My final week at UMBC was quite a memorable one. We spent our Monday Fika going over our posters with each other and practicing our presentation for our poster presentation being held at SURF on Wednesday. SURF was really interesting in that most of the presenters researched topics in chemistry and biology. All of our presentations went well and we all went to lunch afterward. I spent the rest of the week working on my research paper and getting things packed and ready to go home.
The weekend before the start of the week I went to Cherry Springs State Park in Pennsylvania, a place where astronomers observe the skies because the area is one of the darkest in America. Unfortunately the conditions weren't ideal for stargazing when I was there, but I was able to look at the moon through a telescope for the first time thanks to the kindness of a stranger. I also saw many shooting stars. When I got back to Baltimore I decided to take a final trip to Washington, D.C. to visit the National Air and Space Museum and the United States Botanic Garden. During the week on Thursday on of my best friends came from Texas to visit and go to a concert in Baltimore with me. We then drove back to Texas in a two day trip starting Saturday morning and made it back home Sunday night!
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On Monday I was in New York, so I tuned into the weekly Monday Fika via FaceTime so that I could learn about how creating research posters work. We will be presenting our summer work at the annual SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fest) held at UMBC on August 9th. On Tuesday and Wednesday I worked on my poster with the guidance of Dr. Hurst and Foad. I submitted my poster and continued my work on PINATA. After a meeting with Foad we determined that it would be best to get the new adaptation to work for a single specific website since many websites vary immensely. Doing this will show what the adaption should do for all websites.
This weekend I went to visit Cherry Springs State Park in Pennsylvania, which is one of the darkest places in the United States and thus a hotspot for astronomers. Depending on the sky conditions, one can see countless stars, the Milky Way Galaxy, and other space things extremely well. Unfortunately the conditions weren't great during the time I was there, so I didn't get the full experience. It was still worth the drive because I got to look at the moon through a telescope for the first time in my life and saw many meteors. When I got back to Baltimore on Sunday I decided to take a train to Washington, D.C. to visit the museums I didn't get a chance to see during my first visit. I went to the National Art Gallery and the Air, Space Museum, and the United States Botanic Garden. Time has gone by so fast and I can't believe I only have one more week left here in Maryland! .This week I continued to attempt to make manipulating the text of hyperlinks more consistent but to no avail. Foad also tried this and came to the same conclusion, so after meeting with him and Amy, we decided to go about a different route. Instead of manipulating text, we decided it would be better to show a different way of showing the user that an adaptation is available to them. We decided to focus on buttons to test the adaptation. The adaptation that was decided is that a green border will appear around the button when the slip/click bar+ notification is triggered, and that this means that the user can press a hotkey that will take them to the link/press the button. By the end of the week I was able to get the green border to appear around hyperlinks and coded the ability to proceed to a link via a hotkey. I also realized that most buttons aren't actually button elements. The problem right now is that the border does not appear around every hyperlink I intend to (as the case was with the manipulation of text), however I discovered information about inheritance that may help me fix this.
Over the weekend I went to New York City! I got to see Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, NBC recording studio, Central Park, The Metropolitan Art Museum, and walk on Brooklyn/Manhattan Bridge. I was also gone on Monday, so I tuned into the Fika via FaceTime. |
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