Friday, January 23, 2009

First of all, I'd like to thank Sean O'Sullivan for his continued support of accessibility solutions for the Android platform, along with many other exciting projects, through the Rensselaer Center for Open Software.

We're starting out this semester with with a some code for numeric integration interfaced with the Open Intents Android sensor simulator. We'll begin by adding error tollerence to our numeric integration code. Velocity damping and step counting seem to be the best options right now, but our intermediate goal will provide more realistic feedback about the project's viability.

As an intermediate goal, we'll be developing a virtual maze game for the Android. This game will use the same princeples as the final accessibility program, but will not include building maps or directions. It will allow us to optimize our numeric integration methods and investigate using the average step frequency to moderate the numeric integration. Perhaps the game itself will become a useful product in itself.