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Plans and Goals

2015-09-14T15:20:05Z

Wallace Lages: /* Wallace */

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 (Fall '15) ==

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

===== '''Dissertation''' =====
<s>
* By June 5: '''send out complete first draft to dissertation committee'''
</s>
* By August 5: '''send out complete first draft to dissertation committee'''
* By September 4: '''schedule proposal date'''

===== '''Genomics''' =====
* Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction logs and process them through BLADE to verify collection is going smoothly
<s>
* By June 26: respond to VIS review feedback
* By June 30: complete MAGI view redesign and accompanying logging refactor
* By June 30: create local MAGI annotation development sandbox for ETA development
</s>
(VIS paper rejections = reshuffle)
* By July 27: complete genomics paper rewrite
* By July 31: create local MAGI annotation development sandbox for ETA development
* By August 12: '''create stand-alone ETA prototype that displays querryable network with annotation overlay'''
* By September 4: draft a high-level ETA contribution document to ID ultimate project direction (e.g., drop topic modeling)

===== '''Color''' =====
<s>
* By June 26: respond to VIS review feedback
* By June 30: prototype D3 decomposition-by-category feature of Colorgorical
* By July 10: prototype new Colorgorical scoring functions using Bayesian optimization procedure
* By August 7: '''complete integration of new scoring functions into Colorgorical'''
</s>
(VIS paper rejections = reshuffle)
* By July 27: complete colorgorical paper rewrite
* By August 21: '''integrate new Colorgorical scoring functions using Bayesian optimization procedure'''
* By September 4: prototype D3 decomposition-by-category feature of Colorgorical

===== '''Other''' =====
* '''Cut back on non-dissertation projects to 20% time by end of summer'''

=== [[User:Hua Guo|Hua]] ===
* Cog grant proposal
** By Sep. 11: take one pass through the proposal to resolve any inconsistency in contents
* '''BraiNet implementation'''
** By Oct. 30: implement basic corpus analysis functionalities
*** (By Sep. 18) Context-based retrieval: given a block of texts, use techniques such as latent semantic analysis or topic modeling to extract relevant key terms
*** (By Sep. 25) Three way linking between primary texts (e.g. a word document, a piece of plain text, a bibtex file), concepts and evidence, and annotations
*** (By Oct. 9) Support search within a small set of publications provided by the user (e.g. a bibtex file)
*** (By Oct. 23) Meet with Badre for feedback
*** (By Oct. 30) Case papers: lets the user specify case papers in addition to supplying texts or terms; the tool will then use the case papers as constraints and return a set of papers where the set 1) is a subset of all papers associated with the given texts or terms; 2) contains the case papers; 3) is as small as possible.
** By Nov. 27: implement literature corpus visualizations
*** (By Nov. 13) theme river visualization that shows how a set of concepts contained in a body of texts (e.g. a grant proposal; a notebook kept by the researcher) evolves over time - what concepts have been added / removed? how much evidence has been added for each concept?
*** (By Nov. 27) refined user interface for exploring the set of concepts and evidence (network visualization?)
* '''Two VIS talks'''
** By Oct. 2: give practice talks to the speech and writing coach
** By Oct. 9: give practice talks to scivis / dhlgroup
** By Oct. 30: deliver the talks at VIS!
* '''Event sequence visualization paper'''
** By Sep. 11: first draft of the blog post sent
* '''BraiNet user study'''
** By Dec 4: run a pilot study with two participants
** By Dec 11: study design refined based on pilot study

=== [[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]] ===

=== [[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
** 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

* 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

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

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

* General
** Become acquainted with the department and Providence in general.
** Develop a vision for research and start finding projects to work on.
** Improve artistic skill in order to be able to communicate ideas more effectively.

* Yurt/Cave
** Start to learn how to work in the Yurt effectively (likely through taking CS 137)
** Find a project to work on in 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 ==
* [[/Fall 2015|Fall '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

2015-09-14T15:15:20Z

Wallace Lages: /* Wallace */

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 (Fall '15) ==

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

===== '''Dissertation''' =====
<s>
* By June 5: '''send out complete first draft to dissertation committee'''
</s>
* By August 5: '''send out complete first draft to dissertation committee'''
* By September 4: '''schedule proposal date'''

===== '''Genomics''' =====
* Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction logs and process them through BLADE to verify collection is going smoothly
<s>
* By June 26: respond to VIS review feedback
* By June 30: complete MAGI view redesign and accompanying logging refactor
* By June 30: create local MAGI annotation development sandbox for ETA development
</s>
(VIS paper rejections = reshuffle)
* By July 27: complete genomics paper rewrite
* By July 31: create local MAGI annotation development sandbox for ETA development
* By August 12: '''create stand-alone ETA prototype that displays querryable network with annotation overlay'''
* By September 4: draft a high-level ETA contribution document to ID ultimate project direction (e.g., drop topic modeling)

===== '''Color''' =====
<s>
* By June 26: respond to VIS review feedback
* By June 30: prototype D3 decomposition-by-category feature of Colorgorical
* By July 10: prototype new Colorgorical scoring functions using Bayesian optimization procedure
* By August 7: '''complete integration of new scoring functions into Colorgorical'''
</s>
(VIS paper rejections = reshuffle)
* By July 27: complete colorgorical paper rewrite
* By August 21: '''integrate new Colorgorical scoring functions using Bayesian optimization procedure'''
* By September 4: prototype D3 decomposition-by-category feature of Colorgorical

===== '''Other''' =====
* '''Cut back on non-dissertation projects to 20% time by end of summer'''

=== [[User:Hua Guo|Hua]] ===
* Cog grant proposal
** By Sep. 11: take one pass through the proposal to resolve any inconsistency in contents
* '''BraiNet implementation'''
** By Oct. 30: implement basic corpus analysis functionalities
*** (By Sep. 18) Context-based retrieval: given a block of texts, use techniques such as latent semantic analysis or topic modeling to extract relevant key terms
*** (By Sep. 25) Three way linking between primary texts (e.g. a word document, a piece of plain text, a bibtex file), concepts and evidence, and annotations
*** (By Oct. 9) Support search within a small set of publications provided by the user (e.g. a bibtex file)
*** (By Oct. 23) Meet with Badre for feedback
*** (By Oct. 30) Case papers: lets the user specify case papers in addition to supplying texts or terms; the tool will then use the case papers as constraints and return a set of papers where the set 1) is a subset of all papers associated with the given texts or terms; 2) contains the case papers; 3) is as small as possible.
** By Nov. 27: implement literature corpus visualizations
*** (By Nov. 13) theme river visualization that shows how a set of concepts contained in a body of texts (e.g. a grant proposal; a notebook kept by the researcher) evolves over time - what concepts have been added / removed? how much evidence has been added for each concept?
*** (By Nov. 27) refined user interface for exploring the set of concepts and evidence (network visualization?)
* '''Two VIS talks'''
** By Oct. 2: give practice talks to the speech and writing coach
** By Oct. 9: give practice talks to scivis / dhlgroup
** By Oct. 30: deliver the talks at VIS!
* '''Event sequence visualization paper'''
** By Sep. 11: first draft of the blog post sent
* '''BraiNet user study'''
** By Dec 4: run a pilot study with two participants
** By Dec 11: study design refined based on pilot study

=== [[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]] ===

=== [[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
** 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

* 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

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

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

* General
** Become acquainted with the department and Providence in general.
** Develop a vision for research and start finding projects to work on.
** Improve artistic skill in order to be able to communicate ideas more effectively.

* Yurt/Cave
** Start to learn how to work in the Yurt effectively (likely through taking CS 137)
** Find a project to work on in the Yurt.

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

* 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:
reduce original RGBA 3d texture to mono -> improve memory usage,
remove 3d texture altogether and implement filtering in the shader -> possible faster copy in one pass, change to splatting
refactor code

* Finish interaction technique design
* Implement technique on VR



----

== Past Plans and Goals ==
* [[/Fall 2015|Fall '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

2015-09-14T15:14:43Z

Wallace Lages: /* Wallace */

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 (Fall '15) ==

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

===== '''Dissertation''' =====
<s>
* By June 5: '''send out complete first draft to dissertation committee'''
</s>
* By August 5: '''send out complete first draft to dissertation committee'''
* By September 4: '''schedule proposal date'''

===== '''Genomics''' =====
* Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction logs and process them through BLADE to verify collection is going smoothly
<s>
* By June 26: respond to VIS review feedback
* By June 30: complete MAGI view redesign and accompanying logging refactor
* By June 30: create local MAGI annotation development sandbox for ETA development
</s>
(VIS paper rejections = reshuffle)
* By July 27: complete genomics paper rewrite
* By July 31: create local MAGI annotation development sandbox for ETA development
* By August 12: '''create stand-alone ETA prototype that displays querryable network with annotation overlay'''
* By September 4: draft a high-level ETA contribution document to ID ultimate project direction (e.g., drop topic modeling)

===== '''Color''' =====
<s>
* By June 26: respond to VIS review feedback
* By June 30: prototype D3 decomposition-by-category feature of Colorgorical
* By July 10: prototype new Colorgorical scoring functions using Bayesian optimization procedure
* By August 7: '''complete integration of new scoring functions into Colorgorical'''
</s>
(VIS paper rejections = reshuffle)
* By July 27: complete colorgorical paper rewrite
* By August 21: '''integrate new Colorgorical scoring functions using Bayesian optimization procedure'''
* By September 4: prototype D3 decomposition-by-category feature of Colorgorical

===== '''Other''' =====
* '''Cut back on non-dissertation projects to 20% time by end of summer'''

=== [[User:Hua Guo|Hua]] ===
* Cog grant proposal
** By Sep. 11: take one pass through the proposal to resolve any inconsistency in contents
* '''BraiNet implementation'''
** By Oct. 30: implement basic corpus analysis functionalities
*** (By Sep. 18) Context-based retrieval: given a block of texts, use techniques such as latent semantic analysis or topic modeling to extract relevant key terms
*** (By Sep. 25) Three way linking between primary texts (e.g. a word document, a piece of plain text, a bibtex file), concepts and evidence, and annotations
*** (By Oct. 9) Support search within a small set of publications provided by the user (e.g. a bibtex file)
*** (By Oct. 23) Meet with Badre for feedback
*** (By Oct. 30) Case papers: lets the user specify case papers in addition to supplying texts or terms; the tool will then use the case papers as constraints and return a set of papers where the set 1) is a subset of all papers associated with the given texts or terms; 2) contains the case papers; 3) is as small as possible.
** By Nov. 27: implement literature corpus visualizations
*** (By Nov. 13) theme river visualization that shows how a set of concepts contained in a body of texts (e.g. a grant proposal; a notebook kept by the researcher) evolves over time - what concepts have been added / removed? how much evidence has been added for each concept?
*** (By Nov. 27) refined user interface for exploring the set of concepts and evidence (network visualization?)
* '''Two VIS talks'''
** By Oct. 2: give practice talks to the speech and writing coach
** By Oct. 9: give practice talks to scivis / dhlgroup
** By Oct. 30: deliver the talks at VIS!
* '''Event sequence visualization paper'''
** By Sep. 11: first draft of the blog post sent
* '''BraiNet user study'''
** By Dec 4: run a pilot study with two participants
** By Dec 11: study design refined based on pilot study

=== [[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]] ===

=== [[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
** 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

* 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

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

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

* General
** Become acquainted with the department and Providence in general.
** Develop a vision for research and start finding projects to work on.
** Improve artistic skill in order to be able to communicate ideas more effectively.

* Yurt/Cave
** Start to learn how to work in the Yurt effectively (likely through taking CS 137)
** Find a project to work on in the Yurt.

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

*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:
reduce original RGBA 3d texture to mono -> improve memory usage,
remove 3d texture altogether and implement filtering in the shader -> possible faster copy in one pass, change to splatting
refactor code

*Finish interaction technique design
*Implement technique on VR



----

== Past Plans and Goals ==
* [[/Fall 2015|Fall '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

2015-09-14T15:13:44Z

Wallace Lages: /* Wallace */

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 (Fall '15) ==

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

===== '''Dissertation''' =====
<s>
* By June 5: '''send out complete first draft to dissertation committee'''
</s>
* By August 5: '''send out complete first draft to dissertation committee'''
* By September 4: '''schedule proposal date'''

===== '''Genomics''' =====
* Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction logs and process them through BLADE to verify collection is going smoothly
<s>
* By June 26: respond to VIS review feedback
* By June 30: complete MAGI view redesign and accompanying logging refactor
* By June 30: create local MAGI annotation development sandbox for ETA development
</s>
(VIS paper rejections = reshuffle)
* By July 27: complete genomics paper rewrite
* By July 31: create local MAGI annotation development sandbox for ETA development
* By August 12: '''create stand-alone ETA prototype that displays querryable network with annotation overlay'''
* By September 4: draft a high-level ETA contribution document to ID ultimate project direction (e.g., drop topic modeling)

===== '''Color''' =====
<s>
* By June 26: respond to VIS review feedback
* By June 30: prototype D3 decomposition-by-category feature of Colorgorical
* By July 10: prototype new Colorgorical scoring functions using Bayesian optimization procedure
* By August 7: '''complete integration of new scoring functions into Colorgorical'''
</s>
(VIS paper rejections = reshuffle)
* By July 27: complete colorgorical paper rewrite
* By August 21: '''integrate new Colorgorical scoring functions using Bayesian optimization procedure'''
* By September 4: prototype D3 decomposition-by-category feature of Colorgorical

===== '''Other''' =====
* '''Cut back on non-dissertation projects to 20% time by end of summer'''

=== [[User:Hua Guo|Hua]] ===
* Cog grant proposal
** By Sep. 11: take one pass through the proposal to resolve any inconsistency in contents
* '''BraiNet implementation'''
** By Oct. 30: implement basic corpus analysis functionalities
*** (By Sep. 18) Context-based retrieval: given a block of texts, use techniques such as latent semantic analysis or topic modeling to extract relevant key terms
*** (By Sep. 25) Three way linking between primary texts (e.g. a word document, a piece of plain text, a bibtex file), concepts and evidence, and annotations
*** (By Oct. 9) Support search within a small set of publications provided by the user (e.g. a bibtex file)
*** (By Oct. 23) Meet with Badre for feedback
*** (By Oct. 30) Case papers: lets the user specify case papers in addition to supplying texts or terms; the tool will then use the case papers as constraints and return a set of papers where the set 1) is a subset of all papers associated with the given texts or terms; 2) contains the case papers; 3) is as small as possible.
** By Nov. 27: implement literature corpus visualizations
*** (By Nov. 13) theme river visualization that shows how a set of concepts contained in a body of texts (e.g. a grant proposal; a notebook kept by the researcher) evolves over time - what concepts have been added / removed? how much evidence has been added for each concept?
*** (By Nov. 27) refined user interface for exploring the set of concepts and evidence (network visualization?)
* '''Two VIS talks'''
** By Oct. 2: give practice talks to the speech and writing coach
** By Oct. 9: give practice talks to scivis / dhlgroup
** By Oct. 30: deliver the talks at VIS!
* '''Event sequence visualization paper'''
** By Sep. 11: first draft of the blog post sent
* '''BraiNet user study'''
** By Dec 4: run a pilot study with two participants
** By Dec 11: study design refined based on pilot study

=== [[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]] ===

=== [[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
** 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

* 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

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

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

* General
** Become acquainted with the department and Providence in general.
** Develop a vision for research and start finding projects to work on.
** Improve artistic skill in order to be able to communicate ideas more effectively.

* Yurt/Cave
** Start to learn how to work in the Yurt effectively (likely through taking CS 137)
** Find a project to work on in the Yurt.

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

*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:
reduce original RGBA 3d texture to mono -> improve memory usage,
remove 3d texture altogether and implement filtering in the shader -> possible faster copy in one pass, change to splatting
refactor code

*Finish interaction technique design
*Implement technique on VR



----

== Past Plans and Goals ==
* [[/Fall 2015|Fall '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

2015-09-14T15:00:16Z

Wallace Lages:

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 (Fall '15) ==

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

===== '''Dissertation''' =====
<s>
* By June 5: '''send out complete first draft to dissertation committee'''
</s>
* By August 5: '''send out complete first draft to dissertation committee'''
* By September 4: '''schedule proposal date'''

===== '''Genomics''' =====
* Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction logs and process them through BLADE to verify collection is going smoothly
<s>
* By June 26: respond to VIS review feedback
* By June 30: complete MAGI view redesign and accompanying logging refactor
* By June 30: create local MAGI annotation development sandbox for ETA development
</s>
(VIS paper rejections = reshuffle)
* By July 27: complete genomics paper rewrite
* By July 31: create local MAGI annotation development sandbox for ETA development
* By August 12: '''create stand-alone ETA prototype that displays querryable network with annotation overlay'''
* By September 4: draft a high-level ETA contribution document to ID ultimate project direction (e.g., drop topic modeling)

===== '''Color''' =====
<s>
* By June 26: respond to VIS review feedback
* By June 30: prototype D3 decomposition-by-category feature of Colorgorical
* By July 10: prototype new Colorgorical scoring functions using Bayesian optimization procedure
* By August 7: '''complete integration of new scoring functions into Colorgorical'''
</s>
(VIS paper rejections = reshuffle)
* By July 27: complete colorgorical paper rewrite
* By August 21: '''integrate new Colorgorical scoring functions using Bayesian optimization procedure'''
* By September 4: prototype D3 decomposition-by-category feature of Colorgorical

===== '''Other''' =====
* '''Cut back on non-dissertation projects to 20% time by end of summer'''

=== [[User:Hua Guo|Hua]] ===
* Cog grant proposal
** By Sep. 11: take one pass through the proposal to resolve any inconsistency in contents
* '''BraiNet implementation'''
** By Oct. 30: implement basic corpus analysis functionalities
*** (By Sep. 18) Context-based retrieval: given a block of texts, use techniques such as latent semantic analysis or topic modeling to extract relevant key terms
*** (By Sep. 25) Three way linking between primary texts (e.g. a word document, a piece of plain text, a bibtex file), concepts and evidence, and annotations
*** (By Oct. 9) Support search within a small set of publications provided by the user (e.g. a bibtex file)
*** (By Oct. 23) Meet with Badre for feedback
*** (By Oct. 30) Case papers: lets the user specify case papers in addition to supplying texts or terms; the tool will then use the case papers as constraints and return a set of papers where the set 1) is a subset of all papers associated with the given texts or terms; 2) contains the case papers; 3) is as small as possible.
** By Nov. 27: implement literature corpus visualizations
*** (By Nov. 13) theme river visualization that shows how a set of concepts contained in a body of texts (e.g. a grant proposal; a notebook kept by the researcher) evolves over time - what concepts have been added / removed? how much evidence has been added for each concept?
*** (By Nov. 27) refined user interface for exploring the set of concepts and evidence (network visualization?)
* '''Two VIS talks'''
** By Oct. 2: give practice talks to the speech and writing coach
** By Oct. 9: give practice talks to scivis / dhlgroup
** By Oct. 30: deliver the talks at VIS!
* '''Event sequence visualization paper'''
** By Sep. 11: first draft of the blog post sent
* '''BraiNet user study'''
** By Dec 4: run a pilot study with two participants
** By Dec 11: study design refined based on pilot study

=== [[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]] ===

=== [[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
** 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

* 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

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

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

* General
** Become acquainted with the department and Providence in general.
** Develop a vision for research and start finding projects to work on.
** Improve artistic skill in order to be able to communicate ideas more effectively.

* Yurt/Cave
** Start to learn how to work in the Yurt effectively (likely through taking CS 137)
** Find a project to work on in the Yurt.

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

*Finish VR volume renderer
*Finish interaction technique design
*Implement technique on VR



----

== Past Plans and Goals ==
* [[/Fall 2015|Fall '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]]