PROJECT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

PROGRESS 4 : RESEARCH ON GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACING (GUI) IN LABVIEW

I made another study on my project. I was searching the information on the GUI system that will be used in my project system. Here was some information gather in my finding;
--A GUI (usually pronounced GOO-ee) is a graphical (rather than purely textual) user interface to a computer. As you read this, you are looking at the GUI or graphical user interface of your particular Web browser. The term came into existence because the first interactive user interfaces to computers were not graphical; they were text-and-keyboard oriented and usually consisted of commands you had to remember and computer responses that were infamously brief. The command interface of the DOS operating system (which you can still get to from your Windows operating system) is an example of the typical user-computer interface before GUIs arrived. An intermediate step in user interfaces between the command line interface and the GUI was the non-graphical menu-based interface, which let you interact by using a mouse rather than by having to type in keyboard commands. Today's major operating systems provide a graphical user interface. Applications typically use the elements of the GUI that come with the operating system and add their own graphical user interface elements and ideas. A GUI sometimes uses one or more metaphors for objects familiar in real life, such as the desktop, the view through a window, or the physical layout in a building. Elements of a GUI include such things as: windows, pull-down menus, buttons, scroll bars, iconic images, wizards, the mouse, and no doubt many things that haven't been invented yet. With the increasing use of multimedia as part of the GUI, sound, voice, motion video, and virtual reality interfaces seem likely to become part of the GUI for many applications. A system's graphical user interface along with its input devices is sometimes referred to as its "look-and-feel."---
In LabVIEW Software, it use information from a person by using photoplethsmography sensor on fingerprint by using finger probe. The information gathered will be used for matching it with multi-million data bases.

INTRODUCTION

PROGRESS 3: INTRODUCTION

Before I get started with this project, I had done some researches about the Photoplethsmography sensor to get overview for more understanding.

What is Photoplethsmography sensor?

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a simple and low-cost optical technique that can be used to detect blood volume changes in the microvascular bed of tissue. It is often used non-invasively to make measurements at the skin surface. The PPG waveform comprises a pulsatile ('AC') physiological waveform attributed to cardiac synchronous changes in the blood volume with each heart beat, and is superimposed on a slowly varying ('DC') baseline with various lower frequency components attributed to respiration, sympathetic nervous system activity and thermoregulation.

THE PROPOSAL

Making the Proposal
To meet the FYP requirement, I need to make a proposal for my project. The contains need for completing the proposal are an abstract, an introduction, the objectives, benefits, literature review, methodology, work plan and the budget. I need to complete this proposal in the prescribed time.

PROJECT TITLE

PROGRESS 2 : PROJECT TITLE

In week 2, I had a discussion with my advisor, Madam Noor Hidayah bt Mohd Yunus about my project title. Madam had proposed some project title to me. Finally, a title had been approved. My project entitled "Development of Graphical User Interfacing (GUI) using LabVIEW for analysis of the Photoplethsmography(PPG) signal " had been registered on RPS website.