Internship Portfolio - Reading Guide

Knowledge and Insight

Project Management

Research and analysis

Implementation based on feedback (Advice)

Knowledge and Insight

Prior to the start of the project, I created a project plan which consisted of the first 2 phases of the internship only and thus is inaccurate in the timeline as an extra phase was added halfway through the first phase.

The DOT Framework was used as basis for my internship research, thus conducting the research in a straightforward and organized way.

New technology is also at play during the internship as I had no prior experience making games in virtual reality, a lot of aspects such as UI, and movement had to be re-learned.

Project Management

Project was managed mostly through the "Daily-standup" chat in SyncVR's Slack. As the name suggests, each day you would type your goals for the day and thus let your manager know your progress. Git was used as the version control system.

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Research and analysis

There are two main phases in the internship assignment that will have analysis and research aspects to them:

- Phase 2: Which consists of making my own VR physiotherapy game for bedridden patients.
- And Phase 3: which consists of making a tutorial system with animations for every game in SyncVR Fit.

Phase 2 has 3 main analysis questions (not research since no official testing was involved):

Phase 3 has 1 main research question backed up by official testing:

What success factors indicate that every type of player is correctly learning from Kyle (final version)?

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Implementation based on feedback (Advice)

Implementation based on feedback came mostly from Stakeholders and Community research (advice from colleagues). We used bi-weekly company-wide meetings as testing grounds and frequently asked for testing from coworkers since everyone in the company has access to a VR game and most people have all their appendages which make them perfect testing patients (minus the health conditions for which they might need physiotherapy for).

Phase 3, however, had official testing sessions to back the report and decisions made. This report and the results of the testing can be found here.

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Design

WindowWiper was designed based on the control classes that SyncVR Fit implements in all their games. This restricted the design of the code but it also organized it into a simple class structure. The waterfall model was used for the different classes in the game, where they all cascaded from the main control class ExerciseManager.

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Realization

In this page you can find all the different realizations in this internship. Explanations about the final prototypes and some further detail of the codes used.

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Communication

Fonty's Assigned Mentor: Wouter-Sluis-Thiescheffer was my main point of contact for feedback about scholar duties and additionally provided extremely helpful insights towards additions that were possible to the game.

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Learning Outcomes

I had multiple learning outcome goals with this internship, some personal and some were more about my studies. In a short description, I would say my main goal was to improve my abilities as a programmer in big projects, and learn how big companies use version control for their projects.

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