Hci-external February 2017

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Student round table with Fanny Chevalier - Friday March 3rd - 2:45-3:45 PM - BA5187
by Nicole Sultanum 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Hello graduate students, Please join us for a student round table with Fanny Chevalier. Her research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Information Visualization (Infovis) and covers a wide range of interests, from visual exploration of complex data, visualization education, computing tools supporting the flow of creativity, the design and perception of animated transitions, and sketch-based interfaces. The round table will take place on *Friday March 3rd*, *2:45-3:45 PM* at *BA5187* (Bahen Centre, 5th floor). Access to this room is via DGP lab, *BA5166*. You are also encouraged to attend Fanny's talk, taking place on Thursday March 2nd at 11AM, BA1220. See details below. Cheers, Nicole ------------------------------------------------------------------- Invited research seminar hosted jointly by the departments of Computer Science and Statistical Sciences "Left-brain, Right-brain: Designing Interaction for Visual Analytics and Creativity” Fanny Chevalier, INRIA Thursday, March 2, 2017, at 11:00 AM BA1220 (Bahen Centre, 40 St.George Street) Abstract Analytic and creative tasks are often thought to be governed by opposite sides of the brain. On the one hand, creativity is typically considered right-brain: a spontaneous, free-form, and artistic pursuit driven by intuition. In light of these characteristics, creative authoring software has sought to preserve continuity across tasks during the creative process through direct manipulation. On the other hand, analysis is generally regarded as left-brain: a logical, methodical, and systematic process driven by rationale. It is not surprising, then, that current visual analytics tools continue to largely rely on an interaction model made up of a series of discrete operations to manipulate data. But is there no creativity in analysis? In this talk, I argue that analysis is no less a creative process and that operationalization can hinder the creativity of analysis in exploratory scenarios. Just as creative authoring tools have aimed for directness, next generation visual analytics tools should also empower analysts through control and immediacy. I will demonstrate through a selection of my research that the same design principles can be applied to support continuous processes in both visual analytics and creative authoring endeavours and discuss prospective directions for visualization research that build on these principles. Biography: Fanny Chevalier is a Research Scientist at Inria, France, where she conducts research in data visualization and human-computer interaction. In particular, she has been interested in addressing the challenges involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of novel interactive tools supporting visual analytics and creative activities, with a primary focus on interactive tools for the visual exploration of rich and complex data, visualization education, the design and perception of animated transitions, and sketch-based interfaces. Prior to joining Inria, Dr. Chevalier was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU), and Inria-Microsoft joint center in Paris. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from the Université de Bordeaux in 2007. She is the recipient of an Inria grant for scientific excellence (PEDR) and her research papers have received awards at the premier venues in Human-Computer Interaction (ACM CHI, ACM UIST). She has also consistently served in the organising and program committees for ACM CHI, ACM UIST and IEEE Infovis conferences for the past five years.

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[Tux] talk videos uploaded
by Daniel Wigdor 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

[cid:image011.png@01D28EA7.6B0FDCD0] [cid:image012.png@01D28EA7.6B0FDCD0] [cid:image013.png@01D28EA7.6B0FDCD0] Good afternoon Tux! Thanks to some great help, Tux is now a little more social-media savvy. Find below links to our social media outlets, including recordings of our talks up to now. Tux YouTube Channel We are happy to share that the Tux YouTube channel has now been configured, providing you a one-stop-shop for all of our Sanders Series Invited Lectures. Further, the DGP Lab at U of T recently acquired the ability to record talks, and so Tux Member Presentations will also be appearing on the channel, beginning with that of Azam Khan from this week. The channel is linked from our website<http://www.tux-hci.org/>; here is a direct link<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3ZH7kOtWXlu-ypJ6iD5Bg/videos>. Please: click 'subscribe' on the channel. Once we have 100 subscribers, we are entitled to a human-readable URL. Tux on Facebook & Twitter Olivier St-Cyr has volunteered as our new social media chair. Thank you Olivier! Please find links here to our presence on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/tuxhci> and Twitter<http://twitter.com/tuxhci>. A reminder that our next event is March 14 @ MaRS Discovery District, for our final Sanders Series Invited Lecture of the year. See the website for the details<http://www.tux-hci.org/>. [cid:image014.png@01D28EA7.6B0FDCD0] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image015.jpg@01D28EA7.6B0FDCD0] 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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HCI meeting tomorrow (Tue 28 Feb)
by Jiannan Li 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Hello everyone, We are going to have our biweekly HCI group meeting tomorrow at the usual time and place (12.30 in the seminar room). Zhen will lead a brainstorming session about ‘3D paper’. Below is a brief introduction about the topic from Zhen: The PDF version of a paper is perfect for printing, with proper fonts/line-spacing and compact figure/table layout. However, it is far from perfect in the digital world. I am interested in how to break the constraints of the physical layout (elements tiled on the 2D pages), and what interactions and visualizations should be included in such a 3D paper. See you then! Regards, Jiannan

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[Tux] Reminder: Azam Khan Today @ DGP
by Tovi Grossman 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hello TUX! A reminder that today we will have a member presentation by Azam Khan. The details of the talk are below. The talk will be in the DGP Lab in the Department of Computer Science at U of T (5th Floor, 40 St. George St.). We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Daniel, Khai and Tovi Tuesday, February 21 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Azam Khan DGP Lab, Department of Computer Science at U of T @ 40 St. George St. 5th Floor Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. Presentation begins at 1pm. Irrational Decision Making: Can computers help us in Critical Decision Making? Azam Khan is Director, Complex Systems Research at Autodesk. He is the Founder of the Parametric Human Project Consortium, SimAUD: the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design, and the CHI Sustainability Community. He is also a Founding Member of the International Society for Human Simulation and has been the Velux Guest Professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, at the Center for IT and Architecture (CITA) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Azam received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. He has published over 50 articles in simulation, human-computer interaction, architectural design, sensor networks, and sustainability. His Toronto team is currently developing a new experimental simulator to explore big simulation as a component of eScience, and his New York team performs award winning design research in advanced architectural projects. 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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Demos for Dr. Azam Khan, Autodesk
by Nicole Sultanum 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Hello all, Dr. Azam Khan <https://www.autodeskresearch.com/people/azam-khan> will be in the lab for demos after his TUX talk on Tuesday (Feb 20). He has a strong technical (but also broad) background, with research interests spanning HCI, data visualization, simulation, architecture, and sustainability. I imagine this could be of interest to many of you. Exact timeframes are yet to be defined, but if you are available sometime between 2-5pm on that day and would like to have a chat with him, let me know by Saturday. Thanks, Nicole

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Questions for today's brainstorming session
by Jiannan Li 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Hi everyone, This is just a remainder for answering the following three questions to help Seyong prepare for the brain storming session today (one word answer is enough) 1. You want to design your own VR office desk environment, pick one object that you want to setup first (excluding a desk and a chair) 2. Imagine you could see something surrounding us but was invisible before, what do you see? 3. You are going to build a virtual reality DGP lab, what is the most important thing to consider? Thanks, Jiannan

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Dry run of qualifying oral
by Nicole Sultanum 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Hi guys, I'm gonna do a dry-run of my qualifying oral *tomorrow* (Tuesday Feb 14) after the HCI meeting, from *3-4pm*, at the conference room (BA 5187). If you are free and need karma points in your life, I'd love to hear your constructive feedback. For those who don't care about karma, come for for the Valentines spirit. And if you don't care about neither... come for the donuts ;-) Hope to see you tomorrow, Nicole

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HCI meeting tomorrow (14 Feb 17)
by Jiannan Li 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Hello everyone, We will have our biweekly HCI group meeting tomorrow at the usual time (12.30) and the usual place. Seyong is going to lead a brainstorming session with the title ‘Designing the VR World’. He asks you for your answers to the following three questions (one-word answer would be enough), which will be very helpful for him to lead the discussion tomorrow: 1. You want to design your own VR office desk environment, pick one object that you want to setup first (excluding a desk and a chair) 2. Imagine you could see something surrounding us but was invisible before, what do you see? 3. You are going to build a virtual reality DGP lab, what is the most important thing to consider? Please send your answers to me by noon tomorrow, so I can gather and send them to Seyong before the meeting. Thanks, Jiannan

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HCI meeting volunteer needed
by Jiannan Li 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

Hi everyone, We will be having our biweekly HCI meeting next Tuesday at 12.30. We need a brave volunteer who would like to present her/his brilliant ideas and take inputs from lab people. Please let me know if you want to be the presenter. Thanks! Best, Jiannan

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Fwd: Open role in Logitech that might be of interest to some of your ex-students
by Cosmin Munteanu 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

For those of you interested -- a "Lead HCI Designer in AR / VR" position at Logitech (in Ireland). https://jobs.jobvite.com/logitech/job/oO5C4fwj -- 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 Web: http://cosmin.taglab.ca Phone: 905-569-4294 CCT Building Rm. 3067 University of Toronto Mississauga 3359 Mississauga Road Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aidan Kehoe <akehoe(a)logitech.com> Date: Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:13 AM Subject: Open role in Logitech that might be of interest to some of your ex-students To: Cosmin Munteanu <mcosmin(a)cs.toronto.edu> *Request*: There is an open position at Logitech in Cork, Ireland for a HCI / software related person just posted here <https://jobs.jobvite.com/logitech/job/oO5C4fwj> ... If there are any of your ex-students, post-docs that you think might be interested could you please share the link with them. Best regards, Aidan Logitech Ireland Services Limited is registered in Ireland under reg # 135248 with registered office at Building 3400, Airport Business Park, Kinsale Rd., Cork, Ireland. Board of Directors: François Stettler, Paul Verbruggen

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