Weekly Log PRE2019 3 Group15

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Week 2

Goal: Do literature research, define problem, make a plan, define users, start research into design and prototype

	Group	Mats Erdkamp	Sjoerd Leemrijse	Daan Versteeg	Yvonne Vullers	Teun Wittenbols
Monday 10-02	We formed a group and discussed the first possibilities within the project, chose a general theme and started doing research. We attended the tutor session. 30 minutes + 30 minutes	Work on SotA and evaluate design options	Attended meeting with tutors: 30 minutes Elaborated the notes of the meeting: 30 minutes Reading and summarizing scientific literature on the interaction between DJ and crowd: 3 hours	Attended meeting with tutors: 30 minutes	Attended tutor meeting 0.5 hours	Started doing literature research and summarized Pasick (2015) & Johnson. Formed a group and attended meeting. 2 hours + 30 minutes + 30 minutes
Tuesday 11-02			Searching scientific literature on user requirements of the public and the DJ at a party (Gates, Subramanian & Gutwin, 2006), (Gates & Subramanian, 2006): 1 hour
Wednesday 12-02			Summarizing scientific literature on user requirements: 3 hours		Started looking for papers about user interaction and user feedback 2 hours
Thursday 13-02	We had a meeting in which we discussed the feedback from the tutor session, discussed the research and formed a more detailed and specific plan for the project. 1.5 hours		Meeting with group members, discussing who will be doing what the coming week: 1.5 hours		Meeting with group members, discussing who will be doing what the coming week. Emailed Effenaar. 1.5 hours	Did some more research on audience interaction and summarized it. (Hödl, Fitzpatrick, Kayali & Holland, 2017)(Zhang, Wu, & Barthet, ter perse) I, also updated the wiki, made the planning more clear and divided the references of the SotA. Attended the meeting. 1.5 hours + 45 minutes + 1.5 hours
Friday 14-02		Developed access to spotify API 4 hours.				Researched different forms of audience interaction and added it to the SotA. PRE2019_3_Group15#Receiving feedback from the audience via technology 1.5 hours
Saturday 15-02		Created data set from spotify API: 8 hours	Writing the "Users" section based on my prior literature research: 2 hours Updating the section on state of the art based on my prior literature research: 2 hours
Sunday 16-02			Updating the lay-out of the wiki: 1 hour		Updating the milestones and deliverables. Continued looking for papers on incorporating user feedback and user feedback for music events. Summarized papers (Barkhuus & Jorgensen, 2008) & (Atherton, Becker, McLean, Merkin & Rhoades, 2008) 2.5 hours

Week 3

Goal: Continue research, start on design

	Group	Mats Erdkamp	Sjoerd Leemrijse	Daan Versteeg	Yvonne Vullers	Teun Wittenbols
Monday 17-02	Group meeting and general discussion: 45 minutes	Attended tutor meeting: 30 minutes. Discussion with group members: 15 minutes.	Attended tutor meeting: 30 minutes. Discussion with group members: 15 minutes.	Attended tutor meeting: 30 minutes. Discussion with group members: 15 minutes.		Attended tutor meeting: 45 min
Tuesday 18-02
Wednesday 19-02			Worked on a first concept model of our designed system, A first model. 4 hours		Elaborated the notes of the meeting: 30 minutes
Thursday 20-02	Group meeting, discussing plans and everyone's contributions: 1 hour	Group meeting, discussed plans 1 hour	Attended group meeting: 1 hour. Worked on how the user needs lead to a first model: 2 hours	Attended group meeting: 1 hour	Attended group meeting: 1 hour	Attended group meeting: 1 hour
Friday 21-02						Added to the SotA by implenting parts of the research 30 minutes
Saturday 22-02
Sunday 23-02

Carnaval Break

	Group	Mats Erdkamp	Sjoerd Leemrijse	Daan Versteeg	Yvonne Vullers	Teun Wittenbols
Monday 24-02			Worked on a schematic to show how the user needs relate to our design: 1.5 hours
Tuesday 25-02
Wednesday 26-02
Thursday 27-02			Worked on a model to predict music parameters using the Spotify dataset in a multiple regression model: 2 hours			Get to know the basics of node.js 1.5 hours
Friday 28-02					Worked on getting to know javascript, node.js, and visual studio: 6 hours.
Saturday 28-02
Sunday 1-03		Started integration of data set in Tempo curve algorhithm 4 hours.	Did research on the Effenaar: 30 minute Elaborating on the algorithm in the first model: 2 hours		Continued on getting to know javascript and node.js. Also started on getting to know express JS: 4 hours.

Week 4

Goal: Finish first design, start working on software.

	Group	Mats Erdkamp	Sjoerd Leemrijse	Daan Versteeg	Yvonne Vullers	Teun Wittenbols
Monday 02-03	We attended the tutor session and went to the Effenaar in order to get some general information about the possibilities, and or user needs. 30 minutes + 1 hour	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes Had a conversation with the Effenaar: 1 hour	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes Had a conversation with the Effenaar: 1 hour Worked out the notes on the conversation with Effenaar: 30 minutes	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes Had a conversation with the Effenaar: 1 hour	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes
Tuesday 03-03			Worked on explaining the feedforward and feedback parameters more clearly in the concept model: 2 hours
Wednesday 04-03			Did research on the Spotify audio features, tried to come up with exact definitions: 2 hours
Thursday 05-03	We had a meeting in which we discussed the feedback from the tutor session, discussed the research and formed a more detailed and specific plan for the project. 1.5 hours	Attended the group meeting: 1.5 hours	Attended the group meeting: 1.5 hours	Attended the group meeting: 1.5 hours	Attended the group meeting: 1.5 hours	Attended the meeting 1.5 hours
Friday 06-03		Cleaned up data set generation code 2 hours
Saturday 07-03		Added new tags to data set & included pre-filtering backend. 7 hours	Worked on a multiple regression model for feedforward: 4 hours
Sunday 08-03		Finalized pre-filtering backend + made API calls more reliable 4 hours	Processed the results of the multiple regression analysis and added them to the wiki: 3 hours		Worked more on node.js, expressJS and the UI: 6 hours

Week 5

Goal: Work on software

	Group	Mats Erdkamp	Sjoerd Leemrijse	Daan Versteeg	Yvonne Vullers	Teun Wittenbols
Monday 09-03	We attended the tutor session 30 minutes		Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes
Tuesday 10-03
Wednesday 11-03			Try to specify/quantify "excitement" and search for data on it: 2 hours		Elaborated meeting notes: 30 minutes
Thursday 12-03	We had a meeting in which we discussed the feedback from the tutor session, formed a more detailed and specific plan for the project. 1 hour	Attended the group meeting: 1 hour	Attended the group meeting: 1 hour		Attended the group meeting: 1 hour	Attended the group meeting: 1 hour
Friday 13-03		Ideated extra backend implementations: 1 hour	Creating a graphical system overview: 2 hours			Worked on a more general grouping of the different genres and worked on the visualization of a part of the back end 1 hour
Saturday 14-03			Describing the system overview on the Wiki: 2 hours	Started working on interview with the Effenaar: 1 hour	Worked on getting to know Bootstrap JS for creating the UI: 2 hours
Sunday 15-03			Worked on a QET matching algorithm: 2.5 hours		Worked on learning parts that are useful for creating the UI & a little bit on the UI itself: 5 hours

Week 6

Goal: Finish software , do testing

	Group	Mats Erdkamp	Sjoerd Leemrijse	Daan Versteeg	Yvonne Vullers	Teun Wittenbols
Monday 16-03	We attended the tutor session 30 minutes	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes
Tuesday 17-03			Worked further on QET track ordering: 2 hours Looked into Java MATLAB connection: 1 hour		Worked on UI 2 hours
Wednesday 18-03		Looked into Webflow. 2 hours		Worked out interview with the Effenaar: 2 hours
Thursday 19-03			Worked on an interface for the QET, now works with .txt files: 2 hours Learned gitHub: 1 hour		Worked on UI 5 hours
Friday 20-03	We had a meeting in which we discussed the feedback from the tutor session, and worked on setting up GitHub. 1.5 hours	Attended group meeting 1.5 hours		Attended the group meeting: 1.5 hours	Attended the group meeting: 1.5 hours, Looked at/trying to understand Mats's improvements on UI 30 minutes	Attended the group meeting: 1.5 hours
Saturday 21-03		Improved frontend code, took a Vue,js class 5 hours
Sunday 22-03		Searched for frontend CSS design & Improved code 4 hours			Added new inputs and a value display to the UI 2 hours	Worked on the user interface using the code Yvonne made. I changed the HTML slightly and added CSS in Adobe Dreamweaver. 3 hours

Week 7

Goal: Finish up the last bits of the software

	Group	Mats Erdkamp	Sjoerd Leemrijse	Daan Versteeg	Yvonne Vullers	Teun Wittenbols
Monday 23-03	We attended the tutor session 30 minutes	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes	Attended the tutor meeting: 30 minutes
Tuesday 24-03		Backend development + CSS slider development 7 hours	Did research on MATLAB Compiler for Java application: 3 hours
Wednesday 25-03		Learned CSS + started integration of backend 6 hours
Thursday 26-03	We had a meeting in which we discussed the feedback from the tutor session. 1 hour	Attended the group meeting: 1 hour Updated the API reqiest code: 3 hours	Attended the group meeting: 1 hour Tried to transform MATLAB functions to Java: 3 hours	Attended the group meeting: 1 hour Rearranging the wiki and improving the display of code on the wiki: 45 minutes	Attended the group meeting: 1 hour	Attended the group meeting: 1 hour
Friday 27-03			Worked on a GUI for QET matching: 2 hours	Scanning through the wiki on unsubstantiated choices and other nitpicking: 2 hours	Worked on the UI 6 hours
Saturday 28-03			Worked on GUI for QET matching: 3 hours			Made mockups of the lay-out of the final site and got feedback from users 2.5 hours
Sunday 29-03			Reported my progression on the wiki and editing existing pages: 2 hours	Scanning through the wiki on unsubstantiated choices and other nitpicking: 1.5 hour Starting on validation of user needs: 1.5 hour	Worked on the UI 5 hours

Week 8

Goal: Finish wiki, presentation

	Group	Mats Erdkamp	Sjoerd Leemrijse	Daan Versteeg	Yvonne Vullers	Teun Wittenbols
Monday 30-03	We attended the tutor session and had a skype meeting after that ourselves 30 minutes + 1 hour	Attended the tutor meeting: 1.5 hours	Attended the tutor meeting: 1.5 hours	Attended the tutor meeting: 1.5 hours	Attended the tutor meeting: 1.5 hours	Attended the tutor meeting, slightly adjusted mockups and analyzed my own results from the user test. 2.5 hours
Tuesday 31-03			Worked on the Wiki page: 1.5 hours		Worked on restructuring the wiki 2 hours	Updated the SotA and user interface reorganized the structure of the wiki 3 hours Worked on the new user interface of the website using CSS 3 hours
Wednesday 01-04		Spent time on CSS 2 hours	Working on the presentation and wiki: 2 hours		Read other wikis to find out what could still be added to our wiki. Executed user-tests 1 hour	Worked on the user interface of the website using CSS 1.5 hours
Thursday 02-04	Had an online group meeting: 1.5 hours		Attended meeting: 1.5 hours, worked on presentation: 2 hours	Attended the tutor meeting: 1.5 hours	Attended the group meeting: 1.5 hours
Friday 03-04			Worked on the presentation: 1 hour, had a meeting: 1 hour		Worked on the Introduction and more on the structure of the page 1 hour
Saturday 04-04		Spent time on code optimization: 8 hours	Worked on the presentation: 30 minutes		Worked on the Validation of the user needs 2 hours
Sunday 05-04		Kept working on the code: 6 hours		Worked on the Validation of the user needs 4 hours		Worked on the User Interface of the website. 4 hours

Week 9

Goal: Finish wiki, site and last things

	Group	Mats Erdkamp	Sjoerd Leemrijse	Daan Versteeg	Yvonne Vullers	Teun Wittenbols
Monday 06-04		Finished the code and the CSS-layout 8 hours	Worked on the presentation: 2 hours	Worked on the Validation of the user needs: 2 hours Worked on the Future Works: 30 minutes	Finished Introduction and user test 1 2 hours	Finished the UI of the website. Added a part on the user interface in the wiki and did a spell check of the whole wiki. Wrote part of the conclusion and discussion 7 hours + 1 hour + 1