Blog Post #6 – New Ideas And The Liaison Came to Meet Us!

Since we have gone back to the drawing board, we needed to come up with a new project concept to continue with this semester. Our liaison has informed us that he will not be able to provide big data from the company due to internal complications and concerns with user privacy, however, we can potentially expect specific and encrypted data for next semester.  

The main problem we have encountered when brainstorming was that we cannot use a machine learning approach currently due to the lack of data. Even if the data was available to us, we would require “labeled” data for efficient vs inefficient keystrokes. However, this type of problem, with all its moving parts, seems to require the use of machine learning to get the most accurate results.  

We came to a dead-end… and we thought that we might need to change our scope of work to adapt it to another problem that Freedom Scientific requires assistance with.  

Nevertheless, during our in-person meeting with our liaison, Sriram, we came to a solution! We are going to be using graphing theory to plot the website as a graph and then use a weighting system to scale the different potential “paths” that the user can take. Currently, we are still uncertain as to how to detect the user’s end action (the action that they wish to achieve), but we are confident that this concept is a viable solution! 

From left to right: Mariana, Ryan, Erynne, Sumanth, Sriram.

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