Plans and Goals/Summer 2012

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Çağatay

  • Finish thesis
    • Model Selection
    • Topology
  • Send the revised article on theory of visualization to CG & A


Caroline

  • Get a job!
    • Go on interviews, network, improve job talk, etc.
  • Prepare a VisWeek submission extending task analysis work
  • Help Steve's group on the whiteboard/explanations project; also aim for VisWeek
  • Submit TVCG article based on VAST locus of control paper
  • Service activities
    • VisWeek program committee
    • Reviews
    • NSF panel?


David

  • keep grad students moving along
  • keep Cave project moving along (Provost approval, facilities, external dependencies)
  • be ready for cs237 in the Fall
  • set up longer-term (5 year) plan


Eni

Jadrian


  • Meta-objective: make measurable progress toward the dissertation.
    • Key result: TODO
  • Meta-objective: concretely demonstrate the success of the real-problem technique.
    1. Demonstrate (by pictures) specific challenging regions in which the multi-scale approach reconstructs structures better than two competitors.
    2. Demonstrate (numerically) that image reconstruction, as measured by chi-squared goodness-of-fit on real data, is better than two competitors.
    3. Demonstrate (in prose, or maybe with a quick user study) that selection tasks for specific brain structures are easier and more precise than with ROI+tractography methods.
  • Objective: Write and submit the tract noise paper in a timely manner.
    • Key result: Experiments 1 & 2, plus analysis and figures, are finished by 06/19.
    • Key result: Experiment 3 is finished within two weeks of the IIT data posting online.
    • Key result: Complete first draft to dhl within a week of finishing experiment 3.
    • Key result: Paper submitted to MRM by end of August.
  • Objective: Design, implement, and evaluate a curve-bundle model.
    • Key result: Bundle model initialized from existing cluster data by 06/22.
    • Key result: Bundle joining and splitting implemented by 06/29.


Nathan

  • UTRA application?
  • Independent research
    1. API for experimental platform to interact with Mechanical Turk
    2. Using games from experimental economics (Prisoner's Dilemma, Trust Game, Ultimatum Game), attempt to replicate some of their findings
    3. Test the effect of the incentive level on people's behavior
    4. Test the effects various manifestations of online identity have on behavior
      • Attempt to replicate findings with faces increasing other-regarding behavior
      • Repeat experiment with avatars
      • Also names and nicknames
    5. Test effects of different interface elements
      • Colors, borders, overall "prettiness", ...
    6. Test effects of priming


Radu

  • Finish dissertation (send to committee by end of Jan)
  • Set defense date by end of Jan
  • Defend
  • Find job
  • Vis paper with Steve, Caroline, Hua
  • Follow up mechturk study on nudges (April)
  • Assist Wenjin and Ryan on brain vis
  • Ensure PhD code is reusable


Wenjin

  • Axon Application on real data
    • data from Ed
    • find alternatives!
  • Finish thesis and defend by May
  • Get a job
    • prepare job talks and interviews
    • postdoc and fellowship applications
  • Address NeuroImage reviews
    • resubmit with new real data results
    • or, submit somewhere else with simulation only
  • Brain cortical connectivity VIS with Ryan, Radu and Win
    • aim for VIS/MICCAI?



Steve

  • Proposal draft sent out to committee; feedback received and incorporated
  • Revise our InfoVis paper if it's conditionally accepted
  • Vis evaluation taxonomy
    • Taxonomy drafted (June 5)
    • Vis 2011 papers coded, and a sketch of a meta-visualization of this taxonomy space (July 1)
  • Visualization interaction by sketching over static diagrams
    • Data for brain and other domain (baseball stats?) collected (June 20)
    • "Database selection by sketching over image" module (July 15)
    • 2 simple visualizations for both domains (Aug 15)
    • Tool online and anecdotally evaluated (Sept 1)
    • CHI paper draft (Sept 15), final deadline (Sept 24)


Ryan

  • Finish comps project
    • evaluate track shape metrics
    • implement and evaluate cortical shape metrics
    • write up and given presentation
  • Submit papers
    • Edinburgh normal brain networks paper to NI
    • MAP-MRF multitensor paper w/ CD to MICCAI
    • Bayesian T1/T2 estimation paper to MICCAI?
    • Brain network circle vis paper?
  • Finish coursework


Hua

  • Required coursework: complete two CS courses
    • CS1950F Intro to Machine Learning
    • CS1550/CS2951A/CS1320
  • Progress on the research comp
    • Propose the research comp project
    • Implement a prototype of the brain circuit visual analysis tool
    • Implement a prototype of the embedded task model
  • Submit a poster on EEG Tool Task Analysis to Vis
  • Contribute to the visual thinking project

Wesley

  • Learn
    • about graphics and virtual reality
    • about CVS and how to use it
    • what it is like to work in a research lab
    • more about software development
  • Build cave painting in the graphics lab, in the old cave, and for the new cave
  • Assist in working with Scalable software
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