Meeting Minutes

Date:	November 15, 2012
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	11:30
Chair:	Zainab AlMeraj

1. Attendance

Dan Vogel, Steve Mann, Alex, Mat Thorne, Marta, Tiffany, Lesley, Grace, Elodie, Zainab, Simon, Craig, Tylor

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Grace and Tiffany- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Zainab
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	November 22, 2012	November 29, 2012	December 6, 2012	December 13, 2012
Location:	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30	DC 1331 11:30
Chair:	Bill Cowan	Elodie Fourquet	Tiffany Inglis	Craig Kaplan
Technical Presentation:	Grace Yao	Zainab AlMeraj	Bill Cowan	Elodie Fourquet

4. Technical Presentation

Dan Vogel	Title : Scrubby: Software to Analyze Multi-stream Logs of Experiments Abstract: One July, in a fit of PhD procrastination, I wrote an interactive software application (which I call "Scrubby") to synchronize, playback, and annotate multiple streams of logged data from an observational study I had just run. It was a study of Tablet PC usage with real software applications, and it produced 4 streams of logged data: a screen capture video, video taken from a head mounted camera, 3D Vicon tracking data, and a log of pen events and movements. It proved very useful for efficient formal coding of observations, and I extended it to enable multiple coders. Since then, I continued to refine it and used it for several other studies, including formal controlled experiments where I have found it invaluable. The latest version enables me to observe experimental trials in a non-linear fashion making it easier to investigate causes of statistical trends in the aggregate data. In this talk I will demo the latest version with log examples from a whole body interaction study I have been running.

Dan Vogel

Title : Scrubby: Software to Analyze Multi-stream Logs of Experiments
Abstract:
One July, in a fit of PhD procrastination, I wrote an interactive software application (which I call "Scrubby") to synchronize, playback, and annotate multiple streams of logged data from an observational study I had just run. It was a study of Tablet PC usage with real software applications, and it produced 4 streams of logged data: a screen capture video, video taken from a head mounted camera, 3D Vicon tracking data, and a log of pen events and movements. It proved very useful for efficient formal coding of observations, and I extended it to enable multiple coders. Since then, I continued to refine it and used it for several other studies, including formal controlled experiments where I have found it invaluable. The latest version enables me to observe experimental trials in a non-linear fashion making it easier to investigate causes of statistical trends in the aggregate data. In this talk I will demo the latest version with log examples from a whole body interaction study I have been running.

5. Discussion Items

Health and safety inspection said power bar to extension cord no appropriate. Should be connected to the wall.
Kinect of some guys head on a cows body. Problem with the angle of connecting the two.

6. Action Items

Papier Mache painting

7. Lab Events

Monthly games night: Nov 16 in the lab, after coffee hour.

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

VRCAI 2012

Upcoming Deadlines

9. Directors' Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Reconfiguration of List(2,1)-Labellings on a graph: 2012 Nov 14 at 13:30. DC 1304. Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar; Kazuto Kawamura, Tohoku University

Efficient Implementation for Access Control Systems: 2012 Nov 14 at 14:30. DC 1331. Database Research Group PhD Seminar; Zhiping Wu, PhD candidate, UWaterloo

The Power of Locality for Network Algorithms: 2012 Nov 15 at 15:30. DC 1302. Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar; Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft

Distributed Graph Mining Systems: A survey: 2012 Nov 21 at 14:30. DC 1302. Database Research Group PhD Seminar; Khaled Ammar, PhD Candidate, UWaterloo

Also see other Math and CS postings.