Today was an exciting day at the lab. I started with capturing videos for what could possibly be my final set of video analysis. I completed over 40 different data point calculations that I have to duplicate to ensure consistency and accuracy. At somepoint during this process I had a conversation with Dr. Pelz and …
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Thursday July 25th
Today was a very interesting day. Dr. Eileen Kowler visited the lab to discuss past, current and future projects created and researched by our lab. She is a doctor of Psychology an expert on smooth pursuit eye tracking. We had a short discussion when she first arrived at the lab and I was able to …
Wednesday July 24th
Today felt slower than usual but I was still able to get a lot of work done and have fun doing it. To ensure that the quality of the data is as good as possible it is important to find ways to characterize and reduce noise. One way this can be accomplished is by performing …
Tuesday July 23rd
At the beginning of the day, I discussed possible new designs that could mount a single IRED on the Pupil Lab glasses. Aayush had thought of one possible design and Dr. Pelz had thought of another. I then was tasked with bringing both designs from an idea into the physical world. Aayush’s design involved the …
Monday July 22nd
Today was a lot of fun! My one task for the day was to come up with, design a 3d print a solution to mount a circuit board to the pupil eye tracker. By 1 in the afternoon I was able to have my first prototype ready and it worked almost perfectly after a bit …
Thursday July 18th
The day started with most everyone in the lab leaving to discuss a research paper as they do every Thursday. While they were gone I was given the challenge to find a way to mount the circuit and photodiode to the iPad so that it could be used in the experiment. After several prototypes and …
Friday July 19th
It was a very slow day today. I was first to show up and was unable to get any additional instructions until several hours after I first came in. When I was given something to work on I was able to be productive and have fun. At first, I took some video of the system …
Wednesday July 17th
Last night I had an idea that would solve the problems we were having yesterday with the Op-Amp not working correctly. It involved using two op-amps and comparing their values. This would allow the Op-Amp to multiply the difference between the two and output it to a LED. After some discussion with others in my …
Tuesday July 16th
Today was a very productive day! I was able to accomplish two tasks with the help of others in my lab. The first task involved using two matrixes, one two dimensional and the other one dimensional, to create the best fit line that gives a delay time t as it relates to an (x,y) position …
Monday July 15th
Today I collected and reviewed data slide transitions in Python. To start off a test was run where crosses alternated across the screen. This was done with white crosses with black backgrounds and black crosses with white backgrounds. We did this in order to determine if pixel behavior differientiated on whether they were turning on …
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