Didactyl: 2015-10-21 staus

Done

Hosted (with a lot of help from colleagues at UIC and NU) Chris Raphael's distinguished lecture, "The Informatics Philharmonic." It was a real career highlight for me.
Interviewed two undergraduate mentee (yes, that is a word) candidates for WiCS DREAM program. They were both interested in the BowTIE project. One (trumpeter Jackson Price) will start this semester. One (guitarist Alex Pieczynski) will join next semester.
Reached out to CR for help identifying a more research oriented to piano pedagogue to collaborate with.
Sent a status update to Dr. Forbes per his request at the Raphael dinner. It would be great to engage him more.
Received a nice email from Eugene Graub, a piano professor at Grinnell, asking to be kept apprised of the Didactyl project.

Distributed initial survey recruitment email to list of 203 piano faculty in Midwest universities. Received 20 (with 15 completing both parts) responses so far.
Sent reminder email to CAMTA mailing list.
Started compiling music department contact list, as third recruitment wave will apparently be needed to get to 50 respondents, which is still my minimal goal.
Met with SJ to demo MDC4 and discuss my planned data collection approach.
Exchanged email with Dr. Cruz, whose brother is a classical pianist. As tradition mandates, I tried to rope him in as a subject or collaborator. It was nice of her to think of my work.

Researched cross-platform mobile development.
Created new GitHub project for this development work.
Created "Hello World" PhoneGap application. PhoneGap seems a promising way to get a research system up fast.
Jackson has trumpet and horn performance undergraduate friends (at Northern Illinois and UIUC, as I recall) who (along with me and him) might form be a subject pool to evaluate this system. I am very excited to have Jackson on board.

Response rate still stinks.
Do I need to worry about selection bias? (Are we only going to get outlier subjects with unusually diverse notions of fingering?)