Research Methods & Concepts
This kind of study seeks to identify patterns and relationships but does not test hypotheses about causes.
What is a literature review?
This English scientist discovered penicillin in 1928.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This video game, released in 1980, is one of the most recognizable arcade games in history and features a yellow character eating dots.
What is Pacman?
This approach requires that any adaptation of a work is released under the same open terms, ensuring that the freedom to use, modify, and share remains intact in all derivative works.
What is copyleft?
This animal was used in the famous Pavlovian experiment where it was conditioned to salivate at the sound of a bell.
What are dogs?
Specific, thought-provoking, and actionable, are features of a good version of this.
What is problem statement?
This English mathematician and physicist is credited with formulating the law of universal gravitation after, legend says, an apple fell on his head.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This company created the first commercially successful graphical user interface in 1984.
What is the Xerox Alto?
This concept in research refers to the act of copying someone else’s work and presenting it as your own.
What is plagiarism?
This was the first antibiotic discovered and revolutionized medicine after being discovered in 1928.
What is penicillin?
This type of research is done in subjects where very little is known.
What is exploratory research?
This woman’s pioneering X-ray crystallography work on DNA’s structure was used without her permission by James Watson and Francis Crick.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
We categorize hands into two types. Using the MediaPipe skeleton, if the fingertip points are positioned close to their corresponding joint points—indicating the fingers are curled or folded—we classify the gesture as this.
What is Close-Hand?
This research concept involves obtaining consent from participants before conducting experiments and ensuring they are fully informed.
What is informed consent?
This class of animals was the subject of a classic experiment demonstrating operant conditioning through the reinforcement of desired behaviors.
What are pigeons?
This is an educated guess or proposed explanation that can be tested through experimentation and observation.
What is hypothesis?
This physicist known for his work with black holes has an Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath number of 9.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
This is the 21-point model that maps your hand into spatial recognizable points and is commonly used in industrial hand gesture recognition technologies.
What is the MediaPipe hand skeleton?
This is the ethical principle ensuring that research can be repeated with the same results and is considered one of the pillars of scientific integrity.
What is reproducibility?
This organism's migration patterns have been studied to understand how animals perceive and navigate time.
What are butterflies?
This a statistical test to determine whether the null hypothesis or an alternative hypothesis is more likely.
What is ANOVA?
This former surgeon lost his ability to practice medicine in the UK following his study into the link between vaccines and autism that fabricated data and violated ethical practices.
Who is Andrew Wakefield?
In a typical machine learning model, we take an input x, pass it through a series of functions or layers, and produce an output y. To improve y, there are two main strategies: enhance the model’s algorithms, or improve the quality of x. This design follows the second path—optimizing the gestures themselves to provide clearer, more robust inputs for recognition.
What is gesture vocabulary design?
This term refers to a study design where both the participants and the experimenters are unaware of which treatment the participants are receiving, to eliminate bias.
What is a double-blind study?
In order to prove this animal can perceive time, researchers induced a habit then checked if this habit persisted without the stimulus in the dark, in a salt mine, and after a flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
What are bees?