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.

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

Current Plans and Goals (Summer/Fall '10)

Beth

• Update web
  • refresh text for projects and themes, add/delete some (maybe "active" as a theme)
  • ensure pubs are all correctly attributed to projects/themes/people
  • identify other areas to improve

Brad

Projects

• Support the ongoing VRL Group projects:
  • Jadrian's brain research.
  • Radu's Protein project:
    

Assist Radu to integrate a test and any recent code.

• Support collaborative projects.
  • Wrist cartilage support for Eni and Michael.
  • Migrate Win's mri pipeline to run in CIT.
  • Andy Loomis and Andy Forsberg's Adviser program.

• Contribute to the design and development of the new cave. Integrate changes to vrg3d. Simplify the configuration and provide a quick start path for student projects.

• Set up public distribution of diffusion imaging data.

Infrastructure

• Manage the migration to the new file system.

• Continue to write Wiki entries as needed.

• Continue setting up third party software for students to use. Current imported packages are: blitz, cg, g3d, qt, camino, dtk, afni, nifti, vivro, vrpn, glut, and sdl.

• Extend the build system to make kits for public source and binary distributions.

• Improve support for remote development.

• Launch the Windows test system.

• Continue extend the make files to support new features such as additional third party packages.

• Upgrade migrated Linux code to work with gcc 4.3 in conjunction with the summer Debian upgrade.

• Continue to integrate any new tests written by students into nightly test runs.

• Finish integrating the new version of the Nag libraries.

Knowledge

• Learn more about the cave; particularly vrg3d software development.

• Meet (SciVis talk) with students to address any integration issues.

Çağatay

1. Resolve crossings, count cycles.

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

David

1. get diffusion normals, one library, and one executable distributed
2. good TBI talk in Chicago
3. support 5 phd students' + trevor's progress
4. si^2 proposal for 6/14, then expedition?
5. wrist proposal possibilities, w/eni (check with Trey?)
6. keep Vis '11 on track

Eni

• Make progress in the surface analysis/congruency problem
• Draft a proposal for my work
• Read more literature that’s related to my work
• Submit a paper to MRM on tracts

Nathan

1. Streamline ROI selection program
   • Axis-aligned ROIs
   • Bitmap ROIs
2. Apply ROI program to known dataset for purposes of verification
3. ...

Radu

1. Learning distance metrics from users (with Cagatay)
2. Finalize(revision)/Resubmit maps paper
3. Analysis "nudge" pilot study
4. Prepare thesis proposal talk
5. Create a daphne-module map
6. Deploy existent maps at Immgen
7. Design collaborative module for maps + instrumentation

Steve

Comps progress

1. Receive brain+code dump from Trevor re: interaction histories (meet to discuss before 6/7)
2. Application integration for interaction histories
   • Get G3D history library from Trevor asap, and implement sample app and some basic interactions w/ history collection by 6/20
   • BrainApp, Brain circuit vis?
3. LCS algorithm over histories for required interaction patterns
   • first draft, test on synthetic data by 6/25
4. Algorithm for remaining time estimation from pattern
   • first pass by 7/1

ImmGen

1. Build Radu's code and look for contribution to extend tools (6/15) - meet with Radu?

Misc

1. VASS Application/Registration
   • draft of app materials (essay, cv) by 6/1 (deadline: 7/23)
2. Work on poster submission for vis (deadline: 7/1)
3. Learn more about Caroline's work before she gets here (read her "Implied Dynamics" and "Visual Metaphors" papers)
4. NSF Grad Fellowship application -- first draft on all parts by 8/30
   • search other fellowships

...

Past Plans and Goals

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