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Microsoft Kinect TM + Crowdsourcing. A Prototype for Code Validation Matt Trippy, Owner Enovation Concepts. Agenda. Purpose Definitions Tools / Apps Objectives Outcomes / Demo Next Steps Sources. Purpose. Prototype a Crowdsourced Project
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Microsoft KinectTM + Crowdsourcing A Prototype for Code Validation Matt Trippy, Owner Enovation Concepts
Agenda • Purpose • Definitions • Tools / Apps • Objectives • Outcomes / Demo • Next Steps • Sources
Purpose • Prototype a Crowdsourced Project • Demonstrate Use of Enhanced User Interface (KinectTM for Windows) • Demonstrate Use of Multiplayer Gaming Tasks to Support Enhanced Verification of Complex Code • Use of Both Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics are Being Established and Collected • Determine Potential Defects in Modules: Differing Code, “Dead” Code, Inefficient / Overly Complex Code • KinectTM Chosen for Widespread Appeal of Motion Recognition Interface & Growth Potential of Multipurpose Sensors • Potential to Increase Crowdsourced Population • More Robust Platform For Future Crowd-source Problems: Voice Recognition, Motion-sensing Inputs, & Traditional Controller-based System Inputs • More Rapid And Varied Inputs By The “Gamer” • Initial Work With Xbox 360 KinectTM Sensor; Now Using The (2nd Generation) Microsoft Windows KinectTM More Suited For Desktop Computing Platforms
Definitions • Crowdsourcing: • [Simple] “The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software” (Jeff Howe, Wired, 2006) • [Better] “Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call”
Application • No “Out-of-the-Box” KinectTM Apps for Analysis, Collaboration • Lots of “Gamer” Software • (Enovation Concepts) Developed Crowdsourcing App • Scripting to Enable Visualization of Source Being Crowdsourced • Challenge: Automate the Visualization to Enable Cognitive Processes to be Analyzed by the “Crowd” • Keep the Human Focused on Logic, Other Cognitive Tasks • Automation Takes the First Cut at Organizing • Visualization Keeps Participant Focused on Critical Logical Elements • Web-enabled App to Review Logical Elements of Source Code Under Review • Updated to New KinectTM for Windows (not Xbox Version)
Objectives • Initially: Grow Interest in the Approach • Refine Methods to Graphically Illustrate Logical Flow of Program Being Evaluated • Crowdsource Participants Can Quickly See Potential Problem Areas • Relying on Intuitive Sense That an Automated Tool Would Likely not be Capable of Highlighting • Leverage Power of Crowdsourcing to Gain Aggregation of Results, Comparison of Individual Findings • Improve Quality and Speed of IV&V Effort • Future: Substantial Improvement in Both Speed and Quality of any Given Software IV&V Effort • Use of Crowd Sourcing + a Radically Improved Input/Output Interface (KinectTM) • Need to Focus on Classes of Errors That Would Benefit From Rapid Cognition of Inconsistencies, Inefficiencies • Looking for Findings not Otherwise Lending Themselves to Automated Correction or Flagging • What is Being Consistently Overlooked or Underperforming in Current State-of-Art Code Reviews?
Outcomes • Demonstration • Metrics / Results
Next Steps • Enhance Metrics in the App • Continued Work on App Re-configurability • Crowdsourcing Approach / Process Improvements • Comments from “The Crowd”?
References • Black, Rex, Managing the Testing Process—Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. Print. • Borenstein, Greg, Making Things See, Sebastopal, CA: O’Reilly Press, 2012. Print. • Howe, Jeff, Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2009. Print. • Kramer, Jeff, Nicolas Burrus, Florian Echtler, Daniel Herrera C., and Matt Parker, Hacking the Kinect, New York: Springer Science + Business Media, 2012. Print. • Sloane, Paul (ed), A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing: Practical Tips Advice and Examples from Leading Experts in the Field, United Kingdom, Pennsylvania, PA & New Delhi: Kogan Page Limited, 2011. Print. • Webb, Jarrett & James Ashley, Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK, New York: Springer Science + Business Media, 2012. Print.