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 '13)
Connor
- Take last class: Jeff's HCI Seminar
- Work no more than 6 hours outside of class every week
- Successfully defend research comp
- February 21: Complete first draft of manuscript
- February 28: Finish slides, complete polished manuscript
- March 6: Defend
- Complete Perception Study
- February 7: Have data for 12 subjects
- Tie in results to research comp as listed above
- March 21: Submit abstract
- March 31: Submit a great paper to InfoVis
- Complete GD3
- January 24: Complete code cleanup
- By mid-February: work with Max to submit a Technical Note to Bioinformatics
- Start interaction logging: cancer genomics tool
- January 24: Complete interaction log code
- By January 24: Meet with Max to get the current state of the web tool
- By January 31: Meet with Jeff Huang to about what interaction analysis might be novel
- February 7: Decide on experimental methodology (how many subjects, study conditions, etc.)
- February 7: Have interaction logging tied into the tool
- February 19: Run myself through tool and write analysis scripts
- February 28: Collect data from 3 subjects
- By February 28: Decide whether or not to push for a VIS paper submission or delay to CHI
- Post-March: dependent on above decision; if submitting to CHI, focus on additional experiments
- Have an agenda for every meeting
- Put quantified self project on the back burner until after VIS submission
Hua
- BraiNet
- Improve the prototype to qualify for a submission
- Submit
- Getting it out in the wild
- Reconnect with neuroscientists here at Brown
- Reach out to Allen Brain Institute and Neuroscience Information Framework
- Network edge uncertainty visualization
- Draft paper with everything except final analysis results (Jan. 24)
- Finish running users (Feb. 7)
- Submit to InfoVis (March 31)
- Aptima
- Submit to VIS (March 31)
- Crowd-based visualization evaluation
- Perform temporal analysis on the data (Jan. 31)
- Submit to VIS (March 31)
- Thesis proposal
- Find committee members
- Finish a draft that has
- a realistic timeline from now until defense
- detailed plan for at least one paper that could be part of the thesis
- Research-related skills
- Attend an experimental design workshop
- Take a course on creative writing
Steve
- Teach CS 0931
- TA camp starting Jan 16
- Prepare and practice each lecture and activity
- Maintain open communication and availability with TAs and students
- Have fast turn-around on students' grades
- Crowd Eyetracking project
- Redraft paper without any additional content from CHI submission by Jan 10 and circulate
- Revise as needed and possibly add more eyetracking users
- Submit to InfoVis: abstract on March 21, full paper on March 31
- Aptima project
- Incorporate changes to experiment protocol from pilot study
- Finish running users by Jan 31
- Finish analysis by Feb 15
- Draft paper by March 7
- Submit to VAST: abstract on March 21, full paper on March 31
- Misc
- Submit IRB renewal by Jan 13 at the latest
- Complete CHI 2014 Work-in-Progress Program Committee duties; all wrapped up with meta-reviews by Feb 4
Ryan
- Complete thesis proposal
- Work on papers
- Submit a great MICCAI paper (end of Feb)
- Contribute to Fauxvea infovis submission (end of March)
- Continue work on neuroimaging collabs
- Finalize analysis for South Africa analysis
- Run connectivity analysis with St Louis data
- Maintain relationship with folks at RIH
- Complete work outlined in proposal for this term
- Aim 1 framework developed and submitted
- Aim 2 code partially developed
- Aim 3 studies run and progress made on papers