My Project
Description
Carnege Mellon University's InMind team is currently working on an intelligent, socially aware movie agent who, through a mobile application, gives users personalized movie recommendations. Because the movie agent is so intelligent and socially aware, she sometimes takes a while to respond to users (due to processing time delays).
This summer, I analyzed the time delays that occur during the movie agent's interactions; established a plan to incorporate incremental processing into the agent's architecture (in order to reduce said delays); and executed this plan. I additionally conducted a user study to evaluate the impact of my faster (incremental) system on users' interactions with the movie agent.
Goals
- work with a complex software architecture (and the people behind it)
- use rigorous testing to estimate performance (regarding time) of a system
- learn about incremental processing and how it can improve user interactions (regarding responsiveness)
- incorporate incremental processing into a currently non-incremental system
- engage in scientific writing; proposals to and discussions with relevant stakeholders; and documentation and analysis of architectural decisions in a system
Weekly Journals
You can find my weekly journals here.
Reports
You can find my midterm presentation, final presentation, and final report (as well as some quick notes on incremental processing and my project) here.