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

Current Plans and Goals (Spring '15)

Connor

Genomics VIS Project

• By January 12:
  • change abstract to be more of a paper abstract and less of a book abstract
  • make paper skeleton with clear evaluation plans, methods, and expected results
• January 19: Freeze GD3 visualization library development
  • Don't do more than bringing refactored library up to existing capabilities.
• January 19: Contact >=5 experts for each tool that is being evaluated
• February 2: Have all experts scheduled and have the evaluations set in stone and methods/procedure written into paper draft
• February 20: Have all evaluation completed and coded
• March 9: E-mail David a complete, rough paper draft for VIS submission
• March 16: Send out revised draft to all authors
• March 21: Submit abstract to VIS and have a paper draft that is submittable
• March 31: Submit paper to VIS

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Hua

• Thesis proposal
  • Finalize committee members
  • Send proposal to committee members
  • Give a practice talk

• Edge uncertainty paper
  • Submit to TVCG

• Aardvark system evaluation
  • Run 12 participants by Sep.26
  • Finish the analysis of the first 12 participants by Sep.30
  • Wrap up and finish the final report by Oct.15
  • Further analyze the data using various techniques, e.g. sub-graph extractions and sequence visualizations to identify analysis strategies and relate features to insight generation

• Crowd gaze paper
  • Help with the TVCG submission

• BraiNet

Steve

• Finish crowd-eyetracking project
  • Follow-up MTurk experiment run by 9/12, data analyzed by 9/24 with Radu ✓
  • Circulate updated TVCG draft with results by 9/30 and submit early October ✓
• Integrating automatic evaluations with github
  • Clean up MTurk scripts to link into git hook by mid end of October [in progress]
  • Run case study on alternative vis designs from our VAST 2014 paper by end of November
  • Draft VIS paper by mid December
  • Submit end of March
• Assist Hua with Aptima study and report
  • Report due to Aptima by mid October ✓
  • Outline of paper on individual differences in visualization by end of October
• Have a good VAST task in Paris (11/9-11/16)
  • Iterate on presentation several times, practice at scivis on 10/28 ✓
  • Practice talk at Tufts on 10/29 ✓
  • Network with colleagues at conference ✓
• Have a job next fall!
  • List of postdoc opportunities compiled before Paris trip, by 11/5 [in progress]
  • Teaching statement from notes by end of September ✓
  • Research statement by end of November (when git study wraps up)
• Dissertation
  • Tex with outline in private GitHub repo by 10/1 ✓
  • Follow chapter schedule in my Brown GS 6th-year proposal (DCP)
    • By 12/8, draft Chapter 3: Modeling Task Performance with Non-Experts (from CHI '12 paper) ✓
    • By 12/15, draft Chapter 4: Modeling Gaze Behaviors with Non-Experts (from TVCG paper in submission) ✓
    • By 12/22, draft Chapter 5: Measuring Insights and Task Performance for Visual Analytics (from VAST '14 paper)
    • By 1/12, draft Chapter 6: Crowdsourced Evaluation Framework (from new experiment)
    • By 1/19, draft Chapter 7: Conclusions
    • By 1/26, draft Chapter 1: Introduction
    • By 2/9, draft Chapter 2: Background
    • By 3/2, draft 2 of full document done and circulated to committee
    • By mid March, set defense date and time, run through the thesis checklist
    • By mid April, defense!
    • 5/1: Hard deadline for dissertation submission, "apply to graduate" on Banner

• Misc
  • Be a helpful TA for CS237 ✓

Ryan

• Complete thesis proposal
  • Form committee
  • Give proposal talk
• Work on papers
  • Submit bipolar paper with Dan
  • Contribute to Fauxvea work
• Continue work on neuroimaging collabs
  • Send quality checks for second timepoint STL data
  • Run image analysis for STL and SA studies
  • Maintain relationship with folks at RIH
  • Contribute to pubs from Rob Paul's group
• Thesis work
  • Run experiments comparing methods
  • Write TMI paper on multi-fiber processing

David

• good cs237
  • some new-cave projects rolling
• cave running and with demos and working in cs237
  • hw and low-level software testing/reliability plan
  • application software development easier
• longer-term funding progress
  • some specific targets for proposals: cave, cognition, expedition, brains
• Bowman experiment run by Wesley

Johannes

• complete CSCI2370 Interdisciplinary Scientific Visualization
  • get some experience working with the CAVE (and if possible YURT)
• complete CSCI2951-B Data-Driven Vision and Graphics
• complete Programming Comps
• collect ideas for the Research Comps (or use master thesis if possible)

Tom

• wrist/thumb
• yurt

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Past Plans and Goals

• Fall '14
• Spring-Summer '14
• Summer-Fall '13
• Spring '13
• Fall '12
• Summer '12
• Spring '12
• Summer-Fall '11
• Spring '11
• Summer-Fall '10
• Spring '10
• Fall '09
• Summer '09
• Spring '09
• Fall '08
• Summer '08