Workplace meeting. 11 th of December 2013

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1 Workplace meeting 11 th of December 2013

2 New employees John Folkesson, Assistant professor, CVAP Carl Henrik Ek, Assistant professor, CVAP Stefano Markidis, Assistant professor, HPCViz Leif Nordlund, Business developer, PDC

3 Mediated Communication - summary 2013 Henrik Artman, PA

4 Level of Achievement Performance Indicators and Doctoral Ladder Course credits Thesis Presentation Time for Presentation Progression up the doctoral wage ladder 30% At least 20 ECT credits Thesis disposition, Background, Research Question, Theoretical Focus, Methods, Projected Results Presentation of thesis disposition for department colleagues, presentation should focus on future research months (13 18 months of study at 80% employment) First pay month after completion of the presentation. 50% Approx 40 ECT credits (including compulsory courses) Monograph Thesis by Publication Presentation equal to a Cohesive text that is equivalent to half of a completed thesis or near complete body of empirical material Draft of and introductory summary chapter + 2 articles (published in a peer review journal/suitable for publishing in by an academic publisher). Equivalent to a Licentiate thesis or almost all empirical material has been collected. Licentiate defense. Presentation should include a discussant (with at least a PhD or higher) who is not a member of the Phd student's supervision group. The presentation should focus on what has been completed and possible future paths for the student's research months (28 32 months of study at 80% employment) First pay month after completion of the presentation. (In the case of a licentiate thesis, the PhD student is to follow the rules for "completing a licentiate thesis") 80% Approx ECT credits Draft of the thesis manuscript with cohesive and readable chapters A coherent draft of the thesis' summary chapters + min. 3 texts published/able to be published by an academic publisher and a complete manuscript for a 4th article. A seminar with an opponent. Preferrable that the opponent is not from the Department, holds a doctorate and is a qualified lecturer. The discussion should focus on what has been completed and give constructive critique on areas of the thesis which could be improved months (46 50 months of study at 80% employment) First pay month after a date for the Final Seminar has been booked and confirmed by the selected opponent. The opponent should have the manuscript at least 6 weeks before the Final Seminar.

5 Meant to act as Common ground for performance Promoting seminars and dissertations in a timely manner Follow-up on the time line

6 Articulated quality and volume assessments Goal: Consistency of quality concepts and volume measures when assessing theses To work in following situations: A document to have in supervisory discussions Common ground for assessing thesis work Recommendation advice

7 5 PhD courses Pearls of MID (Anders Hedman) Phenomenology in Interaction Design (Kia Höök) Reflexivity in HCI (Elina Eriksson) User-modelling and Graphical Interfaces (Cristi Bogdan) User Experience (Kia Höök)

8 Internal PhD-confernce Presentations of work in progress Discussion-panel Keynote speaker Party

9 PhD-retreat A retreat for PhD-candidates only! Workshop on getting things happen!

10 Supervisory-panel All PhD-candidates had the opportunity to individually discuss with two seniors (outside of the supervisory group) Focus on research questions or other aspects the PhDcandidate thought important All PhD-candidates were also offered a development talk with Ann / EvaLotta

11 Doctoral Program in Computer Science Highlights 2013 Dilian Gurov and Henrik Artman

12 Missions 1. Develop a framework for course initiation, implementation and funding. 2. Set up well-structured and informative web information. 3. Develop principles and mechanisms for the quality process.

13 Program Council Faculty Dilian Gurov (TCS) Erik Fransen (CB) Patric Jensfelt (CVAP) David House (TMH) Erwin Laure (PDC) PhD. Students Pawel Herman (CB) Raveesh Meena (TMH) Karl Palmskog (TCS) Francisco Vina (CVAP) Michael Schliephake (PDC)

14 Course Curriculum Three new courses developed or under development, funded from the program: 1. Masterpieces in TCS 2. Computational Topics in Phylogeny Inference 3. Interactive Entertainment Technology Not quite a curriculum yet

15 DRinCS 2014

16 DRinCS 2014 Biannual doctoral workshop 16 th -17 th of January, 2014, Värmdö, Sweden Link: Program: discussions of current research for students enrolled in the doctoral program stimulating invited talks social activities

17 Doctoral Ladder Policy Common rules and criteria for advancement based on course credits, publications, etc. Advancement tied to promotion seminar Criteria relate to goals of doctoral education acquire new knowledge plan research present own work: problem, approach etc. Effective from March 1, 2014

18 Doctoral Ladder Policy

19 UKÄs utvärdering av Data/IT/Media: åtgärder Olov Engwall

20 Medieteknik: mål för mål Bristande, Hög kvalitet, Mycket hög kvalitet 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Mycket hög kvalitet på mål 3 Master: Media management

21 Datateknik: Mål för mål 1. Kunskap om det valda teknikområdets vetenskapliga grund och beprövade erfarenhet samt insikt i aktuellt forsknings- och utvecklingsarbete: Bristande 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0%

22 Tidigare utbildning med andra examensmål Fem av arbetena med brister på mål 1 är av studenter som följt den gamla studieordningen (inskrivna före 2007). Fem av de sju arbetena som brister har gjorts av studenter som inte läst någon kurs i vetenskapsteori och metod. Åtgärder: Kurs i vetenskapsteori obligatorisk Endast exjobb som uppfyller kraven för nuvarande exjobbskursen kan ingå i examen % 8% 40% 25% 10% 15% 35% 50%

23 Annat huvudområde Återstående två arbeten med brister har gjorts inom ett masterprogram med ett annat huvudområde (Industriell Ekonomi). Åtgärd: PA för Datateknik ska i förväg godkänna samtliga specifikationer för examensarbeten som ska genomföras inom ett annat huvudområde än datateknik för att säkerställa det datatekniska innehållet.

24 Oklar fördjupning och vetenskaplig grund Alla arbeten som uppvisar bristande kvalitet har gjorts av studenter som antingen har en oklar fördjupning eller har valt att fördjupa sig mot ämnen där skolan inte bedriver aktiv forskning. Det är/var möjligt för studenter att ta sig igenom programmet utan att få insikt i forskning och vetenskap. Åtgärder: Spåren i masterprogrammet i Datalogi struktureras fr.o.m om så att de nära anknyter till minst en forskargrupp. Alla exjobbsuppgifter ska innehålla en beskrivning av deras koppling till vetenskaplig forskning vad i studentens tidigare utbildning som säkerställer tillräcklig områdeskunskap

25 Studenter utan examen Studenter som inte slutfört utbildningen är överrepresenterade bland dem som fått omdömet bristande kvalitet på detta, och andra, mål % 10% % 17% 35% 40% 56 % 6% 25% 39 % 50% Åtgärd: Poänggräns och krav på avslutade kurser för att påbörja examensarbete skärps, så att examensarbetet är det sista, eller ett av de allra sista, momenten som studenten gör före examen.

26 Oklara förväntningar Alla studenter har inte vetat vad som förväntas av ett examensarbete. Alla handledare har inte vetat vad som förväntas av ett examensarbete (vetenskaplighet kontra teknisk färdighet) Åtgärder: Praktisk träning i Vetenskapsmetod-kursen Kandidatarbetet som förberedelse Reflektionsseminarier i programsammanhållande kurs Grupphandledning för peer-review Check-lista med mål före, under och efter examensarbetet Tydliggörande av arbetsfördelning handledare-examinator

27 Pedagogisk utveckling Översyn av CSCs masterprogram: Datalogi (enligt tidigare) Rektor ger 500 kkr: fem masterprogram blir tre KTHs pedagogiska utvecklare på CSC: 2 st ansökningar till 2 st platser. Skolchef beslutar i samråd med ECE och prodekanus. CSCs pedagogiska utvecklingsprojekt: 7 st ansökningar om totalt 740 kkr till budget om 500 kkr Utvärdering av bedömargrupp Besked i februari CSC lärardag under VT 2014 teman bl.a. Diskussion om Masterprogram Handledning av examensarbeten

28 KTH pedagogical price for 2013 goes to..

29 Linda Kann Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation - teoretisk datalogi

30 Staben / Staff Investigating our school s need for IT-support Request from KTH management Three different consultants - Interviews - Written material - Internal IT-unit s material Final report mid Jan Decision on way forward late Jan Staff already moved to central IT-dep. (individually initiated) - IT-manager Johan Berglund (farewell cake today). No new manager until decision on new organization. - WIKS/Windows support personnel. All support requests on Windows handled by central IT-dep. Systemgrupp / IT Kommunikation / Communications HR / HR Staben / Dean s office Utbildningskansli/ Student Service 75 % of staff changed since Developing routines, support for managers and managerial structure Ekonomi / Finance Servicecenter / Service Centre Re-organized - responsibilities - centralized Now: final accounts (2013) Fine tuning 47 days old Re-organizing One person -> less capacity Manger on parental leave. Carina Edlund temp. manager International coordinator in Feb

31 When you need support/have questions 1 3 Contact dean s office service@csc.kth.se (General contact works for all matters) human-resources@csc.kth.se kommunikation@csc.kth.se ekonomi@csc.kth.se ekonomi-cb@csc.kth.se ekonomi-[dep.]@csc.kth.se reserakning@csc.kth.se system@csc.kth.se 2 Feedback

32 Now available for booking

33 HR News Maria Widlund

34 Employee survey 2013 Thanks for your answers! Response rate: CSC 69% (target 80%) KTH 63% (target 70%) The result will be presented to you in the beginning of 2014.

35 Salary review 2013 Employed at KTH, Oct Union negotiations with SACO and ST, almost done Valid from Oct. 1 and hopefully in salary payment this month (Dec). Information about new salary, from your manager beginning next week (?).

36 Welcome to the Employee at CSC day New employees meet up with new colleagues When? On January 28, 2014 For new employees: Introduction from the Dean Useful information from the Deans office Useful information as a PhD student For all employees: Seminars More information in coming Numero

37 New projects in autumn 2013

38 TRADR Search and rescue robotics KTH, ETHZ, CTU, TUD, DFKI, ROMA, TNO, Rescue authorities in Ge, It, Ne Our part: Multiagent collaboration Flexible autonomy levels 2 PhD students at CVAP

39 CHROMA Yiannis Karayiannidis, CVAP

40 Cooperative Human Robot Object Manipulation via Adaptive learning control CHROMA Projektbidrag - Unga Forskare 4 years ~ 3.98 MSEK NT: Signals & Systems Physical Human-Robot Interaction: Human and Robot exchange forces through a jointly-held object Uncertainties in: Human intention and compliance object s related characteristics

41 Cooperative Human Robot Object Manipulation via Adaptive learning control CHROMA Development of a framework based on: adaptive control haptic sensing and proprioception that enables concurrently: efficient human-robot collaboration estimation and learning of the constraints imposed by the human

42 FOVIAL Hedvig Kjellström, CVAP

43 FOVIAL: FOrensic VIdeo AnaLysis - finding out what really happened Recently growing amount of available surveillance video. Possible to gather evidence from surveillance video when investigating crimes or the causes of accidents: forensic video analysis. Forensic video investigations are now carried out manually. -Huge and very tedious effort; e.g., hours of video in the Breivik investigation in Norway.

44 FOVIAL: FOrensic VIdeo AnaLysis - finding out what really happened Amount of data constantly growing in future investigations, it will no longer be possible to go through all the evidence manually. The solution: automate parts of the process. We propose to design a semi-automated forensic video analysis tool with a human in the loop. User chooses a certain event, e.g., a certain individual getting off a train, and the system returns all earlier observations of this individual, or all other instances of people getting off trains, or all the events that may have caused or are correlated with the given "person getting off train" event.

45 Multi-agent Multimodal Interaction Spatial attention in haptic and auditory simulations Eva-Lotta Sallnäs MID

46 Multi-agent Multimodal Interaction Spatial attention in haptic and auditory simulations Applicants: Eva-Lotta Sallnäs Pysander and Roberto Bresin Funding: Swedish Research Council, A basic form of human interaction is the physical cooperation that is needed to do a manual task together with another person. This kind of cooperative mechanical control is needed for tasks whose complexity may exceed the capacity of one individual. RQ: Does the superior temporal resolving capacity of the audio and haptic modalities enhance interaction in a multi-user setting, and can that give a real-time temporally distributed haptic and auditory focus of attention apart from a visual one? Aim: Study how the temporal resolving capacity of different combinations of modalities affects spatial attention, and communication patterns in multi-user settings. Method: Analysis by means of haptic motion tracking system, eye-tracking technology and content analysis.

47 Improved Energy Counseling and Energy Habits by Quantified Self Assisted Advisory Björn Hedin, MID

48 Improved Energy Counseling and Energy Habits by Quantified Self Assisted Advisory 4 MSEK, Björn Hedin, Daniel Pargman, Henrik Artman, Jorge Zapico from the mid-team MID4S (MID for sustainability) Quantified Self cf Wellstep step competition, but track energy habits instead of steps Self-motivation + group pressure Combined with professonal advisory service from the Municipal Energy Councelors

49 Personalized spatially-aware dialogue systems Johan Boye, TCS

50 PI: Johan Boye VR: 3.2 MSEK, 4 years Long term research goal: Natural-language interaction between human and machine in a changing spatial context Shorter term: Personalized navigation services Enriching geographical databases by crowdsourcing using natural language

51 3 x Green Leap Teo Enlund, Green Leap/MID

52 Ett bilfritt år- Vardagslivet med lätta elfordon 5 miljoner, 2 år MID, CESC, Transport Lab Green Leap

53 Gestaltning för ett energieffektivt campusliv i Albano 5 miljoner, 2,5 år CESC, ABE, Arkitekturskolan, Stockholms universitet Green Leap

54 Hållbara Livsstilar - kartläggning, segmentering, scenarios 3,7 miljoner, 2,5 år MID, ITM Maskinkonstruktion IIIEE Lunds universitet Green Leap

55 David House (TMH)

56 SpeDial Funding agency: EU FP7 two-year SME-project Partners: Sweden, Greece, Portugal and Canada Objectives: Automatically detect problematic interactions in deployed dialogue systems Automatic dialogue system enhancement Detection of age, arousal, certainty, gender from acoustic features Clustering of user types

57 SWE-CLARIN: Swedish language technology for the humanities and social sciences Governance and coordination SWE-CLARIN will implement Swedish national participation in CLARIN Infrastructure SWE-CLARIN will build the Swedish part of the CLARIN infrastructure Content SWE-CLARIN will create (or upgrade) key resources and tools necessary for the national CLARIN infrastructure VR Operation Grant, 9 Service Centers 5 years, approx. 50 MSEK

58 Martin Johansson (TMH)

59 Coordination of Attention and Turn-taking in Situated Interaction PI: Gabriel Skantze VR-HS, 4.5 MSEK, 5 years 1. Record humans engaged in situated three-party dialogue (e.g. Desert Survival Task) 2. Use data to build a computational model that can predict the current focus of attention and speaker shifts 3. Test model by replacing one of the speakers with a robot head (Furhat)

60 Sten Ternström

61 Extensive UNIfied-domain SimulatiON of the human voice Physics-based simulation of human voice production Parallel development of mechanical replicas and numerical models Develop a unified computational domain for solids-fluids-acoustics Contribute to the human atlas TMH + HPCViz + CB = one partner (KTH), plus Barcelona 2, Grenoble, Erlangen 7 research groups / 428 person-months / 3 M from EU March 2013 Feb 2016 Sten Ternström, Project coordinator, WP1; Olov Engwall WP7 leader; Örjan Ekeberg

62 Numerical modelling of the non-vibratory biomechanics of human voice production Build a slow 3D model of the biomechanisms that define the shape of the larynx and the oropharyngeal tract: vocal folds, epilarynx, epiglottis, velum, tongue, jaw, teeth, lips Will simulate laryngeal posturing and vocal tract articulation as required for speech Supplies more detailed boundary conditions for the fast aero-acoustic model of EUNISON Vetenskapsrådet , 3 years, 3 MSEK P.I. Sten Ternström, co-applicants Örjan Ekeberg & Olov Engwall

63 Sketching Audio Technologies using Vocalizations and Gestures Develop a system that will let sound designers sketch new sounds using their own voice and gestures as tools Partners: Univ of Venice (lead), IRCAM in Paris, KTH CSC TMH, and Genesis S.A. (a French company in sound design) KTH to study and quantify what people do when they imitate non-verbal sounds with their voice SkAT-VG: EU FET-Open , total 2.44 M, 640 k for KTH CSC. Sten Ternström leads WP2+WP3, Pétur Helgason, Roberto Bresin

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