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Pain Lab RA Meetings, Fall 2016: Thursdays, 3-4p.m.+

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

CONFERENCES

This is our list of upcoming conferences we're attending:

1. PainWEEK 2016 Five (5) posters; AA & FM attended September 6–10, Las Vegas

ASHFAQ & FREDERICO: PLEASE ADD THE CITATIONS FOR EACH POSTER SO AUTHORS CAN ADD IT TO THEIR CVs & I CAN ADD IT TO THE LAB'S ANNUAL REPORTS.

~~ASHFAQ & FREDERICO: PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE WRITTEN, EDITED & UPLOADED A BLOG POST PER CONFERENCE (one in this case unless you see fit to do more than one.~~

• poster 1: Weina Jin, Amber Choo, Diane Gromala, Chris Shaw, Ashfaq Mahmood Amin, (2016). A Virtual Reality Game for Chronic Pain Management: A Randomized, Controlled Clinical Study. Peer-reviewed poster exhibited at PainWEEK, Las Vegas, NV, USA. September 7 & 8, 2016.

• poster 2: Frederico Machuca, Weina Jin, Diane Gromala, (2016). Serious Game for Serious Disease: Diminishing Stigma of Depression via Game Experience. Peer-reviewed poster exhibited at PainWEEK, Las Vegas, NV, USA. September 7 & 8, 2016.

• poster 3: Weina Jin, Servet Ulaş, Xin Tong, Frederico Machuca, Prof. Diane Gromala, Prof. Chris Shaw, (2016). Chronic pain: gaining understanding and empathy through an interactive system. Peer-reviewed poster exhibited at PainWEEK, Las Vegas, NV, USA. September 7 & 8, 2016.

• poster 4: Author list (exactly as it appears in the program), (year). Title in italics. Peer-reviewed poster exhibited at PainWEEK, Las Vegas, NV, USA. September 7 & 8, 2016.

• poster 5: Author list (exactly as it appears in the program), (year). Title in italics. Peer-reviewed poster exhibited at PainWEEK, Las Vegas, NV, USA. September 7 & 8, 2016.

2. VR+Pain Los Angeles, Sept.19, Biltmore Hotel, DGr

XIN & WEINA: PLEASE ADD HERE THE CITATION I SENT YOU SO I CAN ADD IT TO THE LAB'S ANNUAL REPORTS.

Diane Gromala

Invited talk: "Chronic Pain & the Modulation of Self in VR"

VR & Pain

Los Angeles,

September 19, 2016

Dr. Gromala was the only researcher whose VR work focuses on chronic pain. Seventeen of the leading researchers that established this new field were invited to speak at this inaugural conference, funded by the non-profit May Day Foundation.

XIN OR WEINA: PLEASE MAKE SURE TO REMIND ME TO SEND YOU INFO FOR THE BLOG POST FOR THIS; UPLOAD IT.

DGr: SHOW SLIDES TO LAB RAs.

DGr: SEND PHOTOS TO WEINA.

Need to bring: (refer to the long email list I sent)

• Short videos: VMW (SU), MF (SU), LostSpirit (XT), AS IF (XT,WJ or SU), Like Mind (WJ), Farmooo (HL,JN)

• PainLab swag (DGr)

3. IASP CONFERENCE/WORLD CONGRESS ON PAIN posters sent & accepted; DGr & CS will attend September 23–Oct.2

XIN & WEINA: PLEASE ADD HERE THE CITATIONS FOR EACH POSTER SO WE CAN ADD IT TO CVs & THE LAB'S ANNUAL REPORTS.

~~XIN & WEINA: PLEASE MAKE SURE WE HAVE A BLOG POST FOR EACH POSTER.~~

• poster 48 (2 paradigms): Xin Tong, Diane Gromala, Weina Jin, Pam Squire, (2016). Two Paradigms of Designing Virtual Reality for Chronic Pain Patients: Pain Self-Modulation vs. Pain Distraction. Peer-reviewed poster exhibited at the International Association for the Study of Pain's (IASP's) 16th World Congress on Pain, the largest international scientific pain conference, Yokohama, Japan. September 27 & 30, 2016.

• poster 60 (AS IF): Weina Jin, Servet Ulas, Xin Tong, Dr. Diane Gromala, Dr. Chris Shaw, (2016). Seeing is Believing: an Embodied Empathy Game that Visualizes the Invisible Suffering of Chronic Pain. Peer-reviewed poster exhibited at International Association for the Study of Pain's (IASP's) 16th World Congress on Pain, the largest international scientific pain conference, Yokohama, Japan. September 27 & 30, 2016.

Need to bring: (refer to the email w/the long list sent several weeks prior to departure)

• VR DEMOS: VMW, MF/Cool! (XT)

• VR DEMO EQUIPMENT: Alienware machine, keyboard, mouse, power bar, display (or pico projector): (XT)

• Short videos: VMW (SU), MF (SU), LostSpirit (XT), AS IF (XT,WJ or SU), Like Mind (WJ), Farmooo (HL,JN)

• Pain Lab Postcards (DGr)

• PainLab swag (DGr)

UPCOMING CONFERENCES we've submitted something to w/sites, dates, who's in charge of each.

4. SPIE VR 2016 SF, paper submitted by XT.

XIN: PLS ADD EXACT DATE OF PRESENTATION & URL

XIN: PLEASE ADD HERE THE CITATION FOR THE PEER-REVIEWED TALK SO WE CAN ADD IT TO CVs & THE LAB'S ANNUAL REPORTS.

UPCOMING CONFERENCES we need to submit something to w/sites, dates, who's in charge of each.

5. CHI 2017 DEADLINE: Sept.20? (conference to be held Denver, May 6-11) XIN?WEINA?SERVET? [submitted]

6. IHI poster DEADLINE: Oct. 15 (conference to be held Orlando, FL, Dec.4-7, 2016)

7. CSCW 2017 Interactive Posters, Workshops, Panels, Doctoral Colloq., Demos: Everyone DEADLINE: Nov.4, (conference to be held Feb.25–Mar.1,2017, Portland)

8. ACM CC2017 Papers, pictorials, artworks, and workshops DEADLINE: Jan 6, 2017. Posters, technology demos, and graduate student symposium DEADLINE: March 10, 2017.

CONFERENCES WE'VE RECENTLY ATTENDED BUT HAVE NOT YET FINISHED (w/BLOG POSTS, CITATIONS, HANGING POSTERS IN THE LAB, COPYING PAPERS & PUTTING THEM ON OUR MAGAZINE/PUBS RACK NEAR AUTOMATIC DOOR TO LAB). BE SURE YOU'VE ADDED THIS INFO TO YOUR CV ASAP.

8. ~~CeBIT Hanover, March, Gromala/Shaw~~

WEINA: PLEASE ADD HERE THE CITATION FOR MY INVITED KEYNOTE ADDRESS SO WE CAN ADD IT TO CVs & THE LAB'S ANNUAL REPORTS. Make sure it has a sentence or phrase that describes how large it is (Europe's largest IT conference, with annual attendance numbers approximately 400,000).

Diane Gromala/ Chris Shaw

“Pain control and Management with Virtual Reality”

Invited Keynote Talk at CeBIT’s Serious Games event. CeBIT (Centrum der Büroautomation und Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation", German for "Centre of Office Automation and Information Technology and Telecommunication") 17 Mar. 2016.

CeBIT is Europe's largest IT conference; attendance was estimated to be approximately 400,000 conference-goers.

9. MMVR/NextMED LA(downtown), April 7-9,WEINA Ash

WEINA: PLEASE ADD HERE THE CITATION FROM LAST YEAR HERE SO WE CAN ADD IT TO CVs & THE LAB'S ANNUAL REPORTS.

W. Jin, A. Choo, D. Gromala, C. Shaw, P. Squire, “A Virtual Reality Game for Chronic PainManagement: a Randomized, Controlled Clinical Study,”22nd Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, Los Angeles, California, April 7-9, 2016.

10. CHI 2016 STUDENT GAME COMPETITION San Jose, May 7-12 XIN Weina+Servet

WEINA: PLEASE ADD THE CITATION HERE SO WE CAN ADD IT TO CVs & THE LAB'S ANNUAL REPORTS. Make sure it has a sentence or phrase that describes its scope, or use a quote from CHI's website & cite it.

W. Jin, X. Tong, S. Ulas, “AS IF: A Game As an Empathy Tool for Experiencing the ActivityLimitations of Chronic Pain Patients,”Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Ab-stracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM (2016), 172–175.CHI 2016, San Jose,CA, USA, May 7-12, 2016.

Game earned finalists in the CHI Student Game Competition. The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) series of academic conferences is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of human–computer interaction and is one of the top ranked conferences in computer science.

11. CPS (Canadian Pain Society) Vancouver, May 23-24 WEINA Xin -------- neuroscience, research methods, vocabulary

WEINA & XIN: PLEASE ADD HERE THE CITATIONS FOR EACH POSTER SO WE CAN ADD IT TO CVs & THE LAB'S ANNUAL REPORTS.

WEINA & XIN: PLEASE MAKE SURE THE BLOG POST IS WRITTEN, EDITED & UPLOADED.

W. Jin, S. Ulaş, D. Gromala, C. Shaw, “Chronic Pain: Gaining Understanding and Empathythrough an Interactive System,”Canadian Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting (CPS 2016), Vancouver, May 23–24, 2016.

12. HCII Toronto, July 17-22 7-12 ASH -------- Cardboard vs. OR HMD comparison + Xin's FitPet game design

ASH: PLEASE ADD HERE THE CITATIONS FOR EACH SO WE CAN ADD IT TO CVs & THE LAB'S ANNUAL REPORTS.

ASH: 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.

ASH: PLEASE MAKE SURE THE BLOG POST IS WRITTEN, EDITED & UPLOADED.

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.

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

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.

'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==

MARK NAZEMI

KEEPER OF SOUND/MUSIC MF sound files, background music

MF sound files: Background sound for MF needed.

XIN TONG

[updated Oct 2016 by Xin]

[RA]

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

[RA, in progress]

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

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

  2. Funded project: MF, polishment and release timeframe [in progress]

  3. Funded project: LS(body image body schema), polishment and release timeframe [in progress]
  
  4. Start Dr.G's personal blogsite.

[paper submission]

  5. SPIE w/Serkan, revision 

  6. IHI posters accepted

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

  9. FitViz study (focus group interview) with Ankit, ethics & study design. [in progress]

  10. HCII/CSCW Pokemon study (w/Ankit)

  11. Journal, HMD comparison ??

[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]

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

____________________________________________________________________________________________

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

WEINA JIN

[updated Oct 24 by Weina]

KEEPER OF

HEALTH CFP emails & CP/IASP news

CFP Deadline Calendar https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=cuo031pb4f7toqh069bcpkoleo%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Vancouver

lab video production

[RA]

NCE-GRAND Annual Renewal Due - Oct. 28
VR & Pain blog post [done]
NIH proposal [due]
Ethics. Esp. re: Farmooo
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
IHI poster, finished design, added study data. Due Oct 15
FitViz Ads
VMW longitudinal study design + ethics
Farmoo Focus Group + support
neck pain study design
focus group
depression game study design, get ethics approval, and conduct RCT study
• video& images & poster to DGr re: depression game
swag project card printing - LikeMind depression game(image for PAIN cover)
podcast

[PUBLICATIONS]

CHI paper [done]
IASP poster [done]
chronic pain & VR, review / meta-analysis in journal.
identify one article we can “translate” into a health research journal article.

[VMW longitudinal study]

study proposal & ethics

Study Proposal

version1.0 July 11

Consent Form
Questionnaires
Suppliments

clinicaltrials.gov register

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)

Documents needed for submission (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/manage-recs/how-register)

Study Proposal

ClinicalTrials.gov protocol review criteria https://prsinfo.clinicaltrials.gov/ProtocolDetailedReviewItems.pdf

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

SERVET ULAS

IN DEVELOPMENT

DSH

Complete mobile prototype
Moving prototype to Unreal, 1 week
E-mail and liaise with Dr. Eisen, director of SFU counseling services for collab. End of Oct, early Nov. - Still on track

On Rails Env. for anxiety management

abstract*

Neck Study

provide assets
help ethics proposal

PUBLICATIONS

MAPS2017

Abstract deadline: Nov 1

On Rails Env.
Anxiety Management w/VR poster/talk implications -> MAPS' context

Computers in Human Behaviour

DSH -> Role-taking & VR paper

Serious Games Journal (UK)

DSH -> Role-taking & VR paper

CHI Play

REMINDERS

Danny on Tuesday for website transfer

JULIAN GIORDANO

KEEPER OF VIDEO Identify 5 videos, upload to YouTube site

JEREMY MAMISAO

KEEPER OF PHOTOS

Pain Studies Lab logo: send sizes, b on w, w on b; Pain Studies Lab design template for posters:

GILLIAN RAMSAY

GILLIAN: [updated Sept 18]

KEEPER OF PAIN STUDIES LAB SWAG, ARI LIAISON

Ethics

Make Website

[Swag]

look into coaster with Xin

[Mobius Floe]

Make Map DONE print it out (level 3)

MF pictures for website Download onto DGr's removeable HD

Sound Walk pictures for website

fix weapon direction/intro see cave

Find better river shader

rail timing/turning:

otter looking, interacting with player: Note: will need animation of otter walking (on hind legs?) so that I can get this working the best. Walking on all fours wouldn't hurt too.

Mark- sounds for mf:Need the background sound TOLD HIM KEEP REMINDING HIM

EMRE:

Mobius Floe look for different interface interactions

VMW mobile 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

FREDERICO MACHUCA

PainWEEK posters

AAA Vs. Indie screenshots

Guy in pain woodcut

Typography Class (after halloween)

Group Photograph

Podcast

~~List of VR games (comprehensive + a filtered version)~~

~~Snakes and Ladder~~

SERKAN PEKCETIN

RESP. FOR USER ACCOUNTS

KEEPER OF BACKUPS

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Get internet to use at home

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

Providing PCs 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 applications

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

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

PAIN & VR website

PAINLAB website update w/Danny

Follow-up w/Walter

Follow-up w/undergrads video

$$$ Follow up Dean Ask

INNOVATION HEALTH

WRITING: COMP.AESTH. ARTICLE

WRITING: JOURNAL ARTICLE

Appt. SFU VP RESEARCH

Appt. SFU ASSOC.VP RESEARCH

Appt. SFU FUNDRAISER

Appt. SFU FCAT DEAN

$$$ Submit Reimbursement to SFU for Germany

$$$ Follow-up Reimbursement from Germany

Add to CV: Germany

Add to CV: MMVR

Add to CV: FOUNDATION GRANT FOR VR

ADD TO BLOGSITE: CeBIT

ADD TO BLOGSITE: MMVR

~~ANNUAL REPORT 2011-2012 to Xin~~

~~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~~

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Procedures

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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

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)

[Health & Pain Journals]

Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) Impact Factor: 3.4 http://jmirpublications.com/

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) 3.504 http://jamia.oxfordjournals.org/

PAIN 2.096 http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pain

The journal of pain 4.01 http://www.jpain.org/

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CONFERENCES

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)

MMVR Medicine Meets VR

CyberPsychology

Annotated Bibliographies

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TRAVEL INFORMATION: READ & REREAD THIS ! ! !

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BEFORE THE CONFERENCE:

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.

WAYS TO SAVE $

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.

NOTES ON REGIONS

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.

AFTER THE CONFERENCE

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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