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Imager Web: Status & To-Do (2008-09)

Updated Aug 09 2009 - KM

ANDRE, PLEASE COMMENT BELOW WHEN TASKS ARE DONE: replace [NOT DONE] with [DONE mm/dd]

BUG LIST (broken links etc) - EVERYONE ADD ITEMS HERE

  • Research pages: hover on faculty names does weird thing

Main.KelloggBooth - 02 Oct 2009

  • postdoc link under people goes to empty list with apparent error message. It appears that a null list is considered an error -- it should instead say "there are currently no postdocs"
  • list of students does not sort by supervisor (something weird happens)
  • it does not appear the student list supports co-supervision (it needs to do this, and it needs to support co-supervision when one of the supervisors is NOT an Imager faculty member)
  • instructions for updating student and postdoc list are missing

ACTION ITEMS FOR ANDRE

[ALMOST DONE] style and layout

  • wrap "human centered tech" in left sidebar; then make left sidebar narrower

[NOT DONE] Banner

  • HCI -> Human Centered Technologies
  • put HCT on bottom (longer) and G, V on top
  • make them all visibly clickable (according to random user test)

[DONE 09/30/09] move prototype onto CS server, into current imager webspace with a ghost link so faculty can start editing directly.

[NOT DONE] Documentation:

  • transfer "process" notes onto twiki, start organizing (probably best to organize by WHO does the task, with possible prominent subcategores being the topic, like News, Student Records, etc); and Frequency (like, once/year, once/month, etc).
  • Items to include:
      • Process for moving students to alumni (Juliet; but, is add'l contact info supplied by prof?)
      • See also references below, e.g. Under News.
      • Important NOW: instructions on how to modify text content that pertains to yourself, e.g. faculty bio info.

[ALMOST DONE] History - waiting on image from KB (??)

  • try to break up big block of text. Wish list: neat old photos, artifacts of old days that Kelly might have around? Original founding faculty photo?? Kelly might have (Karon will ask him)

[DONE 09/30/09] Finding Us

  • add top link for "tips"
  • check permissions on maps links (floor maps) - still not working - check w/ someone else

[DONE 09/30/09] Contact list - see Karon's source mt'l from mid Aug

[almost DONE 09/30/09] News & Events

  • remove leading bullet
  • (done) Keep most recent 10 items (can adjust this) and automatically put everything else into a SINGLE archive. Which could be manually cleaned out when someone notices.

[NOT DONE] Meetings: waiting on Juliet

[NOT DONE] Images of Imager: --- mostly waiting for Michiel

  • Michiel van de Panne is the person to bug. Grad students might take photos; can ask them to also generate thumbnails of desired size (smaller than existing)
  • rename to "images of imager"
  • good photos, some professionally acquired, laid out carefully one time. This is not an automatically updated repository.
    • make "large thumbnails" (w/ varying aspect ratios) smaller than now, e.g. ~3/row.
    • [For now, use current images, and plan to augment or swap when get better ones.]

[DONE 09/30/09] Faculty

  • Remove all associates from both Faculty and Research pages.
  • Missing Michiel's bio (he needs to supply)

[NOT DONE] Students and postdocs: private contact

  • Do NOT need to separate into different tables for different programs (one for all)
  • password protected, not obscurity - ask anthony winstanley for how - anyone with a cs account
  • Put FULL student and postdoc contact info on private webpage (not twiki, which won't work well). Use same mechanism for updating as for public list.
  • Question: should this be two pages, or alright to be one for this piece?

[NOT DONE] students and postdocs public page

  • populate!
  • working with Juliet, ADD a "comments" column which will be on both public and private page; and ensure that the "ROLE" field is very consistent, limited to a small number of preset options. Any elabaoration on them like "on leave" or "research technician" or "visitor" should be in the comment field. See Juliet action item below.

[Not DONE 09/30/09] alumni - waiting on faculty to say what they want

  • make a skeleton that's visible for now both in left sidebar and a page
  • KM needs to ask faculty what they want here, and get 1-2 years past data to populate (w/ juliet's help)
  • then, hide until we have accumulated a database consisting of former students migrated into an alumni database. But, otherwise set it up with a few manually entered items.

[note DONE 09/30/09] Research / Graphics etc

  • when click on faculty name on faculty page, should take to anchor on respective research page.
  • (done) Link names at start of blurbs; remove caption names.
  • (done) HCI/Haptics tag in left menu: hold off until HCI fac decide what to call it

[ALMOST DONE] Publications & Theses

  • procedures: link to twiki, which needs to be updated. This link is currently broken. (twiki location: WebMaintProcedures)
  • (done) papers need to be dumped
  • We need a plan for theses. Current database is not well populated. For now, Andre will dump what we have.

[ALMOST DONE] Courses - links, waiting on faculty; add cogs stuff

  • add COGS section as a high level section (add after Viz)
  • ask Rensink which courses should be included (appropriate given pre-reqs etc - say, top 2) plus blurbs and links
  • contrast between 1st and 2nd level headings - add a thin line delineation; could use this elsewhere (finding us, etc check other pages w/ sections)
  • consistency in linking (respond to faculty requests checking first pass)

[DONE 09/30/09] Joining Imager.

* remove the notes par when done with it

[NOT DONE] Upper right image:

    • Right now, the tag is manually constructed and linked. (done by McLachlan, we believe).
    • Suggest: flat organization (not by professor)
    • New plan: files named in convention heidrich_15; associated with tag (title and full author list), and link to paper (eventually; for now, to pubs page?)

Completed items

  • [DONE 8/4/09] combine grads, undergrads
  • plus a lot of other stuff...

[DONE] News:

  • no outstanding items

[DONE] Staff:

  • drop the bullet
  • BF the name

[DONE] *faculty / Research page:

    • RB et al. 8/19/09: move associate faculty to a separate list at bottom, out of graphics/user interface/vis categories.
    • KM 8/18/09: HCI/Haptics on left sidebar -> User Interfaces
    • KM 8/03/09: change "HCI/Haptics" on hci.php -> User Interfaces: * and on line below: Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Haptics (done)
    • KM 8/03/09: rename hci.php -> userInterfaces.php

ACTION ITEMS FOR KARON: ALMOST DONE

  • [NOT DONE] photos: van de panne will be handling through grad student Ben C.

  • [DONE] assign "other imager faculty" action items
  • [DONE] get Andre access to Imager Twiki (CS ID Q0T6, cwl = ramcio)
  • [DONE] find what current status on pubs database is from Wolfgang and Moyra
    • --> status quo for at least another year

ACTION ITEMS FOR JULIET: NOT DONE!

  • [NOT DONE] Alumni: start an alumni database which is same format as students database.
... When a student graduates, their record is simply moved into the alumni database along with any new contact info provided by professor.

  • [NOT DONE] People data file (students, postdocs):
    • (not done!) make sure it's updated.
    • Working with Andre: ADD a "comments" column; ensure that the "ROLE" field is very consistent, limited to a small number of preset options. Any elabaoration on them like "on leave" or "research technician" or "visitor" should be in the comment field. See Juliet action item below. Categories:
      • M.Sc.
      • Ph.D.
      • Postdoc
      • Undergrad
      • Research Associate

  • [NOT DONE] meeting page. Which meeting belong here, which elsewhere; calendar (google) or list display; can we keep it simple, and who maintains?
    • Imager fac agreed that Catalog belongs on website, for all; those which are "public" include pointers to further information.
    • JOK, please collect this list from faculty, with links and designation, and put it into a text file?
    • It will provide a LIST of meetings including links (URL or personal contact), and designation of open or private.

ACTION ITEMS FOR OTHER IMAGER FACULTY

ABOUT US SECTION - ALMOST DONE

  • [ALMOST DONE] Lab overview - JOANNA - Andre is porting; waiting for photos
    • includes NEW photos, to come from professional (drop the existing photos and separate section at bottom of
    • Include brief list of great places where our students go to work (solicit examples from entire group)

  • [ALMOST DONE] History: "short wikipedia" entry - KELLY has done; waiting for a photo or two
    • this section might get worked into the Lab Overview. Keep separate for now.

  • [DONE] Finding Us - TAMARA

  • [DONE] lab Contact page - JULIET / KARON

PEOPLE SECTION - DONE

  • [DONE] Faculty bios (xx words) and photo for each professor (later, these will be text-editable directly by the prof, but give to Andre in first pass) - (done: Dinesh, Robert, Karon)
    • Probably word limit = 50; embedded links fine.
    • Update your mugshot if desired

  • [DONE - check?] Staff - Information about Juliet - JULIET / KARON

COURSES SECTION - ALMOST DONE

  • The plan: turn our courses into a shorter list, sorted into the three areas but grad/ugrad continuous, with course number, title and a couple of sentences.
  • additionally, within each area section follow our courses with "external courses", which include dept, name/number and remarks like "most HCI graduate students are expected to take this one"

  • [ALMOST DONE] courses: RENSINK - cogs courses? EVERYONE - links
    • Supply 1-2 sentences for the course that you nominally "own".
    • E.g. TAMARA/ROBERT -> 314; KARON -> 344, 543; JOANNA -> 444, 544; TAMARA 533C, ETC
    • EVERYONE: review external list and contribute remarks like "most HCI students are expected to take this one."

    • Ugrad, grad, external; we will use a flat list in numerical order since short.

JOINING IMAGER SECTION - DONE

  • [DONE] Joining Imager - TAMARA
    • TAMARA will take first pass, or farm out to someone else
    • ALLA has "information for prospective graduate students" on her website which could be used as reference.
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