August 7th: Day 24 Week 5: More presentation

I continued working on my presentation today but a question came up about how to display my data best. I would prefer not to spew out statistics or show a chart that the people have to look through but other than that I have no ideas. Also, I don't know whether to caption the pictures or not. However, the most important "breakthrough" I found today was about trying to find significant data. How many more blinks does it take to be significant between the book and the screen? for example. I will find this out tomorrow by testing myself multiple times and finding about how much variation is just random between the tests.

August 6th: Day 23 Week 5: Presentation Work

Although I had hoped to find more test subjects today, what I really worked on was my presentation. Jacqueline and I had an agreement that she would write up the lab report for our first test while I worked on the part of our presentations that we are doing together. So far it is working out pretty well but I learned I need to take pictures of everything we typically use on each slide. We did test a few more people, but not nearly the numbers I was hoping for initially.

August 5th: Day 22 Week 5: Yay test subjects (again)

After yesterday's realization, Jacqueline and I made it our goal to get test subjects today, and that we did. I think we tested 8 people today on the eye tracking machine. It would have been 9 except that one of the girls that came down wore glasses and was uncalitibratable with the eye tracker. We were very accomplished. We even got well into our lab report on the first testing thing and finished our final abstracts. It was a good day in terms of productivity. I hope to get 10 more test subjects everyday through Friday because that will put me at 50!!! We'll see if that actually happens...

August 4th: Day 21 Week 5: Today it hit us

Today we didn't do much again. I made good progress on my presentation and what I was going to say. I actually made two power points, one with what is going to be shown and one with what I'm going to say so that it helps organize my thoughts. However, towards the end of the day, Jacqueline and I got hit by the realization that we need more test subjects for this experiment. We have less than 15 and that is not nearly enough data to use. Tomorrow we will find more people.

August 1st: Day 20 Week 4: The Last Barbecue

Today was the last barbecue we would have because of the undergraduate research symposium and the final research day. Unfortunately, I didn't get to stay very long because I actually had a lot of work today (but I'm not really complaining because having something to work on is always good). I had to look at the stats more as well as add in the full experiment statistics into the spreadsheet and export the video's of where the subjects were looking onto a flash drive so that I could watch them on my laptop. It was also bring your friend to the internship day and while several people did bring people, the one person I texted to come never replied back. Oh well. It was fun anyway

July 31st: Day 19 Week 4: Stats

A few more people came through today but the majority of my time today was spent copying down statistics from the BeGaze on each person's test and reinserting them into a Google docs so that I could compare all the information. Eventually I used some simple math to determine how many blinks per second and minute there were so that they would all have a common factor to compare by. Then I did more simple math in order to subtract the book's numbers from the screen's and turned the negative cells blue so that it was easier to compare which was larger.

July 30th: Day 18 Week 4: We are testing

It was great. Today we got most of the interns through our test and are going to start looking at the data tomorrow and testing any more that come through. However, that is the part that I am dreading because Jacqueline and I both need the computer for both of our projects so we are going to have to split the time. So far results look promising, although I learned it is nearly impossible to calibrate contact lenses and much more difficult with glasses. I guess for half the day I get it while Jacqueline works on her project and visa versa the other half the day. Anyway, its very exciting and awesome that we are making progress on these projects.