Week Five - Day Two

Talked about the poster and at first, our poster was blocked off with text and very structured with 3 by 3 square cubes. The people working with us explained how sometimes it's okay to make research posters consisting mainly of text but when you understand the project, it's better to have pictures and illustrations. A illustration can explain an idea in many ways that a block of text can't, but if the audience or the presenter does not fully understand the project, having text for the audience to read through can be useful.

The figure above was an illustration I drew in paint to describe my idea for the poster. I choose to make the poster itself an illustration of the process and apparently this type of poster is very useful for seminars. The reason this type of poster may be useful is because even with illustrations and graphs, the overall poster passes on the message and flows, making the path the eye follows flow around the poster. This allows every point to be covered. The name of project would be stationed in the middle and the intro in the top left corner. Then the information text would be fed into the brain and the Fast Fourier Transform would spit out the different frequencies which would contain different sentence lengths describing what my part of the project consisted of. Then the output from the Fast Fourier Transform would then be inputted into the Cortical Learning Algorithm and the text would trickle down and form at the bottom. Although the Cortical Learning Algorithm goes from the bottom and heads up, the flow of the poster leads down. After being classified by the Cortical Learning Algorithm, the output from that get's inputted into the game as the controls instead of the EmoKey. The instructions screen and game over screen would be replaced with text with a picture of the game on the side. That all leads to the finished product and the name of the over all project which is Game-Mind Interface.

During practicing to present the poster, it's good to have a few tips:
- It's okay to say "That is beyond the extent of our research/knowledge" if someone asks something you don't know
- Keep it simple at first and go into more detail if they start asking questions, give a summary and general idea in the beginning
- Talk about Neurofeedback when discussing future plans about the educational game