| Date | Category | Details | Time Spent |
| Fri, May 12 | Writing Reports / Presentations | Completed
work on the final Trinetra report. Inserted the project dependency
charts and open issues chart into the project management section.
Completed writing the Transportation group's sections such as ODC and
future work. Integrated Jovan's sections after he sent them to me. Ran
a spell check and corrected other errors. | 5:00 | |
| Fri, May 12 | Writing Reports / Presentations | Completed writing and revised my retrospective paper. | 3:30 | |
| Thu, May 11 | Writing Reports / Presentations | Continued
work on the final report. Created a skeleton of the report consisting
of just the table of contents and section headings which the editors
could fill in with their groups' sections. Recalculated the work log
stats after all my group members updated their work logs and created
new pie charts. Added my group's sections to the final report and did
more formatting work on them (e.g. figure and table numbering). | 4:00 | |
| Thu, May 11 | Writing Reports / Presentations | Wrote
up documentation on how to install, compile and run the SMS
notifications Java application. Created a table describing what each of
the Java source files does and who was responsible for them. | 1:00 | |
| Thu, May 11 | Writing Reports / Presentations | Wrote
up the first half of my retrospective paper on the design decisions
made by the transportation group and their pros and cons. | 2:30 | |
| Wed, May 10 | Writing Reports / Presentations | Wrote
my sections of the phase III report. Reviewed, proofread and formatted
the sections that my group members posted on the Kiva. Integrated our
parts together for inclusion in the final report. Augmented the system
tutorial with screen shots of the user interface web pages. Fixed
various issues such as figure numbers, section numbers, and proper
formatting of pictures. Communicated with group members about posting
sections to the Kiva and with the other editors about plans for
compiling the report. | 8:30 | |
| Tue, May 9 | Administrative Tasks | Picked
up the Trinetra Phase I and II reports from AP to review Dan's
handwritten comments on the reports. Met with Jim so he could look at
the feedback as well and post it to the Kiva. | 0:45 | |
| Sun, May 7 | Group Meeting | Met
with other editors to determine which groups are responsible for which
sections of the report. Also divided up responsibility among the
editors for other tasks involved in getting the report together and
finalized. | 1:00 | |
| Sun, May 7 | Administrative Tasks | Typed
up and posted a revised version of the report outline with all the
sections/subsections the Trinetra report will contain and the group
responsibilities. Based on the issues we discovered at the editors
meeting, I added new tasks to my group's outline of individual
responsibilities and posted this to the Kiva as well. | 1:00 | |
| Sat, May 6 | Writing Reports / Presentations | Restructured
the provided report outline and requirements to fit the Trinetra group.
Assigned responsibilities to my group members and posted them to the
Kiva. Consulted the phase II report for guidance in modifying the phase
III outline. Made other posts to the Kiva about tracking down the
physcial copies of the phase I and II reports and the editors' meeting. | 2:00 | |
| Wed, May 3 | Class | Saw the More final project presentation and demonstration. | 1:15 | |
| Wed, May 3 | Administrative Tasks | Created
a Trinetra editors group on the Kiva and posted to the editors about
meeting this weekend to hash out the details of the report and divide
responsibility. Emailed Kunal, who is supposed to be the editor from
the OCR group, since he had not replied to the post I made asking who
the phase 3 editors are. | 0:25 | |
| Mon, May 1 | Administrative Tasks | Helped
set up for the Trinetra presentation and demo. Went with Asim to
Instructional Technology to pick up projector and overhead camera.
Helped set up equipment and get the Trinetra demo running. | 1:30 | |
| Mon, May 1 | Class | Viewed
the Trinetra presentation and demo. Acted as a passenger passing
through the shuttle doors to demonstrate the capacity counter's
functionality. | 1:30 | |
| Sun, Apr 30 | Group Meeting | Attended Trinetra demo dry run on campus. Couldn't participate because nobody else from the transportation group attended. | 1:00 | |
| Fri, Apr 28 | Staff / Leaders Meeting | Went
over the final details of integration and the demo. Received feedback
for our group's performance in the airplane competition. | 1:00 | |
| Thu, Apr 27 | Field Testing | Ran
an integrated demo with the graphical interface, capacity sensors, web
page interface and text notifications all integrated. Reviewed our demo
script with the professors and the rest of Trinetra. | 1:00 | |
| Wed, Apr 26 | Class | Participated in the Great Airplane Competition with my group. | 1:30 | |
| Wed, Apr 26 | Coding | Fixed
more small bugs: e.g. in the user PIN entry text box, the servlet was
printing a 0 but we wanted it to be blank by default. I fixed this so
that it would print a blank string instead. I also parsed the phone
number input to remove any characters other than digits. | 3:30 | |
| Tue, Apr 25 | Coding | There
was a bug in the http servlet code that was causing it to always set
the wireless provider field in the notifications table to 0 when it
created new entries. I parsed the code to find the source of this error
and debugged it. I also got rid of various other smaller bugs in the
servlet code. | 3:30 | |
| Mon, Apr 24 | Class | The
Trinetra groups coordinated on issues such as the demo script and demo
dry runs. Updated Puneet on the state of remaining open issues. | 1:00 | |
| Mon, Apr 24 | Coding | Worked
with Puneet and Chris to integrate my Notifications code with their web
servlet. In the process I helped them debug and finalize some of their
code, especially as it related to creating entries in the notifications
table. We got my code to compile properly on the server but could not
yet get it to run continuously in the background. | 3:30 | |
| Sat, Apr 22 | Group Meeting | Decided
on the logistics of integration and the final demo. Began to integrate
with the other server modules by resolving issues with Drew, Puneet and
Chris (e.g. how they should create new entries in the notifications
database table and update them). | 4:00 | |
| Sat, Apr 22 | Coding | Completed
the implementation of the Notifications class. I had to abandon the
Javamail API because it wouldn't work properly with the gmail address
from which the SMS notifications were being sent. Instead I downloaded
and utilized the iNet Factory API from jscape for creating an SSL
connection to the gmail SMTP server. I then tested my code by manually
adding a request to the notifications table and running my code. It
successfully sent an SMS text notification to my phone just as it
should have. | 5:00 | |
| Wed, Apr 19 | Coding | Coded
the majority of the notifications module in Java. The code queries and
updates the MySQL database on the server using the Java Database
Connectivity package. It searches for stops that have an ETA of 5
minutes or less, and if it finds any, it then searches the
notifications table for notification requests for those stops. | 5:00 | |
| Wed, Apr 19 | Class | Discussed
with my group how my code will be integrated with the other modules
running on the server. We decided it could be a servlet invoked by the
business logic/user presentation code, or it could run as a completely
separate process. Also discussed ideas for our demo. | 1:30 | |
| Tue, Apr 18 | Coding | Downloaded
and installed the Javamail API and looked through some of the examples
provided. Met with Puneet to get the Java database connectivity code
running in the Eclipse IDE. Tried to get the Javamail examples running
in Eclipse as well but ran into errors. | 3:30 | |
| Mon, Apr 17 | Class | Discussed
the driver notification mechanism with AP, since he is writing the
shuttle-server communication handlers. We determined that it would be
simplest to have a separate thread monitor the driver notification
requests and use the API provided by his code to deliver them, due to
the underlying details of the code. | 1:20 | |
| Mon, Apr 17 | Coding | Downloaded
and installed the Eclipse IDE to use for development of Java code for
the notifications class. Worked through a couple of examples to become
familiar with Java and the development environment. Began researching
the JavaMail API, which the notifications class will use to send SMS
text message notifications to users via email. | 2:15 | |
| Wed, Apr 12 | Coding | Wrote
detailed pseudocode for the user and driver notification module. I did
not write actual code yet because the business logic and ETA modules
are not yet implemented and my code will depend on the exact
implementation of those pieces. Also, it is not yet decided whether my
notification module will need to be written in Java or C++. I developed
two alternative implementations: one which stores notification requests
in its own tables internally, and one which stores them in a MySQL
database table. | 3:00 | |
| Wed, Apr 12 | Class | Discussed
the implementation details of the notification logic with the other
group members and got feedback. Determined that the implementation
which stores requests in an SQL table would be the most scalable and
easiest for other portions of the logic to work with. | 1:30 | |
| Wed, Apr 12 | Coding | Refined
the pseudocode for the notifications class to include all the SQL
queries it will need to make in the proper syntax. Created a new MySQL
table, 'notifications', to which the business logic adds new requests,
and the notifications class uses to issue notifications to users and
drivers. | 2:15 | |
| Mon, Apr 10 | Class | Recieved
phase II feedback from the instructors and TAs. Reviewed the database
table implementation that we finalized over the weekend. I updated the
group on my progress with the notification scheduler implementation and
my expected completion date. | 1:30 | |
| Sat, Apr 8 | Group Meeting | Helped
to finalize and create the layout of our database tables on the server.
This was especially important to the way the business logic and my
module, the notification scheduler, would be able to access data. My
main contribution was to make sure the tables were laid out so that the
notification scheduler would be able to access data in a logical
fashion and achieve all its necessary functionality.
I also did research to find a way to deliver notifications via SMS text
messages. I determined that the easiest way is to use the email-to-text
functionality provided by wireless carriers. I searched to find the
email addresses used by each of the major U.S. carriers and uploaded
them to an SQL table, which will be queried by the notification
scheduler. | 5:00 | |
| Thu, Apr 6 | Design Engineering | Reviewed
AP's design of the SQL tables and wrote comments in preparation for our
group meeting. Noted the changes that this would introduce in the
business logic design | 1:30 | |
| Thu, Apr 6 | Group Meeting | Finalized
the SQL tables' design and began implementation by uploading them to
the server. Wrote pseudocode for the business logic. | 1:30 | |
| Wed, Apr 5 | Class | Discussed the final design and implementation of the ETA module and SQL tables. | 1:40 | |
| Wed, Apr 5 | Administrative Tasks | Wrote up a list of open issues for the transportation group and entered them into Puneet's outline | 1:10 | |
| Mon, Apr 3 | Class | Selected
new leadership roles for Phase III and discussed open issues.
Volunteered to be phase III chief editor. Our group discussed the
timeline for integration and the tasks that need to be completed. | 1:20 | |
| Thu, Mar 30 | Writing Reports / Presentations | Recalculated
Phase II worklog statistics for our group because each week's stats had
to be added up individually rather than subtracting our phase I stats
from our totals (would have counted HCI members' phase I hours as
well). Recreated the pie chart breaking down our hours and posted my
excel file to the Kiva for other groups to use. | 1:20 | |
| Wed, Mar 29 | Class | Heard the phase II presentation from MoRe. | 1:30 | |
| Wed, Mar 29 | Writing Reports / Presentations | Wrote
the Trinetra Transportation group's project management section of the
Phase II written report. Created a table and pie chart breaking down
the group's hours during Phase II. Reworked the project dependency
chart to reflect what we accomplished in Phase II and what we still
need to accomplish in Phase III. Listed the issues that still need to
be addressed and backup plans for handling them. | 4:30 | |
| Mon, Mar 27 | Class | Heard
the Phase II presentation from Trinetra. Asked questions, answered
questions and contributed to the discussion following the presentation. | 1:30 | |
| Fri, Mar 24 | Staff / Leaders Meeting | Discussed
the upcoming presentation and written report, most importantly the
demos included in the presentation. Recapped the week's progress and
discussed plans for the coming weeks. | 1:00 | |
| Fri, Mar 24 | Administrative Tasks | Looked
over the final version of our presentation before Jovan goes into the
dry run. Posted to the Kiva about bringing our hardware to class to
show and including the capacity sensor design in our presentation,
which we had left out. | 0:20 | |
| Thu, Mar 23 | Group Meeting | Finalized
our group's section of the phase 2 presentation and pulled all
components together. Completed common sections, such as risk management
and contingency plans, as a group. | 1:30 | |
| Thu, Mar 23 | Writing Reports / Presentations | Modified
our phase 1 system architecture diagram to reflect the design decisions
made during phase 2. Enhanced it with details such as our choice of
protocols, bandwidths, and other specs. | 1:00 | |
| Thu, Mar 23 | Design Engineering | Designed
the business logic which implements the dynamic web pages driving the
user interface, along with the API calls it makes to other server
software modules. Documented the design in MS Visio for inclusion in
the presentation. | 3:00 | |
| Wed, Mar 22 | Class | Discussed the egg drop exercise with the instructors/TAs and received feedback on our design process and ODC. | 0:45 | |
| Wed, Mar 22 | Group Meeting | Created
an outline of our group's portion of the presentation and divided up
responsibility for the different sections. Reworked the user interface
design to make it simpler and easier to use. | 1:30 | |
| Wed, Mar 22 | Writing Reports / Presentations | Created
a diagram of our user interface design in MS Visio, showing the
sequence of pages the user navigates through to view ETAs and request
SMS notifications on their cell phone. | 2:30 | |
| Tue, Mar 21 | User Interface Design | Downloaded
the UI HTML mockup created by Puneet and uploaded it into my AFS web
space. Modified the code to clean it up and make it more presentable. | 1:30 | |
| Mon, Mar 20 | Class | Egg
drop -- My group and I designed, built and tested an egg drop device.
We used ODC to document defects in our design and reflected on the good
and bad aspects of our design and our design process. | 2:00 | |
| Mon, Mar 20 | Writing Reports / Presentations | Installed MS Visio for creating design diagrams. Explored Visio and familiarized myself with the program. | 1:00 | |
| Wed, Mar 8 | Class | Learned about smart notes, asked questions about the system | 1:00 | |
| Wed, Mar 8 | Group Meeting | detailed design of modules, apis, interfaces; action items for next week | 1:30 | |
| Tue, Mar 7 | Administrative Tasks | Typed
up new user presentation design and added in unresolved issues, posted
to Kiva. Also reviewed phase 2 presentations and reports from last
semester to get an idea of what results we should be looking to
include, and to see how the task dependency timelines were integrated. | 0:40 | |
| Tue, Mar 7 | Research | downloaded and installed Tomcat | 1:00 | |
| Tue, Mar 7 | Design Engineering | met with Puneet to figure out UI design, HTML mockup | 1:00 | |
| Mon, Mar 6 | Class | Reworked
our user presentation/interaction design in favor of a simpler design.
Hashed out several of the details of the server modules and how they
will communicate. | 1:20 | |
| Mon, Mar 6 | Group Meeting | Continuation of class -- detailed design of server modules and discussion of jsp semantics. | 0:45 | |
| Sat, Mar 4 | Research | Researched
how we might be able to access the web on the Nokia 6620 without
subscribing to T-Mobile's web service, which charges a monthly fee.
Also researched how WAP gateways and proxies work. | 2:00 | |
| Sat, Mar 4 | Administrative Tasks | Posted
to the Kiva about a bug in the calculation of group worklog
statistics--what I observed and my guesses as to what was causing the
bug. Also emailed the Kiva administrator, Mike Szczerban. | 0:25 | |
| Fri, Mar 3 | Administrative Tasks | Went
to the ICES office to pick up packages for capacity sensing hardware.
Checked packages to make sure everything had arrived as ordered and to
start learning about the hardware. | 0:30 | |
| Fri, Mar 3 | Staff / Leaders Meeting | Went
over the upcoming schedule for the next couple of weeks; most notably
we will be learning about Smart Notes on Wednesday. I updated the
professors and other leaders on our group's progress: on Monday we rode
the shuttle and tested GPS and wireless data signals, our equipment
began arriving, and we made detailed designs of our subsystems and
their interfaces. | 1:00 | |
| Fri, Mar 3 | Administrative Tasks | Made postings to the Kiva about hardware delivery status, work logs, and the user presentation design. | 0:25 | |
| Thu, Mar 2 | Group Meeting | Reviewed
the division of labor and responsibilities for specific modules;
discussed the status of hardware being delivered; split into subgroups
and designed input/output and interface models of modules | 1:30 | |
| Thu, Mar 2 | Administrative Tasks | Typed up and refined the user interaction design developed at the group meeting. | 0:35 | |
| Wed, Mar 1 | Class | Ordered
hardware for capacity sensing system: obtained approval from Asim, went
to Alicia to order through class account, called RadioShack to order
tax-free. | 1:30 | |
| Tue, Feb 28 | Research | Researched
the Wireless Application Protocol for the user interface on the phone
browser; downloaded the Kannel open source WAP and SMS gateway for
possible use on the server | 3:00 | |
| Tue, Feb 28 | Administrative Tasks | Gathered
information about hardware devices needed for capacity sensing system
(prices, model numbers, etc) and filled out class purchasing forms | 0:55 | |
| Mon, Feb 27 | Class | Asim
gave us a contact name and email of the person we can get the Lifebook
from; I discussed ordering IR sensors and a USB interface board with
Jovan | 0:35 | |
| Mon, Feb 27 | Field Testing | Rode
the A/B shuttle with a Garman GPS receiver and cell phones with
T-Mobile, Cingular, Verizon and SprintPCS data services. Found that the
GPS receiver maintained a good signal for most of the route despite
cloudy, snowy weather. The portion it did lose signal for was due to
antenna orientation. Data services maintained connectivity for most or
all of the route -- most notably our first choice, T-Mobile, was able
to download data throughout. | 0:50 | |
| Fri, Feb 24 | Administrative Tasks | Read over our group's Phase 1 report and the comments/suggestions posted by Dan. | 0:25 | |
| Fri, Feb 24 | Staff / Leaders Meeting | Reviewed
where the groups should be in the design process at this point. Went
over what the transportation group did this week, our final purchasing
decisions, and our plans for next week. | 0:50 | |
| Fri, Feb 24 | Administrative Tasks | Emailed
Jovan to ask him to post his findings on the IR sensors for capacity,
and to fill him in on what he's missed at our meetings. | 0:10 | |
| Fri, Feb 24 | Research | Looked
over the OCR group's sample pictures of product packaging information.
Posted suggestions on getting better image focus to the Kiva. Looked up
the Nokia 6620's manual and discovered it has a night mode, which could
deal with the possibility of a non-sighted user leaving lights off at
home. | 0:45 | |
| Thu, Feb 23 | Research | Searched
for vendors and prices of PCMCIA cellular modems to use with the mobile
computing device on the shuttle. Researched different cellular
data-only subscriptions in Pittsburgh and their bandwidths and prices. | 2:30 | |
| Thu, Feb 23 | Group Meeting | Reported my findings on cell modems and cell data subscriptions to the group. Group finalized a plan for component purchasing. | 0:30 | |
| Wed, Feb 22 | Class | Revised
our group's dependency graph and filled in the high-level tasks with
detailed tasks. Assigned responsibilities for detailed tasks. Met with
professors and TAs to discuss Phase 1 grade. | 2:10 | |
| Tue, Feb 21 | Group Meeting | Discussed
findings of our research on purchasing system components. Began
detailed design phase: solidifying details of driver interaction and
user interaction, and the resulting specifications for the shuttle
computing device and server. | 2:00 | |
| Tue, Feb 21 | Research | Researched
details and prices from different vendors of cell phones, mostly the
Nokia 6620. Also looked at wireless plans for voice and data
connectivity. | 1:15 | |
| Mon, Feb 20 | Class | Drew
up a dependency chart for the rest of the semester on the whiteboard
along with the other groups. Assigned ownership for high-level tasks. | 1:30 | |
| Fri, Feb 17 | Staff / Leaders Meeting | Discussed
dependency graphs, the dispersion of the HCI groups into the other
groups, purchasing system components, and compiling/submitting the
report. I filled everyone in on our group's progress and our meetings
with members of the CMU police department. | 1:00 | |
| Fri, Feb 17 | Group Meeting | Discussed
the phase 1 report and the need for the editors to meet and select a
chief editor. Outlined the major hardware components we need to
purchase and assigned a component to each member for more detailed
research. | 1:00 | |
| Fri, Feb 17 | Writing Reports / Presentations | Edited
my section of the Phase 1 report to reflect a change in our risk
management plans: we will pursue GPS primarily and look into cell tower
tracking and 802.11 tracking as alternatives. | 0:35 | |
| Fri, Feb 17 | Administrative Tasks | Posted
to the Kiva and sent email to the short-range navigation group to
ascertain who their editor was and what the status of their section of
the phase 1 report was. Also posted our group meeting next Tuesday and
the agenda. | 0:40 | |
| Thu, Feb 16 | Administrative Tasks | Typed up scribe notes from meeting with Sgt. Sabol on Monday and posted to the Kiva. | 0:30 | |
| Thu, Feb 16 | Writing Reports / Presentations | Wrote up the Technology Survey and Attribute Dependencies sections of the Phase-I report for the transportation subgroup. | 3:45 | |
| Thu, Feb 16 | Research | Did some preliminary investigation into alternative iPAQ models and their features, prices, and connectivity. | 0:45 | |
| Wed, Feb 15 | Class | Heard presentation from Aircraft Maintenance group and asked questions. | 1:30 | |
| Wed, Feb 15 | Administrative Tasks | Read posts to the Kiva about our phase I report and reviewed the writeup outline that Jovan posted. | 0:30 | |
| Mon, Feb 13 | Working with client | Met
with Sgt. Bill Ricci at CMU Police office with Priya, AP and Drew.
Explained the basics of our project to Sgt. Ricci and asked questions
about the fleet, maintenance, how to get input from the drivers, and
details about how the shuttle and escort operate. | 0:50 | |
| Mon, Feb 13 | Administrative Tasks | Typed
up and posted scribe notes from the meeting with Sgt Ricci. Looked up
the shuttle/escort service information on the CMU police website and
integrated this information with Sgt Ricci's responses to our questions. | 0:40 | |
| Mon, Feb 13 | Class | Trinetra
presented our progress in Phase I including baseline and visionary
scenarios, design guidelines, overall architecture, and subsystems. The
presenters fielded questions from the students and professors. | 1:20 | |
| Mon, Feb 13 | Working with client | Met
with Sgt. Steve Sabol at CMU Police office with Priya, Aaron and
Patrick. Explained the aim of our project to Sgt. Sabol and asked
several questions about the specifics of the routes the shuttles and
escorts run, the driver's interaction with passengers (especially for
the escort), and the logistics of physically mounting our equipment on
the shuttles. | 1:35 | |
| Sun, Feb 12 | Administrative Tasks | Read
posts to the Kiva on phase I wrap-up, the Trinetra presentation Monday
2/13, and the phase I report due the following Monday. Reviewed the
grading criteria and minutes from the leaders' and presenters' meetings
on Feb 10. | 0:25 | |
| Sun, Feb 12 | Working with client | Communicated
with Sgt. Ricci and tried to set up a meeting with him. Priya set up a
meeting for Monday at 10:30. Posted my findings to the Kiva. | 0:35 | |
| Wed, Feb 8 | Class | HCI
group presented user interaction architecture and scenarios. Our group
presented our hardware and software architecture diagrams for the
transportation project. Short-range navigation and text extraction
group presented their architectures as well. | 1:30 | |
| Wed, Feb 8 | Administrative Tasks | Typed up scribe notes from meeting 2-7-06 and posted to Kiva. Also posted our architecture slides from class today. | 0:40 | |
| Tue, Feb 7 | Group Meeting | Assigned
contacts to each group member; talked about prioritizing designs for
risk-management; developed detailed hardware and software architectures
for the transportation system. | 1:30 | |
| Tue, Feb 7 | Working with client | Emailed Sgt. Ricci of University Police to find the head of the shuttle/escort service and set up a meeting. | 0:15 | |
| Tue, Feb 7 | Architecture Design | Drew
hardware architecture diagram for transportation system, including
hardware on the shuttle, the server, and clients on PCs and mobile
devices. Integrated into group presentation. | 3:30 | |
| Mon, Feb 6 | Class | HCI
group presented revised visionary scenario; other groups provided
feedback, asked questions and voiced concerns; technology groups
briefly presented architectures | 1:30 | |
| Mon, Feb 6 | Research | Searched
online for information about the campus shuttles, the routes they run,
times, information on the escort service, and contact information for
the shuttle/escort service. Also read through the previous report by an
undergraduate on tracking campus shuttles for more useful information
about the shuttles. | 1:40 | |
| Fri, Feb 3 | Administrative Tasks | Typed up scribe notes from meeting 1/31 and posted to Kiva | 0:30 | |
| Wed, Feb 1 | Group Meeting | Merged
our product feature matrices and other findings into the presentation;
ran through the presentation and offered suggestions to Andrew. | 0:30 | |
| Wed, Feb 1 | Class | Heard
1st technology presentations from Trinetra shopping, transportation,
and short-range navigation groups. Asked questions and engaged in
discussion. | 1:30 | |
| Tue, Jan 31 | Group Meeting | Group
members shared their findings in technology survey research. Briefly
discussed and brainstormed on how they might be incorporated into an
architecture. Began creating product feature matrices. | 1:00 | |
| Tue, Jan 31 | Preparing Specs | Finished
research on safety for the blind. Prepared a product feature matrix
comparing technologies for obstacle detection and avoidance. Integrated
matrix into team presentation. | 2:30 | |
| Mon, Jan 30 | Class | Learned
how to purchase items for the class project through ICES, using both
the CMU credit card and the purchase order. Heard presentation from the
Trinetra HCI group on baseline and visionary scenarios. Asked questions
and discussed product feature matrices. | 1:15 | |
| Mon, Jan 30 | Research | Searched
for existing solutions to improve safety for the blind; researched
different technologies for rangefinding and obstacle avoidance
capabilities. Also considered how to help blind people identify expired
products in the home and distinguish between products. | 4:00 | |
| Sun, Jan 29 | Administrative Tasks | Typing up and editing scribe notes from the group meeting on 1/26/06, and writing posts. | 1:30 | |
| Thu, Jan 26 | Research | Reviewed the reports of the interviews with Stephen Rudich and Dan Rossi | 1:00 | |
| Thu, Jan 26 | Group Meeting | First
group meeting to discuss campus shuttles and escorts as a target for
assistive technologies. Brainstorming on how to determine where
shuttles are located, where they are headed, and whether they are at
capacity. | 1:00 | |
| Wed, Jan 25 | Class | Learned
more about Kiva; broke into Trinetra group, discussed general direction
of our group's work; decided to form a fourth subgroup within Trinetra | 1:30 | |
| Wed, Jan 25 | Research | Researched assistive technologies for the blind online; reviewed references posted by Pai-Chun | 2:00 | |
| Tue, Jan 24 | Research | Exploring
Kiva - navigating and becoming familiar with the Kiva website; changing
views and customizing options; reading posts by my group and others | 1:00 | |
| Mon, Jan 23 | Class | Attended class, heard presentations from clients, began thinking about what groups I was interested in. | 1:30 | |
| Mon, Jan 23 | Group Meeting | Group selection meeting - joined a group, met other group members, chose a leader, set a meeting time | 1:00 | |
| Wed, Jan 18 | Class | First class: overview of syllabus, schedule, expectations, and brief look at the two projects | 1:30 | |
Time spent:Total: 199:55
Administrative Tasks: 14:40 Architecture Design: 3:30 Class: 41:00 Coding: 31:30 Design Engineering: 5:30 Field Testing: 1:50 Group Meeting: 27:45 Preparing Specs: 2:30 Research: 20:55 Staff / Leaders Meeting: 4:50 User Interface Design: 1:30 Working with client: 3:15 Writing Reports / Presentations: 41:10 |
