This semester started with reading papers; there’s a large body of work about perception in AR\/VR, and my research would benefit from a ready set of references. Some of the topics I’ve now supporting references for:<\/p>\n
I’ve also done some work for my optimization class project that might be helpful to other projects in the lab; for xZ = y, generating matrices Z given known good x and y should be simple; it may also be possible to generate xs, given a promising set of ys.<\/p>\n
The lit review almost became a paper in it’s own right, but finding a recent survey made that a more complicated task. There’s still something there, some inconsistencies across papers, angles the survey doesn’t notice, but the path to a paper discussing them is less clear. Rather than a single paper, they may become separate investigations. There may also be room to adapt other lit aggregation techniques, like meta analysis, though it remains unclear how directly these techniques apply.<\/p>\n
Organizing information found in the literature has been a challenges. There’s also a lot to keep straight: chains of support, who knows what from which papers; open questions, conflicts, and other things bearing further investigation \u2026 it’s already a complex web of interrelationships, and I suspect I’ve still only done a rather shallow exploration of the space of relevant papers. I need a better way to organize this.<\/p>\n
Pilot development stalled a bit, as I decided what tools to use. An increase in the demands of my classwork about halfway through the semester derailed attempts at custom code; a shift to Unity means less labor intensive, but perhaps less adaptable, experimental tool development.<\/p>\n
I’m a little frustrated things aren’t moving faster, and that I don’t have more paper write-up posts to better record what I’d found in my readings; I’m a bit frustrated that I don’t have a better command of the things I’ve read, a better system to lead me quickly back to the bits of interest, as interest arises.<\/p>\n
But I’m happy to have had the exposure: I have a better sense of where the field is at, and where the current research fits. And somewhere in a giant (virtual) pile of papers, I have the references to support whatever I might write in the future; finding them might not be as efficient as I’d like, but it should still be effective.<\/p>\n
In the next few weeks, the Unity pilot should happen.
\nBased on its results, the research develops in whatever way seems most promising.<\/p>\n
Some paper and notes organization system will remain a side project, as might my custom experiment code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summary; Accomplishments This semester started with reading papers; there’s a large body of work about perception in AR\/VR, and my research would benefit from a ready set of references. Some of the topics I’ve now supporting references for: decline of … Continue reading