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[ICTD Talk] March 3, 2020: Aparna Moitra on voice-based media platform in rural India
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Dear All, Aparna Moitra, a visiting Postdoc at the Third Space research group of the DGP Lab, will deliver a talk on her research in rural India. You all are cordially invited. Also, please feel free to share this with your students and colleagues. Details are as follows: Time: Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 1630 to 1730 hrs Location: Bahen Centre, Room 5187 (DGP Seminar Room), 40 Saint George St. Title: An Analysis of Community Mobilization Strategies of a Voice-based Community Media Platform in Rural India Abstract: We define community mobilization as offline activities typically required in ICTD initiatives to train users and drive adoption for the sustained use of ICTs within the community. Community mobilization forms an important but under-discussed component of ICTD initiatives. In this talk, I will present a case study of a voice-based community media platform in rural central India and the experiments it has undergone with multiple community mobilization strategies over a period of five years. We have analyzed different phases of community mobilization and draw insights related to how technology platforms can be appropriated by specific actors to drive their own agendas, how organizational control can be imposed to prevent undesirable appropriation, yet give communities the flexibility to use the platform according to their needs, and how group structures and hybrid financial-social incentives can be created to build sustainable networks that can be replicated and scaled in a standardized manner. We have used the Actor-Network Theory, along with Olson’s Theory of Groups and Incentives to explain our observations. Our methods can be generalized and applied by other ICTD initiatives to evaluate their own community mobilization strategies. Bio: Aparna Moitra is a Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher with the Third Space group of the DGP Lab at the Department of Computer Science, UofT. She has a PhD from the University of Delhi, India, where she worked on embedding an externally-driven voice-based community media platform among the low-literacy and socially marginalized populations of Rural India. Her talk is based on a paper she published in the Journal of Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) from her PhD work. Post-PhD, her research interests have diversified towards qualitatively investigating the role of technological interventions (such as online feminist movements) and their design in supplementing on-ground social justice ecosystems in case of gender-based violence. 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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Fwd: Critical Hope Lecture: Dr. Nisia Trindade Lima | Feb 27 | 5pm | UTSC campus SY110
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

I have another meeting this time, but I encourage others to go. 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…> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies <cdts.admin(a)utoronto.ca> Date: Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 4:18 PM Subject: Critical Hope Lecture: Dr. Nisia Trindade Lima | Feb 27 | 5pm | UTSC campus SY110 To: <ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu> Dr. Nisia Trindade Lima, President, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Brazil [image: Facebook] <https://utoronto.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e220d1cae22a8ee16e0e51…> [image: Twitter] <https://utoronto.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e220d1cae22a8ee16e0e51…> [image: Link] <https://utoronto.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e220d1cae22a8ee16e0e51…> [image: Website] <https://utoronto.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e220d1cae22a8ee16e0e51…> Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://utoronto.us17.list-manage.com/profile?u=6e220d1cae22a8ee16e0e515d&i…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://utoronto.us17.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=6e220d1cae22a8ee16e0e51…> . [image: Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp] <http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…>

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Fwd: Exciting Updates, State of EGD Report, and Thank You from Engineering for Change
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

FYI 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…> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Research EngineeringForChange <research(a)engineeringforchange.org> Date: Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 2:18 PM Subject: Exciting Updates, State of EGD Report, and Thank You from Engineering for Change To: Cc: <iana(a)engineeringforchange.org> Dear Professors, Engineering for Change (E4C) recently undertook a research effort to map the academic institutions in North America offering engineering for global development to understand the state of the sector. Your institution was included along with our broader findings in the aptly named "State of Engineering Global Development in the USA and Canada" report found here <https://www.engineeringforchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/State-of-EG…>. We are pleased to share this report with you review and feedback. We also encourage you to share it widely among your students and colleagues. You can also send them to our exciting career resources page <https://www.engineeringforchange.org/what-we-do/professional-development/> that is a centralized location for all of our webinars, opportunities, publications, and more. We also would like to share our new Engineering for Change Seminar Series <https://www.engineeringforchange.org/webinars/>, a monthly 1 hour video seminar that features academic laboratories researching solutions to meet the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The world’s cutting edge research deserves a platform with a global audience. Join us for presentations of new findings from investigative teams around the globe each month. We welcome your applications to take part in the series. Please send an email to research(a)engineeringforchange.org if you are interested! And join us for our next Seminar Series event on March 11th with Dr. Nathan Johnson of Arizona State University. He will be covering climate change, conflict, and engineering for peace. Register here <https://www.engineeringforchange.org/webinar/seminar-series-climate-change-…> . Finally, E4C has launched, in partnership with Siemens USA, an exciting design challenge called "Innovate for Impact". This challenge was created to drive solutions for zero hunger and clean water which are aligned to the UN's SDGs #2 and #6 respectively. Please share this website <http://bit.ly/2uVJpHb> with your students - applications are opening in March and the winning designs will meet the Siemens USA CEO and receive $10,000 USD. Thank you again for the time and continued support that you have given to the growing and global E4C community. We can't accomplish what we do without experts like you! All the best, The E4C Team

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[HCI seminar] Mathieu Nancel & Sylvain Malacria @27 Feb, 10:30AM
by Fanny Chevalier 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Hi everyone, Mathieu Nancel (http://mathieu.nancel.net/ <http://mathieu.nancel.net/>) and Sylvain Malacria (http://www.malacria.com/ <http://www.malacria.com/>), Research Scientists at Inria, will be visiting this week. They will both give a talk in the morning Thursday, and would love to see demos on the afternoon. Thursday February 27 DGP seminar room - Bahen 5166 10:00AM-11:30AM **Snacks and refreshments will be served** Pointing Preconceptions Out (Mathieu Nancel) The design of interactive systems today builds a lot upon previous system architectures and interaction paradigms, and upon general knowledge about the user's needs and skills. However, classical system architectures hide technical constraints in their midst that we may not even acknowledge, and “what everybody knows” about user capabilities can turn out to be false. In this talk I will present some of my recent and ongoing work on the design, tuning, and engineering of cursor control mechanisms, under the scope of common blind spots and misconceptions in interaction design. I will in particular discuss the consequences of system and human delays, why we consider them inevitable, and what interactive systems would need to address them. Bio: Mathieu Nancel is a permanent researcher in the Loki research group at Inria Lille since 2016. After defending his Ph.D. in Saclay with Michel Beaudouin-Lafon in 2012, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Andy Cockburn in Univ. of Canterbury (Christchutch, NZ), with Dan Vogel and Ed Lank in Univ. of Waterloo (ON), and with Antti Oulasvirta in Aalto Univ. (Helsiniki, Finland). His research interests span interaction technique design, understanding psychomotor phenomena, and the engineering of interactive systems. He works in particular on the ubiquitous task of cursor control, with a focus on fine-grained timing phenomena on both the user and the system sides. Recognition or recall? The case of expert features in GUIs (Sylvain Malacria) Users have many options to enhance their productivity with applications, for instance by learning new interaction techniques to get their work done faster. One example of such interaction techniques are hotkeys which enable rapid execution of frequently used commands. However, “expert” features like hotkeys are often ignored and users stick to “novice” interaction mechanisms, limited by a relatively low cap of performance. In this talk, I will describe some of my previous work that attempted to foster and facilitate the adoption of these features. I will also present more recent work discussing why we may be expecting too much from the user and how “expert” features could be re-designed to provide similar performance with less effort. Bio: Sylvain Malacria is a permanent researcher in the Loki research group at Inria Lille. His research in Human-Computer Interaction investigates the design of novel interaction techniques and user interface refinements, with a focus on fostering the transition from novice to expert mode when interacting with systems. Before joining Inria, Sylvain has worked with Eric Lecolinet at Télécom Paristech on identifying which type of resources (software and hardware) can be used to enrich the input bandwidth, spent two years at the University of Canterburry (New Zealand) working with Andy Cockburn, and one year in the UCL/BBC Lab London. Sign up for a demo slot: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1An-Bca0szkWCkXcB6p1LUaXnD8_7MDcZqL7… <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1An-Bca0szkWCkXcB6p1LUaXnD8_7MDcZqL7…> Cheers, 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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HCI Meeting
by vicky 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Hi all, There will be no HCI meeting today, as the guest talk was moved to Thursday 10AM (see the recent [HCI Seminar] e-mail). From the handful of survey results I received last week, the majority are interested in weekly HCI meetings, 12:30 - 1:30pm. If you'd still like to share your opinion, you can fill out the survey here [1]. So, we need a volunteer to run next week's meeting on March 3rd. Contact me if you're interested or have any questions, or sign yourself up in the meeting doc here [2]. Thanks! Vicky Bilbily Links: ------ [1] https://forms.gle/te3oQABDaMhjQ2FN8 [2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q4z64YkFaiNszk6kFPx1BOlocuB5fJDyMKaDYqQ…

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Student Demos with Prof. Justine Cassell from CMU
by bryanw 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Hello all, Prof. Justine Cassell [1] from Carnegie Mellon University will be giving a Tux talk on Tuesday, March 10th and visit the lab Wednesday afternoon, March 10. We will host her with demos from 1 pm to 2:45 pm. Please sign up in this google sheet if you want a slot. Students signed up for demo are invited to lunch with Justine at 12:00 pm at Rm5256. I've added her talk abstract and bio below. Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19sumRDO9STIpckAbabVOxphDIDqPL7_deo1… [2] Cheers, Bryan "CONVERSATIONAL COMMERCE" "Conversational Commerce" is a meme that just won't seem to go away. And within conversational commerce the new buzzword is "empathy" - systems as diverse as smart speakers and websites that generate insurance quotes are said to be empathetic. However, as Inigo Montoya so aptly said "I do not think it means what you think it means." In this talk I'll discuss where conversational interfaces have come from, where they are today, and where they could go tomorrow if we learn how to really create bonds between computational systems and their users Bio Justine Cassell is currently on leave from Carnegie Mellon to hold the founding international chair at the PRAIRIE Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI, in Paris, France. Before going on leave, she was Associate Dean of Technology Strategy and Impact in the School of Computer Science at CMU, co-director of the Simon Initiative on Technology-Enhanced Learning, and co-director, with Professor Tom Mitchell, of the Yahoo (Oath/Verizon) InMind Project on the Future of Personal Assistants. She is Director Emerita of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at CMU. Previously Justine was faculty at Northwestern University where she founded the Technology and Social Behavior Doctoral Program and Research Center. Before that she was a tenured professor at the MIT Media Lab. Justine has received the MIT Edgerton Prize, Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision award, the AAMAS Test of Time paper award, and the National Academy of Sciences Henry and Bryna David Prize. She is a fellow of the AAAS, Royal Academy of Scotland, and the ACM. Links: ------ [1] http://www.justinecassell.com/ [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WrpZvvB7ARmvgGDzcNTDcpwbfoo4k2V90kR…

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Future HCI Meetings
by vicky 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Hi all, This week, we discussed some potential changes to the HCI meeting format. From those who attended, it seems there is some interest in meeting more regularly: once a week. This is effectively what we used to do back when TUX talks used to be bi-weekly. I've created a survey about potentially changing the meeting frequency, please fill it out here: https://forms.gle/te3oQABDaMhjQ2FN8 As well, here's a Google Doc with a meeting schedule (please sign up!), as well as other general meeting info (please contribute!): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q4z64YkFaiNszk6kFPx1BOlocuB5fJDyMKaDYqQ… Thanks! Vicky

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Design Workshop at dgp Lab
by Priyank Chandra 14 Feb '20

14 Feb '20

Hello all, We are planning to have a series of design workshops at the dgp lab. This Tuesday, we shall be conducting the first session on Design Thinking and User-Centered Design. Time: Tuesday, February 18, 2020, 1800 to 2000 hrs Location: BA 5187 If you are interested, you can sign up at: https://forms.gle/ns3MBb4YLQkxoYef7 Seats are limited and first-come, first-served. Thank You Best Regards -- Priyank Chandra Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA https://www.priyankc.com

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Fwd: Science Rendezvous 2020: Reminder for exhibition applications
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Please consider presenting your work here. Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Web: www.ishtiaque.net Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Marsha Chechik <chechik(a)cs.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 10:17 AM Subject: Fwd: Science Rendezvous 2020: Reminder for exhibition applications To: <faculty(a)cs.toronto.edu> Folks, if you or your students have cool and engaging demos that can be set up in the form of a "booth", please reach out to Paul Chen who is coordinating Science Rendezvous on behalf of UofT. Marsha -------------------------------------------- Marsha Chechik Professor and Chair (Interim) Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada www.cs.toronto.edu/~chechik ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Programming Team <uoftsr.programming(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:07 AM Subject: Science Rendezvous 2020: Reminder for exhibition applications To: <chechik(a)cs.toronto.edu> Dear Professor Marsha Chechik: This is a gentle reminder that the deadline to submit a booth application for Science Rendezvous 2020 is 11:59 pm on Saturday, February 22, 2019. We encourage the Department of Computer Science to submit a booth application that focuses on engaging, accessible, novel, and interactive activities and demonstrations using this link: https://forms.gle/faw2iq2qQDqJ6bqF6. This year’s festival will be held 11 am to 4 pm on Saturday, May 9th, 2020 at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus. This year’s Science Rendezvous theme is S.T.E.A.M. Green! We look forward to hearing back from you! Best regards, Paul Chen Programming Liaison, Executive Committee Science Rendezvous 2020 at the University of Toronto (St. George Campus) sciencerendezvousuoft.ca <http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=6241292&l=fd0…> How this email was sent <http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=6241292&l=4e3…>

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Fwd: City Internships | New Year Update
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

FYI Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Web: www.ishtiaque.net Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Joshua Edgley-Smith <joshua(a)city-internships.com> Date: Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 12:23 PM Subject: City Internships | New Year Update To: Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu> Dear Professor Ishtiaque Ahmed, I hope you are well and that you've had a relaxing break over the holiday season. Our Summer programs continue to fill very quickly, and I would encourage any of your interested students to apply now <https://sendmail2.city-internships.com/l/9aIczNKs892sZ9vHTpL42Jyw/EBPBPB0rL…> to avoid disappointment. Toronto, Melbourne, Medellin, Santiago, Tokyo and Shanghai will close on February 16th. There is still good availability for our Programs across our other locations of London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C., Miami, Dublin, Barcelona and Madrid. All Programs include a guaranteed internship in a student's industry of choice. In my previous email, I mentioned that our Student Aid <https://sendmail2.city-internships.com/l/9aIczNKs892sZ9vHTpL42Jyw/7631aFKDq…> scheme is again available this year, however I have received a few requests for clarification on what it is and how it works. Through generous CI Alumni, our Student Aid offering grants *up to $3,263* towards a CI Program of choice. All students and recent graduates are eligible for some aid, irrespective of where they study, and the average award last year was just under $2,000. Your students may make a student aid application here <https://sendmail2.city-internships.com/l/9aIczNKs892sZ9vHTpL42Jyw/wAeZUw1LO…> at no cost. We will endeavor to provide as much support as possible to your students, but sadly it is not an unlimited resource! As such, I would again encourage your students who aim to rely on our Student Aid offering to submit an application to a Program sooner rather than later. Our 2020 Prospectus is now available here <https://sendmail2.city-internships.com/l/9aIczNKs892sZ9vHTpL42Jyw/bM8o4o4Z7…> . Once again, thank you for taking the time to read and share this email. Josh Joshua Edgley-Smith General Manager of Programs, City Internships [image: Logo] joshua(a)city-internships.com +1 310 438 5329 <https://sendmail2.city-internships.com/l/9aIczNKs892sZ9vHTpL42Jyw/zB1SQDa2m…> 929 Colorado Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90401 www.city-internships.com <https://sendmail2.city-internships.com/l/9aIczNKs892sZ9vHTpL42Jyw/bVCyeq3N8…> City Internships is a member of the National Association of Colleges & Employers (NACE), NAFSA: Association of International Educators, The Forum on Education Abroad and the National Society on Experiential Education (NSEE). [image: societies] *Educator distribution list management* Our communications to educators provide advanced notice about our programs for students and recent graduates, including application deadlines and scholarship opportunities. We typically send no more than eight communications to our academic faculty and support staff contacts each year. If you would like to add or modify your contact details or add a colleague to our educator mailing list, please use or share our Educator Mailing Form <https://sendmail2.city-internships.com/l/9aIczNKs892sZ9vHTpL42Jyw/jSvhnit89…> . If you would like to be removed from our educator mailing list, please click unsubscribe <https://sendmail2.city-internships.com/unsubscribe/pQUc2s892Ck0YmwIqAF5b99V…> .

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