This week GTA work was less teaching more grading. Graded Assignment 1 on Buffer Overflow Attack and Paper Summaries for CS5590 and also the first Quiz for CS1054. Also helped with the preparation of Assignment 3 on Ransomware for CS5590. Now I have to attempt and understand Assignment 2 on XSS attacks for the next week before it is released for the students.
For coursework, I submitted the Machine Learning Homework it was mainly theory based but the questions were very well designed with tricks that made you think harder. For Advanced Topics in HCI read a few papers and submitted their paper summaries, some were related to my own research that talked about perceptual manipulation in MR devices. I am currently working on the project proposal for this class with my roommate to be presented tomorrow.
My research work is kind of overlapping with the Advanced Topics class, so while I was explaining the project idea on security threats in collaborative mixed reality systems to my project partner, I got a chance to zoom out from my work and evaluate it at the higher level and plan out its contributions. This led to a fruitful discussion with Brendan on our aim for the study and somewhat formulation of a research question with a user study that seems technically feasible and now has defined experimental conditions and evaluation metrics. All of this although assumes the correct working of SurfShare. Unfortunately, the current unavailability of Microsoft HoloLens 2 has become a blocker in testing this out. The user study design however, led to me brainstorming on possible experimental tasks that are not directly medical in nature but measure important metrics for carrying out successful medical tasks. These metrics include precision, timeliness and accurate understanding of expert instructions.