Good morning,
A reminder that Dr. Leila Takayama of Google[x] will be presenting our second Sanders Series lecture TODAY at 1:00 in the MaRS auditorium (bottom level). Dr. Takayama is a hugely influential researcher in Human-Robot Interaction. Her talk is entitled What it's Like to be a Robot. Not to be missed!
See you there,
-Daniel
From: Daniel Wigdor
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 11:22 PM
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Subject: Leila Takayama of Google[x] this Tuesday
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This Tuesday, November 24 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Leila Takayama, PhD of Google[x]
The MaRS Discovery District Auditorium @ 101 College St<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6598335,-79.38…>. (Lower Level). Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm, talk begins at 1:00pm.
Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who conducts HCI research, corporate or academic, in the Toronto area. Anyone may add themselves to our mailing list<https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/mailman/listinfo/tux-announce>. The Tux website<http://www.tux-hci.org/> contains a list of all upcoming speakers, and now includes an iCal calendar.
Dr. Leila Takayama of Google[x]
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Leila Takayama is a senior user experience researcher at Google[x], a lab that aims for moonshots in science and technology. Prior to joining Google[x] in 2013, Leila was a research scientist and area manager for human-robot interaction at Willow Garage. She is also a World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council Member for the area of AI & Robotics. This year, she was awarded the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Early Career Aware. In 2012, she was named a TR35 winner and one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company. With a background in cognitive Science, psychology, and human-computer Interaction, she examines human encounters with new technologies. Dr. Takayama completed her PhD in communication at Stanford University in June 2008, advised by Professor Clifford Nass. She also holds a PhD minor in psychology from Stanford, a master's degree in communication from Stanford, and bachelor's of arts in psychology and cognitive science from UC Berkeley (2003). During her graduate studies, she was a research assistant in the User Interface Research (UIR) group at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
What it's Like to be a Robot
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a robot? While others are wildly speculating about what the future of robots will look like, we actually already know quite a bit about what it's like to live and work around robots. We also know a lot about what it's like to telecommute to work everyday via telepresence robot. Coming from a human-robot interaction perspective, I'll be sharing some of those experiences and lessons with you. Over the past several years, I've collaborated with remote colleagues via robotic telepresence systems that enabled them to drive themselves around the office, join in those impromptu hallway meetings, pounce on us when we didn't respond to emails, and ultimately build stronger working relationships. I'll present the research lessons learned from several years of fielding prototype telepresence robots in multiple companies and running quantitative user studies in the lab to figure out how to better support remote collaboration.
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OUR SPONSORS:
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Tux is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk,
University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and MaRS.
About MaRS: MaRS is the one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs-a place for collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship. Located in the heart of Toronto's research district, MaRS provides the space, training, talent and networks required to commercialize important discoveries and launch and grow Canadian startups.
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This Tuesday, November 24 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Leila Takayama, PhD of Google[x]
The MaRS Discovery District Auditorium @ 101 College St<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6598335,-79.38…>. (Lower Level). Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm, talk begins at 1:00pm.
Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who conducts HCI research, corporate or academic, in the Toronto area. Anyone may add themselves to our mailing list<https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/mailman/listinfo/tux-announce>. The Tux website<http://www.tux-hci.org/> contains a list of all upcoming speakers, and now includes an iCal calendar.
Dr. Leila Takayama of Google[x]
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Leila Takayama is a senior user experience researcher at Google[x], a lab that aims for moonshots in science and technology. Prior to joining Google[x] in 2013, Leila was a research scientist and area manager for human-robot interaction at Willow Garage. She is also a World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council Member for the area of AI & Robotics. This year, she was awarded the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Early Career Aware. In 2012, she was named a TR35 winner and one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company. With a background in cognitive Science, psychology, and human-computer Interaction, she examines human encounters with new technologies. Dr. Takayama completed her PhD in communication at Stanford University in June 2008, advised by Professor Clifford Nass. She also holds a PhD minor in psychology from Stanford, a master's degree in communication from Stanford, and bachelor's of arts in psychology and cognitive science from UC Berkeley (2003). During her graduate studies, she was a research assistant in the User Interface Research (UIR) group at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
What it's Like to be a Robot
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a robot? While others are wildly speculating about what the future of robots will look like, we actually already know quite a bit about what it's like to live and work around robots. We also know a lot about what it's like to telecommute to work everyday via telepresence robot. Coming from a human-robot interaction perspective, I'll be sharing some of those experiences and lessons with you. Over the past several years, I've collaborated with remote colleagues via robotic telepresence systems that enabled them to drive themselves around the office, join in those impromptu hallway meetings, pounce on us when we didn't respond to emails, and ultimately build stronger working relationships. I'll present the research lessons learned from several years of fielding prototype telepresence robots in multiple companies and running quantitative user studies in the lab to figure out how to better support remote collaboration.
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OUR SPONSORS:
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Tux is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk,
University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and MaRS.
About MaRS: MaRS is the one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs-a place for collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship. Located in the heart of Toronto's research district, MaRS provides the space, training, talent and networks required to commercialize important discoveries and launch and grow Canadian startups.
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Hello TUX!
A reminder that tomorrow we will have a member presentation by Dr. David
Holman. The details of the talk are below. *Please note that his talk
will be at the Bahen Centre at U of T, room 5166 on the 5th floor*. Some
other important announcements:
1)Our website is live at: http://www.tux-hci.org/ <http://www.tux-hci.org/>
2)We are looking for a volunteer to help with the website – please let
us know if you’d like to get involved.
3)We have set up a Google Calendar that you can import into your email
client. The address for the calendar is:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/un3lidp8potad9jqb66c3i942g%40grou…
Most email clients will allow you to import an “internet” calendar so
that you can view its events. For example, in Outlook right click “My
Calendars”, select “Add Calendar” -> “From Internet” and then paste in
the above URL.
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow!
Ali, Daniel, and Tovi
Tuesday, November 10 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Dr. David Holman
*Bahen Centre ***room 5166, *University of Toronto @ **40 St. George St*
<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Bahen+Centre+for+Information+Technology/@4…>*.*
Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. Presentation begins at 1pm.
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*David Holman:
In a world where objects of any shape can be interactive, how do we
design effectively?*
*Abstract*
Organic User Interfaces blend industrial design with interactive
experiences, and demonstrate how user interfaces are no longer limited
to flat displays. This transformation makes it necessary for designers
to move beyond planar interfaces and to contextualize interaction in an
object’s physical shape. Designers of multi-shaped and deformable
devices face a complex interplay of variables. Materials, shapes,
sensors, actuators, and user experience are all entangled. In this
context, design explorations can easily become time consuming, tedious,
and cost prohibitive. In this talk, I will discuss the need for new
interactive materials in early design, akin to an industrial designer’s
mockups with clay, foam core, and ceramics—materials that are critical
for sketching and exploration, but not for application in a final product.
I will also discuss a new approach with the potential to help designers
simulate and evaluate designs before construction. The level of
complexity encountered when designing an organic user interface is not
unique. It exists in other design fields, such as automotive,
architectural, and aerospace, and is often managed by using advanced
simulation software. In other words, “interaction” could be represented
as a new abstraction in multi-physics and simulation software, enabling
a device’s design to be critiqued long before any fabrication or
prototyping is executed. This approach of simulating interaction via
computer-aided interaction design (CAID) is in development, and early
examples of its problem space will be presented.
*Bio*
Dr. David Holman designs and prototypes next generation product concepts
at Intel Corporation. His early research in digital-paper interaction
led to the development of Organic User Interfaces, a new paradigm in
Human-Computer Interaction, and the world’s first interactive paper-like
computer. He has worked extensively with flexible display technology and
categorized the emergence of a new type of interface, one that has
three-dimensional interactive shape. He holds a PhD in Computing from
Queen’s University and was a member of the Human Media Lab, one of
Canada’s premier multidisciplinary media laboratories.
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*OUR SPONSORS:*
*TUX is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders,
Autodesk, *
*University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and MaRS*.
*/About MaRS:/*/MaRS is the one of the world’s largest urban innovation
hubs—a place for collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship. Located
in the heart of Toronto’s research district, MaRS provides the space,
training, talent and networks required to commercialize important
discoveries and launch and grow Canadian startups./
