear in the CS2013 report as Elective
                                                                            • grey text are not covered in this course offering

                                                                            HCI / Foundations

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                                                                                HCI / Designing Interaction

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                                                                                    HCI / Programming Interactive Systems

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                                                                                        HCI / User-Centered Design and Testing

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                                                                                            HCI / New Interactive Technologies

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                                                                                                HCI / Collaboration and Communication

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                                                                                                    HCI / Statistical Methods for HCI

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                                                                                                        HCI / Design-Oriented HCI

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                                                                                                            Assignments

                                                                                                            Understand Your Project ()

                                                                                                            Understand Your Project

                                                                                                            In consultation with the members of your group, select an existing website or software application, with which you are all familiar and for which you can identify some opportunities for redesign and improvement. No group may choose this (Dr. Hepting’s) website. We will use it for examples in our meetings.

                                                                                                            This is the first of three parts to the project, which mirror the 3 stages of the design thinking process (as described by the Nielsen Norman Group): understand, explore, and materialize.

                                                                                                            Stages of Design Thinking

                                                                                                            The understand stage, comprising empathize and define steps, is the focus of this assignment. Focus on well-defined activities that well-defined users are trying to perform.

                                                                                                            1. describe: each member of your group will describe, with sufficient detail to be relatable, an activity and a user wanting to complete that activity.
                                                                                                            2. empathize: each member of your group will create an empathy map for each activity (and user). If there are 4 people in your group, each person will do 4 empathy maps and your group’s submission will have 16 in total.
                                                                                                            3. define: together as a group, identify specific aspects of the current interface that cause problems for the users and look to examine the roots of those problems. Identify whatever user needs may be unmet.

                                                                                                            Remember that this stage is concerned with understanding the opportunities for redesign with your selected website or software application. Do not provide solutions or fixes now: that will come later.

                                                                                                            Submission

                                                                                                            • submit a pdf document (1 per group) on UR Courses that includes all three parts (describe, empathize, and define)
                                                                                                            Grading
                                                                                                            Grade penalties will be applied in the following situations for assignment submissions:
                                                                                                            • on time but the written instructions for the submission were not followed: deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late (but within 48 hours of the due date and time): deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late by more than 48 hours: deduct 20% of the earned grade until the cut-off date, after which no grade can be earned.

                                                                                                            This assignment is worth 10 marks, according to the following rubric:

                                                                                                            Rubric

                                                                                                            DePaul Univerity’s Center for Teaching and Learning has a useful resource describing the process of creating rubrics. Your comments about the following rubric are welcome via email

                                                                                                            Criterion and Weight Exemplary Sufficient Developing Needs Improvement
                                                                                                            Description of Activities (1.5) Clear and compelling Concrete Lacks detail Substantially missing
                                                                                                            Description of Users (1.5) Clear and compelling Concrete Lacks detail Substantially missing
                                                                                                            Empathy Maps (3.0) All quadrants done well by all Entries in all quadrants Few entries, lacking detail Substantially incomplete
                                                                                                            Problems and Unmet Needs (3.0) Thoroughly explored and documented (without indicating solutions) Quite complete Not enough requirements or detail Missing requirements and detail
                                                                                                            Writing (1.0) Shows a good command of Standard English. No problems for your audience Demonstrates evidence of correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Audience will have little trouble reading your work Some errors, audience may have some trouble reading your work Consistently uses incorrect grammar, spelling, and syntax that makes it difficult for others to follow
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                                                                                                            Explore Project ()

                                                                                                            Explore Project

                                                                                                            Based on your understanding, design!

                                                                                                            Recall the diagram that illustrated the article about Design Thinking from the Nielsen Norman Group. We are now moving to the explore phase.

                                                                                                            The focus now shifts from understanding the problems to proposing solutions for those problems. Using the results from the last project assignment, state the specific activity that your representative user will perform. If you had many activities in the last project assignment, please focus at this stage on 1 substantial activity that accomplishes a meaningful goal for the user.

                                                                                                            Consider how the user will complete the activity:

                                                                                                            • which interface metaphors (see Sections 3.4 and 12.3 in textbook) would be suitable to help users understand the activities?
                                                                                                            • which interaction type(s) (see Section 3.5 in textbook) would best support the users’ activities?
                                                                                                            • do different interface types suggest alternative design insights or options?

                                                                                                            Choose 2 different metaphors and design an interface for each of the metaphors that you choose. For both interfaces:

                                                                                                            • Create a low-fidelity prototype (see Section 12.2 in textbook)
                                                                                                            • Write a scenario (see Section 11.5 in textbook) that includes details of the information presented and interaction undertaken
                                                                                                            • Analyze your scenario for positive and negative aspects and iterate your low-fidelity prototypes and scenarios to minimize the negative aspects and maximize the positive aspects. Describe the results of this iteration process

                                                                                                            Submission

                                                                                                            • submit a pdf document (1 per group)
                                                                                                            Grading
                                                                                                            Grade penalties will be applied in the following situations for assignment submissions:
                                                                                                            • on time but the written instructions for the submission were not followed: deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late (but within 48 hours of the due date and time): deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late by more than 48 hours: deduct 20% of the earned grade until the cut-off date, after which no grade can be earned.

                                                                                                            This assignment is worth 10 marks, according to the following rubric:

                                                                                                            Rubric

                                                                                                            DePaul Univerity’s Center for Teaching and Learning has a useful resource describing the process of creating rubrics. Your comments about the following rubric are welcome via email

                                                                                                            Criterion and Weight Exemplary Sufficient Developing Needs Improvement
                                                                                                            Interface A Low-Fidelity Prototype (Sketch) (2.0) clear and complete comprehensible mostly complete incomplete
                                                                                                            Interface A Description (1.5) thoughtful and thorough thorough mostly complete incomplete
                                                                                                            Interface A Iteration Process Description (1.5) thoughtful and thorough thorough mostly complete incomplete
                                                                                                            Interface B Low-Fidelity Prototype (Sketch) (2.0) clear and complete comprehensible mostly complete incomplete
                                                                                                            Interface B Description (1.5) thoughtful and thorough thorough mostly complete incomplete
                                                                                                            Interface B Iteration Process Description (1.5) thoughtful and thorough thorough mostly complete incomplete
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                                                                                                            Materialize Project (1) ()

                                                                                                            Materialize 1

                                                                                                            Based on your designs, test and refine!

                                                                                                            Recall the diagram that illustrated the article about Design Thinking from the Nielsen Norman Group. We are now moving to the materialize phase.

                                                                                                            The focus now shifts to testing your low-fidelity prototypes. Each member of your Project group will conduct 1 test with each of your Project group’s 2 low-fidelity interface prototypes. The tests will be arranged from within your Testing groups, most of which will have 3 members. Use UR Courses to coordinate with your Testing group members. For illustrative purposes, consider a Testing group with Bob, Fanhua, and Premla as members. Each of them will arrange 2 meetings for testing:

                                                                                                            • Bob and Fanhua arrange to meet:
                                                                                                              • Bob tests his Project group’s Interface A with Fanhua
                                                                                                              • Fanhua tests his Project group’s Interface B with Bob
                                                                                                            • Bob and Premla arrange to meet:
                                                                                                              • Bob tests his Project group’s Interface B with Premla
                                                                                                              • Premla tests her Project group’s Interface A with Bob
                                                                                                            • Fanhua and Premla arrange to meet:
                                                                                                              • Fanhua tests his Project group’s Interface A with Premla
                                                                                                              • Premla tests her Project group’s Interface B with Fanhua

                                                                                                            IMPORTANT: Your Testing group should not have more than one member from any Project group

                                                                                                            In your tests, you are asking someone to take on a role as your user and then complete the task for which you are redesigning the interface. Explain the task and ask your participant to perform the task, without giving instructions about how to do it. This information will be recorded in a script, that all group members will use to run their tests. Writing and reviewing the script is a group effort. Once you start testing with your participants, do not make any changes to your script.

                                                                                                            You may find the downloads related to the ZipCar website test useful.

                                                                                                            During your tests, you will collect both quantitative and qualitative data and you will also make notes.

                                                                                                            You should submit all of your raw data and submit a summary of how it was collected: by whom, from whom, when, and where. Each of your group members will collect data from 1 test of your Interface A and 1 test of your Interface B. All tests will use the same script and other materials.

                                                                                                            Provide an analysis of your data. Did the data that you collected from your participants reveal any agreement or disagreement about your interface designs? Were the results surprising in any way?

                                                                                                            Based on your experience with your project and your testing of your low-fidelity prototypes, create a single interface design that combines the best ideas from your two low-fidelity prototypes and any other sources.

                                                                                                            Submission

                                                                                                            • submit a pdf document (1 per group)
                                                                                                            Grading
                                                                                                            Grade penalties will be applied in the following situations for assignment submissions:
                                                                                                            • on time but the written instructions for the submission were not followed: deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late (but within 48 hours of the due date and time): deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late by more than 48 hours: deduct 20% of the earned grade until the cut-off date, after which no grade can be earned.

                                                                                                            This assignment is worth 10 marks, according to the following rubric:

                                                                                                            Rubric

                                                                                                            DePaul Univerity’s Center for Teaching and Learning has a useful resource describing the process of creating rubrics. Your comments about the following rubric are welcome via email

                                                                                                            Criterion and Weight Exemplary Sufficient Developing Needs Improvement
                                                                                                            Script and Materials (2.0) thoughtful and thorough thorough mostly complete incomplete
                                                                                                            Qualitative Data and Notes from Test Sessions (1.5) clear and complete comprehensible mostly complete incomplete
                                                                                                            Quantitative Data (1.5) clear and complete comprehensible mostly complete incomplete
                                                                                                            Analysis and Summary of Data (1.0) thoughtful and thorough thorough mostly complete incomplete
                                                                                                            Explanation of and rationale for design choices made to create a single refined interface design representation (4) thoughtful and thorough thorough mostly complete incomplete
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                                                                                                            Materialize Project (2) ()

                                                                                                            Materialize 2

                                                                                                            Create a 5-10 minute video to present your project.

                                                                                                            • Identify your project and your opportunity for redesign
                                                                                                            • Discuss your 2 low-fidelity designs (and metaphors)
                                                                                                            • Describe what you learned from your evaluations
                                                                                                            • Discuss how your high-fidelity prototype incorporates what you have learned
                                                                                                            • Demonstrate your high-fidelity prototype

                                                                                                            Although it would be preferable to have all group members involved in creating the presentation, this is not required.

                                                                                                            You may choose the privacy setting for your youtube video (public, unlisted, and private). If you choose private, please ensure that the instructor and marker are granted access.

                                                                                                            Submission

                                                                                                            • submit a link to your video on youtube (1 per group) using UR Courses
                                                                                                            Grading
                                                                                                            Grade penalties will be applied in the following situations for assignment submissions:
                                                                                                            • on time but the written instructions for the submission were not followed: deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late (but within 48 hours of the due date and time): deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late by more than 48 hours: deduct 20% of the earned grade until the cut-off date, after which no grade can be earned.

                                                                                                            This assignment is worth 10 marks, according to the following rubric:

                                                                                                            Rubric

                                                                                                            DePaul Univerity’s Center for Teaching and Learning has a useful resource describing the process of creating rubrics. Your comments about the following rubric are welcome via email

                                                                                                            Criterion and Weight Exemplary Sufficient Developing Needs Improvement
                                                                                                            Identify Project and Opportunity for Redesign (1.0)
                                                                                                            Discuss your 2 lo-fi designs (and metaphors) (2.0)
                                                                                                            Describe what you learned from your evaluations (1.0)
                                                                                                            Discuss how your hi-fi prototype incorporates what you have learned (1.0)
                                                                                                            Demonstration of hi-fi prototype simulation (5.0)
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                                                                                                            Project Proposal

                                                                                                            The project will be a web-based presentation on a topic of your choosing. You will decide on the mix of writing and coding (using p5.js) [or, research and implementation]. The project can be done either individually or in small groups. Identify how (and, optionally, with whom) you will complete the project in your submission.

                                                                                                            Your proposal will begin with the title of your proposed project. You will then include each of the following headings, accompanied by some descriptive text.

                                                                                                            Overview

                                                                                                            A summary description of the project, in a couple of sentences.

                                                                                                            Vision and Goals

                                                                                                            What you want to accomplish with this project: what is your vision, what are your goals? How will you assess if you’ve met your goals?

                                                                                                            Audience

                                                                                                            Who do you see as your audience? It is hard to be all things to all people, so indicate some details of your intended audience. What is common amongst your audience members? What do you think that they will get out of your project? Why should they be interested?

                                                                                                            Content

                                                                                                            What you will be presenting and why: flesh out your vision and describe the content of your project.

                                                                                                            Presentation

                                                                                                            How you will present it: which media elements will you use to present your work, and how will you do it?

                                                                                                            Scope

                                                                                                            How you will finish: consider the scope of the project you are considering and look at the risks. Can you cover the content effectively in the development time available? Does success depend on a high-risk technology or technique? What is essential to the project and what could be removed to meet your deadlines?

                                                                                                            Submission

                                                                                                            Submit your work electronically, via URCourses, by uploading a single pdf file.

                                                                                                            Grading##### Grading

                                                                                                            Grade penalties will be applied in the following situations for assignment submissions:
                                                                                                            • on time but the written instructions for the submission were not followed: deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late (but within 48 hours of the due date and time): deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late by more than 48 hours: deduct 20% of the earned grade until the cut-off date, after which no grade can be earned.

                                                                                                            This assignment is worth 4 marks, according to the following rubric:

                                                                                                            Rubric

                                                                                                            DePaul Univerity’s Center for Teaching and Learning has a useful resource describing the process of creating rubrics. Your comments about the following rubric are welcome via email

                                                                                                            Criterion and Weight Exemplary Sufficient Developing Needs Improvement
                                                                                                            Content/Concept of the project (2) Sophisticated concept Good, moderately engaging Undeveloped content No discernible development of content
                                                                                                            Ambition of the project (2) Exceptionally ambitious and challenging Moderately challenging and ambitious Very little challenge Unchallenging
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                                                                                                            Empathize With Teachers ()

                                                                                                            Empathize

                                                                                                            This is an INDIVIDUAL assignment.

                                                                                                            You have been made a TEACHER in a course on UR Courses, so that you can gain a different perspective on UR Courses (because you are normally a STUDENT).

                                                                                                            For this assignment, please define and describe an activity that a teacher could create for their students that includes one UR Courses “activity” that allows a grade to be assigned upon completion and one UR Courses “resource” whose access is restricted based on the grade earned on the “activity”. As you complete your activity with the UR Courses interface, reflect on your experience.

                                                                                                            Specifically, you are asked to:

                                                                                                            1. Define and describe an activity that meets the requirements

                                                                                                            2. Create an empathy map while you complete your activity within your course on UR Courses:
                                                                                                              1. claim 1 “Section” by changing the label to your own name (there are enough blank sections for everyone - so be nice and don’t claim someone else’s section!)
                                                                                                              2. add to your section:
                                                                                                                1. One “activity” that allows you to assign a grade upon completion
                                                                                                                2. One “resource” whose access is restricted based on the grade earned from your activity
                                                                                                            3. Describe whatever opportunities for redesign that you find by relating it (or them) in terms of your personal experience of completing your activity.

                                                                                                            Submission

                                                                                                            • submit a single pdf document on UR Courses
                                                                                                            • target: 1 page for a description of your activity with 1 page for a screen capture of your Section, 1 page for the empathy map and 1-2 pages for the opportunities for redesign
                                                                                                            Grading
                                                                                                            Grade penalties will be applied in the following situations for assignment submissions:
                                                                                                            • on time but the written instructions for the submission were not followed: deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late (but within 48 hours of the due date and time): deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late by more than 48 hours: deduct 20% of the earned grade until the cut-off date, after which no grade can be earned.

                                                                                                            This assignment is worth 10 marks, according to the following rubric:

                                                                                                            Rubric

                                                                                                            DePaul Univerity’s Center for Teaching and Learning has a useful resource describing the process of creating rubrics. Your comments about the following rubric are welcome via email

                                                                                                            Criterion and Weight Exemplary Sufficient Developing Needs Improvement
                                                                                                            Activity Described (2.0) Includes everything as requested Includes mostly all as requested Not described as requested Not described
                                                                                                            Activity Completed (2.0) Everything done as requested Mostly done as requested Not done as requested Not completed
                                                                                                            Empathy Map (3.0) All quadrants done well Entries in all quadrants Few entries, lacking detail Substantially incomplete
                                                                                                            Opportunities for Redesign (3.0) Thoroughly explored Complete Lacks detail Opportunities not identified
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                                                                                                            You Choose (Undergrad) ()

                                                                                                            You Choose (Undergrad)

                                                                                                            This is an INDIVIDUAL assignment for undergraduate students.

                                                                                                            Consider the class themes that we have discussed and will consider. Please see the page of Topics for a guide.

                                                                                                            Write approximately 1000 words (or equivalent) about your chosen topic as an essay or you are welcome to consider other forms of deliverable that are more meaningful to you — such an HTML/JavaScript implementation of some ideas discussed in class (perhaps extending something from https://github.com/dhhepting/dhhepting.github.io).

                                                                                                            It must deal with class themes in some way, and your ideas about that connection are important. You might focus your efforts on researching smaller assessment questions (from Topics), examining the usability of software that you use, writing some code to test an idea, and so forth.

                                                                                                            Your submission should include between 2 and 4 external references ( NOT wikipedia).

                                                                                                            Submission

                                                                                                            • submit a pdf document
                                                                                                            Grading
                                                                                                            Grade penalties will be applied in the following situations for assignment submissions:
                                                                                                            • on time but the written instructions for the submission were not followed: deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late (but within 48 hours of the due date and time): deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late by more than 48 hours: deduct 20% of the earned grade until the cut-off date, after which no grade can be earned.

                                                                                                            This assignment is worth 10 marks, according to the following rubric:

                                                                                                            Rubric

                                                                                                            DePaul Univerity’s Center for Teaching and Learning has a useful resource describing the process of creating rubrics. Your comments about the following rubric are welcome via email

                                                                                                            Criterion and Weight Exemplary Sufficient Developing Needs Improvement
                                                                                                            Topic (2) Topic actively engages an important issue related to class Topic engages an important issue related to class Topic somewhat engages an important issue related to class Topic does not engage an important issue related to class
                                                                                                            Content (4) Deliverable is used appropriately and imaginatively. Realization of approach is clear and well-formed Deliverable is used appropriately. Realization of approach is reasonable Deliverable is used somewhat appropriately. Realization of approach is mostly unclear and not well-formed Deliverable is not used appropriately. Realization of approach is not clear
                                                                                                            Presentation (4) Ambitious and thorough Reasonably thorough Somewhat thorough Not thorough
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                                                                                                            Research Paper Review (Grad) ()

                                                                                                            Research Paper Review (Grad)

                                                                                                            This is an INDIVIDUAL assignment for graduate students.

                                                                                                            Choose a recent (within the last year) conference paper (with at least 8 pages) that is new to you, from ACM SIGCHI conferences (including CHIPLAY).

                                                                                                            Critically read the paper and write a summary of it, according to Fong’s alternative method for reviewing papers:

                                                                                                            1. What is the purpose of the work?
                                                                                                            2. How do the authors achieve their purpose?
                                                                                                            3. Why did they adopt their particular approach?
                                                                                                            4. Do you think their purpose has been achieved?
                                                                                                            5. What insights have you gained from reading this work?

                                                                                                            Finally, include an explanation of why you chose this paper.

                                                                                                            Your summary should be approximately 1000 words.

                                                                                                            Submission

                                                                                                            • submit a pdf document
                                                                                                            Grading
                                                                                                            Grade penalties will be applied in the following situations for assignment submissions:
                                                                                                            • on time but the written instructions for the submission were not followed: deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late (but within 48 hours of the due date and time): deduct 10% of the earned grade
                                                                                                            • late by more than 48 hours: deduct 20% of the earned grade until the cut-off date, after which no grade can be earned.

                                                                                                            This assignment is worth 10 marks, according to the following rubric:

                                                                                                            Rubric

                                                                                                            DePaul Univerity’s Center for Teaching and Learning has a useful resource describing the process of creating rubrics. Your comments about the following rubric are welcome via email

                                                                                                            Criterion and Weight Exemplary Sufficient Developing Needs Improvement
                                                                                                            What is the purpose of the work? (2.0) Thoughtful and thorough Reasonably thorough Somewhat complete Substantially incomplete
                                                                                                            How do the authors achieve their purpose? (2.0) Thoughtful and thorough Reasonably thorough Somewhat complete Substantially incomplete
                                                                                                            Why did they adopt their particular approach? (2.0) Thoughtful and thorough Reasonably thorough Somewhat complete Substantially incomplete
                                                                                                            Do you think their purpose has been achieved? (2.0) Thoughtful and thorough Reasonably thorough Somewhat complete Substantially incomplete
                                                                                                            What insights have you gained from reading this work? (2.0) Thoughtful and thorough Reasonably thorough Somewhat complete Substantially incomplete
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