Andrew’s Status Report 11/20

This week, I looked into smoothing out the cursor motion again and started a basic implementation of the finite state machine for when the system is in cursor movement mode and in precision mode i.e. when a user is trying to be price and hover over a specific region on screen. While the team didn’t meet this week, we will be working closely this coming week for getting the system to behave a bit more smoothly incorporating the feedback from the interim demo report. I’m thinking of changing the mouse movement function a little bit to make it more drastic like scaling up the movement by some constant so the distance moved is greater so the user doesn’t have to strain as much. Then, since we’re doing some form of FSM, we can change the state to detect when the user is trying to be precise or when he wants to move. We’re placing an emphasis on our project on quality of life and user likability, and that’s what’s prompting this decision. As I said earlier, I’ll be following up with the team to test this on the webcam as they have the one we’re using right now. As per the interim demo as well, we have a functional project, we’re just working out the little kinks. As such, I’m on schedule with my work.