Hard at Work

So today was going pretty well until we gave our practice presentation. In the morning we had to get all our notes ready and prepare, while also putting the finishing touches on the rough draft. Then came the big wallop... we were pretty much ripped apart, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. We have to reorganize some slides and put a lot more movies/demonstrations in that will let the audience see what we are actually talking about in action. We have a lot of work ahead of us, seeing as our poster is due on Monday and the data still needs to be coded! We just have go get everything in proper condition in the slide show, as well as analyze data and draw conclusions. The PowerPoint should be fine though and is not due until Wednesday of next week, which is enough time to fix it. I think we have to give more practices though. :/ That should be fun.

Keep it classy,
Matt

Wrap Up Day

So we wrapped up a lot of stuff today, included the finished product of the eye video, the preliminary presentation, and the draft poster. Everything can be revised but we got the first drafts done today which was very good. Now we can present to the Girl Scouts on Monday and have some idea of what were are saying.

We pretty much worked on those things the whole day, and ran in the rain. That was exciting but it was kind of wet... go figure!? So tomorrow we have to present our PowerPoint to the rest of the lab oh joy! That will be lots of fun, but it will be helpful and aid us in revising our presentation. Hopefully it will go well.

Keep it classy,
Matt

Party Bus!

Today we took a field trip to Optimax and we had a really sweet ride to get over there. It was like a limo/bus type thing that had features of both and was really sweet. We all oohed and ahhed over it and everyone enjoyed the ride. :) The tour was cool and it looked like a very high tech company.

When we got back we had a nice free lunch of DiBella's. That was good and then we got back to work. We finished up the draft of the poster and the presentation is about done. We will probably use our presentation to entertain the Girl Scouts when they have their thing next Monday. We also calibrated some videos from both the Madagascar and Waldo videos. We are making some good progress, and we finished the eye motion video plus adding sound! It is pretty sweet.

Keep it classy,
Matt

Wrapping Stuff Up

Today was just an all-around good day.

I started off by finishing up the draft of our poster, so that was exciting. We all are going to have a group overhaul session tomorrow to fix anything we want to change in the draft stage. Also, progress was made on the presentation, we have about 40 slides I think which is a great amount but we still need a little more. I also tried to help Nick run his experiment but it was really sunny so we couldn't run anybody today.

A guy from Proctor and Gamble came today to get information on the lab and some of its technology. I believe that we supplied him with some eye tracking programs and a mobile headgear piece. He was pretty cool and we all got free subs on the lab for lunch! Then I calibrated the new Madagascar videos, but there is still one more to be done. I also helped Erika edit our video on eye movements, which is almost near completion. All this means that we are wrapping up our other projects and concentrating on finishing the Waldo experiment, as well as our final presentation items. So yeah... good day, fun times, and hearty laughs along the way.

Keep it classy,
Matt

Spicy Chicken Sub Day

This morning I worked on out poster a little bit. Then I went with Nick to help him with his experiment. I had to work with accelerometers, which was pretty sweet and not too hard. It was fun and good experience of conducting an official experiment. That pretty much took up the entire morning and then we headed to Crossroads for lunch. I had this really spicy chicken sub and it was really good! :)

Then we came back and went outside to take some more videos for the high speed high video project. They were much more focused and hopefully will combine into a good video for Jeff. Then we ran some more participants through our experiment, three to be exact. That brings our total to 8. We thought that would be a good number and we will have time to fully evaluate these videos. Then we Yarbizised some of our Waldo videos and worked on our final presentations, both PowerPoint and poster. We made pretty good headway today and hopefully will be done by the end of the week with everything that needs to be finished early.

Keep it classy,
Matt