For GTA work of CS5590 I completed XSS Seed lab myself. I noticed students have already started coming into my office hours right after the assignment was released maybe because they struggled with the last one. Whatever, the cause it is good for them to start early and good for me since I hope that will lead to lesser amount of emails a day before submission. Also graded more paper summaries for this class. For Intro to Java, students got their project assignment so that is mainly what has been occupying my office hours.
For courses, Machine Learning classes are async for a while so have to play catchup with that. I haven’t started on writing Friday Seminar reflections yet so that is also something on my list. for Advanced Topics in HCI, got the project proposal out of the way, and been reading some papers about differential privacy. The formal proofs in those papers is not something I have a great grip over but the discussant presentations really helped understand the paper those papers better.
For research, there were 3 different tasks I was focusing on. Starting with Surf Share, I did get access to one HoloLens 2 which is a start, spent one whole day debugging the code playing with project settings and unity versions to finally get the code running on the one device. The surf share however requires another client to connect to go beyond its first interface of drawing the portal. So then I shifted to understanding the networking mechanism of this code and unity in general. After one research on Network Manager and WebRTC I would like to think I understand how the networking is happening but still need another HoloLens2 device to connect to verify it and basically start looking into security threats. So that is the progress on technical end.
The other important progress for this week was the meeting with the medical advisor on the ICAT project Dr. Andy Muelenaer. Hi insights really help understand the motivation of this project, the current status quo in the medical field n telehealth and the true value we can provide with this study. Brendan suggested I should pen these down in the paper format to ease paper writing down the road. I couldn’t exactly find the time to write the paragraph itself but I did create a structure for it so I remember what to write when I get to it. I made sure to read through the motivation sections of the last year’s publications of the targeted venue and cover the major points according to them.
Lastly, continuing my literature review of the project I read the following paper:
That Doesn’t Go There: Attacks on Shared State in Multi-User Augmented Reality Applications – Slocum et al
This paper talks about how AR devices use camera feed input as the key for authentication in multiuser environment. And how a picture of the physical environment can be used to generate the key and create Read and Write attacks in Augmented Reality