Done
Administrivia
- Submitted protocol amendment to IRB on April 14. No word yet.
Data Collection
- Discovered several people are unable to see rendered scores in the Qualtrics survey.
- Developed alternative submission front end, dubbed "Surveyor."
- Worked with dxSurvey developer to define a back end in his Microsoft Azure service. It fear this runs afoul of University policy on using a survey vendors with whom we do not have a formal business associate agreement. (See Section I, Subsection H.) This is unfortunate because this is the easiest path to an end-to-end solution.
- Defined my own alternative database back end in the AWS cloud. As I read it, the policy should allow this.
Doing
- Trying to build a web service interface between the front and back ends of Surveyor.
- Drafting email to send to subjects as reminder and to describe the new path forward.
Struggling
Done
Administrivia
- Completed year-end summary.
Data Collection
- Responding to feedback from AFL, fixed problem in re-opening survey session after closing browser. This was a simple Qualtrics configuration problem.
- Implemented and sanity tested breadboard prototype of Dactylize circuit.
- Worked through some tutorials on Pure Data for much-needed refresher course.
- Filled in some details for the back end of the automatic data collection. (The plan is to output text-based MIDI events along with timestamps with microsecond granularity to a file interleaved with fingering change events timestamped the same way. Then we will process the file offline and generate output similar to what we are producing in the manual editor along with an actual MIDI file. This processing will be done by a Perl or Python program, to help me retain some sanity.)
Doing
- Deploying Survey III to remainder (bulk) of subject pool.
- Proving Dactylize concept. (Scale up to 80 keys?)
- Soldering production Dactylize circuit.
- Creating (crimping) custom cables for production Dactylize system.
- Discussing each descriptive chart in detail--its purpose, insight (if any). High priority now because promised to share with subjects.
- Transcribing Harold Samuel fingerings from Tovey WTC edition through Survey III.
- Determining predictive value of one fingering sequence choice on another--initial Chi Square foray.
- Calculating mean edit distance as measure of IAA and "influence."
- Calculating adoption rate as measure of "influence."
- Performing Chi Square analysis of exploratory dataset to correlate abbreviated Parncutt fingerings with gender, reach, age, Hanon usage, technical practice, preparation actions, injury, etc.
- Finishing Parncutt algorithm implementation.
- Transcribing Czerny Opus 821 to use in missing annotation study. 10% done.
Struggling
- A funeral in Southern Illinois will take a chunk out of my weekend.
