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== Current Schedule ==
== Current Schedule ==
Meetings are on Mondays.  The authoritative list is in dhl's calendar.
Meetings are on Wednesdays.  The authoritative list is in dhl's calendar.


== Current Plans and Goals (Fall '15) ==
== Current Plans and Goals (Spring '19) ==


=== [[User:Connor Gramazio|Connor]] ===
=== [[User:David Laidlaw|David]] ===
'''<span style="color:steelblue">Boldfaced</span>''' goals are those that mark the high-level success of each project.


===== '''Dissertation''' =====
<s>
* By June 5: '''<span style="color:steelblue">send out complete first draft to dissertation committee</span>'''
</s>
* By August 5: '''<span style="color:steelblue">send out complete first draft to dissertation committee</span>'''
* By September 4: '''<span style="color:steelblue">schedule proposal date</span>'''


===== '''Genomics''' =====
=== [[User:Johannes Novotny|Johannes]] ===
* Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction logs and process them through BLADE to verify collection is going smoothly
 
<s>
* Text Resolution Experiment
* By June 26: respond to VIS review feedback
** Run within-subject experiment on 20 participants
* By June 30: complete MAGI view redesign and accompanying logging refactor
** Submit to Vis'19 - End of March
* By June 30: create local MAGI annotation development sandbox for ETA development
</s>
(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: '''<span style="color:steelblue">create stand-alone ETA prototype that displays querryable network with annotation overlay</span>'''
* By September 4: draft a high-level ETA contribution document to ID ultimate project direction (e.g., drop topic modeling)


* IEEE VR
** Presentation in Osaka - End of March


===== '''Color''' =====
* VT Study resubmit
<s>
** find a venue that requires few changes to the manuscript
* 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: '''<span style="color:steelblue">complete integration of new scoring functions into Colorgorical</span>'''
</s>
(VIS paper rejections = reshuffle)
* By July 27: complete colorgorical paper rewrite
* By August 21:  '''<span style="color:steelblue">integrate new Colorgorical scoring functions using Bayesian optimization procedure</span>'''
* By September 4: prototype D3 decomposition-by-category feature of Colorgorical


===== '''Other''' =====
* DinoTracker
* '''<span style="color:steelblue">Cut back on non-dissertation projects to 20% time by end of summer</span>'''
** Add interactive UI
** Complete refactoring
** Release as open-source


=== [[User:Hua Guo|Hua]] ===
* Thesis
*<s>Cog grant proposal</s>
** <s>By Sep. 11: take one pass through the proposal to resolve any inconsistency in contents</s>
* '''BraiNet implementation'''
** By Oct. 30: implement basic corpus analysis functionalities
*** (By Sep. 18) Context-based retrieval: given a block of texts, use techniques such as latent semantic analysis or topic modeling to extract relevant key terms
*** <s>(By Sep. 25) Three way linking between primary texts (e.g. a word document, a piece of plain text, a bibtex file), concepts and evidence</s>
*** (By Oct. 9) Support search within a small set of publications provided by the user (e.g. a bibtex file)
*** (By Oct. 23) Meet with Badre for feedback
*** (By Oct. 30) Case papers: lets the user specify case papers in addition to supplying texts or terms; the tool will then use the case papers as constraints and return a set of papers where the set 1) is a subset of all papers associated with the given texts or terms; 2) contains the case papers; 3) is as small as possible.
** By Nov. 27: implement literature corpus visualizations
*** (By Nov. 13) theme river visualization that shows how a set of concepts contained in a body of texts (e.g. a grant proposal; a notebook kept by the researcher) evolves over time - what concepts have been added / removed? how much evidence has been added for each concept?
*** (By Nov. 27) refined user interface for exploring the set of concepts and evidence (network visualization?)
* '''Two VIS talks'''
** By Oct. 2: give practice talks to the speech and writing coach
** By Oct. 9: give practice talks to scivis / dhlgroup
** By Oct. 30: deliver the talks at VIS!
* '''Event sequence visualization paper'''
**<s>By Sep. 11: first draft of the blog post sent</s>
** By Sep. 23: second revision of the blog post ready
* '''BraiNet user study'''
** By Dec 4: run a pilot study with two participants
** By Dec 11: study design refined based on pilot study


=== [[User:Steven Gomez|Steve]] ===
=== [[User:Bruce Campbell|Bruce]] ===
* '''Dissertation'''
** By June 30: committee settled <span style="color:#00FF00">          &#10003;</span>
** By June 30: dissertation draft completed and circulated <span style="color:#00FF00">          &#10003;</span>
*** Address feedback for dissertation as it comes in
** By June 30: get scheduling feedback for committee for mid-August defense <span style="color:#00FF00">          &#10003;</span>
** By early July: resolve defense scheduling <span style="color:#00FF00">          &#10003;</span>
** By mid July: submit defense, date, meta-data, and thesis draft to Lauren <span style="color:#00FF00">          &#10003;</span>
** 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 <span style="color:#00FF00">          &#10003;</span>
** By June 26: Help Hua with response, submission for conditional acceptance <span style="color:#00FF00">          &#10003;</span>


* '''NSF Proposal on Cognitive/Task Modeling'''
** Meet weekly to stay on track for September deadline
** By June 25:
*** Gather notes from all past proposals <span style="color:#00FF00">          &#10003;</span>
*** 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'''
=== [[User: Fumeng Yang|Fumeng]] ===
** Review workshops for VIS as possible project venues
** Find housing in Boston <span style="color:#00FF00">          &#10003;</span>


=== [[User:Ryan Cabeen|Ryan]] ===


* RP Imaging Studies
== Current Plans and Goals (Summer '19) ==
** 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


=== [[User:David Laidlaw|David]] ===
=== [[User:David Laidlaw|David]] ===


=== [[User:Wesley Miller|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


=== [[User:Johannes Novotny|Johannes]] ===
=== [[User:Johannes Novotny|Johannes]] ===


* Cave/Yurt
* Text Resolution Experiment
** Complete user study with Wesley
** Submit to TVCG
** 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
 
=== [[User:Tom Sgouros|Tom]] ===
 
=== [[User:Josh Tveite|Josh]] ===


* General
* VT Study resubmit
** Become acquainted with the department and Providence in general.
** find a venue that requires few changes to the manuscript
** 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
* DinoTracker
** Start to learn how to work in the Yurt effectively (likely through taking CS 137)
** Finish Release Version
** Find a project to work on in the Yurt.


=== [[User:Wallace Lages|Wallace]] ===
* Thesis
** Complete by End of July


*Finish experiment and write IEEEVR paper
* Graduate


* Finish VR volume renderer
=== [[User:Bruce Campbell|Bruce]] ===
** 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


=== [[User: Fumeng Yang|Fumeng]] ===




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== Past Plans and Goals ==
== Past Plans and Goals ==
* [[/Spring 2018|Spring '18]]
* [[/Fall 2017|Fall '17]]
* [[/Summer 2016|Summer '16]]
* [[/Spring 2016|Spring '16]]
* [[/Fall 2015|Fall '15]]
* [[/Summer 2015|Summer '15]]
* [[/Summer 2015|Summer '15]]
* [[/Spring 2015|Spring '15]]
* [[/Spring 2015|Spring '15]]

Latest revision as of 19:53, 14 May 2019

On this page the members of the VRL record and refine their goals for the current semester. This is a living document in which dhl will provide feedback. See the bottom of the page for links to past plans & goals documents.

Current Schedule

Meetings are on Wednesdays. The authoritative list is in dhl's calendar.

Current Plans and Goals (Spring '19)

David

Johannes

  • Text Resolution Experiment
    • Run within-subject experiment on 20 participants
    • Submit to Vis'19 - End of March
  • IEEE VR
    • Presentation in Osaka - End of March
  • VT Study resubmit
    • find a venue that requires few changes to the manuscript
  • DinoTracker
    • Add interactive UI
    • Complete refactoring
    • Release as open-source
  • Thesis

Bruce

Fumeng

Current Plans and Goals (Summer '19)

David

Johannes

  • Text Resolution Experiment
    • Submit to TVCG
  • VT Study resubmit
    • find a venue that requires few changes to the manuscript
  • DinoTracker
    • Finish Release Version
  • Thesis
    • Complete by End of July
  • Graduate

Bruce

Fumeng


Past Plans and Goals