RE: Initial Planning & Coordination

Project Description & Merits

Describe the project in your own words and list the possible contribution your project can have to advance the field of STEM or solve societal problems.

• Our project is concerned with interpreting brain signals using OpenViBE, which is an open source platform dedicated to designing, testing, and using brain-computer interfaces.
• Our project can be used in various ways. The technology of interpreting brainwaves and using them to control devices has far-reaching implications, especially for disabled people. Through OpenVIBE, we hope to design a BCI that may perhaps one day be used for convenience.

Group/Team Communication

Who will be involved in your project (team) and relevant projects (group)? How to communicate effectively with each other? What are the tools for project collaboration?

• Team - Brian Wong and Sarah Landau
• Groups - groups 4, 5, and 6
• The key to effective collaboration is communication. Updating each other on progress or complications will definitely make things smoother going ahead.  

• How to communicate with other teams (5 & 6)? Have you set up some mechanism (chat group, Google doc, or Git Hub)?
• Since you are going to develop analysis and classification algorithms for team 5 & 6, you should understand their topics and tune your research directions accordingly. Of course, at the very beginning, you can start following something in the tutorials (maybe not directly related to their topics) for learning purpose. Once you set up the whole analysis, classification, and online testing mechanism, you can then modify it to adapt to their needs.

Prior Work/Resource Inventory

Go to the Project Resource website to review the current resource and prior work. Update the page.

• Have you conduct your extensive literature survey?

Technology Analysis

Identify the scientific and technical knowledge/skills involved in your project.

• Familiarization with the OpenVIBE platform
• Familiarization with the Neurosky Headseat (and Emotiv Insight headset)

• Should be in more details such as the flow chart of the signal processing and feature extraction, the classification algorithms (such as SVM and LDA), online testing,  OpenVibe library, subject testing method/process, etc..

Competence

Identify skill sets, technical competence in your group, and list the missing ones which need to be acquired.

• Sarah needs to polish up on physics
• Brian needs to familiarize himself with the OpenVIBE library

• You forgot to list what competence you already have.

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Safety

Identify any safety issues regarding the build, use, store, and dispose of materials and tools

• Nothing really to worry about.

Equipment, materials & budget

List the key materials and equipment required for your project. Identify the key items needed to be purchased and their prices.

• Windows computer
• Nuerosky headset (and Emotiv Insight headset)

• Do you think you can share the headsets with them or you may need one for your team?

Schedule

What are the goals/milestones/plans of your project in the next week? What are the task assignments for each team member?

• We will both sit down and compare our notes on the summer assignments. We will also review the assignments and try to operate the OpenViBE with the headset together.