Plans and Goals/Summer-Fall 2013

Current Plans and Goals (Summer/Fall '13)

Goals

Finish third and second to last classes
Rethink my research comp direction
- Finish a more specific, testable study
- Pilot study
- Establish list of todos for biovis part of research comps
- Have runnable prototype by end of semester

BraiNet
- Get Mark on board with resource paper drafting
- Incorporate connectivity data from Allen Brain Atlas
Network edge uncertainty visualization
- Get lab pilot study done before mid-October
- Refine the study design and run more experiments / analysis to prepare for a VIS'14 paper
Aptima
- Finish prototyping and perform evaluation
- Draft a viewpoint article on sptial-temporal network patterns.
Crowd-based visualization evaluation
- Work with others to have a submission on temporal analysis of click data to reveal visualization patterns

Teach CS 0931
- TA camp starting Jan 16
- Prepare and practice each lecture and activity
- Maintain open communication and availability with TAs and students
- Have fast turn-around on students' grades

Crowd Eyetracking project
- Redraft paper without any additional content from CHI submission by Jan 10 and circulate
- Revise as needed and possibly add more eyetracking users
- Submit to InfoVis: abstract on March 21, full paper on March 31

Misc
- Submit IRB renewal by Jan 13 at the latest
- Complete CHI 2014 Work-in-Progress Program Committee duties; all wrapped up with meta-reviews by Feb 4

Goals

Important dates:

June 13-25: San Francisco; working ~9-5 M-F with e-mail access
June 27: Poster deadline
July 13-August 5: Ghana (Volta Region, Accra, Cape Coast); limited to no e-mail access

get Jadrian graduated
Cave operational by end of summer
- at least front wall, with blending and Cave Painting
excellent cs237
prep for cool, new(ish?) cs16 for Spring
December Expeditions in Computing submission
volume rendering interaction in WristVis
brain metrics papers out with Ryan
longer-term funding matched with group

Goals

Continue construction of the new Cave as parts arrive
Complete 1-3 demos for the Cave (not from scratch - adapting code from other sources)
- some of: Tom Banchoff, Mandelbox Fractal, Music Visualizer
- Have running in the Cave by the end of the summer
Work on one long-term Cave project of use to scientists
- understand the science behind the simulation or tool
- develop and maintain a good relationship with scientists to encourage further productive use of the Cave.
Prepare for GREs, take in August.

Goals

Maintain CMCOA pipeline
- Fix SIGUSR1 issue and asssociated radius registration issues
- Provide troubleshooting and fix bugs if they arise - including the recent problems with the linux upgrade
Install levmar and use to replace NAG library calls within CMCOA pipeline
Work at making CIT-side portion of pipeline more user-friendly so that it is accessible to people without linux and programming experience
Assist with construction of Cave

Finish new CAVE construction
Get ParaView working on both the new CAVE and the old one
Get CavePainting (and other VRG3D applications by extension) working on both the new CAVE and the old one
Speak with faculty interested in working with the CAVE and compile a list of interests
Work with different VR frameworks and get them running in the CAVE