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Community/Seminar for Learning Grad "MetaSkills", such as coming up with research questions, finding jobs, project management, collaboration, managing stress:
by Joseph Jay Williams 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

Hi everyone, I'm going to send this email out today to grad-students(a)cs.toronto.edu. I welcome any feedback/suggestions on the email or planned activities, or if you know people want want to volunteer. And i'm not just spamming you, you will all see this soon anyway so think of it as a secret advance look :D. You can make comments/suggested edits at this URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JJpLV61vh0Aq-Np5LY0Cj6KmFLHI7BjmisKn6t9… ****** Subject line: Community/Seminar for Learning Grad "MetaSkills", such as coming up with research questions, finding jobs, project management, collaboration, managing stress: Hi Everyone! I am chairing the Grad MetaSkills Community, which is a novel take on previous years' Grad Skills Seminar. The kickoff meeting is Tue 1215-1:30 in BA 5256. 1.Goal & Examples of Grad MetaSkills. The goal is to speed up your learning and practicing of the MetaSkills that are only implicitly acquired (or not acquired at all) from your typical course and research/internship activities. Examples of questions this community can help you improve your answers to: > How do I come up with better research ideas? > How do I maximize chances of getting an academic/industry job I want? > How do I collaborate more effectively? > How do I manage & get help in managing stress & improving well-being? 2. Current Plan & How you can improve on it. Discussion Forum & Online Resources in Wiki/Google Drive I'm very open as to what form this takes, and anyone with ideas and energy should step in and start making them happen. As a prototype – something concrete to make *something* happen and provide something people can complain about and try to improve :D – here is the current plan. The community will start with: > A Google drive of resources. tiny.cc/gmsfolder Grad MetaSkills Folder-editable <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CxlcuYrx7zfklKqsJVxm7mLBACkXOCIs> > A discussion forum that acts as opt-in mailing list,and in person seminar meetings. (need someone to set up a Google Group Q & A forum and get people added) But now's your time to make suggestions or requests or say what you think should happen (and better yet, take some actions to make it happen!). Feel free to reach out with questions or unsolicited advice, either in the Gdoc or emailing gradmetaskillschair(a)googlegroups.com. 3. Action item: Add requests for topics, links to resources, ideas to Gdoc at URL tiny.cc/gmsinput Can you set a time to go to this Google doc and add some information? tiny.cc/gmsinput Resources, Advice, Questions for Grad MetaSkills Community <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jKOiIGsqeQDFFpdK_ryB7PlO_KtpGNWbxIzwdv0…> It could be: (a) any requests (topics or questions you want discussed), (b) links to resources (e.g. Blog posts,tweets, papers with good advice), or (c) ideas for what this community should do. We will crowdsource this, and iteratively try things out. 4. Kickoff meeting Tue 26 Nov, 12:15-1:30 in BA 5256. Want to volunteer to help? We also need some volunteers to help with different parts of the community, like setting up discussion forum, organizing online resources, recording talks. it could be anywhere from 2-10 hours a month (negotiable with you). We might be able to look into you being paid for this time. The kickoff meeting is Tue 1215-1:30 in BA 5256. (we can pay for lunch if someone volunteers to organize it). Look forward to talking more! Joseph (& rest of Grad MetaSkills committee: Florian Skhurti, Amir Massoud Farahmand, Steve Easterbrook) Joseph Joseph Jay Williams www.josephjaywilliams.com Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Intelligent Adaptive Interventions (IAI) research group

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HCI Reading Group on Monday, November 11 3-4PM
by bryanw 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Hi HCI folks, We will have our first HCI reading group today at 3 pm in the seminar room. NICOLE (the best!) will be leading the discussion on the paper "_Data Changes Everything: Challenges and Opportunities in Data Visualization Design Handoff_" Coffee will be served, come join us to make the HCI reading group great again! Please try to READ THE PAPER, if even just a skim read, and take note of your thoughts to share in our open discussion. The presentation video link is below, but it doesn't cover much of the findings, so not really a substitute for reading the paper. The paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00192 [1] The conference presentation video is here: https://vimeo.com/368703151 [2] Best, Bryan Links: ------ [1] https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F1908.00192 [2] https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F368703151

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Demo/meeting schedule for Professor Michel Beaudouin-Lafon
by Haijun Xia 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

Hello all, Prof. Michel Beaudouin-Lafon from the Université Paris-Sud will be giving a Tux talk on Tuesday November 19th and visit the lab Wednesday afternoon, November 20th. We will host him with demos from 1pm to 2:45pm. Please sign up in this google sheet by tomorrow night if you want a slot. Students signed up for demo are invited to lunch with Michel at 12:00pm at Rm5256. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19sumRDO9STIpckAbabVOxphDIDqPL7_deo1… Cheers, Haijun

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DGP HCI Meeting
by ericlu 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

Hello all, We will have our bi-weekly HCI group meeting at 12.30pm on Tuesday Nov 5 in the DGP seminar room. Caleb (Zhicong) Lu will be giving a practice talk. Food will be served. Additionally, if we have time left, we will take a look at UIST video preview. Title Vicariously Experiencing it all without Going Outside: A Study of Outdoor Live Streaming in China Abstract: The livestreaming industry in China is gaining greater traction than its European and North American counterparts and has a profound impact on the stakeholders' online and offline lives. An emerging genre of livestreaming that has become increasingly popular in China is outdoor livestreaming. With outdoor livestreams, streamers broadcast outdoor activities, travel, or socialize with passersby in outdoor settings, often for 6 or more hours, and viewers watch such streams for hours each day. However, given that professionally produced content about travel and outdoor activities are not very popular, it is currently unknown what makes this category of livestreams so engaging and how these techniques can be applied to other content or genres. Thus, we conducted a mixed methods study consisting of a survey (N=287) and interviews (N = 20) to understand how viewers watch and engage with outdoor livestreams in China. The data revealed that outdoor livestreams encompass many categories of content, environments and passersby behaviors create challenges and uncertainty for viewers and streamers, and viewers watch livestreams for surprising lengths of time (e.g., sometimes more than 5 continuous hours). We also gained insights into how live commenting and virtual gifting encourage engagement. Lastly, we detail how the behaviors of dedicated fans and casual viewers differ and provide implications for the design of livestreaming services that support outdoor activities. The preprint of the paper can be found here: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~luzhc/media/cscw025-lu-new.pdf Kind regards, Eric Lu

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correction the meeting time is 12:30pm on Tuesday Nov 5.
by Cheng Lu 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

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DGP HI Meeting
by Cheng Lu 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

Hello all, We will have our bi-weekly HCI group meeting at 12.30pm on Tuesday Oct 22nd in the DGP seminar room. Caleb (Zhicong) Lu will be giving a practice talk. Food will be served. Additionally, if we have time left, we will take a look at UIST video preview. Title Vicariously Experiencing it all without Going Outside: A Study of Outdoor Live Streaming in China Abstract: The livestreaming industry in China is gaining greater traction than its European and North American counterparts and has a profound impact on the stakeholders' online and offline lives. An emerging genre of livestreaming that has become increasingly popular in China is outdoor livestreaming. With outdoor livestreams, streamers broadcast outdoor activities, travel, or socialize with passersby in outdoor settings, often for 6 or more hours, and viewers watch such streams for hours each day. However, given that professionally produced content about travel and outdoor activities are not very popular, it is currently unknown what makes this category of livestreams so engaging and how these techniques can be applied to other content or genres. Thus, we conducted a mixed methods study consisting of a survey (N=287) and interviews (N = 20) to understand how viewers watch and engage with outdoor livestreams in China. The data revealed that outdoor livestreams encompass many categories of content, environments and passersby behaviors create challenges and uncertainty for viewers and streamers, and viewers watch livestreams for surprising lengths of time (e.g., sometimes more than 5 continuous hours). We also gained insights into how live commenting and virtual gifting encourage engagement. Lastly, we detail how the behaviors of dedicated fans and casual viewers differ and provide implications for the design of livestreaming services that support outdoor activities. The preprint of the paper can be found here: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~luzhc/media/cscw025-lu-new.pdf Kind regards, Eric Lu

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[Tux] TUX: Sidewalk Lab's Siqi Zhu, Samara Trilling & Brian Ho tomorrow @ Autodesk!
by Shaza'a Fayyaz 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

Hello TUX! A reminder that tomorrow we have a Sanders Series Lecture by Siqi Zhu, Samara Trilling, Brian Ho (Sidewalk Labs) at Autodesk. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Fraser, Daniel and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture: Siqi Zhu, Samara Trilling, Brian Ho (Sidewalk Labs): Notes from Computational Urban Design in Practice October 29, 2019. Autodesk-Research @ 661 University Avenue #200, Toronto, ON. Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm. Abstract Sidewalk Labs aims to improve the quality of human life in cities through technological innovation. One focus of our work is the improvement of existing urban design processes through interactive visualization, optimization, and cloud computation. In this talk, we will share a case study describing our ongoing experiences in applying computation to the design of the built environment; contextualize this work within a broader history of urbanism and technology; outline the ongoing partnership between domain experts, designers and engineers at Sidewalk Labs; and describe the challenges of making a useful and usable tool for district-scale planning and development. Bios Siqi Zhu Siqi is Associate Director, Public Realm at Sidewalk Labs, where his work imagines how technology transforms the design and implementation of urban streets and public realm. Before Sidewalk, Siqi headed up product design at Envelope, a NYC-based startup that visualizes development opportunities under NYC zoning. He also worked as a senior designer and project manager at Boston-based Sasaki and Utile, where he oversaw urban planning projects for a variety of public, private, and institutional clients across the US and internationally. Siqi is passionate about great urban public spaces. He is particularly interested in how a human-centered, research- and data-intensive design process can yield fresh insights about—and build stakeholder consensus around—how we improve the urban public realm. He played a key role in creating Boston’s first Complete Streets guidelines, an award-winning design manual noted for technical and visual communication excellence; and Boston’s 2030 city-wide mobility strategy, lauded for its use of data visualization to engage a city-wide constituency in complex mobility planning decisions. Siqi has also worked extensively with municipal transportation and parks departments, the National Park Service, and other public space managers around the country. Siqi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto and a Masters in Urban Planning from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has led research projects at MIT Senseable City Lab and currently teaches at Northeastern University’s College of Art, Media, and Design. Brian Ho I’m an <https://brian-ho.io/#Desk> interdisciplinary designer working at the intersection of society, technology and the built environment. I believe design creates joy, community and justice. I love <https://brian-ho.io/City> cities, <https://brian-ho.io/Space> infrastructure and <https://brian-ho.io/Interface> interfaces. I imagine better interactions for complex systems. I’ve helped make <https://brian-ho.io/Boston-Bench-Buddy> services, <https://brian-ho.io/Event-Detection-Interface> software, <https://brian-ho.io/Alley-Pond-Center> buildings and <https://brian-ho.io/St-Bernard-Land-Use-Plan> plans in <https://sidewalktoronto.ca/> Toronto, <https://www.boston.gov/departments/new-urban-mechanics> Boston, <http://www.mkthink.com/> SF, <http://www.leroystreetstudio.com/> NYC and <http://www.wbarchitects.com/> NOLA … and a few more <https://brian-ho.io/#Collaborations> things. I work at <https://www.sidewalklabs.com/> Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet company reimagining cities to improve quality of life. My work combines machine intelligence, urban futures and human-centered design. I graduated from the <http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/design-engineering/> Master in Design Engineering (MDE) program at the <http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/> Harvard GSD and <http://www.seas.harvard.edu/> SEAS. I studied at <https://www.arch.columbia.edu/> Columbia GSAPP and majored in architecture at <http://architecture.yale.edu/school/academic-programs/undergraduate-studies> Yale. Oh, and I’m <http://www.usgbc.org/> LEED AP BD+C certified. Samara Trilling Samara is a software engineer at Sidewalk Labs. She received her BA in computer science at Columbia University, and has worked at Google, SheEO, and Sidewalk Labs. 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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Watch HCI live streams from CMU 25th anniversary Human-Computer Interaction Institute-I found this really interesting for getting perspective on HCI
by Joseph Jay Williams 25 Oct '19

25 Oct '19

https://hcii.cmu.edu/node/7754 [Sent from smartphone] Joseph Jay Williams www.josephjaywilliams.com Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Calendar: Send invitations to josephjaywilliams(a)gmail.com Office: Bahen Centre 4238

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DGP HCI Meeting
by Cheng Lu 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

Hello all, We will have our bi-weekly HCI group meeting at 12.30pm on Tuesday Oct 22nd in the DGP seminar room. Martin Feick will be giving a talk. Food will be served. * Bio: Martin Feick is a PhD-student at the German Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarland, Germany. He received a Bachelor and Master of Sciences in software engineering/applied computer science from the Saarland University of Applied Sciences. For his Bachelor's thesis, he spent 6 months in the Interactions Lab at the University of Calgary (Canada) researching Human-Computer Interaction. For his Master's thesis, he conducted research at UCLIC at the University College London (United Kingdom). During his Master's studies, he also worked part-time as an HCI researcher at the Saarland University/Max-Planck Institute for Informatics. His research interests lie in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Especially, in how we can design and develop novel systems to support object-centered interaction. * Title: How Tangible Objects Facilitate Interaction * Abstract: In recent years we have seen great improvements in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed reality systems. They have the potential to fundamentally change how we interact with one another; however, displayed information and content largely remain virtual. In this talk, I will outline two alternative approaches to enable tangible interaction with these virtual objects, and demonstrate how they facilitate interaction. In particular, I will talk about a robotic system, ReMa which can be controlled through physical proxy objects, as well as the TanGi toolkit that allows the rapid creation of proxy objects for virtual reality.

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[Tux] Starting-up; 1 week away!
by Daniel Wigdor 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

[cid:image001.png@01D58508.7D05EAB0] [cid:image002.png@01D58508.7D05EAB0] [cid:image003.png@01D58508.7D05EAB0] Hello Tux! Welcome to the 2019/2020 season! In this message you will find information about all of the following: 1. New Sponsor 2. Editorial Board Addition 3. Change in Format and Location 4. 2019/20 Schedule Note that our first speaker will be joining us next week at the Autodesk space in the MaRS facility. We hope to see you there! As always, Tux-HCI.org<http://tux-hci.org/> has the complete schedule and all the information you need to participate. New Sponsor We are very pleased to announce that Chatham Labs<http://chathamlabs.com/> has joined us as a sponsor. This adds to the generous support provided by Autodesk Research, by Steven Sanders, and by the University of Toronto. Editorial Board Addition We are pleased to announce that Dr. Fraser Anderson<http://fraseranderson.ca/> has agreed to join the Tux editorial board, our all-volunteer crew which works hard to select an exciting slate of speakers for each season. Dr. Anderson boasts a decade of HCI research experience, as well as a wealth of interests that has brought a fresh perspective to the board. Change in Format and Location For 2019/20, we have narrowed our focus to the Sander Series Invited Lectures, and do not presently have any member presentations planned. This will allow us to focus on our external visitors, and ensure that the community has a chance to engage with these important thinkers in HCI. Note also that in February of 2020, we will be moving back to our original Sanders Series space in the auditorium at MaRS to accommodate our fast-growing community! 2019/2020 Schedule We are thrilled to have an exciting lineup of four Sanders Series Invited Lectures, with dates and locations shown below: Date Speaker Location October 29, 2019 Siqi Zhu <https://www.siqizhu.net/>Sidewalk Labs Autodesk Research, MaRS Building November 19, 2019 Michel Beaudouin-Lafon <https://www.lri.fr/~mbl/eintroduction.html>Université Paris-Sud | Institut Universitaire de France Autodesk Research, MaRS Building February 11, 2020 Saleema Amershi<http://saleemaamershi.com/> Microsoft Research Basement Auditorium, MaRS Building March 10, 2020 Justine Cassell<http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/people/justine-cassell> Carnegie-Mellon University Basement Auditorium, MaRS Building We look forward to seeing you at our first Sander Series Invited Lecture next week. Ali, Daniel, Fraser, Tovi [cid:image004.png@01D58508.7D05EAB0] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image007.jpg@01D587DA.C9FF26E0] 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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