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Good morning Tux!
A reminder that our first talk of the year will take place tomorrow at Autodesk Research's new facility in the MaRS building, at the south-east corner of College and University. We look forward to hosting Prof. Maneesh Agrawala of Stanford University. This is the only talk taking place on a Thursday this year, the rest of our talks will be on Tuesdays. See the Tux website<http://www.tux-hci.org/> for the complete schedule.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Prof. Maneesh Agrawala: Storytelling Tools
Tomorrow at Autodesk Research<https://www.google.com/maps/place/Autodesk+Toronto/@43.6553087,-79.3967535,…> (MaRS Building), 12:30 lunch, 1:00 talk
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Storytelling Tools
Storytelling is essential for communicating ideas. When they are well told, stories help us make sense of information, appreciate cultural or societal differences, and imagine living in entirely different worlds. Audio/visual stories in the form of radio programs, books-on-tape, podcasts, television, movies and animations, are especially powerful because they provide a rich multisensory experience. Technological advances have made it easy to capture stories using the microphones and cameras that are readily available in our mobile devices, But, the raw media rarely tells a compelling story.
The best storytellers carefully compose, filter, edit and highlight the raw media to produce an engaging piece. Yet, the software tools they use to create and manipulate the raw audio/video media (e.g. Pro Tools, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Maya etc.) force storytellers to work at a tediously low-level - selecting, filtering, cutting and transitioning between audio/video frames. While these tools provide flexible and precise control over the look and sound of the final result, they are notoriously difficult to learn and accessible primarily to experts. In this talk I'll present recent projects that aim to significantly reduce the effort required to edit and produce high-quality audio/visual stories.
About Prof. Agrawala
Maneesh Agrawala is the Forest Baskett Professor<https://professorships.stanford.edu/content/School%20of%20Engineering> of Computer Science<http://cs.stanford.edu/> and Director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation<http://brown.stanford.edu/> at Stanford University. He works on computer graphics<http://graphics.stanford.edu/>, human computer interaction<http://hci.stanford.edu/> and visualization<http://vis.berkeley.edu/>. His focus is on investigating how cognitive design principles can be used to improve the effectiveness of audio/visual media. The goals of this work are to discover the design principles and then instantiate them in both interactive and automated design tools. He received an Okawa Foundation Research Grant<http://www.okawa-foundation.or.jp/e/index.html> (2006), an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship<http://www.sloan.org/programs/fellowshiplist.shtml> (2007), an NSF CAREER Award<http://www.nsf.gov/career> (2007), a SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award<http://graphics.stanford.edu/~maneesh/images/snr.wmv> (2008), a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship<http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.5458001/k.92B8/Maneesh_Agrawal…> (2009), and an Allen Distinguished Investigator Award<http://www.pgafamilyfoundation.org/programs/investigators-fellows/key-initi…> (2014)
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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 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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Hello TUX!
Welcome to the Fall 2017 season! We have a fabulous line up of Sanders
Series and TUX Member speakers lined up this fall.
Please note that the Sanders Series talks will now take place in the
brand new Autodesk space on the main floor of MaRS. The TUX Member
Presentations will continue to be held at the DGP lab at U of T. All
talks begin at 1pm, with lunch served beforehand at 12:30pm.
Also please note that our first talk departs slightly from our usual
Tuesday schedule, and will be held next Thursday September 21 at MaRS at
the usual time. The full fall schedule is included below and also up on
the website at tux-hci.org <http://www.tux-hci.org/>.
We look forward to seeing you at TUX!
Ali, Daniel, and Tovi
*Date*
*Event*
*Sept. 21, 2017*
Prof. Maneesh Agrawala <http://graphics.stanford.edu/%7Emaneesh/>,
Stanford U. (Sanders Series Invited Lecture)
*Oct. 10, 2017*
Prof. David Bouchard <http://www.deadpixel.ca/> and Prof. Steve Daniels
<http://www.spinningtheweb.org/>, Ryerson U. (TUX Member Presentation)
*Oct. 24, 2017*
Prof. Kate Sellen <http://slab.ocadu.ca/people/kate-sellen>, OCADU (Tux
Member Presentation)
*Nov. 7, 2017*
Prof. Anind Dey <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Eanind/>, U. Washington
(Sanders Series Lecture)
*Nov. 21, 2017*
Dr. Bill Buxton <https://www.billbuxton.com/>, Microsoft Research
(Sanders Series Lecture)
*Dec. 5, 2017*
Prof. Chris Collins <http://vialab.science.uoit.ca/>, UOIT (Tux Member
Presentation)
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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./