Plans and Goals/Fall 2015
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Current Plans and Goals (Fall '15)
Connor
Boldfaced goals are those that mark the high-level success of each project.
Dissertation
By 2 October: send dhl updated proposal draft- By 1 November: schedule proposal date
Fellowships
Submit applications for Adobe, Facebook, and any other eligible fellowshipsupdate websiteconvert c.v. to XeTeX
Genomics
- Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction log scraping
- By 31 October: (re)submit latest draft to TVCG
By 25 November: demo BLADE prototype with implemented mining techniques- By 20 December: Code-freeze BLADE devlopment to prepare for evaluation
Color
- By 1 November: (re)submit paper to TVCG
- Help Karen prep heatmap color paper for submission
Other
- Complete Sheridan Certificate I program
Give a great color lecture for Remco's infovis class
Hua
Cog grant proposalBy 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(By Oct. 9) Support search within a small set of publications provided by the user (e.g. a bibtex file)- (By Oct.12) Have executable sketches of ThoughtFlow's interface design
(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?)
- By Oct. 30: implement basic corpus analysis functionalities
- Two VIS talks
By Oct. 2: give practice talks to the speech and writing coachBy Oct. 9: give practice talks to scivis / dhlgroupBy Oct. 30: deliver the talks at VIS!
- Event sequence visualization paper
By Sep. 11: first draft of the blog post sentBy Sep. 23: second revision of the blog post ready
- BraiNet user study
- By Dec 4: run a pilot study with two participants
- By Dec 11: study design refined based on pilot study
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 ✓
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
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
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
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
Tom
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
- Axial Seamount application:
- 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
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.
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