This week, the team worked on planning out a schedule for our project as well as cut down on the scope of our project. Initially, we had wanted to have our glove determine all the letters of the alphabet in ASL as well as a few common phrases, but after closer evaluation and more thorough planning, we determined that we don’t have enough time for such a large scope project.
Another change to our project is that our glove will no longer be wireless. Having a glove that can’t reliably transmit data to compute would be detrimental to our project and having the glove wired to our computer would not be changing the fundamental function of the glove.
We also spent a lot of time thinking about the requirements for our products, originally from an implementation perspective then shifting to a user-experience perspective. After shifting perspectives, we had to redo our research so that our decisions on the requirements were educated.
For next week, we plan on ordering parts (ordering extras for back up in case something breaks) as well as determining the ML model we will use to classify each gesture and creating a dummy dataset to identify which model fits our use case the best. We will also be giving our proposal presentation during this week.