1. Project # 8 - Internet of Hospital Things (IoHT): Communicating to Facilitate Healing REU student: Stefanie Mutter Graduate mentors: Myungho Lee, Kangsoo Kim Faculty mentor(s): Dr. Gerd Bruder, Dr. Greg Welch
Week 5 (June 11 – June 15, 2018)
Accomplishments:
Determined a final version of virtual agent appearances
Met with Dr. Bruder to finalize study protocol
Problem & Solutions:
Adobe Fuse doesn’t launch reliably, so every time I try to open a project I have to uninstall/reinstall the application, sometimes more than once
Importing Mixamo characters into Unity is more complicated than anticipated – the textures are set as transparent, so the characters end up looking strange. Solution: manually change all of the textures on each character upon import
LipSyncPro, the app within Unity that I’m using to manipulate the avatar’s facial blendshapes so it looks like they’re talking, doesn’t seem to make the mouth move enough
I was unable to get in contact with someone from UCF Nursing to borrow a hospital bed
Gender neutral voices aren’t very common
Plans for next week:
Investigate third-party scripts to automatically adjust textures when importing a character from Mixamo into Unity
Continue working with LipSyncPro to manually adjust blendshapes to make character talk
Hopefully borrow hospital bed
NSF REU Research Experience on Internet of Things 2018

2. Project # 8 - Internet of Hospital Things (IoHT): Communicating to Facilitate Healing REU student: Stefanie Mutter Graduate mentors: Myungho Lee, Kangsoo Kim Faculty mentor(s): Dr. Gerd Bruder, Dr. Greg Welch
Mixamo character in Unity pre-texture adjustment
NSF REU Research Experience on Internet of Things 2018

3. Project # 8 - Internet of Hospital Things (IoHT): Communicating to Facilitate Healing REU student: Stefanie Mutter Graduate mentors: Myungho Lee, Kangsoo Kim Faculty mentor(s): Dr. Gerd Bruder, Dr. Greg Welch
Male Agent
NSF REU Research Experience on Internet of Things 2018

4. Project # 8 - Internet of Hospital Things (IoHT): Communicating to Facilitate Healing REU student: Stefanie Mutter Graduate mentors: Myungho Lee, Kangsoo Kim Faculty mentor(s): Dr. Gerd Bruder, Dr. Greg Welch
Female Agent
NSF REU Research Experience on Internet of Things 2018

5. Project # 8 - Internet of Hospital Things (IoHT): Communicating to Facilitate Healing REU student: Stefanie Mutter Graduate mentors: Myungho Lee, Kangsoo Kim Faculty mentor(s): Dr. Gerd Bruder, Dr. Greg Welch
Gender Neutral Agent
NSF REU Research Experience on Internet of Things 2018