2015-03-13 status

Done

Administrivia

• Submitted IRB application for expedited review.
• Submitted application for Provost's Award.

Data Collection

• Refined survey questions in Qualtrics.
• Proved concept of embedding MDC JavaScript tool in Qualtrics.
• Stored required JavaScript libraries on my UIC Google Drive.
• Explored VexTab as alternative to abcjs for MDC. The +1+ fingering annotations are not well rendered in abcjs, but text annotations work well. So I decided to stick with abcjs.

Doing

1. JavaScripting the Manual Data Collector (MDC).
2. Meeting with IB to refine survey questions.
3. Trying to quantify variability in the Parncutt sight-reading corpus with a mind toward defining statistical approaches, as requested in protocol template.
4. Trying to run finger6 over input file.
5. Playing with Synthesia AFP (one .exe, one .dll, and that's it).
6. Collecting all the Synthesia data there is from their forum.
7. Implementing basic color tracking synchronized with MIDI events.

Struggling

• We need to define the set of content we want to focus on. The last survey question will ask subjects to identify/select pieces that raise fingering difficulties. We need to narrow down the list of usual suspects in a way that will make the whole process tractable and scalable. I don't want to have to typeset of bunch of music.