Sig November 2019

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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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Starting meeting today at 4:10
by Tovi Grossman 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

Thanks, Tovi

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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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Group Lunch
by Tovi Grossman 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

Hi All, Scheduling a group meal is a bit tricky, and a lunch will work a lot better for me. Is there an HCI group meeting next week on the 12th? If not, can we do a very "late welcome to the lab" lunch? Thanks, Tovi

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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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SIG Seminar Series
by Blaine Lewis 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

Hi, I posted this to Slack already, I just want to make sure everybody has a chance to see it. We discussed in the group meeting starting a “seminar” series. Here’s a doodle poll so we can find a time to get started. Also add any ideas on things you can present (or would like somebody else to present) https://doodle.com/poll/pfcup7u9wgnbmy9n https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nASoeO-L3bXB0zW_97tYRGEYZz8Q93v-D2rZuxB… Best, Blaine

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