The DGP is happy to welcome the incoming class of graduate students to the lab: Ryan McDonald, Raymond Lei, Rabia Aslam, Rinat Abdrashitov, Haijun Xia, and Liviu-Mihai Calin. Welcome to the lab, and best of luck with your research!
DGP NEWS
Prof. Grossman and Rahul Arora feature on Augumented Reality Drawing software
There is a write-up on Prof. Grossman’s and Rahul’s work on software design for 2d/3d sketching in augmented reality. https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-and-autodesk-researchers-design-2d-3d-software-augmented-reality-drawing
Upcoming Tux Talk By Ron Baecker on 27th March, 2018
Ron Baecker: AI Deployments Accelerate Without Sufficient Intelligence: Opportunities for HCI Research 2018-03-27 12:30 at DGP: BCIT, 5th Floor Abstract After 35 years of ups and downs, AI finally achieved in the last two decades triumphs over … read more
Upcoming Tux Talk By Marcelo Coelho on 13th March, 2018
Marcelo Coelho: Materializing Interaction 2018-03-13 12:30 at MaRS Abstract As technology advances and we progress towards a world imbued with computation, how will we create programmable objects and spaces that are responsive and can take full advantage … read more
Upcoming Tux Talk By Ishtiaque Ahmed and Fanny Chevalier on 27th Feb, 2018
Ishtiaque Ahmed and Fanny Chevalier: “Designing for Voice” and “Make our society think again: Cultivating critical thinking through visualization education” 2018-02-27 12:30 at DGP: BCIT, 5th Floor Ishtiaque Ahmed Abstract Voice refers to a person’s ability to … read more
Upcoming Tux Talk By Mary Lou Maher on 13th Feb, 2018
Mary Lou Maher: Designing for Gesture and Tangible Interaction 2018-02-13 12:30 at MaRS Abstract Interactive technology is increasingly integrated with physical objects that do not have a traditional keyboard and mouse style of interaction, and many do not … read more
Upcoming Tux Talk By Jay Vidyarthi on 30th, Jan 2018
Jay Vidyarthi: The Role of Mindfulness in Design Activism 2018-01-30 12:30 at DGP: BCIT, 5th Floor Abstract In the past few years, we’ve witnessed powerful unintended consequences of modern technology. Researchers and journalists have been publishing … read more
Haijun Xia wins 2018 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
Since 2008, Microsoft has awarded research fellowships to support talented graduate students. This year, Haijun Xia was selected as one of the 2018 recipients! The fellowship will support his research in HCI and creating tools to enhance creativity. For more … read more
Upcoming Tux Talk By Sara Diamond on 16th January, 2018
Sara Diamond: Data Visualization – Fundamental 21st Century Knowledge 2018-01-16 12:30 at MaRS Abstract I side-stepped into data visualization two decades ago, as an artist trying to answer a series of related questions about IRC chat that had … read more
Upcoming Tux Talk By Christopher Collins on 5th Dec, 2017
Christopher Collins: Finding What to Read: Visual Text Analytics Tools and Techniques to Guide Investigation 2017-12-05 12:30 at DGP: BCIT, 5th Floor Abstract Text is one of the most prominent forms of open data available, from social media … read more
Upcoming Tux Talk By Bill Buxton on 21st Nov, 2017
Bill Buxton: Ubiety: On Design, Place and the Importance of Manners 2017-11-21 12:30 at MaRS Abstract It is a paradox that the better we get at producing useful, affordable, desirable, usable technologies, the more we are confronted by complexity … read more