March 2018 - Thirdspace - dgp mailing lists

Visit (and seminar) of Gonzalo Ramos on April 16th
by Fanny Chevalier 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Hi everyone, Gonzalo Ramos <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/goramos/>, Senior researcher at the MSR Machine Teaching Group will be in Toronto sometime the week before CHI. He will give a talk at the dgp seminar on Thursday, April 19th between at 2PM. Title and abstract will be communicated later, but I can already tell that it will have to do with machine teaching and HCI, and promises to be of great interest to most. Please pencil in the date in your agenda, and plan to attend the talk. Gonzalo will also like to hear about ongoing research at dgp, so please reach out to me if you’re interested to do a demo / chat with him, and your availability on that day. Thanks! fanny — Fanny Chevalier Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistical Sciences University of Toronto fanny(a)cs.toronto.edu http://fannychevalier.net/

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[seminar] TorCHI event tomorrow
by Seongkook Heo 27 Mar '18

27 Mar '18

Hi HCIers, This is a reminder that TorCHI event will be held at dgp seminar room *BA5187*, at *7pm tomorrow*. There will be CHI paper presenters and HCI practitioners, so let's gather and have fun. Check the event detail online: http://www.torchi.org/event-2866950 Best, Seongkook

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TorCHI event on March 28
by Seongkook Heo 20 Mar '18

20 Mar '18

Hi all, We're having a TorCHI event on *March 28 at 7pm, *at dgp seminar room *BA5187*. We will have three CHI talks and demos, and a pub gathering after the event. We also have some slots available for demos after the talk, so please let me know if you're interested in showing your cool work. It will be a great chance to see what will be presented at CHI by dgp members and to meet new people who are user experience professionals and practitioners. Check the event detail online: http://www.torchi.org/event-2866950 Thanks, Seongkook

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HCI Group Meeting Now
by Seyong Ha 20 Mar '18

20 Mar '18

Hi folks The HCI Meeting will happen in 5mins @BA5287 . The last email didnt have the time sorry for the inconvenience. ⁣Sent from BlueMail

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Help us complete a 5-10 minute survey
by ricecrispi＠dgp.toronto.edu 20 Mar '18

20 Mar '18

Hello all, Mohammad, Mingming and I are running a study on the use of reminder notifications. We would greatly appreciate it if you could complete this brief 5-10 minute questionnaire. https://qtrial2018q1az1.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8qUbjXJeuobVBf7 Thanks a ton, Christina

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HCI Group Meeting Next Tuesday
by Seyong Ha 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

Hi folks, We have HCI group meeting next Tuesday Mar 20th @ BA5287 (The room closed to the stair). In this meeting, (some of you have already seen in Slack channel) Prof. Khai will discuss about a couple of project ideas with us. Please stick to the follow up email, the location can be changed. Lunch will be served. Thanks, Seyong

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[Tux] TUX Reminder: Marcelo Coelho Tomorrow!
by John Hancock 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '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 Dr. Marcelo Coelho. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture: Dr. Marcelo Coelho *March 13, 2018. Autodesk MaRS IDEaS Lab, 661 University Ave., Ground Floor * * * Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm. * * *Materializing Interaction* * * As technology advances and we progress towards a world imbued with computation, how will we create programmable objects and spaces that are responsive and can take full advantage of our senses? In this talk, Marcelo Coelho will present his design and research practice, and how the capabilities of computers and materials can be intertwined to create new aesthetic experiences. He will present examples of wearables, interactive installations, live performances, and nano- to stadium-sized sculptures, which present new opportunities and challenges in design, fabrication, and assembly. * * *Bio* * * Marcelo Coelho is a Brazilian/American computation designer working on objects, installations, and live experiences. Spanning a wide range of media, processes, and scales, his work explores the boundaries between matter and information, fundamentally expanding and enhancing the ways in which we interact and communicate. Marcelo’s creative work has been exhibited internationally, including places such as the Rio 2016 Paralympics Ceremonies, Ars Electronica, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Design Miami/, and can be found in private collections including the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art and The Rothschild Collection. Recognition for his work include two Prix Ars Electronica awards, VIDA 16.0 Award, and the W Hotels Designer of the Future Award. In addition to his practice, Marcelo is also a Lecturer at the MIT Department of Architecture and Head of Design at Formlabs. Prior to his practice, Marcelo Coelho received a Doctorate in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab. 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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CHI 2018 talks to TorCHI; CHI authors please reply
by Daniel Wigdor 09 Mar '18

09 Mar '18

Good morning all, We often hold an event in the months leading up to CHI for students to present their talks to TorCHI. TorCHI is a professional association of user experience practitioners, and the local chapter of ACM SIGCHI; a large number of its members are dgp alumni. This year, the event will take place at the lab, on one of these evenings at 7pm: Monday, March 26 Wednesday, March 28 Thursday, March 29 All are welcome to attend. If you have a presentation at CHI this year, please reply to Seongkook, cc’d, who has generously offered to serve as host. Indicate that you have a paper, and whether any of the options above is impossible for you to attend. Zhicong and Haijun are on internships this term, but I hope very much that all others with papers will take the opportunity to share your work with the local community. It’s of course also a great chance to try out your material in advance of the conference. Many thanks, -Daniel

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Please playtest my game!
by ricecrispi＠dgp.toronto.edu 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

Hi all, Mingming and I are running a study on player motivation. If you have time today, please playtest the game (primarily for interface issues and whether or not the tutorial instructions are helpful). Game link: matchmakersii.herokuapp.com Thank you! :) Christina

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VISAP'18: IEEE VIS Arts Program call for entries
by Fanny Chevalier 07 Mar '18

07 Mar '18

Hi, Consider submitting to the VIS Arts Program, co-located with IEEE VIS in Berlin. See call below: Call for entries to VISAP’18 — VIS Arts Program co-located with the IEEE VIS conference 23 – 26 October 2018 Berlin, Germany The VIS Arts Program (VISAP) is a forum where visualization researchers, designers, and media artists come together to discuss topics in data visualization around an annual theme, intended to be relevant to art, design, and academic research communities. It is the biggest associated event in the IEEE VIS conference, and its main goal is to foster new thinking, discussion, and collaboration between fields. VISAP welcomes a wide range of submissions, including interactive artworks, design projects, novel visualization tools and applications, art-science or artist-in-lab projects, evaluations of data visualizations, and philosophical meditations on the intersections between art and research. These can either be submitted to a paper track, or to an exhibition track (read details below). Accepted works will be published on the official VISAP website and in a dedicated exhibition catalogue, and will be indexed in the IEEE Xplore digital library. http://visap.net/ <http://visap.net/> The theme The theme for VISAP’18 is data and identities. We invite submissions that reflect on how data collected through our everyday use of digital devices and services shape our online and offline identities, as well as how they may affect our social interactions. Identity generally deals with the question: who am I?, as we navigate through various environments and communities using a plurality of masks, or persona. These masks are mostly static representations of ourselves, which we apply to broad situations; they are self-declared, curated descriptions of personal attributes we chose to share at a specific point in time. They can be more or less detailed, and more or less accurate. We can manage and act them out to serve specific purposes. Meanwhile, our daily use of connected devices enables us to keep track of almost everything we say and do, and the resulting digital archives of our discussions, photos, videos, the number steps we take, our sleep patterns, etc., can be used to paint a more holistic, detailed, and dynamic picture of who we are, beyond what we might like to claim, or set ourselves up to be. This can have a positive impact on personal, self-reflective practices, but it can also hinder our interactions with others if made public, it questions our individuality, and in some cases, it can pose a threat to our fundamental human right to privacy. VISAP’18 proposes to be a space for exploring these complex dynamics between the collection and presentation of personal data, their link to our identities and how we portray ourselves (both introspectively and to others), and for questioning whether the answer to who am I? can truly be found in observable, exterior, objective measures. Submission details Submissions can either be made to a paper track, as an extended abstract or annotated portfolio with a 10 page limit, including references; or to an exhibition track, as a 2 page description of the exhibit, accompanied by any relevant visuals and/or sound files. All submissions are due by June 1, 2018, and will be made using the Precision Conference System (PCS). Note that we strongly encourage annotated portfolio submissions this year, as the format seems most appropriate for VISAP. We also encourage submissions to focus on the relationships between the design process and the final artifact. Artists, designers, and researchers all make creative choices based on practical knowledge, generally acquired through experience. Unfortunately, this knowledge is seldom shared in publications. VISAP aims to foster discussions around this reflection-in-action when creating visualizations or data-driven art pieces. Accepted submissions to the paper track will be presented during one of two paper sessions, while accepted exhibits will be displayed during an opening reception, and throughout the conference in a specially allocated exhibition space. We look forward to your participation! Jeremy Boy and Till Nagel VISAP’18 General Chairs — Fanny Chevalier Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistical Sciences University of Toronto fanny(a)cs.toronto.edu http://fannychevalier.net/

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