Week 5: Research Design

Announcements

  • Lab 4 is due 02/15 by 23:59 EST. (Lab feedback timeline updated)

  • Lab 5 will be available Wednesday, 02/16. It is a team assignment.

  • Lectures and labs this week are In Person, office hours are via ZOOM.

  • Lectures video recordings are in our shared Google folder.

  • Class participation, EdSTEM, Figma, and the Group 5 of The six groups for lecture notes.

Week 5 Topics

  • Research Design

  • Example Papers

  • Your Research Design

  • Classification

  • Clustering

  • Supervised Learning

  • Unsupervised Learning

  • Decision Trees

  • Ensemble methods

  • Random Forest

  • Paper Formatting

Monday

Research Design

EEGEyeNet_2021

  • Where to locate Research Design

  • Paper PDF File

  • Reviewers' Comments

  • What kind of Research Design is this paper using?

Craik_2019

  • Where to locate Research Design

  • Paper PDF File

  • 3.5. Case studies on a shared dataset

  • An emotion recognition dataset (DEAP, [56], used in ten studies, cited by 2616)

  • A mental workload dataset ([57], used in four studies)

  • Two motor imagery datasets from the same BCI competition ([58])

  • What kind of Research Design is this paper using?

  • What kind of Research Designs [56,57,58] are these papers using?

In-class exercises:

  • Which Research Design you are interested in

  • Which paper you are interested in to use a similar Research Design

  • Post it on Figma

  • Keywords

Roy_2019

  • Where to locate Research Design

  • Paper PDF File

  • DEAP [91]

  • BCI Competition [26, 27, 160]

  • What kind of Research Design is this paper using?

  • What kind of Research Designs [26,27,91,160] are these papers using?

Lotte_2018

  • Where to locate Research Design

  • Paper PDF File

  • BCI Competitions [103, 67, 4, 143, 10, 102, 35, 97]

  • What kind of Research Design is this paper using?

  • What kind of Research Designs [103, 67, 4, 143, 10, 102, 35, 97] are these papers using?

Your Research Design

  • Your Experimental Design

  • Revisit Your Dataset

  • Revisit Your Available Hours

  • Other Papers using the same Dataset

Wednesday

Classification

  • Definition

    1. wiki

    2. Courses

    3. Video-based Learning

  • Example Code

  • Example Papers

  • Apply to your Research

Clustering

  • Definition

    1. wiki

    2. Courses

    3. Video-based Learning

  • Example Code

  • Example Papers

  • Apply to your Research

In-class exercises:

  • Is your research a Classification problem?

  • Is your research a Clustering problem?

  • Post it on Figma

Supervised Learning

  • Definition

    1. wiki

    2. Courses

    3. Video-based Learning

  • Example Papers

  • Apply to your Research

Unsupervised Learning

  • Definition

    1. wiki

    2. Courses

    3. Video-based Learning

  • Example Papers

  • Apply to your Research

In-class exercises:

  • Given a paper, is it using Supervised or Unsupervised Learning?

  • Your research, Supervised or Unsupervised Learning?

  • Post it on Figma

Friday

Decision Trees

  • Definition

  • Example Papers

  • Apply to your Research

Ensemble methods

  • Definition

  • Example Papers

  • Apply to your Research

Random Forest

  • Definition

  • Example Papers

  • Apply to your Research

Paper Formatting

  • Latex

  • Overleaf

  • Mid-term Two-Page Poster using AAAI 2022

  • Final Ten-Page Paper using NeurIPS 2021

In-class exercises:

  • Download the AAAI 2022 Latex template file

  • Upload it to your Overleaf account

  • Share it with you co-author

  • Change the 'Title', 'Author', and 'Introduction'