Dear HCI Colleagues,
Hope you are in good health.
I am trying to put together a grant proposal (UofT internal) to develop an
accessible voice-based healthcare system for marginalized communities both
in Ontario and in the Global South. I already have partners from the Global
South, but I do not have many from UofT. If you find this proposal
interesting, I will be very happy to add you as my collaborator on this
proposal (and your required workload for this is close to zero).
I have attached the grant call to this mail. The deadline is April 1.
Here is the first draft of the proposal, and I will keep polishing it until
the deadline is over.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UPFExVfpjxgy5H2XDFNN8C94IOABcw58_RSfYKj…
Please let me know if you are interested. Also, your comments, suggestions,
etc. are welcome.
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
*[P.S. (March 15, 2020, and onward): My response may be late because of my
engagement with the COVID-19 response teams in Canada, Bangladesh, and
Australia. I appreciate your patience.]*
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto, ON, CA
Ph: +1 647 220 3482
Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed
web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/
My Availability: Google Calendar Link
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&c…>
Hi all,
There will be an HCI meeting tomorrow, on Tuesday, March 24th, from 1PM
- 2PM.
Josh is holding a "data collection" session which will involve drawing.
Come prepared with simple drawing materials. All skills welcome!
Although we won't be starting the exercise until 1PM, feel free to show
up any time after 12:30PM to chat and say hello. :-)
Link: bluejeans.com/dgpmeeting.
Meeting sign-up and info doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q4z64YkFaiNszk6kFPx1BOlocuB5fJDyMKaDYqQ…
See you then,
Vicky
Hi Everyone,
There will be an HCI meeting on Tuesday, Zhicong has signed up to give his
practice job talk. Excited to see everybody there :)
Link: bluejeans.com/dgpmeeting.
PS: We don't have anything set in stone for next week except UIST paper
swaps but it feels a bit early for that. So sign something up in the doc if
you have ideas
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q4z64YkFaiNszk6kFPx1BOlocuB5fJDyMKaDYqQ…
Best,
Blaine
A reminder that Prof Cassell’s talk is scheduled for tomorrow in the MaRS Auditorium.
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Hello TUX!
A reminder that we have a Sanders Series Lecture by Professor Justine Cassell of Carnegie Mellon University and the founding international chair at the PRAIRIE Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI in Paris, France.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Ali, Fraser, Daniel and Tovi
Sanders Series Invited Lecture – Prof Justine Cassell:
Conversational Commerce
March 10, 2020. MaRS Auditorium @ 661 University Avenue, Toronto, ON.
Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm.
Professor Justine Cassell:
Conversational Commerce
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“Conversational Commerce”
“Conversational Commerce” is a meme that just won’t seem to go away. And within conversational commerce the new buzzword is “empathy” – systems as diverse as smart speakers and websites that generate insurance quotes are said to be empathetic. However, as Inigo Montoya so aptly said “I do not think it means what you think it means.” In this talk I’ll discuss where conversational interfaces have come from, where they are today, and where they could go tomorrow if we learn how to really create bonds between computational systems and their users.
Bio
Justine Cassell is currently on leave from Carnegie Mellon to hold the founding international chair at the PRAIRIE Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI, in Paris, France. Before going on leave, she was Associate Dean of Technology Strategy and Impact in the School of Computer Science at CMU, co-director of the Simon Initiative on Technology-Enhanced Learning, and co-director, with Professor Tom Mitchell, of the Yahoo (Oath/Verizon) InMind Project on the Future of Personal Assistants. She is Director Emerita of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at CMU. Previously Justine was faculty at Northwestern University where she founded the Technology and Social Behavior Doctoral Program and Research Center. Before that she was a tenured professor at the MIT Media Lab. Justine has received the MIT Edgerton Prize, Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision award, the AAMAS Test of Time paper award, and the National Academy of Sciences Henry and Bryna David Prize. She is a fellow of the AAAS, Royal Academy of Scotland, and the ACM.
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University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and Chatham Labs.
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On Tuesday, March 10 we will be welcoming Prof Cassell at MaRS Auditorium for her talk.
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Hello TUX!
A reminder that we have a Sanders Series Lecture by Professor Justine Cassell of Carnegie Mellon University and the founding international chair at the PRAIRIE Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI in Paris, France.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Ali, Fraser, Daniel and Tovi
Sanders Series Invited Lecture – Prof Justine Cassell:
Conversational Commerce
March 10, 2020. MaRS Auditorium @ 661 University Avenue, Toronto, ON.
Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm.
Professor Justine Cassell:
Conversational Commerce
661 University Avenue, MaRS Auditorium<https://www.tux-hci.org/speaker/justine-cassell/?preview=true>
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“Conversational Commerce”
“Conversational Commerce” is a meme that just won’t seem to go away. And within conversational commerce the new buzzword is “empathy” – systems as diverse as smart speakers and websites that generate insurance quotes are said to be empathetic. However, as Inigo Montoya so aptly said “I do not think it means what you think it means.” In this talk I’ll discuss where conversational interfaces have come from, where they are today, and where they could go tomorrow if we learn how to really create bonds between computational systems and their users.
Bio
Justine Cassell is currently on leave from Carnegie Mellon to hold the founding international chair at the PRAIRIE Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI, in Paris, France. Before going on leave, she was Associate Dean of Technology Strategy and Impact in the School of Computer Science at CMU, co-director of the Simon Initiative on Technology-Enhanced Learning, and co-director, with Professor Tom Mitchell, of the Yahoo (Oath/Verizon) InMind Project on the Future of Personal Assistants. She is Director Emerita of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at CMU. Previously Justine was faculty at Northwestern University where she founded the Technology and Social Behavior Doctoral Program and Research Center. Before that she was a tenured professor at the MIT Media Lab. Justine has received the MIT Edgerton Prize, Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision award, the AAMAS Test of Time paper award, and the National Academy of Sciences Henry and Bryna David Prize. She is a fellow of the AAAS, Royal Academy of Scotland, and the ACM.
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TUX is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk,
University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and Chatham Labs.
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Dear All,
Aparna Moitra, a visiting Postdoc at the Third Space research group of the
DGP Lab, will deliver a talk on her research in rural India. You all are
cordially invited. Also, please feel free to share this with your students
and colleagues.
Details are as follows:
Time: Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 1630 to 1730 hrs
Location: Bahen Centre, Room 5187 (DGP Seminar Room), 40 Saint George St.
Title: An Analysis of Community Mobilization Strategies of a Voice-based
Community Media Platform in Rural India
Abstract: We define community mobilization as offline activities typically
required in ICTD initiatives to train users and drive adoption for the
sustained use of ICTs within the community. Community mobilization forms an
important but under-discussed component of ICTD initiatives. In this talk,
I will present a case study of a voice-based community media platform in
rural central India and the experiments it has undergone with multiple
community mobilization strategies over a period of five years. We have
analyzed different phases of community mobilization and draw insights
related to how technology platforms can be appropriated by specific actors
to drive their own agendas, how organizational control can be imposed to
prevent undesirable appropriation, yet give communities the flexibility to
use the platform according to their needs, and how group structures and
hybrid financial-social incentives can be created to build sustainable
networks that can be replicated and scaled in a standardized manner. We
have used the Actor-Network Theory, along with Olson’s Theory of Groups and
Incentives to explain our observations. Our methods can be generalized and
applied by other ICTD initiatives to evaluate their own community
mobilization strategies.
Bio: Aparna Moitra is a Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher with the Third
Space group of the DGP Lab at the Department of Computer Science, UofT. She
has a PhD from the University of Delhi, India, where she worked on
embedding an externally-driven voice-based community media platform among
the low-literacy and socially marginalized populations of Rural India. Her
talk is based on a paper she published in the Journal of Information
Technologies and International Development (ITID) from her PhD work.
Post-PhD, her research interests have diversified towards qualitatively
investigating the role of technological interventions (such as online
feminist movements) and their design in supplementing on-ground social
justice ecosystems in case of gender-based violence.
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto, ON, CA
Ph: +1 647 220 3482
Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed
web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/
My Availability: Google Calendar Link
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&c…>
Hi all,
We will have an HCI meeting tomorrow at 12:30pm in the DGP conference
room. Food will be served!
Yasaman will be holding a brainstorming session for her FinTech project.
We can probably fit in an additional brainstorm/other activity tomorrow,
if anyone is interested-- just let me know. If you'd like to run a
future HCI meeting feel free to ask me about it, or add yourself to the
schedule: https://tinyurl.com/hcimeetings
See you all tomorrow,
Vicky
FYI - UofT iSchool is hiring a TT faculty. Find the details below.
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto, ON, CA
Ph: +1 647 220 3482
Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed
web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/
My Availability: Google Calendar Link
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&c…>
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From: Olivier St-Cyr <olivier.st.cyr(a)utoronto.ca>
Date: Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 8:34 PM
Subject: HCI/UX Tenure Stream Assistant Professor Position at the
University of Toronto
To:
Dear Colleagues:
Please distribute this e-mail widely to your respective lab mailing
list(s), your Post-Docs, your PhD students who are close to finishing, and
anyone who you know might be interested in joining our growing UX program
in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. We are
particularly interested in people with expertise in user interface design
and evaluation methods, information visualization, sustainability, and
accessibility and inclusive design.
The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto invites
applications for a tenure stream position at the rank of Assistant
Professor in Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience Design. The
position start date is July 1, 2020, or shortly thereafter.
More details can be found here:
https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?job=2000388&tz…
Best,
Olivier
--
Olivier St-Cyr, PhD, LEL
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
Director, KMD Collaborative Specialization (interim)
Faculty of Information
University of Toronto
+1-416-978-8876
olivier.st.cyr(a)utoronto.ca
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