Patterson Research

Fall 2011

Department of Informatics

Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

Week 2

Friday (10/7):

Discussion:

We introduced the people that were in the room and basic research interests.
We confirmed a weekly meeting on Wednesday from 4-5
MS Surface: we talked about buying an MS Surface 2 for fun.
Funding: We went over grants and funding status
We talked about making sure that everyone signs up for research credit.
We talked about creating a mailing list for the research group. This email was sent to that mailing list. Once Mingming is registered he should be getting the mail.
We talked about these mailing lists luci-lab@ics.uci.edu, the blah-blah@ics.uci.edu and the hackers@ics.uci.edu.

Action Items for next week:

Everyone:

  • Send a weekly summary and goals for the next week by Tuesday at midnight (before the next meeting)

Don:

  • Set up mailing list
  • Contact Thomas Strang about partnering on Interchange
  • Contact John Krumm about partnering on Interchange
  • Set up a schedule for the research meetings
  • Send Mingming papers and data from AIGR
  • Read Vrishti's Phase II draft and give her feedback

Nitin:

  • Do a literature review on Interchange to make sure someone hasn't done this
  • Start to write a lit review based on this
  • Figure out how to run ns3

Mingming:

  • Review the previous work on AIGR and prepare a proposal to analyze the latest baby data.

Vrishti:

  • Rewrite paper based on Don's feedback
  • Figure out Phase II schedule

Julie/Marcel:

  • Get photos and artifacts ready for presentation next week
  • Send Don a schedule for the quarter for project

Week 3

Wednesday (10/12):

Plan:

Everyone give an update

Marcel and Julie show artifacts

Discussion:
Action Items:

Everyone:

  • Send an update of previous work and plans for future weeks by Tuesday 10/18
  • Review the next draft of Vrishti's Phase II paper and prepare some recommendations for her

Don:

  • Send out CHI paper submissions to group for those who are interested.
  • Follow up with Thomas about 802.11p code
  • See if we can get John Krumm in on the Interchange action

Nitin:

  • Simulate some car networking in ns3 for next week
  • Put together the references found into the literature review draft - send out with update

Mingming:

  • Schedule a meeting with Don to go over questions about AIGR papers and structure of svn repository
  • Send Don a copy of paper that was rejected for feedback

Vrishti:

  • Rewrite the Phase II paper for next week with a focus on creating a consistent argument throughout the paper and incorporating the results of the GiftBox study. Send out a copy my Monday night so everyone can read it.
  • Find out if Prof. Mazmanian will agree to be on Phase II committee
  • Send out proposed schedule modifications for Phase II to committee and get their agreeement

Julie/Marcel:

  • Prepare to finish going over the vending machine photographs from last week.
  • Finalize the list of tasks that are going to be supported
  • Prepare to discuss next week

Week 4

Wednesday (10/19):

Plan:

Updates

Julie and Marcel finish contextual inquiry presentation and task list presentation.

Give feedback to Vrishti on Phase II draft

Discuss "coffee shop" problem

Action Items:

Everyone:

  • Send an update of previous work and plans for future weeks by Tuesday 10/25
  • Review the next draft of Vrishti's Phase II paper and prepare some recommendations for her

Don:

  • Follow up with Thomas and John
  • Meet with Mingming

Nitin:

  • Change gears and look into simulating with SUMO
  • See about building SUMO outside of Windows
  • Read 5 additional papers on the reading list and update lit review

Mingming:

  • Schedule a meeting with Don to go over questions data
  • Finish reading papers on temporal modeling
  • Brainstorm ideas about temporal modeling extensions to current work

Vrishti:

  • Rewrite the Phase II paper for next week. Also rewrite and then rewrite again.
  • Send out proposed schedule modifications for Phase II to committee and get their agreeement

Julie/Marcel:

  • We decided on 4 interactions for paying on the machine
    • cash
    • calling in with a phone and typing in a dollar amount after you have an account
    • scanning a QR code that automatically deducts a set dollar amount from an account (like a check)
    • transferring money on the website to the machine
  • For next week please prep detailed walk-throughs of scenarios and a lo-fi protoype or two that the group can test out

Week 5:

Wednesday (10/26):

Plan:

Updates

Mingming present current thinking about baby gestures

Julie/Marcel run us through a lo-fi prototype or two

Action Items:

Everyone:

  • Send an update of previous work and plans for future weeks by Tuesday 11/01
  • Review the next draft of Vrishti's Phase II paper and prepare some recommendations for her

Don:

  • Follow up with Thomas about SUDO modifications
  • Meet with Julie and Marcel
  • Get Mingming on the IRB

Nitin:

  • Investigate the AIM4 simulator

Mingming:

  • Review WEKA
  • Finish reading papers on temporal modeling
  • Brainstorm ideas about temporal modeling extensions to current work
  • Visualize data in Matlab
  • Prepare to finish presentation next week

Vrishti:

  • Rewrite the Phase II paper for next week. Also rewrite and then rewrite again.

Julie/Marcel:

  • We decided on 4 interactions for paying on the machine
    • cash
    • calling in with a phone and typing in a dollar amount after you have an account
    • scanning a QR code that automatically deducts a set dollar amount from an account (like a check)
    • transferring money on the website to the machine
  • For next week please prep detailed walk-throughs of scenarios and a lo-fi protoype or two that the group can test out

Week 6:

Wednesday (11/2):

Plan:

Updates

Mingming present current thinking about baby gestures

Julie/Marcel run us through a lo-fi prototype or two

Week 7:

Wednesday (11/9):

Plan:

Updates

Nitin present

Action Items:

Everyone:

  • Send an update of previous work and plans for future weeks by Tuesday 11/01
  • Meet with Don individually before next Wednesday

Don:

  • Email John and Thomas with updates

Nitin:

  • Build a simple 2-lane intersections with standard timing to collect stats

Mingming:

  • Take human subjects training for IRB
  • TBD at meeting

Vrishti:

  • Rewrite Phase II as a Pervasive paper
  • TBD at meeting

Julie/Marcel:

  • TBD at meeting

Week 8:

Wednesday (11/16):

Plan:

Updates

Vrishti present

Week 9:

Wednesday (11/23):

Plan:

Updates

Mingming present

Week 10:

Wednesday (11/30):

Plan:

Updates

Nitin present

Finals Week:

Wednesday (12/7):

Plan:

 

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