Re: (dsh-discuss) brainwaves
Randolph Wang
If you need slides for your rotary club presentation, you can download
a 15MB version of the Lucknow presentation:
It seems that the DSH-Nepal machine is still not on the network yet.
Please arrange it to be connected.
How many videos do we have now?
Please keep up with the good work on the shooting schedule.
Cheers,
Randy
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Rani Gurung <gurun...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow Randy - so thats what youve been up to - congrats- sounds really exciting.
> Just did an inservice training day with Shuvatara teachers .tomorrow
> exams midtern start , and after that dussehra holidays for one month .
> But were going to use the time to edit, fund raise, get feedback from
> sister schools , shoot among ourselves -the Vice principals and
> myself.
> last night , went to visit Rotary Club of thapathali , the original
> club that initiated the STRc project .have to give a presentation on
> DSH_STRC project next week- wednesday . Did more shooting last few
> days. Wrote to urvashi- she and I will talk and meet soon. over the
> holidays, hopefully.
> Will post you new videos as soon as Kush finishes editing them .
> Regards
> RGK .
>
> On 9/30/10, Randolph Wang <ryw...@cs.princeton.edu> wrote:
>> http://www.neurosky.com/
>>
>> Some of us at Intel have been talking to this company. They make a
>> small gadget that can monitor brain waves. The newest version looks
>> like a small headset or headband that costs $100.
>>
>> Frankly, I was initially skeptical. But I have talked to them in
>> person and tried out the gadget personally. I think these guys are
>> good.
>>
>> They have a lot of partners and customers. They collaborate with
>> reputable academics and scientists on issues such as Alzheimer's and
>> various learning disabilities, in addition to working on the more
>> obvious applications of toys, gaming, and entertainment.
>>
>> I think there's a very good chance that we'll be able to use these
>> things to monitor the effectiveness of DSH recipient schools. Of
>> course, at $100 a pop, we won't put a headband on each kid. But some
>> selected kids at some selected schools are very doable.
>>
>> In addition to selling the device, they give access to the raw
>> brainwave data so we can have the raw data to look at, and develop our
>> own analysis algorithms if necessary.
>>
>> We will start with controlled settings. For example, look at what the
>> brainwave looks like for kids who are getting taught by very good
>> human teachers. Look at what the brainwave looks like when kids are
>> taught by very good DSH lessons and very good mediators. Look at what
>> various forms of ineffective teaching looks like in terms of children
>> brainwave patterns.
>>
>> Of course, to be able to tell whether teaching is effective or not, we
>> don't necessarily need brainwaves to tell us that! But the point is
>> that we might be able to use this technology to monitor at a coarse
>> level or at least give hints of school performance AUTOMATICALLY in
>> absence of a lot of human observers deployed everywhere in the field.
>>
>> You can imagine performing a big chunk of the very well-regarded
>> Sesame Street study using this technology.
>>
>> This device could be linked to the various DSH player devices that
>> we're planning so the brainwave data could be beamed back to
>> headquarters servers automatically using the low-bandwidth link after
>> each lesson.
>>
>> While the whole device costs $100, the secret sauce, an ASIC, costs
>> $10. So it's not impossible that we can make a cheaper one.
>>
>> This could also be a perfect self-contained project for a good
>> "internship." We need non-technical people to conduct controlled
>> studies as well as geeks to do the algorithmic part and other
>> technical aspects.
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Rani Gurung
Will get Kush to post the videos . he is very busy with school work
too. have a helper , and think one or two of our computer teachers
need to help with editing. he says we have about 40 videos now , but
not all are postable.
Thanks the material will help . Holidays begin from Tuesday. Its a
crazy time with everyone who wants to just relax ! I too will have to
visit Burma and Thailand for a week .
lets see where we can fit in time to meet Urvashi . Shyam had been
quite sick with ulcers and not being able to sleep whole nights. hes
better now. Taking aloe vera soaked in water, and milk and tumeric.
We need to put in new members for the STRc- active ones. Working on a
new brochure and on a website.
Please let me know if you are Ok with the name Dr KN wants for this
project-DTS_ Digital Teacher Support. DTS/STRC/DSH - which one sounds
better. I have to know this . by today ! to put it on paper.
personally I dont mind keeping DSH/ Nepal . Tell me what you feel
frankly . project sounds better and better by the way ! Thanks
Rani
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kush Shrestha
The computer is on the network now.
We've finished shooting videos according to the schedule. We've about 35 videos and I've uploaded all of them on the database. We're working on the editing part now.
Regards,
Kush