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Tesh Goyal (Google/Harvard) Talk Tomorro 4pm at DGP Seminar Room (BA 5187)
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

Dear All, Dr. Tesh Goyal (http://www.teshgoyal.info/), a Researcher at Google and a Visiting Scientist at Harvard, will visit our Department on April 17, 2018. He will deliver a talk at 4 pm on that day. Here are the information about his talk and his bio: Title of the talk: Designing for Collaborative Data Analysis, a Crime-Solving story ABSTRACT: My research vision is to enable expert and non-experts to successfully make sense of complex world problems. As a Human-Computer Interaction researcher, I iteratively focus on studying how sensemaking is performed to identify challenges in collaborative data analytics, design tools using computational techniques that overcome these challenges and evaluate my designs using human participants to inform subsequent designs. Solving crimes correctly is one such critical and life-altering problem. National Registry at the University of Michigan points out that almost 150 wrongfully incriminated folks were exonerated after having spent a non-trivial amount of their life in prison for crimes they did not commit in 2015 alone. During my work, I have discovered that sharing information socially, succumbing to cognitive biases, and lack of support afforded by changing interaction paradigms as key challenges in collaborative data analytics. Subsequently, I have iteratively developed multiple tools, including SAVANT REFLECTIVA, CROWDS4ANALYTICS, TEMPORA, and RAMPARTS to overcome these challenges. My approach establishes a research framework for creating rich collaborative data analytic systems by: (1) utilizing human generated analytic artifacts to inform and design the interactions (2) leveraging "off-the-shelf" natural language processing, sensors and crowds creatively to design intelligent data analytic tools, and (3) evaluating the effect of these designs in controlled settings to identify the cost vs. benefit of each design decision. BIO: Tesh (Nitesh) Goyal is a researcher at Google, where his collaborative sensemaking research has been used in Google Maps and Web experiences. Tesh's research develops design approaches to build novel data analytics tools that enhance information sharing, reduce biases using visualizations, minimize distractions using physiological data, and support collaborative problem-solving with crowds. His research has also contributed to the theory of Sensemaking by inventing Sensemaking Translucence as a design metaphor for a mirror that enables self-reflection. He received his MSc in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley and RWTH Aachen under Prof. John Canny's advice, prior to receiving his PhD from Cornell University in Information Science where he was advised by Prof. Susan R. Fussell. His research has been supported by German Govt. Fellowship, National Science Foundation, and MacArthur Genius Grant. Frequently collaborating with industry (Google Research, Yahoo Labs, HP Labs, Bloomberg Labs), he has published 10 first-author papers in top-tier HCI conferences and journals (CHI, CSCW, JASIST, ICTD, ICIC and Ubicomp/IMWUT) and has received two best paper honorable nomination awards. Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/

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CHI practice talk tomorrow
by Seyong Ha 16 Apr '18

16 Apr '18

Hi folks, Tomorrow, our CHI presenters are having practice talks @DGP Seminar room from 11am to 2pm. Please join the practice talks, and give feedbacks to them. Coffee and Bakery will be served. Those who wants to join via remotely, please let me know by 4pm. Each presenter will have around 15mins talks and 10mins feedback time. Rahul: If you can start 5mins earlier, that would be great. Timeslot Presenter 11:00 - 11:20 Dina 11:20 - 11:30 — break — 11:30 - 11:50 Rahul 11:50 - 12:15 Sean 12:15 - 12:40 Caleb (Remote) 12:40 - 13:05 Seongkook 13:05 - 13:30 Haijun 13:30 - 13:55 Nicole Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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Fwd: displacement conf.
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 14 Apr '18

14 Apr '18

Hi folks, Those of you who are interested in migration and refugee crisis may find this conference interesting. You can attend this conference from anywhere with an internet connection. Check this 2-minute video trailer for the conference - https://vimeo.com/263898897 Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Elizabeth Anne Kirk <ek61(a)cornell.edu> Date: Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 7:04 PM Subject: displacement conf. To: ANTHROPOLOGY-GRADS-L <anthropology-grads-l(a)list.cornell.edu>, ANTHRO-DEPARTMENTAL-L <anthro-departmental-l(a)list.cornell.edu> Cc: ANTHRO-FIELD-MEMBERS-L <anthro-field-members-l(a)list.cornell.edu> Dear Grads and Faculty, "Displacements" is the very first all-digital, all-multimedia conference co-organized by the Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Society for Visual Anthropology. It will be streaming live *Thursday 19th- Saturday 21th April* and showcase multimedia presentations as well as ethnographic feature films from all over the world. You can check the 2mns trailer <https://vimeo.com/263898897> or the program <https://displacements.jhu.edu/program/>, and stream individually, on any device, for a registration <https://displacements.jhu.edu/register/> fee of 10$. This sounds nice enough. But much better sounding would be a gathering together *this Friday April 20th from 9am to 12pm, in McGraw 125! *We will stream the plenary with Eduardo Kohn & Lisa Stevenson, Jason De Leon, Stephanie Spray and Anand Pandian and then our very own stellar panel, including a constellation of shining Cornell anthro grads: Elif Sari, Rebekah Ciribassi, Erin Routon and myself. We hope to have friendly faces and support in the room as we stare at the screen. Trivia, in case you are not already completely convinced: there will be crystals of sugar intake and clouds of coffee flowing, thanks to Liz and the Public Affairs Committee. If you could please *RSVP to me / cc Liz by Tuesday 17th, morning,* it would make the food order easier. Feel free to share with colleagues, friends, pets and alternative significant others who may be interested, Best, Emiko -- Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto. web: http://www.ishtiaque.net/

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Rescheduling HCI Meeting on Summer 2018
by Seyong Ha 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

Hi all, We’d like to hear your opinion for HCI meeting slot on this summer. I opened a doodle poll. Please vote when you are available during the week, if you are around the lab during the summer. We’re not sure whether we will have weekly or biweekly yet. (maybe one week for Tea at 3 and the other for Meeting) Doodle: https://doodle.com/poll/6en2vafwdsvdrhib#calendar <https://doodle.com/poll/6en2vafwdsvdrhib#calendar> p.s. Ignore the date, the date is temporary set. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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DGP seminar Talk by Dr. Gonzalo Ramos: 2pm, April 19 at DGP Seminar Room (BA5187)
by Fanny Chevalier 13 Apr '18

13 Apr '18

**2:00 pm**, Thursday, 19 April 2018 Bahen 5187 Dear Colleagues, Please join us for a talk delivered by Dr. Gonzalo Ramos <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/goramos/>, Senior Researcher at the Machine Teaching Group at Microsoft Research, and former dgp member! Machine Teaching: Opportunities at the intersection of ML and HCI Research. Thursday April 19, at 2:00PM at the DGP seminar room (BA5187) Abstract: Machine Learning (ML) algorithms extract knowledge from data and currently require model builders with significant knowledge of the learning algorithm. This limits the ability to meet the demand for ML models to the available number of ML experts. To satisfy this demand, we must increase the number of individuals that can create ML models by making the process of teaching machines direct and accessible for all. We argue that this is achievable through Machine Teaching (MT), which focuses on how to transfer knowledge from a person to a learning algorithm. MT follows and extends principles of programming and lives at the intersection of ML, HCI and software engineering. In this presentation, we will introduce the fundamentals of MT and articulate the opportunities within for HCI research. We argue MT introduces model explainability by design, is a logical extension of programming literacy, and is disruptive by bringing discipline to ML model-building. Bio: Gonzalo is a Senior Researcher at the Machine Teaching Group. His Research DNA is about Human-Computer Interaction (although he thinks Human-Information Interaction is a better, more humanistic term) and over the years he has acquired what has been reliably diagnosed as an incurable Design and Engineering problem. His passion is to empower people by making information and technology accessible, enjoyable, and useful to all. He does this by researching, rediscovering, designing and crafting solutions as appropriate. He loves interdisciplinary work that aims to solve hard problems, and that challenges him to learn. Gonzalo is a graduate from the University of Toronto’s DGP lab, as well as the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Prior to his position at MSR, he worked as a Senior Design Technologist and later UX Scientist at Amazon, and as a Scientist Microsoft. To meet with Gonzalo, please email fanny(a)cs.toronto.edu <mailto:fanny@cs.toronto.edu> Cheers! — 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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DGP Seminar Talk by Dr. Ashad Kabir: 10 am, April 11, 2018 at DGP Seminar Room (BA 5187)
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

Dear All, This is a very short notice, but I hope you will be able to join Dr. Ashad Kabir (https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/persons/dr-ashad-kabir) of Charles Sturt University of Australia in talk on April 11 at 10 am. He will be talking about "socially aware pervasive mobile application", which may be interesting to many of you (details below). Talk Title: Socially-Aware Pervasive Mobile Applications Time: 10 am, April 11, 2018 Venue: DGP Seminar Room (BA 5187), 5th Floor, Bahen Centre Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 George Street, Toronto, ON Abstract: Pervasive Social Computing is a novel collective paradigm derived from pervasive computing, social media, social networking, social signal processing and multimodal human-computer interaction. It aims to take advantage of human social context to enable the fulfilment of users' task on the move, ultimately promoting individual well-being and social productivity. With the increasing prevalence and features of advanced mobile devices, interest has grown in socially-aware mobile applications, where the applications will be aware of users' social context and be able to assist them in their daily activities. The key requirements to develop such applications are modelling, managing and reasoning about users' social contexts. In this presentation, I will discuss a novel framework to address the challenges in developing socially-aware mobile applications. The framework includes an approach to model, represent, reason about, and manage different types of social context, and a platform for acquiring, storing, provisioning and managing social context information to aid the development of socially-aware mobile applications. Biography: Dr Ashad Kabir is a Lecturer in Computer Science at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He received his PhD in Software Engineering from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He has more than ten years teaching and research experience in a number of universities including Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Deakin University (Australia), Swinburne University (Australia), University of Nantes (France), Pusan National University (South Korea), University of Chittagong (Bangladesh) and Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh). Over the years, Dr Kabir has been involved in a number of research projects from different industries/institutions, including Rolls-Royce (Singapore), Samsung (South Korea), INRIA (France) and Computer Associate (Australia). His research interests include human computer interaction, mobile data mining, context-aware adaptive systems, social context awareness, data/software behavior mining, smart mobile applications, and pervasive/ubiquitous computing. Ashad will be available in the Department for some time after his talk. So, any of you are willing to meet him, please feel free to let me know. Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/

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HCI Meeting Tomorrow
by Seyong Ha 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Hi folks, We have a HCI meeting tomorrow @ BA5187(DGP Seminar room) at 12:30pm - 2:00pm. In the meeting, people who submitted to recent conferences (UIST, VIS) will share their work with us. After that, all of us will share our summer research plan quickly. You don’t have to prepare slides, but if you want, it’s okay. Next week(Apr. 17th) meeting is reserved for CHI practice talks. Haijun, Rahul, Caleb(remotely), Nicole, Dina, Seongkook will have practices for their awesome CHI talks. Each of them will have 15 mins talk and 10mins feedbacks. Thus, next meeting will start earlier then usual, please secure your schedules about from 11:30AM to 2:30PM. There is no meeting during the CHI week. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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HCI Group Meeting Apr. 10th
by Seyong Ha 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Hi folks, In the following two HCI group meeting (Apr. 10th, Apr. 17th), we will have CHI practice talks for those of who will present their awesome research to the world. Please ping me back, if you are going to present your research in Montreal. I will organize the schedule. p.s. If you have any other opinions on these two practice talks, reply me back or DM me on Slack. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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HCI Meeting Tomorrow
by Seyong Ha 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Hi folks, Since everyone wants to practice on Fri. Apr. 17th, we will have a onetime CHI practice talk on Fri. Apr. 17th. Dina, Seongkook, Nicole and Caleb(remotely) will have a practice talk. Therefore, we are looking for volunteers for tomorrow meeting. If there is no one, then the meeting will be cancelled. If anyone have a plan to do a brainstorming or discussing their research. let me know ASAP. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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HCI Meeting Tomorrow
by Seyong Ha 02 Apr '18

02 Apr '18

Hi Folks, We have a HCI meeting tomorrow @ BA5256 (next to the CS lounge) at 12:30pm. In the meeting, Jacob will lead a brainstorming for his project. Lunch will be served. Thanks, Seyong

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