Congratulations to Bruno de Araújo, Ricardo Jota, Varun Perumal, Jia Xian Yao, Karan Singh, and Daniel Wigdor for receiving a Lasting Impact Award for their Snake Charmer project from the ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI). You can find the full announcement here and the paper itself here.

Yue Chang, Otman Benchekroun, Prof. Eitan Grinspun and their collaborators at Meta Reality Labs Research and MIT CSAIL, Maurizio M. Chiaramonte and Peter Yichen Chen, won a Best in Show: Technical Paper award at Siggraph North America this year!  You can learn more about the paper and project here..

Congratulations to Prof. Tovi Grossman on his promotion to full professor in the Dept. of Computer Science!  Prof. Grossman joined the Dynamic Graphics Project as an associate Professor in 2018.

Prof. Ahmed was the opening keynote speaker at PDC 2024 in Malaysia. PDC is one of the premier international conferences for participatory design research, so this speaking opportunity highlights Prof. Ahmed’s significant contributions to this research area. You can find more about this year’s conference and all of the keynote speakers on the conference’s website.

Adjunct Prof. Paul Dietz was featured by the Department of Computer Science for his work on an Animatronics Workshop. This workshop is a capstone course designed to encourage undergraduate students to explore how computer-based systems can bring stories to life in K-12 classrooms. You can learn more about this exciting and engaging program in the department’s news article.

Congratulations to Prof. Ahmed and Prof. Chevalier on receiving tenure! More information on their promotions can be found here.

DGP had a whopping 32 papers accepted to CHI 2024, the premier conference for human-computer interaction research. These papers spanned various topics including AR/VR interaction, health tracking, community support systems, algorithmic fairness, and yes, LLMs. You can find the full list of papers in this article.

Otman Benchekroun led the creation of the first DGP Academy, which offers high school students the opportunity to engage in hands-on computer graphics activities and get a comprehensive view of graduate studies. Students learned about topics ranging from 3D printing to linear algebra and calculus. You can learn more about the event here: https://web.cs.toronto.edu/news-events/news/dgp-academy-high-school-students-outreach.

Congratulations to Prof. Buxton, who has been appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada for his work in HCI and user-centred design! Prof. Buxton has been a member of the DGP since the early years of the group and has published and collaborated with students and faculty here in the decades since. There is a great write-up of Bill’s history with the department and DGP on the Computer Science website and the official announcement of his appointment on the Governor General’s page.

The Faculty of Arts & Science has named Kyros Kutulakos as a recipient of this year’s Dean’s Research Excellence Award! You can read more about the award and his contributions here.