Starting off with GTA work as usual, there has been a lot due lately. For CS 1054 students had a hard time completing Project 3 and my office hours were completely swamped with queries through out the week. I also had to grade the Quiz 3 for this class. CS5590 students also had their project 3 due this week. Although, not as many students needed help with the assignment , grading the assignment did take quite some time. Apart from that I did some more summary grading and am hoping to complete them by this week alongside grading Project 3 for CS1054. Furthermore, I was working on the reflection essay for GTA training course.
For courses, Machine Learning is taking a lot of time to catch up with there is always an assignment due for this course. I submitted the Homework 3 last week and am currently working on Project due this week followed by Homework 4. All in all its a time taking course. For advanced topics in HCI, things are much more smooth with only one last set of reading summaries left and me being over with my discussant presentation, the project is all there is to do now.
For research, there has been a bunch of blockers along the way with the networking issues of occlusion attack, applying transparency shader in run time, tracking run time virtual object etc. These blockers have also led to some interesting changes in my project such as the addition of two unknown attacks running locally in users headsets. Anyway, I have been able to implement all three attacks on SurfShare out of which two run locally on the user’s device. The next step was to port the project to my laptop and create different application packages for each attack condition running locally on the device which led to another et of porting errors. The current status is that, I have resolved those and created final builds on the two available HoloLens devices, just need a final test run before the demo and user studies to begin. Speaking of user studies the IRB has been approved so we will start with the user studies this week. Since we are aiming for only 10 participants in this preliminary study, I hope the data collection phase isn’t very long. I have also update the data collection forms for today.
In other news my Masters Thesis Committee is filled with Dr. McMahan on board and I am hoping to start working on Plan of Study after Eid.