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 (Fall '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 August 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
(VIS paper rejections = reshuffle)
- By July 27: complete genomics paper rewrite
- By July 31: create local MAGI annotation development sandbox for ETA development
- By August 12: 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
(VIS paper rejections = reshuffle)
- By July 27: complete colorgorical paper rewrite
- By August 21: integrate new Colorgorical scoring functions using Bayesian optimization procedure
- By September 4: prototype D3 decomposition-by-category feature of Colorgorical
Other
- Cut back on non-dissertation projects to 20% time by end of summer
Hua
Cog grant proposalBy Sep. 11: take one pass through the proposal to resolve any inconsistency in contents
- BraiNet implementation
- By Oct. 30: implement basic corpus analysis functionalities
- (By Sep. 18) Context-based retrieval: given a block of texts, use techniques such as latent semantic analysis or topic modeling to extract relevant key terms
- (By Sep. 25) Three way linking between primary texts (e.g. a word document, a piece of plain text, a bibtex file), concepts and evidence, and annotations
- (By Oct. 9) Support search within a small set of publications provided by the user (e.g. a bibtex file)
- (By Oct. 23) Meet with Badre for feedback
- (By Oct. 30) Case papers: lets the user specify case papers in addition to supplying texts or terms; the tool will then use the case papers as constraints and return a set of papers where the set 1) is a subset of all papers associated with the given texts or terms; 2) contains the case papers; 3) is as small as possible.
- By Nov. 27: implement literature corpus visualizations
- (By Nov. 13) theme river visualization that shows how a set of concepts contained in a body of texts (e.g. a grant proposal; a notebook kept by the researcher) evolves over time - what concepts have been added / removed? how much evidence has been added for each concept?
- (By Nov. 27) refined user interface for exploring the set of concepts and evidence (network visualization?)
- By Oct. 30: implement basic corpus analysis functionalities
- Two VIS talks
- By Oct. 2: give practice talks to the speech and writing coach
- By Oct. 9: give practice talks to scivis / dhlgroup
- By Oct. 30: deliver the talks at VIS!
- Event sequence visualization paper
By Sep. 11: first draft of the blog post sent- By Sep. 23: second revision of the blog post ready
- BraiNet user study
- By Dec 4: run a pilot study with two participants
- By Dec 11: study design refined based on pilot study
Steve
- Dissertation
- By June 30: committee settled ✓
- By June 30: dissertation draft completed and circulated ✓
- Address feedback for dissertation as it comes in
- By June 30: get scheduling feedback for committee for mid-August defense ✓
- By early July: resolve defense scheduling ✓
- By mid July: submit defense, date, meta-data, and thesis draft to Lauren ✓
- By mid August: defend thesis, get notes for dissertation revisions from committee
- By mid September: do any necessary dissertation revisions, get signatures from committee, and submit
- TVCG/VAST paper
- By June 20: Use R to get CI intervals for correlations ✓
- By June 26: Help Hua with response, submission for conditional acceptance ✓
- NSF Proposal on Cognitive/Task Modeling
- Meet weekly to stay on track for September deadline
- By June 25:
- Gather notes from all past proposals ✓
- Write up independent thoughts about new proposal, then compare with David's Expedition notes
- By mid July: rough draft of new proposal based on notes, discussions
- By August: help prepare solid final draft
- Submit in FastLane
- By September 16 for MEDIUM
- By September 24 for LARGE
- By November 18 for SMALL
- Other
- Review workshops for VIS as possible project venues
- Find housing in Boston ✓
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
Tom
Josh
- General
- Become acquainted with the department and Providence in general.
- Develop a vision for research and start finding projects to work on.
- Improve artistic skill in order to be able to communicate ideas more effectively.
- Yurt/Cave
- Start to learn how to work in the Yurt effectively (likely through taking CS 137)
- Find a project to work on in the Yurt.
Wallace
- Finish experiment and write IEEEVR paper
- Finish VR volume renderer
- last changes: added another kernel for gpu pre processing, copying one PBO to another in the GPU. Simple kernel (just remove part of the dataset)
- Issues: Interaction pass takes a long time on CPU
- Options: add spatial structure, perform interaction on GPU
- Other improvements: 1) reduce original RGBA 3d texture to mono -> improve memory usage 2) remove 3d texture altogether and implement filtering in the shader -> possible faster copy in one pass, 3) change to splatting 4) refactor code
- Reimplement Volume Cracker like interaction
- Implement on VR
- Develop hardware
- Finish new interaction technique
- Finish design
- Implement software
- Implement technique on VR