Week 3 (2/5/2013) Spring Semester 2013
We are already in third week of Spring semester. With so many activities going on, it is difficult to keep track of everything. After a group taken down, we settled into earing some great talks.
We had talks by
1) Prof. Pauline Oliveros - Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) http://deeplistening.org/site/adaptiveuse
2) Kenley Cheung - WebTech Group Union
3) Jonathan Goldszmidt - Nexus (City Government)
4) Zach Jablons, Jerry Schneider - BlueMesh http://rcos.rpi.edu/projects/bluemesh/
5) Mei Si - Mandarin Project and Immersive Environment
Prof. Oliveros talked about her project on Adaptive Musical Instrument (AUMI) - to help children with disabilities to play musical instruments. Her talk was the most inspiring to me. She demonstrated her project. With tracking movement of the eyes her system is able to play different musical instruments. She talked about how her system enhanced the lives of young children. She talked future projects to make it open source, develop analytics to measure children's growth and to make the user interface simpler. Information about her research may be found http://deeplistening.org/site/adaptiveuse and their software may be found
AUMI 3.0 for Windows: https://mega.co.nz/#!DF8liBDY!RpGx3X_f3C7LaZfhLDc88il-5EIAWGWpk65NvBEiVM0 (Please test how they work in windows)
Kenley talked about recent improvements in Concerto 2. They ave written the system in Rub on Rails. They also have a weekly meeting, test driven development and a nightly updates. Concerto 2 has been adapted in many universities (including Clarkson U) and they are getting user feedbacks for their new design.
Jonathan G talked about their nexus project to make a system usable by City Business Bureau. Jonathan is developing a backend where his project partner is developing the front end. For the front end, they have a lot of mock-ups. For the backend they are developing object models and relations. Their aim is to have the software release by May (to be used in Troy)
Jerry and Zach talked about their Blue Mesh Project. Their plan is to make their system robust and develop a few applications. Since this will be Jerry's last semester, Jerry is anxious to complete this project. Jerry also talked about hi side project that uses instagram API - Zach also talked about his side project - It is great to see many side projects (On the other hand I do hope that many of these projects get used by many)
Finally Mei Si talked about Mandarin project. She also talked about a number of projects in her groups (she got two graduate students). Gesture identification is an important component of their research. Her current research project involves interaction between two agents.
As usual there were interesting questions/sharing of information.
