December 2010

• Showed Oakley around the department
• Updated Conferences and SIGs
• No JL Stewart travel scholarship again, 4th time unlucky
• Attended Elvis Christmas party at Picnic Cafe
• Fixing up some errors on the machine with respect to installing new touch MT4j software.
• The Dell SX2210T 21.5"W Multi-Touch screen arrived so experimenting with the software and the interface.
• Parts are being shipped from Peau Productions, a new lens, lens mount, lights, camera casing.
• Got the OPTE internet visualizations working using the MT4j Swing example
• Found some papers related with pair programming and developers use the tools (e.g. mouse, keyboard, IDE, screen) for this activity
• Solved the ECS proxy issue with the Maps and Flickr MT4j examples, thanks Hugh for your help. Documented on JavaHTTPproxyAuthentication
• Experimenting with Microsoft Kinect and Kinect hacks
• Updated ElvisBrain with links to the conferences
• Got Flickr example working in MT4j over Victoria Wireless, now trying to make it work using the ECS proxy
• Trying to get Windows 7 to work natively with CCV
• Trying to get MT4j to work with the ECS proxy
• Ordered some new parts (new non-distorition lens, lens mount, lights, camera casing) from Peau Productions for the Blue Multi-touch table
• Won a best paper award at APSEC for our Qualitas Corpus paper.

November 2010

• Completed 6 monthly report
• First meeting with supervisors in a number of weeks, need to do some more hacking
• Enquired about purchasing a Dell SX2210T 21.5"W Multi-Touch screen for development purposes.
• Organising ElvisChristmasParty2010
• Gave presentation at Elvis about recent trip to SurfNet workshop, Splash/Onward/OOPSLA,SoftVis/InfoVis, ITS/Tabletops, talk at Trier, and visit to Leuven
• Swapped machines over from newer Optiplex 780 to Optiplex 760. Had to swap the graphics cards, so all good now.
• Swapping machins over for the Blue Table
• Updated web site, CV, etc.
• Completing expenses from trip
• Doing some tax stuff
• Updated content on the Elvis wiki, publications, achievements, news etc.
• Made it safely back to Wellington
• Visited Ajay Kapur's group at CalArts in LA, USA.
• Gave talk on Co-located Collaborative Software Visualization at Stephan Diehl's group at the University of Trier
• Attended ITS 2010 at Saarbrucken, Germany. Presented my paper on Multi-touch Table User Interfaces for Co-located Collaborative Software Visualization at the Doctoral Symposium
• Made a short day trip to Kingston, Ontario, Canada to visit Nick Grahams EQUIS group.
• Visiting Robert Biddle in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

October 2010

• Attended SPLASH, Onward, SoftVis, InfoVis, VisWeek
• Attended Sonic Arts end of year presentations
• Poster for PLATEAU and printouts
• Practice talks for HAoSE and SoftVis
• ITS camera ready done
• Organising logistics for Saarbrucken
• Organising PLATEAU
• Updated Multi-touchTable
• Experimenting more with the lights, got projector straight no
• Submitted JL Stewart Scholarship, perhaps 4th time lucky
• User testing for Nick Vause
• User testing for Amy Chard
• Final NZCSRSC admin!

September 2010

• Demo of table at the ECS Demonstration Day
• Multi-touch word cloud visualization implemented
• ITS Doctoral Symposium paper accepted, yay!
• Removing old content from old wiki
• Updated old Diary pages
• Demo of table to Craig Taube-Schock
• Got some new lights for the table and configured to work very nicely
• New computer for the MT Table
• Submitted to the Tabletops Doctoral Symposium
• HAoSE paper accepted, yay!
• Made visit to Auckland to see Gerald Morrison, Gordon MacDonald and Gareth from SMART Technologies and NextWindows, saw their new multi-touch table prototype
• Exploring the iPad and applications. Seems a nice device to do basic tasks, however, complicated analytical tasks will require more powerful computers and larger screens.
• Began building SourceVis
• Tabletops book arrived and started to read the book.
• PLATEAU submissions completed and notifications sent out
• Organised trip to the US, Canada and Germany.
• Attended the COMP489 conference day
• Got more payment for NZCSRSC reimbursement since Finance under paid me.

August 2010

• Organising trip to the US
• Had a look at a 3M MPro 150 pocket projector
• Attended the Machine Orchestra which was really cool
• Organising scholarship extension
• Did a demo of my multi-touch table at Study@VicDay
• Installed CodeCrawler XRay Eclipse plugin to experiment with
• Installed MSA Remote to test different devices remotely controlling multi-touch applications using TUIO. Tested with iPhone and iPad but unfortunately does not work simultaneously together.
• Experimenting with the MT4J multi-touch toolkit
• Submitted paper to AUIC on usability of designing online maps with the multi-touch table
• Submitted position paper to Human Aspects of Software Engineering workshop at SPLASH
• Keith submitted his paper to ACSC
• Purchased more IR lights from PeauProductions as the ones from JayCar aren't perfect
• Presented new table at the Hi-Tech Innovations University Research show case event at Te Papa. I got lots of good feedback. Decided not to do the Christchurch event
• New table built and now worrying about the software visualization application. Followed up payment of the table.
• Rejected InfoVis doctoral consortium and Onward film. Will have to do a much more improved film for next year. Resubmit doctoral submission somewhere else, like Tabletops.
• Andrew's Gource film got accepted at Onward.
• Our paper "Qualitas Corpus: A Curated Collection of Java Code for Empirical Studies" was accepted for APSEC in Sydney
• PLATEAU papers submitted and keynote organised. Now need to sort out reviews.
• Chasing up NZCSRSC reimbursements
• Created proceedings for PLATEAU 2009 and VASE 2009 as technical reports.
• Keith created a technical report for his paper "Visualizing Class Refactoring via Clustering" which I helped out on.
• Back to doing lots more research

July 2010

• 7D006 arrived
• 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