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HCI Meeting at Nov 28th Tudesday
by Seyong Ha 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

Hi folks, Our HCI Meeting is on Tuesday at 12:30pm at DGP seminar room. If anyone wants to have their own session, please reply by email. Short and Long, both are welcome. Session leaders will be announced this evening. Lunch will be served. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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Reading for this week
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 20 Nov '17

20 Nov '17

Hi folks, We are reading the two papers below for this week's meeting-- Bardzell, S. (2010, April). Feminist HCI: taking stock and outlining an agenda for design. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 1301-1310). ACM. link: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/61f2/408e1b510e5b10617abf947adfb5a35e8646.… Karusala, N., & Kumar, N. (2017, May). Women's Safety in Public Spaces: Examining the Efficacy of Panic Buttons in New Delhi. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 3340-3351). ACM. link: http://www.tandem.gatech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/safety_final.pdf Hope we will have a great discussion around the two papers this week. Thanks, Rifat

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Fwd: [active] [urgent] Meeting with Prof. Elizabeth Mynatt at 2:45 Tomorrow (Tuesday Nov 21)
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 20 Nov '17

20 Nov '17

FYI > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu <mailto:ishtiaque@cs.toronto.edu>> > Date: November 20, 2017 at 10:38:04 AM EST > To: active-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu <mailto:active-announce@dgp.toronto.edu> > Subject: [active] [urgent] Meeting with Prof. Elizabeth Mynatt at 2:45 Tomorrow (Tuesday Nov 21) > > Dear Students, > > This is a very short notice, but I think many of you may be interested in meeting Prof. Elizabeth Mynatt tomorrow at 2:45 pm after her lunch. Please note that Beth will deliver her talk at 12:10 pm at Bahen, and Bill Buxton will talk at 1:15 at MaRS tomorrow, too. So, this meeting will make a nice lineup for your tomorrow's "learning from great people" endeavor. > > Beth is an amazing researcher, and I think meeting with her will definitely help you. If you are interested, please drop me a line soon. :-) > > Best Regards, > Ishtiaque > > Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed > Assistant Professor > Department of Computer Science > University of Toronto, ON, CA > web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ <https://www.ishtiaque.net/> > _______________________________________________ > active-announce mailing list > https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/active-announce <https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/active-announce> > Note: active-announce is not a discussion list. Please direct any replies > to the poster or to another mailing list.

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Fwd: [TIER] Computing and Social Good 2018 Preliminary Call for Papers
by Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

FYI 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: Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque(a)csebuet.org> Date: Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 3:07 PM Subject: Fwd: [TIER] Computing and Social Good 2018 Preliminary Call for Papers To: Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Anderson <anderson(a)cs.washington.edu> Date: Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 2:20 PM Subject: [TIER] Computing and Social Good 2018 Preliminary Call for Papers To: "tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu" <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu>, " hci4d(a)googlegroups.com" <hci4d(a)googlegroups.com> *Computing and Social Good 2018* *San Francisco, California | 20-22 June 2018 * *Preliminary Call for Papers* The first annual ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Social Good (CSG2018) invites submissions of Full Papers for the conference to be hosted at Facebook from June 20-22, 2017. CSG2018 is a re-creation of the ACM DEV conference, which was held annually between 2010 and 2016. The new conference expands the focus of the original conference to explicitly welcome work on underrepresented communities worldwide and to include work on sustainability. To ensure strong technical contributions, the conference will accept papers based on tracks corresponding to the computing areas they draw upon. The tracks for the 2018 conference are Systems, HCI, Data Science, Sustainability and Applications. The CSG conference will have a model of rolling submissions, as has been adopted by several other top conferences. As this is a transition year for the conference, there will be two separate submission dates. Papers submitted on the first deadline may be given the option of revise and resubmit for consideration of acceptance at the conference. *Important dates* January 12, 2018. Round one deadline for submission of Full Papers. February 16, 2018: Round two deadline for submission of Full Papers. March 2, 2018: Notification of decisions for Full Papers submitted for round one. March 30, 2018: Deadline for resubmission of round one papers that were not accepted, but invited to resubmit. March 30, 2018: Notification of decisions for Full Papers submitted for round two. April 13, 2018: Notification of decisions on resubmitted papers of round one. May 4, 2018: Camera-ready of Full Papers accepted in rounds one and two due. *All submission are due 11:59 pm UTC. * This is a preliminary release of a call for papers for the CSG 2018 conference. As additional details are developed, this call for papers will be revised accordingly. The deadlines for full papers will not change, so researchers can start planning their submissions. Full papers will have a length limit of 10 pages. We anticipate that the conference will have notes or posters; details of requirements for notes will be announced later. *General Conference Chair* Ellen Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology *Program Committee Chairs* Richard Anderson, University of Washington Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University Ellen Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology *Notes Chairs * Kurtis Heimerl, University of Washington Local Arrangement Chairs Kashif Ali, Facebook *CSG Steering Committee* TBA Program Committee TBA _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier -- Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto. web: http://www.ishtiaque.net/

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readings for next week
by Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

Hi folks - We will be reading these two papers for our next meeting (also the last meeting for this semester). 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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Demos for Bill Buxton, Visiting Nov 22
by Peter Hamilton 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

Hello Everyone, Bill Buxton (website <https://www.billbuxton.com/>) from Microsoft Research will be visiting the DGP next Wednesday (Nov 22), following his TUX talk <http://www.tux-hci.org/> on Tuesday. I'll be arranging demos for him throughout the day. Please let me know if you'd like to arrange a meeting. This is a great opportunity to show off your work! Abstract: It is a paradox that the better we get at producing useful, affordable, desirable, usable technologies, the more we are confronted by complexity and lack of overall satisfaction. This is partially, or even mainly, due to the demands for economies of scale. Hence, we are deluged by digital do-dads – apps, services and gadgets which on their own may be wonderful, but collectively create an overly complex ecosystem of baubles. What is missed is that the cumulative complexity of enough such baubles crosses the barrier, above which the ecosystem becomes inscrutable. Lying behind this is that things simply do not work together. In a world dominated by “social computing”, there are virtually no social relationships amongst the technologies themselves. Weiser’s label, Ubiquitous Computing, holds. But the result has little or anything to do with what he – or the rest of us on the team – envisioned or intended. My argument is that he used the wrong word. Ubiquity, i.e, technology everywhere, all the time, etc. is no panacea. Rather, the word that fits far better is Ubiety – a closely related term, but one which has at its core the notion of place. Hence, it points towards the right technology at the right place – extended (in my usage, at least) to encompass place in the physical sense, but also time, social, cultural, temporal, absolute, relative, etc. Furthermore, if we layer the notion of mobility of human action on this framing, what emerges is an enhanced sense of the importance of transitions, and adaptation. This, by way of Piaget, leads us to perhaps a different way of thinking about intelligence – of human and machine – and how intelligent design may pave the way to wrestling the ever-growing complexity to the ground, thus enabling us, and our technologies, to meet our true and worthy potential. Bio: Bill has been walking the path between where people and technology meet for over 40 years – as a designer, musician, lecturer, writer, teacher, critic and researcher. His focus has always been on the human, and his work reflects a particular interest in the creative disciplines. He believes that appropriate design is that which enhances human intelligence and creativity, not replaces it. As a practicing skeptimist, he is a devotee of Melvin Kranzberg’s first law: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” His corollary to this is, “Without informed design, it is more likely to lean to the bad than the good.” It is towards becoming thus informed, and enlisting others to do so as well, that both his work, and this talk, are directed. -Peter Hamilton

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Interested in HCI? Meet with Prof. Karon MacLean from UBC on Nov 14
by John Hancock 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

Prof. Karon MacLean from UBC will be hosting a short meeting on Tuesday, November 14th, from 5pm to 6pm in room BA5250. She is looking specifically to meet with undergraduate students who may be interested in UBC's new “Designing for People” graduate program, aimed at tackling interdisciplinary approaches to human-facing design problems. While this will certainly be an excellent opportunity to find out about UBC's new program, note that this is NOT just a presentation from Prof. MacLean: it is meant to be a discussion, so bring your questions and ideas! For more information, visit http://dfp.ubc.ca/grad/21. Update: Pizza will be provided!

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Cancelled - HCI Meeting Tomorrow
by Seyong Ha 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

Hi All, Due to the NSERC visit tomorrow, our HCI meeting has cancelled. Next meeting will be Nov. 28th Tuesday. For the next meeting, if anyone wants to have their own session, please reply me back. Thanks, Seyong ------------------------------------------ Dynamic Graphics Project Lab., Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Seyong Ha

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Group Meeting This Week
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

Hi all, A gentle reminder of what Ishtiaque mentioned in the Slack--we are reading the paper below for this week-- The Zimbabwe Bush Pump: Mechanics of Fluid Technology (Marianne de Laet and Annemarie Mol) Link: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/030631200030002002 We will discuss the paper generally and will talk about ICTD design based on our reading. Hope to see you all in the meeting! Best, Rifat

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Fwd: Ginger.io
by Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

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: Yasaman Rohanifar <yasaman.rohani(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 8:18 PM Subject: Ginger.io To: Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu> Dear Dr. Ahmed, I randomly encountered this video on Youtube <https://youtu.be/bkgA6wVw69s> and was reminded of our conversation in Wednesday's focus group about Ginger.io. I thought that I would share this with you In case you are interested in their work. Thank you for your consideration, ------------ Sincerely, *Yasaman Rohanifar <http://www.yasaman-rohanifar.com>* Student at Shahid Beheshti University | Software Engineering Email: Gmail <yasaman.rohani(a)gmail.com> | IEEE <yasaman.rohanifar(a)ieee.org> | ACM <yasaman.rohanifar(a)acm.org>

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