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Critical Computing Reading Group
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 28 Jul '19

28 Jul '19

Hi All, Dr. Robert Soden (our new faculty (jointly with the School of Environment) joining in Fall 2020) and Dr. Ishtiaque Ahmed is starting a critical computing reading group. Both of them have a vast knowledge of Critical Theories and Concepts. The group should be a great resource for many of you. If you are interested to participate, please let us know. The meetup will be online. Below is the link for a doodle poll; please indicate what times work for you. https://doodle.com/poll/tv8hfmr5gietqw8s Many 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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Talk Tue 16 July 12:30-2:00 pm in Bahen 5187 (also live streamed & recorded): Rationality Enhancement: Towards theories and tools for helping people become more effective by Falk Lieder
by Joseph Jay Williams 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Just a reminder on this talk tomorrow, see details below. tiny.cc/falktalk <http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ptagqbmajy4sj3yr/8/http://tiny.cc/falktalk> will have link to live stream and recording, plus directions to this room in DGP. Joseph On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 6:47 PM Joseph Jay Williams <williams(a)cs.toronto.edu> wrote: > I thought you might be interested in this, please feel free to forward on > to relevant mailing lists. I've messaged people in open cc (including Falk) > as it's a chance for people from different backgrounds to know of or be > reminded of each other (but feel free to request a different approach). I'm > sure I didn't remember everyone so please feel free to send on. Falk and I > overlapped in Tom Griffiths' computational cognitive science lab, and in > addition to applying reinforcement learning & ML to cognitive science, he's > visiting my Intelligent Adaptive Interventions group for a collaborative > project on HCI & education. > > ***** > Falk Lieder from Max Planck Institute (formerly UC Berkeley) will be > giving a talk Tue 16 July 12:30-2:00 pm in Bahen (BA) 5187 (U of T time, > talk starts 12:40, runs about 50 minutes). The title, abstract and bio are > pasted below. Feel free to forward this on to colleagues or relevant > mailing lists, the audience will be multidisciplinary, crossing > human-computer interaction, psychology, and machine learning. > > > Go to the Google Doc at URL tiny.cc/falktalk > <http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ptagqbmajy4sj3yr/2/http://tiny.cc/falktalk> for > information such as: > > >When he is visiting and how to request a meeting. > > >The information to watch the live stream and recording of his talk (link > will be added at 12:30 Tue 16 July). > > >Directions to BA 5187. > > >Anything else we think of adding or people request. > > Rationality Enhancement: Towards theories and tools for helping people > become more effective > > Abstract: Human judgment and decision-making appear to be riddled with > numerous systematic errors. Previous attempts to attenuate these so-called > cognitive biases by educating people about them or schooling them in the > laws of logic, probability theory, and expected utility theory have had > limited success. In this talk, I will outline an alternative approach to > improving human decision-making that grew out of rethinking what it means > to be rational. In the first part of my talk, I will illustrate that making > Herbert Simon’s notion of bounded rationality mathematically precise allows > us to derive optimal decision strategies from first principles. In the > second part of my talk, I will illustrate how such advances can be > leveraged to improve human decision-making. Concretely, I will present an > intelligent tutor that can discover optimal planning strategies and helps > people to internalize those strategies by providing metacognitive feedback. > Finally, in the third part of my talk, I will present a complementary > approach that combines artificial intelligence with gamification to help > people overcome procrastination and become more productive. > > > > Bio: Falk Lieder is a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for > Intelligent Systems here in Tübingen. His newly established Rationality > Enhancement Group strives to lay the cognitive and technological > foundations for helping people become more effective. He completed his > Ph.D. in Tom Griffiths’s Computational Cognitive Science Lab at the > University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this, he worked as a research > assistant in Klaas Stephan’s Translational Neuromodeling Unit, received a > masters degree in Neural Systems and Computation from ETH Zurich, and > completed two simultaneous bachelor’s degrees in Cognitive Science and > Mathematics/Computer Science at the University of Osnabrück > > Website: > <http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ptagqbmajy4sj3yr/3/https://sites.google.com/site/fa…> > https://sites.google.com/site/ > <http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ptagqbmajy4sj3yr/7/https://sites.google.com/site/> > falklieder/home > > > Joseph > > > Joseph Jay Williams > www.josephjaywilliams.com > <http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ptagqbmajy4sj3yr/4/http://www.josephjaywilliams.com/> > Assistant Professor > Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto > Intelligent Adaptive Interventions (IAI) research group > > <http://mailstat.us/tr/opt-out?guid=ptagqbmajy4sj3yr>

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Comics and Statistics Workshop - Thursday Jul 18, 1:00 - 2:30 PM BA5187
by jritchie 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Hi everybody, I wanted to invite you all to a comics workshop that I'm running in the seminar room (BA5187) this Thursday from 1-2:30 PM (during Daniel's group meeting). In the activity, participants will create a comic-style summary of the statistical analysis used in a research paper. Each attendee should bring a copy of one of their own projects (ideally a finished course project or research paper) that involved a statistical analysis. If you don't have any suitable projects, bring a research paper that you recently read. If you can attend, I'd really appreciate it! It will be a good opportunity to have fun and be creative while getting more comfortable with the statistics used in studies and discussing them with some of the more senior grad students. Please RSVP by replying to this email or my Slack post, so we have an idea of the number of attendees to prepare for. Best, Jacob

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Talk Tue 16 July 12:30-2:00 pm in Bahen 5187: Rationality Enhancement: Towards theories and tools for helping people become more effective by Falk Lieder
by Joseph Jay Williams 06 Jul '19

06 Jul '19

Falk Lieder from Max Planck Institute (formerly UC Berkeley) will be giving a talk Tue 16 July 12:30-2:00 pm in Bahen (BA) 5187 (U of T time, talk starts 12:40, runs about 50 minutes). The title, abstract and bio are pasted below. Feel free to forward this on to colleagues or relevant mailing lists, the audience will be multidisciplinary, crossing human-computer interaction, psychology, and machine learning. Go to the Google Doc at URL tiny.cc/falktalk for information such as: >When he is visiting and how to request a meeting. >The information to watch the live stream and recording of his talk (link will be added at 12:30 Tue 16 July). >Directions to BA 5187. >Anything else we think of adding or people request. Rationality Enhancement: Towards theories and tools for helping people become more effective Abstract: Human judgment and decision-making appear to be riddled with numerous systematic errors. Previous attempts to attenuate these so-called cognitive biases by educating people about them or schooling them in the laws of logic, probability theory, and expected utility theory have had limited success. In this talk, I will outline an alternative approach to improving human decision-making that grew out of rethinking what it means to be rational. In the first part of my talk, I will illustrate that making Herbert Simon’s notion of bounded rationality mathematically precise allows us to derive optimal decision strategies from first principles. In the second part of my talk, I will illustrate how such advances can be leveraged to improve human decision-making. Concretely, I will present an intelligent tutor that can discover optimal planning strategies and helps people to internalize those strategies by providing metacognitive feedback. Finally, in the third part of my talk, I will present a complementary approach that combines artificial intelligence with gamification to help people overcome procrastination and become more productive. Bio: Falk Lieder is a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for Intelligent Systems here in Tübingen. His newly established Rationality Enhancement Group strives to lay the cognitive and technological foundations for helping people become more effective. He completed his Ph.D. in Tom Griffiths’s Computational Cognitive Science Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this, he worked as a research assistant in Klaas Stephan’s Translational Neuromodeling Unit, received a masters degree in Neural Systems and Computation from ETH Zurich, and completed two simultaneous bachelor’s degrees in Cognitive Science and Mathematics/Computer Science at the University of Osnabrück Website: https://sites.google.com/site/falklieder/home 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 meeting on Tue 2 July at 12:30pm: Learning & Improving Semi-Structured Interview Techniques
by Yuya Asano 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

Hi everyone, I am Yuya. I am a fourth year CS undergrad who is working with Joseph this summer and helping him manage this meeting. The meeting starts at 12:30pm in DGP seminar room. For those who cannot make it in person, I will also set up google hangouts (the link will be sent about 30 minutes before). Prior to the meeting, please add topics you want to discuss and information you want others to know to the agenda from here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fByc4u6qOZyy1NOvBAAzk6T-fxWe85i3AyY3JjB…>. I am looking forward to see you soon. Best, Yuya ---------------------- Yuya Asano University of Toronto Fourth year Specialist in Computer Science Cell: 437-341-0805 Email: yuya.asano(a)mail.utoronto.ca<mailto:yuya.asano@mail.utoronto.ca> ----------------------

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Have an HCI meeting Tue 2 July (this Tue) on the topic of Learning & Improving Semi-Structured Interview Techniques
by Joseph Jay Williams 27 Jun '19

27 Jun '19

Hi everyone, I spoke to Jiannin, and let's have have an HCI meeting Tue 2 July (this Tue) on the topic of Learning & Improving Semi-Structured Interview Techniques. (I'll be away the following week so I asked to go earlier). I have several new grad students joining who are excited to learn about this topic and discuss with other people who are doing it. And many of you said this could be quite useful, even if you're experienced there's always ways to keep improving and iterating on techniques for interviewing. *If you have previous experience with interviews, we want your resources here (readings, guides, very good transcripts or videos, etc.): * <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zu5csTWoZUJ7txCbLO1PsLiyjOFrs2KsqYAnHkz…> tiny.cc/dinterview - Resources for doing HCI Interviewing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fByc4u6qOZyy1NOvBAAzk6T-fxWe85i3AyY3JjB…> *Also, please take a moment before the meeting to reflect on interviewing.* What's helpful to know? When you were learning interviewing, what was difficult at first? Do you have advice? What are important things to keep in mind when preparing as an interviewer? Etc. We'll be having smaller group discussions, with particular attention to capturing ideas and tips in the Google Doc. And to having people actually practice or demo ways they might interview. Please just dump a whole bunch of resources into that Google doc, don't worry too much about how relevant they are. We can cut and organize later. tiny.cc/dinterview - Resources for doing HCI Interviewing <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fByc4u6qOZyy1NOvBAAzk6T-fxWe85i3AyY3JjB…> 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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Research demo
by TURCS TURCS 25 Jun '19

25 Jun '19

Good afternoon: The Toronto Undergrad Research Computer Science(TURCS) is hosting annual research conference on Sep 13th 2019. We are looking for dgp grad students to demo their research to undergrad students as part of the conference. Length of demos should be 5-10 mins with 5-10 mins of question period. If you are interested, you should be available from 3:30 - 4:30 for a 10-20 mins time slot. You are also welcome to join for a free lunch as a token of gratitude from 12-1. Regards, TURCS team

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HCI meeting (June 25th)
by Jiannan Li 24 Jun '19

24 Jun '19

Hello all, We are having our HCI meeting on Tuesday June 25th. The time and location is 12.30 - 2.00, at the DGP seminar room, as usual. We do not have a presenter this week. Instead, we will watch Hiroshi Ishii’s Lifetime Achievement Award talk at CHI this year (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6D1A9J0qIE) and have some free-form discussions on the talk, or ongoing research, or anything you’d like to bring up. Look forward to seeing you there. Lunch will be provided. Thanks, Jiannan

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HCI meeting (Tuesday June 11th)
by Jiannan Li 10 Jun '19

10 Jun '19

Hello all, We are having our HCI meeting on Tuesday June 11th. The time and location is 12.30 - 2.00, at the DGP seminar room, as usual. We will have Zhen giving a dry run for his talk at EICS. The title of his talk is SMAC: A Simplified Model of Attention and Capture in Multi-Device Desk-Centric Environments. Look forward to seeing you there. Lunch will be provided. Thanks, Jiannan

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Unexpected peanuts in seminar room, already cleaned up (in a deep way), asking for suggestions for next steps.
by fyzhu＠dgp.toronto.edu 08 Jun '19

08 Jun '19

Dear all First, please allow me to convey my apologize for this unexpected case. Tonight we've invited our friends watching raptors vs warriors in the seminar room, and accidentally brought some snacks contain peanuts to the room. After we realized that, we ceased the snacks, sealed all the package contains peanuts and brought them outside the lab. Later we spent hours making a deep clean-up for the seminar room until now. We've cleaned up tables and chairs for multiple times, deeply checked the carpet and cleaned up everything looks like food debris on the ground, and opened the window to refresh the air. As a person also have allergies, I know this still may not be enough. So if you are allergic to peanuts, please try to avoid to get into the seminar room until the next Vacuums Clean Up time (typically Monday night, I think). If you are allergic to the peanuts, need something in the lab this weekends, I'm willing to help anything I could as I'll be in lab this weekends. If anyone has any suggestions to the next steps (like maybe we need to order the clean-up from school manually for the seminar room), please let me know and I'll try my best to reset our lab into a peanuts-free lab. Sorry again for this unexpected conditions. If you know anyone belongs to this lab but not signed to the mail list, please help to let them know this unexpected condition. Hope everyone has a great weekends. Sincerely Fengyuan Zhu

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