# Site

## Pages

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- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [The Alert Audit](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/assessments/alert-audit/): A close reading of one real dashboard's full alert vocabulary, and a judgement on how well its parts hang together
- [The Instrument Cluster You'd Trust](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/assessments/instrument-cluster-you-trust/): The capstone — design a complete alert vocabulary for a vehicle of your choosing, and defend it as a system rather than a pile of good ideas
- [Redesign a Warning](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/assessments/redesign-a-warning/): Take one existing dashboard alert apart and rebuild it across icon, colour, sound and text, with a rationale that survives an argument
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [The dashboard as language](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/lectures/week-01/): Why a dashboard is a designed language rather than a neutral report of facts, framed through the Jaguar E-Type and the Mercedes MBUX Hyperscreen
- [Needles and Gauges — The Analogue Century](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/lectures/week-02/): Why continuous analogue gauges dominated dashboard design for a century, and what they assumed about the driver reading them
- [The idiot light](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/lectures/week-03/): What a dashboard loses, and gains, when a continuous measurement becomes a single light — from the 1950s–60s US gauge-to-light shift to the modern check-engine light
- [Icons and symbols — building a shared vocabulary](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/lectures/week-04/): How a tiny pictogram comes to mean the same thing across languages, literacy levels and decades, through the case of the tyre-pressure warning icon
- [Red, amber, green: the grammar of urgency](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/lectures/week-05/): How three colours came to carry the entire weight of automotive urgency, and what happens to a driver for whom two of them look the same
- [Chimes, dings and voices — the sonic register](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/lectures/week-06/): What makes a warning sound urgent without becoming alarming, examined through the seatbelt chime's regulatory escalation against Tesla's deliberately sparse chime set
- [From acronym to sentence: text on the dashboard](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/lectures/week-07/): What a full sentence can tell a driver that an icon and a two-letter code never could, and the translation bill that arrives the moment the dashboard starts writing in words
- [Heads-up: the dashboard on the windscreen](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/lectures/week-08/): What changes when an instrument stops living in the dashboard and starts living in the driver's own view of the road
- [The vocabulary of almost-autonomy](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/lectures/week-09/): What an alert is actually claiming once the car can act on its own judgement, and why Volvo's City Safety (2008) is the moment the dashboard started narrating decisions instead of reporting symptoms
- [Cry wolf: trust and alarm fatigue](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/lectures/week-10/): What happens to a warning system's credibility the tenth time it's wrong, and why the driver-assistance features most likely to matter are also the ones most likely to get switched off
- [The same car, different countries](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/lectures/week-11/): Why the same vehicle platform ships with a different urgency vocabulary depending on which market it's sold into, and what that says about whose "urgent" a dashboard is actually built around
- [The next dashboard](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/lectures/week-12/): If you were inventing this vocabulary today, with no legacy dashboard to imitate, what would you keep, and what would you throw out — and what happens once the vocabulary lives in software the manufacturer can change after the sale
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Idris Fenn](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/people/idris-fenn/): A tutor working across the course's first reviews and the practical work that follows them.
- [Marisol Quaye](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/people/marisol-quaye/): The founding convenor, responsible for the course's shape and its weekly teaching programme.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/policies/): The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, academic integrity and getting help.
- [Orientation — reading your own dashboard](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/sessions/01-orientation/): A first pass at classifying one real dashboard element before the course gives you vocabulary for it
- [Reading the needle](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/sessions/02-reading-the-needle/): A hands-on comparison of gauge placement and priority across three real dashboards
- [Classify your own idiot light](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/sessions/03-the-idiot-light/): Bring a real telltale from a car you have access to and argue whether it's genuinely binary or a continuous measurement flattened into one light
- [Reading icons cold](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/sessions/04-a-shared-vocabulary/): Students guess the meaning of unlabelled dashboard icons before checking their guesses against the ISO standard
- [Simulating colour-blindness on a real cluster](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/sessions/05-the-grammar-of-urgency/): Running a photographed instrument cluster through a colour-blindness simulator to find out which telltales collapse into each other
- [Ranking alerts by ear alone](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/sessions/06-the-sonic-register/): Students listen blind to a set of real dashboard alert sounds and try to rank them by intended urgency using only what they hear
- [Writing the sentence an icon implies](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/sessions/07-say-it-in-words/): Taking a telltale from earlier in the course, writing the plain-language message it implies, then translating that message and measuring what breaks
- [Where does the arrow go?](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/sessions/08-heads-up/): Students place a lane-departure and a following-distance warning on a printed windscreen photo and argue about how far into central vision an alert is allowed to intrude
- [Report or narrate? Sorting real ADAS alerts](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/sessions/09-almost-autonomous/): Students sort real driver-assistance alerts into "reports a state" and "narrates a decision," then argue about which kind is harder to design well
- [Your personal false-alarm threshold](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/sessions/10-cry-wolf/): Students estimate the false-alarm rate at which they'd personally start ignoring or disabling a given alert, then compare answers to see how much the threshold varies person to person
- [One alert, two markets](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/sessions/11-same-car-different-country/): Students research how a single dashboard alert is regulated or implemented differently in two countries, then argue which version actually serves the driver better
- [Final crit — the alert vocabulary as a system](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-CongyuLiu09/sessions/12-the-next-dashboard/): A structured peer crit of near-final drafts of the capstone assessment, testing whether each student's alert vocabulary holds together as a coherent system before it's submitted