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 '16)

Connor

Boldfaced goals are those that mark the high-level success of each project.

Writing

• By January 29: Create exemplar VIS/HCI technical writing exemplar spreadsheet with Hua
• Shift writing style to be story- and outline-driven
• Reread William's "Style: Toward clarity and grace", Boice's "Advice for new faculty members", and Strunk & White's "Elements of Style"
• Practice writing in short, daily sessions

Dissertation

• 23 February: Dissertation proposal

Color

• By 15 January: Complete achromatic color preference extrapolation
• By 29 January: Complete pilot rounds of Experimentr data collection and iron out all bugs (remember to make security patches)
• By 5 February: Complete all data collection
• By 29 February: Complete 1st draft of Colorgorical paper
• By 21 March: submit abstract to VIS (InfoVis)
• By 31 March: Resubmit paper to VIS

Genomics Case Study

• Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction log scraping
• By 21 March: submit abstract to VIS (VAST)
• By 31 March: (re)submit latest draft to VAST
• By 25 November: demo BLADE prototype with implemented mining techniques
• By 20 December: Code-freeze BLADE devlopment to prepare for evaluation

BLADE

• By 4 March: Have all genomics researchers scheduled for observation
• By 1 April: Have sigma-lognormal interaction log mining implemented
• By 30 April: Complete BLADE-video comparative evaluation

Other

• Complete Sheridan Certificate I program
• Help Karen prep heatmap color paper for submission

Hua

• ThoughtFlow submission to VIS
  • Jan. 22: First round user feedback collected and design improvement plan finalized
  • Feb.25: Design improvements implemented based on first round user feedback
    • Proposal keyword selection implemented
    • Paper thumbnails prototyped
    • Citation pattern backend implemented
    • Citation pattern vis implemented
    • Get feedback from Steven S
  • March 7: Second round user feedback collected
  • March 21: abstract due
  • March 31: paper submission
• Flyingsessions submission to VIS
  • March 21: abstract due
  • March 31: paper submission
• Interaction modeling
  • TBD: weekly deadlines for specific todo items
• Dissertation Writing
  • Draft abstract and introduction

Steve

• Dissertation
  • By June 30: committee settled ✓
  • By June 30: dissertation draft completed and circulated ✓
    • Address feedback for dissertation as it comes in
  • By June 30: get scheduling feedback for committee for mid-August defense ✓
  • By early July: resolve defense scheduling ✓
  • By mid July: submit defense, date, meta-data, and thesis draft to Lauren ✓
  • By mid August: defend thesis, get notes for dissertation revisions from committee
  • By mid September: do any necessary dissertation revisions, get signatures from committee, and submit

• TVCG/VAST paper
  • By June 20: Use R to get CI intervals for correlations ✓
  • By June 26: Help Hua with response, submission for conditional acceptance ✓

• NSF Proposal on Cognitive/Task Modeling
  • Meet weekly to stay on track for September deadline
  • By June 25:
    • Gather notes from all past proposals ✓
    • Write up independent thoughts about new proposal, then compare with David's Expedition notes
  • By mid July: rough draft of new proposal based on notes, discussions
  • By August: help prepare solid final draft
  • Submit in FastLane
    • By September 16 for MEDIUM
    • By September 24 for LARGE
    • By November 18 for SMALL

• Other
  • Review workshops for VIS as possible project venues
  • Find housing in Boston ✓

Ryan

• RP Imaging Studies
  • Send update for request for additional bundles in SMART data
  • Iron out details for South Africa analysis (group meeting on 6/10)
    • Update: fiber bundle length (need a couple more bundles)
    • Update: graph-based analysis w/ Laurie
  • Keep up with paper reviewing and other requests
• Diffusion outside brain
  • Update: support image analysis w/ Trey Crisco & Ed Walsh
• Yurt
  • Demo as needed
  • Provide support for CS137-related things
  • Help Johannes with getting up to speed for TAing
  • Update: Get some brain data in
• Thesis work
  • Complete a rough draft of dissertation
  • Work with Dan to get bipolar imaging paper out
  • Update: Put together documentation of various analyses and tools

David

• yurt
  • working well enough for cs137
  • working well enough for VT experiment
  • press
  • paper out about R&D, model on Cruz
  • hw and low-level software testing/reliability plan
  • application software development easier (asf?)
• VT
  • first experiment complete, written, and out!
• orthopedics
  • tools continuing to run well (despite upgrade)
  • renewal with Trey
  • diffusion imaging
• longer-term funding progress
  • cognition
  • VR
  • brains
  • trey
  • STC?
• good CS137
• keep all advisees moving along appropriately

Wesley

• CAVE/YURT
  • Complete or nearly complete user study with Johannes
  • Help out with Demos when needed
  • Add new applications for use in YURT

• Fitts' Law
  • Work on paper with HCI seminar group

• Third Person Perspective
  • Make plans for future of 3PP project or something derivative

• Hospital
  • Discuss potential projects with Derek

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

Josh

• General
  • Become acquainted with the department and Providence in general.
  • Develop a vision for research and start finding projects to work on.
  • Improve artistic skill in order to be able to communicate ideas more effectively.

• Yurt/Cave
  • Start to learn how to work in the Yurt effectively (likely through taking CS 137)
  • Find a project to work on in the Yurt.

Wallace

• Finish experiment and write IEEEVR paper

• Finish VR volume renderer
  • last changes: added another kernel for gpu pre processing, copying one PBO to another in the GPU. Simple kernel (just remove part of the dataset)
  • Issues: Interaction pass takes a long time on CPU
  • Options: add spatial structure, perform interaction on GPU
  • Other improvements: 1) reduce original RGBA 3d texture to mono -> improve memory usage 2) remove 3d texture altogether and implement filtering in the shader -> possible faster copy in one pass, 3) change to splatting 4) refactor code

• Reimplement Volume Cracker like interaction
  • Implement on VR
  • Develop hardware

• Finish new interaction technique
  • Finish design
  • Implement software
  • Implement technique on VR

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Past Plans and Goals

• Fall '15
• Summer '15
• Spring '15
• 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