So today was exciting.
First, when we went to our labs we started right in with some more coding. After awhile with that, we were all sick of it so we decided to develop an idea for our intern experiment in the VP lab. Erica came up with a great idea of investigating visual search techniques by using a Where's Waldo puzzle. It was a great idea and we all flew with it. We wanted to include some other puzzles, such as I Spy and a word search, but Jeff suggested that we concentrate on the Waldo experiment.
So, while Erica and AJ worked on an original Waldo style experiment, Jane and I began to brainstorm some ideas on how to develop a Waldo situation in real life. We came up with a few ideas involving a search for specific key, coin, or Lego, that surrounded by other objects similar to it, or for a specific object in a cluttered room. We still have to do some testing to figure out which one would be best but that's in store for tomorrow. We worked on that for the rest of the day, with some intermittent coding here and there.
I guess now we have something to do for awhile that is a lot more interesting than coding... and its really cool too! Can't wait till we can get farther on developing the experiment.
Keep it classy,
Matt
1 comment:
You may want to consider checking out baby board books. Waldo is 2d, your other ideas are 3d. Baby books (like board books) have lots of objects, but no particular item that must be found. However, a 2D instance could be at the grocery store, looking at an aisle of boxed or canned goods, where someone just brought everthing to the front of the shelf. Now be the clerk who has to find something out of place in the aisle. This could probably extend to any inventory system...
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