First test is coming

Finally, the sound patches are nearly complete. Today I'm going to do the first test about what I've done so far, except the robot moving part. Though, the robot moving part is the most important one, I will not be able to spend much time on it, even if the previous reading are almost about the robot's routes design.
This project suppose focus on the evaluation, but as far as my studying, it seems about the sound design for movement or environment descriptions. Well, how the final demo looks like, it still have some time do work on it. Hopefully, it will be finished on time.

Come on.

These few days was super busy. Just done the sound patches, and made the socket work.
Sound patches I had repeated three times, cost me too much time. Now I'm really in hurry to get the routes patches done really soon.
Mr. Colllins is back, report about tracking system was hand up few days ago. However this report was not like it suppose be, it is won't be a big deal.
Only three weeks left, still have lots work to do.

Dissertation and socket

Trying to get dissertation down by this weekend.
Trying to programming for routes.
Working on the socket.
Done by the end of the this month, hopefully.

Socket is driving me crazy....

I probably have to keep working dissertation over night again. I deserved.

Next week, another 20 pages for JJ. Collins, which is about the tracking system, all the mathematics, I have some kind of an idea, however, it wont gonna work recently.

Still sanguining about the project.

Busy, bussier, bussss....

I don't remember when is the last time I wrote something down here. "Something" I am working on already more than one month, now, still doing it. I thought my project was made progress, at least had done something, whereas I read more, some "something'' it is, not even closer to the goal.

Every time when I try to write what I have done, I just stuck on it. As I feel I'm in the condition of being confused or disoriented. This is a big project to me and it strikes me that so many things need to study and worth to further study.

Beside the music patch I mentioned for a month, I had tested tracking system and socket. These are not suppose be big deal, but socket does have a /some problems. Neither no feedback, nor reporting error. Today I changed another socket patch, hope they will work OK tomorrow.

I admit that I was not open mind really, until I watched Wall - E. Now I wanna repeat patch again, but I do not think "Mr. Time" would give me more than 24 hours each day.... Dissertation cost me all week to sort out what I've done and needs to be done. I found that what I did study are more about Proxemics, but ignored the sound design. Although it is not a big point to study in this project, it would effect to the evaluation part and the completeness. So I have to continuous studying, adding, fixing.

Time past so fast, project progresses so slowly.

Is that difficulty??

Since starting the project, I'd never passed by the mathematic. MIDI, Time, Timing, Distance, Speed, Routs, Computing formula...
It's good that I did not get entangled in the relationship between sound and emotion. Though it's the study point I've got from sound generate which will be the robot language, it's not the focal one recently. Now, I'm restarting the patched for the sound generate, as I'm not going to use MIDI anymore, instead with the electronic sound which is modified by the "groove~". I do not have much time to spend on the sound. I really have to start exploring the routs, that's the most important part. Try to start testing the whole project asap.

Sound, Movement... Movement, Sound.....

Last two weeks, I just fixed a little of problems, but more confusing about how to control the sound elements effectively. Sometimes I even wanna study the what hell is the relationship between every element of sound expression and the human movements. When I imagine the expression of the movements, faster motion always associated me sharper sound? I think it is same to the most of people. Based on I knew, this kind of sound association is according to the impact of personal emotion, knowledge, situation, and so on. So question is: How can I judge what kind of sound suppose happen with what kind of the movement by less subjective?
My thinking always comes by fitful.

Hurry up

I'd bad few days. No working, no thinking, no friend, no talking, just sitting in the couch all the few days, but for nothing. Time past away.

Today, I'm back to work. Reading, trying to write some (probably just a little bit) papers, and continuous to work on the MAX/MSP -- If I can.

As far as the papers I'd read, basically, they were not very helpful to me. But, "Influence of Pleasant and Unpleasant feelings on Human Gesture Motion" and the "Multi-robot Cooperation for Human-Robot Communication" inspired me thinking of the distance and the angle (face to face) in/between the communicational and the "Nature communication". But, how?

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Note: Maybe as the best Robot technology is in Japan, both of these papers are from Japanese.
----------------Well, just guess.