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Esther's Diary

28th May

• Finished Re-drafting human ethics application form and emailed to Stu
• Jeremy gave me a book to read about Blender

25th May

• Re-drafted human ethics application form

23rd May

• Had presentation on Milestone one for project in elvis
  • What is the difference between Visual Analytics and Information Visualisation??

22nd May

• Had weekly meeting with Stu, James and Jeremy
  • Decided to talk about the motivation behind our projects and description of VAST challenge
• Worked on presentation for tomorrows elvis meeting
• Continued playing around in Blender to make a simple mock up

21st May

• Played around with Blender

16th May

• Had meeting with Stu, James and Jeremy
  • Our projects were becoming more and more similar
  • Needed to decide whether to work together on one project or separately
  • Decided to work on similar projects using different data sets
  • Need to start learning Blender
  • Got feedback for draft human ethics application form
• Jeremy gave me a crash course of Blender

15th May

• Weekly meeting with Stu and James postponed till tomorrow

10th May

• Looked at VAST challenges for this year and previous years to decide what kind of dataset to work with

9th May

• Had elvis meeting
  • Meeting on Monday morning with Stu to discuss datasets

8th May

• Had weekly meeting with Stu and James
  • Need to look at VAST challenge
  • Need to decide what kinds of datasets to work with

3rd May

• Emailed Stu and James with draft application forms for Human Ethics Application

2nd May

• Elvis meeting
  • Schedualed a short presentation for milestone one at ElvisMeetings/Talks

1st May

• Had weekly meeting with Stu and James
  • Need to draft questionnaire for Human Ethics approval
  • Need to draft consent forms for Human Ethics approval
  • Email Human Ethics Application forms to Stu and James by Monday
  • Learn how to use Blender

30th April

• Updated proposal to include how I plan to go about my project
• Draft application form for Human Ethics Approval

25th April

• Read articles on evaluation of information visualisations

24th April

• Finished reading human ethics policy
• Searched for more articles on evaluation techniques for visualisations
• Started drafting application form for human ethics approval

23rd April

• Continued reading papers
• Updated my elvis pages

22nd April

• Continued reading papers

21st April

• Searched for more papers on ACM, IEEE digital libraries
• Read some of the papers

20th April

• Tried to continue reading human ethics policy
• Searched for more papers on ACM digital library

18th April

• Guilty of taking the week off which means need to spend 30 hours on the project next week
• Started reading human ethics policy

10th April

• Had weekly meeting with Stu.
  • Decided to spend 14-15 hours each week over the break
  • Need to get human ethics approval for the evaluation part of my project

3rd April

• Had weekly meeting with Stu, James and Alex. It was the first time (apart from last elvis meeting) that all three of our supervisors, Jeremy and I were all in the same meeting However, looks like it was also the last time as Alex leaves the project
  • Stu called David at Umajin, and managed to get them to get us the data to be visualised.
• Looked at ElvisBrain and remembered I have my own page
• Wrote a draft proposal to hand to supervisors at elvis tomorrow.

2nd April

• Started writing my proposal.
• Continued reading articles found from ACM.

1st April

• Researched visualisation.
  • Started keeping a bibliography.
  • Looked at Craig Anslow's page.

28 March

• Jeremy presented Umajin langauage at Elvis meeting. I tried to talk a bit about the Umajin creative interface.
• Talked to Craig Anslow about what he does. He gave Jeremy and I a very useful talk about what we should research.

27 March

• Had our first weekly meeting with Stu.
  • Stu showed Jeremy and I different ways to search for articles rather than just typing keywords.

26 March

• Watched and cheered for Memphis at their Netball match.

Further back

• Some contact with Umajin about the project.
• Started researching for information on visualisation.
• Played around with Umajin Creative.
• Downloaded and installed Blender.