On Monday we had the chance to work one-on-one with a group of Girl Scout campers to tech them about soldering and paper circuits. We had 2 rounds of campers, and the two campers I worked most directly with took very different approaches. The first camper knew right away she didn’t want to draw anything and just wanted to trace the IU logo and make it light up. She came in with a clear idea of what she wanted to do, did it quickly, and then was ready to leave. She said she made the card for her dad so I asked her if she wanted to write a note to him on it and she re-affirmed, “No, I’m done.” The second camper I worked with had no idea what she wanted to do with her design, so I helped her think about a general good spot for her LED and sketch out the paper circuit. In the time it took her to complete the circuit, she came up with a design idea. She wrote a Latin expression for “ready for everything” that was special to her family on the front cover and then drew in blue and purple stars and a single green star around the green LED. She was very happy with how her card turned out and asked me to sign it for her. It was cool to see these 2 very different approaches to the task, and it was kind of sad to miss out on the rest of their week. But there was no shortage of work to do on the project this week.
We started really diving into Dedoose. We’ve coded the first 6 transcripts so far and our inter-rater reliability is rising pretty steadily. Dedoose has its frustrating “features” and bugs, but I’m definitely glad to have learned how to use it and recognize how much easier it is to use Dedoose than it would be to do all of this on paper. Right now a lot of my workflow is determined by when Aehong has a new test set ready for us to complete.
On Wednesday, we got feedback on our poster design, so I made a few of the suggested changes, giving us more space for content and cutting down on text some. The latest version of our poster can be seen here. We’re hoping to have our analysis done by the end of next week and our prototype started so that we’ll have more images and graphs by Wednesday of Week 10 to use in the final poster.
Our video is in a pretty solid storyboard format now. This screenshot of the main page of the Prezi presentation shows our organization at this point pretty well:
This week, I’ve been working on creating animations for our final video. I’m using images from Flaticon, putting them in a Prezi presentation, and recording my screen using Apowersoft. I’ve included this GIF as a sample of my newly minted animation skills:
The slides from my final lightning talk presentation can be seen here. Overall, I was pretty satisfied and proud of how it turned out. I think I communicated what we’ve done and found and why that’s important and kept the talk pretty close to 3 minutes. The talks were recorded, so I clipped mine out and put it on YouTube. It can be found here.
It was also my week to present my group’s progress and ask for feedback. The slides from my presentation can be found here.
I added a new sheet to our main spreadsheet so that we can keep track of existing caregiving-related apps and their features. I entered in details on Vela Care, Care.com, CareLinx, ClearCareGo/ClearCare Online, and GreatCall Link. It’s been especially interesting to read people’s reviews of those apps. Several had a chunk of pretty significantly negative reviews from people who felt ripped off or scammed.
Meetings with Patrick and Aehong have continued to go well. Patrick talked to us about the application process for Informatics at IU and also gave us advice on cold-calling professors we’re interested in working with.