2015-10-28 status

Done

Administrivia

• Accepted invitation to talk to the Pardo Lab at NU about piano fingering on December 8.

Data Collection

• Sent reminder email to the 203-strong Midwest piano faculty list.
• Distributed initial survey recruitment email to newly assembled list of 168 music departments across the U.S. and Canada.
• Distributed initial survey recruitment email to 51 additional piano faculty, mostly in Canada.
• Distributed initial survey recruitment email to list of 280 piano teachers, assembled from music teacher association sites in Milwaukee, Madison, Kansas City, and Minnesota.
• Received 62 responses so far (with 53 completing both parts).
• Exchanged several emails with people who had problems with the survey tool or questions about the study.
• Outlined simple algorithm for classifying scores as fully (unambiguously) specified, identifying unnecessary annotations, and generating fully annotated scores from fully specified scores. I currently only contemplate the "next note next finger" convention, but even if this is as sophisticated as it gets, this should be a nice little sub-project that could yield a quick workshop paper.

BowTIE Revival

• Explored Yeoman/Angular/Ionic approach to PhoneGap development, completing this tutorial.
• Dr. Forbes and his advisee Alex Pieczynski think Alex should be able to get CS 398 credit for BowTIE work next semester. Sounds good to me.

Doing

1. Defining SQLite schemata for (anonymized) survey data.
2. Writing script to load said schemata.
3. Adding file save and print features to MDC4.
4. Adding support for non-exhaustive input in MDC4.
5. Integrating MDC4 into draft Qualtrics survey for WTC, Book 1, Prelude 1.
6. Assembling prerequisites (JavaScript libraries, data layer) for BowTIE.
7. Standardizing file format for fingering.

Struggling

• Response rate stinks (but with a big enough denominator, all things are possible). Currently, its upper bound is 62/868 = 7.14%.
• Do I need to worry about selection bias? (Are we only going to get outlier subjects with unusually diverse notions of fingering?)