2015-04-10 status

Done

Administrivia

• Pinged Daniel Murphy about taking Music 170 (group piano lessons). No reply.
• Formally requested support from Michael J. Anderson, head of the Department of Music. No reply.

Data Collection

• Drafted more survey questions about attitudes toward fingering.
• Improved MDC JavaScript tool to support grand staffs, chords, grace notes, and ornamented notes.
• Made annotation positionings configurable in MDC.

Doing

1. JavaScripting the Manual Data Collector (MDC).
2. Finalizing survey instrument by April 20 (when decision on Provost's Award is due).
3. Contacting prior system developers to request data.
4. Trying to quantify variability in the Parncutt sight-reading corpus with a mind toward defining statistical approaches, as requested in protocol template.
5. Trying to run finger6 over input file.
6. Playing with Synthesia AFP (one .exe, one .dll, and that's it).
7. Collecting all the Synthesia data there is from their forum.
8. Implementing basic color tracking synchronized with MIDI events.

Struggling

• New Scrum process being implemented at work.