User:Eburkholder

I am an undergraduate at Valparaiso University pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Data Science.

Email: eric.burkholder@valpo.edu

Work Log

Week 1

Monday

• Met with REU leaders, mentor, and other fellows
• Attended Day 1 of the Data Science Boot Camp with Dr. Praveen
• Downloaded and installed Anaconda Navigator
• Downloaded and installed Slack
• Posted questions to Slack research chat regarding current research state
• Received my research job of developing Android and iOS apps for deployment of model
• Inquired about resources for learning to develop apps
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Tuesday

• Attended Day 2 of the Data Science Boot Camp with Dr. Praveen
• Began searching for appropriate Android app software and resources
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Wednesday

• Attended Day 3 of the Data Science Boot Camp with Dr. Praveen
• Read over answers to questions posted on Slack
• Purchased material to improve remote work area

Thursday

• Attended Dr. Brylow's lecture “Good Research Practices and the Art of Keeping Logs”
• Selected Android Studio as IDE for writing and developing Android app
• Searched for and found Android Studio tutorials
• Wrote up tentative Milestones and Goals for the summer
• Read “Remote Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability Detection and Monitoring from Face Video with Minimum Resources,” a paper that will likely be published from this research project
• Researched project terms from “Remote Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability Detection and Monitoring from Face Video with Minimum Resources”
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Friday

• Filled out user page and project abstract on Marquette REU wiki
• Finished reading “Remote Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability Detection and Monitoring from Face Video with Minimum Resources”
• Read “Amplitude-selective filtering for remote-PPG" to understand amplitude –selective filtering in the current model
• Reviewed terms of “Remote Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability Detection and Monitoring from Face Video with Minimum Resources” via other published papers and online search engines
• Installed Android Studio
• Practiced Android Studio with beginner tutorial
• Troubleshooting Android Virtual Machine
• Attended weekly Ubicomp Lab meeting with mentor and graduate students
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log

Week 2

Monday

• Updating BIOS settings to enable Android Virtual Machine
• Watch and complete app for “How to Make an Android App for Beginners”
• Watch and complete app for “Android Studio For Beginners Part 1”
• Attended Dr. Brylow’s lecture “Responsible Conduct of Research”
• Registered for CITI course modules
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Tuesday

• Completed CITI/RCD Authorship module
• Completed CITI/RCD Peer Review module
• Completed CITI/RCD Plagiarism module
• Completed CITI/RCD Collaborative Research module
• Completed CITI/RCD Data Management module
• Completed CITI/RCD Research Involving Human Subjects module
• Completed CITI/RCD Research Misconduct module
• Completed CITI/RCD Using Animal Subjects in Research module
• Completed CITI/RCD Conflicts of Interest module
• Completed CITI/RCD Financial Responsibility module
• Completed CITI/RCD Mentoring module
• Completed CITI/RCD Research, Ethics, and Society module
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Wednesday

• Attended Dr. Praveen’s and Dr. Brylow’s lecture “Technical Writing”
• Watched and completed app for “Android Studio For Beginners Part 2”
• Learned how to convert Java code to Kotlin
• Began watching and completing app for “Android Studio For Beginners Part 3”
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Thursday

• Watched and completed app for “Android Studio For Beginners Part 3”
• Troubleshooting for app practice
• Literature search for “rPPG” in IEEE XPlore and ACM Digital Library
• Read “Whosecough: In-the-Wild Cougher Verification Using Multitask Learning” from UBICOMP in order to understand UBICOMP standards
• Compiled list of papers to read to understand current rPPG smartphone application research
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Friday

• Read “VitaMon: Measuring Heart Rate Variability Using Smartphone Front Camera”
• Set up Marquette VPN to access IEEE
• Read “Validation of heart rate extraction using video imaging on a built-in camera system of a smartphone”
• Summarize previously read papers for later use
• Read “Remote Plethysmographic Imaging Using Ambient Light”
• Began trying to build video recording app
• Troubleshooting video recording app
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended weekly Ubicomp Lab meeting with mentor and graduate students

Week 3

Monday

• Troubleshooting video recording app
• Connected Android Virtual Machine to computer webcam
• Experiment with Android Studio emulator API levels
• Look into iOS application development options
• Troubleshooting compiling Android Studio code as jar file
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Tuesday

• Post question on Slack for troubleshooting
• Make StackExchange account to ask specific questions
• Discuss error messages and camera building with research fellow
• Troubleshooting with Android Camera API
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Wednesday

• Reading through Android API information
• Weekly check-in with Dr. Praveen and research fellows
• Searching for Android camera2 API tutorial
• Working through camera2 API tutorial Parts 1-7
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Thursday

• Working through camera2 API tutorial Parts 8-11
• Experiment with various Android Virtual Machines
• Contact previous and current researchers regarding additional parameters
• General debugging and troubleshooting
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Friday

• Fixed toggle button on Android application
• Worked through camera2 API tutorial Parts 12-14
• Troubleshooting to compile Android Studio .jar file
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended weekly Ubicomp Lab meeting with mentor and graduate students

Week 4

Monday

• Reviewing Android code
• Commenting Android code
• Troubleshooting Android Virtual Machine
• Worked through camera2 API tutorial Parts 15-16
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Tuesday

• Post question to Slack regarding different Android Virtual Machine options
• Troubleshooting camera2 app
• Begin designing finished product of Android app
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Wednesday

• Began searching how to connect Android app to server
• Attended lecture with REU fellows regarding Apheresis by Walt Bialkowski
• Discussed resources for learning how to connect to the server
• Debugged Android application
• Began preparing Mini-Presentation
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Thursday

• Debugging code
• Reviewing video and server communication parameters
• Applied time duration to Android application
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Friday

• Tested other ways to control the chronometer
• Attempted to control orientation settings
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended weekly Ubicomp Lab meeting with mentor and graduate students

Week 5

Monday

• Attended Dr. Brylow’s lecture “Good Presentations”
• Searched for resources regarding Android server connection
• Worked on mini-presentation for fellowship
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended daily meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Tuesday

• Finished making mini-presentation for fellowship
• Wrote notes for mini-presentation
• Practiced mini-presentation
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log

Wednesday

• Practiced mini-presentation
• Presented mini-presentation
• Watched other fellows’ mini-presentations
• Began reading resources regarding HTPPS communication
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Thursday

• Read Android Asynchronous HTTP
• Reviewing Server connection code
• Contacting previous researchers to access API
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log

Friday

• Worked on setting up live feed for recording app
• Worked on replacing chronometer for recording app
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log

Week 6

Monday

• Attended Dr. Zimmer’s lecture "Data Ethics: Challenges for the New Epistemology of Data"
• Worked on timing for live stream communication
• Established text views to present server information
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Tuesday

• Adjusted activity view of Android application
• Prepared Android application for server communication
• Continued to Inquire about server API
• Began piecing together paper introduction
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log

Wednesday

• Attended Dr. Brylow’s lecture “Poster Presentations”
• Received API information
• Learned about REST API methods and calls
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Thursday

• Set texts to soft-coded text for application
• Read about JSON and REST API’s
• Planned meeting to discuss application needs and goals moving forward
• Began setting up client-side server communication
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log

Friday

• Met with head on HRV project to discuss video encoding and server communication
• Worked with Java classes in Android application
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended weekly Ubicomp Lab meeting with mentor and graduate students

Week 7

Monday

• Received Javascript server files
• Continued to attempt understanding REST API’s
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Tuesday

• Set up static REST Client for application
• Read code from previous REST application
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log

Wednesday

• Began setting up Post request for REST API
• Attended weekly check-in with other REU fellows
• Read through example REST API code
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Thursday

• Read Javascript server files
• Updated application permissions
• Contacted previous researcher to discuss problems
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log

Friday

• Searched how to put Whammy() encoder in Java
• Posted question to Stack Oveflow regarding encoding video
• Discussed API usage
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended weekly Ubicomp Lab meeting with mentor and graduate students

Week 8

Monday

• Experimented with POST outputs
• Watched “What si a RESTful API? Explanation of REST and HTTP”
• Watched “How To Create An Android App Backend With Node JS”
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log
• Attended meeting with mentor and graduate students to discuss ongoing work

Tuesday

• Explored video encoder options
• Considered poster options
• Experimented with existing monitoring system
• Reflected on day’s work and filled out work log