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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 2 October: '''<span style="color:steelblue">send dhl updated proposal draft</span>'''</s>
* By 1 November: '''<span style="color:steelblue">schedule proposal date</span>'''


====='''Fellowships'''=====
=== [[User:Johannes Novotny|Johannes]] ===
* <s>Submit applications for Adobe, Facebook, and any other eligible fellowships</s>
* <s>update website</s>
* <s>convert c.v. to XeTeX</s>


===== '''Genomics''' =====
* Text Resolution Experiment
* Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction log scraping
** Run within-subject experiment on 20 participants
* By 31 October: '''<span style="color:steelblue">(re)submit latest draft to TVCG</span>'''
** Submit to Vis'19 - End of March
* <s>By 25 November: '''<span style="color:steelblue">demo BLADE prototype with implemented mining techniques</span>'''</s>
* By 20 December: Code-freeze BLADE devlopment to prepare for evaluation


===== '''Color''' =====
* IEEE VR
* By 1 November: '''<span style="color:steelblue">(re)submit paper to TVCG</span>'''
** Presentation in Osaka - End of March
* Help Karen prep heatmap color paper for submission


===== '''Other''' =====
* VT Study resubmit
* Complete Sheridan Certificate I program
** find a venue that requires few changes to the manuscript
* <s>Give a great color lecture for Remco's infovis class</s>


=== [[User:Hua Guo|Hua]] ===
* DinoTracker
*<s>Cog grant proposal</s>
** Add interactive UI
** <s>By Sep. 11: take one pass through the proposal to resolve any inconsistency in contents</s>
** Complete refactoring
* '''BraiNet implementation'''
** Release as open-source
** 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>
*** <s>(By Oct. 9) Support search within a small set of publications provided by the user (e.g. a bibtex file)</s>
*** (By Oct.12) Have executable sketches of ThoughtFlow's interface design
*** <s>(By Oct. 23) Meet with Badre for feedback</s>
*** (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'''
** <s>By Oct. 2: give practice talks to the speech and writing coach</s>
** <s>By Oct. 9: give practice talks to scivis / dhlgroup</s>
** <s>By Oct. 30: deliver the talks at VIS!</s>
* '''Event sequence visualization paper'''
**<s>By Sep. 11: first draft of the blog post sent</s>
**<s> By Sep. 23: second revision of the blog post ready</s>
* '''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]] ===
* Thesis
* '''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'''
=== [[User:Bruce Campbell|Bruce]] ===
** 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'''
** Review workshops for VIS as possible project venues
** Find housing in Boston <span style="color:#00FF00">          &#10003;</span>


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


* RP Imaging Studies
 
** Send update for request for additional bundles in SMART data
== Current Plans and Goals (Summer '19) ==
** 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]] ===


* yurt
** working well enough for cs137
** working well enough for VT experiment
** press
** paper out about R&D, model on Cruz
** hw and low-level software testing/reliability plan
** application software development easier (asf?)
* VT
** first experiment complete, written, and out!
* orthopedics
** tools continuing to run well (despite upgrade)
** renewal with Trey
** diffusion imaging
* longer-term funding progress
** cognition
** VR
** brains
** trey
** STC?
* good CS137
* keep all advisees moving along appropriately
=== [[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
** 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
* VT Study resubmit
** Set up clean development branch for CavePainting
** find a venue that requires few changes to the manuscript
** Get acquainted with the sourcecode
** Fix some bugs if possible


* Fitts' Law
* DinoTracker
** Work on paper with HCI seminar group
** Finish Release Version


* Thesis Project
* Thesis
** Restart discussions with Derek and Kristi
** Complete by End of July
** Explore collaborations for genome folding visualizations
** by December: Create Thesis proposal draft


=== [[User:Tom Sgouros|Tom]] ===
* Graduate


=== [[User:Bruce Campbell|Bruce]] ===
=== [[User:Bruce Campbell|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
=== [[User:Josh Tveite|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.
=== [[User:Wallace Lages|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


=== [[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]]
* [[/Fall 2015|Fall '15]]
* [[/Summer 2015|Summer '15]]
* [[/Summer 2015|Summer '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