2015-06-02 status

Done

Administrivia

• Received notification that CS Department had provided feedback on annual review. Asked Santhi how to access.

Data Collection

• Integrated new Manual Data Collector (MDC) into Qualtrics survey.
• Fixed Safari MDC rendering problems.
• Added cursor management on failed input validation.
• Improved note highlighting.
• Fixed problem annotating notes with accidentals.
• Revised survey recruitment email and integrated it into Qualtrics.
• Validated end-to-end survey flow in Qualtrics.
• Discovered rendering problem with multiline tunes.
• Drafted alternative "MDC2" interface for longer tunes with scrolling windows for both input and rendered output.
• Identified performance problem with abcjs library for longer tunes.
• Opened several issues against abcjs.
• Discovered and evaluated abcjs alternative abc2svg and found it much more performant.
• Removed several questions from survey and debugged several problems.
• Decided to remove "bonus" annotation question from survey and to plan for a manual data collection follow-up survey with a separate $100 gift card lottery.
• Decided to use email to send gift cards to winners.

Doing

1. Updating IRB documents to reflect changing plans.
2. Piloting abbreviated survey with my friend Alex.
3. Defining survey distribution lists.
4. Migrating MDC2 to abc2svg.

Struggling

• The UI for MDC2 needs to keep everything visible and rendering quickly.
• I think we should have three consent forms for the three planned data collection stages. Subjects don't need to learn about things they aren't going to do.