Plans and Goals

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 Tuesdays. The authoritative list is in dhl's calendar.

• 1:50 - jadrian
• 2:00 - wenjin
• 2:10 - eni
• 2:20 - jadrian
• 2:30 - bb
• 2:40 - dtr
• 2:50 - trevor
• 3:00 - cad
• 3:10 - steve
• 3:20 - radu

Current Plans and Goals (Summar/Fall '10)

Caroline

Get oriented

• Find out current status of framework
• Acquaint myself with any existing modules / code / results
• Find out who else will be working on it or has worked on it, meet with them
• Literature review
• Learn CPM-GOMS, refresh on ACT-R

Do whatever needs to be done to get framework going

Create a test module based on my earlier implied dynamics work [1]

• Model a dynamics-based assessment of relationships between parts of simple visualizations
• Test whether this can predict users' actual evaluations of a chart's structural properties
• Maybe rethink to tie in more to affordances, interface prediction

Identify other potential modeling projects based on visual structure for future work...

• Predicting the patterns (trends, clusters, etc.) a user sees in a visualization
• Modeling how quickly a user can read high-level information from different vis types
• Analyze interaction affordances in a visualization system

Get funded

• Work on grant proposal
• Find and apply for fellowships / postdoc grants

Past Plans and Goals

• Spring '10
• Fall '09
• Summer '09
• Spring '09
• Fall '08
• Summer '08