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Dinosaur Track Viewer/Preprocess

2017-09-12T01:32:47Z

Josh Tveite:

= dinopreprocess=
This page covers the use of a set of scripts used to take the raw data produced by the LAMMPS simulation and convert it to a format that the Dinosaur Track Viewer can use.

The scripts are available at https://github.com/jtveite/dinopreprocess . Please message [[User:Josh Tveite]] if you don't have access.

Note that I am currently working on converting this page from the github readme version, so go there for images (should be fixed soon).

To use, put your dataset exported from Ovito into the root directory of this named dataset.lammps (symlinks are handy: `ln -s /path/to/your/file dataset.lammps`) then type make. Currently on CCV you need to pause partway through and switch python modules (2 is needed for clusters and tris due to using scipy, 3 is needed for the other 2 parts).

Module requirements are (I believe) only python and scikit-learn.

(Note that you need to edit the produced dataset.feet file to have the first line point to where your foot files are located relative to the program launch directory.)

==Exporting from Ovito==

So how do you go from new data to an exported file the makefile above can use? Read on!

Your data should come as a series of .bin files in a folder (unless Peter changes the way he's doing things/someone else uses this). First fire up Ovito and go to the load screen. If you don't have Ovito you can download it at https://ovito.org/. If you are on the Brown CCV system you need to run
module load ovito/2.6.2
and
module load nvidia-driver/310.32
though I've found Ovito to feel buggy sometimes there.

![HowToLoad](images/1-load.png)

Select the appropriate column mapping for this export. Whoever gave you the data should be able to give you a good idea of what to choose for this, or the following image is a good starting guess.

![Mapping](images/2-mapping.png)

Now you should be able to see your data in Ovito. You can also select the data in the modification pipeline on the right of the screen to see info about how Ovito sees it (as below).

![Overview](images/3-overview.png)

If you click on "Add Modification" you will get a screen with a list of all the modifications Ovito supports. There are a lot. I've pointed in red to the few I use for this and blue to the ones that are occasionally useful.

The way Ovito works is to have a pipeline of these modifications acting from the bottom to the top on the data.

![Modifications Pipeline](images/4-modifications.png)

The first modification to do is a 'Freeze Property'. This stores the value of a property (in our case position) at a given frame (in our case the first) and allows you to access it in other frames. We use this for our layers. Press the 'Take new snapshot' button to take the snapshot (be sure frame 0 is loaded!)

![Freeze](images/5-freeze.png)

Now we want to select the particles we will keep. The way we have been doing this is to select layers of constant z. One way of doing so is shown below.

fmod(FreezePos.3 + 1, 0.02) < 0.001

Fmod does a floating point remainder operation. This allows us to easily find a number of evenly spaced layers. I add one because the datasets tend to be centered around 0 and wind up with a double thickness layer at 0 due to Ovito's implementation of fmod. 0.02 is simply a convenient value to start at as it frequently gives 3-5 layers (I tend to aim for 4). The last number is the thickness of the slice and can be varied at your leisure.

![Select](images/6-expr.png)

Notice how this selection starts a fair bit below the top. You can adjust the +1 (or add another small factor since to go up is negative) as seen below.

![Better select](images/7-expradj.png)

Now we want to delete the particles that aren't selected. To do this we add two items to the modification pipeline. First an 'Invert Selection' and then a 'Delete Selected Particles'.

The reason I choose to select the ones I keep and then invert is so that I can easily see the number of particles being selected (pointed out better in a while).

![DELETE](images/8-deleted.png)

Now we get into the most subjective part. Trimming the dataset to minimize the particles on the edge that are uninteresting.

To start we use the 'Compute Property' modification. This allows us to add a property to the particle based on existing properties. In this case we want to compute the distance a particle is from it's starting position. (I cheat and frequently use Manhattan distance of even just `abs(FreezePos.3 - Position.Z)` since it's just informative.)

![Compute Prop](images/9-compute.png)

We then add a 'Color Coding' modification. This lets us choose a value and color particles by it. Choose 'Distance' or whatever you named your distance property. It will show a color gradient on the image as below. You may need to click 'Adjust Range' to make it match the range.

![Color!](images/10-colorcode.png)

Well this isn't helpful. It looks like some particles moved a ton and are screwing up the color scheme and making it difficult for us to tell what's going on. Setting a lower value for the 'End Value' fixes this.

![Better color](images/11-coloradj.png)

Now that we can see which particles didn't move much, we want to select and delete them. Do this by simple comparison with your freezed position. I usually start at 0, see how it looks (awful), then adjust by trial and error until it's about right.

In this case I wound up with `FreezePos.1 > 0.06 || FreezePos.2 > 0.11`. Usually this has 4 statements instead of 2, but it was fairly tight on the other ends.

![Trim selection](images/12-trimsel.png)

When you're happy with the selection I move the trimming expression select down near the bottom of the pipeline so it happens first, then add a 'Delete Selected Particles'. I do this so I can get an accurate count of particles later.

![Trim Moved](images/13-trimmov.png)

Look back at your first expression select. In the bottom is a number of particles selected. This is a helpful number to know how well your animation will run. (I usually aim for between 50k and 200k particles, but it can certainly run with more.)

Good ways to reduce the number of particles include having fewer layers, reducing layer size, and trimming the outside tighter.

![Counting](images/14-count.png)

If that's not enough, another way you can trim is to subsample within the particles. Ideally you want this to be random, but random is hard. I simulate random by doing things with the `ParticleIdentifier` and make poor attempts at creating my own PRNG with this. My goto now is to take

sin(ParticleIdentifer * A + B) > x

where `A` and `B` are large numbers pulled from my head and `x` is a threshold value (0 samples half, higher takes less). This seems to approximate random particle selection. (Peter also claims that the IDs are basically random so just using them should be fine, but I didn't know that when I started doing this.)

Notice how now there are half as many particles as before. (It wasn't really necessary for this dataset though.)

![Random!](images/15-subsample.png)

Now to write the file! Go back to the file menu and choose export.

![Export](images/16-export.png)

You want to save as type 'LAMMPS Dump File'. Give it a name of your choosing. Conventions are good here. I advise using the same names the scientists you're working with do, perhaps adding properties of your export (# particles, #/location of layers, subsample rate, if you only export some of the frames).

![Save Type](images/17-saveas.png)

The export settings screen should come up now. You want to export as a sequence (usually every 1 frame, occasionally less) with a single file destination.

The properties that should be written are ParticleIdentifier and Position.

![Export properties](images/18-expsettings.png)

Now just press OK and then go get a cup of coffee or sleep for a night or something. It frequently takes a while to run (mostly spent loading new files as far as I can tell). Once it's done you can go run the Makefile to finish processing as detailed above (and then go get another coffee).

Dinosaur Track Viewer/Controls

2017-07-26T15:03:46Z

Josh Tveite: Created page with "The controls work on a modal basis. The mouse (usually left hand) is used for state changes such as changing what mode of interaction you are in and clearing paths. The wand (..."

The controls work on a modal basis. The mouse (usually left hand) is used for state changes such as changing what mode of interaction you are in and clearing paths. The wand (right hand) is used for direction interactions with the data (selecting a pathline, changing particle size, moving the data).

These controls are current as of July 26, 2017

=Mouse=
The mouse had a D-Pad on the left side as well as standard mouse buttons (referred to as Left_Click and Right_Click here). D-Pad directions are given with the mouse held with the buttons pointed to the right.

'''Mouse_Up''': Goes to ''standard'' mode.

'''Mouse_Right''': Goes to ''similarity'' mode.

'''Mouse_Left''': Clears all pathlines shown.

'''Mouse_Down''': Changes coloring and slicing modes.

'''Mouse_Click_Left''': Toggles showing the surface..

'''Mouse_Click_Right''': Toggles slicing.

=Wand=
Some wand buttons work in all modes. Some change behavior depending on the mode.

'''Bottom_Trigger''': Move the dataset while held.

'''Top_Trigger''': Show a pathline from the selected particle. (currently seems buggy on getting events)

'''Select''': Toggle playing the animation.

'''Joystick_Click''': Move the slide.

'''Wand_Left''': Unless specified below, moves the animation forward one frame.

'''Wand_Right''': Unless specified below, moves the animation backward one frame.

===Standard===
Typical mode to use for interacting with the animation

'''Wand_Up''': Make particles larger

'''Wand_Down''': Make particles smaller

'''Wand_Left''': Move back one frame

'''Wand_Right''': Move forward one frame

===Similarity===
Allows you to select one particle and see paths that took similar paths to it.

'''Wand_Up''': Increase number of paths being shown

'''Wand_Down''': Decrease number of paths being shown

'''Wand_Left''': Select a particle to find similar paths. Also resets to ''Standard'' mode.

'''Wand_Right''': Toggles coloring of paths (default by similarity, toggles to by time)

===Cluster===
'''Wand_Up''': Go to the next cluster.

'''Wand_Down''': Go to the previous cluster.

Dinosaur Track Viewer

2017-07-26T14:42:01Z

Josh Tveite:

The dinosaur track viewer is a project made initially by [[User:Josh Tveite|Josh Tveite]] in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Gatesy and Morgan Turner to do 3D interactive visualization in the Yurt of their work studying the creation of dinosaur tracks.

The primary input to the program is a datafile containing a list of points on separate lines. Each line contains an integer for the ID of the point and then a series of xyz coordinates over time (all represented as standard text decimals, separated by spaces). There are also a number of optional inputs to show separate features, such as a list of triangles to show the surface, a list of particle IDs to show the pathlines of initially, and sets of particles that are in the same cluster. All of these input files can be specified in a config file fed to the program, of the form "Key=Value".

The process to generate all of these inputs from the raw data is specified at [[Dinosaur Track Viewer/Preprocess]].

A list of controls (which do change somewhat frequently) is available at [[Dinosaur Track Viewer/Controls]].

The source code is currently stored in a private github repository. Email [[User:Josh Tveite | Josh]] (jtveite@gmail.com) for access.

[[Category:Software]] [[Category:User Documentation]]

Dinosaur Track Viewer

2017-07-26T14:29:58Z

Josh Tveite:

The dinosaur track viewer is a project made initially by [[User:Josh Tveite|Josh Tveite]] in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Gatesy and Morgan Turner to do 3D interactive visualization in the Yurt of their work studying the creation of dinosaur tracks.

The primary input to the program is a datafile containing a list of points on separate lines. Each line contains an integer for the ID of the point and then a series of xyz coordinates over time (all represented as standard text decimals, separated by spaces). There are also a number of optional inputs to show separate features, such as a list of triangles to show the surface, a list of particle IDs to show the pathlines of initially, and sets of particles that are in the same cluster. All of these input files can be specified in a config file fed to the program, of the form "Key=Value".

The process to generate all of these inputs from the raw data is specified at [[Dinosaur Track Viewer/Preprocess]].

The source code is currently stored in a private github repository. Email [[User:Josh Tveite | Josh]] (jtveite@gmail.com) for access.

[[Category:Software]] [[Category:User Documentation]]

Dinosaur Track Viewer: Preprocess

2017-07-26T14:29:50Z

Josh Tveite: moved Dinosaur Track Viewer: Preprocess to Dinosaur Track Viewer/Preprocess

#REDIRECT [[Dinosaur Track Viewer/Preprocess]]

Dinosaur Track Viewer/Preprocess

2017-07-26T14:29:50Z

Josh Tveite: moved Dinosaur Track Viewer: Preprocess to Dinosaur Track Viewer/Preprocess

This details the process for taking raw data given by scientists and converting it to a format usable by the [[Dinosaur Track Viewer]]. It will be more complete later today when I figure out how images work here.

Dinosaur Track Viewer

2017-07-26T14:28:51Z

Josh Tveite:

The dinosaur track viewer is a project made initially by [[User:Josh Tveite|Josh Tveite]] in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Gatesy and Morgan Turner to do 3D interactive visualization in the Yurt of their work studying the creation of dinosaur tracks.

The primary input to the program is a datafile containing a list of points on separate lines. Each line contains an integer for the ID of the point and then a series of xyz coordinates over time (all represented as standard text decimals, separated by spaces). There are also a number of optional inputs to show separate features, such as a list of triangles to show the surface, a list of particle IDs to show the pathlines of initially, and sets of particles that are in the same cluster. All of these input files can be specified in a config file fed to the program, of the form "Key=Value".

The process to generate all of these inputs from the raw data is specified at [[Dinosaur Track Viewer: Preprocess]].

The source code is currently stored in a private github repository. Email [[User:Josh Tveite | Josh]] (jtveite@gmail.com) for access.

[[Category:Software]] [[Category:User Documentation]]

Dinosaur Track Viewer/Preprocess

2017-07-26T13:39:47Z

Josh Tveite: Created page with "This details the process for taking raw data given by scientists and converting it to a format usable by the Dinosaur Track Viewer. It will be more complete later today wh..."

Dinosaur Track Viewer

2017-07-26T13:38:38Z

Josh Tveite: Created page with "The dinosaur track viewer is a project made initially by Josh Tveite in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Gatesy and Morgan Turner to do 3D interactive visua..."

The dinosaur track viewer is a project made initially by [[User:Josh Tveite|Josh Tveite]] in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Gatesy and Morgan Turner to do 3D interactive visualization in the Yurt of their work studying the creation of dinosaur tracks.

The primary input to the program is a datafile containing a list of points on separate lines. Each line contains an integer for the ID of the point and then a series of xyz coordinates over time (all represented as standard text decimals, separated by spaces). There are also a number of optional inputs to show separate features, such as a list of triangles to show the surface, a list of particle IDs to show the pathlines of initially, and sets of particles that are in the same cluster. All of these input files can be specified in a config file fed to the program, of the form "Key=Value".

The process to generate all of these inputs from the raw data is specified at [[Dinosaur Track Viewer: Preprocess]].

The source code is currently stored in a private github repository. Email [[User:Josh Tveite | Josh]] (jtveite@gmail.com) for access.

User:Josh Tveite

2017-07-26T13:26:11Z

Josh Tveite:

Former Masters Student from Fall 2015 - Spring 2017.

Primary project was the [[Dinosaur Track Viewer]].

Plans and Goals

2016-08-29T17:06:05Z

Josh Tveite: /* Josh */

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]] ===
*ThoughtFlow design study re-submission to TVCG*
*ThoughtFlow interaction modeling*
*Dissertation writing*
** Abstract and introduction
*Teaching Interdisciplinary SciVis*
*CHS sensemaking model grant proposal*

=== [[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
** Give proposal presentation - very soon!
** Get Dino Tracks program to a state where it can be used for the study.
** Create and run user study
** (More detailed schedule/milestones in comps proposal pdf)

* Coursework
** Use 237 to further my understanding of:
*** Effective ways of creating scientific visualizations
*** Effectively communicating ideas through writing.
*** Evaluating scientific visualizations.
** Find and perform well in other course (ideally somewhat applicable to future research)

* General Yurt
** Continue to give demos as needed
** Convert dino tracks to MinVR to make more maintainable and help MinVR team by giving feedback on what works/doesn't

=== [[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 (Hua's grant?)
**Read papers from VR field and perception
**Know everyone's work in this group
**Prepare for transferring credits
**Keep the programming test in mind
**Setup C/C++ and OpenGL programming environment
**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

2016-05-24T17:45:24Z

Josh Tveite: /* Josh */

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.

===== '''Writing''' =====
* <s>By January 29: Create exemplar VIS/HCI technical writing exemplar spreadsheet with Hua</s>
* Shift writing style to be story- and outline-driven
* Practice writing in short, daily sessions

===== '''Dissertation''' =====
* <s>23 February: '''Dissertation proposal'''</s>
* <s>29 April: '''Resubmit dissertation proposal'''</s>

===== '''Color''' =====
* <s>By 15 January: Complete achromatic color preference extrapolation</s>
* <s>By 29 January: Complete pilot rounds of Experimentr data collection and iron out all bugs (remember to make security patches)</s>
* <s>By 5 February: Complete all data collection</s>
* <s>By 29 February: Complete 1st draft of Colorgorical paper</s> (done 23 Feb)
* <s>By 21 March: submit abstract to VIS (InfoVis)</s>
* <s>By 31 March: '''Resubmit paper to VIS'''</s>

===== '''Genomics Case Study''' =====
* Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction log scraping
* <s>By 21 March: submit abstract to VIS (VAST)</s>
* <s>By 31 March: '''(re)submit latest draft to VAST'''</s>

===== '''BLADE''' =====
* <s>By 4 March: Have all genomics researchers scheduled for observation</s>
* <s>By 1 April: Have sigma-lognormal interaction log mining implemented</s>
* By 30 April: '''Complete BLADE-video comparative evaluation'''
* By 30 April: Complete BLADE prototype

===== '''Other''' =====
* <s>Complete Sheridan Certificate I program</s>
* Help Karen prep heatmap color paper for submission

=== [[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:Steven Gomez|Steve]] ===
* '''Dissertation'''
** By June 30: committee settled ✓
** By June 30: dissertation draft completed and circulated ✓
*** Address feedback for dissertation as it comes in
** By June 30: get scheduling feedback for committee for mid-August defense ✓
** By early July: resolve defense scheduling ✓
** By mid July: submit defense, date, meta-data, and thesis draft to Lauren ✓
** By mid August: defend thesis, get notes for dissertation revisions from committee
** By mid September: do any necessary dissertation revisions, get signatures from committee, and submit

* '''TVCG/VAST paper'''
** By June 20: Use R to get CI intervals for correlations ✓
** By June 26: Help Hua with response, submission for conditional acceptance ✓

* '''NSF Proposal on Cognitive/Task Modeling'''
** Meet weekly to stay on track for September deadline
** By June 25:
*** Gather notes from all past proposals ✓
*** Write up independent thoughts about new proposal, then compare with David's Expedition notes
** By mid July: rough draft of new proposal based on notes, discussions
** By August: help prepare solid final draft
** Submit in FastLane
*** By September 16 for MEDIUM
*** By September 24 for LARGE
*** By November 18 for SMALL

* '''Other'''
** Review workshops for VIS as possible project venues
** Find housing in Boston ✓

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

* RP Imaging Studies
** Send update for request for additional bundles in SMART data
** Iron out details for South Africa analysis (group meeting on 6/10)
*** ''Update'': fiber bundle length (need a couple more bundles)
*** ''Update'': graph-based analysis w/ Laurie
** Keep up with paper reviewing and other requests
* Diffusion outside brain
** ''Update'': support image analysis w/ Trey Crisco & Ed Walsh
* Yurt
** Demo as needed
** Provide support for CS137-related things
** Help Johannes with getting up to speed for TAing
** ''Update'': Get some brain data in
* Thesis work
** Complete a rough draft of dissertation
** Work with Dan to get bipolar imaging paper out
** ''Update'': Put together documentation of various analyses and tools

=== [[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
** paper out about R&D, model on Cruz, by end of sumer
* 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
** 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



----

== 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]]

Plans and Goals

2016-05-24T17:40:38Z

Josh Tveite: /* Current Plans and Goals (Spring '16) */

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.

===== '''Writing''' =====
* <s>By January 29: Create exemplar VIS/HCI technical writing exemplar spreadsheet with Hua</s>
* Shift writing style to be story- and outline-driven
* Practice writing in short, daily sessions

===== '''Dissertation''' =====
* <s>23 February: '''Dissertation proposal'''</s>
* <s>29 April: '''Resubmit dissertation proposal'''</s>

===== '''Color''' =====
* <s>By 15 January: Complete achromatic color preference extrapolation</s>
* <s>By 29 January: Complete pilot rounds of Experimentr data collection and iron out all bugs (remember to make security patches)</s>
* <s>By 5 February: Complete all data collection</s>
* <s>By 29 February: Complete 1st draft of Colorgorical paper</s> (done 23 Feb)
* <s>By 21 March: submit abstract to VIS (InfoVis)</s>
* <s>By 31 March: '''Resubmit paper to VIS'''</s>

===== '''Genomics Case Study''' =====
* Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction log scraping
* <s>By 21 March: submit abstract to VIS (VAST)</s>
* <s>By 31 March: '''(re)submit latest draft to VAST'''</s>

===== '''BLADE''' =====
* <s>By 4 March: Have all genomics researchers scheduled for observation</s>
* <s>By 1 April: Have sigma-lognormal interaction log mining implemented</s>
* By 30 April: '''Complete BLADE-video comparative evaluation'''
* By 30 April: Complete BLADE prototype

===== '''Other''' =====
* <s>Complete Sheridan Certificate I program</s>
* Help Karen prep heatmap color paper for submission

=== [[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:Steven Gomez|Steve]] ===
* '''Dissertation'''
** By June 30: committee settled ✓
** By June 30: dissertation draft completed and circulated ✓
*** Address feedback for dissertation as it comes in
** By June 30: get scheduling feedback for committee for mid-August defense ✓
** By early July: resolve defense scheduling ✓
** By mid July: submit defense, date, meta-data, and thesis draft to Lauren ✓
** By mid August: defend thesis, get notes for dissertation revisions from committee
** By mid September: do any necessary dissertation revisions, get signatures from committee, and submit

* '''TVCG/VAST paper'''
** By June 20: Use R to get CI intervals for correlations ✓
** By June 26: Help Hua with response, submission for conditional acceptance ✓

* '''NSF Proposal on Cognitive/Task Modeling'''
** Meet weekly to stay on track for September deadline
** By June 25:
*** Gather notes from all past proposals ✓
*** Write up independent thoughts about new proposal, then compare with David's Expedition notes
** By mid July: rough draft of new proposal based on notes, discussions
** By August: help prepare solid final draft
** Submit in FastLane
*** By September 16 for MEDIUM
*** By September 24 for LARGE
*** By November 18 for SMALL

* '''Other'''
** Review workshops for VIS as possible project venues
** Find housing in Boston ✓

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

* RP Imaging Studies
** Send update for request for additional bundles in SMART data
** Iron out details for South Africa analysis (group meeting on 6/10)
*** ''Update'': fiber bundle length (need a couple more bundles)
*** ''Update'': graph-based analysis w/ Laurie
** Keep up with paper reviewing and other requests
* Diffusion outside brain
** ''Update'': support image analysis w/ Trey Crisco & Ed Walsh
* Yurt
** Demo as needed
** Provide support for CS137-related things
** Help Johannes with getting up to speed for TAing
** ''Update'': Get some brain data in
* Thesis work
** Complete a rough draft of dissertation
** Work with Dan to get bipolar imaging paper out
** ''Update'': Put together documentation of various analyses and tools

=== [[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
** paper out about R&D, model on Cruz, by end of sumer
* 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
** 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
** Write/Finish proposal and give proposal presentation
** Find a committee - done
** Continue work on implementation

* User Study
** Continue running users - done
** Write paper - submitted, needs work
** Help with refinements of data/paper

* General Yurt
** Continue to give demos as needed
** Learn everything Wesley knows before he leaves

=== [[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



----

== 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]]

Plans and Goals

2016-05-24T17:40:26Z

Josh Tveite: /* Past Plans and Goals */

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 (Spring '16) ==

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

===== '''Writing''' =====
* <s>By January 29: Create exemplar VIS/HCI technical writing exemplar spreadsheet with Hua</s>
* Shift writing style to be story- and outline-driven
* Practice writing in short, daily sessions

===== '''Dissertation''' =====
* <s>23 February: '''Dissertation proposal'''</s>
* <s>29 April: '''Resubmit dissertation proposal'''</s>

===== '''Color''' =====
* <s>By 15 January: Complete achromatic color preference extrapolation</s>
* <s>By 29 January: Complete pilot rounds of Experimentr data collection and iron out all bugs (remember to make security patches)</s>
* <s>By 5 February: Complete all data collection</s>
* <s>By 29 February: Complete 1st draft of Colorgorical paper</s> (done 23 Feb)
* <s>By 21 March: submit abstract to VIS (InfoVis)</s>
* <s>By 31 March: '''Resubmit paper to VIS'''</s>

===== '''Genomics Case Study''' =====
* Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction log scraping
* <s>By 21 March: submit abstract to VIS (VAST)</s>
* <s>By 31 March: '''(re)submit latest draft to VAST'''</s>

===== '''BLADE''' =====
* <s>By 4 March: Have all genomics researchers scheduled for observation</s>
* <s>By 1 April: Have sigma-lognormal interaction log mining implemented</s>
* By 30 April: '''Complete BLADE-video comparative evaluation'''
* By 30 April: Complete BLADE prototype

===== '''Other''' =====
* <s>Complete Sheridan Certificate I program</s>
* Help Karen prep heatmap color paper for submission

=== [[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:Steven Gomez|Steve]] ===
* '''Dissertation'''
** By June 30: committee settled ✓
** By June 30: dissertation draft completed and circulated ✓
*** Address feedback for dissertation as it comes in
** By June 30: get scheduling feedback for committee for mid-August defense ✓
** By early July: resolve defense scheduling ✓
** By mid July: submit defense, date, meta-data, and thesis draft to Lauren ✓
** By mid August: defend thesis, get notes for dissertation revisions from committee
** By mid September: do any necessary dissertation revisions, get signatures from committee, and submit

* '''TVCG/VAST paper'''
** By June 20: Use R to get CI intervals for correlations ✓
** By June 26: Help Hua with response, submission for conditional acceptance ✓

* '''NSF Proposal on Cognitive/Task Modeling'''
** Meet weekly to stay on track for September deadline
** By June 25:
*** Gather notes from all past proposals ✓
*** Write up independent thoughts about new proposal, then compare with David's Expedition notes
** By mid July: rough draft of new proposal based on notes, discussions
** By August: help prepare solid final draft
** Submit in FastLane
*** By September 16 for MEDIUM
*** By September 24 for LARGE
*** By November 18 for SMALL

* '''Other'''
** Review workshops for VIS as possible project venues
** Find housing in Boston ✓

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

* RP Imaging Studies
** Send update for request for additional bundles in SMART data
** Iron out details for South Africa analysis (group meeting on 6/10)
*** ''Update'': fiber bundle length (need a couple more bundles)
*** ''Update'': graph-based analysis w/ Laurie
** Keep up with paper reviewing and other requests
* Diffusion outside brain
** ''Update'': support image analysis w/ Trey Crisco & Ed Walsh
* Yurt
** Demo as needed
** Provide support for CS137-related things
** Help Johannes with getting up to speed for TAing
** ''Update'': Get some brain data in
* Thesis work
** Complete a rough draft of dissertation
** Work with Dan to get bipolar imaging paper out
** ''Update'': Put together documentation of various analyses and tools

=== [[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
** paper out about R&D, model on Cruz, by end of sumer
* 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
** 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
** Write/Finish proposal and give proposal presentation
** Find a committee - done
** Continue work on implementation

* User Study
** Continue running users - done
** Write paper - submitted, needs work
** Help with refinements of data/paper

* General Yurt
** Continue to give demos as needed
** Learn everything Wesley knows before he leaves

=== [[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



----

== 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]]

Plans and Goals/Spring 2016

2016-05-24T17:40:19Z

Josh Tveite: Created page with " == Current Plans and Goals (Spring '16) == === Connor === '''Boldfaced''' goals are those that mark the high-le..."

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

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

===== '''Writing''' =====
* <s>By January 29: Create exemplar VIS/HCI technical writing exemplar spreadsheet with Hua</s>
* Shift writing style to be story- and outline-driven
* Practice writing in short, daily sessions

===== '''Dissertation''' =====
* <s>23 February: '''Dissertation proposal'''</s>
* <s>29 April: '''Resubmit dissertation proposal'''</s>

===== '''Color''' =====
* <s>By 15 January: Complete achromatic color preference extrapolation</s>
* <s>By 29 January: Complete pilot rounds of Experimentr data collection and iron out all bugs (remember to make security patches)</s>
* <s>By 5 February: Complete all data collection</s>
* <s>By 29 February: Complete 1st draft of Colorgorical paper</s> (done 23 Feb)
* <s>By 21 March: submit abstract to VIS (InfoVis)</s>
* <s>By 31 March: '''Resubmit paper to VIS'''</s>

===== '''Genomics Case Study''' =====
* Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction log scraping
* <s>By 21 March: submit abstract to VIS (VAST)</s>
* <s>By 31 March: '''(re)submit latest draft to VAST'''</s>

===== '''BLADE''' =====
* <s>By 4 March: Have all genomics researchers scheduled for observation</s>
* <s>By 1 April: Have sigma-lognormal interaction log mining implemented</s>
* By 30 April: '''Complete BLADE-video comparative evaluation'''
* By 30 April: Complete BLADE prototype

===== '''Other''' =====
* <s>Complete Sheridan Certificate I program</s>
* Help Karen prep heatmap color paper for submission

=== [[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:Steven Gomez|Steve]] ===
* '''Dissertation'''
** By June 30: committee settled ✓
** By June 30: dissertation draft completed and circulated ✓
*** Address feedback for dissertation as it comes in
** By June 30: get scheduling feedback for committee for mid-August defense ✓
** By early July: resolve defense scheduling ✓
** By mid July: submit defense, date, meta-data, and thesis draft to Lauren ✓
** By mid August: defend thesis, get notes for dissertation revisions from committee
** By mid September: do any necessary dissertation revisions, get signatures from committee, and submit

* '''TVCG/VAST paper'''
** By June 20: Use R to get CI intervals for correlations ✓
** By June 26: Help Hua with response, submission for conditional acceptance ✓

* '''NSF Proposal on Cognitive/Task Modeling'''
** Meet weekly to stay on track for September deadline
** By June 25:
*** Gather notes from all past proposals ✓
*** Write up independent thoughts about new proposal, then compare with David's Expedition notes
** By mid July: rough draft of new proposal based on notes, discussions
** By August: help prepare solid final draft
** Submit in FastLane
*** By September 16 for MEDIUM
*** By September 24 for LARGE
*** By November 18 for SMALL

* '''Other'''
** Review workshops for VIS as possible project venues
** Find housing in Boston ✓

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

* RP Imaging Studies
** Send update for request for additional bundles in SMART data
** Iron out details for South Africa analysis (group meeting on 6/10)
*** ''Update'': fiber bundle length (need a couple more bundles)
*** ''Update'': graph-based analysis w/ Laurie
** Keep up with paper reviewing and other requests
* Diffusion outside brain
** ''Update'': support image analysis w/ Trey Crisco & Ed Walsh
* Yurt
** Demo as needed
** Provide support for CS137-related things
** Help Johannes with getting up to speed for TAing
** ''Update'': Get some brain data in
* Thesis work
** Complete a rough draft of dissertation
** Work with Dan to get bipolar imaging paper out
** ''Update'': Put together documentation of various analyses and tools

=== [[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
** paper out about R&D, model on Cruz, by end of sumer
* 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
** 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
** Write/Finish proposal and give proposal presentation
** Find a committee - done
** Continue work on implementation

* User Study
** Continue running users - done
** Write paper - submitted, needs work
** Help with refinements of data/paper

* General Yurt
** Continue to give demos as needed
** Learn everything Wesley knows before he leaves

=== [[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



----

== Past Plans and Goals ==
* [[/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

2016-04-18T17:17:06Z

Josh Tveite: /* Josh */

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 (Spring '16) ==

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

===== '''Writing''' =====
* <s>By January 29: Create exemplar VIS/HCI technical writing exemplar spreadsheet with Hua</s>
* Shift writing style to be story- and outline-driven
* Reread William's "Style: Toward clarity and grace", Boice's "Advice for new faculty members", and Strunk & White's "Elements of Style"
* Practice writing in short, daily sessions

===== '''Dissertation''' =====
* <s>23 February: '''Dissertation proposal'''</s>
* 29 April: '''Resubmit dissertation proposal'''

===== '''Color''' =====
* <s>By 15 January: Complete achromatic color preference extrapolation</s>
* <s>By 29 January: Complete pilot rounds of Experimentr data collection and iron out all bugs (remember to make security patches)</s>
* <s>By 5 February: Complete all data collection</s>
* <s>By 29 February: Complete 1st draft of Colorgorical paper</s> (done 23 Feb)
* <s>By 21 March: submit abstract to VIS (InfoVis)</s>
* <s>By 31 March: '''Resubmit paper to VIS'''</s>

===== '''Genomics Case Study''' =====
* Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction log scraping
* <s>By 21 March: submit abstract to VIS (VAST)</s>
* <s>By 31 March: '''(re)submit latest draft to VAST'''</s>

===== '''BLADE''' =====
* <s>By 4 March: Have all genomics researchers scheduled for observation</s>
* <s>By 1 April: Have sigma-lognormal interaction log mining implemented</s>
* By 30 April: '''Complete BLADE-video comparative evaluation'''
* By 30 April: Complete BLADE prototype

===== '''Other''' =====
* <s>Complete Sheridan Certificate I program</s>
* Help Karen prep heatmap color paper for submission

=== [[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:Steven Gomez|Steve]] ===
* '''Dissertation'''
** By June 30: committee settled ✓
** By June 30: dissertation draft completed and circulated ✓
*** Address feedback for dissertation as it comes in
** By June 30: get scheduling feedback for committee for mid-August defense ✓
** By early July: resolve defense scheduling ✓
** By mid July: submit defense, date, meta-data, and thesis draft to Lauren ✓
** By mid August: defend thesis, get notes for dissertation revisions from committee
** By mid September: do any necessary dissertation revisions, get signatures from committee, and submit

* '''TVCG/VAST paper'''
** By June 20: Use R to get CI intervals for correlations ✓
** By June 26: Help Hua with response, submission for conditional acceptance ✓

* '''NSF Proposal on Cognitive/Task Modeling'''
** Meet weekly to stay on track for September deadline
** By June 25:
*** Gather notes from all past proposals ✓
*** Write up independent thoughts about new proposal, then compare with David's Expedition notes
** By mid July: rough draft of new proposal based on notes, discussions
** By August: help prepare solid final draft
** Submit in FastLane
*** By September 16 for MEDIUM
*** By September 24 for LARGE
*** By November 18 for SMALL

* '''Other'''
** Review workshops for VIS as possible project venues
** Find housing in Boston ✓

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

* RP Imaging Studies
** Send update for request for additional bundles in SMART data
** Iron out details for South Africa analysis (group meeting on 6/10)
*** ''Update'': fiber bundle length (need a couple more bundles)
*** ''Update'': graph-based analysis w/ Laurie
** Keep up with paper reviewing and other requests
* Diffusion outside brain
** ''Update'': support image analysis w/ Trey Crisco & Ed Walsh
* Yurt
** Demo as needed
** Provide support for CS137-related things
** Help Johannes with getting up to speed for TAing
** ''Update'': Get some brain data in
* Thesis work
** Complete a rough draft of dissertation
** Work with Dan to get bipolar imaging paper out
** ''Update'': Put together documentation of various analyses and tools

=== [[User:David Laidlaw|David]] ===

* yurt
** working well enough for cs137
** working well enough for VT experiment
** press
** paper out about R&D, model on Cruz
** hw and low-level software testing/reliability plan
** application software development easier (asf?)
* VT
** first experiment complete, written, and out!
* orthopedics
** tools continuing to run well (despite upgrade)
** renewal with Trey
** diffusion imaging
* longer-term funding progress
** cognition
** VR
** brains
** trey
** STC?
* good CS137
* keep all advisees moving along appropriately

=== [[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
** Write/Finish proposal and give proposal presentation
** Find a committee - done
** Continue work on implementation

* User Study
** Continue running users - done
** Write paper - submitted, needs work
** Help with refinements of data/paper

* General Yurt
** Continue to give demos as needed
** Learn everything Wesley knows before he leaves

=== [[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



----

== Past Plans and Goals ==
* [[/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

2015-09-08T19:39:03Z

Josh Tveite: /* Current Plans and Goals (Summer '15) */