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HCI Meeting Aug 21st (CHI Submission Prep)
by Seyong Ha 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Hi all, Thanks for your participation in HCI group meeting today. As Fanny suggested in the meeting, we are going to have a CHI submission prep. on August 21st Tuesday. This prep is what we’ve done before last year. Bring your CHI drafts to the meeting, and take valuable feedback from your colleagues. We have two weeks until Aug. 21st, if you have not started a writing draft, this time would be good opportunity. Reminder will be sent out. If you have any other suggestions, please reply me back this email. p.s. : We have a group meeting next week as well. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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HCI Reading Group "Mind the Theoretical Gap" 2PM Friday August 10 @ Crimson Teas
by jritchie＠dgp.toronto.edu 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Hello all, We continue our bi-weekly reading group this week on Friday, August 10 at 2PM. We will be reading the paper "Mind the theoretical gap: interpreting, using, and developing behavioral theory in HCI research" (CHI 2013) by Erick Hekler et. al. This work introduces a body of research in behavioral theory that is often neglected by HCI researchers, despite the production of a large body of work aimed at supporting behavior change. The authors hope to correct common misuses of theory and help HCI researchers provide useful contributions to the behavioral sciences. Paper link: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2466452 Zhicong will "champion" the paper by reading it thoroughly and leading the discussion, highlighting why he thinks the work is important. The meeting will take place at Crimson Teas at 415 Spadina Ave. Snacks and drinks will be provided! Best, Jacob

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HCI Group Meeting Tomorrow
by Seyong Ha 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Hi everyone, We have a HCI group meeting tomorrow at 11:45am @DGP Seminar room. Eric will be presenting his work with Khai and Mingming in this summer. Details are going to be sent out by tonight. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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Volunteer need for HCI Group Meeting Next Week
by Seyong Ha 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

Hi all, Next Tuesday slot is still empty. Feel free to send me an email and lock the slot. Thanks, Seyong

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HCI Group Meeting Tomorrow
by Seyong Ha 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

Hi everyone, We have a HCI Group meeting tomorrow at 11:45 @DGP Seminar room. Caleb will be presenting his summer research project. Details are blow. Thanks, Seyong —— In this meeting, I will introduce my current project, 'Engaging with Intangible Cultural Heritage through Live Streaming’ and have a discussion about the project. I have also included a link (https://tinyurl.com/y7uaz9ds <https://tinyurl.com/y7uaz9ds>) for suggestions and discussions. Introduction: Live streaming has recently gained worldwide popularity, due to the affordable digital video devices, high-speed Internet access, and social media. Besides video game and other entertainment content such as live performance, users have begun to share a variety of non-entertainment content, such as civil content, knowledge sharing, and even showcasing ancient cultural practices, including Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), especially in China. ICH refers to social practices and traditions originated within folk culture, and includes oral traditions, customs, language, music, dance, rituals, festivities, craftsmanship that are considered by UNESCO to be part of a place's cultural heritage. However, little has been explored the practices and challenges of the vibrant communities of those streamers who share knowledge or showcase cultural practices through live streams, and few effective tools have been designed and developed to support their needs. I will first give an overview about ICH and how streamers are sharing cultural practices through live streaming in China, and discuss the ongoing research to understand the practices of these streamers and their community and the challenges and opportunities in this design space. ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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HCI Reading Group "Beyond Memorability / InfoVis as Pseudo-Science" 2PM Friday July 27 @ DGP Seminar Room
by jritchie＠dgp.toronto.edu 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

Hello all, We continue our bi-weekly reading group next week on Friday, July 27 at 2PM. We will be reading the paper "Beyond Memorability: Visualization Recognition and Recall" (InfoVis 2015) by Michelle Borkin et. al. This paper is notable for provoking a vociferous response from an influential, non-academic InfoVis practitioner in a newsletter he titled "Information Visualization Research as Pseudo-Science". We can pick apart whether the paper is good or bad, whether it makes an interesting contribution, and how much of the criticism was appropriate. Paper link: https://vcg.seas.harvard.edu/publications/beyond-memorability-visualization… Video link: https://youtu.be/A6vEepYE2nY Newsletter link: http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intelligence/infovis… Forum discussion: http://sfew.websitetoolbox.com/post/information-visualization-research-as-p… Eris will "champion" the paper by reading it thoroughly and leading the discussion, highlighting why she thinks the work is important. The meeting will take place in the Seminar Room, so that we can take a closer look at the paper + surrounding debate. Snacks and drinks will be provided! Best, Jacob

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HCI Group Meeting This Tuesday (July 24th)
by Seyong Ha 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

Hi folks, We have a HCI group meeting this Tuesday (July 24th) at 11:45 @DGP Seminar room. In this meeting, Joseph Jay Williams, a new faculty member of CS dept. who has been working on CS Education and HCI, will be presenting on his research approach o and some past projects on crowdsourced, dynamic personalized A/B testing using reinforcement learning and discuss some ongoing/future work. He is interested in seeing who might like to collaborate on these kinds of projects, now or in the future. or to apply the methodologies for dynamic A/B testing or reinforcement learning to their ongoing projects. The information for the meeting and the place to add questions or comments linked to here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/147QhhyTPVFJ1inKiJpWt60nyYarAVQluVqAHBD5…>. Feel free to make comments and add questions in the document, as well as provide relevant links. Details are also attached below. Thanks, Seyong —— Adapting User Technologies: Bridging Designers, Machine Learning and Psychology through Collaborative, Dynamic, Personalized Experimentation Enhancing people's real-world learning and thinking is a challenge for HCI and psychology, while AI aims to build systems that can behave intelligently in the real-world. This talk presents a framework for redesigning the everyday websites people interact with to function as: (1) Intelligent adaptive agents that implement machine learning algorithms to dynamically discover how to optimize and personalize people’s learning and reasoning. (2) Micro-laboratories for psychological experimentation and data collection. I present an example of how this framework is used to create “MOOClets” that embed randomized experiments into real-world online educational contexts – like learning to solve math problems. Explanations (and experimental conditions) are crowdsourced from learners, teachers and scientists. Dynamically changing randomized experiments compare the learning benefits of these explanations in vivo with users, continually adding new conditions as new explanations are contributed. Algorithms (for multi-armed bandits, reinforcement learning, Bayesian Optimization) are used for real-time analysis (of the effect of explanations on users’ learning) and optimizing policies that provide the explanations that are best for different learners. The framework enables a broad range of algorithms to discover how to optimize and personalize users’ behavior, and dynamically adapt technology components to trade off experimentation (exploration) with helping users (exploitation). —— ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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HCI Group Meeting Tuesday (July 17th)
by Seyong Ha 15 Jul '18

15 Jul '18

Hi folks, We have a HCI group meeting on this Tuesday at 11:45 @DGP Seminar room. This meeting, Fanny will introduce her current project , 'explorable multiverse analyses' , and have a discussion about the project. Please join the meeting and have a great discussion. Details are below. Thanks, Seyong Increasing the Transparency of Research Papers with Explorable Multiverse Analyses When performing statistical analysis on empirical data, researchers inevitably make a series of arbitrary choices among several options for processing data (i.e. exclusions of participants for various reasonable reasons, aggregation of participants based on one data dimension, data transformations, etc.) and analysing it (i.e. frequentist vs. Bayesian inferential models, corrections, inclusion or exclusion of different variables, etc.). Due to space restrictions (and possibly other reasons), researchers typically practice selective reporting of their results, that is, only one particular possibility among the larger landscape of reasonable options, even if they have experimented with multiple paths in their research. But these arbitrary choices may be misleading, in that some choices may result in fluctuations in conclusions. Revealing the outcome of the multiple (reasonable) analysis paths for a data set would inform the reader on the fragility or robustness of the presented results. Together with colleagues I am working on a project that introduces explorable multiverse analyses, a new approach to statistical reporting where readers of research papers can explore alternative analysis options by interacting with the paper itself. This approach draws from two recent ideas: multiverse analysis <http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/multiverse_publishe d.pdf> a new philosophy of statistical reporting where the researcher conducts many different statistical analyses and summarizes all outcomes in their paper in order to show how fragile or robust their findings are; and explorable explanations <http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/> textual or illustrated explanations that can be read as normal explanations, but where the reader can also become active by interacting with some elements of the explanation. I will show early prototypes and elicit ideas and thoughts from you on this idea from your experience as an author, reader, and (possibly) reviewer of academic papers.

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Instructor position for 3rd year intro HCI course at UTM
by Cosmin Munteanu 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Hi all, my home department (ICCIT) at the UTM campus is looking for a grad student to teach CCT380 -- this is the equivalent of CS 318 (intro to HCI, following the very traditional model of covering user observations, design guidelines, and usability evaluations). The CCT version is just slightly different -- more focus on design (e.g. wireframes) and on understanding user needs (observations), and less focus on building a fully functional prototype (the final evaluation is usually done with semi-functional prototypes such as those done in Adobe XD). Most students in this course have a solid background in design (anything Adobe). Teaching materials will be provided (everything from lecture slides to hands-on activities to assignments). If you are interested in applying, please see attached our job posting document for instructions and more formal job details. The deadline has been extended until Monday July 16. Also, please let me know if you have any questions about this course. Thanks, Cosmin -- Dr. Cosmin Munteanu Assistant Professor Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto Mississauga Co-Director Technologies for Aging Gracefully Lab, University of Toronto Assistant Professor (Cross-appointed) Faculty of Information, University of Toronto Assistant Professor (Cross-appointed) Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Email: cosmin(a)taglab.ca Web: http://cosmin.taglab.ca Phone: 905-569-4294 CCT Building Rm. 3067 University of Toronto Mississauga 3359 Mississauga Road Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6

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HCI Reading Group "The Turn To Practice" 2PM Friday July 13 @ Crimson Teas
by jritchie＠dgp.toronto.edu 10 Jul '18

10 Jul '18

Hello all, We continue our bi-weekly reading group this Friday, July 13th, at 2PM. We will be reading the paper "The turn to practice in HCI: Towards a Research Agenda" (CHI 2014) by Kari Kuutti and Liam Bannon. A follow-up to our discussion last time, this paper explores the divide in HCI between two different kinds of investigations - the investigation of interaction (often in a controlled lab environment) and the investigation of practices in technology use, which takes a somewhat broader view. Paper link: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2557111 "Video" link: "https://youtu.be/sUnRRZEgXNo" Simon will "champion" the paper this week by (re-)reading the paper thoroughly and leading the discussion, highlighting why he thinks the work is important, and offering his own critique of the author's conclusions. The meeting will take place at Crimson Teas (415 Spadina Ave), which is a 5 min walk from Bahen. Dim sum snacks and tea will be provided! Best, Jacob

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