Thursday, March 31, 2011

Weekly Update 3/31/2011

What did we do this week:
This week more effort was put into merging the server and the hand tracking.  We were finally able to succeed on Monday night.  This allowed us to use the system to conduct a user study on Tuesday and have the report written for Thursday.  The study revealed a lot about our system and gave us some good ideas about where we need to go in the future.

Problems:
When running the user study we found that our clicking mechanism was pretty bad to say the least.  Users had no precision with their clicks at all because the hand would move while the clicking gesture was performed.  Multiple solutions have been proposed to fix this.

Project Status: 
The project is moving along nicely now that we have some of the proof of concept programs integrated.  We can now fix the clicking problem and look into gestures that can be added to our system.

New Ideas:
The clicking was a problem so we are looking at two solutions.  The first would be to write our own push recognizer that would take the click sooner than the NITE push recognizer.  The second is to back track through inputs to where the click started and take that point instead of the point where the click was recognized.




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