Hci-external April 2016

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[urg] Weekly HCI Group Meeting starts today at 12:30
by Candice Lin 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

Hi! Our weekly meetings starts at 12:30 today!! As always, lunch will be provided. This week, Haijun Xia and Mingming Fan are presenting!! Hope to see you there! Regards, Candice Lin

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ToRCHI event: CIBC UX Lab Tour
by Cosmin Munteanu 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

Some of you may be interested in this ToRCHI event: http://torchi.org/event-2216229 CIBC UX Lab Tour - UX Research & Design at CIBC Date: Thursday April 28, 2016, 7:00PM Time: Networking starts at 6:45pm, Presentation starts at 7pm Location: Atrium On Bay building, 40 Dundas St West, Middle elevators on ground floor (near Timothy's coffee). Access available through Dundas subway station. Cost: Free. Please RSVP as we need to get people inside our secure doors. Presenters: Kalin Bhatia & Nuno Carreira ABSTRACT CIBC's Digital Client Experience department includes a team of 40+ designers that work on public-facing products such as online banking, mobile banking, marketing site, pcfinancial banking, and bank machines. We have a small but dedicated team of user researchers that test out our design ideas across multiple platforms in our own modest usability lab. Kalin who facilitates most of our usability tests will give you a tour and share some research findings. Our design and research processes are always evolving and Nuno will give you a sneak glimpse into our rapid development process for our Banking App on the Apple Watch through our collaboration with the MaRS innovation lab. -- Dr. Cosmin Munteanu Assistant Professor Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto Mississauga Co-Director Technologies for Aging Gracefully Lab, University of Toronto Assistant Professor (Cross-appointed) Faculty of Information, University of Toronto Assistant Professor (Cross-appointed) Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Email: cosmin(a)taglab.ca Phone: 905-569-4294 Web: http://cosmin.taglab.ca CCT Building Rm. 3067 University of Toronto Mississauga 3359 Mississauga Road Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6

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[Tux] Rhonda McEwen Tomorrow @ DGP
by Tovi Grossman 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Good morning Tux! A reminder that our final TUX talk of the year will take place tomorrow at 12:30pm in the DGP Lab - 40 St. George St. Room 5166. We will be having a member presentation from Prof. Rhonda McEwen from University of Toronto's iSchool and Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi Tuesday, April 19 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Prof. Rhonda McEwen DGP Lab @ 40 St. George St.<https://goo.gl/maps/7ePPGa83WJL2> Room 5166 Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. Presentation begins at 1pm. Intuitive or Idiomatic? An information studies and cognitive psychology study of child-tablet computer interaction Since 2009, Dr. Rhonda McEwen has conducted communications research involving touch-mediated technologies in educational institutions including students with special needs. This experience had a profound effect on her intellectual work and she now describes herself as a scholar of tactile interfaces as her work involves mobile media and cognitive informatics. McEwen's publications detail results of her research on the use of mobile media and resultant consequences for information interpretation, learning, and touch-interaction design. Today she shares her experiences of conducting research with this special population and offers insights on the relationship between gestures and information processing. Speaker Bio: Rhonda McEwen is an assistant professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology and at the iSchool, at the University of Toronto. She holds an MBA in IT from City University in London, England, an MSc in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado, and a PhD in Information from University of Toronto. Dr. McEwen has worked and researched digital communication media for 15 years, both in companies providing services and in management consulting to those companies. Her research and teaching centre around information practices involving new media technologies - with an emphasis on mobile and tablet communication, new media, social networks, and sensory information processing. CBS 60 Minutes journalists covered McEwen's research in 2012 & 2013, and she has recent publications in Information, Communication & Society, Computers and Education, Learning & Instruction, New Media and Society, and Library and Information Science Research journals. 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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[urg] Weekly HCI group meeting starts Tuesday 12:30
by Candice Lin 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

Hello (from the other side), Our bi-weekly meeting starts tommorrow Tuesday(April 12th) in the DGP seminar room! As always, lunch will be provided. We have once again two brainstorming sessions planned for this week. Mingming Fan will be presenting first, his abstract is as follows: Sensing techniques have been gaining a lot of attention in ubiquitous computing (UbiComp) and HCI community for a variety of applications. Based on whether a signal (e.g., audio) has been generated and outputted actively from the computing unit (e.g., sensor, phone), sensing techniques can be categorized into passive sensing and active sensing. By analyzing how that output signal is affected by a system (e.g., space, object), rich information can be learnt about that system. In this presentation, I will present a few example applications of using active probing methods drawn from both my own work and others. I hope to use these examples to provoke a thorough discussion about the following three questions and beyond: 1) What extensions can be done toward these applications? 2) What other interesting applications can the active probing method also be used for? 3) How to demonstrate the applications are actually useful and practical? Rachel Franz and Caleb will be next. Their abstract is as follows: We would like to lead a session to brainstorm potential concepts or design spaces for CHI's art exhibition. Our goal is to create an experiential and conceptual installation that engages the diverse CHI audience from designers to scientists Hope to see you there, Candice Lin

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[Tux] Tomorrow, Tux presents: Dr. Yang Li's Sanders Series lecture
by Ali Mazalek 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

Hello Tux! A reminder that our final Sanders Series Invited Lecture of this academic year will take place *_tomorrow_* at 12:30pm in the MaRS auditorium. We are very excited to be hosting Dr. Yang Li from Google. See you tomorrow! --- Dr. Yang Li: Enabling New Input Dimensions for Mobile Interaction 2016-04-05 12:30 at MaRS Auditorium <https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6599132,-79.3…> The limited interaction bandwidth of existing mobile user interfaces is incompatible with the rapidly growing computing power of mobile and wearable devices. To address this problem, it is important to explore new interaction dimensions that can utilize the rich sensing capabilities of these devices as well as their seamless integration into our everyday activity. In this talk, I will first describe how we can significantly reduce user effort in mobile interaction, at scale, by leveraging gestural input. I will then describe how to empower developers to leverage new input dimensions such as gestural, cross-device and contextual input through new tools and frameworks. From these systems, I will discuss how these input dimensions, though natural to the user, deeply challenge traditional interactive computing, and how we can address this challenge by providing high-level tool support. 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 Chinese Academy of Sciences, and conducted postdoctoral research in EECS at the 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 gestures and cameras), cross-device interaction and predictive user interfaces. Yang wrote Gesture Search, a popular Android app for random access of mobile content using gestures. Yang develops software tool support and recognition methods by drawing insights from user behaviors, and leveraging techniques such as machine learning, computer vision and crowdsourcing to make complex tasks simple and intuitive. ** *OUR SPONSORS:* *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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Re: [Hci-external] What's realer than real?
by Daniel Wigdor 02 Apr '16

02 Apr '16

Nuts, they scooped the visual follow-up to Anu's Annexing Reality project. Ah well. -Daniel On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 3:46 PM -0700, "Michael Glueck" <mglueck(a)dgp.toronto.edu<mailto:mglueck@dgp.toronto.edu>> wrote: Google Plastic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkOuShXpoKc (Thought people interested in VR would get a kick out of this) Happy April 1st - Mike

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What's realer than real?
by Michael Glueck 01 Apr '16

01 Apr '16

Google Plastic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkOuShXpoKc (Thought people interested in VR would get a kick out of this) Happy April 1st - Mike

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