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Plans and Goals

2016-08-23T19:37:19Z

Eleanor Tursman: /* Eleanor */

On this page the members of the [[VRL]] record and refine their goals for the current semester. This is a living document in which [[dhl]] will provide feedback. See the bottom of the page for links to past plans & goals documents.

== Current Schedule ==
Meetings are on Mondays. The authoritative list is in dhl's calendar.

== Current Plans and Goals (Summer '16) ==

=== [[User:Connor Gramazio|Connor]] ===
'''Boldfaced''' goals are those that mark the high-level success of each project.

===== '''Dissertation''' =====
* By 29 July: <s>Init dissertation github repo that contains a compilable TeX document, concatenating all previous papers</s>
* By 8 August: <s>'''send DHL an updated dissertation skeleton with chapter names and contributions'''</s>
* By end of summer: complete first draft of dissertation through present completed work

===== '''Color''' =====
* By 22 July: <s>Complete Colorgorical web app load balancing + last remaining bug fixes</s>
* By 22 July: <s>submit travel funding to the graduate school</s>
* By 29 July: <s>Toggle the Github repo for Colorgorical to public</s>
* By 1 August: <s>'''submit camera-ready to Precision Conference'''</s>

===== '''Genomics Case Study''' =====
* By 5 August: <s>e-mail David a revised TVCG manuscript wrt VAST reviewer comments</s>
* By end of summer: '''submit revised manuscript to TVCG'''

===== '''BLADE''' =====
* By 29 July: '''Complete BLADE interaction log mining user study'''
* By 5 August: e-mail David and Jeff the complete study results
* By 12 August: '''email relevant committee members the new MAGI feature to implement/evaluate based on BLADE interaction log study results'''
* By 12 August: send skeleton of eventual paper to David and Jeff
* By 26 August: Complete (1) related work, (2) BLADE interaction log mining user study results + discussion
* By end of summer: '''demo completed new feature to relevant committee members'''

===== '''Job hunting''' =====
* <s>Update personal website with new publication + job-seeking-geared information</s>
* <s>Update resume _and_ C.V.</s>
* <s>Compile list of companies to apply to in LA and elsewhere</s>

=== [[User:Hua Guo|Hua]] ===
* <s>ThoughtFlow submission to VIS</s>
** <s>Jan. 22: First round user feedback collected and design improvement plan finalized</s>
** <s>Feb.25: Design improvements implemented based on first round user feedback</s>
*** <s>Paper thumbnails and citation pattern vis prototyped (Feb.15)</s>
*** Proposal keyword selection implemented (Feb.22)</s>
*** <s>Citation pattern backend implemented (Feb.22)</s>
*** <s>Citation pattern vis and paper thumbnails design refined (Feb.29)</s>
*** <s>Get feedback from Steven S</s>
** <s>March 7: Second round user feedback collected</s>
** <s>March 21: abstract due</s>
** <s>March 31: paper submission</s>
* <s>Flyingsessions submission to VIS</s>
** <s>March 21: abstract due</s>
** <s>March 31: paper submission</s>
* ThoughtFlow post-VIS work
** Interface redesign
*** Write a plan on how it ties into interaction modeling work (Apr.8)
*** Sketch out the design for literature exploration view (Apr.15)
*** Implement literature exploration view
** Interaction modeling
* Dissertation Writing
** Draft abstract and introduction

=== [[User:Ryan Cabeen|Ryan]] ===

* Grants
** Renewals
*** SMART2 - July 5?
*** SA/AIDS - Sept 14
** Career dev
*** NIH: F32, K99/R00, etc?
* Papers
** Tractography eval
*** multi vs single
*** bundle selection mechanisms
** Diffusion model eval
*** relate parameters of more complex models to tensors
*** atlasing with multiple diffusion models
** Collabs
*** Bipolar imaging with Dan
*** Something with Ani?
*** Ongoing work with RP group
* Training of incoming phd students
** Test suite and shared repo of brain tools
** Clean interface for novice users

=== [[User:David Laidlaw|David]] (for sabbatical) ===

* yurt
** color calibrated within a few JND's by end of June
** seams calibrated within a few mm's by end of June
** application(s) (re)submitted for some fidelity-based research
** application(s) submitted for some collaboration-based research, perhaps with Gatesy/Francois/Josh/Johannes
** wiki "how to" for creating a yurt app, perhaps w/Johannes, before cs237 for sure!
** scientific VR software tools review document by end of summer, from developer to non-programming user
*** maybe include Simon Su, Kreylos, others; EnSight, Paravision
** paper out about R&D, model on Cruz, by end of summer
* VT
** seam experiment
** submit TTTS manuscript
* orthopedics
** tools continuing to run well (despite upgrade)
*** get registration pipeline to pass regression tests
** maybe pursue diffusion imaging in joints
* diffusion MRI
** two renewal grants with Rob Paul and Ryan over summer and fall
*** Sept 14, SA/AIDS
*** sooner, SMART/Aging
** Dickstein paper and maybe proposal
** tractography comparison paper with Ryan during summer
* keep all advisees moving along appropriately
** prepare for incoming triplet: brains, hands, yurt

=== [[User:Johannes Novotny|Johannes]] ===

* Cave/Yurt
** Complete user study with Wesley
** Design next experiment for VT project
** Work on VR volume visualization (3D Visualizer/CaveVOX/...)
** Get more concrete collaboration with students of Robbert Creton or Kristi Wharton
** Help out with Demos when needed
** Explore use of VTK in VRG3D

* CS137
** Set up clean development branch for CavePainting
** Get acquainted with the sourcecode
** Fix some bugs if possible

* Fitts' Law
** Work on paper with HCI seminar group

* Thesis Project
** Restart discussions with Derek and Kristi
** Explore collaborations for genome folding visualizations
** by December: Create Thesis proposal draft

=== [[User:Bruce Campbell|Bruce]] ===

* Funding
** Raise funding to support Visiting Scientist position for 2016
** Submit proposals to STAC, NSF ITEST, and ONR by end of 2015
** Create ten-page white paper for Jan 31, 2016 to send to other funding organizations

* Cave/Yurt
** Axial Seamount application:
*** Implement Animation controls by Dec 31, 2015
*** Implement Grab and Manipulate interaction by Jan 30, 2016
** Create Plan for 2016 work by Jan 30, 2016 (promote here):
*** Continuous overall contribution: Useful Temporal Interaction GUIs
*** Prioritize other COVE (http://cove.ocean.washington.edu) features integration
*** Pursue Python interpreter integration unless other Yurt methods pan out
*** Anticipate STAC/ITEST programming needs for Yurt
*** Continue to pursue possible student participation

* CS 137
** Continue to attend and revisit notes from UW INDE 543
** CG&A ''Art on Graphics'' column to layout by February 15, 2016

* Distributed Cognition
** Create updated mind map (with bibliography) by Dec 31, 2015
** Create d-cog metric and test plan to support VIS/VAST paper by Jan 15, 2015
** VIS/VAST paper abstract ready by March deadline

* Personal Development
** Continuous: Improve research process effectiveness including a better parallel writing process
** Continuous: Improve conciseness in e-mail and research-related writing
** Continuous: Improve at sketching ideas

=== [[User:Josh Tveite|Josh]] ===

* Research Comps
** Finish proposal and give proposal presentation
** Continue work on implementation
** Communicate better with Steve

* Summer Project
** Determine what to work on as continuing from VT work
** Do said work (To be expanded on soon)

* General Yurt
** Continue to give demos as needed
** Continue to improve knowledge of working in/with the Yurt

=== [[User: Eleanor Tursman|Eleanor]] ===
* Overarching goals
** Figure out if academia as a career is right for me
** Become confident in doing research
** Meet and talk to people in the field at conferences, etc.

* Before school
** Work my way through the DTI papers from Ryan
** Initial read-through of Liz Marai's thesis
** Read wrist work NIH proposal
** Make pseudo-syllabus for research comp work

* Fall Semester
** More careful read-through of thesis
** Go for a good class/research balance
** Determine topic for research comp

=== [[User: Fumeng Yang|Fumeng]] ===
*N-year goal
**Be able to generate an idea of a new research direction and have the power to accomplish and purchase that
***Know what is important and be able to convince other people that is important
***Be knowledgeable and expertise in the field; Write proposals; Mentoring; Find help; Present the work to others; Interact with other people; Write papers

*First year
**First semester
***Get along with my advisor, the group, other PhD students and the department
***Find a project, nail it down and finish the pilot work
***Let my C/C++ and OpenGL skills not be worries of mine
**Second semester / By the end of my first year
***Read enough papers to have a big picture of VR field
***Finish a project and write it down

*Recent Goals
**Read papers from this group
**Read papers from VR field and perception
**Know everyone's work in this group
**Finish this round of editing VF paper and handle it out (with Tufts, WPI etc) : Aug 28, 16


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== Past Plans and Goals ==
* [[/Summer 2016|Summer '16]]
* [[/Spring 2016|Spring '16]]
* [[/Fall 2015|Fall '15]]
* [[/Summer 2015|Summer '15]]
* [[/Spring 2015|Spring '15]]
* [[/Fall 2014|Fall '14]]
* [[/Spring-Summer 2014|Spring-Summer '14]]
* [[/Summer-Fall 2013|Summer-Fall '13]]
* [[/Spring 2013|Spring '13]]
* [[/Fall 2012|Fall '12]]
* [[/Summer 2012|Summer '12]]
* [[/Spring 2012|Spring '12]]
* [[/Summer-Fall 2011|Summer-Fall '11]]
* [[/Spring 2011|Spring '11]]
* [[/Summer-Fall 2010|Summer-Fall '10]]
* [[/Spring 2010|Spring '10]]
* [[/Fall 2009|Fall '09]]
* [[/Summer 2009|Summer '09]]
* [[/Spring 2009|Spring '09]]
* [[/Fall 2008|Fall '08]]
* [http://sites.google.com/a/vis.cs.brown.edu/collaboravis/Home/summer-08-group-goals Summer '08]

[[Category:VRL]]

Plans and Goals

2016-08-21T20:50:48Z

Eleanor Tursman:

On this page the members of the [[VRL]] record and refine their goals for the current semester. This is a living document in which [[dhl]] will provide feedback. See the bottom of the page for links to past plans & goals documents.

== Current Schedule ==
Meetings are on Mondays. The authoritative list is in dhl's calendar.

== Current Plans and Goals (Summer '16) ==

=== [[User:Connor Gramazio|Connor]] ===
'''Boldfaced''' goals are those that mark the high-level success of each project.

===== '''Dissertation''' =====
* By 29 July: <s>Init dissertation github repo that contains a compilable TeX document, concatenating all previous papers</s>
* By 8 August: <s>'''send DHL an updated dissertation skeleton with chapter names and contributions'''</s>
* By end of summer: complete first draft of dissertation through present completed work

===== '''Color''' =====
* By 22 July: <s>Complete Colorgorical web app load balancing + last remaining bug fixes</s>
* By 22 July: <s>submit travel funding to the graduate school</s>
* By 29 July: <s>Toggle the Github repo for Colorgorical to public</s>
* By 1 August: <s>'''submit camera-ready to Precision Conference'''</s>

===== '''Genomics Case Study''' =====
* By 5 August: <s>e-mail David a revised TVCG manuscript wrt VAST reviewer comments</s>
* By end of summer: '''submit revised manuscript to TVCG'''

===== '''BLADE''' =====
* By 29 July: '''Complete BLADE interaction log mining user study'''
* By 5 August: e-mail David and Jeff the complete study results
* By 12 August: '''email relevant committee members the new MAGI feature to implement/evaluate based on BLADE interaction log study results'''
* By 12 August: send skeleton of eventual paper to David and Jeff
* By 26 August: Complete (1) related work, (2) BLADE interaction log mining user study results + discussion
* By end of summer: '''demo completed new feature to relevant committee members'''

===== '''Job hunting''' =====
* <s>Update personal website with new publication + job-seeking-geared information</s>
* <s>Update resume _and_ C.V.</s>
* <s>Compile list of companies to apply to in LA and elsewhere</s>

=== [[User:Hua Guo|Hua]] ===
* <s>ThoughtFlow submission to VIS</s>
** <s>Jan. 22: First round user feedback collected and design improvement plan finalized</s>
** <s>Feb.25: Design improvements implemented based on first round user feedback</s>
*** <s>Paper thumbnails and citation pattern vis prototyped (Feb.15)</s>
*** Proposal keyword selection implemented (Feb.22)</s>
*** <s>Citation pattern backend implemented (Feb.22)</s>
*** <s>Citation pattern vis and paper thumbnails design refined (Feb.29)</s>
*** <s>Get feedback from Steven S</s>
** <s>March 7: Second round user feedback collected</s>
** <s>March 21: abstract due</s>
** <s>March 31: paper submission</s>
* <s>Flyingsessions submission to VIS</s>
** <s>March 21: abstract due</s>
** <s>March 31: paper submission</s>
* ThoughtFlow post-VIS work
** Interface redesign
*** Write a plan on how it ties into interaction modeling work (Apr.8)
*** Sketch out the design for literature exploration view (Apr.15)
*** Implement literature exploration view
** Interaction modeling
* Dissertation Writing
** Draft abstract and introduction

=== [[User:Ryan Cabeen|Ryan]] ===

* Grants
** Renewals
*** SMART2 - July 5?
*** SA/AIDS - Sept 14
** Career dev
*** NIH: F32, K99/R00, etc?
* Papers
** Tractography eval
*** multi vs single
*** bundle selection mechanisms
** Diffusion model eval
*** relate parameters of more complex models to tensors
*** atlasing with multiple diffusion models
** Collabs
*** Bipolar imaging with Dan
*** Something with Ani?
*** Ongoing work with RP group
* Training of incoming phd students
** Test suite and shared repo of brain tools
** Clean interface for novice users

=== [[User:David Laidlaw|David]] (for sabbatical) ===

* yurt
** color calibrated within a few JND's by end of June
** seams calibrated within a few mm's by end of June
** application(s) (re)submitted for some fidelity-based research
** application(s) submitted for some collaboration-based research, perhaps with Gatesy/Francois/Josh/Johannes
** wiki "how to" for creating a yurt app, perhaps w/Johannes, before cs237 for sure!
** scientific VR software tools review document by end of summer, from developer to non-programming user
*** maybe include Simon Su, Kreylos, others; EnSight, Paravision
** paper out about R&D, model on Cruz, by end of summer
* VT
** seam experiment
** submit TTTS manuscript
* orthopedics
** tools continuing to run well (despite upgrade)
*** get registration pipeline to pass regression tests
** maybe pursue diffusion imaging in joints
* diffusion MRI
** two renewal grants with Rob Paul and Ryan over summer and fall
*** Sept 14, SA/AIDS
*** sooner, SMART/Aging
** Dickstein paper and maybe proposal
** tractography comparison paper with Ryan during summer
* keep all advisees moving along appropriately
** prepare for incoming triplet: brains, hands, yurt

=== [[User:Wesley Miller|Wesley]] ===

* CAVE/YURT
** Complete or nearly complete user study with Johannes
** Help out with Demos when needed
** Add new applications for use in YURT

* Fitts' Law
** Work on paper with HCI seminar group

* Third Person Perspective
** Make plans for future of 3PP project or something derivative

* Hospital
** Discuss potential projects with Derek

=== [[User:Johannes Novotny|Johannes]] ===

* Cave/Yurt
** Complete user study with Wesley
** Design next experiment for VT project
** Work on VR volume visualization (3D Visualizer/CaveVOX/...)
** Get more concrete collaboration with students of Robbert Creton or Kristi Wharton
** Help out with Demos when needed
** Explore use of VTK in VRG3D

* CS137
** Set up clean development branch for CavePainting
** Get acquainted with the sourcecode
** Fix some bugs if possible

* Fitts' Law
** Work on paper with HCI seminar group

* Thesis Project
** Restart discussions with Derek and Kristi
** Explore collaborations for genome folding visualizations
** by December: Create Thesis proposal draft

=== [[User:Tom Sgouros|Tom]] ===

=== [[User:Bruce Campbell|Bruce]] ===

* Funding
** Raise funding to support Visiting Scientist position for 2016
** Submit proposals to STAC, NSF ITEST, and ONR by end of 2015
** Create ten-page white paper for Jan 31, 2016 to send to other funding organizations

* Cave/Yurt
** Axial Seamount application:
*** Implement Animation controls by Dec 31, 2015
*** Implement Grab and Manipulate interaction by Jan 30, 2016
** Create Plan for 2016 work by Jan 30, 2016 (promote here):
*** Continuous overall contribution: Useful Temporal Interaction GUIs
*** Prioritize other COVE (http://cove.ocean.washington.edu) features integration
*** Pursue Python interpreter integration unless other Yurt methods pan out
*** Anticipate STAC/ITEST programming needs for Yurt
*** Continue to pursue possible student participation

* CS 137
** Continue to attend and revisit notes from UW INDE 543
** CG&A ''Art on Graphics'' column to layout by February 15, 2016

* Distributed Cognition
** Create updated mind map (with bibliography) by Dec 31, 2015
** Create d-cog metric and test plan to support VIS/VAST paper by Jan 15, 2015
** VIS/VAST paper abstract ready by March deadline

* Personal Development
** Continuous: Improve research process effectiveness including a better parallel writing process
** Continuous: Improve conciseness in e-mail and research-related writing
** Continuous: Improve at sketching ideas

=== [[User:Josh Tveite|Josh]] ===

* Research Comps
** Finish proposal and give proposal presentation
** Continue work on implementation
** Communicate better with Steve

* Summer Project
** Determine what to work on as continuing from VT work
** Do said work (To be expanded on soon)

* General Yurt
** Continue to give demos as needed
** Continue to improve knowledge of working in/with the Yurt

=== [[User:Wallace Lages|Wallace]] ===

*Finish experiment and write IEEEVR paper

* Finish VR volume renderer
** last changes: added another kernel for gpu pre processing, copying one PBO to another in the GPU. Simple kernel (just remove part of the dataset)
** Issues: Interaction pass takes a long time on CPU
** Options: add spatial structure, perform interaction on GPU
** Other improvements: 1) reduce original RGBA 3d texture to mono -> improve memory usage 2) remove 3d texture altogether and implement filtering in the shader -> possible faster copy in one pass, 3) change to splatting 4) refactor code

*Reimplement Volume Cracker like interaction
**Implement on VR
**Develop hardware

* Finish new interaction technique
**Finish design
**Implement software
**Implement technique on VR

=== [[User: Eleanor Tursman|Eleanor]] ===
* Before school
** Work my way through the DTI papers from Ryan
** Initial read-through of Liz Marai's thesis
** Read wrist work NIH proposal

* Fall Semester
** More careful read-through of thesis
** Go for a good class/research balance
** Determine topic for research comp



----

== Past Plans and Goals ==
* [[/Spring 2016|Spring '16]]
* [[/Fall 2015|Fall '15]]
* [[/Summer 2015|Summer '15]]
* [[/Spring 2015|Spring '15]]
* [[/Fall 2014|Fall '14]]
* [[/Spring-Summer 2014|Spring-Summer '14]]
* [[/Summer-Fall 2013|Summer-Fall '13]]
* [[/Spring 2013|Spring '13]]
* [[/Fall 2012|Fall '12]]
* [[/Summer 2012|Summer '12]]
* [[/Spring 2012|Spring '12]]
* [[/Summer-Fall 2011|Summer-Fall '11]]
* [[/Spring 2011|Spring '11]]
* [[/Summer-Fall 2010|Summer-Fall '10]]
* [[/Spring 2010|Spring '10]]
* [[/Fall 2009|Fall '09]]
* [[/Summer 2009|Summer '09]]
* [[/Spring 2009|Spring '09]]
* [[/Fall 2008|Fall '08]]
* [http://sites.google.com/a/vis.cs.brown.edu/collaboravis/Home/summer-08-group-goals Summer '08]

[[Category:VRL]]