Finally Some Work

So today we actually started to do work!

The morning meeting was pretty uneventful and we scurried off to unite with our fellow VPers in the labs. There we finished up the reading, which is great because now I don't have to read it outside of work, and then began to get to work. Leanne gave us some tapes to calibrate so that we could track the places where the subject was looking. She helped us with it but we got through it without any problems. Then we took a whole bunch of tapes and started to digitize them so that they could be utilized in RITCode. The digitization process takes about 30 min. for each tape, so while waiting we watched youtube videos and all shared a good laugh.

So in searching for something to do while the tapes were digitizing, we found that John had something for us. He wanted us to read an article and pick out specific information regarding the aspects of an experiment concerning infants/toddlers and vision tracking. This information was being drawn from a variety of other articles as well and will be used to help design and experiment in the future. So that was a really long article but AJ and I got out of it because we had to go hang up posters advertising Leanne's testing for her research study. 10 bucks for one hour to anybody who participates is a pretty good deal, I wish we could get some extra cash through this! Oh well....

After that AJ and I participated in a pilot testing of a developing research study called Infotracking. It was pretty neat and we will probably be able to calibrate our own tape, that will be sweet. After that I had to leave early but hopefully more fun awaits tomorrow.

Keep it classy,
Matt