Plans and Goals/Fall 2017

David

• yurt
  • seams calibrated within a few mm's by end of June
  • application(s) (re)submitted for some fidelity-based research
  • application(s) submitted for some collaboration-based research, perhaps with Gatesy/Francois/Josh/Johannes
    • maybe include Simon Su, Kreylos, others; EnSight, Paravision
  • paper submitted about R&D, model on Cruz and other papers, Spring semester (SIGGRAPH?)
• Dino, VT, Johannes
  • resubmit TTTS manuscript (Johannes)
  • hmd+yurt paper resubmitted (Johannes)
  • new Johannes paper (could be dino)
• orthopedics
  • tools continuing to run well (despite upgrade)
    • get registration pipeline to pass regression tests
• diffusion MRI
  • Dickstein/Cabeen paper
  • Other longer Cabeen paper?
• good new evaluation class
  • scientific VR software tools review
• keep all advisees moving along appropriately

Johannes

• Cave/Yurt
  • Complete user study with Wesley
  • 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
  • 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

• Thesis Project
  • Restart discussions with Derek and Kristi
  • Explore collaborations for genome folding visualizations
  • by December: Create Thesis proposal draft

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

Fumeng

• N-year goal
  • Be able to generate an idea of a new research direction and have the power to accomplish and purchase that
    • Know what is important and be able to convince other people that is important
    • Be knowledgeable and expertise in the field; Write proposals; Mentoring; Find help; Present the work to others; Interact with other people; Write papers

• First year
  • First semester
    • Get along with my advisor, the group, other PhD students and the department
    • Find a project, nail it down and finish the pilot work
    • Let my C/C++ and OpenGL skills not be worries of mine
  • Second semester / By the end of my first year
    • Read enough papers to have a big picture of VR field
    • Finish a project and write it down

• Recent Goals
  • Read papers from this group (Hua's grant?)
  • Read papers from VR field and perception
  • Know everyone's work in this group
  • Prepare for transferring credits
  • Keep the programming test in mind
  • Setup C/C++ and OpenGL programming environment
  • Finish this round of editing VF paper and handle it out (with Tufts, WPI etc) : Aug 28, 16