Visual Piano: The Simulated Piano Instructor

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Visual Piano The Simulated Piano Instructor

• Team Members
• Tony Chang
• Aparna Giridharadas
• David Kennedy
• Dr. Joseph Geunes

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Goal

• To build a system that facilitates the process
  of learning to play piano
• Best of both worlds solution

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Description

• Combines the benefits of the traditional method
  with approach of automated keyboards
• Software interface guides the user to the correct
  keys
• Hardware sensors are used to measure feedback

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Users and Losers

• Users Losers

• Music Students
• Amateur Musicians
• Non Amateur Musicians
• People who will purchase this product for others
• Music Teachers

• Music Teachers
• Automated keyboard manufacturers

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User Interface
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Process Overview

• Approached potential clients
• Grasped general idea of the system
• Brainstormed and categorized potential users
• Named the system and collected functions,
  attributes, and constraints

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Process Overview (contd.)

• Prototyped interface
• Developed surveys
• Conducted interviews
• Developed final document
• Agreed to renegotiation process

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Techniques that worked well

• Gause and Weinberg heuristics
• Review/Post mortem meetings
• Delegating work meetings
• Diagrams
• Volere quality gateway

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Techniques that didnt work well

• Survey scheduling
• Pre-sending material to the client
• Meeting time
• Heuristic execution
• Non-technical client trusted our technical
  know-how

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Questions???