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 '15)
Connor
Boldfaced goals are those that mark the high-level success of each project.
Dissertation
- By June 5: send out complete first draft to dissertation committee
- By September 4: schedule proposal date
Genomics
- Weekly: check up on MAGI interaction logs and process them through BLADE to verify collection is going smoothly
- By June 26: respond to VIS review feedback
- By June 30: complete MAGI view redesign and accompanying logging refactor
- By June 30: create local MAGI annotation development sandbox for ETA development
- By August 7: create stand-alone ETA prototype that displays querryable network with annotation overlay
- By September 4: draft a high-level ETA contribution document to ID ultimate project direction (e.g., drop topic modeling)
Color
- By June 26: respond to VIS review feedback
- By June 30: prototype D3 decomposition-by-category feature of Colorgorical
- By July 10: prototype new Colorgorical scoring functions using Bayesian optimization procedure
- By August 7: complete integration of new scoring functions into Colorgorical
- By September 4: integrate visualization decomposition prototype as a palette preview feature
Other
- Cut back on non-dissertation projects to 0% commitment by end of summer
Hua
Steve
Ryan
- RP Imaging Studies
- Send update for request for additional bundles in SMART data
- Iron out details for South Africa analysis (group meeting on 6/10)
- Update: fiber bundle length (need a couple more bundles)
- Update: graph-based analysis w/ Laurie
- Keep up with paper reviewing and other requests
- Diffusion outside brain
- Update: support image analysis w/ Trey Crisco & Ed Walsh
- Yurt
- Demo as needed
- Provide support for CS137-related things
- Help Johannes with getting up to speed for TAing
- Update: Get some brain data in
- Thesis work
- Complete a rough draft of dissertation
- Work with Dan to get bipolar imaging paper out
- Update: Put together documentation of various analyses and tools
David
Wesley
- CAVE/YURT
- Complete or nearly complete user study with Johannes
- Help out with Demos when needed
- Add new applications for use in YURT
- Fitts' Law
- Work on paper with HCI seminar group
- Third Person Perspective
- Make plans for future of 3PP project or something derivative
- Hospital
- Discuss potential projects with Derek
Johannes
- Cave/Yurt
- Complete user study with Wesley
- 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
- 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