This Week
All of my time this week was spent working on the design report. I researched eye-tracking in general, and when used for musical composition. I was able to find quite a few other projects with similar goals and/or functionalities to ours that we can use to inform our project and it’s goals [1], such as EyeHarp [2], E-Scape [3][4], and an academic project called EyeMusic [5]. All of these, and their relation to our project I described more in depth in the design report.
Other than the research and work I did for the introduction and related works, I also worked on several other sections of the report, including the use case and design requirements, (software) system implementation, testing, risk mitigation, and summary sections.
Fall Break
I planned to catch up on some of my previous tasks during Fall break. Specifically, I wanted to work on the frontend and determine how to map eye-coordinates to commands. However, I was unable to due to other commitments.
Next Week
Since I have fallen behind in our Gantt chart schedule, my main goal this week will be catching up on my work. To catch up, I will continue working on the frontend, which will include the deciding whether to continue coding with Tkinter, or to switch to Django, as was suggested to us by one of our advisors. Also, I will begin work on mapping eye coordinates to commands.
There are also a couple of other tasks I need to start working on this week: create responses to commands that would update the MIDI file, and integrating an existing MIDI to sheet music program with our system. Further, the ethics assignment is due this week, so I will have to work on that.
This is a fair amount of work to do in one week, so I don’t expect to finish all of these tasks completely, but I will start on all of them so I have an idea of how long they will take overall, and perhaps adjust the Gantt chart from there.
References
[1] O’Keeffe, K.. (2020, Feb 20). Eyegaze for Musical Expression. Assistive Technology and Me. https://www.atandme.com/eyegaze-for-musical-expression/
[2] FAQs. EyeHarp. https://eyeharp.org/faq/
[3] Anderson, T. Eyegaze music. Inclusive Music. https://www.inclusivemusic.org.uk/using-e-scape-with-eyegaze/
[4] Drake Music. (2014, Nov 24). EyeGaze composing with E-Scape. Vimeo. https://vimeo.com/112689731
[5] Hornof, A. J., & Sato, L. (2004). EyeMusic: Making Music with the Eyes. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 185–188. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1176613