This morning, we started with an HCI class with Yvonne. The focus of today’s class was decision making, and how things like heuristics and biases can influence our decisions. After class, Dr. Adarsh Krishnamurthy talked about his research and interests during the lunch and lecture. His background is architecture and engineering, so while some of what he was talking about was unfamiliar, I could pick up on things and found his work with neural networks and 3D printing really interesting.

After the lunch and lecture, Aron came to the VRAC for a bit. The first thing on the to-do list for today was to get back to figuring out how to analyze the EEG data that we collected from the 64-electrode cap. I think EEGLab is the way to go for this situation because it’s much easier to use for our purposes than the scripts from the GitHub repository, and we think we might have found a way to plot decent looking graphs.  Next, we wanted Aron’s guidance for writing the abstract of our paper because we realized we need to have it done by tomorrow night at the latest. After hashing out some of the writing details, we headed over to the EEG lab to test the trigger system. The trigger system is how we will send event markers to the file that is collecting and recording the brain waves, and these event markers will be at specific points in the experiment. Getting this to work was the last bit we needed before we could start collecting real pilot data, and it’s been causing us grief this whole summer, but it works now!!!! Hooray!!

I think tonight will be a chill night. Quieter nights have been more common this week because the workload is definitely picking up for all of the groups. These past few nights, by the time I get back from the gym and shower, I’m ready to pass out.