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Fwd: URL for bluejeans.com/dgpmeeting
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 12 Mar '20

12 Mar '20

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Web: www.ishtiaque.net Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: John Hancock <jhancock(a)dgp.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 4:23 PM Subject: URL for bluejeans.com/dgpmeeting To: Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu> Hi Ishtiaque, The url for the bluejeans meeting is bluejeans.com/dgpmeeting I'll log the machine in, but you can either go to bluejeans.com/dgpmeeting on a laptop and bjn.vc on the room system. -John

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Thursday March 12, Silvia Masiero Talk: Data-induced injustices
by Priyank Chandra 12 Mar '20

12 Mar '20

Hi All Join the Third Space group as we present a talk by our visiting scholar, Prof. Silvia Masiero from Loughborough University. She will present her recent work on the cashless economy in India and its impact on informal communities, including critiquing the design of new digital systems. Open to the public! Please forward to interested groups or individuals. *Speaker: Silvia Masiero, *Loughborough University *Details: Room BA 5187 at *Bahen Centre, 40 St.George Street *Time: Thursday, March 12, 2020, from 4 pm to 6 pm* *Talk Title: *Data-induced injustices: Questioning the orthodoxy of cashlessness for development *Abstract: * India's demonetisation in November 2016 anticipated the country's shift towards a 'cashless' economy, designed to combat illegal money flows by making transactions traceable through digital technologies. As diffusion of cashless transactions has rapidly increased, it is important to understand its effects on actors of the informal sector, whose transactions are largely held in cash. To do so we conduct a case study of street markets in Bangalore, characterised by an extant dichotomy between sellers owning digital means of transaction (mainly digital wallets running on smartphones) and sellers not owning them. Our guiding research question is therefore, 'how has cashlessness affected street sellers in Bangalore?' Combining theories of information poverty with emerging theorisations of data justice, we find three forms of injustice experienced by street sellers in the observed context. First, digital wallets are mostly not designed for the basic needs of street sellers, who need immediate notification of transactions and easy-to-use interfaces. Second, knowledge on usability of digital wallets is discontinuous, with street sellers being exposed to incomplete and conflicting sources of information. Third, costs of exclusion from cashless transactions have increased over the last years, with competition from e-marketplaces generating a new important source of economic distress. Based on the empirical account provided, we draw implications for countries with large informal sectors transitioning to cashless economies. *Bio:* Silvia Masiero is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Development at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University. Her research concerns the role of ICTs in socio‐economic development, with a focus on the participation of ICT artefacts in the politics of anti‐poverty programmes and emergency management. Silvia has conducted extensive work on the computerisation of India's main food security programme, the Public Distribution System (PDS), and on the adoption of ICTs in core aspects of the Indian public sphere including elections, rural employment guarantees, and programmes of social protection. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), a member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), and a member of the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D. Thank you -- Priyank Chandra Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA https://www.priyankc.com

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[Tux] Professor Justine Cassell@ MaRS - Tuesday, March 10 at 12:30pm
by Anita Kivi 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

A reminder that Prof Cassell’s talk is scheduled for tomorrow in the MaRS Auditorium. [cid:image005.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] [cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210] [cid:image008.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] Hello TUX! A reminder that we have a Sanders Series Lecture by Professor Justine Cassell of Carnegie Mellon University and the founding international chair at the PRAIRIE Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI in Paris, France. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Fraser, Daniel and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture – Prof Justine Cassell: Conversational Commerce March 10, 2020. MaRS Auditorium @ 661 University Avenue, Toronto, ON. Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm. Professor Justine Cassell: Conversational Commerce 661 University Avenue, MaRS Auditorium<https://www.tux-hci.org/speaker/justine-cassell/?preview=true> [cid:image005.jpg@01D5F623.368546D0] “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. [cid:image009.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image007.jpg@01D5F623.368546D0] TUX is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk, University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and Chatham Labs.

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[Tux] TUX: Professor Justine Cassell@ MaRS next week
by Anita Kivi 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

On Tuesday, March 10 we will be welcoming Prof Cassell at MaRS Auditorium for her talk. [cid:image005.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] [cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210] [cid:image008.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] Hello TUX! A reminder that we have a Sanders Series Lecture by Professor Justine Cassell of Carnegie Mellon University and the founding international chair at the PRAIRIE Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI in Paris, France. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Fraser, Daniel and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture – Prof Justine Cassell: Conversational Commerce March 10, 2020. MaRS Auditorium @ 661 University Avenue, Toronto, ON. Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm. Professor Justine Cassell: Conversational Commerce 661 University Avenue, MaRS Auditorium<https://www.tux-hci.org/speaker/justine-cassell/?preview=true> [cid:image002.jpg@01D5F173.B0ADC950] “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. [cid:image009.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image008.jpg@01D5F174.61F7D570] TUX is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk, University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and Chatham Labs.

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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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HCI Meeting Tomorrow
by vicky 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Hi all, We will have an HCI meeting tomorrow at 12:30pm in the DGP conference room. Food will be served! Yasaman will be holding a brainstorming session for her FinTech project. We can probably fit in an additional brainstorm/other activity tomorrow, if anyone is interested-- just let me know. If you'd like to run a future HCI meeting feel free to ask me about it, or add yourself to the schedule: https://tinyurl.com/hcimeetings See you all tomorrow, Vicky

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Fwd: HCI/UX Tenure Stream Assistant Professor Position at the University of Toronto
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 29 Feb '20

29 Feb '20

FYI - UofT iSchool is hiring a TT faculty. Find the details below. 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: Olivier St-Cyr <olivier.st.cyr(a)utoronto.ca> Date: Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 8:34 PM Subject: HCI/UX Tenure Stream Assistant Professor Position at the University of Toronto To: Dear Colleagues: Please distribute this e-mail widely to your respective lab mailing list(s), your Post-Docs, your PhD students who are close to finishing, and anyone who you know might be interested in joining our growing UX program in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. We are particularly interested in people with expertise in user interface design and evaluation methods, information visualization, sustainability, and accessibility and inclusive design. The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto invites applications for a tenure stream position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience Design. The position start date is July 1, 2020, or shortly thereafter. More details can be found here: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?job=2000388&tz… Best, Olivier -- Olivier St-Cyr, PhD, LEL Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream Director, KMD Collaborative Specialization (interim) Faculty of Information University of Toronto +1-416-978-8876 olivier.st.cyr(a)utoronto.ca Office Hours: https://profstcyr.youcanbook.me/ Webpage: http://profstcyr.ca/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/profstcyr Twitter: http://twitter.com/profstcyr LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/profstcyr

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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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