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 (Summer '13)
Steve (Fall '13)
- Be a faster paper mill
- Crowd-based visualization evaluation
- Finish Turk experiments and analysis about estimating gaze patterns with the crowd
- 9/18: Submit paper to CHI; get outside input from Jeff Huang
- mid-October: Decide on other variations to test and run them on Turk/eye-tracker
- November: Start ToCHI or TVCG submission on other variations
- Collaborations
- Stay on track with Jian collaboration
- end-September: Meet to talk about replicating her ranking study with the crowd
- Aptima: work with Hua and Caroline on turning prototypes into an evaluation, then into a VIS '14 paper
- Prepare for CS 0931 in the spring
- Collect examples, project ideas, data sources
- Get permissions/access to old materials through tstaff
- Stay on schedule with administrative details, recruiting TAs, etc.
Connor
Goals
- Submit VIS poster using 237 data
- Run paper prototype study
- Implement client/server cancer analysis tool capable of serving dynamic views
- Carry MTurk experiment from perception class as far as deemed fit
- Help IVRG MTurk project wrap up
Important dates:
- June 13-25: San Francisco; working ~9-5 M-F with e-mail access
- June 27: Poster deadline
- July 13-August 5: Ghana (Volta Region, Accra, Cape Coast); limited to no e-mail access
David
- get Jadrian graduated
- Cave operational by end of summer
- at least front wall, with blending and Cave Painting
- excellent cs237
- prep for cool, new(ish?) cs16 for Spring
- December Expeditions in Computing submission
- volume rendering interaction in WristVis
- brain metrics papers out with Ryan
- longer-term funding matched with group
Anne
Goals
- Continue construction of the new Cave as parts arrive
- Complete 1-3 demos for the Cave (not from scratch - adapting code from other sources)
- some of: Tom Banchoff, Mandelbox Fractal, Music Visualizer
- Have running in the Cave by the end of the summer
- Work on one long-term Cave project of use to scientists
- understand the science behind the simulation or tool
- develop and maintain a good relationship with scientists to encourage further productive use of the Cave.
- Prepare for GREs, take in August.
Steven
Goals
- Maintain CMCOA pipeline
- Fix SIGUSR1 issue and asssociated radius registration issues
- Provide troubleshooting and fix bugs if they arise - including the recent problems with the linux upgrade
- Install levmar and use to replace NAG library calls within CMCOA pipeline
- Work at making CIT-side portion of pipeline more user-friendly so that it is accessible to people without linux and programming experience
- Assist with construction of Cave
Wesley
- Finish new CAVE construction
- Get ParaView working on both the new CAVE and the old one
- Get CavePainting (and other VRG3D applications by extension) working on both the new CAVE and the old one
- Speak with faculty interested in working with the CAVE and compile a list of interests
- Work with different VR frameworks and get them running in the CAVE