Hci-external November 2017

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Next HCI Meeting Agenda
by Seyong Ha 29 Nov '17

29 Nov '17

Hi folks, As we have discussed today, next HCI meeting will be our last meeting in 2017. No session slots available for the last meeting, instead everyone will bring their 5 minutes research activity summary of 2017. This will includes: - Research you’ve done - Research you’re planning to - Research idea you’ve developed. - Interesting papers you’ve read in 2017. I am sure this would be good time to share your research with folks. Google presentation is only acceptable. (via sharing link or docs). Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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Reminder: HCI Meeting Tomorrow
by Seyong Ha 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

Hi Folks, We will have a HCI meeting tomorrow at 12:30pm @ DGP Seminar room. Nicole will present her recent work submitted at CHI 2018. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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HCI Meeting at Nov 28th Tudesday
by Seyong Ha 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

Hi folks, Our HCI Meeting is on Tuesday at 12:30pm at DGP seminar room. If anyone wants to have their own session, please reply by email. Short and Long, both are welcome. Session leaders will be announced this evening. Lunch will be served. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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Re: [Hci-external] [Tux] TUX Reminder: Bill Buxton Speaking Today!
by Adnan Smajlovic 21 Nov '17

21 Nov '17

Hi Tovi, Is it too late to register for a presentation? Thanks, Adnan From: tux-announce <tux-announce-bounces(a)dgp.toronto.edu> on behalf of Tovi Grossman <Tovi.Grossman(a)autodesk.com> Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 10:05 AM To: "tux-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu" <tux-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu> Subject: [Tux] TUX Reminder: Bill Buxton Speaking Today! [id:image005.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] [id:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210] [id:image008.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] Hello TUX! A reminder that today we have a Sanders Series Invited Lecture by Dr. Bill Buxton. Please note: There is a special start time of 1:15pm for this week’s talk. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture: Dr. Bill Buxton November 21st, 2017. Autodesk MaRS IDEaS Lab, 661 University Avenue, Ground Floor. Lunch reception begins at 12:40pm. Presentation begins at 1:15pm. [cid:image004.png@01D362B1.4734C350] Ubiety: On Design, Place and the Importance of Manners It is a paradox that the better we get at producing useful, affordable, desirable, usable technologies, the more we are confronted by complexity and lack of overall satisfaction. This is partially, or even mainly, due to the demands for economies of scale. Hence, we are deluged by digital do-dads – apps, services and gadgets which on their own may be wonderful, but collectively create an overly complex ecosystem of baubles. What is missed is that the cumulative complexity of enough such baubles crosses the barrier, above which the ecosystem becomes inscrutable. Lying behind this is that things simply do not work together. In a world dominated by “social computing”, there are virtually no social relationships amongst the technologies themselves. Weiser’s label, Ubiquitous Computing, holds. But the result has little or anything to do with what he – or the rest of us on the team – envisioned or intended. My argument is that he used the wrong word. Ubiquity, i.e, technology everywhere, all the time, etc. is no panacea. Rather, the word that fits far better is Ubiety – a closely related term, but one which has at its core the notion of place. Hence, it points towards the right technology at the right place – extended (in my usage, at least) to encompass place in the physical sense, but also time, social, cultural, temporal, absolute, relative, etc. Furthermore, if we layer the notion of mobility of human action on this framing, what emerges is an enhanced sense of the importance of transitions, and adaptation. This, by way of Piaget, leads us to perhaps a different way of thinking about intelligence – of human and machine – and how intelligent design may pave the way to wrestling the ever-growing complexity to the ground, thus enabling us, and our technologies, to meet our true and worthy potential. Bio: Bill has been walking the path between where people and technology meet for over 40 years – as a designer, musician, lecturer, writer, teacher, critic and researcher. His focus has always been on the human, and his work reflects a particular interest in the creative disciplines. He believes that appropriate design is that which enhances human intelligence and creativity, not replaces it. As a practicing skeptimist, he is a devotee of Melvin Kranzberg’s first law: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” His corollary to this is, “Without informed design, it is more likely to lean to the bad than the good.” It is towards becoming thus informed, and enlisting others to do so as well, that both his work, and this talk, are directed. [id:image009.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] OUR SPONSORS: [id:image010.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] 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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[Tux] TUX Reminder: Bill Buxton Speaking Today!
by Tovi Grossman 21 Nov '17

21 Nov '17

[cid:image005.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] [cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210] [cid:image008.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] Hello TUX! A reminder that today we have a Sanders Series Invited Lecture by Dr. Bill Buxton. Please note: There is a special start time of 1:15pm for this week's talk. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture: Dr. Bill Buxton November 21st, 2017. Autodesk MaRS IDEaS Lab, 661 University Avenue, Ground Floor. Lunch reception begins at 12:40pm. Presentation begins at 1:15pm. [cid:image001.png@01D362B0.3406E6B0] Ubiety: On Design, Place and the Importance of Manners It is a paradox that the better we get at producing useful, affordable, desirable, usable technologies, the more we are confronted by complexity and lack of overall satisfaction. This is partially, or even mainly, due to the demands for economies of scale. Hence, we are deluged by digital do-dads - apps, services and gadgets which on their own may be wonderful, but collectively create an overly complex ecosystem of baubles. What is missed is that the cumulative complexity of enough such baubles crosses the barrier, above which the ecosystem becomes inscrutable. Lying behind this is that things simply do not work together. In a world dominated by "social computing", there are virtually no social relationships amongst the technologies themselves. Weiser's label, Ubiquitous Computing, holds. But the result has little or anything to do with what he - or the rest of us on the team - envisioned or intended. My argument is that he used the wrong word. Ubiquity, i.e, technology everywhere, all the time, etc. is no panacea. Rather, the word that fits far better is Ubiety - a closely related term, but one which has at its core the notion of place. Hence, it points towards the right technology at the right place - extended (in my usage, at least) to encompass place in the physical sense, but also time, social, cultural, temporal, absolute, relative, etc. Furthermore, if we layer the notion of mobility of human action on this framing, what emerges is an enhanced sense of the importance of transitions, and adaptation. This, by way of Piaget, leads us to perhaps a different way of thinking about intelligence - of human and machine - and how intelligent design may pave the way to wrestling the ever-growing complexity to the ground, thus enabling us, and our technologies, to meet our true and worthy potential. Bio: Bill has been walking the path between where people and technology meet for over 40 years - as a designer, musician, lecturer, writer, teacher, critic and researcher. His focus has always been on the human, and his work reflects a particular interest in the creative disciplines. He believes that appropriate design is that which enhances human intelligence and creativity, not replaces it. As a practicing skeptimist, he is a devotee of Melvin Kranzberg's first law: "Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral." His corollary to this is, "Without informed design, it is more likely to lean to the bad than the good." It is towards becoming thus informed, and enlisting others to do so as well, that both his work, and this talk, are directed. [cid:image009.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image010.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] 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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Demos for Bill Buxton, Visiting Nov 22
by Peter Hamilton 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

Hello Everyone, Bill Buxton (website <https://www.billbuxton.com/>) from Microsoft Research will be visiting the DGP next Wednesday (Nov 22), following his TUX talk <http://www.tux-hci.org/> on Tuesday. I'll be arranging demos for him throughout the day. Please let me know if you'd like to arrange a meeting. This is a great opportunity to show off your work! Abstract: It is a paradox that the better we get at producing useful, affordable, desirable, usable technologies, the more we are confronted by complexity and lack of overall satisfaction. This is partially, or even mainly, due to the demands for economies of scale. Hence, we are deluged by digital do-dads – apps, services and gadgets which on their own may be wonderful, but collectively create an overly complex ecosystem of baubles. What is missed is that the cumulative complexity of enough such baubles crosses the barrier, above which the ecosystem becomes inscrutable. Lying behind this is that things simply do not work together. In a world dominated by “social computing”, there are virtually no social relationships amongst the technologies themselves. Weiser’s label, Ubiquitous Computing, holds. But the result has little or anything to do with what he – or the rest of us on the team – envisioned or intended. My argument is that he used the wrong word. Ubiquity, i.e, technology everywhere, all the time, etc. is no panacea. Rather, the word that fits far better is Ubiety – a closely related term, but one which has at its core the notion of place. Hence, it points towards the right technology at the right place – extended (in my usage, at least) to encompass place in the physical sense, but also time, social, cultural, temporal, absolute, relative, etc. Furthermore, if we layer the notion of mobility of human action on this framing, what emerges is an enhanced sense of the importance of transitions, and adaptation. This, by way of Piaget, leads us to perhaps a different way of thinking about intelligence – of human and machine – and how intelligent design may pave the way to wrestling the ever-growing complexity to the ground, thus enabling us, and our technologies, to meet our true and worthy potential. Bio: Bill has been walking the path between where people and technology meet for over 40 years – as a designer, musician, lecturer, writer, teacher, critic and researcher. His focus has always been on the human, and his work reflects a particular interest in the creative disciplines. He believes that appropriate design is that which enhances human intelligence and creativity, not replaces it. As a practicing skeptimist, he is a devotee of Melvin Kranzberg’s first law: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” His corollary to this is, “Without informed design, it is more likely to lean to the bad than the good.” It is towards becoming thus informed, and enlisting others to do so as well, that both his work, and this talk, are directed. -Peter Hamilton

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Interested in HCI? Meet with Prof. Karon MacLean from UBC on Nov 14
by John Hancock 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

Prof. Karon MacLean from UBC will be hosting a short meeting on Tuesday, November 14th, from 5pm to 6pm in room BA5250. She is looking specifically to meet with undergraduate students who may be interested in UBC's new “Designing for People” graduate program, aimed at tackling interdisciplinary approaches to human-facing design problems. While this will certainly be an excellent opportunity to find out about UBC's new program, note that this is NOT just a presentation from Prof. MacLean: it is meant to be a discussion, so bring your questions and ideas! For more information, visit http://dfp.ubc.ca/grad/21. Update: Pizza will be provided!

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Cancelled - HCI Meeting Tomorrow
by Seyong Ha 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

Hi All, Due to the NSERC visit tomorrow, our HCI meeting has cancelled. Next meeting will be Nov. 28th Tuesday. For the next meeting, if anyone wants to have their own session, please reply me back. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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Reminder: HCI Meeting Tuesday at 12:30pm
by Seyong Ha 12 Nov '17

12 Nov '17

Hello every one, This is a reminder for our Tuesday HCI Meeting. The meeting will be at ** a different location, not DGP seminar room*** at 12:30pm. Lunch will be served. The DGP seminar room is fully booked for NSERC Site Visit, so we will have our meeting at other room. The final reminder will be sent as soon as the room has reserved. We need another volunteers for Tuesday meeting. If anyone has interested in having their own session, please let me know by tomorrow. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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[Tux] Reminder: Prof. Anind K. Dey Today @ MaRS
by Tovi Grossman 07 Nov '17

07 Nov '17

Hello Tux! A reminder that today we have a Sanders Series Invited Lecture by Prof. Anind K. Dey. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture: Anind K. Dey November 7th, 2017. Autodesk MaRS IDEaS Lab, 101 College St., Ground Floor Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. Presentation begins at 1pm. Routines and Behaviors: Leveraging everyday routines to enhance interactive systems Commodity smart phones and initial Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices have made the visions of ubiquitous computing common place. However, despite the rapid adoption of this technology, we have not progressed much past the use of location-based systems in commercial ubicomp systems. The Ubicomp Lab at Carnegie Mellon University has been using people's interactions with such devices to better understand human behavior and routines. In this talk, I will describe the value of leveraging human behaviors and routines in interactive mobile and IoT-based systems. I will demonstrate how the ability to opportunistically extract these routines (and anomalies) can dramatically enhance interactive systems in a number of domains, including healthcare, driving, education, and sustainability, as they can be used to create effective interventions and supporting systems. Bio: Anind K. Dey is the Charles M. Geschke Professor and Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the director of the Ubicomp Lab, which performs research at the intersection of ubiquitous computing, human-computer interaction and machine learning, in the areas of mobile computing, health and sustainability among others. He has authored over 100 papers on these topics and serves on the editorial board of several journals. In 2015, Anind was inducted into the ACM SIGCHI Academy for his work on context-aware and adaptive systems. Anind received his PhD in computer science from Georgia Tech, along with a Masters of Science in both Computer Science and Aerospace Engineering. He received his Bachelors of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from Simon Fraser University. 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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