Hci-external September 2017

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HCI meeting on Tue October 3rd
by Gazelle Saniee-Monfared 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hello everyone, Our next HCI group meeting is going to be on Tuesday October 3rd in DGP seminar room. Please let me know if you are interested in leading a brainstorming session on your project. Thanks, Ghazaleh

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[Tux] TUX: our first talk is tomorrow, hope to see you there!
by Daniel Wigdor 20 Sep '17

20 Sep '17

[cid:image001.png@01D33205.E3F759A0] [cid:image002.png@01D33205.E3F759A0] [cid:image003.png@01D33205.E3F759A0] Good morning Tux! A reminder that our first talk of the year will take place tomorrow at Autodesk Research's new facility in the MaRS building, at the south-east corner of College and University. We look forward to hosting Prof. Maneesh Agrawala of Stanford University. This is the only talk taking place on a Thursday this year, the rest of our talks will be on Tuesdays. See the Tux website<http://www.tux-hci.org/> for the complete schedule. We look forward to seeing you there! Prof. Maneesh Agrawala: Storytelling Tools Tomorrow at Autodesk Research<https://www.google.com/maps/place/Autodesk+Toronto/@43.6553087,-79.3967535,…> (MaRS Building), 12:30 lunch, 1:00 talk [http://www.tux-hci.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/maneesh-150x150.jpg] Storytelling Tools Storytelling is essential for communicating ideas. When they are well told, stories help us make sense of information, appreciate cultural or societal differences, and imagine living in entirely different worlds. Audio/visual stories in the form of radio programs, books-on-tape, podcasts, television, movies and animations, are especially powerful because they provide a rich multisensory experience. Technological advances have made it easy to capture stories using the microphones and cameras that are readily available in our mobile devices, But, the raw media rarely tells a compelling story. The best storytellers carefully compose, filter, edit and highlight the raw media to produce an engaging piece. Yet, the software tools they use to create and manipulate the raw audio/video media (e.g. Pro Tools, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Maya etc.) force storytellers to work at a tediously low-level - selecting, filtering, cutting and transitioning between audio/video frames. While these tools provide flexible and precise control over the look and sound of the final result, they are notoriously difficult to learn and accessible primarily to experts. In this talk I'll present recent projects that aim to significantly reduce the effort required to edit and produce high-quality audio/visual stories. About Prof. Agrawala Maneesh Agrawala is the Forest Baskett Professor<https://professorships.stanford.edu/content/School%20of%20Engineering> of Computer Science<http://cs.stanford.edu/> and Director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation<http://brown.stanford.edu/> at Stanford University. He works on computer graphics<http://graphics.stanford.edu/>, human computer interaction<http://hci.stanford.edu/> and visualization<http://vis.berkeley.edu/>. His focus is on investigating how cognitive design principles can be used to improve the effectiveness of audio/visual media. The goals of this work are to discover the design principles and then instantiate them in both interactive and automated design tools. He received an Okawa Foundation Research Grant<http://www.okawa-foundation.or.jp/e/index.html> (2006), an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship<http://www.sloan.org/programs/fellowshiplist.shtml> (2007), an NSF CAREER Award<http://www.nsf.gov/career> (2007), a SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award<http://graphics.stanford.edu/~maneesh/images/snr.wmv> (2008), a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship<http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.5458001/k.92B8/Maneesh_Agrawal…> (2009), and an Allen Distinguished Investigator Award<http://www.pgafamilyfoundation.org/programs/investigators-fellows/key-initi…> (2014) [cid:image005.png@01D33205.E3F759A0] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image006.jpg@01D33205.E3F759A0] 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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No HCI group meeting on tomorrow (Tue Sept 19th)
by Gazelle Saniee-Monfared 18 Sep '17

18 Sep '17

Hello everyone, We are not going to have our weekly group meeting on this week due to the CHI deadline. Good luck :) Ghazaleh

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Demo schedule for Prof Agrawala
by Haijun Xia 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

Hello HCI folks, Professor Maneesh Agrawala from Stanford is coming on September 21st to give a TUX talk. He will visit the lab briefly from 10:30am to 12:15pm to see demos. Please let me know by the end of day if you want a lot. Each demo will be 12 to 15mins depends on how many demos we will get at the end. But It is obviously tight, so first-come first-served. Thanks, Haijun

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[Tux] TUX Fall 2017 Speaker Season
by Ali Mazalek 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210 Hello TUX! Welcome to the Fall 2017 season! We have a fabulous line up of Sanders Series and TUX Member speakers lined up this fall. Please note that the Sanders Series talks will now take place in the brand new Autodesk space on the main floor of MaRS. The TUX Member Presentations will continue to be held at the DGP lab at U of T. All talks begin at 1pm, with lunch served beforehand at 12:30pm. Also please note that our first talk departs slightly from our usual Tuesday schedule, and will be held next Thursday September 21 at MaRS at the usual time. The full fall schedule is included below and also up on the website at tux-hci.org <http://www.tux-hci.org/>. We look forward to seeing you at TUX! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi *Date* *Event* *Sept. 21, 2017* Prof. Maneesh Agrawala <http://graphics.stanford.edu/%7Emaneesh/>, Stanford U. (Sanders Series Invited Lecture) *Oct. 10, 2017* Prof. David Bouchard <http://www.deadpixel.ca/> and Prof. Steve Daniels <http://www.spinningtheweb.org/>, Ryerson U. (TUX Member Presentation) *Oct. 24, 2017* Prof. Kate Sellen <http://slab.ocadu.ca/people/kate-sellen>, OCADU (Tux Member Presentation) *Nov. 7, 2017* Prof. Anind Dey <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Eanind/>, U. Washington (Sanders Series Lecture) *Nov. 21, 2017* Dr. Bill Buxton <https://www.billbuxton.com/>, Microsoft Research (Sanders Series Lecture) *Dec. 5, 2017* Prof. Chris Collins <http://vialab.science.uoit.ca/>, UOIT (Tux Member Presentation) ** *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] [nrg] [urg] Volunteer needed for HCI meeting on Sept 5th
by Ghazaleh Saniee Monfared 05 Sep '17

05 Sep '17

Hi everyone, Please find the introductions of the papers that are going to be discussed on tomorrow's meeting. Thanks, Ghazaleh On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Christine Murad < christine.murad(a)mail.utoronto.ca> wrote: > Hey Ghazaleh, > > I need to leave the meeting a little early (around 1:30), so would we be > able to go over my intro first, or near the beginning? Thank you! > > Best Regards, > Christine Murad > > From: Nicole Sultanum > Date: Monday, September 4, 2017 at 3:32 PM > To: Ghazaleh Saniee Monfared > Cc: Christine Murad > Subject: Re: [nrg] [urg] Volunteer needed for HCI meeting on Sept 5th > Resent-From: Christine Murad > > Hi Ghazaleh, > > attached follows both mine and Christine's introductions. Let me know if > you need anything else from us. > > Thanks, > Nicole > > 2017-09-02 8:28 GMT-04:00 Ghazaleh Saniee Monfared <gs.monfared(a)gmail.com> > : > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Next week's HCI meeting is going to be a CHI feedback session. >> >> Everyone who is working on a paper for CHI (and interested in >> participating), should work on their introduction **THIS WEEKEND** and make >> it available to everyone who attends the HCI meeting to read. >> Please send me your writings by Monday so that I can collect them and >> send it to everyone so they can come to the meeting prepared. >> >> We'll spend 10-15 minutes discussing each paper. We will not be reading >> the introductions on Tuesday. We will be talking about what we liked and >> what we think can improve about the introductions. >> >> Thanks, >> Ghazaleh >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:07 PM Gazelle Saniee-Monfared < >> gsaniee(a)cs.toronto.edu> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> We need a volunteer for next week's HCI group meeting. Please let me >>> know if you would like to present your work or lead a brainstorming session. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Ghazaleh >>> _______________________________________________ >>> urg mailing list >>> urg(a)dgp.toronto.edu >>> https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/urg >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nrg mailing list >> nrg(a)dgp.toronto.edu >> https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nrg >> >> >

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Volunteer needed for HCI meeting on Sept 5th
by Gazelle Saniee-Monfared 02 Sep '17

02 Sep '17

Hi everyone, We need a volunteer for next week's HCI group meeting. Please let me know if you would like to present your work or lead a brainstorming session. Thanks, Ghazaleh

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