Good morning Tux!
A reminder that our final TUX talk of the year will take place tomorrow at 12:30pm in the DGP Lab - 40 St. George St. Room 5166. We will be having a member presentation from Prof. Rhonda McEwen from University of Toronto's iSchool and Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Ali, Daniel, and Tovi
Tuesday, April 19 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Prof. Rhonda McEwen
DGP Lab @ 40 St. George St.<https://goo.gl/maps/7ePPGa83WJL2> Room 5166
Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. Presentation begins at 1pm.
Intuitive or Idiomatic? An information studies and cognitive psychology study of child-tablet computer interaction
Since 2009, Dr. Rhonda McEwen has conducted communications research involving touch-mediated technologies in educational institutions including students with special needs. This experience had a profound effect on her intellectual work and she now describes herself as a scholar of tactile interfaces as her work involves mobile media and cognitive informatics. McEwen's publications detail results of her research on the use of mobile media and resultant consequences for information interpretation, learning, and touch-interaction design. Today she shares her experiences of conducting research with this special population and offers insights on the relationship between gestures and information processing.
Speaker Bio:
Rhonda McEwen is an assistant professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology and at the iSchool, at the University of Toronto. She holds an MBA in IT from City University in London, England, an MSc in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado, and a PhD in Information from University of Toronto. Dr. McEwen has worked and researched digital communication media for 15 years, both in companies providing services and in management consulting to those companies. Her research and teaching centre around information practices involving new media technologies - with an emphasis on mobile and tablet communication, new media, social networks, and sensory information processing. CBS 60 Minutes journalists covered McEwen's research in 2012 & 2013, and she has recent publications in Information, Communication & Society, Computers and Education, Learning & Instruction, New Media and Society, and Library and Information Science Research journals.
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.
Hello Tux!
A reminder that our final Sanders Series Invited Lecture of this
academic year will take place *_tomorrow_* at 12:30pm in the MaRS
auditorium. We are very excited to be hosting Dr. Yang Li from Google.
See you tomorrow!
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Dr. Yang Li:
Enabling New Input Dimensions for Mobile Interaction
2016-04-05 12:30 at MaRS Auditorium
<https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6599132,-79.3…>
The limited interaction bandwidth of existing mobile user interfaces is
incompatible with the rapidly growing computing power of mobile and
wearable devices. To address this problem, it is important to explore
new interaction dimensions that can utilize the rich sensing
capabilities of these devices as well as their seamless integration into
our everyday activity. In this talk, I will first describe how we can
significantly reduce user effort in mobile interaction, at scale, by
leveraging gestural input. I will then describe how to empower
developers to leverage new input dimensions such as gestural,
cross-device and contextual input through new tools and frameworks. From
these systems, I will discuss how these input dimensions, though natural
to the user, deeply challenge traditional interactive computing, and how
we can address this challenge by providing high-level tool support.
Yang Li is a Senior Research Scientist in Human Computer Interaction and
Mobile Computing at Google. He leads the Predictive User Interfaces
group at Google. He is also an affiliate faculty member in Computer
Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He earned a Ph.D.
degree in Computer Science from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and
conducted postdoctoral research in EECS at the University of California
at Berkeley. He has published over 50 papers in the field of Human
Computer Interaction, including 29 publications at CHI, UIST and TOCHI.
He has constantly served on the program committees of top-tier HCI and
mobile computing conferences.
Yang’s research focuses on novel tools and methods for creating mobile
interaction behaviors, particularly regarding emerging input modalities
(such as gestures and cameras), cross-device interaction and predictive
user interfaces. Yang wrote Gesture Search, a popular Android app for
random access of mobile content using gestures. Yang develops software
tool support and recognition methods by drawing insights from user
behaviors, and leveraging techniques such as machine learning, computer
vision and crowdsourcing to make complex tasks simple and intuitive.
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*OUR SPONSORS:*
*Tux is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders,
Autodesk, *
*University of Toronto Departments 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./