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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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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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FW: Teaching Assistant Applications Now Open for Winter 2020: Application Due- Friday November 22, 2019
by Tovi Grossman 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

Hi All, Please consider TA'ing for 428 or 2536 (if you aren't enrolled). Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Tovi From: TA coordinator [mailto:tacoord@cs.toronto.edu] Sent: October 30, 2019 3:15 PM To: Grad-announcements(a)cs.toronto.edu Cc: info(a)cupe3902.org; faculty(a)cs.toronto.edu; lisab(a)cs.toronto.edu; TA coordinator <tacoord(a)cs.toronto.edu> Subject: Teaching Assistant Applications Now Open for Winter 2020: Application Due- Friday November 22, 2019 To all interested parties, Applications as Teaching Assistants are now open for the Winter 2020 session in the Department of Computer Science! Interested applicants may apply at: https://taships.iit.artsci.utoronto.ca/csc/login Applications are due by Friday November 22, 2019 Further details can be found in the posting at: https://taships.iit.artsci.utoronto.ca/csc/postings All TA positions have been formally posted at: https://unit1.hrandequity.utoronto.ca/ *** The Chair's authorized designate shall make any and all offers of employment on behalf of the Department of Computer Science. No other offer or notice of the outcome of applications is authorized by the Department. Final availability of positions is contingent upon final course determinations, enrolment, budgetary considerations and the final determination of assignments flowing from Article 16:06 of the collective agreement. Job requirements and the expected number of openings are listed in the online application form at: http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~reid/tapp/ For all of these positions, excellent written and spoken English is an essential requirement (unless explicitly indicated otherwise). As part of your online application, please update your profile. Please do not apply for positions for which you are not qualified. In particular check that you are available during the tutorial and meeting times listed. For any questions related to courses or the application process or If during the application process you require accommodation due to a disability, please contact: tacoord(a)cs.toronto.edu <mailto:tacoord@cs.toronto.edu> ; Our TA coordinator, Karen Reid, or myself will respond to your queries. For financial matters, please contact Lisa De Caro in BA7214 or by telephone at 416-946-3036 or by e-mail at lisab(a)cs.utoronto.ca <mailto:lisab@cs.utoronto.ca> . Best wishes -- -Patrina -- Patrina Seepersaud TA Support Assistant Department of Computer Science

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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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