Postdated, because I was instructed by my labmates to "go home and sleep until you are done."
Today was perhaps the most stressful day of the year for me: the CS260 final presentations. Over the past 48 hours, I'd failed to get my system running, created my presentation and poster sans meaningful results, and fought sleep deprivation and lack of focus as I prepared for Presentation Day. Fourteen teams gave four-and-a-half-minute presentations. Many ran overtime (mine did not), which resulted in Bjoern's laptop buzzing and Lora grinning widely as she rang a tinkly bell.
In retrospect, I shouldn't have worried so much about today. Turns out that I wasn't alone in not having results (or a working system) yet. Despite this, my presentation was decent (if a bit targeted at the UIST audience more so than the CHI audience). The audience seemed to like it, while the judges critiqued it as amounting to "depth cameras: what do we do with them?" They gave me lots of constructive criticism on how I should clarify and present my core research question, as well as how to present my work as a novel and valuable contribrution to the scientific community.
The following poster session was uneventful. I couldn't show my (as of yet non-working) demo because there was no power outlet within 20 feet, and the Kinect requires 12VDC. OH DARN. I did get an email (during the talks, no less) from another professor who saw my poster and thought it interesting, so I'll follow up on that.
I'll finish up my project/paper this weekend, and hopefully catch up on sleep. When I'm done, obviously I'll add a subfolder to the root of my website, detailing this project and its findings.