Hi Everyone!
Next Tuesday we'll be doing an abstract workshop! Everybody should come
with an abstract. It can be something you wrote for a past paper, past
course project, a new project, it doesn't really matter. If you do write a
new one, don't spend too long on it, probably not more than an hour. The
point of this is to get early feedback and to learn how to write abstracts
from each other.
Personally I'll be writing an abstract for CHI2021, because I'd love to
hear what other people think.
Excited to see you all next week and learn everybody's secret's to writing
abstracts!
Zoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/96404556988
PS: If anybody thinks they're particularly good at writing abstracts and
wants to give a workshop, or has some resources, let me know and I can fit
it in!
Best,
Blaine
Hey Everyone,
This week (tomorrow) we will be doing some social activities! The plan is
as follows:
- Chat! We'll start by chatting in a bigger group.
- Then we'll break into smaller groups and chat with people we maybe
haven't in a while.
- Games! We'll play a selection of games together. This includes video
games like https://skribbl.io/ but also some not video games.
Hope to see everybody there, and if you think there's anything else we
should do, shoot me a message.
Best,
Blaine
Anyone interested in some paid time this summer putting CSC 428 into online
version?
This is the 4th year undergrad HCI course that Tovi taught last year (cross
listed grad course as well). I'm teaching it in spring so right now I am
moving parts of it into online education resources.
I have to make recommendations to the dept by Tue and then they decide, so
let me know if you might be interested. For example in a 50 hour contract,
pay is around $30/hour. This is as a casual (there is a TA position
available too, but not sure if you're still eligible if you didn't apply).
Joseph
Joseph Jay Williams
www.josephjaywilliams.com
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Intelligent Adaptive Interventions (IAI) research group
Hi Everyone!
After our last meeting on Tuesday I've taken on the role of "HCI meeting
organiser person".
Going forward we've decided to try to make more room for socialising. We're
going to do that using an alternating schedule of *research development*
and *casual meetings*. The meeting time is currently every Tuesday at
12:30.
Research development meetings are fairly formal and will be things like
brainstorming sessions, talks, or workshops and should be really useful for
your research.
During casual social meetings we might split off into small groups and chat
with one another, roundtable talk about how we're doing, maybe play board
games, or just drink coffee. It's fine if you show up a bit late or don't
come to all of these meetings.
This Tuesday we will have a research development style session watching a
CHI event put on by Waterloo HCI. The session is on AR and VR, which I know
not everybody researchers, but my favourite thing about conferences is the
exposure to different research from my own, and I hope we can emulate that.
Here's the plan and information:
WATCHI AR and VR Session 2020-05-19
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Meet virtually (https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/96404556988) 15 minutes
before the AR and VR session starts (12:15pm). Watch the session together,
and then discuss the session at 1:25pm once it is over.
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Watchi.live <http://watchi.live>
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7gjalaHF4E6C1CLTlKte6A/live
Going forward we are going to try using Zoom. The biggest benefit here is
we can use breakout rooms which might make socialising and some group
activities a bit easier.
https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/96404556988
If you have any ideas for future meetings feel free to add them to the
Google doc Vicky started:
https://tinyurl.com/hcimeetings
Also* if the meeting time doesn't work for you* please send me an email or
Slack message. I'd like to have the time work for as many people as
possible.
Best,
Blaine
Hi Everyone,
I know it's short notice but there will be an HCI meeting in ~30 minutes at
12:30pm today May 12th. It should be pretty short, about an hour or so.
We're going to talk about the following:
- Yay UIST submissions!
- Time of future HCI meetings
- Plan for summer HCI meetings
- Who will volunteer to make sure HCI meetings happen
- Round table hey how is everybody / hang out
The meeting will be held in the Blue Jeans room:
bluejeans.com/dgpmeeting
Thanks!
Blaine
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q4z64YkFaiNszk6kFPx1BOlocuB5fJDyMKaDYqQ…
Dear Group,
Does any of you or someone you know (graduate students) have video-editing
skills and want to help me in preparing CSC300 contents? If so, contact me
ASAP with your CV and a paragraph on related experiences.
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
*[P.S. (March 15, 2020, and onward): My response may be late because of my
engagement with the COVID-19 response teams in Canada and Bangladesh. I
appreciate your patience.]*
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: Jennifer Campbell <campbell(a)cs.toronto.edu>
Date: Sun, May 10, 2020 at 9:56 AM
Subject: Online prep: hiring casual staff
To: Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu>
Hi Ishtiaque,
We got the casual positions leveled with HR, so we can now proceed with
hiring.
You have *up to 60 hours* of casual staff help for *recording and editing
videos* at a rate of *$31.26 per hour*.
Do you have someone in mind for this position? If not, there are some
graduate students who have indicated that they are interested in summer
employment (possibly due to financial need) and I can forward you their
CVs. If you can’t find someone suitable, we can also advertise the
position to graduate students or even to undergrads.
Jen
Hi Reading Group Peeps!
Thanks to all those who were able to join us for the discussion today on
the book 'Contagious'.
We are going to read the book "*The Fragility of Things*" by *William E.
Connolly* for our next meeting on Friday, *May 1st, 2020* at *11am ET*.
Here's a pdf link to the book -
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1A8ebg5ri7lu5A42_bHg2Ukj1npb7-EpX
Thanks,
Aparna