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HCI meeting Tue Sep 23rd
by Jiannan Li 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

Hello all, We will have our bi-weekly HCI group meeting at 12.30pm on Tuesday Sep 23rd in the DGP seminar room, as usual. We will have lab members talk about their recent submissions to CHI 2020. Hopefully the discussions can spark some inspirations for your next project! Food will be served. Look forward to seeing you there. Regards, Jiannan

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Re: [Sig] Meeting today
by Tovi Grossman 19 Sep '19

19 Sep '19

Food is in the seminar room - grab a box! Shaza'a has asked that you write your name down on the list. Thanks, Tovi From: Tovi Grossman [mailto:tovi@dgp.toronto.edu] Sent: September 19, 2019 9:15 AM To: Sig (sig(a)dgp.toronto.edu) <sig(a)dgp.toronto.edu> Subject: Meeting today Hi All, We wont have a formal group meeting today - instead I've asked Shaza'a to order dinner for 5pm in the DGP kitchen for us (and anyone else staying late to work on CHI submissions). Thanks, Tovi

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Meeting today
by Tovi Grossman 19 Sep '19

19 Sep '19

Hi All, We wont have a formal group meeting today - instead I've asked Shaza'a to order dinner for 5pm in the DGP kitchen for us (and anyone else staying late to work on CHI submissions). Thanks, Tovi

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No grad students applied for 20-30 TA contract that will let them consolidate their HCI methods skills?
by Joseph Jay Williams 18 Sep '19

18 Sep '19

No grad students applied for 20-30 TA contract that will let them consolidate their HCI methods skills? Genuinely interested in user feedback as to why not, please email me with ideas. E.g. Not sure if you have background? Didn't see this email? Applied but didn't cc me? seems like a great chance to get paid to put together resources on things like interviewing and design.We will make these available to DGP after! If there is some chance you might be interested, just put application on by tomorrow, we can discuss after CHI! See below 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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Apply by Thu 19 Sep: 20-30 hour TA to teach ML-oriented students about HCI methods (for Joseph's grad course on HCI & randomized experiments, statistical machine learning)
by Joseph Jay Williams 15 Sep '19

15 Sep '19

I don't have much time to write about it before CHI deadline, but pasted some info below. The TA ship would be teaching grad students who have zero knowledge of HCI about methods like design, prototyping, interviewing, participatory design, technology probes. Happy to discuss more. You don't necessarily have to be expert in those methods, you can put in time to learn it, and you already know way more than (for e.g.) a randomly chosen CS or ML student who s doesn't even have an undergrad course in HCI (i.e. they have first year undergrad knowledge of HCI). If you *might* be interested put in an application before Thu 19 Sep deadline and we can talk after CHI. Thanks! ***** Description below, copied from ( https://taships.iit.artsci.utoronto.ca/csc/postings) Duties: Preparing course materials, responding to students on discussion forum, giving students input & feedback on project proposals and final projects. Qualifications: Graduate-level course or research experience with any one or more of the following: Human-Computer Interaction, or Machine Learning, or Statistics (e.g. hypothesis testing), Design of Randomized Experiments. See course description at www.josephjaywilliams.com/grad course or email williams(a)cs.toronto.edu for more details You have to apply by Thu Sep 19 at https://taships.iit.artsci.utoronto.ca/csc so if you *might* be interested put in your application. Also please copy/paste your application or express interest to williams(a)cs.toronto.edu and include the string "zzTA" in subject line or email, so he can search it. 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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Sharing a digital activity to help people reflect on stressful situations, and invite feedback on improving them, as part of ongoing research in my lab
by Joseph Jay Williams 15 Sep '19

15 Sep '19

Hi Everyone, I wanted to share a link to a digital activity to help people reflect on stressful situations, and invite feedback on improving it, as part of ongoing research in my lab (approved by REB). Below my signature I have more context about this research. This is a 15-30 minute activity that asks you questions to help you reflect on a stressful situation. Please feel free to use it yourself, or to share with other people who might be interested. I welcome any input, comments & suggestions for how to improve it, so we can make this more useful to anyone whenever they are in a stressful situation! Here is the link to the consent form, which then redirects to the activity, if you want to try it now, or share with others! <http://rotman.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aWb4VGITORGkaCp?source=c> http://rotman.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_aWb4VGITORGkaCp?source=g1 Thank you, Joseph For more context on this research: This is a research project for which we have REB approval, that builds on a range of my prior work with clinical psychologists (references below) as well as ongoing collaboration with colleagues like David Mohr at Northwestern, a leading expert in digital mental health. We've discussed this work with clinical psychologists. We are always concerned about the sensitivity of issues around helping people manage stress, particularly as we are trying to help anyone in the world apply techniques developed for mental health, and recognize how widespread mental health issues are. This research is intended as a stress management activity, and not an attempt to provide professional counseling services. We hope this is an area where our lab can do a lot of good in reaching out to people, and getting your help, but also one where we have to be careful about the ethical and practical issues that come up anytime you try to help people manage stress. We welcome any feedback, suggestions, or input! Of course you would know my lab is not always able to act on them, as we've already received valuable (but sometimes conflicting) suggestions from many colleagues, students, clinical psychologists, and social workers! But every suggestion is more evidence of the importance of a particular approach, and can help us come up with novel solutions, so *please provide whatever criticisms, suggestions for improvement, opinions, thoughts, or ideas you have!* -Gumport, N. B., Williams, J. J., & Harvey, A. G. (2015). Learning cognitive behavior therapy. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 48, 164-169. [PDF <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-hY3HRV_efyaDBIWmpxb09HOGs/view>] -Harvey, A.G., Lee, J., Williams, J., Hollon, S. Walker, M.P., Thompson, M. & Smith, R. (2014). Improving Outcome of Psychosocial Treatments by Enhancing Memory and Learning. Perspectives in Psychological Science, 9, 161-179. [PDF <https://docs.google.com/a/cognitivescience.co/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=am…> ] -Bernecker, S. L., Williams, J. J., & Constantino, M. J. (2017, May). Enhancing mental health through scalable training for peer counselors. Extended abstract presented at the Computing and Mental Health symposium of the annual ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, CO. [PDF <http://www.josephjaywilliams.com/CMH_CHI_final.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1>] Understanding User Perspectives on Prompts for Brief Reflection on Troubling Emotions (in progress) 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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If you're working on CHI, I encourage you to go to DGP so you have company! Paper swaps for even 15-30 mins can sometimes be more valuable than 60 mins writing.
by Joseph Jay Williams 14 Sep '19

14 Sep '19

If you're working on CHI, I encourage you to go to DGP so you have company! Paper swaps for even 15-30 mins can sometimes be more valuable than 60 mins writing. I'm around in my office, BA 4238 and will try to come work in DGP for some time too [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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Fwd: Jayna Brown and Steven Jackson at McLuhan Centre September 23
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Some of you may be interested in this event at McLuhan Centre. 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…> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Sarah Sharma <sarah.sharma(a)utoronto.ca> Date: Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 9:42 AM Subject: Jayna Brown and Steven Jackson at McLuhan Centre September 23 To: k.mckittrick(a)queensu.ca <k.mckittrick(a)queensu.ca>, Rinaldo Walcott < rinaldo.walcott(a)utoronto.ca>, Nicole Charles <n.charles(a)utoronto.ca>, Beverly Bain <beverly.bain(a)utoronto.ca>, Deborah Cowen < deb.cowen(a)utoronto.ca>, Dana Seitler <d.seitler(a)utoronto.ca>, Shaquilla Singh <shaquilla.singh(a)gmail.com>, Lauren Cramer <lauren.cramer(a)utoronto.ca>, cesharpe(a)yorku.ca <cesharpe(a)yorku.ca>, Dai Kojima <dai.kojima(a)utoronto.ca>, Christine Shaw <christine.shaw(a)utoronto.ca>, John Ricco < john.ricco(a)utoronto.ca>, Ladan Mohamed Siad <ladanmohamedsiad(a)gmail.com>, R. Cassandra Lord <cassandra.lord(a)utoronto.ca>, Ishtiaque Ahmed < ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu>, Vinh Nguyen <vinh.nguyen(a)uwaterloo.ca>, Jayne Wilkinson <wilkinson.jayne(a)gmail.com> Wanted to get the word out to those of you who may not be on our mailing list or on our FB/twitter first roll out. Registration is going fast! Jayna Brown and Steven Jackson will be at the McLuhan Centre talking about repair, speculation, and technical breakdown to open our HotMessAge: Media Studies Takes the Call year of programming! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/monday-night-seminar-line-dead-repair-calls-tic… <https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/monday-night-seminar-line-dead-repair-calls-tic…> Monday Night Seminar: Line Dead, Repair Calls <https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/monday-night-seminar-line-dead-repair-calls-tic…> Join us as we open the HotMessAge season with Jayna Brown and Steven Jackson with a night on repair for the end of the world! We will be addressing the HotMess via speculative life, black utopias, and the break down of our technical systems. We will discuss and think through together the significance of breakdown but also the opportunity for improvisation and creativity in science, tech, and new media fields. The “Monday Night Seminar” carries on the tradition of Marshall McLuhan's public seminars at the University of Toronto. All seminars take place within the same intimate Coach House setting where McLuhan once held court. In this up-close and personal environment, a range of thinkers – academics, activists, scientists, artists, designers and planners – will explore digital culture from a feminist perspective. The Monday Night Seminars are designed to challenge prevailing cultural notions about technology and provoke new insight on the possibilities for a more equitable technological futu www.eventbrite.ca Sarah Sharma Associate Professor, University of Toronto Director of the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology --Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (UTM) --Faculty of Information (St. George) Website: sarahsharma.com

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HCI meeting (Tue Sep 10th)
by Jiannan Li 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Hello all, We will have our bi-weekly HCI group meeting at 12.30pm on Tuesday Sep 10th in the DGP seminar room, as usual. We will first introduce the new and current members of our group, and do a CHI title/abstract/intro swap for feedback. Food will be served. Welcome to DGP HCI. Regards, Jiannan

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Is there a system for people (especially students) to have discussions with each other about CHI papers?
by Joseph Jay Williams 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Is there a system for people (especially students) to have discussions with each other about CHI papers? e.g. could I get a volunteer or two to put together a Google Sheet or Gdoc where we can all list who is working on what, and what kinds of input or discussion might be useful? Even if sections aren't written yet, lots of useful knowledge you can all share! 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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