Good morning,

A reminder that Dr. Leila Takayama of Google[x] will be presenting our second Sanders Series lecture TODAY at 1:00 in the MaRS auditorium (bottom level). Dr. Takayama is a hugely influential researcher in Human-Robot Interaction. Her talk is entitled What it's Like to be a Robot. Not to be missed!

See you there,

-Daniel

From: Daniel Wigdor Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 11:22 PM To: 'tux-announce@dgp.toronto.edu' tux-announce@dgp.toronto.edu Cc: 'talks@dgp.toronto.edu' talks@dgp.toronto.edu; semnotice@cs.toronto.edu Subject: Leila Takayama of Google[x] this Tuesday

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This Tuesday, November 24 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Leila Takayama, PhD of Google[x]

The MaRS Discovery District Auditorium @ 101 College Sthttps://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6598335,-79.3885489,18.83z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x882b34b7ccd8ba1f:0x7e6f7af0cc4e65f3?hl=en. (Lower Level). Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm, talk begins at 1:00pm.

Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who conducts HCI research, corporate or academic, in the Toronto area. Anyone may add themselves to our mailing listhttps://www.dgp.toronto.edu/mailman/listinfo/tux-announce. The Tux websitehttp://www.tux-hci.org/ contains a list of all upcoming speakers, and now includes an iCal calendar.

Dr. Leila Takayama of Google[x]

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Leila Takayama is a senior user experience researcher at Google[x], a lab that aims for moonshots in science and technology. Prior to joining Google[x] in 2013, Leila was a research scientist and area manager for human-robot interaction at Willow Garage. She is also a World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council Member for the area of AI & Robotics. This year, she was awarded the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Early Career Aware. In 2012, she was named a TR35 winner and one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company. With a background in cognitive Science, psychology, and human-computer Interaction, she examines human encounters with new technologies. Dr. Takayama completed her PhD in communication at Stanford University in June 2008, advised by Professor Clifford Nass. She also holds a PhD minor in psychology from Stanford, a master's degree in communication from Stanford, and bachelor's of arts in psychology and cognitive science from UC Berkeley (2003). During her graduate studies, she was a research assistant in the User Interface Research (UIR) group at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

What it's Like to be a Robot Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a robot? While others are wildly speculating about what the future of robots will look like, we actually already know quite a bit about what it's like to live and work around robots. We also know a lot about what it's like to telecommute to work everyday via telepresence robot. Coming from a human-robot interaction perspective, I'll be sharing some of those experiences and lessons with you. Over the past several years, I've collaborated with remote colleagues via robotic telepresence systems that enabled them to drive themselves around the office, join in those impromptu hallway meetings, pounce on us when we didn't respond to emails, and ultimately build stronger working relationships. I'll present the research lessons learned from several years of fielding prototype telepresence robots in multiple companies and running quantitative user studies in the lab to figure out how to better support remote collaboration.

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OUR SPONSORS:

[cid:image006.jpg@01D123E9.ECD0E400] 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.

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