Courier / Mailing Address
Department of Computer Science
40 St. George St. STE BA4283
Toronto, ON, M5S 2E4
t. +1 (416) 978-6025 (for couriers)
t. +1 (416) 978-7777
daniel@dgp.toronto.edu
Office
Room BA5260,
40 St. George St.
Lab
I am an associate professor of computer science at the University of Toronto. My general area of research is the leveraging of computing technology to enable users to live better lives. This work includes the development of user interface software, interaction methods, sensor hardware, new device form factors, development platforms, and operating system architectures. Talks about my work in may be found online: haptics & high performance UX, post-WIMP user interfaces, and the symphony of devices.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
(see Research for a list of all publications).

Collection Objects: Enabling Fluid Formation and Manipulation of Aggregate Selections
Haijun Xia, Bruno Araujo, and Daniel Wigdor. 2017. Collection Objects: Enabling Fluid Formation and Manipulation of Aggregate Selections. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5592-5604.

GhostID: Enabling Non-Persistent User Differentiation in Frequency-Division Capacitive Multi-Touch Sensors
Sidharth Sahdev, Clifton Forlines, Ricardo Jota, Bruno De Araujo, Braon Moseley, Jonathan Deber, Steven Sanders, Darren Leigh, and Daniel Wigdor. 2017. GhostID: Enabling Non-Persistent User Differentiation in Frequency-Division Capacitive Multi-Touch Sensors. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15-27.

PhenoStacks: Cross-Sectional Cohort Phenotype Comparison Visualizations
Michael Glueck, Alina Gvozdik, Fanny Chevalier, Azam Khan, Michael Brudno, Daniel Wigdor. 2017. In IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 191-200. Jan. 31, 2017.

The Living Room: Exploring the Haunted and Paranormal to Transform Design and Interaction
Michelle Annett, Matthew Lakier, Franklin Li, Daniel Wigdor, Tovi Grossman, and George Fitzmaurice. 2016. The Living Room: Exploring the Haunted and Paranormal to Transform Design and Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1328-1340.

Foldem: Heterogeneous Object Fabrication via Selective Ablation of Multi-Material Sheets
Varun Perumal C and Daniel Wigdor. 2016. Foldem: Heterogeneous Object Fabrication via Selective Ablation of Multi-Material Sheets. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5765-5775.

Annexing Reality: Enabling Opportunistic Use of Everyday Objects as Tangible Proxies in Augmented Reality
Anuruddha Hettiarachchi and Daniel Wigdor. 2016. Annexing Reality: Enabling Opportunistic Use of Everyday Objects as Tangible Proxies in Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1957-1967.

Hammer Time! A Low-Cost, High Precision, High Accuracy Tool to Measure the Latency of Touchscreen Devices
Jonathan Deber, Bruno de Araujo, Ricardo Jota, Clifton Forlines, Darren Leigh, Steven Sanders, Daniel Wigdor. 2016. Hammer Time!: A Low-Cost, High Precision, High Accuracy Tool to Measure the Latency of Touchscreen Devices. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2857-2868 pages.

Object-Oriented Drawing
Haijun Xia, Bruno De Araujo, Tovi Grossman, and Daniel Wigdor. 2016. Object-Oriented Drawing. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4610-4621.

Snake Charmer: Physically Enabling Virtual Objects
Bruno de Araujo, Ricardo Jota, Varun Perumal, Jia Xian Yao, Karan Singh, and Daniel Wigdor. 2016. Snake Charmer: Physically Enabling Virtual Objects. In Proceedings of the TEI ’16: Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 218-226.

PhenoBlocks: Phenotype Comparison Visualizations
Michael Glueck, Peter Hamilton, Fanny Chevallier, Simon Breslav, Azam Khan, Daniel Wigdor, Michael Brudno (2016). PhenoBlocks: Phenotype Comparison Visualizations, in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 101-110, Jan. 31 2016.
Two Nominations at CHI
Speaking at CMU
Visiting Cornell Tech
Promotion to Associate Professor
CHI Papers Chair
CONTACT & DIRECTIONS
My office is # 5260, on the 5th floor of the Bahen Centre for Information Technology (BCIT), 40 St. George St, on the downtown (St. George) campus of the University of Toronto. To reach the BCIT:
Public Transit
Take the subway to the Queen’s Park station. Walk west along the north side of College St. Turn right (north) at St. George. Enter the BCIT building, the 2nd door (newer building) on the west side of the street. Take the elevator to the 5th floor.
Driving
Drive to College St., turn north onto Huron (1 block west of St. George, 1 block east of Spadina). Enter the BCIT parking garage and take the elevator to the ground floor. Turn left to enter the lobby, and take the elevator to the 5th floor.