Week 8 8/11/08-8/15/08
On Monday, I incorporated Evan’s changes and got Scenic to compile again so that I can work on it. It still won’t quite take the grammar sequence and generate the icons from it but it is getting very close. I also started working on my slides for my presentation next Monday. It turns out that Google Documents is very good for making slides. Trace collection got postponed again so I worked on getting Scenic to pull the place and people names from the database. I may have to change which table the people names are pulled from, but it is working.
On Tuesday, I worked on the property list population in Scenic. I changed the places to be populated from a table in the ecosystem DB, and added methods to load the list of people group names. Trace collection got postponed again. Kyle forwarded the Internal Review Board forms that I will need to fill out and submit to get permission to do a user study.
On Wednesday, I worked on the CSS for Notifier and added a refresh button to the table of currently subscribed events. I also got Scenic to partly load templates and events. It had issues loading the pictures for people and things and for some reason it would display the ID as the name. E.g. it would reload my icon as ‘keucken’ instead of ‘Kayla Eucken.’ I also added some screenshots from Scenic and Notifier to my paper.
We also did trace collection in the afternoon. It was really hard to get everyone ready, and have all the keys and cards needed, and have all the antennas working… We ended up getting the big group scenario done so that means we will only need two people and two shadows walking behind them in order to do the other scenarios (instead of four people and four shadows).
On Thursday, Kyle and I brainstormed up some questions to answer with our user studies. I worked on the internal review board forms. I also worked on getting Notifier’s text to speech to save a file of the speech and then load it and play it in an iframe. Using GIMP, I also made a nice loading gif.
On Friday, we had our weekly meeting and I showed Magda how Scenic and Notifier were looking. I changed Scenic to have an all purple color scheme and took a bunch of screen shots for my presentation slides. Kyle, Leilani, and I went out to lunch on the Ave since it was our last chance to have a group lunch. Kyle will be gone next week until Friday afternoon and Leilani’s last day is Friday.
On Saturday, I came in at 1 and worked on my presentation a little bit. Evan still hadn’t had time to finish the loading stuff so I didn’t get much done. I did, however, commit a standalone email class with methods to send email and send email with a specific sent date. Kyle had been needing to send emails in the past in order to set up some fake ones for use in her user study.
On Sunday, I came in at 4 and worked until 6:30. I added a little bit more to my presentation slides but I mostly just worked on getting Scenic to actually load template and stuff correctly. Somewhere it was assigning the actor number (-1, usually) to the actor ID, and assigning the actor ID as the actor name. It took me a long time to figure out which of 94+ classes had the erroneous statements. I ended up having to change some classes from listing the actor ID as an int to a String, but I got it working.