Description

Apply your foundational Unity skills by building one compact XFactory-inspired industrial station using supplied assets. The goal is scene composition, prefab organization, materials, lighting, UI, and interaction readiness.

Scope note: Do not build oversized “mega-projects.” Focus on one compact, purposeful station. If you add detail, it should support a clear functional purpose—not purely decorative clutter.

Goals

Use the Unity Editor effectively to assemble a coherent, compact industrial station.
Structure scenes with nested prefabs and meaningful hierarchy.
Apply materials and lighting to support readability and basic realism.
Prepare the scene for future interaction (colliders, tags/layers, physics setup).
Communicate design decisions clearly through video and a concise evidence PDF.

Structured Core Tasks

Build one compact station with exactly three functional zones:

Work Zone — primary machine, assembly table, robot cell, or process area.
Support/Storage Zone — shelves, tools, bins, materials, parts, pallets, or logistics objects.
Operator/Status Zone — UI panel, status display, instruction board, or control area.

Required Assets and Features

Use only supplied XFactory/course assets plus student-created materials/scripts if needed.
Include one nested prefab family used at least 3 times (e.g., shelving module, tool rack, bin set, repeated machine guard, station sign).
Include exactly five interaction-ready objects. Each must have:
- Clear name,
- Collider,
- Tag or layer,
- Intended future interaction role documented.
You may include additional decorative or static objects, but only the five listed interaction-ready objects will be graded.
At least one of the five must include Rigidbody + Collider for future grabbing/physics.
Include one world-space or overlay UI panel with at least three pieces of information:
- Station name,
- Current status,
- One instruction or warning.
Include basic lighting:
- Ambient/environment lighting,
- At least two intentional light sources,
- No distracting over-lighting.
Materials:
- No magenta materials,
- Shared/reused material strategy for similar objects,
- No unnecessary duplicate materials.
Keep the scene compact. Do not build multiple full stations.

Suggested time: ~4–6 hours.

Evidence Checklist

Include this table in your PDF and fill it in with video timestamps:

Required item	Where shown	Video timestamp
Three functional zones
Nested prefab family reused 3+ times
Five interaction-ready objects
Rigidbody/collider object
UI panel
Lighting/materials

Graduate Extension

Complete the core assignment and submit a short Research-Informed Design Memo. Your goal is to connect one or two peer-reviewed research findings to a specific design or implementation decision in the assignment.

This is not a full literature review, a separate project, or a baseline-vs-variant study. The research connection should visibly inform one part of your existing assignment work.

1. Research Reading

Read 2 peer-reviewed papers related to the assignment topic.
Papers must come from credible XR, HCI, engineering, manufacturing, robotics, simulation, training, visualization, or human factors venues.
At least one paper should have a clear engineering, industrial, training, robotics, manufacturing, maintenance, healthcare engineering, infrastructure, product design, or systems-engineering connection.
Avoid generic papers that only discuss broad UI design, general education technology, or unrelated VR/AR experiences without a clear connection to the assignment.

Suggested topics for Assignment B:

XR for industrial training environments,
engineering visualization,
human–machine or human–robot workspaces,
operator guidance and safety,
maintenance or assembly support,
manufacturing/workstation design,
visual attention and cognitive load in industrial environments,
factory, lab, healthcare engineering, infrastructure, or product-design visualization.

UI or status placement is acceptable only when framed as operator guidance, safety, training, or engineering visualization—not generic UI design.

2. Reading Evidence

For each paper, include a short reading note with:

full citation,
research problem or application domain,
method or study type,
one specific finding relevant to the assignment,
one sentence explaining why the finding matters for your design.

Do not submit AI-generated paper summaries. The notes should show evidence that you actually read the paper, such as a specific method, condition, design factor, measured outcome, limitation, or finding from the paper.

3. Research-to-Assignment Connection

Choose one research-informed decision you made in the assignment. Explain:

what you changed, emphasized, configured, or evaluated,
which paper finding informed it,
where it appears in your Unity scene, script, interaction, UI, validation, or evidence PDF,
what trade-off or limitation remains.

This can be a small design decision inside the normal assignment work. It does not need to be a separate variant, extra feature, or full comparison study.

Paper	Engineering/XR relevance	Specific finding used	How it influenced my assignment

4. Graduate Research Memo

Submit AB_GraduateMemo_FirstName_LastName.pdf as a separate PDF, 2 pages maximum. Include citations, reading notes, and the research-to-assignment connection.

Submission

Because Unity projects can become large and difficult to submit, the default submission is a short demo video plus a concise PDF evidence document. Submit source files only as requested below. The TA may request source files if a feature cannot be verified from the video.

Required

Demo video (3–4 minutes): Show required features in order with narration or captions.
- The video does not need to be professionally edited. A clear screen recording with narration or captions is sufficient. Make sure UI text, scene objects, and required interactions are visible.
AB_Evidence_FirstName_LastName.pdf (≤ 2 pages) including:
- Project title and student name,
- Evidence checklist table with timestamps,
- Station purpose,
- Screenshot or diagram labeling the 3 zones,
- Interaction-ready object checklist,
- Lighting/material rationale,
- Video link and timestamps.

If You Are a Graduate Student

AB_GraduateMemo_FirstName_LastName.pdf (≤ 2 pages) — separate from the undergraduate evidence PDF. Include citations, reading notes, and the research-to-assignment connection.

Optional / If Requested

UnityPackage exported from your personal folder only (Assets/FirstName_LastName/), with dependencies included only when reasonable.
Do not submit Library/, Temp/, Obj/, Logs/, or full project caches.

Fallback

If file upload, recording, or Unity packaging fails, submit the evidence PDF by the deadline and sign up for a brief TA demo during office hours. TA demos must be scheduled by the assignment deadline. The TA demo is a fallback verification method, not an extension.

Submit individually via Canvas.

Grading Rubric

If a required feature is not visible in the video or TA demo and not clearly documented in the evidence PDF, it may receive little or no credit even if it exists in the Unity scene.

Core (100 points)

Criterion	Objective evidence	Points
Three-zone station structure	Work, support/storage, and operator/status zones are clearly present and labeled in video/PDF	15
Scene cohesion and scope control	Station is compact, purposeful, and not cluttered or oversized	15
Nested prefab reuse	One nested prefab family is used 3+ times and explained	15
Interaction-ready objects	Exactly five objects have colliders, tags/layers, and intended future roles	15
Physics-prepared object	At least one interaction-ready object includes Rigidbody + Collider and is appropriate for future grabbing/physics	10
Materials and lighting	No magenta errors; reused materials; two intentional lights; readable scene	15
UI/status panel	UI includes station name, status, and instruction/warning; readable and placed appropriately	10
Evidence quality	Video and PDF clearly show all required items with timestamps	5

Graduate Requirement (20 points)

Criterion	Objective evidence	Points
Paper relevance	2 credible peer-reviewed papers; at least one has clear engineering/industrial/training/robotics/manufacturing/systems relevance	5
Reading evidence	Notes identify problem/domain, method or study type, specific finding, and limitation or design implication	5
Research-to-assignment connection	One specific finding is clearly connected to a design, implementation, UI, interaction, validation, or documentation decision	7
Memo clarity	Memo is concise, cited, within 2 pages, and not just a generic literature summary	3

If you are a graduate student, this graduate requirement is required—not optional extra credit. Your assignment grade includes the core rubric above plus these graduate criteria.