Organised meeting to call Dr Dunning to
introduce ourselves.
~2 hours
All
08/10
Extra lab class to work on hacking Kinects.
Phone call with Dr Dunning.
Made introductions, talked about Dr Dunning’s
goals for the project. This included: redesigning
a surgical robot system, creating a wireless
camera of some form and creating a depth
sensing program to tell if tools are touching the
body.
Dr Dunning invited the team to watch surgery
in Middlesbrough.
~20 minutes
Kirthi, Ed
10/10
Extra lab class to work on hacking Kinects.
Worked on Kinect hacking, learnt to solder to connect necessary wires.
~2 hours
All
14/10
Meeting with Dr Dean Mohamedally.
Discussed project, told it was a research and
development project, not looking to produce a
commercial product by the end.
Told to focus on depth sensing goal from Dr
Dunning’s list of goals from the phone call.
Given recommendation about direction of
research: into C#, Computer Graphics and
Vision and the Kinect sensor.
~30 minutes
All
16/10
Meeting with Dr Agaptio
Gave her a description of the current state of the
project.
Given advice on tools to investigate: Mesh Lab
for handling point clouds and Kinect Fusion to
produce high resolution 3D images.
~45 minutes
Tom, Ed
17/10
Lab session working on Kinects.
Formed small production line and prepared all
Kinects, USB3.0 cables and power cables for
soldering the following week.
~2 hours
All
24/10
Lab session working on Kinects.
Kinects prepared the previous week were
misplaced, so began anew on three Kinects
which were fully hacked and working by the
end of the lab session.
~3 hours
All
28/10
Travelled to Middlesbrough to meet Dr
Dunning and watch surgery.
Observed three surgeries: two open surgeries to
remove lung tumours, one endoscopy of lymph
nodes in the lungs.
Shown the Da Vinci surgical robot.
Whole day(7am-11pm)
All
31/10
Lab session with Kinects. Last session with instructor.
Completed five Kinects.
Shown the Da Vinci surgical robot.
~3 hours
All
14/11
Individual HCI courseworks reviewed by teaching assistants.
Scheduled a meeting to discuss final UI design and website design.
~2 hours
All
18/11
Team meeting to compare individual UI designs and decide on final design and work
assignment for this.
Final design created in a single document for
review by teaching assistant during next lab
session.
Discussed initial website structure and content.
~2 hours
All
21/11
Lab session heavily focused on learning to program Kinect.
Discussed at length with PhD student Aron
Monszpart about how to program Kinect.
Created a basic program in MatLab with Aron
that could roughly separate foreground from
background.
Discussed final UI design with teaching
assistant to finalise design.
~2 hours
Tom, Ed
28/11
Discussed upcoming work assignment and worked on first iteration of prototype.
Further discussion with teaching assistant about
User Interface.
~2 hours
All
5/12
Discussed work assignment for final week and final parts of project for first term.
Discussed structure of website in detail.
Discussed creation of project video.
Discussed prototype created.
Discussed with HCI expert about heuristic
evaluation of the UI design.
~2 hours
All
9/12
Discussion of construction of team website.
Discussed potential tools to use such as
bootstrap or Adobe Dreamweaver.
Discussed content to be included in the website.
~45 minutes
Kirthi, Ed
10/12
Created parts of video showcasing the Kinect prototype programs.
~1 hour
Tom, Ed
12/12
Lab session to discuss website layout, content and video presentation.