Initial Planning and Coordination (Isabelle)

Project Description and Merits:

• I would like to create an app that uses the EEG data from the Emotiv Insight headset to read the users mood. The app will then show a color that corresponds to the users mood in real time, and change depending on how they are feeling.
• This will be useful in therapy situations to help the user and their therapist to understand how they are feeling. It will also be useful for those that cannot describe how they are feeling because of a disability. People could practice controlling their emotions easier if they have visual cues of their feelings.

Group/Team Communication:

• The teams 4, 5, and 6 make up this group, however at present there is only teams 4 and 6.
• My team consists of myself.
• Collaboration can only work if everyone involved understands each other, and allows for all ideas and opinions to be shared. To summarize, good communication is key and an open mind can only help.

Prior Work/Resource Inventory:

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Technology Analysis:

• A strong understanding of neuroscience and the lobes of the brain.
• Understanding of the headset's API and the coding involved with it.

Competence:

• At present, I know Python and some C, but I will have to learn a mobile app language like Swift. I also need to brush up on the EEG information that I read over the summer. I have not looked at the papers in a couple of weeks and I need to look over them again.

Safety: The headset, when it arrives, should be stored correctly, but other than that everything should be fine.

Equipment, Materials, and Budget: Once again, other than the headset, there shouldn't have to be any extra equipment. The online courses that I will be taking are free, so that isn't an issue.

Schedule: In the next week, I want to strengthen my neuroscience background and solidify my ideas. I may also have to change the idea that I have as of now, since I do not know yet how good of an idea it is. Only after that I want to dive into the programming.

Initial note: I am not certain how successful and/or feasible this project is with me working on my own. I also have a lot of skills that I will need learn, as described earlier in this post. I am very much welcome to suggestions and/or feedback.