Day 19

         Today I continued to try and find a correlation between time spent on the images and time on the surveys as well as if there was an affect on ratings. After analyzing all the data I can't find any correlation between the two times so I believe they are not dependent on each other. During lunch today we went for a bike ride as a group. We biked from rit to Mt. Hope cemetery. At the cemetery we saw Frederick Douglass' grave as well as Susan B Anthony's. After that we ate lunch at Pelligrinos and then biked back to rit. I wrapped up my analysis for the day as well as putting on the finishing touches to the outline, then headed home.

Day 18

       Today was once again spent on data analysis. I looked further into the survey results. Specifically I looked at the amount of time people spent viewing the images and if it had any correlation with ratings. So far I haven't gotten far enough to reach a conclusion. For lunch today I had pizza with the other interns and then listened to a talk on wildfires and research related to them as well as what the life of a scientist is like. The talk was actually very interesting and enjoyable. After lunch I continued to work with the surveys until it was time to go home.

Day 17

        Today was spent on data analysis. Throughout the day I continued to work with the surveys participants took two days after they did the eye test. The information I found had some clear patterns. People who were given more specific instructions when viewing the art tended to give it a higher rating. They also tended to take longer to complete the survey. Both groups rated landscapes the highest and abstracts the lowest. The group that received fewer instructions tended to rate cubism art pieces higher. For lunch today I ate with the other interns again. After lunch I continued to work with the surveys looking for patterns. Tomorrow I hope to compare time participants spent taking the survey to how long they viewed the art as well as how the comparison affects ratings.

Day 16

        Today was spent starting to analyze the data we've collected so far. This morning I averaged all of the ratings that test subjects from the first group gave to the paintings. I had to wait to do the second group because we had one more person who had to take the questionnaire, In the meantime we decided what data we would look for when analyzing. Some ideas were fixation times, number of saccades, areas of interest, time subjects look at the image and time spent on the questionnaire. After that we took a lunch break and went with most of the other interns to eat lunch outside. After lunch we went to the color science building and participated in a grad students experiment. We each looked at different colors, trying to differentiate them from backgrounds. After participating in the experiment we went back to the Carlson building. I spent most of the afternoon averaging the surveys from the second group as well as comparing the two averages. After a surface glance at the two sets of averages, its clear that people who were given more detailed instructions tended to rate the images more favorably. They also tended to spend more time taking the questionnaire. Now that I'm home I put all of the averages in a spreadsheet to make them more clear and easy to work with. The day ends with me wrapping up this blog!

Day 15

       Today we continued to test people from the dual eye experiment. We also finished our final tests for the remote eye tracker test. We had several more people volunteer to do the dual eye track test as well as several more failures at getting a read on a person's eye. We also met with our advisors and discussed the next steps in our experiment. We plan on analysing the data we've collected next week. We also are thinking about having test subjects take a questionnaire showing their interest in art. For lunch we grilled hot dogs outside again and played a hardcore game of volleyball. After switching to a weird version of soccer/volleyball we continued to wrap up testing for the day. Next week analysis will be started to see our results.

Day 14

        Today we started off with the morning meeting where we discussed new aspects in our projects. After the meeting John and I ran two people we tested on Tuesday through part 2 of our experiment. After that we had lunch in the MVRL room where we were celebrating a couple birthdays as well as wishing Jeff good luck on a year long trip. After lunch we worked with the dual eye tracking experiment. Now that the glasses are working we were able to run our experiment using both the glasses and the remote eye tracker. Although many of our fellow interns volunteered to be participants when we tried to track them we found that only around half of the were traceable. For some of them the smi glasses couldn't get a fix on their eye movements so we were unable to use them in our experiment. The rest of the day we tested people who the glasses could actually get a read on.

Day 13

       Today we ran a few more tests as well as doing part two of the tests for several people. For lunch we had pizza and soda the listened to a talk on remote sensing. We learned more about the use of imaging in areas such as agriculture where satellite images can be taken using specific filters to identify certain crops. After lunch I continued to run tests as well as explore some of the results.