Week 13 – Soft Opening

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This week is the soft opening week. We are very excited to have 6 faculty members come to our project room and experience the prototypes we made this semester. This time, we mainly tested our music prototype, reinforcement prototype, and VR Painting prototype. For each faculty, we started with a short description of our goal and hypothesis, and then they playtested our 3 prototypes. We received much useful feedback, here is the summary:

Music Prototype:

  • Confused the relationship between this prototype and Machine Learning

VR Painting Prototype:

  • Show AI bias, such as the pictures not working well 
  • The UI design doesn’t encourage the player to change the K-value, therefore it is hard for them to know the meaning of K value
  • The customization function of the PC version can encourage players to think about what K-value means and how it works.
  • When the user change K values, use animation to show how each pixel transforms from one layer to another layer.

Reinforcement Learning Prototype:

  • Hard to tell the difference between lava and rock
  • Show AI bias, such as in which situation the dinosaur cannot find the right way
  • Show if the dinosaur finds the right way
  • Use extra metaphor to show the path dinosaur found

The feedback and suggestions are all very valuable. Thank all the faculty for joining our soft opening. However, we don’t have enough time to refine our project. We will record these as future work.

Poster Abstract

As mentioned in last week’s blog, we plan to submit a poster to SIGGRAPH. This week, in order to maximize the chance of our paper being approved, we asked for suggestions and feedback from Mike and also Erin, Sherol, and Grady from Google. They helped us go through the whole semester’s experience and reflect on what we learned. They also provided so many useful resources and references related to our projects. Their insight and feedback really helped us. Thank Mike, Erin, Sherol, and Grady so much! After receiving feedback, we started to refine our poster abstract. And we finished the final draft on Friday. We will ask the advice from more faculty next week and submit it by next Tuesday.