Plans and Goals

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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)

Hua (Fall '13)

  • BraiNet
    • Get Mark on board with resource paper drafting
    • Incorporate connectivity data from Allen Brain Atlas
  • Network edge uncertainty visualization
    • Get lab pilot study done before mid-October
    • Refine the study design and run more experiments / analysis to prepare for a VIS'14 paper
  • Aptima
    • Finish prototyping and perform evaluation
    • Draft a viewpoint article on sptial-temporal network patterns.
  • Crowd-based visualization evaluation
    • Work with others to have a submission on temporal analysis of click data to reveal visualization patterns

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.

Ryan (Fall '13)

  • Submit a thesis proposal
  • Be a good TA for CS137
  • Give good talks at MICCAI
  • Contribute to crowdsourcing paper
  • Keep up with St. Louis folks
  • Define and start South Africa analysis
  • Keep up contact with Dan

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



Past Plans and Goals