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 '16)

Connor

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


Dissertation
  • By 29 July: Init dissertation github repo that contains a compilable TeX document, concatenating all previous papers
  • By 8 August: send DHL an updated dissertation skeleton with chapter names and contributions
  • By end of summer: complete first draft of dissertation through present completed work
Color
  • By 22 July: Complete Colorgorical web app load balancing + last remaining bug fixes
  • By 22 July: submit travel funding to the graduate school
  • By 29 July: Toggle the Github repo for Colorgorical to public
  • By 1 August: submit camera-ready to Precision Conference
Genomics Case Study
  • By 5 August: e-mail David a revised TVCG manuscript wrt VAST reviewer comments
  • By end of summer: submit revised manuscript to TVCG
BLADE
  • By 29 July: Complete BLADE interaction log mining user study
  • By 5 August: e-mail David and Jeff the complete study results
  • By 12 August: email relevant committee members the new MAGI feature to implement/evaluate based on BLADE interaction log study results
  • By 12 August: send skeleton of eventual paper to David and Jeff
  • By 26 August: Complete (1) related work, (2) BLADE interaction log mining user study results + discussion
  • By end of summer: demo completed new feature to relevant committee members
Job hunting
  • Update personal website with new publication + job-seeking-geared information
  • Update resume _and_ C.V.
  • Compile list of companies to apply to in LA and elsewhere

Hua

  • ThoughtFlow design study re-submission to TVCG
    • More qualitative analysis of existing user study logs
    • Improve interface designs based on first two user studies
    • Conduct another round of user study (5 participants) with improved interface (compare with a striped version of ThoughtFlow instead of Google Scholar?)
  • ThoughtFlow interaction modeling
  • Dissertation writing
    • Abstract and introduction
  • Teaching Interdisciplinary SciVis
  • CHS sensemaking model grant proposal

Ryan

  • Grants
    • Renewals
      • SMART2 - July 5?
      • SA/AIDS - Sept 14
    • Career dev
      • NIH: F32, K99/R00, etc?
  • Papers
    • Tractography eval
      • multi vs single
      • bundle selection mechanisms
    • Diffusion model eval
      • relate parameters of more complex models to tensors
      • atlasing with multiple diffusion models
    • Collabs
      • Bipolar imaging with Dan
      • Something with Ani?
      • Ongoing work with RP group
  • Training of incoming phd students
    • Test suite and shared repo of brain tools
    • Clean interface for novice users

David (for sabbatical)

  • yurt
    • color calibrated within a few JND's by end of June
    • seams calibrated within a few mm's by end of June
    • application(s) (re)submitted for some fidelity-based research
    • application(s) submitted for some collaboration-based research, perhaps with Gatesy/Francois/Josh/Johannes
    • wiki "how to" for creating a yurt app, perhaps w/Johannes, before cs237 for sure!
    • scientific VR software tools review document by end of summer, from developer to non-programming user
      • maybe include Simon Su, Kreylos, others; EnSight, Paravision
    • paper out about R&D, model on Cruz, by end of summer
  • VT
    • seam experiment
    • submit TTTS manuscript
  • orthopedics
    • tools continuing to run well (despite upgrade)
      • get registration pipeline to pass regression tests
    • maybe pursue diffusion imaging in joints
  • diffusion MRI
    • two renewal grants with Rob Paul and Ryan over summer and fall
      • Sept 14, SA/AIDS
      • sooner, SMART/Aging
    • Dickstein paper and maybe proposal
    • tractography comparison paper with Ryan during summer
  • keep all advisees moving along appropriately
    • prepare for incoming triplet: brains, hands, yurt

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

  • Research Comps
    • Give proposal presentation - very soon!
    • Get Dino Tracks program to a state where it can be used for the study.
    • Create and run user study
    • (More detailed schedule/milestones in comps proposal pdf)
  • Coursework
    • Use 237 to further my understanding of:
      • Effective ways of creating scientific visualizations
      • Effectively communicating ideas through writing.
      • Evaluating scientific visualizations.
    • Find and perform well in other course (ideally somewhat applicable to future research)
  • General Yurt
    • Continue to give demos as needed
    • Convert dino tracks to MinVR to make more maintainable and help MinVR team by giving feedback on what works/doesn't

Eleanor

  • Overarching goals
    • Figure out if academia as a career is right for me
    • Become confident in doing research
    • Meet and talk to people in the field at conferences, etc.
  • Before school
    • Work my way through the DTI papers from Ryan
    • Initial read-through of Liz Marai's thesis
    • Read wrist work NIH proposal
    • Make pseudo-syllabus for research comp work
  • Fall Semester
    • More careful read-through of thesis
    • Go for a good class/research balance
    • Determine topic for research comp

Fumeng

  • N-year goal
    • Be able to generate an idea of a new research direction and have the power to accomplish and purchase that
      • Know what is important and be able to convince other people that is important
      • Be knowledgeable and expertise in the field; Write proposals; Mentoring; Find help; Present the work to others; Interact with other people; Write papers
  • First year
    • First semester
      • Get along with my advisor, the group, other PhD students and the department
      • Find a project, nail it down and finish the pilot work
      • Let my C/C++ and OpenGL skills not be worries of mine
    • Second semester / By the end of my first year
      • Read enough papers to have a big picture of VR field
      • Finish a project and write it down
  • Recent Goals
    • Read papers from this group (Hua's grant?)
    • Read papers from VR field and perception
    • Know everyone's work in this group
    • Prepare for transferring credits
    • Keep the programming test in mind
    • Setup C/C++ and OpenGL programming environment
    • Finish this round of editing VF paper and handle it out (with Tufts, WPI etc) : Aug 28, 16

Past Plans and Goals

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