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Fwd: Summer School on Designing Technology for Social Impact
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

FYI 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…> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Phoebe Sengers <sengers(a)cs.cornell.edu> Date: Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 4:28 AM Subject: Summer School on Designing Technology for Social Impact To: Please spread the news! Kaiton Williams, Eric Corbett and I are happy to announce we are organizing the second research Summer School for Designing Technology for Social Impact, targeted to PhD and PhD-bound students from ethnically underrepresented minorities. The idea behind the summer school is that voices imagining what technology could be and shaping how it emerges are limited, with underrepresented communities often marginalized in tech discourses. Researchers and designers from these communities therefore have a central role to play in articulating social impact and potential for communities that other technology developers might forget or know nothing about, creating alternative, innovative visions for what technology can be in this world. This summer research workshop is designed to foster a strong cohort of researchers from underrepresented backgrounds working on topics related to the social impact of information technology. Rising seniors and graduate students at any stage from a variety of disciplines are invited to attend, including - but not restricted to - informatics, computer science, science and technology studies, communication, product design, urban and rural studies, and visual arts. Our goal is to build a cohort of up-and-coming researchers, provide experience in this research area, and provide research and career building opportunities. The event will take place June 15-19, 2020 on the Ithaca Campus of Cornell University. The costs of travel, food, lodging, and all events will be covered. Please let students know they can apply directly for our program through our website, https://impact.infosci.cornell.edu/ The application deadline is Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. Please feel free to contact me or cis-diversityprograms(a)cornell.edu with any questions. Thank you! Phoebe, Kaiton, and Eric --- Phoebe Sengers Associate Professor Information Science / Science & Technology Studies Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14850 USA phoebe.sengers(a)cornell.edu

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Fwd: Call for Notes ICTD 2020
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

FYI 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…> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michaelanne Dye <mmtd(a)umich.edu> Date: Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:28 PM Subject: Call for Notes ICTD 2020 To: Indrani Medhi Thies <indranim(a)microsoft.com> ----------------- *Call for Participation - ICTD 2020 Notes* Hello! I would like to invite you to submit a Note to The International Conference on Information Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) 2020. With a 4-page limit, Notes are intended to introduce work-in-progress and also serve as an excellent venue to submit revised papers that may not be ready for full-paper status. *Notes are due on March 6, 2020*, and the conference will be held on June 17-20, 2020, in Gayaquil, Ecuador. For more information visit: https://ictd2020.org/call-for-notes/. If you have any questions, feel free to email the Notes chairs: ictd2020notes(a)gmail.com. Thank you! Michaelanne and Eduardo *(Spanish Version Below)* Hola, Quisiera invitarte a enviar una Nota a la Conferencia Internacional sobre Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación para el Desarrollo (ICTD) 2020. Con un tamaño máximo de cuatro páginas, las Notas buscan presentar trabajos en progreso, y sirven además como una excelente manera de enviar ponencias que no estén aún listas para ser consideradas como artículos terminados. *Las Notas deben ser enviadas a más tardar el 6 de marzo de 2020*, y la Conferencia tendrá lugar entre el 17 y el 20 de junio de 2020, en Guayaquil, Ecuador. Para más información, visiten https://ictd2020.org/call-for-notes/. Si tienen más preguntas, no duden en escribir a los responsables de las Notas, ictd2020notes(a)gmail.com. ¡Gracias! Michaelanne y Eduardo -- *Michaelanne Dye* Assistant Professor/Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow University of Michigan School of Information *e: *mmtd(a)umich.edu *w:* michaelannedye.com *t:* @michaelannedye <http://twitter.com/michaelannedye>

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Fwd: End-of-Year Party
by Mian Wei 19 Dec '19

19 Dec '19

Hi everyone, This is just a reminder that we will be curling for the end-of-year party tomorrow between 2-4pm at Leaside Curling Club and then going to the Rose and Crown bar at Yonge/Eglinton after that, there will be food and drinks. *Reminder*: each person should *bring a pair of clean indoor shoes* to change into before going out onto the ice. As well, each person should wear warm stretchy clothing and bring a pair of gloves to wear in the ice shed. Sincerely, Mian Wei ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mian Wei <mianwei(a)dgp.toronto.edu> Date: Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 7:07 PM Subject: End-of-Year Party To: <social(a)dgp.toronto.edu> Hi everyone, I finally have all the details of the party worked out. The party will be happening on *December 20th, 2019*. I have 4 sheets of ice booked for curling at the *Leaside Curling Club from* *2-4 PM*, address: (you should learn Google) 1075 Millwood Rd, M4G 1X6. Each sheet accommodates up to 8 people (can be more, but only 8 play) with instructors. Make sure to arrive a bit beforehand. I leave it to you to figure out how to get there, but I will leave from the lab with a group. (I'll send more details about timing closer to the date). I have also made a reservation at *the Rose and Crown* on Yonge/Eglinton for *5 PM*. There is a pool table and TVs there. There is a TTC bus that goes directly from Leaside to Yonge/Eglinton that comes every 20 minutes or so and takes 30 minutes, but I'll let everyone figure out transportation themselves. Here are some general guidelines for curling (copy paste): Proper clothing and footwear should be worn at all times on the curling ice. Clothing should be warm and loose fitting. If you do not have curling shoes, clean indoor running shoes with a rubber flat sole (no heel) are appropriate. Step-on sliders will be supplied by the club for those not owning curling shoes. Street shoes and boots which are worn to the club ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE. Although not mandatory, Leaside Curling Club strongly recommends the wearing of protective head gear for all individuals using the curling facility. *IMPORTANT: *transportation is not taken care of for you, sorry! Anyways, mark your calendars and hope to see you there. Sincerely, Mian Wei

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No HCI meeting today
by ericlu＠dgp.toronto.edu 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Hi all, Sorry for the late notice. There is no HCI meeting today. Kind regards, Eric Lu

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Talk by Narges Mahyar (UMass Amherst) Tuesday Nov 26, 11am, DGP Seminar room
by Nicole Sultanum 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

Hello folks, As many of you know, prof. Narges Mahyar will be visiting the lab this coming Tuesday, *Nov 26*. Thank you for those who signed up for demos. Her talk will be at *11am* in the seminar room (BA 5187), see details below: ***** *Title:* Social Computing and Visualization to Democratize Public Participation *Abstract* Public participation is a pillar of a functioning democracy. Much of the recent work in utilizing technology for facilitating public participation has been focused on broadening access and data collection from the public. However, these technologies still face several challenges in democratizing public participation, such as including marginalized populations and integrating data analysis into civic decision-making processes. In this talk, I present examples of my recent work using social computing and visualization technologies for further democratizing public participation. These examples demonstrate applications of 1) collaborative technologies and interactive visualization to increase public engagement, 2) online platforms and crowdsourcing techniques to scale public participation, and empower the public to contribute meaningfully in a short amount of time, 3) low barrier technology to engage reticent participants to provide feedback during town hall meetings, and 4) visualization tools to enable civic leaders to make sense of a large amount of public input better. I describe a vision for expanding my research on building novel tools towards advanced stages of the decision-making process, such as collaborative sensemaking of complex civic data and consensus-building. *Bio * *Narges Mahyar is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Victoria, an MS in Information Technology from the University of Malaya, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tehran Azad University. Her Ph.D. was funded by SAP Business Objects for four years, where she worked closely with SAP experts and research teams to develop novel technologies for collaborative visual analytics tasks. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia from 2014-2016. Prior to joining UMass she completed a second postdoctoral fellowship in the Design Lab at the University of California San Diego from 2016-2018. Her research papers have received awards at the premier venues in Visualization, Social computing and Landscape Architecture, including the outstanding paper award from the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture 2017, the honorable mention award from Interactive Surfaces and Spaces conference in 2016 and the best paper award from IEEE VAST 2014.* Cheers, Nicole

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[Tux] HCI Poster Showcase Tomorrow
by Tovi Grossman 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

Dear TUX Community, Tomorrow there will be another HCI poster showcase (a similar event was held last year) which I'd like to invite you to. This will be a presentation of posters that the students in the Human-Computer Interaction course I am teaching at U of T have prepared. The course is cross-listed as a fourth-year undergraduate / graduate course. For their final term project, they have been conducting a literature review and proposing new ideas on an HCI topic of choice. Tomorrow they will be presenting their findings in the format of a poster. This year the poster showcase will be held in the ground floor atrium of the Bahen building (40 St George St). You are welcome to come by and see the posters and meet the undergraduate and graduate students that have been studying HCI at U of T this semester. Date: Tuesday, November 26 Time: 3:15pm-5:00pm Location: Bahen Ground Floor Atrium (40 St George St.) Hope to see you there! Thanks, Tovi Tovi Grossman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 40 St. George St, Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 2E4 Canada www.cs.toronto.edu <http://www.cs.toronto.edu> _______________________________________________ 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 Reading Group Today at 3-4PM (Coffee will be served)
by Bryan Wang 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

Hi HCI folks, We will have our second HCI reading group today at 3 pm in the seminar room. *Blaine *will be leading the discussion on the paper *“**Understanding quantified-selfers’ practices in collecting and exploring personal data”* https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2556288.2557372 Coffee will be served, come join us to make the HCI reading group great again! *Note from Blaine:* Before coming I recommend everybody at least read: Abstract Figures + captions I’ll be leading the discussion, and I’ll prepare slides / parts of the paper so everybody can participate. Best, Bryan

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Demos for Narges Mahyar - Visiting Professor @ UMass
by Nicole Sultanum 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

Hello folks, Prof. Narges Mahyar <https://www.cics.umass.edu/people/mahyar-narges> from University of Massachussets Amherst will be visiting DGP next week on Tuesday, November 26 for a talk and demos. She has done really cool work intersecting Data Vis, collaborative systems, interactive surfaces, urban design/planning, and civic engagement, which should be of interest to many of you. She's also a great person to chat about research, so I'd recommend you to sign up for a slot even if your ideas are still in early stages and you don't have much to show. Please send me a message if you would like to sign up for a demo/chat slot with Narges, with your availability; I should be able to accommodate slots in the morning (10-12) and in the afternoon (2-4). Thanks, Nicole

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[Tux] Reminder: Prof. Michel Beaudouin-Lafon today @ Autodesk!
by Shaza'a Fayyaz 19 Nov '19

19 Nov '19

Hello TUX! A reminder that today we have a Sanders Series Lecture by Prof. Michel Beaudouin at Autodesk. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Fraser, Daniel and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture - Prof. Michel Beaudouin-Lafon: Towards Unified Principles of Interaction November 19, 2019. Autodesk-Research @ 661 University Avenue #200, Toronto, ON. Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm. Abstract Even though today’s computers are used for many different types of tasks, they still rely on user interfaces designed for office workers in the 1980s. HCI researchers have produced a slew of innovative interaction styles, from gestural interaction to mixed reality and tangible interfaces, but they have not replaced traditional GUIs. I argue that we must devise fundamental principles of interaction that unify, rather than separate, these interaction styles in order to support the diversity of uses and users. I describe ongoing work on my ERC advanced grant, ONE, which explores how the concepts of information substrates and interaction instruments can help us create digital environments that users can appropriate and (re)combine at will. Bio Michel Beaudouin-Lafon is Professor of Computer Science, Classe Exceptionnelle, at Université Paris-Sud and a senior fellow of Institut Universitaire de France. He has worked in human-computer interaction for over 30 years and is a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy. His research interests include fundamental aspects of interaction, novel interaction techniques, computer-supported cooperative work and engineering of interactive systems. He has published over 180 papers and is an ACM Distinguished Speaker. He heads the 22M€ Digiscope project and is the laureate of an ERC Advanced Grant. Michel was director of LRI, the laboratory for computer science joint between Université Paris-Sud and CNRS and now heads the Human-Centered Computing lab at LRI. He is also chair of the department of Computer Science at Université Paris-Saclay (2400 faculty, staff and Ph.D. students). He founded AFIHM, the Francophone association for human-computer interaction and has been active in ACM and SIGCHI for over 20 years, including sitting on the editorial boards of ACM Books and ACM TOCHI, on the ACM Council and ACM Publications Board, as founder of ACM Europe and EUACM, and as vice-chair of the newly created ACM Technology Policy Council. He served as Technical Program Co-chair for CHI 2013 in Paris (3500 participants) and received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award in 2015. OUR SPONSORS: TUX is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk, University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and Chatham Labs. _______________________________________________ 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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[Tux] TUX: Prof. Michel Beaudouin-Lafon tomorrow @ Autodesk!
by Shaza'a Fayyaz 18 Nov '19

18 Nov '19

Hello TUX! A reminder that tomorrow we have a Sanders Series Lecture by Prof. Michel Beaudouin at Autodesk. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Fraser, Daniel and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture - Prof. Michel Beaudouin-Lafon: Towards Unified Principles of Interaction November 19, 2019. Autodesk-Research @ 661 University Avenue #200, Toronto, ON. Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm. Abstract Even though today’s computers are used for many different types of tasks, they still rely on user interfaces designed for office workers in the 1980s. HCI researchers have produced a slew of innovative interaction styles, from gestural interaction to mixed reality and tangible interfaces, but they have not replaced traditional GUIs. I argue that we must devise fundamental principles of interaction that unify, rather than separate, these interaction styles in order to support the diversity of uses and users. I describe ongoing work on my ERC advanced grant, ONE, which explores how the concepts of information substrates and interaction instruments can help us create digital environments that users can appropriate and (re)combine at will. Bio Michel Beaudouin-Lafon is Professor of Computer Science, Classe Exceptionnelle, at Université Paris-Sud and a senior fellow of Institut Universitaire de France. He has worked in human-computer interaction for over 30 years and is a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy. His research interests include fundamental aspects of interaction, novel interaction techniques, computer-supported cooperative work and engineering of interactive systems. He has published over 180 papers and is an ACM Distinguished Speaker. He heads the 22M€ Digiscope project and is the laureate of an ERC Advanced Grant. Michel was director of LRI, the laboratory for computer science joint between Université Paris-Sud and CNRS and now heads the Human-Centered Computing lab at LRI. He is also chair of the department of Computer Science at Université Paris-Saclay (2400 faculty, staff and Ph.D. students). He founded AFIHM, the Francophone association for human-computer interaction and has been active in ACM and SIGCHI for over 20 years, including sitting on the editorial boards of ACM Books and ACM TOCHI, on the ACM Council and ACM Publications Board, as founder of ACM Europe and EUACM, and as vice-chair of the newly created ACM Technology Policy Council. He served as Technical Program Co-chair for CHI 2013 in Paris (3500 participants) and received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award in 2015. OUR SPONSORS: TUX is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk, University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and Chatham Labs. _______________________________________________ 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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