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 Tuesdays. The authoritative list is in dhl's calendar.
- 1:50 - jadrian
- 2:00 - wenjin
- 2:10 - eni
- 2:20 - jadrian
- 2:30 - bb
- 2:40 - dtr
- 2:50 - trevor
- 3:00 - cad
- 3:10 - steve
- 3:20 - radu
Current Plans and Goals (Summer/Fall '10)
Caroline
Get oriented
- Find out current status of framework
- Acquaint myself with any existing modules / code / results
- Find out who else will be working on it or has worked on it, meet with them
- Literature review
- Learn CPM-GOMS, refresh on ACT-R
Do whatever needs to be done to get framework going
Create a test module based on my earlier implied dynamics work [1]
- Model a dynamics-based assessment of relationships between parts of simple visualizations
- Test whether this can predict users' actual evaluations of a chart's structural properties
- Maybe rethink to tie in more to affordances, interface prediction
Identify other potential modeling projects based on visual structure for future work...
- Predicting the patterns (trends, clusters, etc.) a user sees in a visualization
- Modeling how quickly a user can read high-level information from different vis types
- Analyze interaction affordances in a visualization system
Get funded
- Work on grant proposal
- Find and apply for fellowships / postdoc grants
David
- get diffusion normals, one library, and one executable distributed
- good TBI talk in Chicago
- support 5 phd students' + trevor's progress
- si^2 proposal for 6/14, then expedition?
- wrist proposal possibilities, w/eni (check with Trey?)
- keep Vis '11 on track
Brad
Projects
- Support the ongoing projects including collaborators. Active projects are wrist, brain, adviser, and protein.
- Assist Radu to integrate a test and any recent code.
- Migrate Win's mri pipeline to run in CIT.
- Contribute to the design and development of the new cave. Integrate changes to vrg3d. Simplify the configuration and provide a quick start path for student projects.
- Set up public distribution of diffusion imaging data.
Infrastructure
- Manage the migration to the new file system.
- Continue to write Wiki entries as needed.
- Continue setting up third party software for students to use. Current imported packages are: blitz, cg, g3d, qt, camino, dtk, afni, nifti, vivro, vrpn, glut, and sdl.
- Extend the build system to make kits for public source and binary distributions.
- Improve support for remote development.
- Launch the Windows test system.
- Continue extend the make files to support new features such as additional third party packages.
- Upgrade migrated Linux code to work with gcc 4.3 in conjunction with the summer Debian upgrade.
- Continue to integrate any new tests written by students into nightly test runs.
- Finish integrating the new version of the Nag libraries.
Knowledge
- Learn more about the cave; particularly vrg3d software development.
- Meet (SciVis talk) with students to address any integration issues.
Çağatay
- Resolve crossings, count cycles.
Radu
- Learning distance metrics from users (with Cagatay)
- Finalize(revision)/Resubmit maps paper
- Analysis "nudge" pilot study
- Prepare thesis proposal talk
- Create a daphne-module map
- Deploy existent maps at Immgen
- Design collaborative module for maps + instrumentation
Steve
- Receive brain+code dump from Trevor re: interaction histories
- VASS Application/Registration
- shoot for June 1 (deadline: July 23)
- Work on poster submission for vis (deadline: July 1)
- Learn more about Caroline's work before she gets here
Immgen
- Learn more about immgen, their projects
- Find contribution to extend their genome vis tools (with Radu?)
Comps progress
- Application integration for interaction histories
- BrainApp?, Brain circuit vis?
- LCS algorithm over histories for required interaction patterns
- Algorithm for remaining time estimation from pattern
Knowledge
- Read more papers in cognitive science, brain science
- Learn more about experimental design
...
Eni
- Make progress in the surface analysis/congruency problem
- Draft a proposal for my work
- Read more literature that’s related to my work
- Submit a paper to MRM on tracts
Nathan
- Streamline ROI selection program
- Axis-aligned ROIs
- Bitmap ROIs
- Apply ROI program to known dataset for purposes of verification
- ...