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RA WORK

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Pain Lab RA Meetings, Spring 2017: Thursdays, 3-5:00p.m.+

Be sure you constantly update your task lists here. Bring them to our lab meetings or don't come to lab mtgs.

SFU SPRING 2017 SCHEDULE

Jan. 4 Classes start

Feb.13 Family Day All classes cancelled and offices closed

Feb.14-19 Reading break; Classes cancelled

April 7 Last day of classes

April 9-21 Exams

April 14,17 Good Friday All classes cancelled and offices closed

April 17 Easter Monday All classes cancelled and offices closed

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CONFERENCES (remove once these are on Gromala's & your CV)

UPCOMING CONFERENCES we've been accepted to; w/sites, dates, who's in charge of each.

SPIE VR 2016 SF, paper submitted by XT; Serkan gave talk.

[1] Tong, X. Pekcetin, S., Gromala, D., Machuca, F., “Exploring Body Gestures as Natural User Interface for Flying in a Virtual Reality Game with Kinect”, SPIE Feb 2017, accepted, in publication.

CSCW 2017 Interactive Posters: DEADLINE: Nov.4 (Xin submitted & got accepted, Xin presents 2 posters Feb.25–Mar.1,2017, Portland)

[1] Tong, X., Gupta, A., Lo, H., Choo, A., Gromala, D., Shaw, C., “Chasing Lovely Monsters in the Augmented Reality Era, Exploring Players’ Motivation and Play Patterns of Pokémon Go: Go, Gone or Go Away?”, ACM CSCW Mar. 2017, accepted, in publication. [2] Jin, W., Neustaedter, C., Gromala, D., Tong, X., “A Collaborative Visualization Tool to Support Doctors’ Shared Decision-Making on Antibiotic Prescription”, ACM CSCW Mar. 2017, accepted, in publication.

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UPCOMING CONFERENCES WE NEED TO SUBMIT TO w/sites, dates, who's in charge of each.

Check: http://www.aec.at/prix/en/

SIGGRAPH VR Village: Deadline: March 21, planning to submit: ???

SIGGRAPH Posters: Deadline: April 25, planning to submit: WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS! WE NEED TO SUBMIT POSTERS!

Journal Paper (TBD w/WEINA; PubMed) PubMed Journal or GAMES FOR HEALTH. Weina & Xin???

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13. Journal Paper (FitViz) Transactions on Pervasive Health (EAI)Xin & Ankit

'American Pain Society will send to usWeina DEADLINE: July 18th?

XIN?: PLEASE MAKE SURE A BLOG POST IS WRITTEN, EDITED & UPLOADED.

XIN?: PLEASE MAKE SURE TO UPLOAD THE PAPER w/PUBLISHER'S COPYRIGHT INFO ON IT & UPLOAD TO RESEARCH GATE & GOOGLE SCHOLAR. PRINT OUT SEVERAL COPIES & PUT ON OUR MAGAZINE RACK.

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CONFERENCE INFO & PREP

By "in charge," I mean: the person whose main responsibility is to:

• show leadership: keep in touch with the organizers & DGr,

• show leadership:make sure everyone who is planning to attend is kept updated with on-going information, incl. travel.

• show leadership: contact DGr by whatever means necessary when a time-sensitive or time-crucial task is due, and so on.

• organize:by preparing slides, posters, swag or other materials that are necessary.

• to follow through by hanging those posters in the lab when you get home AND

• to follow through by adding the exact citation so we can refer to it for all CV additions and annual reports for the lab.

• to follow through by contacting ppl you met & giving their business cards w/annotations/notes to DGr.

• to follow through by ARCHIVING: uploading each paper or poster document to zotero: INCLUDE SEP. DOCUMENT OF GRAPHS, IMAGES IN HI RES, ETC.

• to follow through by DISSEMINATING: uploading each paper or poster document to Research Gate, Google Scholar, etc.

• to follow through by DISSEMINATING: producing & uploading a blog post: writing, editing, finding a photo for & uploading a blog post for each conference talk, exhibit, poster, demo, etc.

Obviously, you are part of a team, but essentially are the project's team leader who ensures that everything can go as smoothly as possible.

Sometimes, you will lead a project.

Other times, you will follow for other projects.

You MUST be willing and able to do whichever is required, per project. DO NOT NEGOTIATE -- one team leader per project -- the buck stops with that person.

EVERYONE: MAKE SURE YOU PLAN AHEAD. TRUST NOTHING.

NEVER,NEVER,NEVER ASSUME YOU OR OTHERS WILL BE ABLE TO GET ONLINE ON-SITE OR

THAT YOU CAN FIND A SHOP TO BUY PUSH PINS OR TAPE OR BATTERIES,

OR THAT THE CONFERENCE WILL HAVE AN EXTRA DISPLAY OR KEYBOARD FOR YOU TO USE.

NEVERNEVERNEVER..

BEFORE YOU DEPART

• Plan, create slides and practice your talks or demos.

• PRACTICE. Yes, that means actually practice the demo so it is least likely to fail on site. You can never account for al of the things that do go wrong, but you can reduce these inevitabilities by planning & practicing.

• BRING BACK-UPs. Include back-up data on another device, back-up projectors or whatever you need, a back-up video if the demo fails or fails temporarily,

• BRING: one-pager descriptions you can hand people when you are crushed by a crowd of people who each have questions, SFU & Pain Lab swag, and so on.

• BRING BACK-UP DATA OR INFO RE: OUR CONTEXT AS IT INTERSECTS W/THEIRS: these can include:

- one-pager time-line or "map" of our pubs,

- a bibliographic list of our pubs,

- boxology,

- short videos that you could show ppl while you discuss a poster,

- a postcard of Dr. Gromala's nightmare (you can't just buy an off-the-shelf HMD & VR game and hope it results in pain control! or one that says researchers have not yet determined what the exact mechanisms are that explains why VR works as pain distraction w/a boxology of the technology, the content, the patient, the treatment context/placebo, etc.,

- a postcard that tells a medical audience simple facts such as there are LOTS of studies of VR that never make it into PubMed databases because we're in a different discipline --

whatever you think we MIGHT need, esp. given the exact nature of each conference.

ON SITE:

1. DOCUMENT the heck out of your presentation

  Be sure to ask someone to take a picture of you talking). Take pictures & video. Don't rely on others -- make sure it's done.

2. GET INFO from media people & FOLLOW THRU ASAP --

   Get names, business cards, what they plan to use the info for, when they plan to publish/air the story, etc. 

3. BE SURE YOU ASK FOR BUSINESS CARDS & ANNOTATE THEM ASAP

  From people who suggest they have an opportunity (write on the back of the business card). 

4. Follow through: give the annotated business cards to DGr w/explanations about who to contact.

   In addition to DGr contacting these ppl, YOU should ALSO contact people when you think it's appropriate for you to do so, to thank, to pursue opportunities mentioned, to send images to when asked, etc.

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'CHI 2016 STUDENT GAME COMPETITION' E X A M P L E

'Weina, Servet, Xin

• ESTIMATE BUDGET

• List on-site equipment needs + diagram for onsite demo + study + docum.incl. back-up everything (extra cable...)

• Revise, refine project

• Study @ CHI: coping behaviors, impairments, guarding behaviors

• CHI Comp. Budget

 - flight est.
 - hotel
 - ground transport
 - registration
 - demo (poster, support/equip)
 - luggege $25/person
 - food per day(look online)
 - printing
 - (insurance) shipping
 - swag/take away
 - U.S. callphone plan

• blog post

• replace video on youtube

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==RA LIST OF TASKS: THE DEAD SIMPLE LIST for DGr==

XIN TONG

Schedule 2017 Spring

Tues or Thurs noon (every two weeks): Doctor appointments & exams

W: PainLab RA mtg. 3-5:00pm

[updated Jan 2017 by Xin]

[RA]

(1) KEEPER OF CONFERENCE EMAILS: TECHNOLOGY/DESIGN
(2) KEEPER OF Cancer Kids project @Children Hospital w/Henry & Janice

[RA, in progress]

Feb 28 Demo —————————————————————————— Sarah's visits with other physicaltherapists from St. Paul Leave other labmates' contact email as the contact person. Schedule: from 2 to 4/5pm

1. 2:00-2:30pm: introduction about the lab and short conversations/discussions

2. 2:30-3:30pm: VMW, bio-feedback, MF, and one other HTC VIVE demo? demo of the lab's VR projects and Q&A/discussions (demo length depending on how many people are visiting since each person need to try the demo individually, we will keep each demo less than 5mins so everyone could experience the projects!)

3. 3:30-4:00pm: visit School of Interactive Arts & Technology if interested!

BCTECH PREP—————————————————————————— http://bctechsummit.ca/agenda/

1. DGr: 5-minute madness-like pitch

2. Pain lab's VMW Demo:

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SWAGS

list of things we need to bring (like the one Servet made for PainBC)

• SWAG: pain studies lab postcards (new one)

• SWAG: brochure for VMW: amp up innovation aspect in words

• SWAG: pins

• Pain studies lab poster: list of projects

• Large Poster: the one explaining two paradigms on the side

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Technologies

• Machine: Big Alienware, display, keyboard, and mouse.

• Machine: Oculus Rift HMD (or do you prefer to use HTC VIVE?) I think we mentioned HTC Vive in the prior emails.

• Cameras & tripods

• Cables, power bars, tripods or hangers for posters?(orange suitcase)

• TV: show video in a loop (VMW video, or Pain lab video?)

• Tripods or hangers for posters?

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People

• Diane: tech demo and pitch

• Serkan/Servet: tech demo and pitch

• Frederico: tech demo and pitch

• Sungmin: photo doc (need to get a ticket for Sungmin)

http://bctechsummit.ca/tickets/

it is super pricy, should we ask SFU admin to help?

website: online form to be a human subject (can we use google form?)

[RA, in progress]

  1. Podcasts: contact Mahsoo and schedule a date and topic 

         gamification: [scripts ready] ask Chris [in progress]

  2. Funded project: Beyond (body image body schema), polishment and release timeframe [in progress, need help], MF [in progress, need Dr.G ask for source Unity file from Ari]
  
  3. Print TWO CSCW posters [need Diane's feedback for a final check by Feb 22]

  4. FitViz study (focus group interview) with Ankit, ethics & study design. [in progress, Ankit is busy w/other project so this is postponed]

  5. Ethics Documents for VR game study: study proposal, consent form, etc. [in progress, need feedback from Diane, so Serkan can submit final documents]

  6. Postcards for Pain Summit [done]

7. Photo for Amitha [done, article published]

  8. Cardboard Journal Paper w/Ash [in progress, draft done, submit to Presence/JMIR?]

9. MF brochure [in progress]

10. Travel Award App. for CSCW [app done, need Rec. Letter from Diane]

[Pubs]

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1. Three CPS posters [done]

  2. SPIE revision [done]

  3. HCII paper (pokemon go) [done, final version submitted]

  4. Pervasive Health, AS IF re-submission [done]

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in progress

  5. CHI WIP (cardboard paper) [accepted, add Dr. Pam Squire? Xin & Diane need to revise by Feb 19]

  6. HCII AS IF poster w/Servet & Weina [in progress, ddl Feb 17]

  7. Meta-review of VR for chronic pain [pub] start w/tech.comm [in progress]
   
  8. JMIR Journal: VR games for mental disorder(depression) meta-review[?]

  9. Journal, HMD comparison [in progress]

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[RA, DONE]

  1. Follow up the study with chemo kids [done]
     (1) print questionnaire and letters for Janice
     (2) email Maja for lastercutting
     (3) simulation the study procedure w/Janice & Henry 
     (4) data and report by Oct 1st, Henry will revise the game per teens feedback, Janice new ethics for a participatory design.[done, waiting for feedback]

  2. VMW polish for demo purpose on UNITY5: Add HMD part [DONE]  

  3. Find VR games as Samples to show Dr.Owen for the neck pain project [done]

  4. Paper Submissions:
     Journal paper: pervasive health: FitPet, July 1st [done]
     IASP Posters : HMD study && VR paradigm comparisons[done]
     SPIE Submission: Lost Spirit [done]
     PAIN WEEK poster [done]
     CHI Deadline Sept: as if [done]
  5. AS IF Pilot study ethics application study details done instrument [done].
     AS IF ethics: the review from Janet [done, approved!]

  6. NSERC Grant App. 
           one-pager[done] 
           proposal [done]

  7. Add: frame print out of media story (Chinese TV) I have pictures + citation: exact date it appeared, who wrote it,where it appeared for CV. [done]

http://ca.ntdtv.com/xtr/gb/2015/05/12/a1196639.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izwi1gKcpAg

  8.Add: frame print out of MicroSoft  story  I have a couple of pictures + citation: exact date it appeared, who wrote it, where it appeared for CV [cannot find url, already asked Cheryl to send link over to me]

  9. SFU Research City Proposal Submission [done]

  10. Update Diane CV [done]

  11. IASP Prep: Poster [Done] Demo [Done]

  12. Unity certificate blog post. [done, waiting for Diane's approval]

  13. IASP blog post and Pervasive Health Blog post. [done]

  14. Start Dr.G's personal blogsite [done]

DIMPLE GUPTA

A. Blog post articles, social media FB - ongoing - 8 blogs, daily FB, need more info on these blog stories

1. Pervasive Health 2. Japanese 3. CPRI 4. Student work 5. any lab developments (with pictures)

B. Focus group planning and delivery - ongoing

C. Pain BC committee per quarter - ongoing

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MAHSOO SALIMI

[updated Oct 09 by Mahsoo]

KEEPER OF BIOSUPPLIES info on how to order biosupplies, Done: Ward's Science,

[Leonardo Creative Disturbance], in progress

a) MetaLife Bioart - BioDesign - ALife, Done

b) “paining” Pain lab's members especial area of interest each: Dialogue with Roger or other

how does each one distrurb
1-CHRONIC PAIN INTRO: DGr follow up ISEA
2-PAIN: STELARC & DGr
3-CHRONIC PAIN: doctors
4-CHRONIC PAIN:
5-MARYAM
6-MARK
7-XIN
8-MAHSOO
9-DIMPLE
10-WEINA
11-ASHFAQ
12-SERVET
13-TYLER
14-BIOART
15-VR
16-WEARABLES
17-SOUNDWALK
18-AR

liaison with Yvan/Creative Disturbance

[INTERFACE 2015] - The Future of Health, DAY 1: SEPTEMBER 29

[Paper submission], in progress

a) Leonardo, paining

1-Art & Bio

2-Smart textiles (bio printing?)

3-pub about prior art: color changing material (i.e thermochromic), Iridescence (i.e minimal surface), etc

b) Robotics and Biomimetics, journal

c) Swarm Intelligence, journal

d) Bio-inspired Materials, Abstract: 5 November

[BioInstallation], in progress brainstorming 3-5 ideas for an installation, Due: end of Sep

a) Ars Electronica 2016, in progress

1-“Hybrid Art” category: Autonomic Installations and Artworks, OR Mechatronics / Kinetics / Robotics

2- “Interactive Art” category: installations, performances, OR innovative interfaces, robotics brainstorming 3-5 ideas for an installation, Due: end of Sep

b) "wearable protective gear", in progress idea end of Sept., modify calendar Oct, deliver prototype by Dec.

(get Weina to help you for an hour to look up in PubMed the word for “protective/phobia”

   “don’t touch me because it hurts”), Done (Thanks Weina)

1- hypersensitivity
2- tactile hypersensitivity
3- hyperalgesia

[new ideas for creatures inside caves in MF], in progress 3D MODELS (i.e minimal surfaces)

[smart textiles], (Leonardo) articles for DGr, in progress

ASHFAQ AMIN

KEEPER OF CARDBOARD VR & ACCESSIBLE HMDs

1. Get photos and videos from Sungmin. (Sung uploaded photos on a computer. Ask Weina)

2. Send DGr photos for the slides "done"

3. Upload photos from the the hard disk to Google Photos for quick access "done"

THESIS

-- Anticipated defence: Oct/Nov 16 --

1. Study at Dr Squire's office (3rd day)

2. Send amendment letter "done, waiting for reply"

3. Ask DGr about data from previous studies of MF on oculus rift

CONFERENCES

PainWeek Poster "done"

Poster from xin and weina "done"

DONE!!!

Demo for Dr. Takahiro. May 12. "done"

Get all the photos from Apr-May and send to DGr. "sent"

Photos for the Cannes "sent to DGr"

Ethics Application – Cardboard VR for chronic pain patients

Pain Week. Deadline Jul 14

HCII 2016 done

comparison chart of Cardboard VR, GEAR & OR HMD

INFO MISSING IN ACTION: <>

WEINA JIN

on leave Spring 2017

[updated Feb 8 by Weina]

KEEPER OF

1. HEALTH CFP emails & CP/IASP news
• CFP Deadline Calendar https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=cuo031pb4f7toqh069bcpkoleo%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Vancouver
2. SAVE INFO of: list of patients who have volunteered for our studies

[RA]

1. VMW study proposal: revised based on Dr. Garrett's comments. Need to discuss study design details with Diane (control group), and consult statistician.
2. BIBS bibliography: updated to Zotero, doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jHJzx6VBOWblF-ijh234MzC-5BjGkk9XJNOmk-vmP-o/edit?usp=sharing
3. NCE-GRAND Annual Renewal Due - Oct. 28 [done]
4. VR & Pain blog post [done]
5. NIH proposal [done]
6. Ethics. Esp. re: Farmooo
7. Farmooo data analysis and report, shorten the 16 page report to 1 page. send to DGr this weekend, and send to doctor in early next week [done]
8. IHI poster, finished design, added study data. Due Oct 15 [done]
9. FitViz Ads
10. VMW longitudinal study design + ethics
11. Farmoo Focus Group + support
12. neck pain study design
13. focus group
14. depression game study design, get ethics approval, and conduct RCT study
15. • video& images & poster to DGr re: depression game
16. swag project card printing - LikeMind depression game(image for PAIN cover)
We have 6 cards we can fit on one sheet of paper. So far, it’s 5: 2 general pain lab 2 VR: F, VMW As If
17. podcast
recorded 1st version demo

[PUBLICATIONS]

1. CSCW poster: A Collaborative Visualization Tool to Support Doctors' Shared Decision-Making on Antibiotic Prescription [submitted]
2. CHI paper [done]
3. IASP poster [done]
4. chronic pain & VR, review / meta-analysis in journal.
5. identify one article we can “translate” into a health research journal article.

[VMW longitudinal study]

1. study proposal & ethics
1. Study Proposal
• version1.0 July 11
2. Consent Form
3. Questionnaires
4. Suppliments
2. clinicaltrials.gov register
1. Obtain Protocol Registration and Results System (PRS) account
• One organzation has an account. SFU don't have the account in the list (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/prs-orgs#NETWORK_S).
• In this situation, we either "identify an individual to serve as the PRS Administrator for your organization and that individual can apply for a PRS organization account on behalf of your organization", or "apply for a PRS individual account; however, this option is not recommended for most organizations"(Already submitted) (See https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/manage-recs/how-apply)
2. Documents needed for submission (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/manage-recs/how-register)
1. Study Proposal
• ClinicalTrials.gov protocol review criteria https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/ProtocolDetailedReviewItems.pdf

INFO MISSING IN ACTION: <>

CHERYL YU

FIND her googlgle docs file; download all contents; move to zotero AND copy onto DGr's removeable HD "done"

KEEPER OF MF SKETCHES

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SERVET ULAS

M: SFU Burnaby

T-F @PainLab unless fieldwork or mtg elsewhere

W: PainLab RA mtg. 3-5:00pm

IN DEVELOPMENT

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WEBSITE

Get information from Danny

Liaise with web-guy.

Make backups for ConfrontingPain.com pages and posts

Get a forum site going so we can do book and paper discussions online and they would be archived

• go through pages with Diane

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VMW

• biofeedback get working w/Unity

• (DGr: map out VMW cues) •SpeedTree? •Ghosts PLUG AND PLAY, PLAYER-TRACKING GHOSTS FOR ANY PROJECT

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Neck Study

• provided assets
• help ethics proposal

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Dr. Sleep

• Jan.15th: do navigational part for patients & doctor's not related to anything re: logging;

• verify UBER MAP from Emily Carr • talked to Tim, will meet (Tim will do working implementation of Emily Carr's logging) to get file/forms from Tim

• patient's version has live logging component; destination is mobile but deliver on desktop first (Emily Carr did design) Tim is bldg. Emily Carr's

 (Ankit is doing back end)

• forms shared btwn patient & doctor

• needs to be navigation btwn everything doctors see/use

USERS: • parent (usually more than 1 kid) • doctors/dr.asst.

 (they share info per patient)

Meeting with Tim 19th of Jan 2 pm - 3 pm

Meeting 6th

Do UI Adaptation for clinician dashboard and BRUNI ONGOING

Dr. Squire's Grid

International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media

Special Issue Call for Papers: Bodily Extensions and Performance (Avatars, Prosthetics, Cyborgs, Posthumans)

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DSH

• show to DGr & brainstorm possibilities

• Complete desktop prototype (compare desktop to VR version) • Arrange meeting & continue to liaise w/Dr. Eisen, Director of SFU Counseling Services for collab. • Changed from metnal illness to shamanic approach (sanctioned context) figure out study; (healing? stigma?) • Fakhir (Alluquere (Sandy) Stone may have written about him) • SIGGRAPH:

Art Papers 30 January 2017: (psych.paper 3 pages; 300 word abstract; 4 pages of material that needs stitching)

talks 14 February

studio 14 February

appy hour 14 February

posters 25 April, 14 February 2017

On Rails Env. for anxiety management

• abstract*

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PUBLICATIONS

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MAPS2017

Abstract deadline: Nov 1

• Anxiety Management w/VR poster/talk implications -> MAPS' context

completed

Computers in Human Behaviour

• DSH -> Role-taking & VR paper

• HCII as if poster dealine 10th Feb.*

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SUNG MIN

My schedule is:

Monday: 9:30 AM to 1:20 PM

Tuesday: 10:30 AM to 2:20 PM

Wednesday: (FREE) Pain Studies Lab Meeting 3:00 - 5:00 PM.

Thursday: 8:30 AM to 11:20 AM

Friday: (FREE)

GILLIAN RAMSAY

contact for short-term help

FREDERICO MACHUCA

M: 9:30-12:30 Cognition (Brian Fisher)

W: 12:30-14:20 Research Colloquium (P.Pasquier)

F: 9-16 Vistual Story (CDM)

// CURRENT WIP

Learn Unreal Engine for Doll Box Project

Create basic scene for initial interactions/exploration

Guy in pain woodcut [wip] (get diane feedback)

// PROJECTS

DOLL BOX

Meet with Serkan for initial planning (nov 14)

- Brainstorm

- Initial Design

- Initial Assets

BRAIN PROJECT

- Brainstorm

- Initial Design

- Talk to Sungmin

// EXTRAS

VR2 Room [wip]

Typography Class (after halloween)

Group Photograph [wip]

Podcast

PainWEEK posters [wip]

AAA Vs. Indie screenshots [wip]

List of VR games (comprehensive + a filtered version)

Snakes and Ladder

INFO MISSING IN ACTION: <>

SERKAN PEKCETIN

W: 12:30-14:20 Research Colloquium (P.Pasquier), 16:30-18:20 TA (E.Yang), 18:30-20:20 TA (E.Yang)

Th: 10:30-12:20 TA (E.Yang), 14:30-17:20 AI (S.DiPaola)

F: 10:30-13:20 Computational Poetics (K.Hennessy), 14:00 Weekly VR meeting

--Feb08------

UBC: Focus group document review: Feb, 15

VMW / Integration of VAS: Feb, 15

VMW / Integration of Sonic scale: Feb, 15

VMW / Vive integration : Feb, 15 (Runs good with Oculus by Feb.06)

VMW / Bugfixes -> Movement is glitchy, water does not work in newest Unity version, and more... : Feb, 15

Finish development of the app that runs the experiment (launcher & conducter) : Mar, 1

Get light on desk

Get keys for drawers

Prepare travel expenses document

Finish application for travel award: Feb, 15

HCI2017 paper w/Ash, finalized version: Feb, 10 submission deadline

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UBC Sonic scale first demo: Speech-to-text and Text-to-speech working properly. Needs UI work.

UBC: Crystal is ordering PCs and she waits for a shipment address from us. Should we delegate this to Lisa?

EI'2017 Presentation?

RESP. FOR USER ACCOUNTS

KEEPER OF BACKUPS

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (industry standards & habits of commenting, versioning, etc.)

Sound to keep mice away

Get internet to use at home

HECHT foundation project: Possibility of a WIP paper?

Get the Proxy for Faculty access

Getting demos ready for VMW on Alienware

Debugging demos for VMW (we should definitely consider getting a SpeedTree license)

Biofeedback sensors: Thought Technologies Pro COmp+, UL listing, medical certification (maybe we can use Arduino GSR just for demoing in lab etc.?) https://store.empatica.com/products/e4-wristband?variant=945527715 -> They have an academic discount, it is wristband so easy to carry around for VMW demos, and an API which means that we can get to program this for our own applications. (Steve DiPaola mentions that he uses this device explicitly in all of his pitches; esp. when you do namedropping such as "NASA, Stanford uses that" that gives an impression like you are on the same page with them) http://thoughttechnology.com/index.php/procomp-to-procomp-infiniti-upgrade-package.html Update option for our existing sensor, not sure what will it bring

Provide Dr.G PC specs to be bought for demo/development

Getting Oculus & VIVE work on Alienware

Alienware source control setup: SVN or Mercurial (we might need 1-2-4TB SSD hard drive, gotta ask Larry whether he can assemble?)

Migrating existing projects to source control (we need a 4TB USB drive to store files related to source control and all existing revisions)

SPIE conf. editing/travel grant & visa applicationsMAKE CALEDNAR OF DEADLINES RE; CONFERENCE, add 1 day to see Jordan

Adding exercises to existing neck game prototype (24-25th of Oct.)

Creating blog page for HECHT foundation project

Updating the credentials and hang on desk (the template is missing??)

Burnaby - Document studies: Business cards - 68.75$ per 250 units - whom to exclude?

Admin&guest accounts on PCs

Archival of video coverage

Audio specs & technical explanations for Sonic Cradle

Dr.Gromala

SIGGRAPH Art Paper

GRADS: FRIDAY: DISSERTATION: RESEARCH QUESTION/how to define area

GRADS: graphic design 101

CONTACT Katherine

PAIN & VR website

PAINLAB website : transfer from Danny Yan (done) to Onur (in-progress)

Follow-up w/Walter JANUARY 10, 2017

Ensure undergrads video reshot & re-edited by Sungmin gets uploaded: FOLLOW UP & CITE ON BLOG & WEBSITE

INNOVATION HEALTH: follow up re: VR&Pain subcategory for IH Conf2017

WRITING: COMP.AESTH. ARTICLE

WRITING: PAIN JOURNAL ARTICLE re: journalist met @ USC

Appt. SFU VP RESEARCH JJ

Appt. SFU FUNDRAISER: INSTITUTE

Appt. SFU FUNDRAISER: GRAD SCHOLARSHIP: meet w/Ctherine at McQ-H

$$$ Submit Reimbursement to USC

$$$ Prof.Dev. Reimbursement

ADD TO BLOGSITE: CeBIT

ADD TO BLOGSITE: MMVR

ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016 DUE: JAN.13

CV: find 2014, update to 2017

EQUIPMENT TO GET: . . . PC parallel specs to Deepstream VR's rec.

. . . SpeedTree

. . . VIVE3 (x2)

BUDGET: spring budgets:

BUDGET: call UBC HR: Joyce Wu

BUDGET: PDR 2016: follow up

BUDGET: PDR 2017

VIDEO: meet w/Sungmin for short video snippets per grad student

BLOG BOOTH: find someone, anyone to make it happen

SPIE: Paper: final edit: SP, XT

SPIE: Ask Sungmin to troll SPIE's webiste & upload photos from conference onto removeable HD

SPIE: Exhibit 2015: add to CV/annual reports

SPIE: Pain Lab postcard & printing

VR&PAIN: "my nightmare" postcard design & printing

MEDUSA: Paper: FIND & ADD TO CV

Letters of recommendation

INFO MISSING IN ACTION:

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PROCEDURES

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JOURNAL Papers

Here are three journals we should aim for related to interactive art:

Leonardo, MIT Press, www.leonardo.info/leoinfo.html

NOTE: this one also has 2 page short papers for CHI-like grad students. Carefully read what kinds of papers they accept.

Technoetic Arts (interactive art + consciousness, senses), Intellect (UK) www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2819/?utm_source=Visual+Arts+newsletter+March&utm_campaign=VANewsMarch&utm_medium=email

Example articles:

. . . Digital hustling: ICT practices of hip hop artists in Grahamstown

. . . This is not an app, this is not an artwork: Exploring mobile selfie-posting software

. . . Disrupters, This is Disrupter X: Mashing up the archive

. . . ‘The Stone Sky’: Dwelling and habitation in other worlds

. . . Are we our fictions?: The narrative boundaries of self

. . . Excavating the ghost from the meat-covered skeleton: An aesthetic engagement with technologically-mediated medical imagery

Digital Creativity, Routledge (UK) www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/digc;jsessionid=7avbakkcb1oos.alice

Example articles (this was special issue re: museums)

Between control and creativity: challenging co-creation and social media use in a museum context

Fictional institutions and institutional frictions: creative approaches to open GLAMs

Designing infrastructures for creative engagement

Towards children's creative museum engagement and collaborative sense-making

Participatory heritage innovation: designing dialogic sites of engagement

Empathic negotiations through material culture: co-designing and making digital exhibits

International Journal of Arts and Technology, Inderscience http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJART Example articles:

. . . Supporting intense physical interaction in technology-enhanced therapeutic play

. . . Re-sensitising the body: interactive art and the Feldenkrais method.

. . . Dance interaction with physical model visuals based on movement qualities.

. . . Balancing justice: comparing whole body and controller-based interaction for an abstract domain

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Here are other journals; the ones I am familiar with are in italics.

interactive art

Convergence (1) more art than design, art & the humanities/theory

Digital Creativity (2)

International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (1)

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (1)

Design (mostly art school and DIS-related, or art-related design & Humanities)

Design Creativity and Innovation

Design Issues

Design Journal

Design Methods

Design Research Quarterly (2)

Design Studies (2)

Design and Culture (1)

Journal of Design Research

International Journal of Design (2)

International Journal of Design Sciences & Technology (1)

HCI

Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Human–Computer Interaction

Human Centered Design (not in BFI)

Evaluating User Experience in Games

Human computer interaction

Qualitative Research

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies

Journal of Mobile Multimedia

Journal of Usabiity Studies (JUS)

The Senses and Society (not in BFI)

Games and Culture (2)

Hard core cultural studies + interactive art

New Media & Society (2)

Communication for Development and Social Change (1)

Transformations (1)

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[Health & Pain Journals]

Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)

Impact Factor: 3.4

http://jmirpublications.com/

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)

Impact Factor: 3.504

http://jamia.oxfordjournals.org/

PAIN

Impact Factor: 2.096

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pain

The Journal of Pain

Impact Factor: 4.01

http://www.jpain.org/

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CONFERENCES

Note: Because SIAT researchers cross disciplinary boundaries, there are a huge number of conferences one might consider.

The important factor to keep in mind is that SIAT cannot fund travel to a huge # of conferences.

The ones listed here are on SIAT's list. The ones indicated in bold are ones SIAT researchers frequent OR are targets for our lab.

If you'd like to present at a conference not listed here, you can -- just talk to Dr. Gromala about the strategy to do so.

ACII Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction

ACM Conference on Creativity

Audio Mostly

ACM Multimedia

ARS Electronica

BodyNets Conference on Body Area Networks

CHI Human Factors in Computing Systems

Create Interaction Design Conference

CyberPsychology

DIS Designing Interctive Systems (often held w/or before CHI)

EVOMUSART (music)

HAID Haptic and Audio Interaction Design

Interact

International Conference on Enactive Interfaces

ICMC International Computer Music Conference

ICMI International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces

ICMPC International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition

IDC Interaction Design and Children

INTERCHI

ISEA International Symposium for Electronic Arts

ISWC International Symposium on Wearable Computers

IUI International conference on intelligent user interfaces

IxDA (more industry-related)

MOCO

MMVR Medicine Meets VR

NIME New Interfaces for Musical Expression

nordes nordic design and research conference

NordiCHI Nordic conference on human-computer interaction

Pervasive

Pervasive Health

ICSCMS International Conference on Social Computing, Modeling and Simulation

UbiComp International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

UMAP User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

SIGGRAPH

TEI Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction

UIST Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (more CS, but they always have at least 1 crazy artwork)

VAST (visual analytics)

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TRAVEL INFORMATION: READ & REREAD THIS ! ! !

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BEFORE THE CONFERENCE:

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AS SOON AS YOUR PAPER/EXHIBIT/DEMO IS ACCEPTED, SEE DGr to spprove of travel. THEN, APPLY FOR TRAVEL FUNDING ASAP.

NOTE: Your safety comes first, so when in doubt, choose the safer route, the closer hotel, share taxis w/ppl you know, beware Air bnb's, etc.

1. Please READ SIAT’s travel info doc.

2. Before you do anything else, develop a budget. See SFU’s travel claim site for prices.

Use this for an estimate if you are unsure:

Airfare $350. N.America

Hotel $100./night if poss.

Ground transport: $50.

Registration: $400. (student rate)

(Try to keep it as near to $1,000. as possible for U.S./CAN)

The more “matching funds” you can find, the more likely you are to get more $. Examples of “matching”: amt. DGr contributes, registration fee waiver, sharing hotel rooms, sharing taxis, etc.

BE SURE YOU LIST CAN$ or U.S.$ (www.oanda.com, look near bottom of page for calculator)

BE SURE YOU ATTACH the conf. paper acceptance letter + reviews

See me if you have a hard time getting the reviews. SPIE, for example, doesn’t provide reviews.

3. Apply for travel from as many places as you can find: (also, if you have more than one paper, you can get more $; includes a paper + workshop, panel, poster, demo, exhibit, or screening (or rarely: work at a SIAT booth)

a) SIAT: $1000. or $500.

If you are 1st or 2cd author (or if you have 2 or more presentations*), you can get up to $1,000.

If you are not 1st or 2cd author, you can get up to $500.

b) FCAT $350.?

c) SFU Grad Student Org. (whatever it's called) $200.

NOTE: Even tho their website has deadlines listed, word on the street is that they will even entertain reimbursements after the fact because they have more funding than applicants?

I NEED TO MATCH whatever SIAT gives you.

I NEED TO SIGN EACH APPLICATION FORM &

I NEED TO WRITE A JUSTIFICATION FOR THE SIAT APPLICATION.

Never ask for me (or anyone) to sign an application that is not filled in — it’s illegal for me (or others) to do so.

Typically, all of this combined doesn’t cover all of your expenses.

When I have funding, I try to cover as much as I can, depending. For example, when there is a clear match between the conference paper and my NSERC, it’s easy.

Because of the exchange rate, and because my NSERC $ doesn’t arrive until April 1,

please take advantage of all early bird registration opportunities.

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WAYS TO SAVE $

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SAVE ALL OF YOUR RECEIPTS -- SFU WON'T REIMBURSE W/OUT THEM. Includes everything: airplane ticket stubs, parking, etc.

1. Share hotel rooms.

2. Share taxi cabs.

3. Share meals (Except in California, and often even there, portions are HUGE). • It is common for students or people who are in dates to order an entree w/2 plates — that is, they split an entree. A few restaurants may want to charge a little for that, but all you have to do is to say you are a poor student, and they won’t.)

• Most hotel rooms have mini-refrigerators — it’s too expensive to buy food or drinks from those, but everyone uses them for leftovers. Some hotels provide “continental breakfast” -- pastries, fruit, juices, coffee/tea. I actually bring my own breakfast, nuts, rice crackers — stuff you can bring on the plane (anything that is sealed) because it saves a lot in food costs. Alternatively, if you split a breakfast in a hotel with someone, you get so much food that you may not need lunch.

4. Ask if there are any discounts at every step.

• STUDENT DISCOUNTS are everywhere — you just have to remember to ask & show them your card.

Hotels, museums, movies, tourist things, tours, things people sell, buses, etc.

• MEMBERS OF BCAA can get 10-20% off car rentals, and some hotels.

• CAR RENTALS:

- If you are male and under 25, it will be pricey. To save $, figure out who the least expensive main driver will be & add a 2nd driver.

- Insurance. Car rental companies make a killing on extras like insurance. It’s a gamble tho because if you don’t have insurance and something happens, it can be very expensive. Best bet: see if your credit card covers rental car insurance (many do) or join BCAA before you go.

- Prices can differ dramatically if you rent a car when you make plane reservations, or if you rent it from and return it to the airport (vs. renting it downtown).

5. Fly into smaller airports Airfare AND car rentals can often be cheaper at smaller airports.

• Check out where your conference is located, then

• where you are staying, then the airports.

If you are staying near one of the smaller airports, it’s worth it to check out prices for airfare & car rentals.

Bay Area: SFO (San Francisco’s), San Jose

LA: LAX: is SW of downtown (30 mins., w/out traffic).

Orange County: is South (if SIGGRAPH is in Anaheim; 60mins. or more to downtown w/out traffic).

John Wayne: is near Silver Lake, where many young “creatives” live. If you are staying w/someone in Silver Lake or Pasadena, it’s a good option.

Sometimes it is worth flying out of Bellingham (just over the border) — just be sure to check the exchange rate.

Sometimes it is worth flying out of Seattle, esp. for flights to Chicago, certain parts of Asia or S.America.

6. Take flights that have 1 stop. They are always cheaper.

7. Always keep looking for cheap flights, but don’t depend on just one online app.

WestJet is almost always the cheapest for flights in the “Cascadia Corridor” (Vancouver to SF or LA), but they don’t always appear on other online sites.

When you see an extraordinarily cheap air fare, GRAB IT IMMEDIATELY.

If it seems too good to be true, you can bet people will snap it up in 24 hours or less.

8. Ask to have the conference registration fee waived, esp. for games conferences.

Because my first academic lifetime was in the Arts — an area that never has funding — I learned early how to travel inexpensively and how to get discounts.

For example, conference organizers will often waive registration fees if you ask; you have a 50% chance of getting your registration fee waived OR reduced. Chances are better if you give them good reasons, such as:

• you are really excited about the conference because ______

• you’re a grad student and can get SOME funding, but not enough

• it’s important for your future (esp. if you aren't from N.America)

• medical or games conference registration fees are much higher than your (SIAT) program allows

• we (SIAT or Pain Lab) have multiple papers accepted, but there’s only funding for one person to go

• you’d be happy to do something in return (a demo is easiest)

ACM conferences like CHI & SIGGRAPH won’t waive fees unless you or I know the conference or venue chairs & have a reason.

They are FAR MORE LIKELY TO SAY YES TO YOU than to me, if I asked on your behalf. Most people remember how hard it was to be a grad student.

9. FIND Special Funding w/DGr: there are often special pots of funding for travel abroad, travel to receive nifty prizes, competitions or other honorary kind of travel.

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NOTES ON REGIONS

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The Bay Area

San Francisco is one of the few American cities where you don’t need a car. However, tho it is nearby, the Silicon Valley is not San Francisco — it is a car-based area. In the Bay Area (San Francisco, San Jose, Berkeley): stay as near to the conference venue as possible. The commute from SF to SJ isn’t feasible for a conference in most cases.

If you have family, colleagues or friends who will let you stay with them, be sure to calculate the hotel savings vs. the cost of transport. If their place is near mass transit (BART), no problem; otherwise, you’ll need a car.

It is often cheaper to rent a car + pay for gas + convention centre parking than to pay for hotel.

Los Angeles

If you stay downtown, you won’t need a car. Often, someone else you know who is at the conference (esp. SIGGRAPH) WILL have a car, and are much more likely to take you to see the sights than you think. There are also busses that will take you to the ocean or Hollywood — just ask the hotel concierge because they often can get you a discount. (They probably also get a little payback if they talk you into some other transport option, but all you have to do is to say no to those.)

Must see as part of your grad education: the Museum of Jurassic Technology, in Santa Monica (closed on Mondays).

Vancouver

If you attend a conference in Vancouver, I will help you get registration fees reimbursed.

You are expected to use your student travel pass for transportation UNLESS you need to drive & park downtown for demo purposes.

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AFTER THE CONFERENCE

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1. File your reimbursement claim as soon as possible.

2. Make a photocopy of your claim form AND ESP. your receipts.

3. Turn it in as soon as possible.

• • • ppl you vaguely knew when they were at SIAT are way friendlier once they are in industry — instant network

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