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Demos for Ranjitha Kumar - Visiting DGP Feb 13
by Peter Hamilton 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Hello Everyone, Ranjitha Kumar (website <http://ranjithakumar.net/>) will be visiting the DGP on Wednesday February 13th, following her TUX talk on Tuesday (12th). I'll be arranging demos for her 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! -Peter Hamilton *Abstract* A/B testing has become the de facto standard for optimizing design, helping designers craft more effective user experiences by leveraging data. A typical A/B test involves dividing user traffic between two experimental conditions (A and B), and looking for statistically significant differences in performance indicators (e.g., conversion rates) between them. In this talk, I’ll introduce three other data-driven methods — complementary to A/B testing — that can tie design choices to desired outcomes. Mining interactiondata from existing designscan provide comparative insights about patterns found in the wild, exposing designers to a greater space of divergent solutions than A/B testing. Lightweight prototypes with tight user feedback loops, or experimentation engines, can bootstrap product design involving technologies that are actively being developed (e.g., artificial intelligence, virtual/augmented reality), where both use cases and capabilities are not well-understood. Finally, generative modelstrained on a set of effective design examples can support predictive workflows that allow designers to rapidly prototype new, performant solutions. *Bio* Ranjitha Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where she leads the Data-Driven Design group. She is the recipient of a 2018 NSF CAREER award, and UIUC’s 2018 C.W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. Her research has won best paper awards/nominations at premier conferences in HCI, and is supported by grants from Google, Amazon, and Adobe. She received her PhD from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University in 2014, and was formerly the Chief Scientist at Apropose, Inc., a data-driven design company she founded that was backed by Andreessen Horowitz and New Enterprise Associates.

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Fwd: Reminder: Seminar at 11am today
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Dear Students, Robert's work is very interdisciplinary and intersects with many topics in HCI and CSCW. If you can, I encourage you to attend his talk. Also, please note that there is a Grad student roundtable with Robert at 4 pm today. I encourage you to attend the roundtable and talk to him. Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Steve Easterbrook <sme(a)cs.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 5:59 AM Subject: Reminder: Seminar at 11am today To: <dcs-all(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <envcorefaculty2019-l(a)listserv.utoronto.ca> Folks, A reminder that Robert Soden will be giving a talk at 11am today on his work in crisis informatics. In addition there will be a roundtable meeting for grad students to meet with Robert at 4pm today in BA5250. All welcome! Steve --- The Social Life of Environmental Data: Lessons from Crisis Informatics Robert Soden, University of Colorado Boulder http://robertsoden.io Talk: 11am, Thursday February 7th (room BA1210) Advances in algorithms, sensors, databases, and computing power in recent decades have led to the development of fundamentally new approaches in science and policy for supporting safe, healthy, and sustainable communities in the around the world. These new technologies promise to improve our ability to monitor the natural and built environments and more effectively respond to crisis and disaster, but they can also limit public participation in planning, focus attention only on what can be measured with current tools, and reinforce existing social inequalities. To realize the promise of emerging technologies, we need to develop a better understanding of how they intervene in the governance of complex technological and environmental challenges. In this talk, I will discuss my research in this area drawing from studies on flood hazard mapping Colorado, post-earthquake damage assessment in Nepal, and sea-level rise modeling the San Francisco Bay Area. I show that an expanded agenda for crisis informatics research that draws on insights from science and technology studies, design research, and the humanities can improve the development of technologies used for responding to environmental challenges. Robert Soden is a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder working on crisis informatics, human-centered computing (HCC), and science and technology studies (STS). His research examines the implications of changing technologies on efforts to address environmental challenges including disasters and climate change. He holds a Master's Degree in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development from American University and Bachelor’s degrees in History and Political Science from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Prior to starting his PhD, Robert was a professional software developer and a consultant to the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), where he launched the Open Data for Resilience Initiative, a worldwide effort to harness open data, open source software, and civic technology to improve disaster and climate risk management. His research has been awarded multiple best paper awards and honorable mentions at ACM’s CHI and CSCW, as well as other computing venues.

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Fwd: Accepting Proposals - 2019 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant
by Fanny Chevalier 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

FYI. > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Gonzalo Ramos <goramos(a)microsoft.com> > Subject: Fw: Accepting Proposals - 2019 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant > Date: 4 February 2019 at 15:37:27 GMT-5 > To: Fanny Chevalier <fanny.chevalier(a)inria.fr> > > FYI ... > > Subject: Accepting Proposals - 2019 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant > > Broadening participation in computing is a core part of Microsoft's values; accordingly, we are excited to continue the Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant that aims to recognize, support, and mentor diverse doctoral students as they complete their dissertation research in computing-related fields. > > This grant is open to doctoral students in their fourth year or beyond, studying computing topics at universities in the United States, Canada and Mexico, who are underrepresented in the field of computing which include those who self-identify as a woman, African American, Black, Hispanic, Latinx, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and/or people with disabilities. The program allows students to submit a grant proposal of up to $25,000 to support their dissertation research; grant recipients will also get to take part in a two-day career workshop at Microsoft Research Redmond this autumn. Grant proposals for 2019 are due on March 31. You can read more about the Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant and find instructions to submit a grant proposal at http://aka.ms/Dissertation-Grant <http://aka.ms/Dissertation-Grant>. > > Meredith Ringel Morris > Principal Researcher & MSR Dissertation Grant Chair > > > Unsubscribe <mailto:msrgrant@microsoft.com?subject=Dissertation%20Grant%20-%20remove%20from%20list> | Privacy Statement <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprivacy.m…> > Microsoft Corporation > One Microsoft Way > Redmond, WA, USA 98052

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Talk on Thurs 11am: The Social Life of Environmental Data
by Fanny Chevalier 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

Upcoming job talk this Thursday, 11am; graduate students roundtable at 4pm. This candidate has HCI-relevant research, so we’d love to see most of you there. - fanny > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Steve Easterbrook <sme(a)cs.toronto.edu> > Subject: Talk on Thurs 11am: The Social Life of Environmental Data > Date: 3 February 2019 at 20:01:15 GMT-5 > To: dcs-all(a)cs.toronto.edu > > Folks, > > I'm delighted to announce a talk entitled "The Social Life of Environmental Data: Lessons from Crisis Informatics" on Thursday at 11am by Robert Soden of the University of Colorado Boulder (see talk abstract and details below). Robert is interviewing for a faculty position joint between the School of Environment and the Department of Computer Science. The talk is open to anyone, but please don't share the fact that this is an interview talk with anyone outside of U of T. > > We'd like to encourage as many graduate students to attend the talk as possible, and we'll be hosting a round table meeting at 4pm on Thursday for interested graduate students to meet with Robert and talk with him about life at U of T, common research interests, etc. Once you've been to the talk and/or the round table meeting, we would very much like to hear your feedback on his suitability for a faculty position. > > Let me know if you have any questions. > Thanks! > Steve > > > --- > > The Social Life of Environmental Data: Lessons from Crisis Informatics > > Robert Soden, University of Colorado Boulder > http://robertsoden.io > > Talk: 11am, Thursday February 7th (room BA1210) > > Advances in algorithms, sensors, databases, and computing power in recent decades have led to the development of fundamentally new approaches in science and policy for supporting safe, healthy, and sustainable communities in the around the world. These new technologies promise to improve our ability to monitor the natural and built environments and more effectively respond to crisis and disaster, but they can also limit public participation in planning, focus attention only on what can be measured with current tools, and reinforce existing social inequalities. To realize the promise of emerging technologies, we need to develop a better understanding of how they intervene in the governance of complex technological and environmental challenges. In this talk, I will discuss my research in this area drawing from studies on flood hazard mapping Colorado, post-earthquake damage assessment in Nepal, and sea-level rise modeling the San Francisco Bay Area. I show that an expanded agenda for crisis informatics research that draws on insights from science and technology studies, design research, and the humanities can improve the development of technologies used for responding to environmental challenges. > > Robert Soden is a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder working on crisis informatics, human-centered computing (HCC), and science and technology studies (STS). His research examines the implications of changing technologies on efforts to address environmental challenges including disasters and climate change. He holds a Master's Degree in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development from American University and Bachelor’s degrees in History and Political Science from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Prior to starting his PhD, Robert was a professional software developer and a consultant to the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), where he launched the Open Data for Resilience Initiative, a worldwide effort to harness open data, open source software, and civic technology to improve disaster and climate risk management. His research has been awarded multiple best paper awards and honorable mentions at ACM’s CHI and CSCW, as well as other computing venues. > > >

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Current grad students who are willing to be a 'buddy' for visiting students please contact Joseph
by Joseph Jay Williams 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

Current grad students who are willing to be a 'buddy' for visiting students please contact me (as discussed today). You can define your role, but just being someone who makes sure a specific visitor has someone to chat with would be enough. I have visiting students who said community is important to them so I'd pair you with them. Any 'overflow' people, perhaps you can help out others! Joseph Joseph Jay Williams www.josephjaywilliams.com Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Calendar: tiny.cc/williamscalendar send invitations to josephjaywilliams(a)gmail.com Office: Bahen Centre (directions at tiny.cc/joffice)

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HCI Meeting today
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

Dear all, Our HCI meeting today will be at DGP seminar room from 12:30 pm. There will be two sessions. In the first session, Fanny Chevalier will talk about upcoming faculty interviews and slack channels for DGP. In the second session, Zhicong Lu will present his ongoing research on promoting prosocial behaviour using TikTok videos. Please join and participate in the meeting. Lunch will be provided. Thanks, Rifat -- Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/

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Volunteering for HCI meeting
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

Dear all, We are looking for one volunteer for our meeting on February 5. If you want to present your work or conduct any activity, please let us know. I am giving a link below for a spreadsheet that has our meeting dates this Winter. It would be great if you indicate the time you want to volunteer, that would be great. Ideally, we will have two sessions in a meeting; however, we could adjust the slots depending on the time required for volunteers. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1agRIKbrzMEd-YnpvDHruuEaFjGd48HoTGhT… Thanks, Rifat -- Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/

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HCI Meeting on Tuesday, January 22, 2019
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

Dear all, Welcome to a new episode of our bi-weekly HCI meeting this winter! The first meeting is on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, at 12:30 pm at DGP seminar room. Haijun Xia will lead a brainstorming session for a project that automatically creates a slide-show style video for travel audio podcasts. In particular, he would like to brainstorm ideas of transferring information in textual representation to visual representation. In the second session, Jiannan Li would like to have a short brainstorming session on the scenarios for the drone-based video communication project. Please come join us and take part in the activities. Lunch will be provided. Regards, Rifat -- Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/

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Take a look at alt.chi papers
by Fanny Chevalier 19 Jan '19

19 Jan '19

Hi dgp hci students, There are some interesting papers every year submitted to alt.chi. I encourage you to have a look and add a comment if you feel inspired for the ones you read. See below one such paper whose topic should be of your interest. - fanny > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Lonni Besançon <lonni.besancon(a)gmail.com> > Subject: The Continued Prevalence of Dichotomous Inferences at CHI > Date: 14 January 2019 at 18:44:16 GMT-5 > To: fanny(a)cs.toronto.edu > > Hey there, > > Happy new year! > > Pierre and I just wrote an alt.chi article entitled The Continued Prevalence of Dichotomous Inferences at CHI <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__drive.google.com_open-…>, and we would like to know whether you would be willing to contribute an open (non-anonymous) review. Your review can be very short. > > As you may know, alt.chi <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__chi2019.acm.org_author…> has an invitation-to-review process. It is not unusual from authors to invite people they know to review their article, and it is not against reviewing rules. We think our submission can be of interest to you and we would very much appreciate if you could share your thoughts. > > Instructions on how to submit a review are on the alt.chi webpage <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__chi2019.acm.org_author…>. Should you need further instruction on how to use the reviewing system, we have created this list of instructions available here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D0wJ4LQuoiSoRUS9gxkjA5BfRrHpLynjbpxe_FU…> > Your review can be short and informal. Alt.chi reviews are more discussion-oriented than acceptance/rejection-oriented (though they will help chairs decide on acceptance). You don't need to be exhaustive and you can decide to focus on specific aspects of the submission in order to spark discussions. > > The final deadline for reviews is the 21st of January, however, the earlier a review is posted the more discussions it will foster. > > Thank you very much, > > Lonni Besançon, Linköping University > Pierre Dragicevic, Inria, France

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Looking for volunteers for HCI Meeting on January 22, 2019
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

Hello all, We are looking for two volunteers for our first HCI meeting on January 22, 2019. If you are interested to present your research or lead an activity, please let me know. Regards, Rifat -- Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/

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