CS295J

Cognition, Human-Computer Interaction, and Visual Analysis

In this graduate seminar we will learn about models of human cognition and perception and explore potential implications of the models on how computers and humans can interact effectively when performing scientific analyses. Participants will be responsible for reading assigned materials, taking turns guiding discussions of the readings, and preparing a final paper and presentation. It is recommended that participants have some background in at least one of the areas of study.

We will structure our work around revising a 5-year research proposal that was submitted for funding. We will base the revisions on comments from reviewers and on our own developing vision of where the research could go. Some revisions will involve learning more about related work and including that context in the writing. Some revisions will involve identifying risky aspects of the proposal and implementing demonstrations or preliminary results (code, math, date, or otherwise) that help quantify the risk. Some revisions will involve adding new elements to the proposed research.

Each student will write up and orally present their results.

• People
• Notes from Class (weeks go fri-thu) -- link to details about 2009 class at bottom of page
  • Week 1 6-8 sep 2011, Theory of Visualization outline
  • Week 2 9-15 sep 2011 Literature to read for week 2, discussion scores from board
  • Week 3 16-22 sep 2011 Literature to read for week 3
  • Week 4 23-29 sep 2011, Reading for week 4 (2/13/09), Project ideas from week 4
  • Week 5 30 sep-6 oct 2011 Reading for week 5 (2/20/09), Wordle for the list of literature titles from the first four weeks
  • Week 6 7-13 oct 2011, Reading for week 6, Application Critiques, Experiment results from class 6
  • Week 7 14-20 oct 2011, Reading for week 7, Boards from class 7 (preliminary results first sentence(s))
  • Week 8 21-27 oct 2011, VisWeek in Providence! Reading for class 8, Proposal reviews from class 8, Boards from class 8 (big picture intro stuff)
  • Week 9 28 oct-3 nov 2011, Reading for class 9
  • Week 10 4-10 nov 2011, Reading for class 10
  • Week 11 11-17 nov 2011, Reading for class 11
  • Week 12 18-27 nov 2011, Thanksgiving week!, Reading for class 12, Boards from class 12
  • Week 13 25 nov-1 dec 2011
  • Week 14 2-8 dec 2011, Reading for class 14

• Assignments

• Project Schedules
  • Steve -- Analyzing and modeling imaging QA workflow

• Final contributions
• Research proposal before
• Research proposal after
• Relevant Journals and Conferences
• Literature
• Review Response
• Rule Lists
• Model elements
• Project Concepts

• Archived 2009 Pages

How Tos -- Class Members' Pages -- Mailing list archive