Weeks 34 & 35: 4/21/2016-5/6/2016

The past two weeks have been very hectic with the end of the semester and finals! I found out that I received a scholarship to attend the Tapia conference in 2016 and I will also be presenting a poster about the research I have been doing with CREU there.

I also completed a paper submission to the YSU Honors Academic Journal about the research we have been doing with CREU.

I completed the final report for CREU explaining our research procedures and the results that we had after finishing our research. The report reflects what we submitted to the YSU Honors Academic Journal and Tapia 2016.

Finally, I completed the re-registration of the ACM-W chapter at YSU and will be working on the end of the year report for the national ACM-W chapter this weekend. I also updated the VISSOFT website with a change in information for one of the NIER/TD Program Committee members.

Also, I did very well on all my finals!!!

I will not be participating in CREU over the summer, because I will be attending ICSE 2016 and I will be participating in a research internship at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, MA from June 8th to August 1st and then I will be attending the national MAA Mathfest meeting in Columbus, Ohio from August 1st through August 8th.

Week 33: 4/14/2016-4/21/2016

This past week I prepared material for the STEM Showcase at YSU, where YSU students present their research throughout the year. High school students, parents, faculty, and staff are encourage to attend.

Dr. Sharif and I will be running a table with our research, an eye-tracker, and a coding station for the showcase. I prepared slides to attach to a tri-fold that explains the machine learning prediction experiment that we ran and presented at QUEST. I have also updated our working demo branch in the git repository with updates to our master branch. This way we can have a small running demo of iTrace for students, parents, faculty, and staff to use, which entails getting to use an eye-tracker. I have also tested/installed another program for running the eye-tracker we are using that might be more interesting for participants.

Weeks 31 & 32: 3/31/2016-4/14/2016

"Summing Like Euler" at Ohio Northern University

The past two weeks have been very hectic. I presented at QUEST, presented at the Ohio regional meeting of the MAA, presented at the regional Choose Ohio First poster conference, had three exams, and worked on the VISSOFT website.

I had presented a poster on "Exploring Infinite Series" at QUEST hosted at Youngstown State University and the regional Choose Ohio First poster conference hosted at Kent State University. I received an award for an outstanding presentation at the Choose Ohio First poster conference. I also gave a talk on "Predicting Developer Expertise from Eye Gazes on Source Code" at QUEST. QUEST is a university wide research presentation forum at YSU; they do perform judging and hand out awards.

I gave another talk on Euler's method for deducing his famous summation formulas, titled "Summing Like Euler" at the Ohio regional meeting of the MAA at Ohio Northern University. I had an excellent time at this conference. I really enjoyed hearing the keynote speaker, Jenna Carpenter, talk about women in computing across history. She also gave another hour long talk about the implicit biases we have against women in STEM.

Finally, I updated the VISSOFT website with more information about the keynote speaker and with the response of the conference chairs about House Bill 2.

Week 30: 3/24/2016-3/31/2016

This past week I worked on preparing submission material for ICPC 2016. We submitted results from the machine learning algorithms we ran on the ABB fixation data using Microsoft Azure. Our main premise was to decide whether we could predict software developer expertise using fixation gaze data. We also wanted to decide which parameters and machine learning algorithms work best for software developer expertise prediction. Five different two class machine learning algorithms gave us a prediction accuracy of above 70%. Neural Networks and SVM performed the best.

I wrote the abstract and the first draft of the short paper we submitted for ICPC. I then worked with Dr. Sharif to refine some of the sections.

Week 29: 3/17/2016-3/24/2016

This past week I worked more on ScanMatch.

I discovered that the filename field in our data isn't always correct, so I used the fullyQualifiedName field to correct the filename. I reran the ScanMatch analysis on the corrected filenames and the average pairwise score for each participant increased slightly. I also continued work on designing and implementing a method level analysis using ScanMatch. I removed all gazes that did not fall into a method declaration. I compared sequence data for each participant by using the similarity score of the two methods each gaze fell into (I worked with Dr. Sharif to come up with a similarity scheme). I ran the first results for method level task 2 and I am double checking the results before running the rest of the data for tasks 3 and 4.

We are also working on submitting a paper to ICPC 2016 this weekend.

Weeks 27 and 28: 3/3/2016-3/17/2016

Last week YSU was on spring break, so these past two weeks I made changes to the VISSOFT website and I continued to work on our ScanMatch analysis.

For ScanMatch, I finished coding the subMatrix and creating the sequence data so the data will run much faster. The data takes about 6 hours to run per task. It compares sequences across all participants for each task. We have three matrices of results (one for each task) that are pairwise comparisons among each participant (so the results on one side of the diagonal are the same as the results on the opposite side of the diagonal). Just by visually analyzing the results matrices, we found that the normalized ScanMatch scores are not higher than .5 and many are not higher than .1 or .2 (unless we are comparing a sequence to itself, in which case the normalized score is 1). We determined that because we are comparing sequences by determining the following line level scheme:

     -If in the same file and are both on the same line score is 10  (the highest)
     -If in the same file and are both a distance of 1 line away score is 9
     -If in the same file and are both a distance of 2 lines away score is 8
     -If in the same file and are both a distance of 3 lines away score is 7
     -If in the same file and are both a distance of 4 lines or more away score is 5

That at a line level precision there isn't much correlation between sequences.

I have been modifying the current code to work on looking at a method level analysis and I am working on the subMatrix for that now. I will run the modified algorithm on the data to see if at least participants looked more at or in the same methods in sequence.

I made minor changes to the VISSOFT website. I fixed some information for a program committee member, added an announcement for the key note speaker, and removed the word Preliminary from the Call for Papers section.

Week 27: 2/25/2016-3/3/2016

This past week I worked more on the ScanMatch analysis.

I finished writing code to generate the sequences for our eye-tracking data, to generate scores for each AOI, and to run all of the sequences through ScanMatch in a pair-wise comparison type way and to output those scores to a matrix for each task.

Unfortunately, I ran into some issues with the SubMatrix being too large for Matlab, because we have a large amount of AOIs. I ended up computing SubMatrix scores on the fly, instead of computing them and storing them for look-up later.

Right now the code takes an incredible amount of time to run in Matlab. I determined the analysis to take at least a couple of days if not more at its current speed. I am working now to optimize my code and necessary data to make calculations faster. Worse case scenario, I will be letting the code run all Spring Break to get results or re-writing it in R.