Hci-external March 2016

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Re: [Hci-external] Demo Schedule for Dr. Yang Li' DGP Visit
by Haijun Xia 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Hi Mingming, Do you want to have a chat with Dr. Yang Li? Thanks, Haijun From: Haijun Xia [mailto:haijunxia@dgp.toronto.edu] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 7:59 PM To: 'hci(a)dgp.toronto.edu' <hci(a)dgp.toronto.edu>; 'graphics(a)dgp.toronto.edu' <graphics(a)dgp.toronto.edu> Subject: RE: Demo Schedule for Dr. Yang Li' DGP Visit A reminder of scheduling a demo for Dr. Yang Li. Many of you are working on submissions.. but please do consider the benefits of exposing your exciting work to the best researcher in our field and making connections to Google Research. Thanks, Haijun From: Haijun Xia [mailto:haijunxia@dgp.toronto.edu] Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2016 3:56 PM To: 'hci(a)dgp.toronto.edu' <hci(a)dgp.toronto.edu <mailto:hci@dgp.toronto.edu> >; 'graphics(a)dgp.toronto.edu' <graphics(a)dgp.toronto.edu <mailto:graphics@dgp.toronto.edu> > Subject: Demo Schedule for Dr. Yang Li' DGP Visit Good afternoon everyone, Dr. Yang Li is visiting our lab on Wednesday, April 6th after his TUX talk on Tuesday. I am putting together the demo schedule for him. His will be seeing demos at10:30 am - 12 am and 2:15pm - 5pm. Please let me know by Monday night if you want to give a demo with the time you prefer. Thanks, Haijun You can find his bio here: Yang Li is a Senior Research Scientist in Human Computer Interaction and Mobile Computing at Google. He leads the Predictive User Interfaces group at Google. He is also an affiliate faculty member in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the <http://english.cas.ac.cn/> Chinese Academy of Sciences, and conducted postdoctoral research in <http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/> EECS at the <http://www.berkeley.edu/> University of California at Berkeley. He has published over 50 papers in the field of Human Computer Interaction, including 29 publications at CHI, UIST and TOCHI. He has constantly served on the program committees of top-tier HCI and mobile computing conferences. Yang's research focuses on novel tools and methods for creating mobile interaction behaviors, particularly regarding emerging input modalities (such as <http://yangl.org/pdf/gesturesearch-uist2010.pdf> gestures and <http://youtu.be/JJSZGdMYV9s> cameras), <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGqn1FQRQPQ> cross-device <http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/09/projecting-without-projector-sha ring.html> interaction and <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2647355> predictive user interfaces. Yang wrote <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.gestu research&hl=en> Gesture Search, a popular Android app for random access of mobile content using gestures. Yang develops <http://youtu.be/8OXExn29OTE> software tool support and <http://yangl.org/pdf/protractor-chi2010.pdf> recognition methods by drawing insights from <http://yangl.org/pdf/motiongestures-chi2011.pdf> user behaviors, and leveraging techniques such as machine learning, computer vision and <http://yangl.org/pdf/crowdlearner.pdf> crowdsourcing to make complex tasks simple and intuitive.

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[urg] Weekly HCI group meeting starts Tuesday 12:30
by Candice Lin 28 Mar '16

28 Mar '16

Hello guys, This is a reminder than our HCI meeting starts tommorrow (March 29th) in the DGP lab at 12:30. Lunch will be provided as always. We have two brainstorming sessions lined up for this week, so bring be prepared to share your brilliant ideas!! Our first presenter is* Caleb Lu*. His abstract is as follows: In this brainstorm, I would like to explore the opportunities in which HCI intersects with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to enable people, especially in writing. Writing research paper can be extremely challenging for novice researchers and non-native speakers, due to lack of knowledge about academic English. There have been some useful apps to assist users in writing such as Grammarly and Linggle, and some interactive machine translation systems. Researchers in NLP field have also built many systems with better accuracy and performance. However, the user interface and interaction of such systems haven’t been explored much. Such intelligent writing support system needs new interfaces so that users can write efficiently and correctly without interruptions and focus on expressing their ideas. We will try to figure out what kinds of assistance are needed for such systems, and discuss how to design the interaction to assist people in academic writing. Our second presenter is *Nicole Sultanum. *The title of her brainstorm is: Navigating stories in a narrative corpus. The abstract of her brainstorming session is: A narrative corpus (my own defined term) is a collection of text documents (structured or not) that convey a story somehow; examples include twitter conversations, a collection of news about a certain topic and medical patient records. Getting a gist of its underlying story and navigating its several layers of meaning can be very challenging, given the heterogeneity, unstructuredness and potentially large size of such corpora. In this session, I would like to brainstorm ways to represent and navigate these various levels of meaning (from the higher abstraction levels to the lower-level snippets of text), allowing users to obtain adequate awareness on the corpus stories in a quicker and more intuitive way. It's going to be a packed meeting!! I look forward to seeing you tomorrow! Regards, Candice Lin

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Re: [Hci-external] Demo Schedule for Dr. Yang Li' DGP Visit
by Haijun Xia 28 Mar '16

28 Mar '16

A reminder of scheduling a demo for Dr. Yang Li. Many of you are working on submissions.. but please do consider the benefits of exposing your exciting work to the best researcher in our field and making connections to Google Research. Thanks, Haijun From: Haijun Xia [mailto:haijunxia@dgp.toronto.edu] Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2016 3:56 PM To: 'hci(a)dgp.toronto.edu' <hci(a)dgp.toronto.edu>; 'graphics(a)dgp.toronto.edu' <graphics(a)dgp.toronto.edu> Subject: Demo Schedule for Dr. Yang Li' DGP Visit Good afternoon everyone, Dr. Yang Li is visiting our lab on Wednesday, April 6th after his TUX talk on Tuesday. I am putting together the demo schedule for him. His will be seeing demos at10:30 am - 12 am and 2:15pm - 5pm. Please let me know by Monday night if you want to give a demo with the time you prefer. Thanks, Haijun You can find his bio here: Yang Li is a Senior Research Scientist in Human Computer Interaction and Mobile Computing at Google. He leads the Predictive User Interfaces group at Google. He is also an affiliate faculty member in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the <http://english.cas.ac.cn/> Chinese Academy of Sciences, and conducted postdoctoral research in <http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/> EECS at the <http://www.berkeley.edu/> University of California at Berkeley. He has published over 50 papers in the field of Human Computer Interaction, including 29 publications at CHI, UIST and TOCHI. He has constantly served on the program committees of top-tier HCI and mobile computing conferences. Yang's research focuses on novel tools and methods for creating mobile interaction behaviors, particularly regarding emerging input modalities (such as <http://yangl.org/pdf/gesturesearch-uist2010.pdf> gestures and <http://youtu.be/JJSZGdMYV9s> cameras), <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGqn1FQRQPQ> cross-device <http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/09/projecting-without-projector-sha ring.html> interaction and <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2647355> predictive user interfaces. Yang wrote <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.gestu research&hl=en> Gesture Search, a popular Android app for random access of mobile content using gestures. Yang develops <http://youtu.be/8OXExn29OTE> software tool support and <http://yangl.org/pdf/protractor-chi2010.pdf> recognition methods by drawing insights from <http://yangl.org/pdf/motiongestures-chi2011.pdf> user behaviors, and leveraging techniques such as machine learning, computer vision and <http://yangl.org/pdf/crowdlearner.pdf> crowdsourcing to make complex tasks simple and intuitive.

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FW: [graphics] Talk by Nobuyuki Umetani TOMORROW (March 29th 2pm ba5187)
by Michael Glueck 28 Mar '16

28 Mar '16

Hi Everyone, If you like music or 3d printing, you should come to this talk. A colleague of mine from Autodesk will be giving a talk during the Graphics group meeting tomorrow at 2pm. He does very interesting work that mixes real-time interaction, simulation, and fabrication to create very cool novel objects – that actually work. Check out a previous project to design arbitrary airplanes (that actually fly): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KJUVJAUY8o - Mike ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <mtao(a)dgp.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 5:03 PM Subject: [graphics] Talk by Nobuyuki Umetani TOMORROW (March 29th 2pm ba5187) To: graphics(a)dgp.toronto.edu Hey everyone, Sorry for the late notice, but Nobuyuki's back to give another great talk and I'm hoping plenty of you will be able to attend! This time he'll be talking about some of his recent work on designing 3d-printed wind instruments! The talk will be held in the graphics seminar room (BA5187). I hope to see everyone there! Attached are some images of his results as a preview for his talk :). -Michael Title: Printone: Interactive Free-form Design of Print-wind Instruments Abstract: This paper presents an interactive design interface for three dimensional free-form musical wind instruments. The sound of a wind instrument is governed by the acoustic resonance as a result of complicated interactions of sound waves and internal geometries of the instrument. Thus, creating an original free-form wind instrument by manual methods is a very challenging problem. Our interface provides interactive sound simulation feedback as the user edits, allowing exploration of original wind instrument designs. Sound simulation of a three dimensional wind musical instrument is known to be very computationally expensive. To overcome this problem, we present a novel fast resonance frequency prediction method based on the boundary element method. Specifically, we formulate the resonance problem as an minimum eigenvalue problem of a nonlinear matrix. Furthermore, we can efficiently compute an approximate resonance frequency using a new technique based on a generalized eigenvalue problem. The designed wind instrument can be fabricated using a 3D printer, thus we call this new kind of musical instruments “print-wind instruments” in association with woodwind instruments. We demonstrate our approach with examples of unconventional functional wind instruments. ___________________________________________ graphics mailing list graphics(a)dgp.toronto.edu https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/graphics

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Demo Schedule for Dr. Yang Li' DGP Visit
by Haijun Xia 26 Mar '16

26 Mar '16

Good afternoon everyone, Dr. Yang Li is visiting our lab on Wednesday, April 6th after his TUX talk on Tuesday. I am putting together the demo schedule for him. His will be seeing demos at10:30 am - 12 am and 2:15pm - 5pm. Please let me know by Monday night if you want to give a demo with the time you prefer. Thanks, Haijun You can find his bio here: Yang Li is a Senior Research Scientist in Human Computer Interaction and Mobile Computing at Google. He leads the Predictive User Interfaces group at Google. He is also an affiliate faculty member in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the <http://english.cas.ac.cn/> Chinese Academy of Sciences, and conducted postdoctoral research in <http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/> EECS at the <http://www.berkeley.edu/> University of California at Berkeley. He has published over 50 papers in the field of Human Computer Interaction, including 29 publications at CHI, UIST and TOCHI. He has constantly served on the program committees of top-tier HCI and mobile computing conferences. Yang's research focuses on novel tools and methods for creating mobile interaction behaviors, particularly regarding emerging input modalities (such as <http://yangl.org/pdf/gesturesearch-uist2010.pdf> gestures and <http://youtu.be/JJSZGdMYV9s> cameras), <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGqn1FQRQPQ> cross-device <http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/09/projecting-without-projector-sha ring.html> interaction and <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2647355> predictive user interfaces. Yang wrote <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.gestu research&hl=en> Gesture Search, a popular Android app for random access of mobile content using gestures. Yang develops <http://youtu.be/8OXExn29OTE> software tool support and <http://yangl.org/pdf/protractor-chi2010.pdf> recognition methods by drawing insights from <http://yangl.org/pdf/motiongestures-chi2011.pdf> user behaviors, and leveraging techniques such as machine learning, computer vision and <http://yangl.org/pdf/crowdlearner.pdf> crowdsourcing to make complex tasks simple and intuitive.

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[Tux] Today: Cosmin Munteanu @ DGP Lab at U of T
by Daniel Wigdor 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

[cid:image013.png@01D18397.BC4C9190] [cid:image014.png@01D18397.BC4C9190] [cid:image015.png@01D18397.BC4C9190] Good morning. A reminder of Cosmin Munteanu's talk tomorrow, in the DGP Lab at U of T. Come to 40 St. George St, room 5187. Today! Tuesday, March 22 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Prof. Cosmin Munteanu, PhD DGP Lab @ 40 St. George St. room 5187 Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm, talk to begin at 1:00 sharp. Please share this invitation with anyone who conducts HCI research, corporate or academic, in the Toronto area. [http://www.tux-hci.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cosmin-150x150.jpg] Abstract Humans' natural abilities have allowed us to interact with the surrounding environment in complex ways, from easily manipulating physical objects to communicating with others through speech. Yet when we interact with many digital technologies, we largely do so by ceding direct control and instead employing (digital) proxies. For marginalized user groups, such interactions may present insurmountable barriers that only widen our information-centric society's digital divide. While speech and multimodal interaction are often challenging computationally, I have shown in my research that, despite their inherent lack of accuracy, they can empower the users and allow them to interact in almost material ways with digital artefacts. This has the potential to make assistive technologies more interactive and more adoptable by their users. In this talk, I will briefly discuss how speech processing, despite its inherent limitations, can be used to enhance current interaction paradigms. I will then argue that such natural interactions can be particularly useful in improving marginalized users' interaction with assistive technologies. To support this, I will present several examples of multimodal assistive technologies that support older adults and low-literacy adults in their daily lives. Bio Cosmin Munteanu is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology (University of Toronto at Mississauga), and Co-Director of the Technologies for Ageing Gracefully lab (Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto). His area of expertise is at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural User Interfaces, Mobile Computing, Ethics in Computing Research, and Assistive Technologies. His main research goal is to bridge the digital divides faced by under-represented users by designing natural, meaningful, culturally-appropriate, and safe interactions between people, media, and computing devices. Cosmin's multidisciplinary interests include developing applications that improve access to information for marginalized user groups, such as for elders whose enjoyment of life and participation in society could be better supported by advances in interactive assistive technologies. [cid:image017.png@01D18397.BC4C9190] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image018.jpg@01D18397.BC4C9190] Tux is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk, University of Toronto Departments of Computer Science, and MaRS. About MaRS: MaRS is the one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs-a place for collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship. Located in the heart of Toronto's research district, MaRS provides the space, training, talent and networks required to commercialize important discoveries and launch and grow Canadian startups. _______________________________________________ Tux-announce mailing list Tux-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tux-announce

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[urg] Weekly HCI group meeting starts Tuesday 12:30
by Candice Lin 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Hello guys, Our bi-weekly HCI group meeting starts tommorrow at 12:30pm. Our presenter this week is Haijun. As usual, food will be provided. Looking forward to seeing you there! Here is the abstract from Haijun: In the meeting this week, I would like to gain insights from you about interaction with hierarchical data and hierarchy itself. Hierarchy exists in many kinds of data, such as vector graphics, 3d models, and the language you speak. And it is important, in some applications, to maintain the hierarchy, e.g. layer panel of Illustrator. Unfortunately, the mechanism to interact with hierarchy is either missing or lacking advanced functionalities. In this meeting, I will first present you a couple of applications to show how hierarchy can assist the interaction with the domain data. We will then brainstorm other aspects of the interaction with hierarchy and hierarchical data. Best Regards, Candice Lin

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GVD DGP Meeting Schedule
by Aakar Gupta 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Hi all, Here's the meeting schedule for the incoming HCI students (attached). Please see what time(s) you need to be available at your desk. After your meeting with a student, please drop him/her off at the desk of their next meeting. Also, please check if the student you are meeting with is scheduled with a faculty member just before you, in which case, you will also need to go to the faculty office to pick the student up. At 12:15 pm sharp, we have the lab tour, so please guide them to the reception desk at the DGP entrance if you have a meeting in the 11:45 to 12:15 slot. Please feel free to approach the meetings as you like. Usually, we demo/talk about our research, about their interests, their queries, and anything else including the lab, University, logistics etc. Thanks! -Aakar

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Grad Visit Day: Student Meeting Sign-Up
by Aakar Gupta 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

Hi all, This Friday, March 11, the department will be playing host to its admitted graduate students. HCI at DGP has 8 potential students coming to visit. And DGP needs your help! Let's show off the lab and show all 8 that they should come and join the DGP! We will be making arrangements for current students and post docs to meet with potential students in 1/2 hour slots. There are upcoming conference deadlines, but it will be hugely appreciated if you make yourself available for at least 4 slots. Please go to this link to list your availability before Tuesday night - http://doodle.com/poll/6tuax8rpqwf2545x The list of potential students: 172 Chen, Di 350 Chan, Harris 428 Huynh, Sophia 641 Liaqat, Amna 717 Williams, Courtney 732 Li, Jiannan 811 Cook, Simon 909 Botros, Fadi Thanks, Aakar

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[Tux] Final Reminder! David Salesin Today @ MaRS
by Tovi Grossman 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

Good morning Tux! Final reminder that our next Sanders Series Invited Lecture will take place today at 12:30pm in the MaRS Auditorium (basement level). The title and abstract for David's talk are now included below. As a reminder, the videos from our past Sanders Series lecturers have been posted on the Tux-hci.org website. To find a video for a speaker, simply look up the listing of their talk under "Past Speakers", and find the YouTube video embedded. You can also find the videos on our YouTube channel<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3ZH7kOtWXlu-ypJ6iD5Bg>. See you there! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi Tuesday, March 8 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Dr. David Salesin The MaRS Discovery District Audtiorium @ 101 College St<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6598335,-79.38…>. (Basement Level) Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. Presentation begins at 1pm. Observations On Doing Research and On Creating Sublime User Experiences In this talk I will draw upon my own experiences as a computer graphics researcher and as a tango dancer to provide a very personal perspective on how research works, and on how to create sublime user experiences. Bio I lead the Adobe Creative Technologies Lab, which I founded when I joined Adobe Systems<http://www.adobe.com/> in 2005. I am also an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington<http://www.washington.edu/>, where I have been on the faculty<http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/> since 1992. I received my Sc.B. from Brown University<http://www.cs.brown.edu/> in 1983, and my Ph.D. from Stanford University<http://www-cs.stanford.edu/> in 1991. From 1983-87, I worked at Lucasfilm<http://www.lucasarts.com/> and Pixar<http://www.pixar.com/>, where I contributed computer animation for the Academy Award-winning short film, "Tin Toy," and the feature-length film, Young Sherlock Holmes. I spent the 1991-92 year as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program of Computer Graphics<http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/> at Cornell University<http://www.cs.cornell.edu/>. In 1996, I co-founded two companies, where I served as Chief Scientist: Inklination<http://inklination.com/> and Numinous Technologies<http://numinous.com/>. When the latter was acquired by Microsoft<http://www.microsoft.com/> in 1999, I worked as a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research<http://www.research.microsoft.com/> until 2005, while remaining on the UW faculty. Over the years, I have also worked as an intern or consultant at a number of production studios and research labs, including Sogitec Audiovisuel<http://www.sogitec.com/> in (Paris), DEC Systems Research Center, DEC Paris Research Lab, Aldus (now part of Adobe<http://www.adobe.com/>), Xerox PARC<http://www.parc.xerox.com/>, and Broderbund<http://www.broderbund.com/>. I received an NSF<http://www.nsf.gov/> Young Investigator award in 1993; an ONR<http://www.navy.mil/> Young Investigator Award, Alfred P. Sloan<http://www.sloan.org/> Research Fellowship<http://www.sloan.org/programs/scitech_fellowships.shtml>, and an NSF<http://www.nsf.gov/> Presidential Faculty Fellow Award<http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2001/nsf01118/nsf01118_2.pdf> in 1995; the University of Washington Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in the College of Engineering in 1996; the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award<http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/june97/salesin.html> in 1997; The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching<http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/> and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education<http://www.case.org/> 1998-1999 Washington Professor of the Year Award<http://www.case.org/awards/poy.htm> in 1998; and the ACM<http://www.acm.org/> SIGGRAPH<http://www.siggraph.org/> Computer Graphics Achievement Award<http://www.siggraph.org/awards/> in 2000. I was named a Guest Professor of Zhejiang University<http://www.zju.edu.cn/english/> and an ACM Fellow<http://fellows.acm.org/> in 2002. My research interests are in computer graphics and include digital photography and video, automatic design & presentation of information, non-photorealistic rendering, visualization, image-based rendering, digital typography, and color. My outside interests include Argentine tango, photography, Aikido<http://www.aikiweb.com/> (in which I hold a black belt), printmaking, piano, saxophone, flying, traveling, cooking, old films, backpacking, skiing, mountain biking, and chocolate. OUR SPONSORS: TUX is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk, University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and MaRS. About MaRS: MaRS is the one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs-a place for collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship. Located in the heart of Toronto's research district, MaRS provides the space, training, talent and networks required to commercialize important discoveries and launch and grow Canadian startups. _______________________________________________ Tux-announce mailing list Tux-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tux-announce

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