• • ethics change to include clause: patients do not have to respond to questions they are uncomfortable with
  • amendment to add our names to ethics, then submit new posters, consent forms;
  • MB, JM to give review pass on CT's cover sheets and recruitment forms, amendment and cover sheet

• • viable technology: JavaScript
    • Google App Engine (Java compiled into JavaScript)

• • concurrent validation (testing) - correlations w/ NSP tests
  • convergent validation (testing) - investigate new testing paradigms
    • language tests - sensitivity to aphasia (SC, SP)
    • visuospatial tests - sensitivity to LBD (SqP, PC)
  • usability - quantitative improvements
    • self-reports w/ Likert scale questions
    • navigability improvements
  • to do: HCI interview questions / revise from CTOC cycle 1; wait for CJ's improvements, use as template
  • audio: initial instructions to be recorded by Dec 1?
  • usability interviews to begin Dec 1. - potential for ugrad to work on this?

C-TOC Meeting Minutes - Nov 17, 2010

• Attendees: Joanna, Claudia, Charlotte, Robin, Steve, Matt, William

Minutes

• 1. ethics amendment
  • TBA

• 2. dev. of CTOC
  • viable technology: Flex / Flash
    • concern over future of Flash and Mac compatibility
  • viable technology: Javascript
    • Google App Engine (Java compiled into JavaScript)
    • concern over client-side caching, browser compatibility
    • Sproutcore JS framework (http://sproutcore.com/)
  • other: Cappuccino (Objective J) > compiled into JS

• 3. CTOC usability interviews
  • TBA

• 4. CIHR grant
  • CIHR operating grant application March 1 20111
  • training opportunities for post-doctoral fellows and graduate students
  • new M.Sc student to work on aspects of the project (early-mid 2011)

• 5. Cutlural advisory panel cycle #3
  • moved to either Fri Feb 4 or Thurs Feb 17?

• 6. Regular meeting times
  • biweekly Wednesdays 11-12am in ICICS x530 (first week), Koerner pavilion Max Walters Room (third week)