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HCI meeting tomorrow (Tue April 18th)
by Jiannan Li 17 Apr '17

17 Apr '17

Hello everyone, We'll have our biweekly HCI group meeting tomorrow (Tue April 18th) at the usual time (12.30) and the usual place. John will introduce a piece of research equipment, the Virtual Hallway. It provides a continuous two-way video feed connecting the 2nd floor of Bahen and the 3rd floor of the Deerfield Hall, UTM, along with additional features such as age and gender tracking of its users. Below are more details about the equipment: "The Virtual Hallway is a continuous two way video feed between the two buildings, complete with document camera, intended to facilitate collaboration between students on the two campuses and possibly to prompt ad-hoc meetings. In addition to the video system, a people counting tracker has been installed on both ends, which can count and sort people who use the system by age and gender. Each end has a web page that can be accessed with a simple json query." See you then! Thanks, Jiannan

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HCI group meeting schedule for April and the summer (for now)
by Jiannan Li 10 Apr '17

10 Apr '17

Hello all, We will continue with the current schedule for HCI group meetings (12.30 Tuesday every other week) for the rest of April and the following summer. The next meeting will be on Tuesday next week (18th April). We had many inspiring brainstorming sessions for meetings of this semester. Other types of activities, such as talk dry run or simply sharing insights on a particular topic, are also highly welcomed in future group meetings. If you have anything that you would like to discuss or share with the group, or have any thoughts about the activity for the next meeting, please let me know. Thanks, Jiannan

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HCI group meeting tomorrow (Tue April 4)
by Jiannan Li 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Hello everyone, We are going to have our regular HCI group meeting tomorrow (Tue 4 April 4) at the usual time and place (12.30 seminar room). Laura will lead a brainstorming session on Audio Communication in Live Streaming. See you there! Thanks, Jiannan

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[Tux] TUX 2017-2017: Call For Speaker Nominations
by Tovi Grossman 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

[cid:image001.png@01D28C29.5B410020] [cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210] [cid:image004.png@01D28C29.5B410020] Hello TUX! Now that the 2016-2017 season of TUX has wrapped up, we are starting to put together plans for next year. We'd like to hear your suggestions for potential speakers. Who would you love to hear from, that could give a thought-provoking talk to the TUX community? Recall that TUX hosts both member presentations, by speakers from the Greater Toronto Area, and Sanders Series Invited Lectures, by distinguished HCI visionaries from around the world. We've set up the following form to gather your suggestions, so we can start working on the lineup for next year's speakers: https://goo.gl/forms/L2uk5zLrQvLwOCXz2 Feel free to provide more than one suggestion. Cut off for the first round of suggestions will be April 10th. Thanks again for another great year! Ali, Daniel, Khai and Tovi [cid:image013.png@01D28C29.5B410020] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image015.png@01D28C29.5B410020] 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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HCI group meeting volunteer needed!
by Jiannan Li 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

Hello all, Our HCI group meeting next Tuesday needs a brave volunteer. If you have anything to share or to discuss with the group, please let me know. Thanks, Jiannan

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[Tux] Tomorrow (Tuesday): final talk of the season
by Daniel Wigdor 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

[cid:image001.png@01D2A741.FAF8AE00] [cid:image002.png@01D2A741.FAF8AE00] [cid:image003.png@01D2A741.FAF8AE00] Good evening Tux! A reminder of tomorrow's talk, the last of the 2016/2017 season. Like other Tux Member Presentations, the session will take place at the DGP Lab at the University of Toronto: head to the 5th floor of the Bahen Centre for Information Technology, and look for the signs. Lunch is served at 12:30; the talk begins at 1:00 sharp. We look forward to seeing you there. Daniel Vogel, University of Waterloo: Expressive Interaction Many interaction techniques focus on immediate usability with little learning effort. This is a reasonable goal in many cases, but sometimes expending effort to master a more nuanced and complex technique can be beneficial if it increases expressivity. Expressivity refers to the breadth of what can be represented and communicated in an interaction language - the more expressive, the greater the variety and quantity of commands that can be accessed. As a musical analogy, consider the expressivity of a triangle versus a violin. In this talk, I survey my research focusing on expressive interaction. This includes: Conté, a pen-like input device modeled after an artist's crayon that leverages small changes in contact geometry; Pin-and-Cross, a touch overloading technique combining static touches ("pins") with nearby crossing selection; Gunslinger, a mid-air interaction technique using barehand postures and gestures performed in a relaxed arms-down position; and Finger-Aware Shortcuts, a method to trigger different keyboard shortcuts depending which finger, hand, and posture presses a key. About Daniel Vogel Professor Vogel's research focuses on human-computer interaction (HCI) in combination with computer graphics and visual art in the pursuit of developing better experiences for people using computers. Input and interaction techniques change significantly as computing moves off of the desktop, onto our laps, into our pockets, and now, spreading throughout our environment. The increase in display area on surfaces like tables and walls, combined with contextual access, enable new experiences - but only when input, interaction, and visualization are tailored to human capabilities. While efficiency and usability remain important criteria, aesthetic experience and comfort become absolutely essential when computing is embedded in the fabric of our environment. Professor Vogel's approach combines the methodical study of human capabilities and characteristics to inform the design of novel input devices and techniques. Vogel works on fundamental input topics such as pointing, control-display gain, input signal filtering, hand occlusion, and gestural input. He has leveraged results in these areas to design freehand pointing techniques for large displays, a hybrid absolute and relative pen input technique, a multi-modal contact-sensing device modeled after an artist's Conté crayon, and techniques for using whole body input with large interactive public displays. [cid:image004.png@01D2A741.FAF8AE00] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image005.jpg@01D2A741.FAF8AE00] 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 group meeting tomorrow (Tue 21 March)
by Jiannan Li 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

Hello everyone, We are going to have our regular HCI group meeting tomorrow (21 March) at the usual time and place (12.30 seminar room). Benett and Peter will each lead a brainstorming session. The topics of their sessions will be: Peter: cross-device selection. Please bring your laptops so that you can try the new tools Peter’s built Benett: What are some potential applications for recorded speech from picture-prompted family storytelling? See you there! Thanks, Jiannan

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Roundtable with Sheelagh Carpendale -- 3.45 BA5187
by Jiannan Li 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

Hello all, This is just a reminder that we will have a student roundtable with Prof Sheelagh Carpendale at 3.45 pm today (Tue March 14th) at BA 5187 (access through BA 5166 DGP lab). Prof Carpendale is visiting us from the University of Calgary. Her research interest is in information visualization, visual analytics, and human-computer interaction. Hope to see you there! See the forwarded message below for more details. Thanks, Jiannan Li ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Student roundtable with Sheelagh Carpendale -- 3.45 Tue March 14th BA5187 From: "Jiannan Li" <jiannanli(a)cs.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, March 13, 2017 4:06 pm To: grad-students(a)cs.toronto.edu hci(a)dgp.toronto.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello all, Please join us for a student roundtable with Professor Sheelagh Carpendale on Tuesday March 14th, 3:45-4:45 PM at BA5187. Professor Carpendale is visiting us from the University of Calgary. Her research spans information visualization, visual analytics, and human-computer interaction, drawing upon her combined background of computer science and visual arts. This will be an excellent opportunity for students interested in related areas to meet with a leading expert in the community. You can access BA5187 through BA5166 (DGP lab on the 5th floor of Bahen Center). See the forwarded talk summary below for a more detailed biography and research interest of Prof. Carpendale. Cheers, Jiannan Li On 2017-03-13, 10:08 AM, "Steve Easterbrook" <sme(a)cs.toronto.edu> wrote: Invited research seminar hosted jointly by the departments of Computer Science & Statistical Sciences "Information Visualization: making data comprehensible" Sheelagh Carpendale, University of Calgary Monday, March 13, 2017, at 12:00 PM Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, Rm. 1200 Abstract: Modern society demands that people manage, communicate, and interact with digital information at an ever-increasing pace. While we all want to be informed, we do not want to experience this information as stress. It is not the information itself that is the problem, but the manner in which we are bombarded with information in forms that are often hard to interpret. One question is – how can we visualize information in a manner aids comprehension, and provokes interpretation, exploration and appreciation. This is a non-trivial challenge. How do we provide spatial representations of non-spatial data that are not only true to the data but help reveal patterns and characteristics of intrinsically non-spatial data such as text and tables of numbers? I will discuss these questions in context of my on-going research, noting how I have both influenced and been influenced by the emerging and changing trends and challenges in information visualization research. Biography: Sheelagh Carpendale is a professor at the University of Calgary where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization and the NSERC/AITF/SMART Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies. She has received many awards including the E.W.R. NSERC STEACIE Memorial Fellowship; a BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television Arts Interactive Awards); an ASTech Innovations in Technology Award; and the CHCCS Achievement Award. She leads the Innovations in Visualization (InnoVis) research group and initiated interdisciplinary graduate programs in Computational Media Design. Her research draws upon her combined backgrounds in computer science and visual arts, benefiting from the interdisciplinary cross-fertilization to enable the design of innovative, people-centred information technologies. By studying how people interact with information both in work and social practices, she works towards designing more natural, accessible and understandable interactive visual representations of data. She combines information visualization, visual analytics and human-computer interaction with innovative new interaction techniques to better support the everyday practices of people who are viewing, representing, and interacting with information.

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[Tux] Cancelled: Sander's Series Lecture Tomorrow
by Ali Mazalek 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210 Dear Tux community, We are sorry to say that tomorrow's Sanders Series Lecture is cancelled as our speaker, Marcelo Coelho, is unable to travel. Our next TUX member presentation will be on March 28. More information will be posted on the website soon. We look forward to seeing you all then. Ali, Daniel, Khai, and Tovi ** *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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Demo schedule for Dr. Marcelo Coelho
by varun perumal 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

Hi Everyone, Here is the schedule for the demos on Wednesday, the 15th. I have tried to accommodate your time preferences as much as possible. Please let me know if you would like to have any changes in the slots. If anyone else would like to join, please email me by 6 PM today. 10:00 - 10:25: Michelle 10:30 - 10:55 : Varun 11:00 - 11:25 : Zhicong 11:30 - 12:00 : Haijun ------- Lunch ------------- 1:30 - 1:55 : Peter 2:00 - 02:25 : Jiannan 02:30 - 02:55 : Zhen 03:00 - 03:25 : Nicole 03:30 - 03:55 : Benett Cheers, Varun

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