progress report 2

Since the past progress report we have not made much progress on our issue connecting the neurosky headset to a windows computer. Apparently, windows obnoxiously keeps rejecting the neurosky driver and installing their own, which then won’t succesfully connect. Although we have worked with the neurosky drive and looked for help on several online forums, we could not find a solution.

Our project is multi-faceted, though. We have learned that instead of sitting on that problem and halting the rest of our work until we find a solution, we can focus on a different aspect of our research. We have done so by directing our attention towards OpenVibe.

Using one of the computers the last year’s OpenVibe group used, we explored the OpenVibe platform as per our past research. We utilized the tutorials on OpenVibe’s website and created our own few scenarios, using the given boxes. The scenarios are not of heavy importance; they were just meant as exercises, and taught us valuable OpenVibe navigation skills.

Next week, we will continue with more OpenVibe tutorials to familiarize ourselves with OpenVibe as authors. In addition, we will be utilizing last year’s recorded EEG data in our scenarios, until we can successfully connect the Neurosky headset.

We have added a goal to our Gantt chart: we want, with the help of the OpenVibe tutorials, build a functioning scenario with several boxes, maybe even something pre-recorded like the handball game.