Plans and Goals/Summer 2015

Connor

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

Dissertation

• By June 5: send out complete first draft to dissertation committee

• By August 5: send out complete first draft to dissertation committee
• By September 4: schedule proposal date

Genomics

• Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction logs and process them through BLADE to verify collection is going smoothly

• By June 26: respond to VIS review feedback
• By June 30: complete MAGI view redesign and accompanying logging refactor
• By June 30: create local MAGI annotation development sandbox for ETA development

(VIS paper rejections = reshuffle)

• By July 27: complete genomics paper rewrite
• By July 31: create local MAGI annotation development sandbox for ETA development
• By August 12: create stand-alone ETA prototype that displays querryable network with annotation overlay
• By September 4: draft a high-level ETA contribution document to ID ultimate project direction (e.g., drop topic modeling)

Color

• By June 26: respond to VIS review feedback
• By June 30: prototype D3 decomposition-by-category feature of Colorgorical
• By July 10: prototype new Colorgorical scoring functions using Bayesian optimization procedure
• By August 7: complete integration of new scoring functions into Colorgorical

(VIS paper rejections = reshuffle)

• By July 27: complete colorgorical paper rewrite
• By August 21: integrate new Colorgorical scoring functions using Bayesian optimization procedure
• By September 4: prototype D3 decomposition-by-category feature of Colorgorical

Other

• Cut back on non-dissertation projects to 20% time by end of summer

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

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
  • 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

• 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

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.

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