Doughnuts at the morning meeting today! Yeah! Always good to start the day off with a doughnut, and then off to the labs. We started the day off by looking at the Lego project some more. However, we decided that it would be best for all of us to focus on one task, so we mainly worked on the Waldo experiment together. At 9:30 we watched Sue's presentation from California, which was interesting. We gave her some tips on how to fix it in order to make it more informative and time productive.
Then we all meet with Jeff to discuss what we would be doing over the upcoming week. He wants us to play around with the high-speed camera that can take an amazing 1200 frames per second. Also, we are designing a way to show all the various combinations of subject and observer types (static and dynamic). We are planning to develop a method next week.
So Jane and I started to play with the high speed camera and took some pretty sweet videos! They are really funny and you should definitely take a look at them on the internet! The link is below. That took the rest of the afternoon, along with searching for movie trailers for our experiment with the various combinations project. We decided upon using "Kung Fu Panda" as our clip :) Very good clip! We should hopefully get to develop the project further next week.
Keep it classy,
Matt
Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bl6yrp0oys
Friday, July 25, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Playing with Legos
Today was lots of fun and very productive.
We started out the day by coding for a little bit and really wanted to get to designing our experiment. So we worked fast! :) We began by testing the Lego set-up and discovered that it worked very well. We even designed some boards and took pictures of them. The goal is to pick out a specific Lego block among the others, while the data will be collected and analyzed for search patterns. we created three different designs, but they can all be rotated and flipped to produce many more. The whole thing is similar to a Where's Waldo type of game but not exactly the same. Another option we thought of was combining two blocks and making the subject look for that configuration, which would give us different data. The ideas for the keys and the coins were not tested today but we plan to test these tomorrow. Hopefully they will be as productive as the Legos were today.
We spent the rest of the time designing the power point which would be used for testing. It works very well on the big screen but we still have to fix some color issues. We still have to work on incorporating the key experiment into this test though, but we have to do some pre-testing however that will help us to conduct or experiment properly. Other than that we are well on our way to experimentation, we just have to test some other things and fix a few things along the way. I love playing with Legos!!
Keep it classy,
Matt
We started out the day by coding for a little bit and really wanted to get to designing our experiment. So we worked fast! :) We began by testing the Lego set-up and discovered that it worked very well. We even designed some boards and took pictures of them. The goal is to pick out a specific Lego block among the others, while the data will be collected and analyzed for search patterns. we created three different designs, but they can all be rotated and flipped to produce many more. The whole thing is similar to a Where's Waldo type of game but not exactly the same. Another option we thought of was combining two blocks and making the subject look for that configuration, which would give us different data. The ideas for the keys and the coins were not tested today but we plan to test these tomorrow. Hopefully they will be as productive as the Legos were today.
We spent the rest of the time designing the power point which would be used for testing. It works very well on the big screen but we still have to fix some color issues. We still have to work on incorporating the key experiment into this test though, but we have to do some pre-testing however that will help us to conduct or experiment properly. Other than that we are well on our way to experimentation, we just have to test some other things and fix a few things along the way. I love playing with Legos!!
Keep it classy,
Matt
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Waldo Begins
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
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
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
TV Day
Okay so today was lots of fun.
In the morning, we took an intern field trip to Bausch and Lomb, which was really cool. We got to see the automated process of the production of contact lenses, including the working assembly line. Also, we learned the complex process behind their design and all the aspects the go into vision correction. Then we saw some instruments that measured the accuracy of lenses and others that mapped the topography of a person's eye. That was really sweet! Then we got a free lunch from Joe at Amiels, and of course that was good.
Then we got back to the labs and got to work coding. After awhile of that Jane and I went out with Nick to preform a pilot test. we drove around and around and around the RIT loop, all the while collecting data on eye tracking of seeing and reading signs. It was too sunny to collect good data on Jane, but hopefully I will get a chance to be a participant later this week.
After we got back Jeff and Andy were putting up the new, gigantic TV which was like a SONY HD. It was freaking sweet!! After we got it working, we watched "The Dark Night" trailer on it, which was really cool. It looks like an awesome movie!
Then all of us finished out our day by coding some more. So pretty much the highlight of the day was the sweet TV, of course. Hopefully we will have more fun with it tomorrow. :)
Keep it classy,
Matt
Monday, July 21, 2008
Right Back at It
Hey everyone,
So I have been away at football camp for the last week. It was tiring, with three practices a day, but lots of fun. So now its time to get right back to work.
So to start off, the morning meeting was nothing special, but we did discuss some important things about upcoming events like the U of R kids visiting our labs and vise versa. Also we discussed the Bausch and Lomb trip. So then I headed to the labs to figure out what I had missed and what I would be doing today.
It was nothing big that I had missed, just some basic intro stuff. The group had begun checking the transcriptions of the many tapes under the Descriptions Experiment. However, all those had been checked so we moved on the the coding of the tapes. As I have said before, coding is a long, arduous process that is really boring... but it needs to be done. The nice thing is that you can work alone, so while your working you just pop on some head phones and rock out. It's really not that bad. So pretty much all of today was taken up by coding a video, and I got through a good chunk of mine. I was pretty impressed with myself that I remembered how to do it, after briefly learning it the first week and then having a week in which to forget it. So all in all it was a pretty good day and its good to be back. I'm sure that we will all miss AJ next week when he leaves for his Philmont trip.
I hope that tomorrow is lots of fun and we should get to see some pretty cool stuff at the Bausch and Lomb field trip. I can't wait!!
Keep it classy,
Matt
So I have been away at football camp for the last week. It was tiring, with three practices a day, but lots of fun. So now its time to get right back to work.
So to start off, the morning meeting was nothing special, but we did discuss some important things about upcoming events like the U of R kids visiting our labs and vise versa. Also we discussed the Bausch and Lomb trip. So then I headed to the labs to figure out what I had missed and what I would be doing today.
It was nothing big that I had missed, just some basic intro stuff. The group had begun checking the transcriptions of the many tapes under the Descriptions Experiment. However, all those had been checked so we moved on the the coding of the tapes. As I have said before, coding is a long, arduous process that is really boring... but it needs to be done. The nice thing is that you can work alone, so while your working you just pop on some head phones and rock out. It's really not that bad. So pretty much all of today was taken up by coding a video, and I got through a good chunk of mine. I was pretty impressed with myself that I remembered how to do it, after briefly learning it the first week and then having a week in which to forget it. So all in all it was a pretty good day and its good to be back. I'm sure that we will all miss AJ next week when he leaves for his Philmont trip.
I hope that tomorrow is lots of fun and we should get to see some pretty cool stuff at the Bausch and Lomb field trip. I can't wait!!
Keep it classy,
Matt
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