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Meetings/demos with Prof Xing-Dong Yang
by Jiannan Li 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Hello all, Prof Xing-Dong Yang will be visiting us from Dartmouth this Thursday (22nd). He has done some fantastic work in novel interaction/wearable computing and you can find more details about his talk and him in the email Ravin sent earlier. He is also available for meetings after the talk (2-6 pm). This will be a good opportunity to demo your research and/or have some inspiring discussion with Xing-Dong. If you would like to meet him, please reply to this email with the time your prefer. Thanks, Jiannan

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visit and talk by Prof. Xing-Dong Yang, Thurs, Nov 22, @ 12:30pm in DGP seminar room
by Ravin Balakrishnan 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Xing-Dong Yang will be visiting this Thursday and will give a talk 12:30-2pm (lunch will be served @ noon). He is available for meetings/demos the rest of the day, so please do sign up. I've asked Jiannan Li to coordinate his meeting/demo schedule, so respond to the msg he will send out soon. Thanks Ravin Title Wearable Interactions Using Touch without a Touchscreen Abstract The ubiquitous touchscreen has become the primary mechanism with which users interact with small personal computing devices. While there is a trend showing that personal computing devices may become smaller and smaller, a primary constraint on device miniaturization is the user interface (e.g. touchscreen). Screens need to be large enough to be seen, and keyboards need enough physical space to facilitate typing. Arbitrary hardware miniaturization may lead to devices that are not usable. In this talk, I will motivate and present two sensing techniques that enables touch as an input mechanism on wearable devices without the need of a touchscreen. I will also present a haptic technique that enables touch as an output mechanism to create a unique mixed reality experience for games and videos on smartwatches. The long-term goal of this research is to develop interaction modalities that that are easy, intuitive, and efficient for interacting with small wearable devices. Biography Xing-Dong Yang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College, USA. Xing-Dong completed his Bachelor of Computer Science in 2005 from the University of Manitoba, Canada. He earned his Master of Computing Science with a specialization in Haptic Interfaces in 2008 from the University of Alberta, Canada and his Doctorate in Computing Science with a specialization in Human-Computer Interaction in 2013 from the same university. During his graduate work he was a research intern at Autodesk Research in Toronto and Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing. His dissertation work was awarded the 2013 Bill Buxton Best Canadian HCI Dissertation Award, given annually for the best doctoral dissertation completed at a Canadian university in the field of human-computer interaction. He has over thirty publications in top-tier venues in HCI, including the ACM Conference on Human Factors and Systems (ACM CHI) and the ACM Conference on User Interfaces and Technology (ACM UIST). His work has also been recognized through best paper nominations at ACM CHI 2018, 2016, 2010 and ACM MobileHCI 2009, as well as featured in public press through Discovery News, NBC, and New Scientist. Xing-Dong's work is currently funded by Microsoft and NSF. -------- Ravin Balakrishnan Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science University of Toronto ravin(a)cs.toronto.edu <mailto:ravin@cs.toronto.edu> 416 978-2980 www.cs.toronto.edu/~ravin <http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ravin>

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[Tux] TUX Reminder: Regan Mandryk's Talk Tomorrow!
by Xuan Dam 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

cid:image005.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210 cid:image008.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 Hello TUX! A reminder that tomorrow we have a Sanders Series Invited Lecture by Prof. Regan Mandryk. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture: Prof. Regan Mandryk *November 20, 2018. Autodesk MaRS IDEaS Lab @ 661 University Ave., Ground Floor* Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm. *Fun Science: The Paradox of Conducting Scientific Research in the Context of Digital Social Play * Games have long been used to support social interaction and create shared experiences that draw us closer together. Digital games are increasingly being used to form and maintain relationships and researchers have been investigating the role that social games play in satisfying our need for relating to others. However, games researchers must balance the tradeoff between using experimental rigor to control the environment for internal validity with the external validity of having participants feel like they are engaging in play with friends under their own volition, rather than participating in an experiment. In this talk, Mandryk will present her perspective on trying to reconcile the fundamental incompatibility of doing controlled scientific experiments in the context of social play. Drawing from 15 years of experience, she will share what works, what doesn’t, and what she hopes to see in the future. *Bio* Regan Mandryk is a professor in Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan; she pioneered the area of physiological evaluation for computer games in her award-winning Ph.D. research at Simon Fraser University with support from Electronic Arts. With over 200 publications that have been cited thousands of times (including one of Google Scholar’s 10 classic papers in HCI from 2006), she continues to investigate novel ways of understanding players and their experiences, but also develops and evaluates games for health and wellbeing, and games that foster interpersonal relationships. Regan has been the invited keynote speaker at several international game conferences, led Games research in the Canadian GRAND Network, organizes international conferences including the inaugural CHI PLAY, the inaugural CHI Games Subcommittee, and CHI 2018, and leads the first ever Canadian graduate training program on games user research (SWaGUR.ca) with $2.5 million of support from NSERC. She was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists in 2014, received the University of Saskatchewan New Researcher Award in 2015, the Canadian Association for Computer Science’s Outstanding Young Canadian Computer Science Researcher Prize in 2016, and the prestigious E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship in 2018. 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 _______________________________________________ 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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Melissa Gregg Talk at McLuhan Center: Monday 19 Nov (6 -8 pm)
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 17 Nov '18

17 Nov '18

Melissa Gregg will launch her book "Counterproductive" this Monday at UofT campus. She is a Chief researcher of Intel and she has been critical about the speed of modern society. Here you can find more about her book: https://www.dukeupress.edu/counterproductive McLuhan Lecture series details: https://www.mcluhancentre.ca/mondaynightseminars?fbclid=IwAR1SQKBTQtgNo1U-k… Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/

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HCI Meeting This Week
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

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/

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check materials on writing rebuttals
by Seongkook Heo 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

Hi HCIers, Hope the CHI reviews are not turning you down too much. Whether the reviews are good or not, you always have a chance to clarify the concerns and make them support your paper by writing a good rebuttal. I wanted to let you know that there's a collection of useful materials on writing CHI rebuttals on dgp wiki that you should check out if you haven't already: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/dgpwiki/ResearchResources Best, Seongkook

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Fwd: DCS Innovation Lab (DCSIL) workshop series: commercializing your research with industry
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

FYI Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Paul Gries <pgries(a)cs.toronto.edu> Date: Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:45 PM Subject: DCS Innovation Lab (DCSIL) workshop series: commercializing your research with industry To: <dcs-all(a)cs.toronto.edu> Hi everyone, DCSIL (http://dcsil.ca) is one of the UofT accelerators. We will shortly be launching an upgraded version of our highly successful Research to Commercialization (R2C) Program. The 8-week program takes place in February and March 2019, and is designed to effectively respond to the drive of applied research teams to commercialize their inventions in a founder-owned, incorporated startup format that partners with industry in order to transform the research into a production-quality high-worth commercial solution. This highly curated program by startup professionals generates the startup’s first paying and referenceable customer and provides industry a unique way to get first-hand experience with emerging technologies originating from an academic setting and evolving into a commercializing startup. A paper is attached that details the R2C Program. Please feel free to disseminate the document. The R2C application form is attached, and submissions instructions are included. Please submit the completed application form by December 14, 2018. *Information sessions* DSCIL will be co-hosting a series of breakfast and lunch information sessions for any team in the UofT research ecosystem (partnering institutions welcome) that is interested in looking into this avenue of commercializing invention. This is a proven methodology that insulates the startup from having to begin the distracting search for funds to sustain their efforts beyond the university. The information sessions are at the following times and locations. Please RSVP to Mario Grech < mario(a)cs.toronto.edu> and let us know which of the three information sessions you plan to attend. *November 22, 8:30am to 9:45am* at DCSIL in the Gerstein Science Information Centre 9 King’s College Road on the 2nd floor - breakfast will be served *November 27, 11:30am to 1pm* at DCSIL in the Gerstein Science Information Centre 9 King’s College Road on the 2nd floor - lunch will be served *November 28, 11:30am to 1pm* at the Fields Institute 222 College Street - lunch will be served Thank you, Paul -- Paul Gries Academic Director and Co-Founder, DCS Innovation Lab Associate Professor, Teaching Stream | Department of Computer Science Faculty of Arts and Science | University of Toronto

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Demos for Regan Mandryk - Visiting DGP Nov 21
by Peter Hamilton 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

Hello Everyone, Regan Mandryk (website <http://hci.usask.ca/people/view.php?id=1>) will be visiting the DGP on Wednesday November 21st, following her TUX talk on Tuesday (20th). I'll be arranging demos for her throughout the day. Please let me know if you'd like to arrange a meeting. This is a great opportunity to show off your work! -Peter Hamilton *Bio* Regan Mandryk is a professor in Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan; she pioneered the area of physiological evaluation for computer games in her award-winning Ph.D. research at Simon Fraser University with support from Electronic Arts. With over 200 publications that have been cited thousands of times (including one of Google Scholar’s 10 classic papers in HCI from 2006), she continues to investigate novel ways of understanding players and their experiences, but also develops and evaluates games for health and wellbeing, and games that foster interpersonal relationships. Regan has been the invited keynote speaker at several international game conferences, led Games research in the Canadian GRAND Network, organizes international conferences including the inaugural CHI PLAY, the inaugural CHI Games Subcommittee, and CHI 2018, and leads the first ever Canadian graduate training program on games user research (SWaGUR.ca) with $2.5 million of support from NSERC. She was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists in 2014, received the University of Saskatchewan New Researcher Award in 2015, the Canadian Association for Computer Science’s Outstanding Young Canadian Computer Science Researcher Prize in 2016, and the prestigious E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship in 2018.

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Demos for Regan Mandryk - Visiting DGP Nov 21
by Peter Hamilton 13 Nov '18

13 Nov '18

Hello Everyone, Regan Mandryk (website <http://hci.usask.ca/people/view.php?id=1>) will be visiting the DGP on Wednesday November 21st, following her TUX talk on Tuesday (20th). I'll be arranging demos for her throughout the day. Please let me know if you'd like to arrange a meeting. This is a great opportunity to show off your work! -Peter Hamilton *Bio* Regan Mandryk is a professor in Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan; she pioneered the area of physiological evaluation for computer games in her award-winning Ph.D. research at Simon Fraser University with support from Electronic Arts. With over 200 publications that have been cited thousands of times (including one of Google Scholar’s 10 classic papers in HCI from 2006), she continues to investigate novel ways of understanding players and their experiences, but also develops and evaluates games for health and wellbeing, and games that foster interpersonal relationships. Regan has been the invited keynote speaker at several international game conferences, led Games research in the Canadian GRAND Network, organizes international conferences including the inaugural CHI PLAY, the inaugural CHI Games Subcommittee, and CHI 2018, and leads the first ever Canadian graduate training program on games user research (SWaGUR.ca) with $2.5 million of support from NSERC. She was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists in 2014, received the University of Saskatchewan New Researcher Award in 2015, the Canadian Association for Computer Science’s Outstanding Young Canadian Computer Science Researcher Prize in 2016, and the prestigious E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship in 2018.

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Re: [Thirdspace] [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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