Thirdspace May 2019

thirdspace@dgp.toronto.edu

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Welcome, Priyank Chandra
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 16 May '19

16 May '19

Dear Group, I want to share with you a piece of good news: Priyank Chandra ( http://www.priyankc.com/) is joining our group from July as a postdoc researcher. He is graduating from the University of Michigan and he has worked with Joyojeet pal, Kentaro Toyama, Jenna Burrell, and Tawanna Dillahunt. Priyank has conducted very interesting projects around informal markets/economy and postcolonial politics in India, and he is interested to develop new projects with us. Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA Ph: +1 647 220 3482 Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ My Availability: Google Calendar Link <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&c…>

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HCI meeting May 14th
by Jiannan Li 13 May '19

13 May '19

Hello all, We are having our HCI meeting on Tuesday May 14th. The time and location is 12.30 - 2.00, at the DGP seminar room, as usual. We will have a roundtable for sharing CHI experiences, summer research plans, or anything you would like to share with the lab. Look forward to seeing you there. Lunch will be provided. Thanks, Jiannan

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This week's group meeting: THURSDAY (May 16) at 5 pm
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 12 May '19

12 May '19

We will be discussing the following 2 new papers from CHI: 1. http://www.nixdell.com/papers/2019-CHI-Cameroon.pdf <http://www.nixdell.com/papers/2019-CHI-Cameroon.pdf> 2. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59f549a3b7411c736b42936a/t/5c8b48c6f… Tushar, Can you please book the seminar room? Also, since Yasaman will not be there in person, can you please take care of foods? Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA Ph: +1 647 220 3482 Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ My Availability: Google Calendar Link <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&c…>

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CHI 2020
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 11 May '19

11 May '19

Hi Folks - The website for CHI 2020 is here: https://chi2020.acm.org/ For those of you who are willing to write a paper with me for this CHI, I suggest the following policies. These policies are designed to lessen our pressure before the deadline. 1. The "full draft" of the paper has to be ready by August 15, 2010. A "full draft" means that the whole paper is basically ready: the data, findings, and analysis are done. The first versions of the other parts of the paper (Intro, literature review, discussion, methods) are also there in place. The whole paper is formatted according to the template suggested on the website. Please note that submitting a full draft does not guarantee that we will finally submit that paper to CHI. However, I believe that any paper that we target for CHI eventually gets accepted to good venues. 2. All the papers will be written on Overleaf this time. If you are not yet familiar with LaTeX by now, please make yourself familiar ASAP. I have a paid version of Overleaf You need to start a conversation with me on starting an Overleaf project for CHI no later than 30 June. 3. If you want to write a paper, but you are not sure if it will be possible to make it before CHi deadline, please discuss this with me in our next 1:1 meeting. 4. All your data, transcriptions, IRB, and other documents need to be put in a Google Drive that is shared with all the members of your project team. 5. PLEASE try to keep all your other commitments away for the last 2 WEEKS before the CHI deadline. Let your course instructors, TA instructors, family, and friends know that you will not be available during that time. 6. Finally, the kind of CHI papers that I write requires a lot of reading, writing, analysis, etc. So, please work hard during this summer so that we together can write beautiful papers for this coming CHI. Thanks! Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA Ph: +1 647 220 3482 Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ My Availability: Google Calendar Link <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&c…>

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How to turn imagined words into speech!
by Yasaman Rohanifar 09 May '19

09 May '19

I really enjoyed watching this TED Talk by Uri Hasson, a neuroscientist at Princeton. Thought I'd share it with you. https://www.ted.com/talks/uri_hasson_this_is_your_brain_on_communication?ut… P.S: Loved it how it all came to finding a "common ground" or in our word, a "third space" in the end! All the best, Yasaman

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Pity, Sympathy, Empathy, and Compassion
by Yasaman Rohanifar 08 May '19

08 May '19

Hi everyone, I came across this article on Nielsen Norman Group about the differences between Pity, Sympathy, Empathy, and Compassion and how to design for empathy. I thought I would share it with you. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/sympathy-vs-empathy-ux/?utm_source=Alertbo… All the best, Yasaman

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Dina's paper has been accepted to ACM COMPASS!
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 02 May '19

02 May '19

Hi Folks, Dina has got another paper accepted today! Her paper on the struggle of Canadian immigrants in interacting with Canadian computing infrastructure has been accepted to COMPASS with very high reviews. The final version, presentation, etc. will follow soon. Congratulations, Dina! Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA Ph: +1 647 220 3482 Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ My Availability: Google Calendar Link <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&c…>

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T-shirts are at kitchen
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 01 May '19

01 May '19

Please come and pick yours! If you are on your way to CHI, please get someone to carry your shirt. There is a pice of paper beside the shirts where you put your name and how many shirts you are taking. Regards, Ishtiaque

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Carrying CHI t-shirts
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 01 May '19

01 May '19

Hi Folks, DGP has ordered t-shirts for CHI which will be delivered tomorrow afternoon. Since it will be too heavy for me to carry all the 50 shirts, I wonder if some of you can help. Regards, Ishtiaque

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