Matt's Research Log

Matt's Research Log

This page contains the ongoing weekly research log for my M.Sc. research projects, as documented by Matt Brehmer, beginning May 2010.

05.10

Week of [05.03.10]

[05.03.10] - out of office (helping Ana move)

[05.04.10]
- IDRG - guest speaker
  - Nicholas Shim (nshim @ dgp.toronto.edu) (UoT) - FuturePlay '10 conference talk - online gaming for older users
  - individual + buddy views of the game, chat w/ opponents and voice chat w/ buddy
  - no screening for physical / cognitive disabilities
  - participants (ages 80+) recruited from seniors' computer club
- HCI grad research forum - 2nd iteration - first meeting
  - attendees: Jeff, Vincent, Matt, Kirstie, Garth, Yasaman, Bruno, Mohan, Jen, Zoltan, Rock, Emerson
  - brainstorming research question topics, possible activities for future meetings
  - voting on which topics to discuss in future meetings, volunteering for upcoming presentations
- Retrieved Karyn's reference - [Zhai et al 04] - biasing participants in Fitts'-style task - speed vs. accuracy
- Retrieved Claudia's clinical references (3) (TO-READ)
- Consolidated Mendeley database
- First participant booked: May 17 at 10am, in exam room #9 in the clinic. His name is BA and his diagnosis is NCI.

[05.05.10]
- ...reading Claudia's clinical references (3) - see the literature review page.
  - [Feldman 05] H.H. Feldman and C. Jacova, "Mild Cognitive Impairment," American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol. 13, 2005, pp. 645-655.
  - [Feldman 08] H.H. Feldman, C. Jacova, A. Robillard, A. Gracia, T. Chow, M. Borrie, H.M. Schipper, M. Blair, A. Kertesz, and H. Chertkow, "Diagnosis and treatment of dementia: 2. Diagnosis," Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 178, 2008, pp. 825-836.
  - [Dubois 07] B. Dubois, H.H. Feldman, C. Jacova, S.T. DeKosky, P. Barberger-Gateau, J. Cummings, A. Delacourte, D. Galasko, S. Gauthier, and G. Jicha, "Research criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: revising the NINCDSâ€“ADRDA criteria," The Lancet Neurology, vol. 6, 2007, pp. 734-746.

[05.06.10] - [05.07.10] - FuturePlay '10 Conference (Vancouver)
- Some interesting + relevant talks / posters:
  - [Pandeliev 10] V.T. Pandeliev & R.M. Baecker. "A Framework for the Online Evaluation of Serious Games", pp. 272-275
  - [Shim 10] N. Shim, R.M. Baecker, J. Birnholtz, K. Moffatt. "TableTalk Poker: An Online Social Gaming Environment for Seniors", pp. 122-128

Week of [05.10.10]

[05.10.10]
- Rock's contact - Stephen Lindsay (Newcastle) - working with older adults + dementia, formalisation of design process;
- scheduling regular meetings / 444 dev meetings
- completing notes for clinical references;
- retrieved additional HCI / universal usability references from bibliography of above-mentioned FuturePlay references - [Owen 10], [Ball 02], [Goodman 03]
- desk organisation...

[05.11.10]
- Rock's interview tips for working with older users, see the interview tips page; link to Dickinson et al paper.
  - [Dickinson 07] A. Dickinson, J. Arnott, and S. Prior, "Methods for human - computer interaction research with older people," Behaviour & Information Technology, vol. 26, 2007, pp. 343-352.
- IDRG - Jacucci et al (CHI 2010) - Worlds of Information (public wall display)
- Meeting w/ Joanna
  - regular meeting wed 10am
  - 444 dev meeting schedule (one-time only tomorrow 1pm, regular wed 3pm)
  - C-TOC interview sessions - 1st iteration: 2 hour sessions; to follow-up w/ Sarah w.r.t. video recording
  - equipment & space needs - desk in MUX temporarily used as storage for SPIN group, working from bullpen in meantime; no current equipment needs;
  - vacation schedule - 2 weeks in mid July
  - NSERC - September
- designated as discussion leader for next week's IDRG - select paper by Friday; possible topic areas: (searching for papers in CHI, SIGACCESS, ASSETS, etc.)
  - on designing ICT with older users
  - on designing ICT with those w/ cognitive/memory impairments
  - on designing ICT with those w/ dementia
  - on task resumption / interruption
  - on usability issues w/ task instructions
- HCI grad research forum (Mohan / learnability project)
  - attendance: Mohan, Garth, Emerson, Jen, Yasaman, Idin, Jeff, Vincent, Zoltan, Matt
- reimbursal for FuturePlay expenses (Juliette)

[05.12.10]
- organisation of mail / file system
- installing LaTeX / worked through some initial tutorials (To Do)
- reading [Goodman 03], [Dickinson 07] - see literature review / C-TOC interviews pages.
- 444 dev meeting w/ Joanna, Jeff, Juliette, Jessica, Matt
- meeting w/ tri-mentor Ben Yu - discussed 444 dev
- received interview draft from Claudia - to Review
  - contains questions for pre-interview, during interview, post-interview
  - contains content & HCI questions

[05.13.10]
- organising cs account file system
- completed notes for [Dickinson et al 07] - see literature review;
- possible IDRG papers:
  - technology for older users:
    - [Birnholtz CHI 2010] - too new?
  - technology for cog./mem. impairments
    - [Bauchet ASSETS 09] - no citation count
    - [Lee ASSETS 07] - cit. count 5
    - [Sevilla TOCHI 07] - cit. count 1 - web guidelines (journal paper)
  - technology for dementia - not enough dementia knowledge among IDRG?
    - [Mihailidis ACM Interactions 07] - cit. count 4 - not HCI-focused
    - [Wherton IJHCS 08] - cit. count 4 (journal paper)
- revising/commenting on Claudia's interview draft - HCI questions: see C-TOC interviews page.
  - sent revisions ~3pm
- meet w/ Sarah 9h30m 05.17.10 to set up camera;
- reading: [Lee 07]

[05.14.10]
- reading: [Wherton 08], [Lee 07]
- 444 TA lunch
- Claudia's interview draft revision #2 (5:30pm)
  - largely agreed w/ comments
- [Wherton 08] selected as IDRG discussion paper

Week of [05.17.10]

[05.17.10]
- C-TOC interview #1 - exam room #9, Koerner pavilion (see C-TOC interview 1.1)
  - reviewed interview script revision
  - see notes on interview question printout
  - see video of session
  - action points:
    - allow for left-handed users
    - ensure PPT compatibility; use laptop w/ admin rights
    - not yet functional: help, tests (square puzzles, sentence production, pattern construction (skipped), pattern recall (skipped), sentence comprehension, go-stop (not working)); meet w/ Steve to discuss ways to improve interactive tests
    - wrap sentence clauses to new lines (throughout)
    - without justification, tests seem like useless computer games, some explanation req'd; purpose of C-TOC unclear
    - find a way to shrink test, lower fatigue
- meeting w/ speech pathologist - Thursday 1:30 Friedman bldg.
- preparing discussion notes for IDRG: [Wherton 08]

[05.18.10]
- IDRG - [Wherton 08] - discussion lead
  - distributed monitoring & family involvement (Gokhan)
  - Georgia Tech cooking reference (Kelly)
  - Reminiscing CHI paper (Mohan)
- Meeting w/ Joanna
  - Kori Inkpen (GI?) paper / PhD thesis: drag & drop vs. click & snap
  - registered for ISG gerontechnology conference (May 27-30, Vancouver) - Rock also to attend
- Met w/ Jeff for 444 tutorial dev work
- Volunteered to present at HCI grad research forum - June 15
- HCI grad research forum (Yasaman / haptic creature & children w/ anxiety project - longitudinal study)
  - attendance: Yasaman, Mohan, Garth, Emerson, Jen, Yasaman, Idin, Jeff, Vincent, Zoltan, Matt, Gordon, Kirstie, Rock
  - Ken Rockwood (Dalhousie U) - MMSE / Alzheimer's treatment
  - Jeffrey Rubin - Usability Handbook

[05.19.10]
- compiled notes from C-TOC interview #1, see C-TOC interview 1.1
- retrieved Kori Inkpen's paper (added to queue)
- completed notes for [Lee 07], [Birnholtz 10] (see literature review)
- 444 dev
  - revised twiki page + student schedule for tutorial: models of human performance: visual perception;
  - 444 dev meeting
- received case report template from Claudia - medical and clinical conditions

[05.20.10]
- Claudia's email #1 - 5:30pm Wed. - C-TOC Interactions
  - sentence comprehension and production, pattern construction and square puzzles tasks to be made interactive:
    - Although ideally if we have a solution for one task it will work for the other 3. If drag-and-drop turns out not to be possible in PowerPoint, a non-PowerPoint interactive version of the task(s) will not be ready for next week, as we'll need more time to investigate other options. Since I imagine a potential solution working for all drag-and-drop moving actions, it should apply to each of the aforementioned tasks.
  - if all tasks are interactive, the whole battery could be linked so that people would not have to transition in and out of files and slide viewing mode, which will make the interaction awkward.
    - we could either try creating a master PowerPoint file with updated slide links, or inserting links to the next set of slides at the end of each task
  - if some tasks remain non-interactive, we need to develop a script to instruct people how to go through the battery.
- Claudia's email #2 - 5:45pm Wed. - Cultural Advisory panel prep
  - A questionnaire that panel members complete while viewing and interacting with C-TOC. Claudia is working on this and will send it to you for review; to add HCI-relevant content to the questionnaire; keep language non-technical
  - Observation of panel members while they view and interact with C-TOC: do they get stuck, when, what are barriers we should be aware of?
    - need to bring the most recent C-TOC slide deck with us on a flash drive on the morning of the 27th, or post it somewhere secure online that we can download to the lab computers once we arrive. Either way, a few minutes will be required before we get started with the evaluation in order to get each computer ready.
  - The most updated version of C-TOC as of May 26 will need to be transferred onto the computers in the Douglas College lab (1hr prep). To Do: observing the panel members as they perform the tasks, taking notes on interaction issues, and helping them / providing clarifications as necessary.
  - PowerPoint compatibility issues / admin privileges
- Meet w/ Steve tomorrow @ noon to discuss C-TOC interactive initiative
- received 05.17.10 version of C-TOC test battery (current version) - verified that all tests present - to use / edit on a Windows machine.
  - older version of sentence production task has interactive simulated drag-and-drop: click-to-pick-up, drag, click-to-release; can this be replicated for other tests?
  - some shapes in sentence comprehension are drag/drop enabled; can we replicate this?
  - drag+drop macro used - needs to be replicated for other drag+drop items
- Meeting w/ Barbara Perves, speech and audiology sciences dept., aphasia expert; sentence comprehension and production; - is it worth it in 30 min?
  - expect differentially impaired users - impairments w/ reading, listening, both
  - see Token test for aphasia - given aurally
  - sentence production task: expect differences b/w two sentence types: those with free choice, those w/ 1-2 forced starting words;
  - need to produce sentences w/ complex structures and expresses relationships;
  - express need for users to produce longest sentence possible
  - UI issue: force grid snapping of words to sentence block
  - check out ALFAB - Alberta Aphasia Battery - computerised test;
- received agenda for cultural advisory panel meeting;
- to read: [Inkpen 01], [Hawkey et al 05]

[05.21.10]
- Reading [Inkpen 01], notes: (see literature review)
- Meeting w/ Steve & Claudia - Douglas College Cultural Advisory Prototype prep
  - Picture-word pairs and word recognition to be shown consecutively
  - point-and-click w/ feedback macro to be applied to each item requiring drag-and-drop; instructions to be provided for each test requiring drag-and-drop: "click to pick up, move, click to drop; click elsewhere to proceed" (Steve)
  - go-stop test to be revised; pattern construction as well (Steve & Cluadia)
  - linking tasks to each other using hyperlinks at the end of each slideshow (Steve)
  - at the end of each task, a reminder to complete relevant portion of questionnaire (Claudia)
  - script no longer necessary if all tests interactive and linked;
  - questionnaire revision + HCI content to be added by Wednesday (Matt)
  - to review slides and questionnaire Wednesday (all)
- 444 dev: student schedules for Models-1, Expt-1

Week of [05.24.10]

[05.24.10]
- Victoria Day (holiday)

[05.25.10]
- revising the cultural advisory panel questionnaire - to review w/ Joanna; Claudia agrees w/ comments;
  - HCI-background questions added to beginning section
  - Help Menu => help menu topic list (help menu not yet interactive)
  - Computer Interface => a. mouse interaction, b. GUI interaction (more specific)
- downloaded ALFAB = Alberta Language Function Assessment Battery (Chris Westbury, Signi Sheldon, U of A)
- IDRG - practice talks
  - Kirstie - Whale-Tank VR
  - Jeff - GEKA
- HCI Grad Research Forum #3 (cancelled)
- Reading: [Hawkey 05] - (see literature review)
- 444 dev: student schedules - Expt. 2, Field 1
- Added to research lit review queue: [Kautz 02], [Pollack 03], [Orpwood 05], [ENABLE NK, FI, UK 04], [Morris 04], [Carmien 05]

[05.26.10]
- meeting w/ Joanna:
  - meta-reflections on process
  - possible CHI 2011 note for September 24 - what's the story? likely about process; other possible venues: ASSETS 2011, CHI 2012
  - student volunteer for CHI 2011
  - revising the C-TOC cultural advisory panel questionnaire: formatting and comments;
- revised / reformatted the questionnaire; confirmed changes w/ Claudia
- received updated test battery with links between slide decks from Steve; to verify on a Windows machine
- IMAGER lunch
- confirmation for Douglas college tomorrow: 8am - 41th & Mackenzie; 8:15 - 12th & Cambie
- comments on C-TOC Douglas College prototype:
  - admin rights on computer lab computers?
  - sentence production / square puzzles - slides do not advance / sentence production doesn't link to next test
- booked travel: July 7-27

[05.27.10]
- Douglas College (Coquitlam) - Cultural Advisory Panel Focus Group - Iteration 1 (see notes)
- ISG Gerontechnology conference - Day #1 (opening ceremony + keynote, trade show) (see notes)

[05.28.10]
- ISG Gerontechnology conference - Day #2 (see notes)
- Time sheets req. for 444 dev (2pm Monday)

[05.29.10]
- ISG Gerontechnology conference - Day #3 (see notes)

[05.30.10]
- ISG Gerontechnology conference - Day #4 (see notes)

06.10

Week of [05.31.10]

[05.31.10]
- (took day off, checked email)
- 444 time sheets needed - contacted Colleen
- IDRG tomorrow cancelled
- 444 Dev meeting 2pm tomorrow - X836

[06.01.10]
- Responding to Gabe Silk reference email
- Cultural Advisory Panel - (focus group notes)
- to do: ISG Gerontechnology '10 notes
- 444 dev - student schedules: Field II, Video I, Video II
- 444 dev meeting; to do: finish tutorial student schedules, preliminary investigation into Android tutorial
- HCI Grad research forum; presenter: Gordon
  - attendees: Gordon, Rock, Gokhan, Garth, Vincent, Matt
  - topics discussed: collaboration, novelty in essay option

[06.02.10]
- transcribing ISG Gerontechnology '10 notes
- received cultural advisory panel notes from Douglas college coordinators
- clinical eval #2 tomorrow
- 444 dev: tutorial student schedules complete (Expt 2, Video 1 & 2)

[06.03.10]
- C-TOC 1st iteration clinical trials - interview #2
  - see notes / video of interview - (see C-TOC interview 1.2)
- technical observations and/or suggested quick C-TOC fixes:
  - throughout: next/prev buttons on all slides for consistency (except slides in which it is states "click anywhere to continue")
  - symbol-digit matching test: instructions to click on response bar need to be clearer; there may be a confusion with the source bar
  - pattern construction test: instructions on where to pick up shapes and where to drop shapes need to be clearer; potential confusion resulting from attempting to pick up pieces of the target shape;
  - trails test: it is not clear that clicking is not required in this test
  - sentence comprehension test: too many test items;
    - mouse glitches resulting from drag operation (conflicts with the point-and-click move macro) - we identified this problem at Douglas College;
    - 'smallest to largest' cue used in one trial not visible enough
  - misplaced object search test: include a 'give up' or 'I don't know' button to proceed to next trial
  - sentence production test: slide advancement on first 'click anywhere to begin' slide glitches (likely a memory + PPT issue);
    - mouse glitches resulting from drag operation - specifically dropping problems (conflicts with the point-and-click move macro) - we identified this problem at Douglas College;
    - still missing a 'use as many words as possible' instruction - were we planning on adding this after our meeting with Barbara?
  - square puzzles test: practice trial is not given instructions, but test trials are given instructions;
    - presently difficult to grab lines (another hassle of the point-and-click move macro) - could we widen the lines slightly to facilitate grabbing? would this have any impact on the results? (i.e. from 1pt to 3pt)
  - go-stop test: some slide advancement problems (likely a memory + PPT issue again)
  - misplaced-object recall test: instructions not clear w.r.t. the object being misplaced vs. contextually appropriate?;
    - some slide advancement problems (likely a memory + PPT issue again)
- sent suggested fixes to Steve/Claudia - Claudia in agreement
- academic website updates: http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~brehmer
- received correspondence from Donal O'Brien (Queen's U, Belfast) - ISG poster presenter on cognitive games

[06.04.10]
- ISG recap at IDRG - June 22
- sent vacation schedule to Claudia
- finalising academic website updates: http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~brehmer
- C-TOC 1st iteration clinical trials - interview #3
  - see notes / video of interview - (see C-TOC interview 1.3)
  - subject withdrew after 2 tests (too stressful / taxing) - moderately impaired + slowed cognition due to antipsychotic drugs
- technical observations and/or suggested quick C-TOC fixes:
  - make nav. buttons larger
  - add "see prev. screen" to help menu where available/possible
  - picture-word pairs test: instructions to click/advance needed on all slides where currently missing
    - some ambiguous / non-prototypical object images
  - word recognition test: "click on numbered choice" instruction too small, to be moved to top of screen
- research questions for Joanna:
  - NPCs for encouragement / other approaches?

Week of [06.07.10]

[06.07.10]
- prepared HCI grad research forum presentation - sent to JM for commentary
- C-TOc temporary research coordinator is Gigi T
- SPIN ethics certificate for Haptic Crayola - sent to KM
- added some ISG references to Lit Review queue: [Charness 08], [Topo 09], [Rowe 97]

[06.08.10]
- IDRG - Jen's practice talk for computational sustainability / constraint satisfaction conference (mostly AI folks) (constraint satisfaction for neighbourhood design)
  - useful tips: "thank-you" slide to include take-away points, contact info, funding sources; focus on user/study / evaluation likely not appropriate for non-HCI audiences
- MUX space discussion - 3 extra desks?
- ISG recap @ IDRG - June 22; possible topics:
  - themes: ageing in place (i.e. [Dishman] - ADLs, virtual ride sharing), 3rd world ageing [Beard], ambient assisted living [Tinker], environmental testing + ADLs [Fernie], UD [Sanford]
  - getting involved, student chapter, who's involved, future conferences
  - symposia: ISAAC (unobtrusive assessment), Canada-UK initiative on dementia [Astell 1] - PwD+CG communication, SenTra symposium
  - papers: dynamic lighting [Spreeuwenberg], serious games [Baecker 1], playful persuasion [Valk/Bekker], mobile langauge aids [Baecker 2], psyc principles [Beaudoin], IVR redesign [Messier]
  - posters: cog. stim games for fighting dementia [O'Brien], audio + visual instructions [Wright]
- HCI research forum - presenters: Emerson + Kirstie (HCI careers - academia + industry)
  - attendees: Emerson, Kirstie, Rock, Mohan, Zoltan, Jen, Yasaman, Idin, Gokhan, Matt, Gordon, Vincent, Tom
  - MITACS internship? pays half of salary
  - post-doc opportunities in Europe
  - CHI announcements, CHI jobs mailing lists
  - LinkedIn HCI jobs
  - student volunteer @ CHI 2011
  - Vancouver User Experience group - June 22, regular meetings; Usability Professionals Assoc.
  - value of having an HCI project portfolio
- 444 dev - Android install / headaches
  - upgrading Eclipse
  - reinstalling FlashBuilder 4 / getting a license
  - installing SDK / platforms (to do)

[06.09.10]
- meeting w/ Joanna
  - Joanna away: June 28 - July 2, August 2 - 13
  - Joanna teaching 444 and 554 in Winter 2011, more flexible in Fall 2010
  - C-TOC - forking into a M.Sc research project on which I take lead on - when/where to fork?
  - motivation question: anthropomorphic help character - use w/ children's software - can it be applied to older adults?
    - ref: Clifford Nass (sp?) - The Media Equation (book) - does anthropomorphising your computer affect performance / behaviour?
  - comments on HCI forum slide deck - change background!
    - title to reflect online, home-based, self-administered aspects of C-TOC (reduces ambiguity)
    - need for computerised testing -> motivation
    - show tests earlier - larger images
    - exciting questions! -> research question #1,2...
    - where to fork? preliminary ideas for experiments w/ older users + research scope needed
      - methodologies for simulating interruptions - so far only w/ younger users w/o impairments
    - adaptive help: how difficult is this to detect?
    - what is the research question for cultural diversity?
- editing slide deck: http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~brehmer/research/mb_hci_forum_june15.pdf
- 444 dev (Android!) + meeting

[06.10.10]
- continued 444 dev: Android Hello World tutorials - see 444 dev work twiki
- searching for the Media Equation - UBC library PIN changed - couldn't find on library website
- ISG presentation for IDRG
- Planning the CSGSA summer BBQ
- Course planning - Fall 2010:
  - PSYC 322 - adulthood & ageing?
  - CPSC 507 - software engineering?

[06.11.10]
- Planning the MUX social - June 24
- completed draft of the IDRG ISG recap - sent to Rock for comment - will review: http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~brehmer/research/idrg_isg_recap_june22.pdf
- Gigi sez: potential for meetings to be scheduled Tuesday/Wednesday mornings, conflicting w/ meetings
- reading [Topo 09], [Sevilla 07]

Week of [06.14.10]

[06.14.10]
- notes for [Topo 09], [Sevilla 07] - (see literature review)
- restructuring the literature review page to reflect thematic organisation
- reading: IDRG 06.15.10 - [Andrews 10] - CHI paper
- MUX social planning - 3PM June 24
- C-TOC received feedback from Howard Feldman, expert in clinical neurophysiology
- C-TOC dev. meeting July 5, 3-4:30 @ Joanna's office
  - 1) Revisions addressing feedback from users, panel members and clinicians
  - 2) Revision of test contents
  - 3) Decision on when to begin working on programming C-TOC
  - 4) Developing quantitative outcomes for the next two user consultation cycles
  - advance C-TOC development through the summer, and undertake first validation studies in autumn. This would allow submission of a CIHR operating grant in March 2011, proposing extensive clinical and basic neuroscience validation, plus potentially an HCI piece in there as well (to be discussed).
- clinical interview scheduled: July 5, 10am, location TBA

[06.15.10]
- IDRG - Presley (presenter) - [Andrews CHI '10] - large high-definition displays (4x2 display) - external cognition
- 444 dev - Android tutorial - following up on MEZ's links - DroidDraw in particular
- reading HF's comments on C-TOC v.1
  - not a screening but a short neuropsychological test to disentangle aetiology
  - test facial expression perception, facial recognition
- HCI Forum presentation - presented by me
  - attendance: Me, Emerson, Yasaman, Idin, Jeff, Gordon, Rock, Vincent, Garth, Kirstie
  - Jeff: detection of cheating - people purposefully performing poorly to game the system / work their way up to queue/ see a clinician sooner - Garth: webcam solution? locking down system?
  - Kirstie: cultural diversity not likely to have M.Sc research question
  - Rock: test general older public first, validate with cognitively impaired - larger, more accessible subject pool
  - Kirstie: test/recall interval time variability - use pencil and paper test as reference point - fixed and variable time between encoding and recall depending on performance on interim tests
  - Vincent: however the tests are adapted / changed / derived to form experimental apparatus - how critical is it to maintain test validity?
  - Kirstie: how to tell when a task is interrupted? is the person engaged? see: James Fogerty, Scott Hudson (CHI, recent 5 years)
    - Vlad (sp.?) (lastname) @ Dal: natural language processing for detecting cognitive impairment?
  - Zoltan: longitudinal assessment of cognitive state? inferring cognitive state from test behaviour? is this feasible?
  - Garth: lack of engagement as a diagnostic tool?
  - Me: past work w/ children for assessing engagement? work with anthropomorphic characters to motivate? can it be applied to older users?
  - Garth et al: no past work uniting interruption research w/ cog. impairment / older users
  - Idin: TED talk - social network for people w/ different medical treatments - use for wide-scale assessment over the web?
  - Kirstie: adaptive help for those w/ cog. impairment - see A. Mihailidis' hand-washing work
  - Garth: does having help on demand affect test validity when compared to tests with help/instructions only at the onset of each test, compared to pencil+paper test support?
  - Jeff: assess test cheating and need for help at the same time
  - Vincent: consider relaxing tech. restrictions for CHI and other venues - use of webcams / eye-trackers / touch screens instead of mouse - may impress/inspire?
    - simultaneously relax need for neuropsychological validity
  - Vincent: Eric Dishman's TED talk and seminar - at-home Parkinson's test - requires specialised equipment
  - Rock: clock-drawing on a computer - CHI contact - ask Rock for details
- Rock's HCI forum notes for me:
  - are you interested in taking this test further - new interaction techniques for computerised testing?
  - [how will you address those trying to] game the system?
  - using pen + paper test to produce a (validated) score - may be able to use as a covariate to control for some factors
  - make sure that your modifications don't make test invalid
  - interruptions - prior work: James Fogerty, probably lots of others: build off state of the art and adapt for seniors
  - motivation - will be affected by cultural differences
  - adaptive help - Alex Mihailidis's hand-washing
  - many of these modifications may affect validity - maybe there's interesting work just to look at the impact of modifications on validity
  - from an HCI perspective - there is a lot of interesting things that you can do by relaxing the constraint of test validity - e.g. new interaction techniques, new technology that may be available in the future

[06.16.10]
- meeting w/ Joanna
  - IDRG ISG recap to be delayed to July 6
  - Barbara Grosz seminar next Tuesday on interruptions - June 22 - 10:30-12
  - GRAND - games for simultaneous assessment and preventative cognitive strengthening - INCLUDE grant: R. Baecker, N. Graham, F. Russo, D. Fels (hearing impaired haptic chair), C. Gutwin
  - addressing Vincent's HCI forum comment: CHI contribution - novel contribution vs. iterative design towards interruption/engagement guidelines for older users/ those w/ cog. impairments
  - lab study vs. intervention at home - validate at home after lab study on interruptions w/ older users;
  - talk to P. Graf w.r.t. perspective memory/distraction - implications for interruptions with ICT and older users - psyc literature - also for motivation/encouragement
  - see: http://interruptions.net
  - addressing Jeff's HCI forum comment: detection of cheating / deliberately performing poorly - would involve substantial AI modelling - likely a different contribution, long-term, less likely to occur (are we being naive?)
  - addressing Kirstie's HCI forum comment: interruption w/ fixed/variable-length time interval, varied intensity/type of interim distractor task - cognitive and motor constraints - likely in Psyc literature - direct contribution more directly related to C-TOC / cognitive testing, while also serving as background literature for interruptions/engagement project - more generalizable - variable workload in distractor task may have cog. components and variety of motor/physical components, making it more relevant to HCI community - mouse / touch / multitouch/ etc.
  - addressing Garth's HCI forum comment: adaptive help - how can this be applied to older users in cog. test vs. more broadly?
- course registration - fall: PSYC 322 - adulthood & aging; winter: PSYC 579: topics in perception
- 444 development - Android lab
- 444 dev meeting 3-4pm

[06.17.10]
- C-TOC Phase 1 Interview #4 (Subject #3)
  - see notes: C-TOC interview 1.4
- registered successfully in PSYC 579; heard feedback from Prof. Souza - PYSC 322
- Android dev: setup Nexus One phone + signed in w/ Google account

[06.18.10]
- C-TOC Phase 1 Interview #5 - scheduled fro Friday June 25, 10am
- MUX social poster making
- 444 Android dev - Android phone setup / exploring features
- leaving early: going camping / wine touring - birthday weekend! w00t.

Week of [06.21.10]

[06.21.10]
- reviewing http://interruptions.net/
- downloaded [Nagel 04] - interruptions piece from CHI 04
- reading [Mihailidis 07], [Salvucci 10]
- MUX social planning

[06.22.10]
- C-TOC clinical interview scheduled for Fri. June 25 2:30-4:30; Another for Sept. 1? Likely a conflict / not necessary.
- IDRG preempted for for Barbara Grosz (Harvard / seminar - "Can't you see I'm busy? Designing computers that interrupt only when they should"
  - "computers as helpful partners, rather than servants"
  - "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" - NPR show / podcast
  - collaborating (i.e. driving in a convoy) vs. interacting (driving in Boston)
  - ref: Bootstrap institute for D. Engelbart's original research papers
  - collaborative interfaces must handle division of labour, teamwork interaction
  - coloured trails testbed system (http://viki.eeecs.harvard.edu)
    - negotiation scenario w/ different agent types - Nash EQ, human, social agent)
  - take into account collaborative benefit, cost to each agent, perceptions and capabilities of each agent
  - probabilistic recipe trees: stochastic branching over possible plans, ease of adding branches, augmented w/ decision-theoretic mechanism to make better collaborative decisions; i.e. if expected utility > cost, inform other agent
  - evaluation of communication protocols in coloured trails scenario w/ uncertainty (observer and recipient agents) - ask vs. inform vs. always communicate vs. never communicate
  - goals change stochastically: user knows goals, computer does not, when to interrupt a user to ask what goal is? when is it beneficial to user?
    - H1: people more likely to accept interruption if outcome is high
    - H2: people more likely to accept interruption if perceived partner is another person (vs. computer) - trust
    - H@ partially validated - when outcome is low (negative benefit) and high (large benefit), doesn't matter who partner is; when outcome is med-low (some benefit) - more likely to accept if partner is another person (vs. computer)
  - characteristics of interruptions - probability observer has requested information, cost of interruption to observer, value of information to recipient, willingness of observer to participate
  - summary: take into account uncertainty of partners in collaborative environments
- 444 dev - android app deployed to phone - done!
- drafted message to P. Graf / agenda to JM for meeting tomorrow
- HCI grad research forum - presenter: Zoltan - "interactive tracking for sports" - HCT lab
  - attendees: Zoltan, Mohan, Bruno, Rock, Jeff, Yasaman, Emerson, Me, Jen, Vincent, Kirstie

[06.23.10]
- meeting w/ Joanna
  - role for C-TOCv2 - part of development team - not lead developer; focus on core HCI research question
  - CHI note vs. work-in-progress
    - decision in mid-August
    - see L. Findlater & JM's note on personalisation / interview study
  - reviewing message to P. Graf (sent later):
    - I am a Computer Science M.Sc student under the supervision of Joanna McGrenere. I am interested in interaction design for older users and those with cognitive impairments. Joanna has mentioned that you may be able to refer me to psychology literature relating to these populations; specifically, I'm interested in the topics of distraction, task engagement, and motivation/encouragement. Where are some good places to start? Alternatively, perhaps you may be able to provide me with several search keywords I should be using to investigate these areas.
    - Here's some background context relating to my project: I'm currently working with Claudia Jacova at the Brain Research centre to develop a self-administered, computerized, web-based early screening test for age-related dementias. While Claudia's focus is on the content of the screening test, which is adapted from existing clinical neuropsychological test batteries, my focus is on usability and other issues relevant to interaction design. While the project is still at an early stage, our aim is to eventual evaluate the screening test in web-based at-home environments, totally self-administered without any guidance from a clinician. As such, some of my research focus will inevitably deal with the problems of distraction, task interruption and resumption, as well as motivation and engagement. We are currently unaware of a body of HCI research relating to the intersection of these research areas with older users and/or those with cognitive impairments.
- 444 dev meeting
- 444 dev - android lab page
- IMAGER pizza social
- LaTeX practice - CV/resume creation

[06.24.10]
- LaTeX: created updated CV/resume
- received reply from P. Graf:
  - Claudia a better resource than he on matters inquired about above
  - potential for undergraduate involvement in a study held in the fall
- MUX social
- completed notes for [Mihailidis 07], [Salvucci 10] - (see literature review)
- Added [Findlater 08], [Boger 07] to queue

[06.25.10]
- C-TOC clinical usability interviews #5,6
  - see notes: C-TOC interview 1.5,6
- Claudia has forthcoming notes from meetings w/ P. Graf, J. Barton

Week of [06.28.10]

[06.28.10]
- CSGSA BBQ Planning (June 29)
- dispute w/ FuturePlay '10 expense form (apparently the registration fee was mistaken for airfare?)
- reading: IDRG: Emerson's paper for tomorrow
- notes for C-TOC clinical usability interviews #5,6
  - see notes: C-TOC interview 1.5,6

[06.29.10]
- C-TOC v.1 usability report draft writing / learning LaTeX
- HCI grad research forum - Gokhan presenting
  - attendees: Gokhan, Mohan, Rock, Kirstie, Zoltan, Emerson, Me, Vincent, Jeff, Yasaman, Gordon
  - discussed: HCI job tactics, work/life balance, reading list, vacation, research: HALO project
- CSGSA BBQ organising

[06.30.10]
- (car accident day before - spent day dealing w/ insurance claims and speaking to mechanics...)
- ISG reimbursement claim - receipt original copy needed

[07.01.10]
- (Canada Day / holiday)

[07.02.10]
- meeting with Rock for IDRG ISG recap:
  - specific themes -> research areas
  - about ISG -> Rock to address prominent researchers
  - Rock to expand on general themes
  - Rock to cover keynotes (Beard, Fernie)
  - Rock to add future directions, local resources
- C-TOC v.1 usability report draft writing (cont.)

[07.04.10]
- completed C-TOC v.1 usability report draft; sent to JM for feedback.

07.10

Week of [07.05.10]

[07.05.10]
- notes for C-TOC clinical usability interview #7
  - see notes: C-TOC interview 1.7
- C-TOC team meeting; see minutes: Jul 5, 2010
- Revising C-TOC v.1 usability report

[07.06.10]
- IDRG: ISG recap (myself and Rock)
- Meeting w/ Joanna
  - Next cultural advisory panel session (at-home test unlikely unless test is very robust) - alternative ordering of tests for max. coverage
  - Potential for CHI note still possible, to address in August
  - To address thesis experiment at next meeting (July 28); (Joanna away July 30 - Aug 13)
- Revising C-TOC v.1 usability report
- HCI grad forum: presenter: Bruno

[07.07.10]
- 444 dev meeting
- Completed revising C-TOC v.1 usability report: http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~brehmer/research/mb_ctocv1_usability_july07.pdf, sent to CJ, JM, HL
- flight to Ottawa, (start of vacation)

[07.08.10 - 07.09.10]
- (vacation)

Week of [07.12.10]

(vacation)

Week of [07.19.10]

(vacation)

Week of [07.26.10]

[07.26.10]
- (vacation)

[07.27.10]
- return from vacation (half-day)
- reading email / responding to email (473 new (357 spam))
- C-TOC v2 cultural advisory panel review session scheduled: Fri Oct 15 10am-1:30pm
- HCI grad research forum discussion: publication plans (discussion leads: Rock, Zoltan)
  - attendees: Zoltan, Rock, Kirstie, Garth, Jeff, Vincent, Me
- house-hunting...

[07.28.10]
- meeting w/ JM
  - post-doc Charlotte Tang (CT) (U of Calgary - Carpendale, Greenberg) - expert on qualitative research design, HCI in e-health
  - qualitative design courses
    - EPSE 595 - qualitative research methods (full in fall, 1 spot remaining in winter)
    - SOCI 503 - research designs and techniques (qualitative) (full in winter)
  - field study (focal points: interruption, task engagement, instructions) vs. lab study (interruptions) vs. lab study (instructions)
    - to do: see lit review, make initial assessment while JM away, (potentially involve CT)
  - to do: C-TOC document for external reader (i.e. CT)
  - attract future IDRG members via 544, 554C, orientation week
  - to do: send 444 software requirements to JM
- IMAGER pizza social
- 444 dev meeting
- house hunting...

[07.29.10]
- Editing C-TOC v.1 document for CT (creating images)
- house hunting...

[07.30.10]
- Editing C-TOC v.1 document for CT
- house hunting...

08.10

Week of [08.03.10]

[08.02.10]
- (BC Day Holiday)

[08.03.10]
- Editing C-TOC v.1 document for CT

[08.04.10]
- Completed revising C-TOC v.1 usability report: http://people.cs.ubc.ca/~brehmer/research/mb_ctocv1_08_04.pdf, sent to CT
- appt. with landlord

[08.05.10]
- Meeting w/ CSGSA / ECEGSA wrt Networking night (Nov 2010)
- Meeting @ University Insurance
- 444 dev work - Expt 3 tutorial planning

[08.06.10 - 08.07.10]
- reading CT's website
- browsing interruptions.net
- added to lit review queue: [Farrimond 2006],[Tran 2005],[McFarlane 2002]
- reading [Farrimond 2006], added notes to literature review

Week of [08.09.10]

[08.09.10]
- car body shop appt.
- Gathering prospective memory references from [Farrimond 2006] - added to literature review
  - [!McDermott 04, Carlson 95, Henry 04, Plude 86, Morrow 92, Einstein 97, West 99, McDaniel 03, Einstein 90]
- reading [Einstein 90], see notes, [Einstein 00]
- CV updating

[08.10.10]
- picked up parking permit @ city hall
- guest speaker - Andy Cockburn (U of Canterbury, NZ, HCI & multimedia lab)
  - [Card, Moran, Newell 83] - psyc. of HCI
    - Fitt's law, Hick-Hyman decision law, Zipf's law / Pareto 80/20 principle, power law of practice
  - torus pointing, ninja cursors
  - mobile scrolling on multitouch devices
  - air pointing - human capability in eyes-free proprioceptive targeting
  - affordances for multimodal gestural control
  - spatially consistent overview according to Zipf distribution of applications used - (akin to Mac's Expose with spatial dist.)
  - novice-to-expert transition
    - law of the instrument / Maslow's hammer [Maslow 66]
    - Satisticing - adequacy is good enough [Simon 56]
    - paradox of the active user [Caroll 87]
    - hotkeys seldom used [Lane 95]
    - intramodal vs. intermodal expertise development - the depth/cost of the intermodal dip - semantic modality differences
  - BLUR - GEKA + unaltered Win applications
- reading [Einstein 00], notes for [Einstein 90]

[08.11.10]
- notes for [Einstein 00] added to literature review
- appt. DT w/ landlord
- attended T. Hazelton's M.Sc presentation
- gathering additional references from [Einstein 90,00] - [Park 97, Maylor 96, Marsh 98]

[08.12.10]
- reading [!McDermott 04], notes added to literature review
- picking up car from auto body, moving

[08.13.10]
- updating Windows VM
- 444 dev - Expt 3 tutorial planning
- moving

Week of [08.16.10]

[08.16.10]
- email from A. Cockburn - skype chat?
- retrieving [McDaniel /Einstein 2007] "Prospective Memory" from Koerner stacks: BF378.P76 M35 2007
- emailed Joyce wrt scholarship
- searching ACM library for design for prospective memory; added [Schulze 04, Carmien 09, Voinikonis 05] to literature review
- CSGSA orientation planning
- Read Ch. 1 of [McDaniel /Einstein 2007]
- 444 dev - milestone review

[08.17.10]
- Read Ch. 2 of [McDaniel /Einstein 2007] see notes on literature review
- replied to A. Cockburn (w.r.t. novices and satisficing, visibility and awareness of system status);
- meeting request sent to Claudia to discuss recommendations
- resolving scholarship / payroll issues
- preparing for meeting w/ JM

[08.18.10]
- resolving scholarship/payroll issues
- orientation 2010 planning
- meeting w/ CJ [08.19.10] 10am @ CJ's office - discuss recommendations
- preparing for meeting w/ JM
  - C-TOC: meeting w/ CJ; revised report for CT
  - research / lit review: PM - [Farrimond 06],[Einstein 90],[Einstein 00],[McDermott 04], [McDaniel/Einstein 07]
  - research: field study focal points; controlled /exploratory experiment on PM (using C-TOC tests as DVs)
  - other: A. Cockburn talk, scholarship issues, learning LaTeX, orientation planning, ECEGSA career networking night, 444 dev, 543 paper accepted to ICMI
- 444 dev meeting
- reading [Marsh 98]

[08.19.10]
- Meeting w/ CJ
  - royalty/copyright images needed for MOS, MOR, WOR (single objects and scenes)
  - "Are you still there?" prompt needs thought; neuropsychological tests to inform approp. time intervals;
    - designing appropriate prompts; "are you still working on this"? (must keep to relatively few words); reestablish contact, keep it within personal context;
    - discontinuation - where to go? next item? next test? (after 4-5 continuous failed tests, transition to next test; something similar for interruptions)
  - motor/dexterity tests to be added/ used as covariates; Fitt's law / steering tests - to be at start of C-TOC battery
  - borrowed CJ's dissertation on PM
- Meeting w/ JM
  - prospective memory experiment to guide / inform designs - think about impact and contribution (CHI vs. HCI journals)
  - see Iqbal's work on interruptions and task boundaries - potential for validating this work with older users / in context of cog. testing
  - see Karyn Moffatt's work on dividing age groups - see age grouping justifications; see also Rock's age groups; also ask Claudia;
- picking up furniture

[08.20.10]
- preparing UDLS presentation
- undergrad research associate inquiry: Lu Yu (from 444) wants a research project.
- received C-TOCv2 to-do list from Claudia
  - sent image resources for Claudia
  - "are you still there prompt" - experiment to guide this process;
- researching and gathering Iqbal references, Karyn Moffatt's work.

Week of [08.23.10]

[08.23.10]
- added [Iqbal 06, Iqbal 07, Iqbal/Horvitz 07] to lit review queue
- searching HCIbib for PM material: added [Trafton 03] to lit review
- notes for [Marsh 98] on literature review
- reading [Iqbal 07], [Trafton 03], notes for [Iqbal 07]

[08.24.10]
- notes for [Trafton 03]
- attended J. Fernquist's M.Sc presentation
  - consider ANCOVA w/ paper+pencil test prior to working with interactive system - resolve individual differences before potential high variability ambiguates results of ANOVA
- reading K. Moffatt's thesis for age-group justifications (see literature review)
- reading [Iqbal 06], notes
- Tuesday Tea

[08.25.10]
- reading [Adamczyk 04]
- preparing for meeting w/ JM - list of updates
- meeting w/ JM
  - non-computer based interruptions: see Fogarty, Hudson on interruptions.net - replication study w/ older adults?
  - design of an interruption/resumption prompt - DV's - performance, validity of scores, perceived confidence in test, anxiety
  - phrasing of speed vs. accuracy instructions: see [Zhai et al 04]; counting up vs. down on timed tasks - use of same DVs as stated above
  - see paper on interruptions: [McGrenere, Bunt, Gluck]; limitation of meaningfulness of interruptions
  - discussion about PhD, NSERC PGSD
- NSERC PGSD application
- 444 dev - expt 3 tutorial
- 444 dev meeting, more dev work

[08.26.10]
- NSERC PGSD application - contributions and statement - references from JM and NG
- group lunch @ One More Sushi

[08.27.10]
- NSERC PGSD application - contributions and statement, proposed research, thesis - transcripts from JP, ordered
- Seminar @ MAGIC lab: Dr. Pam Briggs, Northumbria University, UK, PACTLab: Psychological Aspects of Communication Technologies Lab
  - trust and privacy in eHealth; looking for authorities in eHealth online
    - rejection of websites: look and feel/UI design, poor layout, boring design, colour, inappropriate name, use of adverts, broken links: avg rejection time: 2 min - advertising and portals, familiarity as factors
    - selection of websites: relevancy, bias, personalisation, cross-checking information, clear simple language, discussion groups, FAQs,
    - impression > evaluation > integration
  - privacy and ubiquitous computing
    - information disclosure patterns across age groups differ from ideal / expected disclosure patterns
    - measuring attitudes towards tracking and ubiquitous sharing of location (teens, older adults)
    - use of filmed scenarios and focus groups; as opposed to Allen Newell @ Dundee and live theatre scenarios

09.10

Week of [08.30.10]

[08.30.10]
- NSERC PGSD application - proposed research - sent to JM for comments
- added [Gluck 07], [Fogarty 04], [Hudson 03] to lit review
- notes for [Adamczyk 04] added to literature review
- orientation week BBQ planning
- 444 dev: Expt 3 tutorial

[08.31.10]
- updating insurance papers (then losing them, then finding them)
- picked up u-pass
- orientation week planning
- reading [Zhai 04]

[09.01.10]
- Meeting w/ plant ops dude about X508 air flow
- Meeting w/ JM
  - NSERC PGSD application
    - Verify degree title; parallel structure in experience section;
    - explicit research goals, restructuring of thesis and proposed research sections: details first, then supplementary info (rather than narrative style) - hypothesis, research questions, implementation details; give examples of other ICT applications;
  - wording for speed/accuracy with older adults - ask CJ for relevant literature
  - discussing [Zhai 04], [Gluck 07]
  - consult Hudson/Fogarty for interruption simulations - sensor technologies
- picked up transcripts for PGSD application, given to Joyce;
- 444 dev - Expt 3
- 444 dev meeting

[09.02.10]
- orientation planning (board games + pizza night, BBQ)
- 444 dev - Expt 3 tutorial sent to JM
- orientation reception lunch
- revising NSERC PGS D application as per JM's comments

[09.03.10]
- orientation course pitch / orientation planning
- reading [Fogarty 04], [Fogarty 05]
- adding [Avrahami 07], [Horvitz 03] to lit review

Week of [09.07.10]

[09.06.10]
- Labour Day (holiday)

[09.07.10]
- Orientation BBQ reimburses processing
- reading [Hudson 03], [Horvitz 03]
- notes for [Fogarty 04], [Fogarty 05], [Hudson 03], [Horvitz 03] on literature review
- added [Cutrell 01], [Gillie 89] to lit review
- prep for weekly meeting w/ JM - moved to 1pm tomorrow
- Tuesday tea

[09.08.10]
- reading [Gillie 89], [Cutrell 01] - notes on literature review
- meeting w/ JM
  - reviewing PGS D application
    - thesis abstract: linking foci 1 and 2 together,
    - proposed research: 1 step into the design of prompting system - more iterations needed, other application areas to be explored (i.e. online banking, transactions, gov't services)
    - field work to understand problem of online transaction abandonment in old age?
  - future meetings move to 11:30am
  - for next week: defining what the interruption will be, get started on draft experimental design of experiment; which C-TOC tests to tackle; factors: age and complexity of interruption
- revising PGS D application - drop-in session tomorrow w/ current NSERC recipients

[09.09.10]
- PSYC 322 lecture 01
- NSERC PGS drop-in session - tips from LB, AB:
  - paragraphs, formatting, font, margins
- PGS D revisions

[09.10.10]
- PGS D revisions - sent to JM for comments
- participated in J. Fernquist's tabletop snapping experiment

[09.12.10]
- PSYC 322 project material review, emailed project team
- gathering references for experiment planning - added [Bailey 00] to lit review queue
- [Farrimond 06] - a good interruption model to follow?

Week of [09.13.10]

[09.13.10]
- reading [Bailey 00], notes on literature review
- added [Zilstra 99] to queue - non-time-intensive interruptions improve performance on ongoing task?
- repaired bike @ bike kitchen
- NSERC PGS D fixes - coordination with Joyce for references

[09.14.10]
- reading [Zijlstra 99], notes on literature review
- PSYC 322 lecture 2: theories of ageing
  - meeting with PSYC 322 project group / email summary of discussion points
- IDRG - rules for doing your best research, rules for getting published, rules for being a good grad student;
  - next IDRG: CHI drafts review
- NSERC PGS D application - updating awards information
- tuesday Tea

[09.15.10]
- draft of interruption laboratory experiment written
- meeting w/ JM
  - flush out experimental design - confer with CJ about appropriate C-TOC tasks
  - suggest design alternatives based on potential outcomes of an experiment
- proofreading NSERC PGS D
- scheduled meeting w/ Amir to discuss research
- emailed CJ to get feedback on experiment design

[09.16.10]
- enrolled in CHI 2011 SV lottery; potential for nomination from JM
- PSYC 322 lecture 3: research methods in gerontology
- meeting w/ Amir to discuss research
- CJ to consider experimental design
- PGS D proofreading
- added [Morris 08],[Mancero 09],[Parnin 10] to lit review queue;
  - watched video for [Morris 08]; added notes to literature review
  - reading [Parnin 10]

[09.17.10]
- (Harrison Hot Springs)

[09.19.10]
- reading [Parnin 10], adding [Altmann 04], [Hodgetts 06], [Monk 04], and [Safer 07] to lit review queue - task resumption cues
- reading Globe and Mail Dementia feature: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/dementia/

Week of [09.20.10]

[09.20.10]
- reading [Altmann 04], [Hodgetts 06] => notes on literature review page
  - cue presence in interruption lag / change of cues after interruption nullifies benefit of interruption lag
- IDRG CHI draft review - reading Ephemeral Vis and Video annotation paper drafts
- emailed 444 team re: topic choice
- email from CJ / re: experiment:
  - want to work with two age groups (young-old and old-old, for example, clearly BS), and with task type (timed vs. Untimed) as BS factor.
  - use any C-TOC task, vary instructions; interruption and facilitation of main task possible with an interrupting task;
  - verbal or non-verbal main task; similarity could mean verbal vs. non-verbal; complexity manipulated once an interrupting task is chosen
    - e.g. letter fluency: low level complexity => one letter; high-level complexity => three letters
- email back to CJ / re: experiment:
  - I will give thought to whether we should prioritize verbal vs. non-verbal main tasks in the experimental design, or use both types of task as a WS factor.
  - As per interrupting tasks, we were considering a verbal interruption, prompted by an experimenter, so as to simulate a phone call or conversation taking place. I worry that an interrupting task carried out with pencil and paper might not capture this ecological validity.
  - We should also consider that another plausible interruption while completing C-TOC is computer-based in the form of a email, instant-message, software update, or antivirus notification. Such an interruption could lead to partial occlusion of the main C-TOC window with a pop-up window. In such cases, I can imagine complexity of interruption being easy to manipulate (to simply dismiss interrupting pop-ups (easy) vs. pop-ups requiring responses to urgent forced-choise questions (difficult)).
- email from JM / re: experiment:
  - tasks WS, instruction type WS - results don't hinge on particular task type (more generalizable); if 4 tasks, could make tasks BS;
- email from CJ / re: experiment:
  - if instructions WS, counterbalancing important, but doable;
  - type of task could be BS - choose one verbal and one non-verbal;
  - interrupting tasks: interruptions on the computer and forcing someone away from the screen;
- reading CHI draft #1 - making notes

[09.21.10]
- reading CHI draft #2 - making notes
- PSYC 322 lecture #4 - physical ageing + changes in appearance
- 444 to do list - finalising Expt 3 tutorial, android lab
- TA advice lunch
- IDRG - CHI draft review session
- interruption laboratory experiment experimental design refinements

[09.22.10]
- interruption laboratory experiment experimental design refinements
- PSYC 322 textbook "Human Aging" delivered
- meeting w/ JM:
  - email CJ re: cultural advisory panel -CTOCv2 PPT must be done at Douglas College
  - follow up with CJ re: age groups (young-old, old-old)
  - interrupting tasks likely to be computerised, one verbal, one non-verbal (complex and similar)
  - non-verbal main task: when to interrupt? at random? during encoding? between encoding and recall? during recall? solution: post-hoc analysis and block on when interruption occurred
  - follow up w/ CJ: are entire CTOC tasks (including encoding/reading) timed or just recall?
- review Rock's CHI draft - comments before end of day
- emailed CJ re: cultural advisory panel
  - CJ will advise panel and see what can be done in morning of panel session
- emailed CJ re: interruption lab study / clarifying questions

[09.23.10]
- email from CJ re: interruption study:
  - age dif @ 70 in literature / 65 for AD/MCI research
  - timing: advise against using instructions in time to complete - tests reading comprehension rather than task at hand (i.e. pattern construction)
    - opportunity to separate criteria: item completion and task completion (including items, transitions, breaks in between, etc.)
- PSYC 322 lecture 5 - physical ageing #2
  - project topic chosen: monitoring the elderly
- 444 dev - twiki, Expt 3, Android resources
- fixing computer - tidying and deleting junk

[09.24.10]
- fixing computer - tidying and deleting junk
- notes for [Hodgetts 06] added to literature review
- [Storch 92] added to lit review queue / reading [Storch 92]

Week of [09.27.10]

[09.27.10]
- finished reading [Storch 92], reading [Speier 03]
- reading [Mitra 05] for IDRG / watching TED talks
- 444 dev: Android lab / ugrad account
- meeting agenda for Wednesday: CJ as M.Sc co-supervisor? pros/cons?

[09.28.10]
- lit search for PSYC 322 project
- PSYC 322 lecture 6 - physical ageing #3
- notes for [Storch 92], [Speier 03] added to literature review
- interruption laboratory experiment experimental design refinements - selecting the tasks to interrupt / tasks to interrupt with
- list of pros/cons of CJ as co-supervisor
- list of discussion topics for cultural advisory panel:
  - issues w/ navigation
  - issues w/ using mouse (clicking / dragging / experience using a mouse)
  - issues w/ practice problems / mouse practice / task practice
  - issues w/ help menu (placement, accessibility, usefulness)
  - issues w/ wording, placement, and format of task instructions
  - issues w/ individual tests
  - distractions in the home / office / community centre (location of taking test)
  - availability / willingness of a proctor vs. privacy of the test taker
  - computer literacy in the home / community
  - consistency w/ expectations of a computerised test
- IDRG: [Mitra 05]

[09.29.10]
- changed UBC library PIN
- interruption laboratory experiment experimental design refinements
- meeting prep / meeting w/ JM; agenda:
  - CJ as M.Sc co-supervisor? pros/cons?
  - cultural advisory panel Oct 15 - HCI discussion topics
  - interruption study / experimental design & implications
    - literature: [Storch 92], [Speier 03], [Farrimond 06]
    - distraction conflict theory, interactions with main task complexity, normal age-related increased distractibility of older adults
      - implications for designing the interrupting tasks and modalities
    - social aspects of interruptions
    - refined hypotheses
      - implications for main task type (verbal vs. non-verbal)
      - implications for prompt design (spatial vs. symbolic)
- IMAGER social
  - talks by Stelian (quadruped physics-based animation), David (medical imaging / muscle fibres and strands, math to disambiguate MRI data)
- OHSU / OrcaTech links for JM
- emailed CJ w.r.t. getting current CTOC version for CT next week
- emailed JM list of CTOC cultural advisory panel questions
- meeting w/ JM - Monday 2:30 - continue refinement of experimental design
- reading Human Ageing ch. 6 (sensory and perceptual changes)

[09.30.10]
- PSYC 322 lecture 7: cognitive changes pt. 1: theories of cognitive ageing, attention and distractibility
- Neuroplasticity on CBC's the Current this morning
- PSYC 322 poster project reference gathering
- added [McDaniel 04], [Einstein 03] to lit review queue (PM and interruptions)
- reading [McFarlane 02] - interruptions journal paper (nothing new here, a few references picked up)
- to do: add cog. ageing references to experimental design background (rationale for age interactions)

[10.01.30]
- reading [Anderson 00] - cognitive science + implications: cognitive ageing
- NSERC PGSD passed dept. review; forwarded to FoGS; affiliated awards listing;
- article sent from Rock: cognitive remediation training [Vance 10]
- notes from [McFarlane 02], 322 lecture on cog. ageing added to literature review
- refs from [McFarlane 02], 322 lecture on cog. ageing added to lit review queue;

10.10

Week of [10.04.10]

[10.04.10]
- introductions with CT - meeting tomorrow after IDRG
- emailed CJ for CTOC prototype to demo to CT
  - received current prototype from Steve mid-afternoon today
- 322 meeting moved to tomorrow at 12:30
- Rock pilot 444 Android lab
- borrowing a laptop from JM: likely after JD returns hers / JM brings spare from home
- meeting w/ JM re: experimental design
  - clinical scoring of C-TOC tests: programmatically or manually? emailed CJ to verify
  - verbal: sentence comprehension; non-verbal: square puzzles
  - potential interrupting tasks to impose memory load: http://cognitivefun.net
- redrafted prioritised list of discussion points for C-TOC cultural advisory panel focus group session

[10.05.10]
- testing C-TOC prototype Steve sent
  - little updates made based on recommendations
  - link issues with WOR
  - only works in PPT '07, not '10
  - Go-Stop memory stall?
- reading [Leveque 10] for IDRG - CHI submission - variable friction (enhancing physicality in touch interaction w/ programmable friction
- PSYC 322 lecture 8: cognitive changes 2 (memory)
- group meeting w/ PSYC 322 poster project group
  - set up Mendeley group account for group, added refs
- IDRG: [Leveque '10]
  - applications, psychophysics, user preferences, eliciting and finding "delight"
  - demo of TPad
- meeting w/ Charlotte: C-TOC demo, experiment design
  - recorded C-TOC glitches
  - discussed experimental design, interrupting tasks
- email from JM: C-TOC cultural advisory panel:
  - Generally looks good. Still a bit long though, but as long as you time yourself out on the first few if they happen to take a while, to make sure you have time for the latter ones, should be okay.

[10.06.10]
- personal saftety checklist completion
- reply from CJ re: scoring cognitive tests:
  - We will have to come up with scoring guidelines for each task. I would imagine an accurate/inaccurate scoring scheme, and within the latter, perhaps points for partial responses. This will require discussion.
- meeting w/ JM and CT:
  - follow up w/ Steve to verify correct version of C-TOC
  - meet w/ CJ next week to discuss task scoring
  - secondary qualitative study to be led by CT, MB secondary; CT secondary on lab study
  - additional lab studies could be run by ugrad (minor differences in experimental factors expected)
  - statement of collaboration for theses: review
- sent CT research twiki link
- emailed Steve re: C-TOC version
- emailed CJ re: scoring, cult. adv. panel discussion points
- email from CJ re: cultural advisory panel: CJ and SL have parallel list to iterate on b/w Oct 10 and 14
- email from CJ re: scoring: to touch base Oct 8
- email from Steve re: CTOC version is current version: he's been busy with other things
- co-supervision ball rolling

[10.07.10]
- email from Gigi: clinical sessions 2nd round - requests availability
- PSYC 322 lecture 9: cognitive changes - intelligence, executive functioning, cognitive training
- email Joanna for laptop for experiment piloting
- CHCP agenda for cultural advisory panel received (1.5hr discussion time)
- installed FB4 standalone, upgraded Eclipse to 3.6 - reinstalling Android
- configured Apache, PHP server for building apps in FB4
- requested Charlotte be added to CHCP agenda

[10.08.10]
- reading [Wild 09] for 322 project
- reading PSYC text chp. 8 on intelligence
- replied to Gigi re: availability for CTOCv2 clinical interviews
- received Win tablet from JM w/ SPSS; MSOffice available for Mac?
- email reply re: Charlotte on CHCP agenda (will be added)
- lit review search for 322 project - added articles to 322 group page;
- getting re-acquainted with FB4 for prototyping
  - configuring apache tomcat

Week of [10.11.10]

[10.11.10]
- (Holiday: Thanksgiving)

[10.12.10]
- email from CJ re: usability interview availability
- email from CHCP - will add CT to agenda
- reading [Shenoy 08] for IDRG
- PSYC 322 lecture 10: psychopathology (Alzheimer's dementia)
- PSYC 322 poster project group meeting
- IDRG - Human-aided computing - utilising implicit processing to classify images;
  - use for video tracking? specific brain representations for tracking objects/people
  - gaming device / emotive headset use in HALO project
  - neuromarketing - magazine and product design
- to do: find IDRG paper for next week
- FlashBuilder tutorials - configuring PHP and MAMP; building a sample Flex App
- configuring the ThinkPad (DropBox, PPT)

[10.13.10]
- troubleshooting the Lenovo tablet
- meeting w/ JM / CT
  - lenovo tablet: wireless switch on front of device!
  - C-TOC cultural advisory panel
    - send CT itinerary / travel plans w/ CJ (done)
    - to do: generate cross-ref list of known issues and areas for discussion (high-level summary for panel members)
    - get prototype from Steve tomorrow (CJ to send updated version tomorrow afternoon)
  - C-TOCv2 interviews
    - to do: send CJ email re: availability / concern over value
  - co-supervision: get Joyce's form completed by MB, JM, CJ
  - interruption experiment
    - lo-fi piloting w/ tweaked C-TOC PPT this week; pilot w/ CT, JM, for Flex feedback: RM, MR
    - begin probing Flex for potential drawbacks to its use for development
- installing and configuring dropbox on lenovo tablet / accessing C-TOC on tablet
- lo-fi tweaking of C-TOC PPT version on tablet
- email reply from Claudia re: usability interviews:
  - we are reworking C-TOC extensively this week. Instructions are completely changed, some test content as well, and all the prompts are made consistent. By tomorrow we will have C-TOCv2. We may miss some minor things but basically we are ready next week and onwards for new usability interviews.

[10.14.10]
- PSYC 322 lecture 11: psychopathology pt 2: FTD, Pick's disease, Korsakoff's syndrome, LBD, depression
- received latest CTOC version from CJ - only 2 focus group questions possible under time constraints
  - reviewed CTOC:There's been a substantial amount of changes to navigation, instruction layout and format, practice problems, and feedback to the user. I'm less worried now than I was a couple of days ago about how tomorrow's session will play out. There's still some glitches, inconsistencies, and debatable design choices, but nothing that will slow down the focus group.
  - My current inclination is to focus on (2) the new instruction/practice problem layout and presentation and (4b) resolving interruption in home settings.
- cleaning up mail / attachment overflow
- submitted NSERC PGSD online on NSERC website
- exam schedule released: PSYC 322 exam on Sat. Dec 11: 3:30pm
- making discussion list for CTOC cultural advisory panel session

[10.15.10]
- Cultural advisory panel focus group @ Douglas college (9:30-1:30) - notes coming...
- selecting a paper for IDRG: [Monk 08]

Week of [10.18.10]

[10.18.10]
- notes for [Monk 08] added to literature review
- studying for 322 midterm (tomorrow) - reviewing notes / practice problems

[10.19.10]
- PSYC 322 midterm exam
- re: piloting experiment / viability of Flex: MR doesn't have Flex experience, RM off campus, some Flex knowledge;
  - meeting w/ MR after IDRG
  - sending PPT files to RM
- preparing for IDRG discussion
- IDRG
- Met w/ Mohan to discuss prototype
- developing a script for Russ to follow
- Tuesday tea
- 322 lit review search

[10.20.10]
- meeting w/ JM + CT
  - C-TOC: replace all text save those relevant for particular tests - is this possible? ask CJ
  - recruitment of another ugrad developer
  - variants of multimodal instructions for next cultural advisory panel meeting
  - meeting w/ CJ on Friday
    - request team meeting for early Nov
    - supervisory form signed
    - discuss scoring of C-TOC tasks used in experiment
  - demo of experimental prototypes - feedback from MR
  - next meeting Friday 29 at 2pm
- request for feedback on experimental prototype sent to RM
- to do: notes from cultural advisory panel (Thursday afternoon)
- PSYC 322 lit review
- UoT CS grad school recruitment seminar - Prof. Karan Signh (DGP group)

[10.21.10]
- Dr. Daniel Wigdor (MSR / UoT - CS/DGP) lecture
  - separating an input language from an affordance language - shadow guides for teaching a gesture language - building affordance language into the UI;
  - contact visualizer in Win7 and MX Surface - see UIST paper: Ripples;
- PSYC 322 lecture 12 - personality pt. 1
  - team meeting - cognitive ageing references
- Lunch w/ D. Wigdor
- reviewing notes from CJ - re: cultural advisory panel
- Demo session for D. Wigdor
- compiling personal notesfor cultural advisory panel

[10.22.10]
- meeting w/ CJ:
  - team meeting in early Nov OK - considering grants, hiring new students
  - signed co-supervisory form
  - scoring - will have to score SC by hand w/ screen capture, SqP may be possible programmatically;
    - SC: time; token score = # of token attributes; action score = double token score; received token scoring sheet
    - SqP: time; # of moves, # of complete squares: 2 for each complete square -1 for each incomplete square and -1 for each extra move for a minimum of 0 pts
      - no start over button
- reviewing cultural advisory panel notes from CJ
- received full battery of test items for SC and SqP from CJ
- early experimental software dev work - Flex tutorials
- PSYC 322 lit review - reading [Pavel 08]

Week of [10.25.10]

[10.25.10]
- updates to website, CV, resume
- created Linked In profile: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/matthew-brehmer/26/692/98b
- PSYC 322 reference list generating
- reading IDRG: UIST 2010 [Bernstein 10]

[10.26.10]
- PSYC 322 - lecture 14 - personality pt. 2
- IDRG - [Bernstein 10 UIST] - solving complex problems w/ games; digital labour - GRAND NCE - weird outsourcing - SIGKDD - ACM workshop on human computing
- completed Flex basic tutorial
- setting up Flex project

[10.27.10]
- Flex prototyping - drag/drop, shape graphics
- IMAGER lunch - talks by Jeff, Vincent
- Computer fixing - trying to resolve freezing issues

[10.28.10]
- PSYC 322 lecture 15 - Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture"
- computer fixing: reinstalling Mac OS 10.6
- reading [Hoey 10] - ASSETS paper on interactive art tool for dementia patients, controlled by CGs and POMDP

[10.29.10]
- computer fixing - reinstalling programs and adjusting settings
  - still hanging - time to retire the machine
- meeting w/ JM and CT
  - discussed [Hoey 10], long term likelihood of technology viability - touch screen and camera use; use camera to assess if person is physically present
  - experiment scoring - likely inter-rater reliability for both tests, rather than score programmatically
  - ask department members about Flex
- configuring laptop with Flex

[10.30.10]
- configuring Flex and LaTeX on both machines

11.10

Week of [11.01.10]

[11.01.10]
- Reconfiguring Mendeley
- notes for [Hoey 10]
- reading for IDRG: [Ducheneaut 09]
- Flex drag/drop proof of concept prototyping

[11.02.10]
- reconstructing Mendeley (cont.)
- MUX social planning
- PSYC 322 lecture 16: relationships pt. 1
- IDRG: [Ducheneaut 09]
- Flex dev. work
  - drag/drop
  - mouse-over highlighting
  - drag-enabled feedback for containers

[11.03.10]
- experiment dev. work
  - SVG path for shape graphics
  - graphic groups w/ local mouse-over
- meeting w/ JM, CT
  - agenda for C-TOC team meeting tomorrow
    - recap on cult. advisory panel - any high-level issues
    - scoping CT's part of project
      - qualitative field work
      - ethics / confidentiality concerns
    - dev plan for prototype
      - schedule / parallel and serial aspects / dependencies
      - hiring a ugrad HCI developer
      - new M.Sc student to work on project
    - regular meetings needed (1/mo)
    - clinical usability interviews
      - required prototype fixes
    - ethics for CTOC / parallel research
      - where does CT's work fit?
      - CREB vs. BREB?
    - CJ to bring ethics docs, current experiment
  - experiment dev
    - invisible pegboard snapping for lines in SqP
    - bevel/pointed edges of lines in SqP
    - vis. feedback for snapping / adjacencies / connections in SqP
    - bring-to-front-possible in SC?
    - piloting: preliminary data collection, older pilots - after reg. pilots
  - CT field study work
    - send CTOC current version to CT for Mac compatibility
- to do: 444 twiki consistency; talk to JH; switch to new title page; student schedules
- to do: 444 brainstorming activities - read through and evaluate; send comments to JM
- to do: assemble 322 poster materials for 11.09
- experiment dev work (cont.)

[11.04.10]
- CTOC team meeting - see Nov 4, 2010
- PSYC 322 lecture 17 - relationships 2 + poster presentation tips
- transcribing notes from team meeting
- MUX social 2:30-3:30
  - HCI xmas social?
- DLS: Stefan Savage (University of California, San Diego): Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile

[11.05.10]
- 444 twiki cleanup, brainstorming activity overview
- UDLS - preparing a presentation
- to do: find viable web-based technology for CTOC

Week of [11.08.10]

[11.08.10]
- exp. software dev
  - drag/drop
  - refactoring/commenting
  - porting to AIR
- reading [Erickson 09] for IDRG

[11.09.10]
- exp. software dev
  - porting to AIR
  - disabling native drag/drop
- PSYC 322 lecture 18 - work and retirement
- PSYC 322 group meeting
- IDRG - [Erickson 09]

[11.10.10]
- meeting w/ JM and CT
  - ethics amendments - cover sheet, main application, next phase of study, BREB/CREB
  - technology for developing CTOC - asking IDRGers
  - demo of exp. software
- exp software dev
  - timers, debug trace calls, log files
  - SqP overlapping lines, resizing
  - refactoring

[11.11.10]
- exp. software dev
  - states, debug trace calls, implementation of practice tasks
- feedback from IDRGers re: technologies for CTOC
  - Ruby on Rails (Alex G.)
  - Java / Psyc libraries (PxLab)
  - Flash w/ SQL/PHP (Billy L., Zoltan)
  - other (Alex T.)
  - Billy L has suggested Flash with a PHP/SQL backend. He has indicated that Zoltan has experience working in Flash as well. I'm waiting to hear back from them as per arranging meeting times.
  - Alex G (MLIS) suggests Ruby on Rails as an alternative to Flash - waiting to follow up and potentially meet next week.
  - Steve Y (SPIN) suggests PXLab (http://irtel.uni-mannheim.de/pxlab/index.html): a collection of Java classes and applications for running psychological experiments - this could be more ideal for future experiments rather than for CTOC in general. Steve is unable to meet. He says:
    - nice thing is that if you use their standard psych measures --- of which there are many --- then you don't need to do any programming other than setting up their textual experiment file. i simply needed some images for a standard emotion-based scale and they had nice ones. in turn, i referenced them in my publications.
  - Syavash N has experience with several client/server technology solutions, will meet on Monday.
  - Alex T has experience with developing open-source web apps, will meet on Monday.

[11.12.10]
- (Remembrance day weekend day off)

Week of [11.15.10]

[11.15.10]
- CTOC deployment technologies: meeting w/ Alex T, Syavash, Bryan S.
  - Alex T:
    - Sproutcore Javascript GUI-oriented framework - supports drag drop, open source, recording of user actions, client-side caching of test components, login and authentication, simulates desktop appearance and functionality (used in Apple's Mobile Me webmail service)
    - heatmapping, recording and playback of user actions
    - Google Web Toolkit - Java - compiles into Javascript; client GUI cached beforehand; how much can be configured to be cached before compiling Java to JS?
    - Firebug for Firefox will be essential for assessing what gets cached when
    - Cappuccino JS Framework (aka Objective J) - Objective C compiled into JS;
  - Syavash N:
    - Flash / Flex to support very rich client side; Flash on the client side, with Java handling internal logic, communicating with DB;
    - Flex is clean way of doing the UI
    - server side: Google App engine: Free hosting for Java DB (not many developers have experience) - powerful platform - allows programming in Java or Python; server-side programming can be left up to developer's preference (Flex/Flash is flexible in this regard);
    - other Java backend hosting solutions not free;
    - problems with JS: more limited interactivity, browser compatibility, requiring to save data after each test; Flex allows more control over when data is saved; all cached locally - after all tests, between tests, more often; customizable data structures;
  - Bryan S:
    - Flash is cross-browser; JS / JQuery not likely to be best candidate as data must be interpreted by the browser, heavy cost of cross-browser compatibility;
    - HTML5 - concern of browser compatibility and ability to trace trajectories of user movement;
    - Flash w/ XML data structure on backend;
- ethics: review CT's experiment ethics documents - sent back to CT for review
- meeting w/ CT
  - requires experiment clarification for ethics documentation
  - feedback on field study survey
- 322 project work
  - consistency checking

[11.16.10]
- exp. SW dev - implementing puzzles, code refactoring, segmenting sections, states, practice states, architectural changes
- 322 lecture 19: death and bereavement
- 322 project meeting
- 444 student schedule verification
- tuesday tea

[11.17.10]
- CTOC dev meeting see Nov 17, 2010
- meeting w/ JM and CT
  - dev update / timeline
  - ethics review - CT's amendment and cover sheet to be reviewed
  - IDRG/HCI forum merger?
- reviewing CT's ethics consent and poster
- appt. w/ property mgmt downtown: new mail key pickup

[11.18.10]
- 322 project meeting
- 322 guest lecture: Sheldon Solomon "Worm at the Core" (Death anxiety)
- MUX twiki / MUX social planning
- 444 tutorial revamping

[11.19.10]
- exp software dev: implementing the puzzles for both tasks, fixing the timing bug
- 322 project materials finalized

Week of [11.22.10]

[11.22.10]
- tire changing
- 444 tcl/tk verification
  - to do: android lab student schedule / update TA page w/ augmented instructions
- CSGSA go-karting planning
- Exp. S/W dev
  - log files - working!
- MUX social reminder
- reading paper for IDRG

[11.23.10]
- setting up Thunderbird on PC
- 322 poster session #1
- 322 group project meeting
- resolving expt. compensation amounts
- IDRG: [Wickham 10] - graphical inference for InfoVis
  - apophenia: seeing patterns in noise: mentioned in [Cleveland/McGill]?
  - R. Rensink's perception of correlation?
- expt. software dev

[11.24.10]
- expt. s/w dev: interruption coding, centering the SC instruction window
- meeting w/ CT, JM
  - ethics - compensation: paying `by the hour, control pacing of studies
    - ask RL for travel compensation
    - different recruitment posters
    - consult KM's dissertation for recruitment info
  - expt. s/w
    - mouse offset in SC/!SqP + dragging outside target area
    - progress bar, no interactive control buttons b/w test banks
    - bigger text in dialog boxes
    - "a number of complete squares" in SqP: ask CJ
    - count # of aborted moves, # of invalid moves
    - neg. drag/drop feedback in SqP, outside drop-area
    - record mouse-up on clicks
    - counterbalancing task set and interruption presence; interruption complexity randomized, order of subtasks in each task set will be fixed (increasing complexity)
- IMAGER social
- expt s/w dev: mouse offset / dragging outside, SC instruction text formatting
- blue screen of death: Eclipse re-install, copying and moving files into new workspace

[11.25.10]
- UDLS coordination, CSGSA go-karting planning
- 322 poster presentation
- expt s/w dev - dialog boxes, sentence clauses

[11.26.10]
- expt. s/w dev - aborted and invalid moves
- Ana's convocation / graduation

12.10

Week of [11.29.10]

[11.29.10]
- 444 dev - android lab student schedule and phone checkout
- expt s/w dev - isomorphic puzzles for second task sets
  - interruptions, progress bar, timing interruptions, modal windows
- IMAGER social: researching liquor licensing requirements
- reading [Marshall 05] for IDRG

[11.30.10]
- CTOCv2 usability interviews: HCI-related question set, sent to CJ et al
- PSYC 322 poster session #3
- IDRG - [Marshall 05] - periodical clipping + implications for electronic publications
- expt s/w dev - interruption preliminary prompt / toggling b/w interruption complexities

[12.01.10]
- CTOC expt. ethics update - emailed feedback to CT
- config of Eclipse on Mac
- CTOC team meeting
  - CTOCv2 dev
    - CL to start on audio instructions
    - usability interview version and validation version
    - hand scoring and timing, limitations thereof: scoring partially correct solutions in selected tests
    - wording, ambiguity in instructions
    - help menu layout and placement; instruction and practice buttons available during tests, break, progress, and purpose buttons b/w tests - mimics pencil+paper NSP tests: allow 1 instruction, practice session during a test
    - mouse/motor skill test in CTOCv2 intro - use of Purdue pegboard test for now
      - target users must have used a mouse before
      - assuming mouse sensitivity is comfortable and typical of everyday usage
  - usability interviews
    - quantitative reporting
    - fatigue queried repeatedly
- meeting w/ JM + CT (pt. 1)
  - expt. dev: alert colours: green for OK, red for error
- expt s/w dev: Alerts, interruptions, refactoring
- meeting w/ CT + JM (pt. 2)
  - factor explosion issues
  - instruction type factor pulled, use of neutral wording needed: consult [Zhai 04]
  - current factors:
    - 3 age levels (BS) x 2 main tasks (counterbalanced WS) x 3 task sets x 3 levels of interruption
    - [Gluck 07] has similar complexity in interruption experiment
  - # of participants: 12 multiple per age group, w/ pilots: 48 min, 96 max

[12.02.10]
- PSYC 322 lecture 23: wrap-up
- expt. s/w dev: refactoring, new launch screen layout, 3rd task sets, interruption pending prompt redesign, interruption levels
- pilot: JH
  - "interruption pending" dialog weird; gives time to plan actions before interruption
  - screen / working area (large screen)
  - left+right simultaneous click on drag proxy causes crash: workaround: use apple mouse?
  - instruction ambiguity: "build towers, similar shapes, on top, below" - provide demo or handout w/ illustrations - how precise must one be?
  - need grid snapping during drag, not just on drop
  - SqP: no trial and error possible - no reset/undo button, highlight moved shape, leave trace/shadow of original position
  - n-back not too hard, able to form plan during "interruption pending" lag
- MUX social
- RL to pilot tomorrow 3pm
- asked CJ re: # of subjects in CREB ammendment

[12.03.10]
- research log updates
- expt sw/ dev: 3rd task sets, refactoring
- ethics amendment to reflect # of participants: CT - William to address this change
- asked CJ to pilot expt s/w
- pilot: RL
  - "click to continue main task" - may be prolonged as long as user wants: this should be timed, as well as resumption lag (time until first click after task resumption; inter-action intervals before and after interruption)
  - screen/working area
  - stacking / layering - consider wording change? provide instruction handout
  - SqP - leaving incomplete squares instruction forgotten
  - learning effects allow for placement strategies by bank#3
  - n-back harder during SC, likely won't get floor effects for younger users
  - consider screening participants with other pencil + paper NSP tests, using results as covariates or for screening outliers
  - instructions should reflect difficulty of interruption to avoid frustration (include in verbal instruction - re: [Zhai 04]

Week of [12.06.10]

[12.06.10]
- 322 studying / installing TeX on PC for notes
- GRAND reporting
- CSGSA social event planning
- expt. dev: 3rd task set for SqP, interruption lag timing/ resumption lag timing, interaction interval
- pilot: GH
  - should users be aware of how much time is remaining in an unfilled interruption? no feedback or some menial interruption (a video or animation?)
  - interruption lag usage not universal; interruption prompt not visible enough - suggested momentary occlusion of entire screen;
  - SqP practice puzzle and training sets: complete square instruction needed
  - cannot drag outside white bounding box - improve targeting, correction for location of mouse cursor;
  - reading instruction time needed in SC
  - stack means to literally overlap: instruction sheet needed
  - interruption frequency (once) should be advised to participants
  - GH doesn't remember SC instruction, but visual he creates while reading it (takes a long time to read instructions
  - usually able to solve puzzle during "interruption pending"
  - launch screen requires automation, randomize occurrence of interruptions and their onset
  - interruption onset to appear later for harder puzzles
  - don't count minor adjustments as full moves
  - individual differences in willingness to perform trial and error actions possible?
  - snap feedback possible for both tasks?
- expt. dev (cont): SC instruction reading time, inter-action intervals
- ethics info for CJ: mailing list numbers

[12.07.10]
- 322 studying - transcribing notes
- ethics info for CJ - mailing list numbers
- expt s/w dev: inter-action intervals, screen/working area enlargement
- GRAND reporting meeting

[12.08.10]
- expt. s/w dev: adjustment and move classification
- meeting w/ JM + CT
  - column and row word use rather than towers and stacks;
  - unfilled interruption: display neutral imagery rather than countdown: see lit. for unfilled interruption;
  - lines of instruction text in SqP must be larger
  - SC instruction title bar doesn't need text
  - "similar" > "same" in SC
  - extend window for SC interruptions, same onset b/w conditions; SqP 1st or second move triggers interruption
  - adjust effective width/height of vLines and hLines in SqP puzzles
  - mouse cursor should be large in experiment
  - "Edge" added to SC instructions
  - highlight interruption alert - flash border and fill? increase font size
- to meet/pilot w/ CJ 10:30 am Friday
- 322 studying

[12.09.10]
- (working from home)
- studying for 322 final: notes, reading chapter on work/retirement
- expt. s/w dev: unfilled interruption re-design (attempt)

[12.10.10]
- meeting w/ CJ - piloting the expt. s/w
  - slow down n-back in filled interruption and it will be OK, provide instruction and instruct participants as not to frustrate them; eliminate worry and concern over performance: "the task is meant to take your mind off of the task, it is meant to keep your mind busy".
  - interruption pending is salient but not too salient, flashing border could help
  - fixed interruption onsets specific to puzzle number in SC; difficulty is in instruction, not in how many shapes one must move; one-level instructions to have early interruption onset, two-level interruptions later, and so forth;
  - move-triggered interruptions in SqP
  - instruct participants to keep track of # of lines moved in SqP task;
  - covariate performance on N-Back in filled interruption;
  - use same materials and user experience for both type of interruptions, but require n-back interaction on filled interruptions, maintain feedback on n-back test;
- installing new HD on mac (GSV Resistential Avenger)

Week of [12.13.10]

[12.13.10]
- studying for 322 exam
- sent SC instruction re-wordings to CJ
- CHCP cultural advisory panel #3 rescheduled to 02/04/11

[12.14.10]
- 322 final exam
- expt. s/w dev: SC + SqP interruption triggers and delays, subject ID controls, interrupt prompt saliency
- GS's PhD defense: "body-controlled interactions with large wall displays"

[12.15.10]
- C-TOC dev meeting: JM, CT, CJ, RH, MB
  - ethics feedback expected today/tomorrow
  - usability interviews #2 ongoing; 2 completed
    - small changes to be made based on feedback, iteration between interviews OK
    - temporal orientation layout, symbol-digit coding layout, sentence comprehension instructions, trails instruction + practice
    - help menu visibility: ask for feedback, provide alternative layouts
    - instruction and practice screen: consistency needed
    - usability interview users must be at higher cognitive functioning than validity testing users
    - timer button and icons need refinement, addressed in introduction
    - audio instructions in development; icon and instruction placement, additional aid emphasized rather than mandatory feature
  - validation studies: tower of London, pyramid and palms tasks to be purchased and used for validation of SqP tasks, sentence production
  - grant applications: CIHR, US Alzheimer's society,
  - expt. s/w dev: interruption onset is fixed to maximize disruption: subjects to be aware of importance of interrupting tasks (additional performance incentives may not work).
- expt. s/w dev: high-demand, low-demand interruptions

[12.16.10]
- 444 dev: verifying twiki updates to tutorials
- expt. s/w dev: n-back non-interactive for low-intensity interruptions

[12.17.10]
- preparing for HCI xmas party
- expt. s/w dev: n-back non-interactive for low-intensity interruptions

Week of [12.20.10]

(holidays)

Week of [12.27.10]

(holidays)

01.11

Week of [01.03.11]

[01.03.11]
- bank holiday / travel day

[01.04.11]
- email checking / responding
- organization, commandeering JH's desk
- prep for PSYC 570 / ordering textbooks
- expt. s/w dev: n-back non-interactive and interactive - done

[01.05.11]
- Meeting w/ JM
  - ethics amendment changes done by WW
  - to do: 2011 timelines in reverse from 07/31: one for thesis completion and submission, another for submission to 2nd reader; identify 2nd reader by 04/30
  - email CJ wrt to CL status and availability for helping run study (done)
  - update MUX seating chart (done)
  - Wed 3-4 potential swing meetings with JM
  - expt s/w dev update
- CJ: CL returns 01/18; will check follow up with CL
- registered for CHI 2011 (CHI SV)
- expt s/w dev: integrating n-back into task sets, now 40% probability of 2-back, 60% random
  - potential orderings: 6 possible interruption sequences x 6 possible task set orderings (ABC) x 6 possible interruption load sequences (High, Low, None) x 2 main tasks (SqP, SC) = 436 possible task combinations in application - created Excel spreadsheet to document these combinations

[01.06.11]
- expt. s/w dev: initial state for automating expt. session and interruption sequence combinations, control over main task sequencing (done)
- meeting w/ Rock re: 444 tutorial quizzes and Android lab: upload generic quiz response sheet;
- potential screen capture App: TechSmith Jing (sp?)
  - emailed MUXlist for potential screen capture tools
  - JH + RP: CamStudio
- ethics approval granted for study and CT's study
- HL needed reference material for JavaScript + SproutCore
- to do: HCI group meeting presentation needed for [01.12]: 20 min total (12 minute presentation to begin?) 8 min questioning?

[01.07.11]
- brown-bag lunch w/ JM's group Monday @ noon
- UDLS signup sheet / scheduling for the term
- making MUX/IDRG presentation slides
- meeting w/ PV re: collaboration ideas
  - motorized wheelchair use for indoor wayfinding + older adults w/ cognitive impairments, navigation prompts and interruptions
  - Toronto Rehab Institute + Alex M. collab
- meeting w/ JM re: expt. logistics
  - attained clean laptop for experiment use
  - 2 main tasks, 8 trials in SqP task, 10 trials in SC task, 3 banks of isomorphic tasks
  - randomly generate subsets of interruption trials for both SC and SqP
  - possible use of Latin square for task bank or interruption condition; deferred until after piloting (see LF's M.Sc thesis - interaction effect occurred with Latin square, difficult to tease apart afterwards, may require follow-up study
  - randomize task bank presentation for SC and SqP for all subjects
  - re: CL's involvement: after pre-piloting, estimate hours and acknowledge CJ
  - after formal pilots (allow ~2 weeks), allow 1 more week for revisions
  - room bookings needed for mid-February - mid-March
  - when piloting, look for ordering effects w.r.t. task bank presentation and interruption condition ordering
  - too much info on Launch screen; to do: minimize this information; remove possibility of making error and selecting the wrong option
  - presentation sequence: interruption demos, then task 1 demo, task 1 practice, task 1-ABC, then task 2 demo, task 2 practice, task 2-ABC; map progress bar to 12 items?
- expt. s/w dev: randomization of task sets, interruption trial subsets
- editing expt. documentation on twiki
- UDLS

Week of [01.10.11]

[01.10.11]
- expt. s/w dev:
  - randomization of task sets, interruption trial subsets
  - removed info from launch screen, progress bar hidden
  - debugging task ordering, hard-coding interruptions into practice sets
- LUNCH (Lab meeting on Universal usability, persoNalization, CSCW, and HCI) brown-bag lunch meeting
- MUX forum presentation
- to do: expt. scriptwriting

[01.11.11]
- expt. s/w - exported release build
- MUX forum presentation finished
- expt. scriptwriting; see interruption laboratory experiment
- setup of expt. laptop
- to do: cog. screening / affect / fatigue questionnaires for before / after experiment; ask JM and CJ
- Tuesday tea
- PSYC 579: reading Massironi p.141-149;160-169

[01.12.11]
- safety orientation w/ MD Tue Jan 25 11am
- meeting w/ JM + CT
  - reviewing the expt. script; expanding, decoupling sentences;
  - using part of the NASA-TLX questionnaire for effort, workload, fatigue; see JG's M.Sc thesis; to be administered b/w trial banks; rewording to reflect dual-task nature
    - add current fatigue question
  - add open-ended interview re: strategies used after expt. trials
  - get current consent and recruitment forms from WW (done)
  - schedule meeting w/ CL next week when she returns re: recruiting and participant scheduling
- updated expt. script, added interview questions to conclusion
- asked CJ for mental state screening test to be given before expt.
- MUX forum
  - grad forum Thursdays 3:30-4:30 in ICICS 206
  - mux-all mailing list; older muxlab-l and idrg-l lists deprecated;
  - presentation
    - Parkinsons's game work done in x715
    - re: Altmann on interruption lag (double check)
- PSYC 579: reading Ware ch.1
- PSYC 579 lecture 0.1,0,2

[01.13.11]
- PSYC 579: selecting presentation and essay preferences
- CPSC 444: field 1 tutorial issues
- CJ sent MoCA (Montreal cognitive assessment) for pre-expt. screening (score 26 and higher is normal);
  - reading MoCA administration instructions (10 min test)
- wrote effort/fatigue questionnaire (adapted from NASA-TLX questionnaire questions used in JG's thesis)
- installed Mendeley on PC
- JD to pre-pilot tomorrow 2pm, AM to pre-pilot in morning;
- reviewing [Altmann] re: interruption lag
  - [Trafton 03] "prospective goal encoding and retrospective rehearsal"; "brief interruption lag of a few seconds can facilitate resumption; interruption lag was 8 seconds, however a shorter lag of 1-2 seconds should serve equally well, especially if operators become skilled in using interruption lag to full advantage"; [Altmann 04]: "cue availability during interruption lag affected RL for longer lags - various cog. operations required to locate and encode retrieval cues during interruption lag take b/w 6 and 8 s for this task environment"; [Hodgetts 06]: "sig. effect of interruption condition obtained; 2s pause followed by full-screen interruption no different from corner interruption, sig. faster than full-screen interruption with no pause; determining the ease of goal retrieval is the availability of task-related cues at the specific point of goal suspension, demonstrates importance of interruption lag; even the briefest opportunity to encode associative cues and/or boost the activation of the target goal is beneficial;"
- HCI grad forum 3:30-4:30
  - next week: 3-5 min mini presentation on research, what you know/what you want to know
- installing and testing CamStudio on expt. PC; checking file size and compression rates;

[01.14.11]
- pre-piloting w/ AM
  - need scoring sheet for SC, SqP; one SC task note remembered; assumed rectangles were OK in SqP;
  - ~40 minute completion, no MoCA or interim surveys
  - requested examples of interruptions for older users in introduction
  - UI: wanted "Continue" moved to middle of screen after interruption; more colour in UI (not too important);
- generated scoring sheet
- printed visuals of tasks in colour to demonstrate to
- photocopied MoCA, survey sheets
- revised expt. script
- pre-piloting w/ JD
  - full pilot w/ MoCA and interim NASA-TLX surveys
  - used external monitor (not sure if necessary?)
  - UI: add "you will not be told if you are correct" to prompts following example tasks;
  - need to disable sleep/screen functions on expt. laptop
  - CamStudio makes cursor flash; potentially cause for crash 7/10 of the way through 3rd SC bank; no error dialog or freezing, just sudden program exit; screen capture vid doesn't reveal what happened;
  - started to feel fatigue by end of experiment
  - overuse of the word "task" in UI and in script (no suggestions)
  - 1:04 completion time; no errors in puzzle completion;
  - remove "frustration", add "physical demand" to NASA-TLX survey
- revised scoring sheet top include bank and order, survey to include physical demand
- exported new release build w/ example alert revised, FS capability on launch screen
- emailed CL re: availability

Week of [01.17.11]

[01.17.11]
- PSYC 579 01.2 presentation prep
- CL: meeting Thursday 11-1 re: study logistics
- pre-piloting w/ ZFF
  - 12:14-1:14 (60 min)
  - "figures" misleading in SC
  - first page of script hard to follow without visuals (logistics)
  - NASA-TLX needs elaboration? important to administer correctly; see/download TLX handbook for consulting weights of importance to the task; easy to administer incorrectly
    - not "annoyed", no emotional reaction
  - screen res on laptop insufficient; needs a external monitor ("edge" misleading in SC)
  - expected to flunk later SC puzzles on first impression; only 1 error made in SC (failed to move black square in bank 1 #7;
  - planned SqP solution before execution, interruptions had no effect; not as critical to recall state pre-interruption; once you have the "a-ha moment" solution, an interruption doesn't matter; the solution is easy to re-visualize upon return;
  - SC twice as hard as SqP because of having to remember goal AND place in the puzzle; in SqP one only has to remember place in the puzzle
  - interruption lag allow switching task goals, strategy included forming a salient cue;
  - ask participants to provide examples of strategies with printouts
  - learning effect may occur with N-back; not enough cartoon images;
  - consistent training b/w participants needed? ensure threshold performance reached before main task sets?
  - video recorded successfully at 253MB
- PSYC 579 01.2 presentation prep
- returned ProMem book to Koerner library

[01.18.11]
- PSYC 579 01.2 presentation prep

[01.19.11]
- PSYC 579 01.2 presentation prep
- CTOC team meeting
  - state of prototype (CL and HL): for CT's study - incomplete but very close;
    - part of longer validation version;
    - ensuring macros work correctly;
    - CL to add audio/integrate w/ usability version;
    - prototype seems to suppress pop-up notifications from other applications; macros? sound notifications still occur, not visual notifications;
  - expt. protocol updates
    - WW to recruit 1-2 older volunteer pre-pilot subjects for early next week;
  - CTOC validation study
    - timing difficult, progression through CTOC too fast, timing entire test necessary instead;
  - CIHR/USAlzAssoc grants
    - ecological validity - clinic vs. home context
    - clinical validity
    - neuroimaging validity
    - Win 1: severity - cross-sectional and longitudinal; Win 2: etiology
    - interaction b/q setting and longitudinal performance not expected
  - CTOC usability study
    - no more read-only screens, action required on all screens
- MUX forum
  - GS: "Fitts' doesn't always work... sometimes"; the Welford formulation (independence of A and W parameters), k computed from a,b, compared against gain (a good fit/correlation b/w k and gain; why is this better than Shannon formulation (S. Mackenzie);
  - YS: TAMER project: touch-guided anxiety management via engagement w/ robotic pet;
- PSYC 579 Lectures 1.1, 1,2 (presentation)
  - analysis: 6 marks content, (2 for each example); 6 marks style (-1 for errors); 2 assumptions;

[01.20.11]
- pre-piloting w/ CL; meeting to discuss expt. logistics
  - consent form takes ~4min
  - MoCA at 9min
  - SC: "above" misinterpreted as "cover"
  - "edge" misleading; need to adjust monitor resolution to fit white square;
  - SC: one forgotten instruction in SC_H condition (level 3 difficulty)
  - n-back needed 3 practice attempts - consider creating visual aid?
  - SC: very fast puzzle completion
  *!SqP
  two isomorphic tasks in 2 banks took too many moves (reversions) - in both SqP_H, SqP_L
  - interview: SqP more challenging; reversions in plans necessary
    - SC more impacted by interruptions, SqP harder
    - delay helpful
    - relied on some guesswork in SC after interruptions
    - rehearsal of SC instruction during passive interruption
  - SqP scoring = moving item twice (before and after interim drop) = 2 moves
  - video @ 39 min, ~300 mb
  - to do:
    - TLX handbook - correct administering
    - visuals: n-back visuals to be printed
    - scoring: expand SC scoring to include notes, instructions
    - script: augment script in to explain visuals consistently
      - SqP instructions to advise against trial and error;
    - expt s/w:
      - alert colouring and size;
      - text instructions during interruptions highlighted or given more attention;
      - move interruptions to left side of screen, update script accordingly
- sound recorder; additional expt. laptop from JM
  - additional expt. laptop: research similarity to Lenovo T400; ask JL, JH for opinion;
- DLS: Erik Demaine (MIT): "Algorithms meet Art, Puzzles, and Magic"
  - erikdemain.org/fonts; "Between the Folds" documentary; "Dice Rolling: the Movie"; Rengo Kriegspiel;
- HCI grad forum: short research updates
  - VL: variable friction displays
  - MH: adaptive infovis
  - ZFF: video annotation correction and redesign
  - SN: peer-review process reconsidered
  - OS: past ugrad projects
  - MS: high-dim data analysis in infovis
  - YS: TAMER project - anxiety MGMT w/ robotic pet
  - CT: interruptions in the home
  - MB: interruption study

[01.21.11]
- expt. s/w updates
  - alert colouring and size;
  - text instructions during interruptions highlighted or given more attention;
  - move interruptions to left side of screen, update script accordingly
- CSGSA stuff - bowling night planning
- expt. logistics and document updates
  - visuals: n-back visuals to be printed
  - scoring: expand SC scoring to include notes, instructions
  - script: augment script in to explain visuals consistently
    - SqP instructions to advise against trial and error;
- additional laptop stuff
  - JH: It's not fast or modern by any means, but as far as I know it runs. Also, the battery is brand new.
  - JL: That's pretty much the same report I'd give... it's nothing amazing and can get slow if you're running lots of programs on it at once, but it held up just fine for all the studies I ran on it this past summer.
- WW: I'll try to contact participants today for the pre-pilot and try to schedule for next week.

[01.23.11]
- pre-pilot: AC
  - 10 min for consent and MoCA
  - n-back false negative feedback difficult to realize / explain; had to practice n-back 3 times
  - SC:
    - SC_C_H_1, SC_A_L_1: moved both [squares, triangles] to [top, left] edge, rather than just a single (any) square or triangle; both squares in SC_A_L_1 moved to right rather than left;
    - SC_C_H_8 - inverted size order top to bottom (post interruption)
    - SC_C_H_10 - blue + red shape positions inverted (post interruption)
    - SC_B_N_9 - pink placed above smallest rather than largest column
    - SC_A_L_5 - initially mistook same shape for same colour in instruction; later corrected
  - piloting on Mac notes: resolution + full-screen allows SqP instruction to be seen during interruptions; hot corners still active and annoying (too close to continue button); slower mouse than PC;
  - SqP:
    - SqP_H_6 - reversion needed (2 extra moves)
    - rectangle = square question asked
  - interview:
    - SqP harder - more thinking, moves kept in WM
    - SC impacted more by interruptions; instructions weren't available at bottom
    - delay helpful: repeated instruction in head, more useful in SC: remembered to visualize solution in SqP
    - no strategies upon resumption per se, aside from remembering what had been maintained/visualized during interruption lag;
    - in passive interruption, instruction was maintained in back of mind, repeated internally;
  - completion time: 1:01:57

Week of [01.24.11]

[01.24.11]
- notes for AC pre-pilot
- pre-pilot data analysis in SPSS - generated descriptive stats plots for preliminary analysis
- updates to expt. script
- brown-bag lunch with JM's group
- booked older pre-pilot (TW) 01.31.11 at 11:30am (next Monday, AD clinic)
- to do: TLX handbook, guidelines
- PSYC 579: reading for Lecture 2

[01.25.11]
- PSYC 579 essay prep
- study consent form; email to participants 2 days prior to study; fax or mail if necessary
- tuesday tea

[01.26.11]
- PSYC 579 essay prep; submission
- testing T43 thinkpad; installing Dropbox, brainfreeze
- MUX forum
  - MUX social twiki signup - send email to mux-all
  - CHI demos Friday May 6 (informal)
  - Rock: improving learnability of mobile devices for older adults
    - 2 factors affecting learnability of mobile UIs: continual development of mobile UI technology (innovation), declines in cog. func.
    - improve learnability: simplify, improve initial usability, or provide scaffolding
  - Tao: using multiple displays simultaneously, continuing JF's work;
- meeting w/ JM, CT
  - equipment-request@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca - mice, monitors
  - proceed as planned w/ NASA-TLX (no weighting) - original process is time consuming, high cog. demand
  - collapse across levels of difficulty; remove level 1 puzzles from analysis (treat as training);
  - prep for MC meeting: what is contribution of study to HCI community; what would reviewers want, methodological contributions, unforeseen other contributions?
- PSYC 579 lectures 2.1, 2.2

[01.27.11]
- prep. material for MC meeting
  - summarizing notes from lit review
- lunch meeting w/ MC
  - "video is going to be huge"
  - Intel research disbanded
  - know what you want to work on
- meeting w/ MC + CT
  - field study: compromise - observe both client machine and CT's laptop for interruptions if ppt 07 not on client machine
  - Desney, Roland w/ UCSF - 3D navigation study for diagnosing dementia
  - study: advantage in favour of visually-oriented persons?
  - see D. Norman re: goal encoding
  - follow-up study to assess interruption interventions, comparing before and after intervention / strategy
  - follow-up study to match more possible task-similarity interactions
  - contribution: novel research area
  - randomization control of interruptions important
  - potential reviewer: A. Oulasvirta
  - angle: focus on tasks, context of cog. assessment, validity of tests at stake
- MC's DLS - information visualization and interaction research at MSR
- HCI grad forum - YS (TAMER project)
  - Noldus, Elan - video logging software

[01.28.11]
- (out of office)

02.11

Week of [01.31.11]

[01.31.11]
- notes for week of [01.24.11]
- CSGSA social planning
- prep for pre-pilot at hospital - monitors available in clinic rooms
- pre-pilot session w/ TW (pp6)
  - reportedly not familiar with drag + drop; computers will frustrate him; recently upgraded Windows and rendered his home PC unusable;
  - doesn't expect interruptions to occur at home; does consider self-administered cognitive testing important enough to avoid interruptions;
  - consent + MoCA completion time: 20:55
  - MoCA score: 26/30 (borderline normal): trails -1, word recall -2, fluency - 1;
  - has pronounced resting tremor in right hand - will affect time results;
  - UI fixes:
    - move interruption instruction to center above the square; consider colour coding to distinguish between active and passive interruptions; should instructions be placed at an interruption screen? "ACTIVE" vs "PASSIVE" keyword slide? not enough time to read interruption instructions;
    - move "continue" button in interruption: consider clicking anywhere to dismiss interruption? pros/cons?
    - fullscreen button should be changed from a toggle on/off button to simply a toggle on (removes unlikely possibility that a participant will click and exit fullscreen mode; in non-fullscreen version, it is difficult to click "continue" or "next";
    - remove ";" from on-screen interruptions
    - add additional shapes to 1-2 SC trials that aren't fully isomorphic in terms of number of shapes; (i.e. SC_C_8)
  - protocol / experimental script fixes:
    - sentences no longer than 10 words;
    - n-back instructions need elaboration or revising?
    - include clause in script specifying that interruptions will be the same (passive and active) in both main tasks
    - include clause in script specifying that lines in SqP cannot be twisted or rotated;
  - notes:
    - script instructions sounded like Legalese, detail-oriented engineering documentation; TW is a self-described "ideas man", doesn't want to be bogged down with details; needs instructions to be simplified;
      - admits that his career factors in to his opinions; as a creative person and former writer for Reader's Digest, he finds the instructions confusing; he formerly translated technical writing for Philips into laymen's terms;
    - impatient between banks of tasks, wanting to click on next bank before instructed
    - reads all on-screen instructions aloud, twice or three times;
    - could not grasp n-back interruption; took 5 training trials to fully understand; difficulty distinguishing between meaning of "2 images back": are there 2 images in between or just one? diagram did not help; instructions had to be read twice; he reads left to right, so working backwards does not come naturally; perhaps the n-back diagram is confusing to visual/creative thinkers?
    - I need a table to keep documents organized during the session
    - ~2:15 completion time; 2:30 after additional discussion / anecdote; 1:20 GB video file; video revealed that participant clicked full-screen button accidentally during launch screen; tremor a large factor in length of experiment, as was lengthy discussion and confusion over n-back instructions;
    - imprecise squares made in SqP
    - willing to revise instructions if mailed to him;
    - expressed doubt over the validity of the study, relevancy to cognitive health;
    - had to take a bathroom break / water break after 1st bank of SC
    - hourglass cursor appeared once during SqP - uncertain how this happened
    - interruption pending notifications are being missed/ignored in SC; only noticed these in SqP;
    - is more indication needed of progress on launch screen?
  - scoring:
    - difficulty with both SqP and SC; felt as though he did better on SqP; gave up on puzzles often;
    - how to score if participant makes less moves than is required in SqP?
    - how to score if participant makes partially correct substitution (colour or shape) in SC?
    - performance better on uninterrupted trials - awaiting notes from CL; review of video
- emailed CJ requesting meeting re: scoring and instruction revision
- emailed JM re: pre-pilot / LUNCH
- emailed MUX-all re: upcoming social signup
- reading PSYC 579 readings

[02.01.11]
- consolidating notes for pp6 pilot session
- PSYC 579 essay prep + submission

[02.02.11]
- meeting prep - reviewing notes from pp6;
- testing T43 - no lag, time delay; able to complete full protocol;
- CTOC team meeting
  - attendees: MB, JM, CT, CJ, CL, RH
    - JM away Feb 13-16
  - recruitment for CS studies
    - forum on 01.28.11, CT collected email addresses, phone numbers; 1 reply so far; 30 people interested signed up;
    - private company (Brain Fitness?)
    - community centers (i.e. Kerrisdale community center)
  - interruption study piloting
    - screen for motor impairment in recruitment calls, diagnosed or self-reported;
    - screen out impairments, MoCA scores < 26; prepare sham script (i.e. participant was randomly assigned to shorter study)
      - follow up with participant, ask to contact their GP;
  - usability study
    - 10 usability subjects needed;
    - help button issue needs to be addressed;
  - cultural advisory panel session #3 - [02.04.11]
    - full validity version or usability version? use hybrid of usability version with audio equal in length to cycle #2 version; validation version outdated;
    - emphasize polished test items, not much iteration on navigation
    - focus group questions from cycle 2 re-used - in the home, disclosure, other barriers to adoption; GP office, community centers, feasibility, library, publicly accessible computers, exploring potential other users b/w ethnic groups;
    - CT to recruit panelists as pilot subjects; spouses of panelists?
  - grants: CIHR, USAlz
    - abstract, press release prepared
    - prepare short write-up for CJ's grant application by Feb 18 - preliminary findings, high-level goals
- MUX forum
  - presenters: Idin, Ricardo
    - Idin: rhythm-based spatio-temporal haptic guidance; periodic gait recognition and prompts through vibratory signals;
    - Ricardo: perceptually informed roles for haptic guidance in expressive music interfaces
- reading PSYC 579 essays for analysis
- PSYC 579 lectures 3.1, 3.2

[02.03.11]
- phone problems (@ Bell store)
- notes from yesterday's meeting
- CSGSA bowling night planning
- revisions to UI:
  - moved interruption instruction to center above the square; applied colour coding to distinguish between active and passive interruptions;
  - now clicking anywhere will dismiss interruption
  - fullscreen button changed from a toggle on/off button to toggle on (removes unlikely possibility that a participant will click and exit fullscreen mode;
  - removed ";" from on-screen instructions
  - SC_{A,B,C}_{8,9} puzzles now fully isomorphic in terms of # of tokens, updated marking sheet
- revisions to script - clarity, conciseness, wording;
- HCI grad forum 5-6 (ZFF; absent due to phone issues)

[02.04.11]
- CTOC cultural advisory panel cycle #3 - see notes
  - interactive usability session
  - focus group
- UDLS
- CSGSA bowling night

Week of [02.07.11]

[02.07.11]
- reading for PSYC 579
- phone problems (@ Bell Store)
- emailing CJ re: expt scoring and script
- LUNCH group meeting
- emailing WW + CT re: pre-pilot subjects
- notes from cultural advisory panel - emailed to CJ, HL, CL
- expt. UI revisions - trial bank completion alert / dialog conversion
- 554m video tutorials (week after reading week) - admin prep.

[02.08.11]
- reading PSYC 570 4.1,4.2 readings
- updates to CV
- scoring pp6 session using video
  - preliminary descriptive data analysis for pp6, generated plots
- looking for sproutcore dev estimates
  - responses from Syavash (up to 15 weeks), Alex (~100 hours)
- to do: generate new expt_task_visuals with new version of app
- received forum signup sheet from WW, CT
  - contacted 14 remaining forum singup people; 1 response (48 y.o. person from North Shore);
- Dept. Tea

[02.09.11]
- reading PSYC 579 readings
- revisions to expt_task_visuals
  - interruption screenshots
- meeting w/ JM + CT
  - JM away next Mon-Wed; next meeting Friday, Feb 18 @ 2pm
  - advertise CT's study to older pilot subjects in study
  - to do: English lang. requirements (done)
    - see A. Bunt's thesis, appendices; administer with MoCA
  - pilot study: 3-4 younger, 3-4 older, $125 from JM via email transfer
  - to do: UI fixes: remove underlined text (indication of hyperlink) (done)
  - to do: write design analysis section - see interruption laboratory experiment (done)
    - global and local interpretation of the effects of interruption on completion time, accuracy
    - omit uninterrupted trials from analysis
  - to do: generate new email account for study, share credentials w/ Carmen; (done)
  - to do: summarise ballpark estimates of SproutCore dev times for CTOC (done)
  - to do: contact pilot subject respondents; thank excluded subjects (done)
  - to do: verify HCI studio video equipment in x360 for 554m materials; run through 554m video tutorials (done)
- pilot scheduling
  - 8 potential pilot subjects, 2 excluded due to MCI diagnosis, range of ages - awaiting replies
  - no Alz. clinic patient spouses can be contacted until CJ returns
- MUX forum meeting
  - guest presentation: Carmen Neustaedter (School of Interactive Arts & Technology, SFU Surrey); Connecting Families through video, social media, and games;
  - projects: shared family media space (video), pervasive games for family; themes: connectedness, physical activity, places of significance, over distance
  - seeitgame.com; clab.iat.sfu.ca, carmster.com
- reading PSYC 579 essays
- PSYC 579 lectures 4.1, 4.2

[02.10.11]
- revisions to expt_task_visuals (interruption screenshots) - done
  - to do: print out visuals, new experiment materials; - done
- CIHR grant proposal brief description for CJ - done
- received bank transfer from JM to do: withdraw $5 denominations, store in locker on x7 (done)
- participants to schedule/follow-up with during the week of the 21st (2 young, 1 old)
  - 4 scheduled, awaiting reply from 4 more, conflict w/ 554 tutorials avoided?
- created ctocstudy@gmail, shared address for CL, MB; shared calendar, labels;
- UI fixes: underlined text removed, close button in interruptions, sent to JM and CT for testing/review
- CJ needs recent estimate of computer literacy by age group - pitched to RL, CT;
- sent summary of SproutCore estimates to JM
- revised experiment write-up analysis;
- HCI grad forum today 5-6pm
  - VL: understanding the peer review process

[02.11.11]
- scheduled 1 more participant, confirmed 4 bookings - 5th to confirm on Monday
- task visuals ready - printed copies for MB and CL
- re: English lang. requirements, A.Bunt's thesis: NAART [Uttl 02]; arbitrary cutoff of < 50% on p.1 of word list (based on correct pronunciation of irregular words)
  - prepared NAART list, integrated into script
  - prepared sham script for those that do not meet MoCA and NAART cutoffs
- updated the interruption study analysis specifications: see interruption laboratory experiment
- UDLS

Week of [02.14.11]

[02.14.11]
- withdrew 125$ from bank in 5$ denominations, bought combo lock for storing experimental supplies, laptops, $$$
- prepared experiment laptops; verified new build of SW; photocopied experiment document packages
- verifying equipment and tutorial protocol for 554m video tutorial
- CSGSA coffee house planning
- CJ: needs info on SproutCore - sent email
- pilot session at Alz. Clinic, room 9 - p1s1 (experimenter: MB)
  - familiar w/ matchstick game (SqP); admitted not very good at it (learning effect observed)
  - drag/click jammed once during SC - not sure how to diagnose this problem;
  - semicolon still in UI - remove?
  - requested to see MoCA score
  - a couple of non-critical typos / changed items in script, now changed
  - 1:20 completion time
  - SC more disrupted by interruptions; enjoyment higher in SC, physical activity demanding over time; SqP like chess, more challenging.
- WW: volunteer participant available

[02.15.11]
- in honour of reading week, this was a "reading day"

[02.16.11]
- meeting w/ CJ, CL, WW re: scoring and protocol 11am
  - if n-back cannot be performed, proceed to alternate sham script
  - debrief question: did you devote attention to n-back as I asked, or did you click at random?
  - to do: send CJ script for review (sone)
  - rank DVs and additional covariates for analysis, some will be left out
  - scoring: partially correct tokens get 0.5 pt
- scheduled participant for tomorrow 1pm (confirmed)
- left message w/ WW's volunteer
- scheduled another for next Wed 9am or 1pm (awaiting confirmation)
- pilot session at 3pm today: LS - p1s2 (experimenter: CL)
  - 3:10-4:30 (almost 1.5 hours)
  - in future, direct participants to exam room
  - MoCA: eager to complete trails before instructions given; clock -1;
  - script: slow down, pause between sentences (reduce info in introduction)?
  - eager clicker, clicked on buttons before instruction given;
  - initially thought correct actions in n-back affect sequence itself;
  - SqP example doesn't allow adjustments - must get exact to be correct, only reproducible on first attempt, will go unnoticed if done correctly;
  - poor performance on N-back during SqP practice
  - needs more emphasis on avoiding trial-and-error in SqP - repeat in script?
  - Windows XP status prompt appeared during test
  - clicked on passive interruptions despite text instruction (thought passive interruptions were a trick, as revealed in interview later), towards the end of the experiment, participant stopped clicking on passive interruption sequence
  - interview:
    - SqP more challenging
    - paid attention to n-back, didn't click at random (though it seemed it at times)
    - interruptions were annoying and distracting
    - SC harder at time, more things to remember, more commands
    - "Task A and B" should be used in preference to "Sentence Comprehension and Square Puzzles", which are internal names
    - interruption lag not really helpful; tried to remember colour positions in SC, SqP not remembered if straightforward or close to finishing
    - resumption strategies: visual thinking with colours for SC
    - summary: wordy instructions, but no way to avoid it; would catch on after 2-3 times running through the study
    - hard, had to pay attention, but fun;

[02.17.11]
- gathering CPSC 554m video tutorial resources
- PYSC 579 project/report ideas
- website updates
- comments from yesterday's session sent to CL
- new scoring sheets printed
- Charlotte's study ad printed
- pilot session #3 (RR) - p1s3 (experimenter: CL)
  - participant had a mixed background, some post-secondary, creative and CAD skills;
  - 1:38-3:18 (just over 1.5 hours, with 10 minutes chit-chat)
  - MoCA - eager participant with their own pen
    - 1 error in letter inhibition
    - 1 error in subtraction
    - 1 insertion error in repeated sentence task
    - word recall: missed 'daisy'
  - "wait until instructed to click"
  - n-back - good performance after 2nd attempt (only 1 error on first attempt)
  - SqP: supplement instructions: "you cannot undo"; repeat "trial and error" instruction;
  - eager clicker on task A practice, started without instructions; had to repeat
  - interview question on n-back should only be asked if unclear
  - interview
    - SqP more challenging; more difficult/larger puzzles, limited ways to complete puzzle
    - SC impacted more negatively by interruptions, esp. when SC instruction was detailed/complex
    - interruption lag helpful: "a moment of pause to fix one's place in the task"; in SC, strategy involved visualizing patterns he needed to create, colour and location; Task B was more linear, memory wasn't an issue; no particular strategy, used lag to go into "free-thinking mode", a breather, allowing fresh perspective when returning from an interruption;
    - do not Google "Indigo Crystal Rainbow Children"
    - experimenters should consider patience of participants, esp. in passive interruption;
- follow-up emails to potential participants awaiting reply
- booked participant DK for next Tuesday 1pm
- forwarded CT's study info to pilot RR

[02.18.11]
- "The King of Limbs" released today
- booked participant WC for next Friday 8:30am; confirmed room bookings for next week w/ WW.
- PSYC 579: 5.1, 5.2 readings; prep for meeting w/ RR
- minor script updates
- meeting w/ JM + CT
  - agenda:
    - experiment piloting update
    - changes to protocol / script
    - task scoring update
    - planned analyses
    - experiment logistics as of 02.25.11
  - equipment-request made for identical mice
  - effect of trial in analysis 1 (not interesting in itself); avg. across trials for fewer data points? (4 in SC, 3 in SqP)
  - Analysis 1: still consider task as a factor? would need to normalize scores and times
  - Analysis 2: normalize completion time (z-scores or subtracting the mean, avg completion times around 0) - are these the same? the latter doesn't require normal distribution; effect of task is not interesting, so this is OK; an interaction with age or interruption demand is interesting;
  - DV3 could be resumption lag in analysis 1, avg. interaction interval in Analysis 2
  - n-back reported separately to verify instructions were followed
  - MoCA score as possible covariate

Week of [02.21.11]

[02.21.11]
- reading PSYC 579 5.1-5.2 readings
- LUNCH meeting
- meeting w/ R. Rensink re: PSYC 579 feedback, project ideas, VIVA
- HCI grad forum
  - MH: "How do you manage your every day tasks?" - focus group for CPSC 554M project
  - see: "getting things done" book
- confirmed appts. for Tue/Wed;
- recruiting for full study starts Thursday/Friday
- pilot session #4 - p1s4 (experimenter: MB)
  - 1hr, group 1 participant
  - to fix: low-demand interruption: only 9 images (script says 12) (done)
  - to fix: bug in n-back; top 50 pixels of image square not clickable (done)
  - MoCA? hmmm.
- bux fixes
  - added extra 3 images to low-demand interrupt
  - fixed clickable area bug in high-demand interruption; overlapping text area;
  - re-deployed new build of application

[02.22.11]
- PSYC 579 5.2 readings
- converted participant ordering/sign-up into Google Doc
- CPSC 554M video tutorial pt. 1
- script change: when giving SqP paper demo, ask participant to complete the puzzle; correct if necessary;
- pilot session #5 - Xs5 (experimenter: CL)
  - group 1 participant; 40 min session; excluded from analysis
  - familiar w/ MoCA (hasn't done before)
  - NAART, surveys stall, buy time for fast, excluded participants (ad-hoc decision based on speed of participant)
  - otherwise good performance on n-back, SqP
  - reads everything aloud
  - interview: "patience, remembering instruction important for task resumption"
  - to do: buy mice from UBC bookstore / staples
  - see Nognz brain fitness (J. Davies, Neuroscience)
- PSYC 579 essay formating
- Tuesday Tea

[02.23.11]
- pilot session p1s5 / participant g2s10
  - no problems
- bought identical mice
- IMAGER pizza social
  - GS: body-centric interaction
  - BJ: "I've fallen and I CAN get up"
- reading PSYC 579 essays
- MUX forum: reviewing the new CS website
- meeting w/ JM + CT
  - only 2/12 subjects scored subnormal on MoCA
  - interview: ask if instructions were clear
  - NAART: why 25% cutoff?
- PSYC 579 lectures 5.1, 5.2
- follow-up emails to remaining forum attendees (response from 1)

[02.24.11]
- CPSC 554M video 2 tutorial
- sessions g1s1, g1s4 (CL)
  - no problems
- DLS: Sally Fincher, U. Kent (UK): "Useful Sharing"
  - sharing best practices for teaching CS through narrative knowledge
  - bridging the gap of useless truth
  - "Chromium" by Levy (periodic table stories)
  - Disciplinary Commons
- call for participation sent out to hci-experiments

[02.25.11]
- study session g3s1, no problems
  - hard of hearing, memory for instructions mediocre, 86y.o.
- scheduling sessions
- CSGSA coffee house planning
- CJ: needs NASA-TLX (sent)
- PSYC 579 stuff - reading 6.1, 6.2, project work
- ask RL for community centre info
- community postings / email feedback; contacted senior community centres;

03.11

Week of [02.28.11]

[02.28.11]
- PSYC 579 6.1 essay writing
- LUNCH meeting
- reimbursal request for expt supplies (mice, folders)
- follow-up on bookings / expt. logistics w/ CL

[03.01.11]
- follow-up on bookings / expt. logistics w/ CL
- community postings; visited South Granville Seniors Centre;
- withdrew 150$ additional expt money
- reading RL's thesis intro + conclusion chapters;

[03.02.11]
- participant cancelled and rescheduled
- reviewing 579 essay
- CSGSA coffee house planning
- CTOC team meeting: JM, CT, CJ, WW, CL, HL
  - updates on CTOC studies
    - validation study - 7 done, need 2-3 more (closing at 10 participants)
    - computers in the home study
    - interruption study
    - usability study - 10 interviews done (data saturation) - data entered, needing to be summarized - seeking out subjects from other
- researching Vancouver community centres
- MUX forum
- PSYC 579 lectures 6.1, 6.2

[03.03.11]
- visited community centres; distributed recruitment posters:
- stopped by ICICS/CS for more posters, CT's posters
- bookings made for next week

[03.04.11]
- UDLS call
- recruitment / craigslist ad
- PSYC 579 report writing
- UDLS

Week of [03.07.11]

[03.07.11]
- feedback from KM re: places to recruit seniors in Vancouver: Osborne Gym, Aquatic Centre, etc.
- bookings for this week
- CSGSA coffee house planning
- CIHR grant proposal review / problem-finding/ contributing preliminary results for CJ
- LUNCH meeting
  - to do: GRAND registration
- UDLS arrangements for Mar 11, 18
- PSYC 579 7.2 essay writing
- exp. session g1s11

[03.08.11]
- exp. sessions g1s[2,3,10]
- PSYC 579 essay writing
- money withdrawn, split w/ CL
- reading PSYC 579 7.1, 7.2

[03.09.11]
- meeting w/ JM, CT
  - send amendment to WW re: recruitment poster + compensation
  - GRAND - TBD - poster or WIP? register regardless
  - ask Joyce re: 2nd reader - can he/she be from outside dept?
  - MAGIC - get paperwork together (done)
  - compensation during summer (good)
  - to do: start entering data in SPSS
- poster amendment send to WW re: compensation rate
- review MR's proposal tomorrow
- MUX social
- reading PSYC 579 essays for analysis
- PSYC 579 lectures 7.1, 7.2

[03.10.11]
- exp. session g2s1 (late)
- applied for MAGIC sub-specialization in HCI - pending recommendation from JM
- posters put up at Osborne gym
- CSGSA coffee house planning
- WW: compensation rate cannot be advertised?
- CV/resume/cover letter prep
- Orbis info session
- review MR's research proposal
- to do: register for GRAND

[03.11.11]
- bookings / re-posting craigslist ad
- reviewing MR's research proposal
- CSGSA coffee house planning
- grad visit day dinner planning
- reading for PSYC 579 8.2
- UDLS

[03.12.11]
- PSYC 579 project work

Week of [03.14.11]

[03.14.11]
- CPSC 444 video 2 tutorial - twiki pages updates
- LUNCH meeting
- sproutcore estimate meeting - Alex T & P. Lambert - matygo.com - http://demo.matygo.com/ - similar to new WebCT project w/ built-in assessments
  - browser compatibility on shared computer (community centres, libraries) - HTML 5 compatibility - won't work in IE6
  - SproutCore definitely possible, time required varied depending on competency of developer(s)
    - developer comfortable with open-source dev, IRC, reading source code, developer discussion groups, not relying so much on dev guide
  - SC less mature than Flex, no powerful IDE; but more open, less expensive, no Flash concerns, future compatibility concerns
  - 2 months for Matygo - likely up to 5 times as long for co-op intern - 2 terms / 8 months likely; 2 co-op students better: one on back-end, one on front-end; estimate based on deployable Alpha version; likely similar in price to interns
  - 1 guy over 2 terms better than 2 guys over 1 term; back-end developer brought in after 8 months - look for experience with Django, Ruby on Rails, Scala, not the standards like PhP, Java, C# - those guys just want jobs, not as creative / care about programming
  - front-end developer skill transfer: Java Swing, Objective C, Mac Programming, Cocoa, more so than JavaScript
- exp. session g1s12
- PSYC 579 8.2 essay writing

[03.15.11]
- PSYC 579 8.2 essay writing
- CSGSA coffee house planning
- expt. booking/ craigslist ad posting

[03.16.11]
- CTOC team meeting
  - grant submitted to CIHR - CHRP funding? validity and reliability results, convergent validity -> high correlation
  - studies
    - renumeration and reimbursement - extra half-hour payment for bus travel or parking pass to be provided (include in ad); discuss on phone w/ participants;
    - recruitment: Brock Hall on Chancellor Blvd.
      - spouses of patients in AD clinic
  - C-TOC development: skill sets (sent to CTOC team), meeting w/ Matygo;
- adjusted craigslist ad
- MUX forum meeting
- PSYC 579 lectures 8.1, 8.2

[03.17.11]
- UDLS presentation slides
- PYSC 579 project report figures
- exp. session g2s2, booked session g2s3

[03.18.11]
- grad visit day demos
- UDLS prep
- GRAND WIP meeting w/ CT
  - sections: methodology, preliminary findings, discussion: current status and future work, intro (4 studies), related work (interruption focus)
  - MB first author, CT second author
- sent CT slide deck from MUX forum; set up shared dropbox folder for GRAND WIP and project materials
- grad recruitment day lunch, reception, UDLS
- emailed Tapestry retirement living @ UBC
- informed of being awarded the NSERC PGS D-3
- potential ugrad CTCO dev student intern - sent info to JM

Week of [03.21.11]

[03.21.11]
- exp. session g2s3
- LUNCH meeting
- GRAND WIP notes
- HCI grad forum - SN: redesigning the 5-star rating system; 5 prototypes
- GS's pointing study pilot session
- GRAND WIP writing

[03.22.11]
- GRAND WIP writing
- CSGSA coffee house planning
- to do: get money from JM (done)
- contacted Tapestry @ UBC
- Tuesday Tea

[03.23.11]
- visited Tapestry w/ recruitment posters
- GRAND WIP meeting w/ CT
  - related work - remove subheadings
  - methodology - shrink by half, hanging paragraphs, insert images to reduce ends, insert references
  - conclusion / future work -> current status
  - register on PCS website (done)
- CHI SV contract signed
- PSYC 579 essays, readings
- meeting w/ JM, CT
  - follow-up w/ Brock Hall, spouses from AD clinic
  - Kerrisdale community centre (follow up with Rock for on-site experimentation, approval from CREB needed
    - requirement of a quiet room;
  - BREB to be used in future; renumeration must be advertised
  - received 150$ from JM for renumeration
- IMAGER social: CT (C-TOC interruptions), GW (3D depth displays)
- MUX forum - CHI madness prep (skipped)
- reading PSYC 579 essays
- PSYC 579 lectures 9.1, 9.2
- GRAND WIP writing

[03.24.11]
- GRAND WIP writing, iteration w/ CT
- CSGSA coffee house planning / prep
- emailed WW, CJ re: recruitment from Brock Hall, AD clinic spouses
- submitted GRAND WIP

[03.25.11]
- CSGSA coffee house prep / planning
- reading PSYC 579 10.1 readings
- Coffee House

Week of [03.28.11]

[03.28.11]
- PSYC 579 10.1 presentation prep
- LUNCH meeting
- meeting w/ RR re: 579, VIVA, PhD research
- contacted UBC professor emeriti assoc. re: study recruitment
- returned board games to GSS

[03.29.11]
- PSYC 579 presentation prep
- piloting w/ RP (haptic music controller)
- CS dept. volunteer lunch

[03.30.11]
- meeting w/ JM
- to do: informally contact Kerrisdale + call; Rock's study, posters for current studies, room availability, time, day of week
- talk to WW, CJ (ethics amendment w/ CREB)
- to do: send JM new recruitment poster for her building (print and digital) (done)
- another call for participation to dept, older profs friends and family, cc JM (wait for WW, CJ)
- GRAND reviews: 1/2 day reading, 1/2 day reviewing (hour each)
- re: PhD program: talk to JP (done, apply ASAP)
- withdrawal $150 from bank
- meeting w/ TM re: PhD program
- PSYC 579 lectures 10.1, 11.1

[03.31.11]
- 2 experimental sessions (g2s11, 1 excluded)
- received NSERC PGS D award notification

[04.01.11]
- PhD program researcher, contacted KV for meeting next week
- PSYC 579 report research / writing
- UDLS

04.11

Week of [04.04.11]

[04.04.11]
- left message w/ Susan Mele @ Kerrisdale
- comp. course requirement planning
- LUNCH meeting
- meeting w/ JM re: SIAT, comp. course requirement
- contacted comp. course requirement contacts
- HCI grad forum
  - RL: improving the learnability of mobile devices for older adults
    - cog. aging lit references needed (done)
    - personality changes w/ aging

[04.05.11]
- g3s2 experimental session (excluded)
- PSYC 579 11.1 essay writing
- application to CS dept. statement of interest

[04.06.11]
- CTOC team meeting w/ CJ, WW, CL, JM, SH, RH
  - spouse referrals slow
  - potential contact in North Van
  - Kerrisdale recruiting session on Saturday (CL unavailable)
  - send CT referral from Thursday (done)
  - ethics umbrella coverage for studies conducted off-campus
  - usability interviews from healthy seniors needed, cross-cultural users
  - continuation w/ validation studies
  - publication to Journal of American Geriatric Society (JAGS) for mid-summer
  - CT to examine cross-cultural aspects, community centres, libraries
  - 4-month co-op student needed for September
  - meetings to continue in summer - Wed @ 11, bimonthly
- submitted PSYC 579 11.1 essay
- reviewing PSYC 579 10.2 essay
- MUX forum
  - AM: communication system for portable music players
    - goal activation model, task resumption model
    - [Dey 2001] using and understanding context - paper from Ubiq. comp./
  - MH: adaptive tools for user-adaptive visualization
    - effectiveness subject to individual differences
    - domain expertise
    - [Amar, Stasko 2005] - low-level components
    - identical figures test for perceptual speed
    - visual working memory capacity tested beforehand
- CPSC 444 final presentation
- PSYC 579 lectures 10.2, 11.2
- meeting w/ TM re: PhD application

[04.07.11]
- meeting w/ Colleen re: PhD application
- meeting w/ SN and MH re: SIAT
- PhD application
- meeting w/ K. Voll re: VIVA, future and current research
- Susan @ Kerrisdale away until Monday
- GRAND WIP reviews

[04.08.11]
- finalizing PhD application
- meeting w/ MS re: working with TM
- PSYC 579 report writing

Week of [04.11.11]

[04.11.11]
- PSYC 579 report writing
- LUNCH meeting
- reply from SM @ Kerisdale CC: rm. 217 booked Apr 21 AM, Apr 22, Apr 25 (all day)

[04.12.11]
- @ Kerisdale CC - recruiting subjects - 5 booked, collected names for others
- PSYC 579 report writing

[04.13.11]
- PSYC 579 report writing / review for exam
- meeting w/ JM
  - consent forms for JM's parents
  - timeline: May (analysis), June (CHI paper), July (thesis), August (presentation and review)
  - refs from BW
  - direction for SH?
- PSYC 579 exam

[04.14.11]
- PSYC 579 report writing
- meeting w/ MS
- session g3s2
- Kori Inkpen talk - asynchronous video for children / VideoThreads / VideoPal

[04.15.11]
- PSYC 579 report writing
- GRAND WIP accepted

Week of [04.18.11]

[04.18.11]
- PSYC 579 report writing
- LUNCH meeting

[04.19.11]
- session g3s11
- CSGSA Iron Chef planning
- PSYC 579 report writing
- resume updates
- Tuesday Tea

[04.20.11]
- session g3s12
- PSYC 579 report writing
- CTOC team meeting
  - attendees: JM, WW, RH, HL, MB, CJ
  - recruiting - KCC, JM's condo; contact SM @ KCC for early room access; call/remind participants;
  - cultural advisory panel #4 not yet scheduled
    - aboriginal panel to be assembled
  - GRAND WIP - add WW, CL, CJ as authors
    - May 20 - final version to be added
  - validation studies
    - neuropsyc test batteries - CJ, WW to administer
  - HL to participate in dev.

[04.21.11]
- @ KCC - 2 sessions (both excluded MoCA)
- recruiting participants from KCC senior centre
- PSYC 579 report writing + submission

[04.22.11]
- Good Friday
- @ KCC - 3 sessions (1 no-show, g3s8, g3s9)

Week of [04.25.11]

[04.25.11]
- Easter Monday
- @ KCC - 3 sessions (1 exclusion, g3s3, g3s7)
- @ JM's condo - session g3s10

[04.26.11]
- planning CSGSA Iron Chef
- importing expt data into SPSS
- dept. tea

[04.27.11]
- session g2s12 @ clinic
- IMAGER social
  - Stephen Ingram - glimmer + data journalism
  - Steve Yohanan - haptic creature
- MUX meeting
  - Idin Karuei - wearable haptic communication
  - Vincent Leveque - variable friction interfaces
- meeting w/ JM + CT
  - compensation / renumeration / receipts
  - data entry update into SPPS: MB to input score data, questionnaire data
  - GRAND WIP talk (7 min)
  - CHI paper - 1 or 2? ToCHI paper this fall? will await results from expt.
  - business cards for CHI
- CS Iron Chef

[04.28.11]
- VIVA Boeing VA meeting @ UBC Robson Square C130

[04.29.11]
- notes / log
- website updates
- importing expt. data into SPSS
- GRAND WIP presentation
- CHI SV job lottery

05.11

Week of [05.02.11]

[05.02.11]
- election day
- data entry into SPSS
- descriptive analysis; graph building
- HCI grad forum - RL's GRAND poster; networking for CHI

[05.03.11]
- meeting w/ JM + CT re: GRAND WIP presentation
  - too much text/details (i.e expt factors, # participants
  - take-away: motivation
  - more images
  - contribution at end; mixed methods approach; examples of quality in methods in both approaches
  - no outline slide
  - CT to send additional images from IMAGER slide deck
  - no captions needed
- analysis of local results;
  - JM sent KM's mixed design + analysis notes;
  - time positively skewed, score has ceiling effect, negatively skewed (z-scores not appropriate)

[05.04.11]
- analysis of global results - time positively skewed, score has ceiling effect, negatively skewed (z-scores not appropriate)
- MUX forum - CHI practice talks by MP (Now Where Was I? Physiologically-Triggered Bookmarks), MS (Cardiogram - VA for automotive engineers);

[05.05.11]
- GRAND WIP slide deck revisions (feedback from JM + CT)

[05.06.11]
- invited talk by Justine Cassel (justinecassel.com) (CMU HCI institute) - The Human at the Heart of our Work: Advancing Social Theory and Engineering Practice
  - Licklider - Brain-Computer Interfaces (c. 1960s)
  - small talk buffers face threats; task-talk;
  - ethnomethodology, social psychology
- CSGSA elections / AGM
- CHI SV bag stuffing

Week of [05.09.11]

[05.09.11] - [05.12.11]
- CHI 2011 @ VCC

[05.12.11] - [05.14.11]
- GRAND AGM @ VCC
- GRAND WIP presentation
- dinner meeting w/ TAGLab: RB, VP, KM
- meeting w/ VP (TAGLab)
  - Rush Hour 6x6 tile game (visual-spatial reasoning), flanker task (reaction time)
- meeting w/ KM re: stats
  - non-parametric stats for mixed designs [Wobbrock, Findlater 11] - CHI note
  - log transform time trials
  - trimmed means, outlier replacement; see [Moffatt 07] - ASSETS paper; steady bubbles paper; sphericity checks w/ Levene's test;
  - robust modern statistical methods: communications of ACM post by J. Robertson: http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/107125-stats-were-doing-it-wrong/fulltext alternative - report modes for questionnaire data
  - [Kaptein et al 10] CHI note;
  - alternative: report medians for non-parametric data

Week of [05.16.11]

[05.16.11]
- analysis: log-transformed of time data (global and local) (log base 10 tried first, later opted for natural log)

[05.17.11]
- analysis: aligned rank transformation of normalized score data (global, local)
  - summarizing results of ART score, log time data for CTOC team meeting;

[05.18.11]
- analysis (cont.)
- CTOC team meeting: CL, JM, CT, HL, RH, MB
  - discussion of expt results
  - re-group into 2 age groups at median age (64)
  - to do: plot scatter plots of log time, cost of interruptions, score by age - perform outlier analysis
- generated summaries of results for JM, CT

[05.19.11]
- 2 group analysis (2.1,2,5,6,7,12 > young group; 2.3,4,8,9,10,11 > old group)
- n-back analysis / verification

[05.20.11]
- questionnaire data entry (216 sheets * 6 responses per sheet = 1296 responses transcribed)
- questionnaire descriptive analysis
  - performance, interruption annoyance levels reflect quantitative results!
- meeting w/ JM
  - 2-group analysis doesn't reveal anything new
  - no surprises from n-back analysis
  - to do: collect quotes from older adults re: interruptions, strategies, which task was perceived as harder;
  - to do: generate key findings for CHI paper
- questionnaire quantitative analysis (parametric analysis); some results highly skewed;

Week of [05.23.11]

[05.23.11]
- Victoria Day (holiday)

[05.24.11]
- non-parametric analysis of survey results using ART technique
- analysis of resumption lag times in SC, SqP (log transformed)
- analysis of RKT vs. IIA (log transformed), between, within tasks
- LUNCH meeting
- Tuesday Tea
- ordering analysis: interruption ordering (NLH); task ordering (SC-!SqP); experimenter (MB, CL), location, time-of-day, bank ordering (ABC);

[05.25.11]
- questionnaire non-parametric analysis (cont.) - summarized
- meeting w/ JM + CT
  - discussion of quant. results, questionnaire results, RLTs, IIAs,
  - to do: listen to interviews for quotes, perspectives
  - potential explanations of SqP; memory-based task for older adults but not younger adults; Zeigarnik effect for younger and older adults? mind-wandering in younger adults during L-int?
  - CT data analysis ongoing: ATLAS TI qual. data entry
- IMAGER pizza social - TB (really really robust collision detection), RM (context-aware garment modelling)
- MUX meeting - CHI post-mortems #2: fav. talks/papers/trends
  - parallel prototyping
  - design workbooks, collaborative workbooks
  - confessions of a grounded theory PhD
  - usability questionnaires - does it hurt to be positive?
- analysis: RLT vs. IIA cost scatter plots

[05.26.11]
- analysis: key points, summarisation; sent CL summary - see interruption laboratory experiment

[05.27.11]
- audio interview review / transcription / extracting key points

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Topic revision: r255 - 2011-05-27 - MatthewBrehmer