Plans and Goals/Spring-Summer 2014

2014-09-02T15:37:49Z

Ryan Cabeen: Created page with "== Current Plans and Goals (Spring '14) == === Connor === * '''Take Jeff's HCI Seminar''' ** Work no more than 6 hours outside of class every week *..."

== Current Plans and Goals (Spring '14) ==

=== [[User:Connor Gramazio|Connor]] ===
* '''Take Jeff's HCI Seminar'''
** Work no more than 6 hours outside of class every week

* '''Successfully defend research comp'''
** February 21: Complete first draft of manuscript
** February 28: Finish slides, complete polished manuscript
** March 6: Defend

* '''Complete Perception Study'''
** February 7: Have data for 12 subjects
** Tie in results to research comp as listed above
** March 21: Submit abstract
** March 31: Submit a great paper to InfoVis

* '''Complete GD3 viz library and web analysis tool'''
** Decide strategy for long-form publication of both viz library and web analysis tool
** By end of January: Complete GD3 viz library code cleanup
** By mid-February: Complete the web analysis tool
** By end of February: work with Max to submit a Technical Note to Bioinformatics
** Tie in results to research comp as listed above

* '''Start interaction logging''': cancer genomics tool
** By mid-February: have GD3 library and web service completed
** January 31: Write paper outline, particularly focusing on experiment methodology (how many subjects, study conditions, etc.)
** February 11: Have interaction logging fully built into the tool
** February 14: Run myself through tool, check if logs look ok
** February 21: Run 3 others through tool and record other material (e.g., video)
** February 28: Tie in preliminary results to research comp as listed above
** Post-March: dependent on above decision; if submitting to CHI, focus on additional experiments

* '''Present at IPP Symposium on Social Computing'''
** Present cancer genomics work
** Present quantified self work

* Have a written agenda for every meeting
* Put quantified self project on the back burner until after VIS submission
** 1hr/week MAX until after VIS

=== [[User:Hua Guo|Hua]] ===
* BraiNet
** Improve the prototype to qualify for a submission
** Submit
** Getting it out in the wild
*** Reconnect with neuroscientists here at Brown
*** Reach out to Allen Brain Institute and Neuroscience Information Framework
* Network edge uncertainty visualization
** Draft paper with everything except final analysis results ('''Jan. 24''')
** Finish running users ('''Feb. 7''')
** Submit to InfoVis ('''March 31''')
* Aptima
** Submit to VIS ('''March 31''')
* Crowd-based visualization evaluation
** Perform temporal analysis on the data ('''Jan. 31''')
** Submit to VIS ('''March 31''')
* Thesis proposal
** Find committee members
** Finish a draft that has
*** a realistic timeline from now until defense
*** detailed plan for at least one paper that could be part of the thesis
* Research-related skills
** Attend an experimental design workshop
** Take a course on creative writing

=== [[User:Steven Gomez|Steve (Summer)]] ===

* Crowd-eyetracking paper for TVCG
** Collate recommendations and issues from InfoVis submission, and prepare plan for TVCG resubmission by '''6/10'''
** Submit to TVCG by '''end of summer'''
** Meet with Radu by '''mid-June''' to talk about next steps with evaluation

* Individual-differences analysis
** Write up analysis on the relationship between CRT and visualization analysis by '''6/10'''
** Meet with Steve Sloman to discuss CRT, follow-up
** Consider submitting to BELIV workshop, deadline on '''6/30'''

* Aptima project
** Follow-up VAST paper as needed (still waiting on reviews)
** Consider submitting to BELIV workshop if rejected from VAST ('''6/30''')
** Read specification for VAST Challenge 2014
** Contribute to evaluation of AARDVARK system

* Dissertation write-up and misc.
** Draft teaching statement ('''7/15''')
** Draft background chapter and outline for dissertation in Latex ('''7/30''')

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

* Complete thesis proposal
* Work on papers
** Submit a great MICCAI paper (end of Feb)
** Contribute to Fauxvea infovis submission (end of March)
* Continue work on neuroimaging collabs
** Finalize analysis for South Africa analysis
** Run connectivity analysis with St Louis data
** Maintain relationship with folks at RIH
* Complete work outlined in proposal for this term
** Aim 1 framework developed and submitted
** Aim 2 code partially developed
** Aim 3 studies run and progress made on papers

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

=== [[User:Anne Kenyon|Anne]] ===

=== [[User:Steven McGarty| Steven]] ===

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

2014-01-17T21:24:40Z

Ryan Cabeen:

CS137

2013-10-01T17:21:56Z

Ryan Cabeen:

'''Virtual Reality Design for Science''' is a course taught by [[User:David Laidlaw|David Laidlaw]] (from Brown CS) and [[User:Fritz Drury|Fritz Drury]] (from RISD Illustration), with course number CS137, CSCI1370, or ILLUS5303, depending on who you ask. This course explores the visual and human-computer interaction design process for scientific applications in immersive virtual reality.

This wiki page is a portal for CS137 students to access documents that help them work better in the class, including [[:Category:HOWTO|HOWTOs]] and documentation about [[CavePainting]]. All registered users can edit pages on a wiki like ours, so please [http://vrl.cs.brown.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup&returnto=CS137 sign up] or [http://vrl.cs.brown.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=CS137 log in] so that you can share information with your fellow classmates.

The [http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs137/calendar.shtml course webpage] contains all official due dates and course information; the content of the wiki is supplementary and is mostly just documentation for the software we use.

To email your classmates, use [mailto:cs137@cs.brown.edu the cs137 class mailing list].

== HOWTOs ==
For a list of all HOWTOs, see the [[:Category:CavePainting HOWTO|CavePainting HOWTO category page]].
* [[Run CavePainting from the kiosk]] under normal conditions.
* [[Use CavePainting]] once you've got it started.
* [[Import images into CavePainting]] to add custom content that you've made out in The Real World.
* [[Troubleshoot CavePainting]] when stuff goes wrong.

[[Category:Courses]]

Plans and Goals

2013-10-01T05:16:25Z

Ryan Cabeen:

2013-09-19T19:25:46Z

Ryan Cabeen:

First, make sure that you're following the procedure to [[run CavePainting from the kiosk]] exactly. If that all checks out, then continue reading.

The most useful fix is to simply restart Cavepainting, as follows:

* Navigate to the browser interface by swiping left to right, if it's not already shown
* Quit Cavepainting by tapping the skull and crossbones (maybe a couple times) in the kiosk browser interface
* Start your program as in [[run CavePainting from the kiosk]]

This should solve most problems, such as freezes or tracking issues.

You may also run into a problem where only the front wall updates or a freeze happens after saving a file. This is likely to be a crash of the VRG3D server on the kiosk. If this is the case, there will be a Windows error message window that needs to be closed, as follows:

* Swipe left to right on the kiosk until you reach the desktop
* Check for an error window
* Close the window
* Restart Cavepainting as described above

Please [mailto:cabeen@cs.brown.edu let us know] if you encounter this bug, as we'd like to squash it!

== Call for Help ==
If you can't fix the problem on your own, try asking someone else. If you're in [[CSCI1370]], you can:
# [mailto:cs137tas@cs.brown.edu email the professors and TA] for general questions about assignments.
# [mailto:cabeen@cs.brown.edu email Ryan] and [mailto:John_Huffman@brown.edu email John] for technical questions.
# call Ryan at (323) 697-3806 for emergency help.

If you're just a regular user or you're a CSCI1370 student who wants to work directly with the [[Cave]] administrators, you can:
# [mailto:support@ccv.brown.edu email the CCV helpdesk].
# [mailto:John_Huffman@brown.edu email John]

[[Category:CavePainting HOWTO]]

Run CavePainting from the kiosk

2013-09-19T19:25:03Z

Ryan Cabeen:

This pages describes the design of the Cave system and tells you how to start and clean up Cavepainting sessions at Granoff in Studio 4.

=The Cave System=

This system consists an 8x8x8 cube environment with the following elements.

===Computers===

The computer directly adjacent to the cube is a touch-sensitive Windows 8 machine known as "the kiosk". This is the only computer you'll need to use to access the Cave--all others are for supporting systems. The main interface for the Cave is a web browser that consists of a set of tabbed panels and buttons. Each tab contains a set of programs to run in the Cave. The "Video Config" and "Cavepainting" tabs are the only ones we'll use--the others are available for other courses that use the system.

===Wands===

There are two wands for authoring content and interacting with your scene. The black wand is for use in your dominant hand and a white wand for your other hand. These are both hard to replace, so please be careful not to drop or otherwise damage them. Only the bottom trigger button on each wand is used in Cavepainting. The black wand has a power button on the right side of the top panel, which should light up when pressed. The white wand has a switch on bottom of the back panel, which should also light up when turned on. The black wand will power down automatically; however, the white wand should be turned off manually (to avoid making an enemy of the next person in the Cave :)

===Glasses===

The stereoscopic glasses allow the rendered scene to be selectively shown to each eye and synchronize with the refresh rate of the projectors. One special pair of glasses has a fixture of sticks and ball, which is used for tracking the position of the users head. Other glasses will work, but there may be strange effects in the viewed scene from perspective distortions. The closer others are to the head-tracked glasses, the more accurate the view will be. Each pair of glasses has a button for turning it on that is located on near the right temple. The button is pressure sensitive and requires squeezing hard.

=Starting and Stopping Cavepainting=

===Start the program===
* Navigate the kiosk to the browser interface
* Tap the "Video Config" tab
* Tap the "Cave On" button
* Tap the "Cavepainting" tab
* Tap the button associated with your user account
* Swipe the screen left to right to get to the desktop
* Tap the VRG3D window to give it focus

===Prepare the hardware===
* Orient the tracking glasses so they are looking at front wall of the Cave
* Squeeze (hard) the right temple of the frame until the lenses turn grayish in color
* Check that they are tracking and synchronized by walking around the Cave
* Turn on the black wand
* Turn on the white wand
* Turn off the room lights (to the right of the exit)
* Enjoy!

===Stopping Cavepainting===
* Save your amazing work (you should already be doing this to back things up!)
* Turn off the white wand (the black will go off automatically)
* Turn off the glasses by squeezing the right temple until the lenses turn greenish
* Tap the skull and crossbones icon in the kiosk browser
* Tap the "Video Config" tab
* Tab the "Cave off" button

If you have any trouble, check out [[Troubleshoot CavePainting]] for what to try next.

[[Category:CavePainting HOWTO]]