Terry Keller
Carlos Castellanos
Ryan Avery

• Physical/biological sensor aquisition: Shop for sensor vendors, taking into account both price and ease of interface in sensor selection.
• Electrical interfaces for sensors constructed: Preliminary sensor data tests
• Audio and video input solutions researched / aquired: Microphone has to function well relatively far from subject, video camera needs good low-light resolution for use in installation
• Construct standard format for user data database: Entire project will rely on effectiveness of database, so plan for easy future expansion.
• Exact data-to-visualization and data-to-sonification algorithms are set: Begin work on algorithm implementation

• Database back-end preliminary construction
• Begin microphone input programming: Techniques such as differential microphones, automatic echo cancellation required for effective implimentation
• Electrical interfaces tweaked to match changing system specifications

• Database back-end final implementation
• Microphone and camera capture design (software and hardware) completed, tested
• Exact inter-person dialogue procedure finalized (how the system constructs a dialogue based on user data)
• Begin coding dialogue procedure system: Work will be slow until the individual system tests are completed
• Finalize all electrical interfaces - no changes after this point unless ABSOLUTELY necessary

• Individual system tests: Very limited inter-system functionality exists
• Test user data acquisition system for database
• Test video output based on dummy data in database
• Test audio output based on dummy data in database
• Present tests to potential installation venues
• Complete the coding of prototype inter-person dialogue procedure system

• Final installation venue(s) confirmed
• Acquire actual installation projectors
• Finalize all system interfaces - after this point no inter-system interfaces should change unless ABSOLUTELY necessary

• Acquire actual installation speakers
• Full laboratory build - prototype quality
• Determine architectural parameters for final build: objective is to hide the underlying technology as much as possible.
• Individual intra-system re-coding and tweaking

• Begin final architectural construction
• Inter-system re-coding and tweaking
• Implement "attract-mode" to entice user interaction

• Begin integrating final architectural components into lab build
• Finalize all code
• Final laboratory build - museum quality
• Packing and teardown of system for transportability
• Site installation of setup and site-specific fine-tuning
• Installation premier!
• Nightly system work and re-builds to correct for unexpected real-installation issues - necessary until system is running 100%