tux-announce February 2017

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by Daniel Wigdor 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

[cid:image011.png@01D28EA7.6B0FDCD0] [cid:image012.png@01D28EA7.6B0FDCD0] [cid:image013.png@01D28EA7.6B0FDCD0] Good afternoon Tux! Thanks to some great help, Tux is now a little more social-media savvy. Find below links to our social media outlets, including recordings of our talks up to now. Tux YouTube Channel We are happy to share that the Tux YouTube channel has now been configured, providing you a one-stop-shop for all of our Sanders Series Invited Lectures. Further, the DGP Lab at U of T recently acquired the ability to record talks, and so Tux Member Presentations will also be appearing on the channel, beginning with that of Azam Khan from this week. The channel is linked from our website<http://www.tux-hci.org/>; here is a direct link<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3ZH7kOtWXlu-ypJ6iD5Bg/videos>. Please: click 'subscribe' on the channel. Once we have 100 subscribers, we are entitled to a human-readable URL. Tux on Facebook & Twitter Olivier St-Cyr has volunteered as our new social media chair. Thank you Olivier! Please find links here to our presence on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/tuxhci> and Twitter<http://twitter.com/tuxhci>. A reminder that our next event is March 14 @ MaRS Discovery District, for our final Sanders Series Invited Lecture of the year. See the website for the details<http://www.tux-hci.org/>. [cid:image014.png@01D28EA7.6B0FDCD0] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image015.jpg@01D28EA7.6B0FDCD0] 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.

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Reminder: Azam Khan Today @ DGP
by Tovi Grossman 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hello TUX! A reminder that today we will have a member presentation by Azam Khan. The details of the talk are below. The talk will be in the DGP Lab in the Department of Computer Science at U of T (5th Floor, 40 St. George St.). We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Daniel, Khai and Tovi Tuesday, February 21 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Azam Khan DGP Lab, Department of Computer Science at U of T @ 40 St. George St. 5th Floor Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. Presentation begins at 1pm. Irrational Decision Making: Can computers help us in Critical Decision Making? Azam Khan is Director, Complex Systems Research at Autodesk. He is the Founder of the Parametric Human Project Consortium, SimAUD: the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design, and the CHI Sustainability Community. He is also a Founding Member of the International Society for Human Simulation and has been the Velux Guest Professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, at the Center for IT and Architecture (CITA) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Azam received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. He has published over 50 articles in simulation, human-computer interaction, architectural design, sensor networks, and sustainability. His Toronto team is currently developing a new experimental simulator to explore big simulation as a component of eScience, and his New York team performs award winning design research in advanced architectural projects. 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.

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TUX Poster Day and Prof. Mark D. Gross Tomorrow @ MaRS
by Tovi Grossman 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

Hello Tux! A reminder that tomorrow will be a very special day for TUX! We will be having our first ever TUX Research Poster Day, with an opening keynote from Dr. Valkyrie Savage. We will then have 21 fantastic posters from members of the TUX community on display. The poster day will be concluded with a Sanders Series Invited Lecture by Prof. Mark D. Gross from University of Colorado Boulder. The full details of tomorrow's activities, which kick off at 11am in the MaRS Auditorium, are provided below, and can also be found on the event webpage<http://www.tux-hci.org/tux-2017-research-poster-day/>. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Daniel, Khai, and Tovi TUX 2017 Research Poster Day - Tuesday, February 7 at 11:00am MaRS Auditorium @ 101 College St. (Lower Level). Schedule 11:00am Opening Plenary<http://www.tux-hci.org/speaker/valkyrie-savage/>: Dr. Valkyrie Savage, Savage Internet 11:30am Poster Madness 11:45am Poster Session / Coffee Break 12:30pm Lunch 1:00pm TUX Sanders Series Lecture<http://www.tux-hci.org/speaker/sanders-series-invited-lecture/>: Prof. Mark D. Gross, University of Colorado Boulder Opening Plenary: Valkyrie Savage Fabrication for Interaction Task-specific tangible input devices, like video game controllers, improve user speed and accuracy in input tasks compared to the more general-purpose touchscreen or mouse and keyboard. However, while modifying a graphical user interface (GUI) to accept mouse and keyboard inputs for new and specific tasks is relatively easy and requires only software knowledge, tangible user interface (TUI) devices are challenging to prototype and build. Rapid prototyping digital fabrication machines, such as vinyl cutters, laser cutters, and 3D printers, now permeate the design process for such devices. Using these tools, designers can realize a new tangible design faster than ever. I'll discuss a few interesting points where digital fabrication research has poked at the "typical" way of doing tangible designs. I'll describe new authoring techniques for tangible objects, experiments in integrating electronics and other kinds of sensing modules into fabricated objects, and designs leveraging material properties and pre-fabrication simulations. I'll also talk about my own work, which focuses on fabrication for sensing: using our pre-fabrication knowledge of a physical object to make post-fabrication sensing easier. Bio: I call myself both a Digital Fabricatrix (as my thesis research revolved around digital fabrication) and a designveloper (as I like doing work as something between a UX designer and a developer). I'm now co-founder and CEO of Savage Internet, working roughly in the space of experiential education. In 2016, I received a PhD from UC Berkeley working with Björn Hartmann: the talk you'll see represents my thesis work. I hold a BA in Mathematics and a BS in Computer Science from Indiana University. I'm also an enthusiastic hobbyist, and have included custom electronics and digital fabrication in projects like my husband's 3D printed wedding ring and an interactive baby blanket for new parent friends. Sanders Series Invited Lecture: Mark D. Gross Design, Making, and Creativity (or Polymaths Unite!) People enjoy making things, as the recently burgeoning "maker movement" shows. While often seen as a vehicle to engage young people in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), the maker movement presents far wider opportunities to engage people in design and creativity. The new machinery for making things-laser cutters, 3D printers and more-cry out for better tools and technologies for design, and practice making things invites people to become more creative. Some of the most exciting opportunities and powerful insights belong to polymaths who can defy conventional disciplinary boundaries and learn to apply expertise developed in one discipline to others. Bio: I'm director of the ATLAS Institute and professor of computer science at University of Colorado Boulder. I'm also co-founder of Modular Robotics Incorporated and Blank Slate Systems with former PhD students. Previously I was on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington Seattle; before that I worked at Atari Cambridge Research, Logo Computer Systems, Kurzweil Computer Systems, the MIT Logo Lab and the Architecture Machine Group. Once upon a time I studied architecture at MIT, where I became fascinated with how design works, and how computational tools could support designing. I still am. I've worked on many different things: intelligent computer aided design, virtual environments and design simulation, modular robotics and computationally enhanced construction kits and craft, tangible interaction design, sketch and diagram recognition, digital fabrication and more. 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.

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