Research Task 2 (07/27/15 - 08/09/15)

Great to see you making substantial progresses! Here is your second task for the summer. The main goals of this period is to learn brainwave application development through example projects. Pay special attention to the project flow and the major components of the projects. Also, identify the missing links (knowledge and skills) for conducting your brainwave research. At the same time, you can start brainstorming your own project ideas, and drafting your proposals. In addition, there are a series of nice, short videos which will give you an overview of some of the classification techniques you might encounter while conducting your research. 

Brainwave Projects

1. Project Proposal: Mind-Controlled Keyboard (2014),  Putthipee Chattaris, Supree Srimanchanda. [20 pages] It is a pretty decent project proposal for developing brainwave application. Learn from the proposal in details how they plan and organize their project in many aspects. It will help you a lot how to plan and organize your own project. 
2. Brain-Activity-Driven Real-Time Music Emotive Control (2013), Sergio Giraldo, Rafael Ramirez. [6 pages] Use this paper as an example to see how people conduct brainwave research and report their results. 
3. Come up a few project ideas, and view them through the framework of example projects. Write a very brief (preliminary, non-formal) project proposal based on the ideas you have.

Classification Algorithms

1. How classification algorithms work (2015),  YouTube videos, Thales Sehn Körting. Classification is one of the major step of developing brainwave applications. Since classification involves lots of math, it can be overwhelming when you encounter them in technical papers. A series of 9 video tutorials give you a light introduction to classification algorithms. Though some of them may still seem pretty difficult or not clear enough. You will have chance to zoom in and study in more depth later. At this point, just get familiar with them and understand them as much as possible.

* Whenever you come across good papers/websites/reports, don't forget to add them to the "Project Resource" page.

* Please take electronic notes while you are studying the materials, watching the videos, or browsing through the web.

* Make PowerPoint presentations based on your notes. We will start presentation at the beginning of the year.