Plans and Goals/Spring 2016

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Current Plans and Goals (Spring '16)

Connor

Boldfaced goals are those that mark the high-level success of each project.


Writing
  • By January 29: Create exemplar VIS/HCI technical writing exemplar spreadsheet with Hua
  • Shift writing style to be story- and outline-driven
  • Practice writing in short, daily sessions
Dissertation
  • 23 February: Dissertation proposal
  • 29 April: Resubmit dissertation proposal
Color
  • By 15 January: Complete achromatic color preference extrapolation
  • By 29 January: Complete pilot rounds of Experimentr data collection and iron out all bugs (remember to make security patches)
  • By 5 February: Complete all data collection
  • By 29 February: Complete 1st draft of Colorgorical paper (done 23 Feb)
  • By 21 March: submit abstract to VIS (InfoVis)
  • By 31 March: Resubmit paper to VIS
Genomics Case Study
  • Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction log scraping
  • By 21 March: submit abstract to VIS (VAST)
  • By 31 March: (re)submit latest draft to VAST
BLADE
  • By 4 March: Have all genomics researchers scheduled for observation
  • By 1 April: Have sigma-lognormal interaction log mining implemented
  • By 30 April: Complete BLADE-video comparative evaluation
  • By 30 April: Complete BLADE prototype
Other
  • Complete Sheridan Certificate I program
  • Help Karen prep heatmap color paper for submission

Hua

  • ThoughtFlow submission to VIS
    • Jan. 22: First round user feedback collected and design improvement plan finalized
    • Feb.25: Design improvements implemented based on first round user feedback
      • Paper thumbnails and citation pattern vis prototyped (Feb.15)
      • Proposal keyword selection implemented (Feb.22)
      • Citation pattern backend implemented (Feb.22)
      • Citation pattern vis and paper thumbnails design refined (Feb.29)
      • Get feedback from Steven S
    • March 7: Second round user feedback collected
    • March 21: abstract due
    • March 31: paper submission
  • Flyingsessions submission to VIS
    • March 21: abstract due
    • March 31: paper submission
  • 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

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 (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

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
  • 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

  • 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

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

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