August 9th, 2010

We had a breakthrough for our final project. You see after we decided to stick with the portable eyetrackers we encountered the problem of actually coding all of the data. However thanks to a collective brain strain we came up with solutions (thanks so much Pooshy). We will prove our hypothesis in three different ways, one with coding at specific parts. Two actual video evidence and three the average time it took each participant to finish the race at the beginning of the tutorial.

August 6th, 2010

Finally finished going through the levels on MW2. Now I can pick out the ones that I think are best suited for the novices and experts to play. Im blogging really early today because in about a half hour Im headed off to College and Careers. Its gonna be great! Im super excited and Octavia is going to room with me! See everyone on Monday!

August 5th, 2010

Ok so today we started analyzing the data we collected yesterday only to find that the SD card cut off the last portion of our recording. Thus rendering us without an end calibration which is bad. We paniced all morning and worked on other things until Jeff came in (who we thought was dead) and declared there was no NEED for an end calibration, it only made it easier. So I have spent quite some time trying to get the calibrations lined up with sound alone. Another great day...

August 4th, 2010

We started actually testing or running experts and novices. Three people were tested. This was after tons of technical difficulties that made me realize my hate for portable eye trackers. It could be user error I suppose but in this case I dont think so. Anyway after we started collecting data Semanticode decided that IT also did not want to work. An awesome day...

August 3rd, 2010

Today I have managed to go partially deaf. The fire alarms went off numerous times and gave me a terrible fright. An up side to this is that we got to spend some more time with nature (I guess...). Octavia and I officially started working on our presentation today making it look all nice and pretty while still filling it with copious amounts of delicious information. Also we got the clear from Jeff to use pictures from our boot camp presentation, which is a big load off my shoulders because I thought we would have to find completely new ones to replace them. Luckily we just have to sight the presentation itself.

August 2nd, 2010

We ran into several problems with our final presentation today one of which had to do with PowerPoint. Octavia really likes PowerPoint 08 version but the computer we are working on only has 04 version. Therefore we had to come up with a crafty solution, we do all the work one the unwanted computer and then afterwords we would finish up making look nice on another. The only problem with this plan is that I have absolutely no idea if there are even any computers that have 08 in our building. So we will see.

July 30th, 2010

Octavia and I got started preparing for our final project, or at least we tried. It turns out PowerPoint will not work without an Administrators password. It was no problem though because we still had a bunch to learn about Adobe Lightroom before Jeff quiz's us on Monday. Thee morning was spent with that and getting a couple more people for our experiment that we created to help further understand the SMI. We got pizza and a chance to hear a talk from our very own document restoration expert. He's gone about a MILLION places and meet SO many people during the research that he does. My afternoon was actually cut short because I had to go take my driving test, which I passed with flying colors (and for everyone who doubted my parallel parking, that'll show you!).