Supervision: Progress Meeting for Teo

Today was Teo's turn to present his progress update with the rest of the supervision committee members. Associate Prof. Dr Rahmita was there today to evaluate the content of his work, as was myself. Teo started his journey the same time as Ong, and Alhamdulillah, I am happy to report that he has been given the clearance by all that the contributions from his work was more than enough and with the exception of doing one little tweak, he could already start writing his thesis in full gear now. Again, we are working around the October 2017 graduation, so full turbo on now, guys!

Supervision: Progress Meeting (Ong and Hoo's)

These two students presented their progress update to their co-supervisor, Dr. Azrul. Although meetings are held fortnightly with me (their Main Supervisor), this was the first meeting for this semester with all the committee members together. This was partly because Ong was already finishing off his experiments, and it was better that he had analysed all his findings before it was presented to the committee members. Alhamdulillah, everyone on the supervisory committee board agreed that Ong's work was conclusive and significant, and that he could now wrap up on the experiments and focus on thesis writing 100%. This was the news awaited by all. So the next step is to elect the Examiners for his thesis and viva. We're aiming for Ong to be able to graduate Ocotber this year, God willing.

Hoo also had his progress meeting right after Ong. He presented his findings on his last experiment, where he tried to map different gestures to different manipulations intended during a musical performance. He had successfully done that, and found around 30+ gestures which were in total consensus among the human subjects. This meant that Hoo can now use these data on the gesture mapping to guide him during the development stage. This is what he will be focusing in the next few months before a final user test is conducted by the end of this semester.

Overall, I'm glad it all went well. I am excited to see how these students progress in the next coming weeks.

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This blog is intended for me to lightly document the progress of my research projects and my life in the academia in general. Since my research interests and passion revolve around Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Music, I foresee that many entries will be related to these fields. A short biography of myself is included on the tab on the right of this page. I can be reached through the details also provided on the right of this page. The same tab also lists current projects I'm working on, selected publications, courses I teach (or have taught), research students and members of the HCI Research Group at FSKTM, UPM and other random writings. I welcome potential students and collaborators - feel free to drop me relevant emails or comments. It is certainly nice that the first entry coincides with the first day of the 2017 year. Hope there will be many more exciting entries and happenings to come from this day on. Check this space out frequently for more updates later!