SC07:UCIHRI07

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Computational Methods in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Workshop

Participant projects

Logistics

  • When - July 29 - August 4
  • Where - San Diego Supercomputer Center, two rooms with an audio/video link via the CI Channel. This stream will also be archived.
  • Remote viewing (webcast) Room 279 Live Link (cut and paste) rtsp://ici.sdsc.edu/hass07.sdp

Instructors

  • Scott Lathrop, Vernon Burton, Tom Murphy, Jeff Sale, Charlie Peck, Kevin Hunter, Jessica Puls, and many others. One model is that a core of people do the high level material and some curriculum modules, augmented by 3-5 domain specialists that come-in and give 1/2 day or so sessions. The domain specialists would probably come from the people at the planning workshop or from their suggestions.

Documents to be Reviewed

Materials

All of the materials need to be posted here and ready to go by July 16th. If you're having problems uploading/linking materials get in touch with charliep at cs dot earlham dot edu

  • Software to be installed/tested on the Windows machines at SDSC
    • Flash
    • Firefox
    • NetLogo
    • Java
    • CTCUni - Windows users can download and install the CTCUni browser from http://www.scicentr.org/Participants/ITSupport/; please use version 4.1 (listed first). The web site will prompt for a login; please contact us for this login information. User accounts for CTCUni will be provided for the workshop; please ask if you need an account in advance. Contact Rich Bernstein (rab38@cornell.edu) for technical issues, or Margaret Corbit (corbitm@tc.cornell.edu) for session information.
    • Neverwinter Nights - Neverwinter Nights game, with all its extras, and the Aurora toolset that comes with it. The Communication department owns this software (purchased for my class this Spring) and I'm sure they'd be happy to lend it for the workshop. - contact nwf@ucsd.edu
    • Weka - http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka - contact George Tzanetakis
    • Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows and http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac - contact George Tzanetakis
    • Sonic Visualizer - http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/download.html (Windows and OS X) - contact George Tzanetakis
    • IP2Learn - http://isda.ncsa.uiuc.edu (under software downloads) - contact Peter Bajcsy, pbajcsy at ncsa.uiuc.edu
    • David Newman?
  • For participants that bring laptops a certain amount of custom support for the installation/configuration of this software will be required.
  • Notebook - Maybe do this on-site as we go. If we have notebooks, dividers, and punched paper ahead of time this shouldn't be to hard.

Presentation Technology

All of the presentations are being captured via the CI Channel. This stream will be simulcast within SDSC during the workshop and archived on the CI Channel. The live link is rtsp://ici.sdsc.edu/hass07.sdp If you experience browser dependencies, a work around is to open QuickTime, from the menu bar, do File, Open URL, and a dialog box will open. Enter rtsp://ici.sdsc.edu/hass07.sdp into the dialog box and you will be connected to the live link.

In order for the content to be captured correctly a few simple guidelines should be followed by each presenter:

  • Anything that displays on the presenter's screen is captured: visualizations, movies, sound, computer code, etc.
  • All keyboard and mouse interaction is captured and played back.
  • If displaying code or text increase the font size to 18 points or more.
  • Choose color schemes with care and avoid light pastel colors.
  • Avoid using a laser pointer, rather use the cursor within the application to point out items. Using the cursor means that it is caputred in the video stream.

Schedule

This schedule still subject to minor adjustments to fit presenter schedules, facility availability, etc.

All sessions will be in SDSC Room 279. We'll also use some nearby space in the Social Sciences (conference room 108) and other spaces for the parallel sessions and tutorials.

Sunday July 29th

  • 5:30-9:00 pm - Welcome reception and dinner, workshop overview and orientation. Cafe Ventanas.

Monday July 30th - Audio and Text Analysis Tools (Organizer: Scott Lathrop)

  • 7:30-8:15 am - Breakfast, Cafe Ventanas
  • Plenary Talks
    • 8:30 am - Opening Remarks: Scott Lathrop and David Theo Goldberg
    • 9:00 am - Keynote by Vijay Samalam, SDSC
    • 9:30 am - Keynote by Anne Balsamo, USC
  • 10:00 am - Break
  • Case Studies
    • 10:30 am - Audio Analysis - George Tzanetakis (gtzan@cs.uvic.ca)
    • 11:15 am - Text Analysis - David Newman (UCI) and Sharon Block (UCI)
  • 12:00 pm - Lunch
  • 1:00 pm - Parallel Group Hands-on Sessions
    • Audio Analysis Lab - George Tzanetakis, audio/music analysis with Marsyas
    • Text Analysis Lab - David Newman (UCI) and Sharon Block (UCI)
  • 3:00 pm - Break
  • 5:30-6:15 pm - Dinner, Cafe Ventanas
  • 7:00-9:00 pm - Reflection and open lab, mentors available

Tuesday July 31st - Visual Analysis Tools (Organizer: Jeff Sale)

  • 7:30-8:15 am - Breakfast, Cafe Ventanas
  • Large Group Sessions
    • 9:00-9:15 am - Jeff Sale - Introduction to Visual Analysis Tools and Visual Literacy: Simulating and Interacting With the Past, Present, and Future
    • 9:15-9:30 am - Discussion of Participant Project Ideas
    • 9:30-10:15 am- Andy Beveridge - Social Explorer
    • Josh Radinsky (not attending) - GIS for History
  • 10:15 am - Break
  • 12:00 pm - Lunch
  • Large Group Sessions
  • 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Introduction to Mashups - Jeff Sale and Charlie Peck
  • 3:00 pm - Break
  • 3:30-5:00 pm - GPS field activity and Mashup Madness - Jeff Sale and Charlie Peck
  • 5:30-6:15 pm - Dinner, Cafe Ventanas
  • 7:00-9:00 pm - Reflection and open lab, mentors available

Wednesday August 1st - Audio and Image Analysis Tools; Collaboration and Dissemination Tools (Organizer: Charlie Peck)

  • 7:30-8:15 AM - Breakfast, Cafe Ventanas
  • Audio Analysis Tools
    • 9:00 am - Vernon Burton (UIUC) and Dean Rehberger (Michigan State University) - Case Study and research projects that might use the tools (Oral History of Supreme Court)
    • 9:30 am - Demonstration of MediaMatrix annotation and publication tool for streaming media: [MediaMatrix]
  • 10:00 am - Break
  • Image Analysis Tools
    • 10:30 am - Peter Bajcsy (NCSA)
      • Geoinformatics (data integration and data mining of geospatial data including the description of CyberIntegrator as a collaborative workflow tool)
      • Historical document analysis (Abraham Lincoln's writings)
      • Tele-immersive space
      • Image Provenance to Learn (IP2Learn) - introduce IP2Learn as a simulation framework for understanding preservation and reconstruction isues of the future through a tutorial
  • 12:00 pm - Lunch
  • 1:00 pm - Peter Bajcsy (continued)
  • 2:00 pm - Collaboration and Dissemination Tools - Charlie Peck and Kevin Hunter
    • Wiki
    • Moodle
    • Sophie
    • IRC, AccessGrid, iChat, Skype, VSee, Google Talk
    • Podcasts
    • Blogs
    • Facebook
    • RSS Feeds
    • Zotero
  • 3:00 pm - Break
  • 3:30-5:00 pm - Lab activities, collaboration and dissemination tools
  • 5:30-whenever - Dinner, out and about

Thursday August 2nd - Games in Education (Organizer: Diane Baxter)

  • 7:30-8:15 am - Breakfast, Cafe Ventanas
  • Large Group Sessions
    • 9:00-10:00 am - Tracy Fullerton (USC) - Game Innovation and the Potential of Play - In the shadow of the commercial game entertainment industry, independent and serious game makers are exploring the nature of games, play and learning in projects that have the potential to change the way that our society views and values participatory media. This session is a discussion of game innovation, with examples of projects that address innovative subject matter, inspire activism, promote learning, and experiment with games as an expressive medium. Tracy Fullerton is an Assistant Professor in the Interactive Media Division of the USC School of Cinema-Television and Co-Director of the EA Game Innovation Lab.
  • 10:00 am - Break
    • 10:30-12:00 pm - Richard Urban (UIUC) - Virtual Worlds for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences - Residents of virtual worlds have made an important choice to create spaces that include humanities, art and social science content. While some of these residents are academics, many are amateur scholars who are engaged in serious leisure activities. This session will explore the museums, libraries and archaeological sites found in Second Life as an introduction the potential of multi-user virtual environments for HASS. The question for us to reflect on is: "How do we get from here to a MUVE cyberinfrastructure?"
  • 12:00 pm - Lunch
  • Hands-on Sessions
    • 1:00-3:00 pm - Margaret Corbit (Cornell University) - SciCentr [1]- Building Virtual Worlds in K-20 Education - Margaret Corbit directs an online outreach program, SciCentr.org, for Cornell University. Most SciCentr programs run in a universe of virtual worlds, CTCUni. Corbit has been working with talented professional and undergraduate student staff at Cornell on science communication and education projects for the past 15 years. Team projects include online science books and interactive simulations and games about computational science, K-12 interfaces to online science tools, a prototype game world featuring transposable elements, and the highly successful SciFair program. She also lectures in Computing and Information Science and Fine Arts at Cornell.
  • 3:00 pm - Break
    • 3:30-5:00 pm - Noah Wardrip-Fruin (UCSD) - Building on Commercial Game Platforms: An Example - This will be a short hands-on introduction to Aurora, a game building tool distributed at no additional cost with the Windows version of the original Neverwinter Nights game (now widely available for less than $20 per copy). Aurora has attracted a broad community of game builders - mostly interested members of the public, but also professional educators, artists, and others. Building on a commercial platform demands much less in the way of resources than developing a game from scratch, but also requires working within the logics embedded in the platform. To make this concrete, we will work through part of a simple Aurora module builder tutorial, creating spaces, interconnecting them, and perhaps populating them with speaking characters. Noah Wardrip-Fruin is an Assistant Professor in UCSD's Communication department and Associate Director of UCSD's Software Studies initiative. - Aurora Toolset Tutorial (PDF, 120KB)
  • 5:30-6:15 pm - Dinner, Cafe Ventanas
  • 7:00-9:00 pm - Reflection and open lab, mentors available

Friday August 3rd - Simulation and Modeling Tools (Organizer: Scott Lathrop)

  • 7:30-8:15 am - Breakfast, Cafe Ventanas
  • Large Group Sessions
    • 9:00-10:00 am - John Bonnett, Brock University - High Performance Computing and History
  • 10:00 am - Break
  • 10:30-12:00 pm - Tom Murphy, Contra Costa College - NetLogo, simulations, social dynamics, and lab
  • 12:00 pm - Lunch
  • 1:00 pm - Tour of the San Diego Supercomputer Center - Jeff Sale
  • 2:00-3:00 pm - Individual projects, mentors available
  • 3:00 pm - Break
  • 3:30-5:00 pm - Individual projects, mentors available
  • 5:30 pm - Banquet, Meridian Terrace

Saturday August 4th - Presentations and Future Directions (Organizer: Charlie Peck)

  • 7:30-8:15 am - Breakfast, Cafe Ventanas
  • 9:00 am - Participant presentations
  • 11:30 am - Wrap-up and future workshop plans

Grab-bag

  • Encourage participants to bring a problem/technique/data that they wish to work with.
  • If we are going to do hands-on labs we'll need lots of eyes and hands at each site.
  • Schedule Handout - v1
  • Bios of Participants
  • Add the tag "sc07hass" to your favorite social site so we can find materials related to the workshop. E.g. add the tag to del.icio.us bookmarks.

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Archived Materials

We're having problems making these actual links, so for now you'll need to copy and paste these links into your URL bar. But, finally, we have these posted. Enjoy!

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/ABalsamo.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/DRehbergerMediaMatrix.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/GPS%20Field%20Activity%20and%20Mashup%202.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/GPS%20Field%20Activity%20and%20Mashup.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/GTzanetakis.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/JBonnett.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/Jeff%20Sale%20PopFly%20Etc.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/Jeff%20Sale%20and%20Charlie%20Peck%20GPS.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/MCorbit.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/NWardripFruin.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/NewmanAndBlock.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/NewmanAndBlockLab.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/PBajcsy.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/PBajcsyLab.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/PBajcsyLabcutaudio.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/Pat%20Seed%20Google%20Mashups%20for%20History.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/PeckandHunter.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/RUrban.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/T-RACES.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/TFullerton.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/TMurphy.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/TMurphycutaudio.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/Todd%20Presner%20Hypermedia%20Berlin.mp4

rtsp://198.17.101.15:80/qtmedia/CIHASS07/VBurton.mp4

Planning Workshop (archived)

  • Friday, March 23, 2007 - Saturday, March 24, 2007

Background

Resources

Post Workshop Follow-up

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