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---+ C-TOC Meeting Minutes - Nov 17, 2010

   * Attendees: Joanna, Claudia, Charlotte, Robin, Steve, Matt, William

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   * 1. ethics amendment
      * ethics change to include clause: patients do not have to respond to questions they are uncomfortable with
      * amendment to add our names to ethics, then submit new posters, consent forms;
      * MB, JM to give review pass on CT's cover sheets and recruitment forms, amendment and cover sheet

   * 2. dev. of CTOC
      * viable technology: Flex / Flash
         * concern over future of Flash and Mac compatibility
      * viable technology: !JavaScript
         * Google App Engine (Java compiled into !JavaScript)
         * concern over client-side caching, browser compatibility
         * Sproutcore JS framework (http://sproutcore.com/) 
      * other: Cappuccino (Objective J) > compiled into JS

   * 3. CTOC usability interviews
      * concurrent validation (testing) - correlations w/ NSP tests
      * convergent validation (testing) - investigate new testing paradigms
         * language tests - sensitivity to aphasia (SC, SP)
         * visuospatial tests - sensitivity to LBD (!SqP, PC)
      * usability - quantitative improvements
         * self-reports w/ Likert scale questions
         * navigability improvements
      * to do: HCI interview questions / revise from CTOC cycle 1; wait for CJ's improvements, use as template
      * audio: initial instructions to be recorded by Dec 1?
      * usability interviews to begin Dec 1. - potential for ugrad to work on this?

   * 4. CIHR grant
      * CIHR operating grant application March 1 20111
      * training opportunities for post-doctoral fellows and graduate students
      * new M.Sc student to work on aspects of the project (early-mid 2011)

   * 5. Cutlural advisory panel cycle #3
      * moved to either Fri Feb 4 or Thurs Feb 17?

   * 6. Regular meeting times 
      * biweekly Wednesdays 11-12am in ICICS x530 (first week), Koerner pavilion Max Walters Room (third week)

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