The University of Toronto's Dynamic Graphics Project (dgp) is an interdisciplinary research laboratory within the Department of Computer Science. The lab's mission is advanced research and graduate instruction in human-computer interaction and computer graphics.  dgp is home base to Computer Science faculty and students in these two areas.

News:

10 new students join the lab in September 2008: Simon Breslav, Rhys Causey, Dustin Freeman, Chris Gonterman, Igor Mordatch, Peter O'Donovan, Nicholas Shim, Huixuan Tang, Jonathan Taylor, Andrew Trusty. Welcome!

DGPis40: Celebrate 40 years since the founding of DGP! Our anniversary celebration will be held on May 28-30.

DGP authors receive 3 Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards and 1 Best Note Award at the ACM CHI 2008 Conference:

Elaine Huang & Khai Truong. (2008). Breaking the Disposable Technology Paradigm: Opportunities for Sustainable Interaction Design for Mobile Phones. CHI 2008 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award.

Xiang Cao, Jacky Jie Li, & Ravin Balakrishnan. (2008). Peephole Pointing: Modeling Acquisition of Dynamically Revealed Targets. CHI 2008 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award.

Géry Casiez & Daniel Vogel. (2008). The Effect of Spring Stiffness and Control Gain with an Elastic Rate Control Pointing Device. CHI 2008 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award.

Karen Cheng, Francisco Ernesto, & Khai Truong. (2008). Participant and Interviewer Attitudes toward Handheld Computers in the Context of HIV/AIDS Programs in Sub- Saharan Africa. CHI 2008 Best Note Award.

DGP members co-author 15 Full-length Papers and 4 Notes at CHI 2008. See program for details.

11 new students join the lab in September 2007: Andy Chow, Patrick Dubroy, Kent Fenwick, Alecia Fowler, Justin Ho, Miller Peterson, Kevin Tonon, Olga Vesselova, Sofia Karygianni, David Nowak, Matthew O'Toole. Welcome!

Daniel Wigdor's research on LucidTouch featured in MIT Technology Review

Karan Singh awarded an Ontario Early Researcher Award

Karan Singh and Alexis Angelidis received the Best Paper Award at the SCA 2007 Conference for their paper Kinodynamic skinning using volume-preserving deformations

Khai Truong in the National Post story, "In future, everything will be a computer"

Chris Collins' research featured in the Toronto Star

Ron Baecker awarded a 2007 ORION Leadership Award of Merit

Daniel Vogel and Patrick Baudisch's research on Shift featured in MIT Technology Review and ComputerWorld

Shengdong Zhao, Pierre Dragicevic, Mark Chignell, Ravin Balakrishnan, and Patrick Baudisch''s research on earPod featured in MIT Technology Review

Xiang Cao and Ravin Balakrishnan's research on handheld projector interaction featured in torontoist

Karan Singh, Ravin Balakrishnan, Steve Tsang and Abhishek Ranjan's research and licensee Sketch2 Corp. featured in the Globe and Mail

Anand Agarawala and Ravin Balakrishnan's research and startup BumpTop featured in NY Times (twice), PCWorld, MIT Tech Review, Digg (twice), BusinessWeek, CNET, CBC News, Lifehacker, Gizmodo. Others.  Video Interview: Digital Image Fest Video Podcast. The video of the BumpTop interface is the most watched video of software on YouTube, ever (well at least at the time of the video's release :-).

Daniel Vogel and Patrick Baudisch received the Best Paper Award at the ACM CHI 2007 Conference for their paper Shift: A technique for operating pen-based interfaces using touch.

DGP members co-author 15 full papers at CHI 2007.

Ravin Balakrishnan awarded a 2007 Sloan Fellowship

Tovi Grossman awarded a 2007 Microsoft Fellowship.

Sam Hasinoff and Kyros Kutulakos received the Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention at the 9th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2006) for their paper Confocal Stereo.

Abhishek Ranjan, Jeremy Birnholtz and Ravin Balakrishnan received an Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award at the ACM CSCW 2006 Conference for their paper An exploratory analysis of partner action and camera control in a video-mediated collaborative task.

David Fono and Scott Counts received the Best Note Award at the ACM CSCW 2006 Conference for their note Sandboxes: Supporting social play through collaborative multimedia composition on mobile phones.

Anastasia Bezerianos, Pierre Dragicevic and Ravin Balakrishnan received the Best Student Paper Award at the ACM UIST 2006 conference for their paper Mnemonic rendering: An image-based approach for exposing hidden changes in dynamic displays.

Michael McGuffin ties for 1st place in the "Theoretical" category at the Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD) 2006..

Aaron Hertzmann awarded a Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship.

12 new students to join the lab in September 2006: James McCrae, Sasidharan Vadakkepat, Chris Scheibe, Adrian Stere, Kalyan Sunkhavalli, Xiaojun Bi, Gerry Chu, Koji Yatani, Clifton Forlines, Michael Jurka, Ryan Schmidt, David Dearman. Welcome!

DGP members co-author 6 full papers at UIST 2006, 2 full papers and 2 notes at CSCW 2006.

Aaron Hertzmann awarded a 2006 Sloan Fellowship, and an Ontario Early Researcher Award

DGP members to present 8 full papers at CHI 2006.

DGP members present 2 papers at NIPS 2005.