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Pain Lab RA Meetings, Fall 2014: Wednesdays, 3-4p.m. Alternate day & time: Thursdays 2:00pm <DynamicPageList> mode = unordered category = Meetings </DynamicPageList>

RA list of tasks: the dead simple list for DGr

NOTE: you MUST update & bring a print out of this to every weekly meeting or meetings won't happen

MARK NAZEMI

KEEPER OF SOUND/MUSIC MF sound files, background music

Scoliosis waiting for Focus Group date

MF sound files:get feedback from DGr & GR done; updated added 5 sounds; met w/GR to listen in the MF env.(exp.changes, wind fluctuations too freq.; too much panning, flying sausages; figure out threshold for crisp upper level sounds)

Blogsite: add info re: VC wins (will end up on the new website soon)

XIN TONG

[updated May 4 by Xin]

[Lab Responsibility]

(1) KEEPER OF CONFERENCE EMAILS May conference list sent

(2) KEEPER OF ELECTRONICS/CFI ORDER

(3) CFI new equipment

      w/Lisa, check-in equipment when it arrives; make a list of any boxes we need to get to house new devices IF they do not come with one;  
      w/Ashfaq, transfer info sheet [DONE]; 
      w/Lisa & Ashfaq: test tagging one device & its associated parts; would color coding (w/electrical tape or other ideas) help (just for freq. used, expensive or complicated devices)?

[Projects Progress]

(1) SCOLIOSIS Demos on Dec 16th. ADD the 2 DEMOS TO YOUR CV.DGr Next? I SENT DR.L UPDATES Jan.28, so we're waiting to schedule the Focus Group. Need to meet to discuss just-in-case options.DGr New project idea: cardboard HMD & mobile VR? Order some cardboard HMD, and test with our Game developed for VR Jam?

(2) THESIS - FitPet - discuss recruit participants info Working on the 2D game. Hopefully, user study scheduled between May 15 to July 1st.

(3) Affective Cloud INSTALLATION prepare materials.

[Papers & Publication Schedule]

(1) HMD VMW Study Presence? Need Dimple, and DGr Review before submission. Will send this Fri.

(2) CHI Play Submitted

(3) Book Chapter accepted (VR & pain management), need DGr suggestion about authors and content. Deadline for final full chapter submission: July 30. http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1686

(4) SIGGRAPH Late Poster Need DGr feedback about J's design. Deadline May 6.

(5) Affect & Game (ACII) Submitted.

(6) CSCW FitPet Design Paper???, deadline May 22.

[Research Lit Review]

(1) BIBS/Embodiment Cognition Literature Review with DGr need to schedule a date.

DIMPLE GUPTA

[updated April 15 by Dimple]

Two papers in the pipeline - DGr feedback required (class papers on interaction design (narrative), media studies (insomnia)

VR Study - Qualitative aspect - Main Themes - email

CPRI Board Formation Tips/ Notes (Non profit lit review)

CPRI: Propose Event with distinguished speaker (Year 2015-16)

CPRI: Reschedule 3 hour meeting set on calendar for Steering Committee/Board discussion

TAship Summer/Thesis Topics/ Thesis Committee (Kate Meeting) - E-mail Joyce Zotero: Attended Certificate Program - share resources on Zotero

Pearson Training Series: May Scheduling (6th or 13th or 20th) - Cheryl and Mahsoo

Pain BC Education Committee Meeting Wed, May 13, 2015: 4:30pm-6:00pm at RCH (in-person attendance)

MAHSOO SALIMI

[updated April 15 by Mahsoo]

KEEPER OF BIOSUPPLIES get info on how to order biosupplies w/university discount from Biology Dept.

KEEPER OF THE SUPPLIES help DGr get the boards together, read up on non-profits

SCOLIOSIS VIDEO GAME ABSTRACT VERSIONS 3D model, early Unity version is done.

Paper submission In progress:

a) Evolutionary Form Generator May 07. ACADIA 2015, Computational Ecologies

b) Design Modelling Symposium , April 20. Design of Behaviour, Modelling and Design of Information

c) ICCC 2015 Computational Creativity?

ASHFAQ AMIN

[updated: Feb 25]

KEEPER OF EQUIPMENT TAGS

KEEPER OF SLIDE GRID/DESIGN

KEEPER OF ACCESSIBLE HMDs

Write Ethics doc.

"done" Summary of Dr Williamson papers.

"....ongoing" Presentation on pain lab students' research interest.

done Reading Group get info from Dimple; create slides for assigned chapter.

done Research Gate upload 2014 peer-reviewed papers as per DGr; make sure they are the final versions from publishers (have copyright info on bottom corner) show DGr Google Scholar lists to confirm

"ongoing" Oculus data streaming - talk to Xin How frequently do we get the data. when HDM put on how does that change?

Proprioception Project get papers that Dr. Williamson sent (re: Lorimar Moseley's work & others) from Dimple; quickly read/scan over each article, then highlight info we will need for study; add each to zotero if they are not already there;

done figure out where slides should live in zotero (if they can)

"excel sheet ongoing" CFI new equipment w/Xin & Lisa, test tagging one device & its associated parts; ask Lisa to get a box of sticky labels that an be sued in laserwriter (see if they make the exact size of the bar-code tags) equipment listing.

"done" DGr: bring in plastic version of Cardboard

CHERYL YU

KEEPER OF MF SKETCHES

MOBIUS FLOE modify neuron trees for Ari

MOBIUS FLOE print out all documents for MFBOOK

MOBIUS FLOE analyze MF project info for new website, discuss w/DGr

CPRI LOGO ANIMATION w/JANA

GRAND annual report:done

URGENT SPIE VR DEMO done

JEEWON LEE

GRAND annual report: done

BLOG STORY:done

MEDUSA:disemboweled motors, ISEA or Leonardo prior art (hair, biomimetic SIGGRAPHlizard), [found references: soft robotics] PICK UP FROM BLAINE muscle wire, silicon

BOOK CHAPTER ITALIAN GUY: DEADLINE Nov.30 (DGr: find: sensorial/embodied cognition)

IxDA DEADLINE Nov.21 first call

GROMALA'S WEATHER Xin will arrange photoshoot

JULIAN GIORDANO

KEEPER OF VIDEO Identify 5 videos, upload to YouTube site

VIDEO: finish video for CHI

VIDEO: shoot video at Dr. Squire's

VIDEO: shoot DGr's cloud computing video

PAIN STUDIES LAB LOGO: draw by hand using napkin method

GRAND annual report:done

JEREMY MAMISAO

KEEPER OF PHOTOS

GRAND annual report:enter info for Phases 1 & 2 WED.Oct.29 DONE

Pain Studies Lab photos 2014: choose best of; send to DGr & Chao; back-up on removable hard drive (in viz. file cabinet, upper left)

Pain Studies Lab logo: send sizes, b on w, w on b

Pain Studies Lab design template for posters:

Set up mike in back of pop filter; set up lighting, camera, tripod in changing room: (need lighting kit & tripod)

GILLIAN RAMSAY

KEEPER OF PAIN STUDIES LAB SWAG

Mobius Floe Phase 2 1.)Looked into toon shaders and what we can use to make mf look stylized. Did not buy any shaders. 2.)neuron Neuron Trees 3.)whale

Mobius Floe Phase 1 need to meet with cheryl/Ari to discuss what assets we would be creating Look at mf and figure out what sounds we can get to mark.

Modelling for MF yeti (1 1/2 inches tall) rocks

Extreme Closeups Find a way of changing the "lens" of the camera, talk to Chris

Website Sound Walk Gallery Waiting for the pics from Mark. three across grid

Pain Lab printed matter & swag keep looking for ideas and bring ideas in, hang them on side of your desk, etc.

Brain icon on hold pls collect more if you see any

CHAPTER 3 SLIDES Sent to Dimple. It is not designed well, haven't redone yet.

We will refer to these and use them again soon, so make sure EVERYTHING Is spelled correctly, designed well, etc.

Pain Lab business card as soon as we get CIHR $ transferred

Display WindowGillian, pls b careful w/whatever you displace from current exhibit; find homes for whatever; be careful that all parts of a device like the theramin are taped together, but not in a way that mars the surface of the wood, etc. NOTE TO ALL: the lids of the old Rx jars are fragile and just sit on the top, so don't grab the jars there, and don't expect the lids will stay there when you move the whole thing. I've already broken some. Pls glue back together when you see it. Use care and craft. Pls send DGr & XT photos!

EMRE:

Mobius Floe

VMWmobile app of VMW (MF: trees don't have opacity mapping so shadows don't work well

Blog Story write short blog story, find photo, send to SGr for edits, upload to blogsite

DANNY YAN:

Pain Studies Lab website:upload top level

Dr.Gromala

EQUIPMENT ORDERED: iPad for PainLab, iPad for Dr.Squire, back up disks for each HMD/VR set-up, contact Apple rep for CFI

EQUIPMENT TO GET: suitcase for computer for studies, Apple order

EQUIPMENT TO GET: make sure photo order w/B&H has been submitted to CFI

EQUIPMENT TO GET: Cancel order of 10: DONE, Order Oculus Rift DK2 (x2)

WEBSITE: REVISIT w/J&J: DONE

WEBSITE: send edits to Danny

BUDGET: NSERC: DONE

BUDGET: assign payment for summer: DONE

BUDGET: GET REIMBURSEMENTS FOR GRAND:

BUDGET: GET REIMBURSEMENT FOR BACK UP DISKS

BUDGET: SUBMIT REIMBURSEMENTS FOR SPIE

BUDGET: SUMBIT REIMBURSEMENTS FOR GOOGLE GLASS1, GOOGLE GLASS 2

PHOTOS: meet w/J&J: SIATVR

VIDEO: reshoot faculty video w/J&J

PHOTOBOOTH: have J&J set up

SPIE: Paper: final edit DONE

SPIE: Upload photos from conference on removeable HD

SPIE: Exhibit: add to CV/annual reports

SPIE: collect good swag examples for Gillian, Emre, Ashfaq (esp. VR) DONE (there weren't any!)

SPIE: MTG.: Ari, Howard, Jul, Mary, Lyn, Shridhar, Jana DONE (individual mtgs.)

SF OFFICE: organize, what do we need, mail, electrical, utilities, desks, back-ups DONE

SF OFFICE: design announcement

MEDUSA: Paper: final edit DONE

ALGAE PAPER: final edit

Letters of recommendation

Interview grad candidates via Skype DONE

Procedures

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Papers

<DynamicPageList> mode = unordered category = Papers </DynamicPageList> 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)

Research

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CONFERENCES

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ACII Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction

ACM Conference on Creativity

Ambience

Audio Mostly

ACM Multimedia

ARS Electronica

BodyNets Conference on Body Area Networks

CHI Human Factors in Computing Systems

Create Interaction Design Conference

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)

MobileCHI

NIME New Interfaces for Musical Expression

nordes nordic design and research conference

NordiCHI Nordic conference on human-computer interaction

Pervasive

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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MMVR Medicine Meets VR

CyberPsychology

Annotated Bibliographies

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