Baily Johnson

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QUESTION	We have notes that our visual systems easily outperform computer vision. Can you make a list of perceptual tasks where computers excel?
due	2014-02-19
desc	Questions/Ideas: Baily: Xbox Kinect, sensors, how does it see, register body movements etc? Payton: how to get video games into computers (sensors on body translated into characters, etc) Rita: Robots/army technology, what are they using to make artificial solders see? All these questions lead to seeing what technology is used to make computers "see," and leads to questioning how (with what technology) a computer could become better than our own vision.

Benjamin Goldman

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QUESTION	What causes absolute pitch and pitch recognition tend to drift flat as one gets older?
due	2014-04-02
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Camila Romero

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Christopher Elmer

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Clara Philbrick

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QUESTION	question: can you imagine things that you have never seen? How about a new color, say redd-ish green?
due	2014-02-19
desc	-In order to imagine a new color would you combine pre-existing colors? How could this create an invented color rather than black. -Would our eyes be able to recognize this new color? Must a machine or computer program recognize it for us? -How must one clear his or her mind in order to picture this color. Must one mix the color in their head? Is the color prompted by other colors or something else, perhaps sound? -In order to picture something you have never seen is it vital to forget everything? -What is "nothing" -- because if there is nothing it is something. -Can you imagine more that you have never seen or never felt.

Courtney Kimmey

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Daniel Bernard

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QUESTION	question: can you imagine things that you have never seen? How about a new color, say redd-ish green?
due	2014-02-19
desc	-In order to imagine a new color would you combine pre-existing colors? How could this create an invented color rather than black. -Would our eyes be able to recognize this new color? Must a machine or computer program recognize it for us? -How must one clear his or her mind in order to picture this color. Must one mix the color in their head? Is the color prompted by other colors or something else, perhaps sound? -In order to picture something you have never seen is it vital to forget everything? -What is "nothing" -- because if there is nothing it is something. -Can you imagine more that you have never seen or never felt.

Danny Quinonez

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Erin O'Brien

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QUESTION	How do plants know to make brightly colored flowers when they cannot perceive color? What cues do they use to shape their blossoms?
due	2014-02-12
desc	Do flowers really know what color/shape they are blooming? Are they able to sense the colors of other plants around them? Could they be grown a different color through different treatments? Is it a sort of natural selection? Certain colors or shapes of flowers are destroyed? How long has it taken a species of flower to develop its color and shape, is it possible to even tell that?

Karissa Hahn

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QUESTION	Is it possible that when I see blue you see red? Would it matter?
due	2014-03-19
desc	A couple ideas, thoughts, and questions came to us over the week, how fast does the eye send messages to the brain? Are your red blue and green cones in your eye always active together or can they be active alone? (what influenced this question is the appearance of an image on a tv screen) We noticed that blue has a short wavelength and red light travels in long wavelengths, what does this have to do with the eye and how do we perceive this? If eyes are more or less the same from person to person(their structure) - would this perception of color happen at the brain level? Or does the activation of certain cones in the eyes effect this? In regards to 'Would it matter?' if we are all working together in this world and coexisting with different color perception abilities it may not (the color of blood is 'red' and even someone sees it with blue tones we could still work together to identify the liquid.) This may be an issue at places such as a stoplight. But someone who sees red as yellow would still associate the top light activated with being 'go.' Do we see the colors that we wish to see, or that we think they should be?

Kate Meyer

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QUESTION	It is possible to learn to see with your tongue. Do you think this would feel like vision?
due	2014-04-09
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Lionel Williams

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QUESTION	ride up an elevator. there is a change you will still have the sensation of riding that elevator all day. what makes you feel this way?
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Marcee Pashkovsky

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QUESTION	Distance will make a mountain seem steeper than it is. Can you explain why?
due	2014-03-12
desc	1. How important is distance in interpretation of visual information? 2. Can people's visual perception be tricked by manipulation of distance? 3. How differently would people view things if the positions of their eyes changed? 4. How differently would people view things if they were aerial animals?

Margaret Pratt

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QUESTION	Is it possible that when I see blue you see red? Would it matter?
due	2014-03-19
desc	A couple ideas, thoughts, and questions came to us over the week, how fast does the eye send messages to the brain? Are your red blue and green cones in your eye always active together or can they be active alone? (what influenced this question is the appearance of an image on a tv screen) We noticed that blue has a short wavelength and red light travels in long wavelengths, what does this have to do with the eye and how do we perceive this? If eyes are more or less the same from person to person(their structure) - would this perception of color happen at the brain level? Or does the activation of certain cones in the eyes effect this? In regards to 'Would it matter?' if we are all working together in this world and coexisting with different color perception abilities it may not (the color of blood is 'red' and even someone sees it with blue tones we could still work together to identify the liquid.) This may be an issue at places such as a stoplight. But someone who sees red as yellow would still associate the top light activated with being 'go.' Do we see the colors that we wish to see, or that we think they should be?

Michael Palladino

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Mina Shoaib

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QUESTION	ride up an elevator. there is a change you will still have the sensation of riding that elevator all day. what makes you feel this way?
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Paul Flores

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Payton Smith

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QUESTION	We have notes that our visual systems easily outperform computer vision. Can you make a list of perceptual tasks where computers excel?
due	2014-02-19
desc	uestions/Ideas: Baily: Xbox Kinect, sensors, how does it see, register body movements etc? Payton: how to get video games into computers (sensors on body translated into characters, etc) Rita: Robots/army technology, what are they using to make artificial solders see? All these questions lead to seeing what technology is used to make computers "see," and leads to questioning how (with what technology) a computer could become better than our own vision.

Phillip Rush

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QUESTION	How do plants know to make brightly colored flowers when they cannot perceive color? What cues do they use to shape their blossoms?
due	2014-02-12
desc	Do flowers really know what color/shape they are blooming? Are they able to sense the colors of other plants around them? Could they be grown a different color through different treatments? Is it a sort of natural selection? Certain colors or shapes of flowers are destroyed? How long has it taken a species of flower to develop its color and shape, is it possible to even tell that?

Rachel Lemeshow

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QUESTION	How can Emotion alter perception? Give three examples and propose an experiment to try.
due	2014-04-16
desc	- What chemicals are released for each emotion? How much on average? Which chemicals are stronger and what parts of the brain do they affect?

Regina Gonzalez Arroyo

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QUESTION	What kind of visual cues do you get from gravity? Can you tell how far away something is by watching it fall?
due	2014-03-26
desc	Just knowing that gravity is all around us all the time gives people a different perceptive. Looking at people the older they get, not only do they get shorter and hunched over. This can be blamed on bad posture and probably gravity. Also the Earth isn't a perfect sphere most likely because the gravitational pull is stronger in some places. Watching things fall from farther away gives a different point of view. Planes are the main source of my information. It looks tiny, but knowing the size of airplanes, you can try and estimate it's about 2000-3000 feet off the ground. Seeing things drop have the same effect being small you know it's smaller but if you drop it right on you it will re-size and become bigger. Eyes can be deceiving I suppose.

Rita Santos

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speculation	We have notes that our visual systems easily outperform computer vision. Can you make a list of perceptual tasks where computers excel?
due	2014-02-19
desc	uestions/Ideas: Baily: Xbox Kinect, sensors, how does it see, register body movements etc? Payton: how to get video games into computers (sensors on body translated into characters, etc) Rita: Robots/army technology, what are they using to make artificial solders see? All these questions lead to seeing what technology is used to make computers "see," and leads to questioning how (with what technology) a computer could become better than our own vision.

Roksana Pirouzmand

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speculation	Blue is a group of photons (light), vibrating at specific frequencies. Our eye gather the light and render the light into blue. Is there a blue part of the brain that receives this light?
due	2014-03-19
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So Jung Park

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QUESTION	How good is the back of your legs at separating the stimulus from two closely spaced pins?
due	2014-04-09
desc	Result of experiment: From this experiment, I could not predict the distance between two pins, and also I could not realize how many of pins were on the back of my legs because it felt as a one pin. Prediction of the result: I consider it is a matter of visual expectation, which means that since the pin is poking at the back of my legs, I cannot see or expect the visual measurement of time or strength of pins, which led unpredictable the distance of two pins. Final questions: I think the question of the experiment was to recognize the significant of visual expectation, is it correct? Will I get a different result of this stimulus experiment, if I test with each five different senses?

Sunwoo Lee

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QUESTION	Distance will make a mountain seem steeper than it is. Can you explain why?
due	2014-03-12
desc	1. How important is distance in interpretation of visual information? 2. Can people's visual perception be tricked by manipulation of distance? 3. How differently would people view things if the positions of their eyes changed? 4. How differently would people view things if they were aerial animals?

Tyler Hatch Waters

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QUESTION	What kind of visual cues do you get from gravity? Can you tell how far away something is by watching it fall?
due	2014-03-26
desc	Just knowing that gravity is all around us all the time gives people a different perceptive. Looking at people the older they get, not only do they get shorter and hunched over. This can be blamed on bad posture and probably gravity. Also the Earth isn't a perfect sphere most likely because the gravitational pull is stronger in some places. Watching things fall from farther away gives a different point of view. Planes are the main source of my information. It looks tiny, but knowing the size of airplanes, you can try and estimate it's about 2000-3000 feet off the ground. Seeing things drop have the same effect being small you know it's smaller but if you drop it right on you it will re-size and become bigger. Eyes can be deceiving I suppose.

Woo Je Lee

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QUESTION	How good is the back of your legs at separating the stimulus from two closely spaced pins?
due	2014-04-09
desc	Result of experiment: From this experiment, I could not predict the distance between two pins, and also I could not realize how many of pins were on the back of my legs because it felt as a one pin. Prediction of the result: I consider it is a matter of visual expectation, which means that since the pin is poking at the back of my legs, I cannot see or expect the visual measurement of time or strength of pins, which led unpredictable the distance of two pins. Final questions: I think the question of the experiment was to recognize the significant of visual expectation, is it correct? Will I get a different result of this stimulus experiment, if I test with each five different senses?