For the poster session, we have to submit an abstract of 150 words or less by April 13th. This abstract gives a general overview of our project and how we, as a team, contributed and worked on it. We finished the abstract without too many problems...but then difficulty in respect to the physical poster manifested itself.
Our first idea was to create a google doc that we all had access to, so we could edit simultaneously as ideas popped into our brains. This turned out to be an unfortunate idea. What ended up happening was that we created an incoherent mess that didn't flow or make any sense, and looked like what five different people thought it should look like. What we were experiencing was actually pretty interesting when you think about it. It is called combinatorial explosion.
Combinatorial explosion refers to the increasing lines of communication as you add individual nodes to a network. If you have four people, then you will have six channels:
Adding another person, which is the size of our group, increases the communication channels to 10. So the channels, represented by c, look something like this: c = (n(n-1))/2 for n people. This is what was happening when we just jumped into all creating the poster at the same time with no central person in charge.
Me and James both had previous experience from creating our poster from last semester. James did more of the work on last semester's poster, so he was made the de-facto designer of the poster portion of this project. So now all ideas will go through him while he is creating the template for the poster, and this will reduce the lines of communication from 10 to 4. Now that this is worked out, hopefully this will be a smoother process!
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