Date of Meeting: April 22nd, 2014
Time of Meeting: 12:15pm
Place of Meeting: Library
Members in Attendance: Brilzen Varghese, Dave Zhang, Jose Giron, Mike Anastasakis, Navin Rao
End of Meeting: 1:20pm
Secretary: Navin Rao
Agenda: To assign tasks to present to Professor Oakes on 4/24/14 (Thursday)
Discussion:
- The tasks we were assigned are as followed:
- Requirements Document
- Sand Castle
- Getting user feedback (using scientific approach)
- Test Cases
- I, Navin Rao, was assigned to complete the Requirements Document.
- Brilzen was assigned to learn about and use Sand Castle.
- Mike was assigned the task of getting user feedback from various people
- Jose was in charge of completing test cases of things that are supposed to work and things that aren't supposed to work
- We agreed to upload all of our documents onto our shared Google Drive, in case one of us is absent during Thursday's class.
Meeting Ended at 1:20pm.
Date of Meeting: April 15th, 2014
Time of Meeting: 2:50pm
Place of Meeting: Library
Members in Attendance: Brilzen Varghese, Dave Zhang, Jose Giron, Mike Anastasakis, Navin Rao
End of Meeting: 4:22pm
Secretary: Navin Rao
Agenda: To discuss our work with the group
Discussion:
- Jose and Dave presented a new UI for the Home screen. Design is sleek and eye-grabbing.
- I added an Audio screen that is able to stream music locally and play it. The screen serves as a music player in the app.
- Mike was unable to figure out how to get the voice commands to work. We extended the due date to next week.
- Brilzen added a Google Maps Navigation screen to the app, allowing the user to type in any address and receive the location and directions on the map.
- We set up Visual Studio Online (TFS), to enable us to check in, edit and check out code from home. We were using a Google Doc and zipping/emailing previously to transport code, which was inefficient and time consuming.
Meeting Ended at 4:22pm
Date of Meeting: April 10th, 2014
Time of Meeting: 8:10am
Place of Meeting: Woodland 132
Members in Attendance: Brilzen Varghese, Dave Zhang, Mike Anastasakis, Navin Rao
End of Meeting: 8:50am
Secretary: Navin Rao
Agenda: To present our research
Discussion:
- Dave presented a very basic layout of the WPF prototype that he and Jose worked on.
- Due to the set back, we decided to all be involved in the UI design to help complete the task.
- We decided to use Blend to help reduce the amount of time coding in XAML and to make the UI more aesthetically pleasing
- Mike came up with a list of voice commands in the library
- Brilizen and Navin (myself) showed the group a list of gestures that the app should be able to detect and what functionality it should have.
Meeting Ended at 8:50am.
Date of Meeting: April 3rd, 2014
Time of Meeting: 2:50pm
Place of Meeting: Library
Members in Attendance: Brilzen Varghese, Dave Zhang, Jose Giron, Mike Anastasakis, Navin Rao
End of Meeting: 3:34pm
Secretary: Navin Rao
Agenda: To assign more specific tasks to group members
Discussion:
- Dave and Jose failed to present their WPF prototype by the assigned time. They didn't have anything to show.
- We discussed assigning three people for design, but decided otherwise.
- We decided to break down tasks for the members doing research and brainstorming
- Mike will be in charging of implementing voice commands and conducting research in that area
- Brilizen and Navin (myself) will be in charge of creating new gestures for the kinect to detect and implement functionality behind them. We will also be in charge of overall project functionality.
Meeting Ended at 3:34pm.
Date of Meeting: March 25th, 2014
Time of Meeting: 2:50pm
Place of Meeting: Library
Members in Attendance: Brilzen Varghese, Dave Zhang, Jose Giron, Mike Anastasakis, Navin Rao
End of Meeting: 3:15pm
Secretary: Navin Rao
Agenda: To keep our group discussion active and share new ideas
Discussion:
- The team designer, Jose Giron, presented the mock-up of the application to the group
- The mock-up included Google Map Navigation, Music, Climate, Web Browser, Phone, Contacts.
- Jose and Dave are going to have a WPF prototype running by next week including designs from the mock-up
- Some new ideas were presented:
- Since the Kinect has microphones on both sides, the Kinect can determine whether the driver or passenger are talking. Certain voice commands can have functionality depending on whether the driver or passenger said it.
- For example, if I wanted to raise the volume of a song, I could say "Increase Volume" and have the function only work if the driver says it. It would not work for the passenger.
- Face Tracking could possible unlock the app and grant the driver certain permissions.
- Brilzen, Mike and me, Navin, will continue to brainstorm new ideas for the car design and implementation.
Meeting Ended 3:15pm.
Date of Meeting: March 18th, 2014
Time of Meeting: 2:55pm
Place of Meeting: Library
Members in Attendance: Brilzen Varghese, Dave Zhang, Jose Giron, Mike Anastasakis, Navin Rao
End of Meeting: 3:20pm
Secretary: Navin Rao
Agenda: To keep our group discussion active and share new ideas
Discussion:
- To get the kinect to detect the user close while in a driver's seat, we realized we need 3 essential lines of code:
- _sensor.DepthStream.Range = DepthRange.Near; (only works on Windows Kinect)
- _sensor.SkeletonStream.EnableTrackingInNearRange = true;
- _sensor.SkeletonStream.TrackingMode = SkeletonTrackingMode.Seated;
- Since we are not concerned with movement of our legs, we use the last line of code to only track our upper body movements.
- The team designers will start to work on the mock-up for the application and will present it during the next group meeting.
Meeting Ended at 3:20pm.
Date of Meeting: March 4th, 2014
Time of Meeting: 3:00pm
Place of Meeting: Library
Members in Attendance: Brilzen Varghese, Dave Zhang, Jose Giron, Mike Anastasakis, Navin Rao
End of Meeting: 3:36pm
Secretary: Navin Rao
Agenda: To keep our group discussion active and share new ideas
Discussion:
- We talked about the feasibility of the project idea "Strength Training". From our research, we realized the project is harder than we had thought.
- Brilizen suggested changing the project to Car Information Station.
- In this project, we would have a similar interface to the Car Information Station project we had to design earlier this semester, except we would implement the Kinect sensor to detect body movements. The goal would be to design an app to control a smart car, like the Telsa touchpad, and sense movements to change/control functionality of the app.
- For example, if I waved my arm to the right, the current screen or song would change. If I move my hand up, the volume would increase.
- For homework, we said we would do more research on what kind of movements would be ideal in a car-like environment for the Kinect. (Full body movements cannot be implemented because the user would be sitting in the car)
