July 2010

• Finished VASE 2009 proceedings
• Got new lights and equipmentfrom JayCar
• Completing SPPI status report
• Reviewing posters for SoftVis
• Submitted to InfoVis doctoral colloquium
• Building second multi-touch table
• Getting acrylic cut for multi-touch table
• Applied for JL Stewart Postgraduate Scholarship
• PLATEAU meetings have begun
• Said no to IVCNZ PC
• Finished NZCSRSC reports
• No BuildIT travel grant or JL Stewart travel scholarship

June 2010

• Updated LatexRevisionControl with change bar information
• Working on VisWeek doctoral submission
• Submitted Onward! Film
• Encouraged Andrew Caudwell to submit a film to Onward! on his Gource software visualization tool.
• Created new software visualization blog
• working on ITS paper
• working on Onward! Film
• helping Ewan with his APSEC paper
• building black magic multi-touch table
• moved office again to CO253
• wrapping up NZCSRSC finances and handbook report, and other miscellaneous things
• Demonstration of multi-touch hardware and software: Sean Snyders, Andrew Caudwell.

May 2010

• Applied for BuildIT travel grant
• Submitted three SoftVis papers
• Writing up reports for NZCSRSC
• PLATEAU workshop accepted.

April 2010

• Working on some ideas for SoftVis papers which are due at the end of the month
• NZCSRSC 2010 is over, I can now get back to doing more PhD research
• Not much research has been happening due to NZCSRSC 2010 organising
• PhD Proposal accepted which means I will be around for about another 18 months

March 2010

• Gave PhD proposal seminar
• Applied for Faculty Strategic Research Grant
• Integrating Pippin Barr's changes
• Draft 5 of proposal completed
• Moved office
• Found new trolley table for new multi-touch table
• Gave supervisors Daft 4 of proposal to supervisors
• too much time is being spent on NZCSRSC2010

February 2010

• Ordered 7D006
• Finished reading the IVS journal, special issue on Visual Analytics
• Moving office
• Extending System Hot Spot Views on multi-touch table
• Gave demo of multi-touch table to John Hosking, Philippe Kruchten
• Working on Draft 4 of proposal
• Draft 3 of proposal given to supervisors
• too much time is being spent on NZCSRSC2010

January 2010

• Gave demo of multi-touch table to Angela Martin, Michael Feathers
• PhD Proposal Draft 2 submitted to supervisors for feedback
• Paper submitted to NZCSRSC 2010 on Visualising the Size of the Java Standard API
• too much time is being spent on NZCSRSC2010

December 2009

• Got a version of Jigsaw to experiment with for visual software analytics
• Posters chair for SoftVis 2010
• Short throw projector arrived as well as projector mount
• In the process of ordering Plexiglas 7D006 acrylic glass
• Ordered short throw projector and projector mount. Need to decide on frame
• Helping HaoweiRuan and NickVause with their projects
• working on proposal
• too much time is being spent on NZCSRSC2010

November 2009

• working on proposal
• submitted 6 monthly report
• met Kevin Andressad from IceAV and saw the solutions he has for multi-touch surfaces
• caughtup with NextWindow about Large Touch Screen Interfaces
• went to Auckland for VASE workshop
• too much time is being spent on NZCSRSC2010
• moved to month by month diary, doing daily was becoming too time consuming

Previous Entries

Moved to an Elvis Twiki diary as I am phasing my old wiki out.

• DiaryOfCraigOctober2009
• DiaryOfCraigSeptember2009
• Old entries can be found below and at http://homepages.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~craig/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DiaryOfCraig