Work on pitches

The elevator pitch

Try to prepare for this session by formulating a short story. Describe with one or two sentences the background, how the world is today, try to find support with at least one reference. Describe what is the challenge in this background. Describe what the project is intending to do about it. Describe how the effort is going to be evaluated.

• Background (this may be both application and research area )
• Challenge ( describe why the background is problematic or needs to change), here we prefer research area since it makes it easier to motivate your work.
• Action: What you intend to do about it.
• Evaluation: How you intend to evaluate what you intend to do about it (<- must be DV)

Example

Task. Practice Pitches

Other students check the following

• Background context
• What is the challenge, knowledge contribution/problem?
• Is this computer science?
• What is the action ( intended to be done?)
• What is the evaluation?
• Understandable?
• Vague / Unspecified - Vs clear