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Week 11 – Vising Our Sponsor!

This week we went to present our software to Freedom Scientific! This event was fun while also stressful– the days leading up to it we were making last-minute changes to the software and presentation to make sure it was the… Read More

Week 9 – Keystroke Interception!

In prior weeks, we have worked on intercepting keystrokes from JAWS. This week, James Datray from Freedom Scientific informed us about how to best implement keystroke interception. He suggested that we use JAWS scripts to obtain information about the virtual… Read More

Week 6 – Progress on Intent Recognition

Last week, we me met with Department Chair Juan Gilbert, an expert on intent recognition. We discussed several features that may be useful for recognizing intent, primarily time. We believe several features are sufficient for recognizing intent, which are the… Read More

Week 5 – Intent Recognition

This week was focused on the intent recognition of our software. More specifically, we scheduled a meeting with Dr. Juan Gilbert, an expert in intent recognition and the department chair at UF in computer science. This meeting was exceedingly beneficial… Read More

Week 3 – QRB Presentation And Updates!

This week we had our Qualification Review Board (QRB) presentation in front of three IPPD coaches! While this presentation the team was able to accurately and throughly describe the technology (JAWS) that we are working with (which was a problem with… Read More

Week 1 – Spring Semester Plan!

Team Key-Saurus is back from their winter break and ready to get started implementing new features to our next prototype of the shortcut nudging system. The team wishes to include a bunch of new features into this prototype, which is… Read More

Week #15 – System Level Design Review Day!

This week we presented our System Level Design Review to the IPPD community. At the end of the presentation, we thanked Sriram Ramanathan and Idalis Villanueva for their support and guidance of this project. Idalis provided us detailed feedback on… Read More

Week #12 – Prototype Inspection Day

This week we presented our prototype to four groups of judges. We received valuable feedback about some difficult components of our project, including that we use dynamic linked library (DLL) hooks to intercept keystroke input at the kernel level from… Read More

Blog Post #10

This week, we worked on our backlog of things that need to be implemented. We needed to show our liaison, Sriram Ramanathan, that we would have deliverables ready for our Dec 7. Towards this goal, we started on a simple… Read More

Blog Post #5 – Back to the Basics

Utilizing Visual Studio Code, our team created an algorithmic demo in Python to suggest keyboard shortcuts based on “fake” inputted data.  For our demo, we focused on the end actions that a user would want to achieve. As seen in the image… Read More

Blog Post #4 – Demo

We are not able to share code. This week, we started on our demo. Currently, we plan to work on a recommender system that utilizes machine learning. After speaking to our liaison, Sriram, we recognize that an important goal of… Read More

Blog Post #3 – Demo Creation!

This week we started solidifying the ideas we had for the framework behind our software. We are excited to discuss and refine our ideas with the liaison so that we can move on to building a small demo to show the concept in action.  … Read More