DAy XIII: Waldo? Where!?

Today was quite an enjoyable one. And why not? Free lunch seminar, and no coding! It was great. The staff meeting was nothing special, except that Alex started to watch Shoot 'em Up on his laptop before the meeting started and I finally got to see the scene that my friend Joe kept telling me about where he kills a goon with a carrot. It was...interesting. Oh, and Erika fell asleep on the conference table while we were waiting. I though about sneaking off and holding the meeting somewhere else while she was asleep, so she'd wake up and find us all gone, but I decided against it. Bob thought it was funny. After all, it was him who'd told us about when he'd done it to an intern a couple of years ago.

I started off my actual work with more transcribing. I finished fifteen or so more pictures, and now the long-viewing segment is done. That may be a big difference to a coder, but I'm not doing that yet. So my pace remained unchanged. That took up a lot of the morning, actually, and at about eleven I made my way back into the main room for a break and to see what was happening over there. Matt and I ended up helping with the TV some more, then we discussed our impending project. We didn't really come up with anything in that brainstorm, though, so we headed out to the lunch lecture instead.

I loved the lecture because it used an awesome projector setup that put huge screens on five walls. It was cool, I'd never seen it used that way before. There were actually a couple of neat things I learned about Ultrasound too. But it also ended early. I was sad.

When we got back, I fully intended to get right back to coding. Really, I swear. But I ended up having another brainstorming session with Matt, Erika, and Jane, and we came up with some great ideas for our presentations and posters. We're going to analyze the methods people use to search for a particular object out of a group of similar ones. Matt and Jane will work on one mini-study, Erika and I a separate one. As I assume you've guessed by now, Erika and I will be watching people search a Where's Waldo picture, (Or several ones) and analyze the patterns that emerge. Hopefully, our fellow interns will allow themselves to be used as test subjects. After reaching that idea, Erika found a couple papers on the subject for us to look over and I found some Where's Waldo images to use. We put together a PowerPoint to use in the experiment, but that will require tweaking tomorrow. I expect that to be the major project for tomorrow, but I know I'll have to get back to coding sometime.