Plans and Goals/Spring-Summer 2014

Current Plans and Goals (Spring '14)

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

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

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)

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