== Abstract ==
Self-Diagnosing SystemSystems. Standardized tests as self-replicating structuressystem. Standardized tests and the machines that love them.
This Taking common multiple choice tests from the fields of educational achievement and psychological diagnosis, this project explores both the forms of those tests and the psychology of human viewers/participants. I envision this as a reciprocal investigation: elucidating the formal structure, descriptive limitations, and values embedded in a variety of testing metrics (including psychological inventories, diagnostic tools, intelligence tests, and forms scholastic aptitude / achievement tests) while also engaging the viewer/user in some reflexive consideration of common multiple choice their own psychology in relation to that test. These tests hold great weight in determining future outcomes of people in society and as thus merit further critical analysis. The central interactive model for this project is the subjective responses idea of the user administering tests to the computer--an exchange suggesting the possibility of diagnosing the computer (and through it, the test) to discover its underlying pathology, and encouraging the viewerto form some sense of the parameters and limitations of the testing tool. Multiple-choice tests are closed systems with finite possible outcomes and descriptive states--and as such they are already essentailly "machines" for producing diagnoses. Thus they are natural structures to interface with and intervene in with an illuminating machine. Computer vision (CV) and statistical machine learning technologies are the means to orchestrate this encounter between the viewer and the test, and to facilitate the ongoing interaction between the two.
Open Questions (To Be Addressed):
== Timeline ==
=== Initial Phase ===
2 weeks.
*Approach essential conceptual concerns through research and practical experimentation.
**closed/open systems?
**Alternately, is the system simply playing out closed possibilities. (Every Icon).
**Documentary/emulative behavior--does it record some trace of the viewer's/user's actions? Do they shape the emerging personality?
*Existing critical analysis and literature on standardized testing.**anti-test advocates?**complaints about specific tests?**
=== Software Development ===
=== Physical Development ===
=== Prototype/Mock-Up ===
=== Presentation ===
Final week
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