Day 17

Today I worked on my project most of the day taking more video clips and starting to put them into an experiment. In our Tuesday meeting today I figured out that I was making my project to complex. After the meeting I took new video clips that were less complex than before. Hopefully tomorrow I will be ready to start putting the experiment together and start testing soon!

First Day Back!

Today was my first day back after a week vacation in the Adirondack Mountains. This morning we had a meeting with Jeff and Susan to discuss our projects that we will present at the end of August. After that we watched an hour of the Princess Bride with all of the other people in the MVRL lab. Once our break was over I learned how to take video shots of the computer screen so that I could take videos of the biological motion walker. Tomorrow I will start making my actual experiment with all of the videos I made.

Week of 7/23

This week I am on vacation in the Adirondacks! See you next week!

Day #10

Today was bring your friend to work day! I brought my friend Evan. We went to a presentation with Joe and some of his students from the freshman imaging science class. They took 3D images of the head. After the presentation we worked with the SMI and we did eye tracking on both of our friends. Then we went to the cookout and played some kan jam for a little bit. Then once again went to work on the SMI.

Day #9

Today we talked to Jeff about our projects that we are coming up with. One of his suggestions for me was to look into biological motion and give people a task and determine where they are looking on the animation to determine the answer to the task. I would use the SMI to watch their eye movements to determine the location on the body they determined such tasks as the gender, the weight, the emotions they are feeling and if it excited or nervous. You can figure out all the tasks by just looking at a nine point motion of a person. I am looking forward to begin my research on this project and to start the experiment to determine what exactly people look at.

Day #8

So today, we learned how to use BeGaze to analyze the data from the SMI. Preethi taught us what the most important data is in and how to find it in the program. Then we went to the Wednesday movie in the fish bowl which wasn't the most interesting movie so far. After the fish bowl most of the interns went to Global Village to hang out for a little bit. To end the day we (Mike and Nick) worked on the SMI to see if it would crash again.

Day #7

We went to the Research and Creativity Symposium all day and listened to the graduate research projects. I really enjoyed most of them especially Scott Riddle's project on Diffusion Tensor Tractography. DTI helps doctors who are performing surgery on the head to help make sure that the doctor doesn't disrupt the neurons that would disrupt the sense of motion etc. He made his presentation very interesting by engaging the audience and allowing for questions as the presentation went on to keep the discussion understandable. After hearing his presentation I would like to learn more about MRI and DTI data.