CADIA » Socially Expressive Computing Group

h1. Meeting Notes

h2. 6th of November

* PRESENT: Brynjar, Hafdís, Ari, Steve

* AI FESTIVAL Debrief

** Virtual Reykjavík was hard to show with microphone, still possible to explain

*** Needed an alternative input path (i.e. text)

** Virtual Reality experiment worked well with horror stimulus (good recorded response)

** Social Path Following, people interested, demo comes with practice

* UPCOMING DEMO: UT Messan (February 5th - 6th)

** Maybe update some demos, e.g. get Virtual Reykjavik with VR + avatar + character responding

** Look into better microphones

* AWAY DATES: Helsinki 9th - 12th November (SLUSH)

* NOTES: Keep research notebooks

* NOTES: The library will help you borrow papers that are behind paywalls

h2. 16th of October

* PRESENT: Brynjar, Steve, Ari, Hafdís, Tumi

* DEADLINE: AI Festival 2015 Scheduled for Friday October 23rd

** 14:00 - Setup in Sun

** 15:00 - 17:00 Talks and Panel in V101

** 17:00 - 18:30 Poster / Demo Session in the Sun (with Beer and Music!)

* AWAY DATES: Boston 29th-31st of October (Hannes) MIT

* AWAY DATES: Helsinki 10th-13th of November (Hannes) "SLUSH":http://www.slush.org/

* (AWAY DATES: Paris 16th-19th of November (Hannes?) Motion in Games)

h2. 18th of September

* PRESENT: Hafdís, Tumi, Unnar, Ari, Steve, Brynjar

* TODO (Hannes): Need to fix new student "projects.cs.ru.is" accounts (ASAP)

* TODO (Students): Sign up for meeting with Hannes (http://signupschedule.com/hanneshogni)

* INFO: Technology Innovation Fund Grant Appliation, Icelandic Centre for Research Application

* INFO: Workshop with Icelandic Institute for Financial Literacy and Gagarin (last Friday)

* INFO: EAP Paper presented at MMSYM 2015

* DEADLINE: AI Festival 2015 Scheduled for Friday October 23rd

* AWAY DATES: Helsinki 7th-10th of October (Hannes) Aalto University

* AWAY DATES: Boston 29th-31st of October (Hannes) MIT

* AWAY DATES: Paris 16th-19th of November (Hannes?) Motion in Games

* INFO: Access to http://aigamedev.com/ is with user name "yngvi" and password "cadia"

h2. 28th of August

* TODO

** Sign up new students to this system (Hannes)

* Upcoming Events

** AI Festival 2015 Scheduled for Friday October 23rd

* Project Management system

** This one! Plus version control systems such as SVN (just migrated to different server, will come back into the menu here)

* Messaging systems

** Zulip (zulip.com)

** Facebook (group chats based on projects mostly)

h2. 20th of February

* Student Innovation Fund - Deadline March 4

** VR in VR

** Procedural Animation for Purposeful Idling

** Pain management training for surgery patients

** Psychological modeling for game characters

* Project Grants

** Virtual Reykjavik

** Cities that Sustain Us

h2. 5th of December

* Upcoming Events

** CADIA Christmas Party: Thursday 11th of December, 16-18

** "UT Messan":http://utmessan.is/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91:2015-utmessan&catid=8:almennt&Itemid=144 : 6th and 7th of February

** Intelligent Virtual Agents: Due 15th of March

** ANIREY: End of March (20th..)

** Talk/demo for the medical sector: February (?)

* Important Dates:

** Hannes in Paris 17th-19th of December

** Siewart leaves on 28th of February

h2. 14th of November

* People's availability towards the end of the year

** Hannes: Available - maybe short meeting in Paris in December (1-2 days). Regular vacation.

** Hossein: Available

** Hafdis: Friday 21st exams over. 3 week course. Regular vacation.

** Ásgeir: No exams. 3 week course? MS thesis work. Regular vacation (e.g. 18th)

** Unnar: Monday 24th exams over. Use 3 week period for independent study. Regular vacation.

** Stefán: ?

** Valdi: ?

** Siewart: Arrives Tuesday the 18th of November

h2. 24th of October

* Introducing Hossein Miri, postdoctoral researcher on the Cities that Sustain Us

* Hannes will be at ACM SIGGRAPH Motion in Games in Los Angeles November 5th - 9th

* Starting a page to sketch projects up for grabs (e.g. for BS projects): [[Project Ideas]]

* AI Festival preparation discussion

h2. 25th of September

* The *AI Festival* will be on October 31st!

** Everyone needs to present research/projects as posters in the Sun

** Posters need to be ready for printing on Monday the 27th

** Use the "Virtual Reykjavik" poster as template: VirtualReykjavikPoster.pptx

* Hannes will be away in the US from Sept 29. until October 17th, mostly on leave with family

* Hannes will be visiting Carnegie Mellon University (the "Human Computer Interaction Institute":https://www.hcii.cmu.edu/ and "Entertainment Technology Center":http://www.etc.cmu.edu/ October 7th-9th)

* Hannes will present "Prediction in Social Path Following" short paper by former student Carmine Oliva at the "Motion in Games":http://mig2014.ict.usc.edu/ November 6th-9th at USC/ICT

* Postdoc Hossein Miri will be joining us in the next couple of weeks, working on the Cities that Sustain Us project

* Branislav Bedí is now in Portugal and is about to defend PhD thesis proposal