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HCI Meeting May 17, 2020 - WATCHI AR and VR Session
by Blaine Lewis 18 May '20

18 May '20

Hi Everyone! After our last meeting on Tuesday I've taken on the role of "HCI meeting organiser person". Going forward we've decided to try to make more room for socialising. We're going to do that using an alternating schedule of *research development* and *casual meetings*. The meeting time is currently every Tuesday at 12:30. Research development meetings are fairly formal and will be things like brainstorming sessions, talks, or workshops and should be really useful for your research. During casual social meetings we might split off into small groups and chat with one another, roundtable talk about how we're doing, maybe play board games, or just drink coffee. It's fine if you show up a bit late or don't come to all of these meetings. This Tuesday we will have a research development style session watching a CHI event put on by Waterloo HCI. The session is on AR and VR, which I know not everybody researchers, but my favourite thing about conferences is the exposure to different research from my own, and I hope we can emulate that. Here's the plan and information: WATCHI AR and VR Session 2020-05-19 - Meet virtually (https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/96404556988) 15 minutes before the AR and VR session starts (12:15pm). Watch the session together, and then discuss the session at 1:25pm once it is over. - Watchi.live <http://watchi.live> - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7gjalaHF4E6C1CLTlKte6A/live Going forward we are going to try using Zoom. The biggest benefit here is we can use breakout rooms which might make socialising and some group activities a bit easier. https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/96404556988 If you have any ideas for future meetings feel free to add them to the Google doc Vicky started: https://tinyurl.com/hcimeetings Also* if the meeting time doesn't work for you* please send me an email or Slack message. I'd like to have the time work for as many people as possible. Best, Blaine

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HCI Meeting 05/12
by Blaine Lewis 12 May '20

12 May '20

Hi Everyone, I know it's short notice but there will be an HCI meeting in ~30 minutes at 12:30pm today May 12th. It should be pretty short, about an hour or so. We're going to talk about the following: - Yay UIST submissions! - Time of future HCI meetings - Plan for summer HCI meetings - Who will volunteer to make sure HCI meetings happen - Round table hey how is everybody / hang out The meeting will be held in the Blue Jeans room: bluejeans.com/dgpmeeting Thanks! Blaine https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q4z64YkFaiNszk6kFPx1BOlocuB5fJDyMKaDYqQ…

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About the mailing list
by Jiayue Wu 02 May '20

02 May '20

Hi, I am Jayden Wu(Joanne), new to Prof. Joseph's lab :) I wonder how to become the 'digested member of iai'? Looking forward to your reply! Take care and have a nice day! Thank you! Joanne 获取 Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36>

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Collaborate on my "Global South COVID-19" grant proposal?
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Dear HCI Colleagues, Hope you are in good health. I am trying to put together a grant proposal (UofT internal) to develop an accessible voice-based healthcare system for marginalized communities both in Ontario and in the Global South. I already have partners from the Global South, but I do not have many from UofT. If you find this proposal interesting, I will be very happy to add you as my collaborator on this proposal (and your required workload for this is close to zero). I have attached the grant call to this mail. The deadline is April 1. Here is the first draft of the proposal, and I will keep polishing it until the deadline is over. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UPFExVfpjxgy5H2XDFNN8C94IOABcw58_RSfYKj… Please let me know if you are interested. Also, your comments, suggestions, etc. are welcome. Best Regards, Ishtiaque *[P.S. (March 15, 2020, and onward): My response may be late because of my engagement with the COVID-19 response teams in Canada, Bangladesh, and Australia. I appreciate your patience.]* 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…>

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HCI Meeting
by vicky 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

Hi all, There will be an HCI meeting tomorrow, on Tuesday, March 24th, from 1PM - 2PM. Josh is holding a "data collection" session which will involve drawing. Come prepared with simple drawing materials. All skills welcome! Although we won't be starting the exercise until 1PM, feel free to show up any time after 12:30PM to chat and say hello. :-) Link: bluejeans.com/dgpmeeting. Meeting sign-up and info doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q4z64YkFaiNszk6kFPx1BOlocuB5fJDyMKaDYqQ… See you then, Vicky

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HCI Meeting March 17
by Blaine Lewis 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Hi Everyone, There will be an HCI meeting on Tuesday, Zhicong has signed up to give his practice job talk. Excited to see everybody there :) Link: bluejeans.com/dgpmeeting. PS: We don't have anything set in stone for next week except UIST paper swaps but it feels a bit early for that. So sign something up in the doc if you have ideas https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q4z64YkFaiNszk6kFPx1BOlocuB5fJDyMKaDYqQ… Best, Blaine

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[Tux] Professor Justine Cassell@ MaRS - Tuesday, March 10 at 12:30pm
by Anita Kivi 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

A reminder that Prof Cassell’s talk is scheduled for tomorrow in the MaRS Auditorium. [cid:image005.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] [cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210] [cid:image008.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] Hello TUX! A reminder that we have a Sanders Series Lecture by Professor Justine Cassell of Carnegie Mellon University and the founding international chair at the PRAIRIE Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI in Paris, France. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Fraser, Daniel and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture – Prof Justine Cassell: Conversational Commerce March 10, 2020. MaRS Auditorium @ 661 University Avenue, Toronto, ON. Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm. Professor Justine Cassell: Conversational Commerce 661 University Avenue, MaRS Auditorium<https://www.tux-hci.org/speaker/justine-cassell/?preview=true> [cid:image005.jpg@01D5F623.368546D0] “Conversational Commerce” “Conversational Commerce” is a meme that just won’t seem to go away. And within conversational commerce the new buzzword is “empathy” – systems as diverse as smart speakers and websites that generate insurance quotes are said to be empathetic. However, as Inigo Montoya so aptly said “I do not think it means what you think it means.” In this talk I’ll discuss where conversational interfaces have come from, where they are today, and where they could go tomorrow if we learn how to really create bonds between computational systems and their users. Bio Justine Cassell is currently on leave from Carnegie Mellon to hold the founding international chair at the PRAIRIE Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI, in Paris, France. Before going on leave, she was Associate Dean of Technology Strategy and Impact in the School of Computer Science at CMU, co-director of the Simon Initiative on Technology-Enhanced Learning, and co-director, with Professor Tom Mitchell, of the Yahoo (Oath/Verizon) InMind Project on the Future of Personal Assistants. She is Director Emerita of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at CMU. Previously Justine was faculty at Northwestern University where she founded the Technology and Social Behavior Doctoral Program and Research Center. Before that she was a tenured professor at the MIT Media Lab. Justine has received the MIT Edgerton Prize, Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision award, the AAMAS Test of Time paper award, and the National Academy of Sciences Henry and Bryna David Prize. She is a fellow of the AAAS, Royal Academy of Scotland, and the ACM. [cid:image009.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image007.jpg@01D5F623.368546D0] TUX is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk, University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and Chatham Labs. _______________________________________________ Click here to unsubscribe : https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/tux-announce/hci%40dgp.…

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[Tux] TUX: Professor Justine Cassell@ MaRS next week
by Anita Kivi 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

On Tuesday, March 10 we will be welcoming Prof Cassell at MaRS Auditorium for her talk. [cid:image005.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] [cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210] [cid:image008.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] Hello TUX! A reminder that we have a Sanders Series Lecture by Professor Justine Cassell of Carnegie Mellon University and the founding international chair at the PRAIRIE Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI in Paris, France. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Fraser, Daniel and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture – Prof Justine Cassell: Conversational Commerce March 10, 2020. MaRS Auditorium @ 661 University Avenue, Toronto, ON. Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm. Professor Justine Cassell: Conversational Commerce 661 University Avenue, MaRS Auditorium<https://www.tux-hci.org/speaker/justine-cassell/?preview=true> [cid:image002.jpg@01D5F173.B0ADC950] “Conversational Commerce” “Conversational Commerce” is a meme that just won’t seem to go away. And within conversational commerce the new buzzword is “empathy” – systems as diverse as smart speakers and websites that generate insurance quotes are said to be empathetic. However, as Inigo Montoya so aptly said “I do not think it means what you think it means.” In this talk I’ll discuss where conversational interfaces have come from, where they are today, and where they could go tomorrow if we learn how to really create bonds between computational systems and their users. Bio Justine Cassell is currently on leave from Carnegie Mellon to hold the founding international chair at the PRAIRIE Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI, in Paris, France. Before going on leave, she was Associate Dean of Technology Strategy and Impact in the School of Computer Science at CMU, co-director of the Simon Initiative on Technology-Enhanced Learning, and co-director, with Professor Tom Mitchell, of the Yahoo (Oath/Verizon) InMind Project on the Future of Personal Assistants. She is Director Emerita of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at CMU. Previously Justine was faculty at Northwestern University where she founded the Technology and Social Behavior Doctoral Program and Research Center. Before that she was a tenured professor at the MIT Media Lab. Justine has received the MIT Edgerton Prize, Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision award, the AAMAS Test of Time paper award, and the National Academy of Sciences Henry and Bryna David Prize. She is a fellow of the AAAS, Royal Academy of Scotland, and the ACM. [cid:image009.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image008.jpg@01D5F174.61F7D570] TUX is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk, University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and Chatham Labs. _______________________________________________ Click here to unsubscribe : https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/tux-announce/hci%40dgp.…

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[ICTD Talk] March 3, 2020: Aparna Moitra on voice-based media platform in rural India
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Dear All, Aparna Moitra, a visiting Postdoc at the Third Space research group of the DGP Lab, will deliver a talk on her research in rural India. You all are cordially invited. Also, please feel free to share this with your students and colleagues. Details are as follows: Time: Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 1630 to 1730 hrs Location: Bahen Centre, Room 5187 (DGP Seminar Room), 40 Saint George St. Title: An Analysis of Community Mobilization Strategies of a Voice-based Community Media Platform in Rural India Abstract: We define community mobilization as offline activities typically required in ICTD initiatives to train users and drive adoption for the sustained use of ICTs within the community. Community mobilization forms an important but under-discussed component of ICTD initiatives. In this talk, I will present a case study of a voice-based community media platform in rural central India and the experiments it has undergone with multiple community mobilization strategies over a period of five years. We have analyzed different phases of community mobilization and draw insights related to how technology platforms can be appropriated by specific actors to drive their own agendas, how organizational control can be imposed to prevent undesirable appropriation, yet give communities the flexibility to use the platform according to their needs, and how group structures and hybrid financial-social incentives can be created to build sustainable networks that can be replicated and scaled in a standardized manner. We have used the Actor-Network Theory, along with Olson’s Theory of Groups and Incentives to explain our observations. Our methods can be generalized and applied by other ICTD initiatives to evaluate their own community mobilization strategies. Bio: Aparna Moitra is a Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher with the Third Space group of the DGP Lab at the Department of Computer Science, UofT. She has a PhD from the University of Delhi, India, where she worked on embedding an externally-driven voice-based community media platform among the low-literacy and socially marginalized populations of Rural India. Her talk is based on a paper she published in the Journal of Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) from her PhD work. Post-PhD, her research interests have diversified towards qualitatively investigating the role of technological interventions (such as online feminist movements) and their design in supplementing on-ground social justice ecosystems in case of gender-based violence. 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…>

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HCI Meeting Tomorrow
by vicky 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Hi all, We will have an HCI meeting tomorrow at 12:30pm in the DGP conference room. Food will be served! Yasaman will be holding a brainstorming session for her FinTech project. We can probably fit in an additional brainstorm/other activity tomorrow, if anyone is interested-- just let me know. If you'd like to run a future HCI meeting feel free to ask me about it, or add yourself to the schedule: https://tinyurl.com/hcimeetings See you all tomorrow, Vicky

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