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Re: [Sig] HCI Meeting This Week
by Fengyuan Zhu 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

Hi all Since my recent project has lots of common features and similarity with Lizhen’s one, so I and Lizhen will co-lead tomorrow’s brainstorm session. We will talk our ideas and progress first, and have a discussion then. And I also have runnable demo prepared, if anyone is interested, feel free to have a try. Best FY Begin forwarded message: From: Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat <rifat(a)cs.toronto.edu <mailto:rifat@cs.toronto.edu> > Subject: [Sig] HCI Meeting This Week Date: November 12, 2018 at 2:27:54 PM EST To: hci(a)dgp.toronto.edu <mailto:hci@dgp.toronto.edu> , Joseph Jay Williams <josephjaywilliams(a)gmail.com <mailto:josephjaywilliams@gmail.com> >, Winter Wei <winterwei(a)gmail.com <mailto:winterwei@gmail.com> > Hi All, We have our HCI group meeting tomorrow at 12:30 PM at DGP Seminar room. In the first session, Zhen Li will conduct a brainstorming session for his research (abstract attached). In the second session, Dina Sabie will present her research. Please drop by and take part in the activities. Lunch will be provided during the meeting. Zhen's brainstorming: People can perform complicated computing tasks in their offices, using their desktops with keyboards, mice, and monitors. But when they are outside, they usually perform these tasks on their mobile phones. How about combining an Augmented/Mixed Reality (AR/MR) device with the smartphone to improve the user experience and provide more functionalities? I will lead a brainstorming session and collect some feedback from you. Thanks, Rifat -- Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/ _______________________________________________ Sig mailing list Sig(a)dgp.toronto.edu <mailto:Sig@dgp.toronto.edu> https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sig

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Looking for a Volunteer for HCI Meeting on November 13, 2018
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

Hi all, We need a volunteer for HCI meeting on Tuesday, November 13, 2018. If you want to lead an activity or present your research, please let me know. Thanks, Rifay -- Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/

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[Tux] Reminder: Talk tomorrow (Tuesday!)
by Daniel Wigdor 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

[cid:image005.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] [cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210] [cid:image008.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] Dear Tux, A reminder that our next Member Presentation will take place tomorrow (Tuesday) at the DGP lab (40 St. George St., 5th Floor). We have two exciting speakers; looking forward to seeing you there! Haijun Xia [http://www.tux-hci.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/haijunxia-223x300.jpg]<http://www.tux-hci.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/haijunxia.jpg> Abstract Supporting Direct Human-Computer Communication Abstract: From the dawn of digital computing, we have striven to communicate with computers to fully leverage their computing power. The development of sensing technologies enables such communication with verbal language, gestural language, and graphical language. Despite the many different input techniques, conversations with computers are all structured around a fixed sets UI elements that do not support much flexibility. As such, the rich and dynamic thoughts we could have articulated naturally with flexible words, gestures, and visuals must be formalized as structured, restrictive, rigid, and repetitive tasks around such element. I seek to design a new interaction language that enables us to directly and flexibly articulate our creative thoughts. I approach this from two directions. First, I design new graphical representations of digital content to match our dynamic and flexible needs. Second, I invent novel interaction techniques to enable the direct articulation of user intention. Bio I am a PhD student advised by Prof. Daniel Wigdor at DGP lab, University of Toronto. I am also a Microsoft PhD Fellow and Adobe PhD Fellow. My research area is Human-Computer Interaction, in which I focus on creating flexible digital media to augment our creativity. I approach this from two directions: 1) I invent novel representation of the abstract content to match our dynamic needs; and 2) I develop novel interaction techniques that allow us to express our thoughts and ideas via graphical, gestural, and vocal communication that we are all naturally capable of. For more information, please visit www.haijunxia.com<http://www.haijunxia.com/> Seongkook Heo [http://www.tux-hci.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Seongkook-e1502313477475.…]<http://www.tux-hci.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Seongkook-e1502313477475.…> Abstract Expanding Touch Interaction Bandwidth by Making Computers to Feel Our Touch and to be Felt Our natural touch is rich, nuanced, and full of physical properties such as force and posture that imply our intentions. When we manipulate physical objects, we also understand the status of the object and control the posture or the forces by what we feel from our fingers. This rich physical interaction enables eyes-free and skillful object manipulation. However, most touch interfaces ignore this rich source of information and only register the contact location of a finger and do not give any physical reactions to our touch. This limited bandwidth of input and output channel often necessitates the use of multiple input modes and many buttons and makes eyes-free interaction challenging. In this talk, I will introduce projects that my colleagues and I have worked on to enrich our touch interaction with computers by utilizing previously unused physical properties of our touch. I will discuss how we can make the computers to sense more from our touch and use such information to make the richer interaction and also our haptic feedback methods that could enable virtual contents to be felt. Bio Seongkook is a postdoctoral fellow in the DGP Lab at the University of Toronto working with Prof. Daniel Wigdor. He received his Ph. D. in Computer Science at KAIST in 2017, under the supervision of Prof. Geehyuk Lee. He is interested in making communication between human and computers richer and more natural through the better use of new input and output modalities. His work has been published in premier conference proceedings and journals, such as CHI, UIST, CSCW, and IEEE Trans. Haptics. (Learn more at: http://seongkookheo.com<http://seongkookheo.com/>) [cid:image009.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image010.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] TUX is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk, University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and MaRS. About MaRS: MaRS is the one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs-a place for collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship. Located in the heart of Toronto's research district, MaRS provides the space, training, talent and networks required to commercialize important discoveries and launch and grow Canadian startups. _______________________________________________ tux-announce mailing list tux-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu<mailto:tux-announce@dgp.toronto.edu> https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tux-announce _______________________________________________ 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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Invited talk this Thursday @4.30 in BA5166 (DGP seminar room)
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

Hi everyone, Dr. Alim Al Islam, a Professor of Computer Science at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) is visiting our department and will deliver a talk at DGP seminar room tomorrow from 4:30 to 5:30 pm. Dr. Islam's recent focus is on helping underserved people with technological solutions. Please come and join us at the talk. Below are the details of Dr. Islam's talk. *Title of the talk*: *In Road to Serving the Under-Served with Computing Solutions.* *Time*: Thursday, November 1 at 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm *Venue*: BA 5166 (DGP lab, seminar room) *Host*: Dr. Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed *Abstract*: Research efforts, until now, on computing solutions exhibit little focus on the under-served people even though a substantial part of the world’s whole population is still under-served. This happens perhaps due to the challenges of reaching them as well as of devising solutions for them while being consistent with their economic constraints. In this talk, Dr. Islam would like to focus on our attempts to overcome the challenges and for devising specialized computing solutions for under-served people. The attempts to be presented in the talk cover the following three specific avenues: 1) devising solutions to bridge education barriers experienced by under-served visually-impaired people, 2) devising a solution to overcome contamination hazards experienced while using shared input devices (for example Kiosks) mostly by under-served people, and 3) developing a solution for securing railways of third-world countries. *Bio*: A. B. M. Alim Al Islam (Razi) received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. He is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of CSE, BUET. He has also served as a member, R&D, in Commlink Info. Tech. LTD, Bangladesh and in Stochastic Logic, ACI, Bangladesh. His research interests cover human-computer interaction, networking and systems, modeling and simulation, intelligent transportation, environmental monitoring and sensing, and reliability analysis. He has co-authored several journals and conference papers and presented his papers at different well-reputed conferences. He achieved several research awards covering best paper awards, best poster awards, best demo award, research grants, etc. 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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HCI Meeting Tomorrow
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

Hi All, We have our HCI group meeting tomorrow at 12:30 PM at DGP Seminar room. Weiwen Leung is going to give a practice talk on his paper that he going to present in CSCW next month. The paper is about the impact of NFL games to the Wikipedia editors that identify themselves as fans of NFL teams (abstract is below). Please drop by and help Weiwen to prepare for the talk, while at the same time give feedback on this awesome work. Lunch will be provided during the meeting. Thanks, Rifat -- Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/ Exploiting evidence that sporting results affect fans’ mood, we analyze whether National Football League game outcomes can affect the contributions of Wikipedia editors who identify as fans of a specific team. We find that the day after a team loses, their fans decrease their contributions towards football-related pages (relative to after a win). Relative decreases are bigger if losses are unexpected, or if losing margins are big. In contrast, unexpected wins do not cause more contributions relative to wins that were not unexpected. Neither do big wins result in more contributions relative to small wins. Additionally, contributions to non-football-related pages are not affected by NFL game results. Our findings add to the literatures on (i) the determinants of individual contributions to peer production communities, (ii) how community dynamics affect user contributions, (iii) the importance of emotions, (iv) the effect of offline events on online behavior, and (v) the applicability of behavioral economics concepts to the HCI literature.

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Final demo schedule for Dr. Paul Dietz (Tomorrow)
by Varun Perumal C 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Hi Everyone, Here is the final schedule after accommodating everyone's requests. 10:00 - 10:20 - Zhen 10:20 - 10:40 - Harel 10:40 - 11:00 – Seongkook 11:00 – 11:20 – Haijun 11:45 – 01:15 – Lunch Break 02:30 – 02:50 - Jacob 02:50 - 03:10 - Peter 03:10 - 03:30 - Seyong 03:50 – 04:10 – Varun Cheers, Varun

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Final Demo Schedule for Dr. Paul Dietz (Tomorrow)
by varun perumal 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Hi Everyone, Here is the final schedule after accommodating everyone's requests. 10:00 - 10:20 - Zhen 10:20 - 10:40 - Harel 10:40 - 11:00 – Seongkook 11:00 – 11:20 – Haijun 11:45 – 01:15 – Lunch Break 02:30 – 02:50 - Jacob 02:50 - 03:10 - Peter 03:10 - 03:30 - Seyong 03:50 – 04:10 – Varun Cheers, Varun

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Please don't spend tooooo long time chatting loudly in the lab area while other people are working
by Fengyuan Zhu 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Dear all This email might be little bit awkward, not so polite and I apologize in advance if my word hurt someone here. Generally speaking, please please don't spend too long time chatting loudly in the lab(like over few hours), especially when other people use the same space working and struggling on their code at the same time. Personally I'm not trying to say that no one should talk at all in the lab. We all know that the DGP Lab is a space not only for our research work, but also for us to communicate with each other, sharing ideas and enjoying joys with friends. But meanwhile, I hope everyone understand that the DGP Lab is not a public bar, means that chatting and laughing over multiple hours with childish topics is totally not a good thing, especially when other people expecting to use the same space for working at the same time. For some people, those sounds are the source of joy and fun, but meanwhile, same sounds can be noise for others, which will ruin their work at same time. Rather than the noise part, when someone continuing those long chatting in the lab, it actually create an "environment", makes some people think "hey so many people are enjoying something together, it might be very awkward if I'm not joining them and try to stop them", in which is actually doing more damage to those people who planned to work, but joined the random talking later. At least from my side, I saw so many times that after those chatting session done, those friendly guys has to go back to their working station, struggling their works until 1 - 2 am, or even sacrifice the following night, in order to compensate their wasted time. All in all, I'm not trying to stop the conversation itself in the lab, as I personally also enjoyed a lot from those short leisure chatting, no matter related or non-related to the research. But please, don't spend too long time chatting loudly in the lab area. There are so many other choices, like DCS lounge, seminar room or a pub outside can serve a party around, but please don't use the lab itself for that. And also, as a not so friendly person, I'm sorry that I always choose to break those joyful environment with an awkward request. As a new Ph.D. here, I might misunderstand some general rules here in the DGP Lab. If there are some rules similar as "after 6:00pm the DGP Lab is a party space and no one is allowed to continue working here", please let me know, I'll apologize and adjust my working habits then. Otherwise, please. Thank you for reading those awkward words, and apologize again if those words might hurt someone here. Sincerely Fengyuan Zhu

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Demos for Dr. Paul Dietz (Sign Up)
by Varun Perumal C 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

Hi Everyone, Dr. Paul Dietz is visiting our lab on Wednesday Oct 24th . Dr. Dietz headed several research groups at Disney Imagineering and Mitsubishi Research Labs and was the Assistant Director of Research at Microsoft Research in the past and is currently the CTO of Misapplied Science, a company building light field displays : http://misappliedsciences.com/ and https://www.geekwire.com/2018/breakthrough-parallel-reality-display-technol… He is an amazing person to talk to and I would encourage everyone to sign up for the demo's even if your research is not directly related to his work. This is a great opportunity to get some high quality feedback and perspectives. Please pick a time slot here as soon as possible since there are not that many. There are 20 min times slots for now. If you don't find a time slot available, please write your name down and I will try to accommodate you. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OlSXfsmecJiBkSS9KWr6JeGiheagLhLl5rZ… Cheers, Varun

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Demos for Dr. Paul Dietz (Sign Up)
by varun perumal 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

Hi Everyone, Dr. Paul Dietz is visiting our lab on Wednesday Oct 24th . Dr. Dietz headed several research groups at Disney Imagineering and Mitsubishi Research Labs and was the Assistant Director of Research at Microsoft Research in the past and is currently the CTO of Misapplied Science, a company building light field displays : http://misappliedsciences.com/ and https://www.geekwire.com/2018/breakthrough-parallel-reality-display-technol… He is an amazing person to talk to and I would encourage everyone to sign up for the demo's even if your research is not directly related to his work. This is a great opportunity to get some high quality feedback and perspectives. Please pick a time slot here as soon as possible since there are not that many. There are 20 min times slots for now. If you don't find a time slot available, please write your name down and I will try to accommodate you. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OlSXfsmecJiBkSS9KWr6JeGiheagLhLl5rZ… Cheers, Varun

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