12/1/2017 Meeting notes

Owned by Parixit Dave
Last updated: Dec 04, 2017

Date

Attendees

  • Alon Grinshpoon

  • Ann McCann Oakley
  • Ben Goldie
  • Debbie Beaudry
  • Douglas Ward
  • Letty Moss-Salentijn
  • Maneesha Aggarwal
  • Michael Cennamo
  • Michael DeMeo
  • Parixit Dave
  • Sandesh Tuladhar
  • Stephanie Ogden
  • Carmine Elvezio
  • Steve Feiner
  • Jorge Villa
  • Jonathan Kornberg
  • Kyle Mandli 
  • Mark Newton
  • Matthew Quint
  • George Schussler
  • Nicholas Buonincontri

Meeting goals

  • Introduce ETC@Columbia

Purpose

  • To collaborate and share information amongst groups engaged in emerging technologies by discussing and documenting best practices, challenges, and standards and by developing support structure, sharing resources and learning from each other
  • To foster and support innovation by identifying and engaging forward thinkers interested in getting started  and by promoting creative thinking and cross-disciplinary collaborations
  • To publicize new initiatives and projects as an aggressive marketing strategy to invite industry partners and set up potential collaborations and/or to seek corporate sponsorship

Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes
10minWelcome

Maneesha Aggarwal/Group

  • Purpose of group
  • Introductions
  • Maneesha framed the purpose and background for the group
  • How can CUIT assist in any needs for new and emerging technologies?
15minLogistics

Parixit Dave

  • Frequency
  • Time
  • Location
  • Communication (Slack)
  • Confluence
  • Lunch
  • Parixit described his hope for the group and how we can leverage ideas and resources into action and shared knowledge
  • We will establish meeting schedule today
  • Use Confluence for meeting notes and members
  • Slack channel for communication
  • Introduces Steve Feiner and his lab and the work that they've been doing at CU
  • Parixit described the opportunity as a forum to share current ideas and planned projects; hurdles being faced (financial, facilities, resources, etc.)
  • Qualtrics survey will be shared with group to gather feedback, encourage demos from CU and/or vendors at future meetings
  • We hope to have Google come in to present on Jump camera in the summer
  • IBM could possibly demo Watson
  • colleagues from peer institutions would be welcome to share any work that they're collaborating on with CU staff, faculty, researchers, etc.
  • Parixit described experience at OLC Conference, presentation shared by Case Western Univ. and their use of holo-lens
40minAR/VR background, demo and Q/ASteve Feiner/ Carmine Elvezio/ Alon Grinshpoon

Highlights of Projects over the years - Steve

  • AR backpack for navigation, travel and tourism around Manhattan (2001)
  • Information Workspaces - integrating traditional classroom or workspace resources into 3D space
  • Entertainment
  • Task Assistance - navigation, maintenance, assembly,
  • Remote support for task assistance
  • Orientation Guidance for Small FOV Monoscopic Eyewear
    • demonstration will consist of stereoscopic viewing with Google glass
  • Interaction/Visualization techniques
    • single axis - for rotating an object
    • Animate - user is shown each iteration of object movement progressively
    • Handles - goal is to align handles within target rings by any motion they choose
    • Handles was shown to be most effective method in user study of lab trials
  • Orientation Guidance for Larger FOV Stereoscopic Eyewear
  • Hybrid UI's - synergistic combinations of displays and devices; sharing coordinate systems, input data, etc

Demonstrations - Alon and Carmine

  • holo-lens diagnosis and repair of smoking storage array
    • can be integrated with note-taking, annotation, etc
  • Endovascular Surgery guidance (as an alternative to 2D contrast dyes and CT scans)
    • use of 3D heart and vascular models
15minDiscussion: Application of AR/VRGroup
  • Who's using it/wants to use it
  • Use cases
  • Technology hurdles

show of hands about who is involved in application/use cases, pure science and development

This group could provide a forum to share knowledge and ideas, collaborate on resources, promote events, bring people together, attaining internal recognition, inspiring greater institutional support

10minGroup surveyGroup

  • Areas of interest/involvement

  • Resources you have

  • Resources you would like to have

  • Vendor involvement

  • Future topic suggestions

Invitation for group to meet at CUMC and experience holo lens simulations currently in use (PT, OT, Orthopedics, Dental)

Parixit and Maneesha will reach out to everyone about individual projects and needs

As a group we should focus on tangible, actionable items and strategy going forward

will meet monthly on a Friday over lunch


Action items

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