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HCI / Data Visualization Talk - Anamaria Crisan - July 10th, Tuesday, 1PM, BA5187
by Nicole Sultanum 10 Jul '18

10 Jul '18

Hello folks, Anamaria Crisan <http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~acrisan> from UBC will be visiting on *Tuesday next week, July 10th*. She will be giving a talk at *1PM *(title/abstract below) at, and is available for demos before and after. *Send me an email by Thursday EOD (July 5)* if you would like to sign up for a demo slot. Cheers, Nicole ********** *Title: *Establishing a visualization design space - A case study in infectious disease genomic epidemiology *Talk Abstract:* Data visualization is an important tool for exploring and communicating findings from genomic and health datasets. Yet, without a systematic way of understanding the design space of data visualizations, researchers do not have a clear sense of what kind of visualizations are possible, or how to distinguish between good and bad options. We have devised an approach using both literature mining and human-in-the-loop analysis to construct a visualization design space from corpus of scientific research papers. We ascertain why and what visualizations were created, and how they are constructed. We applied our approach to derive a Genomic Epidemiology Visualization Typology (GEViT) and operationalized our results to produce an explorable gallery of the visualization design space containing hundreds of categorized visualizations. We are the first to take such a systematic approach to visualization analysis, which can be applied by future visualization tool developers to areas that extend beyond genomic epidemiology. *Bio:* Ana Crisan is a current PhD candidate in computer science at UBC studying how heterogenous types of public health data can be integrated and visualized. She is a CIHR Vanier Scholar and is jointly supervised by Dr. Tamara Munzner (Computer Science) and Dr. Jennifer Gardy (School of Population and Public Health). Prior to her PhD studies, Ana worked with the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control supporting research in genomic epidemiology, and had also previously worked on prostate cancer biomarker development with a Vancouver based start-up. A summary of her present and past work can be found on her website: www.cs.ubc.ca/~acrisan.

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HCI Meeting Next Tuesday (July 10th)
by Seyong Ha 07 Jul '18

07 Jul '18

Hi folks, Next Tuesday, we have HCI group meeting and HCI/Vis talk. The meeting will begin at 11:45 am @ DGP Seminar room and the talk will start right after the meeting. In the meeting, Devamardeep, one of our undergrad students, will lead a brainstorming for his summer research about "Layout Management in Virtual Reality using Eyelid Gestures." After the meeting, Anamaria Crisan from UBC will be giving a talk, titled "Establishing a visualization design space - A case study in infectious disease genomic epidemiology." Details are attached below. Thanks, Seyong Ha ----- Brainstorming Topic: Layout Management in Virtual Reality using Eyelid Gestures I want to the user to perform precise object manipulation, like grabbing a book and moving it only along a table. To do so, we can use information of the surrounding objects (like the table) to constrain the book's position or create new constraints. Currently there are three constraints that the user can create: point, line, and plane. We also want to activate / deactivate the constraints (maybe I want to move the book through the table). A lot of times in real life you close one eye to help align objects precisely, we are thinking of using this gesture to activate the constraint. How should objects interact with these constraints? And how can we make it easier to create constraints (ie. snap the plane constraint to be parallel to nearby surfaces) What other eye gestures can be helpful in this context? ie. shooting lasers out of your eyes to delete objects. ---- Talk Title: Establishing a visualization design space - A case study in infectious disease genomic epidemiology Talk Abstract: Data visualization is an important tool for exploring and communicating findings from genomic and health datasets. Yet, without a systematic way of understanding the design space of data visualizations, researchers do not have a clear sense of what kind of visualizations are possible, or how to distinguish between good and bad options. We have devised an approach using both literature mining and human-in-the-loop analysis to construct a visualization design space from corpus of scientific research papers. We ascertain why and what visualizations were created, and how they are constructed. We applied our approach to derive a Genomic Epidemiology Visualization Typology (GEViT) and operationalized our results to produce an explorable gallery of the visualization design space containing hundreds of categorized visualizations. We are the first to take such a systematic approach to visualization analysis, which can be applied by future visualization tool developers to areas that extend beyond genomic epidemiology. Bio: Ana Crisan is a current PhD candidate in computer science at UBC studying how heterogenous types of public health data can be integrated and visualized. She is a CIHR Vanier Scholar and is jointly supervised by Dr. Tamara Munzner (Computer Science) and Dr. Jennifer Gardy (School of Population and Public Health). Prior to her PhD studies, Ana worked with the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control supporting research in genomic epidemiology, and had also previously worked on prostate cancer biomarker development with a Vancouver based start-up. A summary of her present and past work can be found on her website: <http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~acrisan> www.cs.ubc.ca/~acrisan.

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[Tux] TUX 2018-2019: Schedule and Speaker Suggestions
by Daniel Wigdor 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

[cid:image005.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] [cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210] [cid:image008.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] Hello TUX! Our next season of TUX is just around the corner, and we wanted to kick things off with some information. We are excited to be continuing our member presentations and Sanders Series Invited Lectures, and will once again be meeting on alternating Tuesdays, with talks from 1pm-2pm and lunch served prior to the talks. Below is the schedule for 2018-2019 presentations. Speakers are still TBD, and will be announced once confirmed. TUX 2018-2019 Speaker Schedule Tuesday, September 25, 2018 1pm-2pm Autodesk-MaRS Sanders Tuesday, October 9, 2018 1pm-2pm DGP Member Tuesday, October 23, 2018 1pm-2pm Autodesk-MaRS Sanders Tuesday, November 6, 2018 1pm-2pm DGP Member Tuesday, November 20, 2018 1pm-2pm Autodesk-MaRS Sanders Tuesday, December 4, 2018 1pm-2pm DGP Member Tuesday, January 15, 2019 1pm-2pm Autodesk-MaRS Sanders Tuesday, January 29, 2019 1pm-2pm DGP Member Tuesday, February 12, 2019 1pm-2pm Autodesk-MaRS Sanders Tuesday, February 26, 2019 1pm-2pm DGP Member Tuesday, March 12, 2019 1pm-2pm Autodesk-MaRS Sanders Tuesday, March 26, 2019 1pm-2pm DGP Member On that note, we'd like to ask for your input regarding potential speakers for next year. You may nominate member presentations, speakers from the Greater Toronto Area, or Sanders Series Invited Lectures, distinguished HCI visionaries from around the world. You may also nominate yourself! Speakers can be in academia, industry, or independent institutions. This year, we will also consider senior PhD or Post-Docs for member presentations. We encourage the suggestion of speakers from a broad range of research and practitioner communities that touch on HCI and related topics. Please use the following link for speaker nominations, no later than July 13th: https://goo.gl/forms/RHasTfKed8FUf7rB2 Enjoy your summer, and see you in September! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi [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 https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tux-announce

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HCI Meeting Tomorrow (July 3rd )
by Seyong Ha 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

Hi all, Hope everyone enjoys the holiday today. We have a HCI Meeting tomorrow at 11:45 @ DGP Seminar Room. This week, Zhen is going to lead a brainstorming for his summer research. Please join the meeting and give him valuable feedback on his research. Details are attached below: Topic: How to use the Augmented Reality (e.g., HoloLens) to help people work in a mobile environment. He is going to lead a brainstorming session with two major ideas: 1) People usually have many artifacts surrounding them in their office: multiple monitors, piles of documents, sticky notes attached to the walls/monitors, etc. But this information is missing when they are working in other environments: cafe, home, subway, etc. Using AR, they will be able to see their artifacts on a virtual desk in front of them, in the same position as if in their office. 2) Since a tablet is popular to be used in said scenarios, I am also interested in how we could combine the tablet with the AR to create more interactions. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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HCI Reading Group "Ubicomp's Colonial Impulse" 2PM Friday June 29 @ Seminar Room
by jritchie＠dgp.toronto.edu 26 Jun '18

26 Jun '18

Hello all, We continue our bi-weekly reading group this Friday, June 29th, at 2PM. We will be reading Paul Dourish and Scott Mainwaring's paper "Ubicomp's Colonial Impulse" Continuing with the theme of "big ideas", this should help us think critically about the social impact of the work we do developing cool technologies. PAPER: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2370238 I will "champion" the paper this week by reading the paper thoroughly and leading the discussion, highlighting why I think the work is important. Snacks + Drinks will be provided. This week we will meet in the *Seminar Room*, not at Crimson Teas. Best, Jacob

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HCI Meeting Today (Meeting cancellation has revoked)
by Seyong Ha 26 Jun '18

26 Jun '18

Hi all, Please ignore the last email. A Plan has changed. We have HCI meeting today at 11:45@DGP seminar room. I will lead a brainstorming for my summer research project. Please come the meeting and share your ideas and feedbacks. July 3rd and 10th slots are empty now. let me know if you want to use one of them. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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No HCI Meeting Today
by Seyong Ha 26 Jun '18

26 Jun '18

Hi all, No HCI group meeting this week as we have no presenters. Next meeting is next Tuesday. If you want to use the regular HCI meeting next week and the week after for your research, please let me know. I will arrange the schedule. We have an invited talk on July 10th right after the HCI meeting. Please put them in your schedules. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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HCI Meeting Tomorrow
by Seyong Ha 18 Jun '18

18 Jun '18

Hi all, We have a HCI meeting tomorrow at 11:45am @ DGP Seminar room. Christina will talk about her summer project, please welcome her presentation and give feedbacks. Details will be included in the follow-up reminder. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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Need a volunteer for a HCI Meeting
by Seyong Ha 18 Jun '18

18 Jun '18

Hi all, As I posted on Slack, we need a volunteer for tomorrow meeting. please reply me back on this email. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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HCI Reading Group "Nielsen Heuristics" 2PM Friday June 15 @ Crimson Teas
by Jacob Ritchie 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Hello all, We continue our bi-weekly reading group this Friday, June 15st, at 2PM. We will be reading two papers by Jakob Nielsen: Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces (CHI 1990) and Enhancing the explanatory power of usability heuristics (CHI 1994). These classic papers show how Nielsen studied best practices in heuristic evaluation, and used these results to develop his influential list of usability heuristics (https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/) which is now a standard tool in UX design and often applied in HCI research. (If you're worried, the second paper is quite short at 3.5 pages.) PAPER 1: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=97281 Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces<https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=97281> dl.acm.org Heuristic evaluation is an informal method of usability analysis where a number of evaluators are presented with an interface design and asked to comment on it. PAPER 2: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=191729 [https://dl.acm.org/images/apdf.jpg]<https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=191729> Enhancing the explanatory power of usability heuristics<https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=191729> dl.acm.org Holcomb, R., and Tharp, A. L. An amalgamated model of software usability. In Knafl, G. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 13th IEEE COMPSAC international Conference, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, D.C., 1989. Holcomb, R., and Tharp, A. L. What users say about software usability. International Journal of ... Christine will "champion" the paper this week by (re-)reading the papers thoroughly and leading the discussion, highlighting why she thinks the work is important. The meeting will take place at Crimson Teas (415 Spadina Ave), which is a 5 min walk from Bahen. Daniel has generously offered to fund drinks and snacks for the meeting. Crimson Teas has delicious tea and the owner (Philip) is very nice, so consider your perishing physical thirst in addition to your thirst for knowledge. Best, Jacob --- Jacob Ritchie M.Sc. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

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