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 '17)
Daniel
David
- yurt
- seams calibrated within a few mm's by 2/15
- maybe include Simon Su, Kreylos, others; EnSight, Paravision
- paper submitted about R&D, model on Cruz, by ???
- reresubmit TTTS manuscript (Johannes) by 3/31
- new exp results paper (Johannes) by 3/31
- hmd+yurt paper resubmitted (Johannes)
- Dino major revision, maybe post vis (Johannes)
- dinoyurt progress w/steve/morgan
- Gilbert progress (w Daniel?)
- homology, tumor, maybe heart
- method of loci, mem castle (Fumeng) by 3/31
- good new course
- good resulting wiki/doc
- students engaged and satisfied
- bring in more ugrad researchers
- training, categories, job jar(s), link to Tom, advertise, web site
- orthopedics
- ~ tools continuing to run well (despite upgrade)
- - get registration pipeline to pass regression tests
- ~ maybe pursue diffusion imaging in joints
- ~ tools continuing to run well (despite upgrade)
- keep all advisees moving along appropriately
- DGS
- CCMB search
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
- Axial Seamount application:
- 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
Fumeng
- Research Comp (Memory Palace paper)
- Experimental System by the end of Jan
- Pilot study (~3 people) by the first week of Feb
- Full study (~10-15 participants) by the end of Feb (or the first week of Mar)
- Paper drafting since Feb
- Paper abstract, Mar 21
- Full paper, Mar 30/31
- Presentation, the first week of April