Lets start with all the times I wasn’t doing research. This week has been much busier in terms of courses, had to complete assigned readings for the classes. Met a few potential group members for the Advanced Topics course, now I have to finalize who to work with exactly. The initial assignment for CS5590 courses was also released, I completed them on my end and the office hours have had greater attendance than the last week. Nothing too crazy though, since the due date is still a little far away. The teaching experience for CS1054 is a little interesting because the students are still learning the basic programming such as variables and data structures so when they do come up with “Why does my code not work?” questions one has to come up with creative ways to answer without directly pointing it out. Also completed some of the many GTA training workshops.
As for research, we basically decided there are two main ways to produce a security threat in the collaboration system through occlusion. First, is to run a background app that takes over the foreground on a trigger or runs simultaneously with the target application to create an occlusion. Second, is to create push notifications. I am currently in the process of profiling alternates to unity game engine for this purpose, figuring out push notifications for magic leap 2 and find potential means of creating system notification through an external trigger as a Wizard of OZ approach.
For my reading this week I have the following paper from the CSCW December 2023. It proposes a symmetric MR collaborative model that allows for object manipulation through virtual replicas. The paper is supposed to have open-source github repo but the given link is not working for now. I will keep checking if it becomes visible since the system looks very useful.
SurfShare: Lightweight Spatially Consistent Physical Surface and
Virtual Replica Sharing with Head-mounted Mixed-Reality