Dear TUX Community,
Tomorrow there will be another HCI poster showcase (a similar event was held
last semester) which I'd like to invite you to. This will be a presentation
of posters that the students in the Human-Computer Interaction course I am
teaching at U of T have prepared. The course is cross-listed as a
fourth-year undergraduate / graduate course. For their final term project,
they have been conducting a literature review and proposing new ideas on an
HCI topic of choice. Tomorrow they will be presenting their findings in the
format of a poster. The poster showcase will be held in the Autodesk space
on the ground floor of the MaRS building. You are welcome to come by and see
the posters and meet the undergraduate and graduate students that have been
studying HCI at U of T this semester.
Date: Thursday, March 28
Time: 2pm-4pm
Location: Autodesk-MaRS
Hope to see you there!
Thanks,
Tovi
Tovi Grossman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
40 St. George St, Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2E4
Canada
<http://www.cs.toronto.edu> www.cs.toronto.edu
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Hello TUX!
A reminder that today we have a Member Presentation by Prof. Ashton
Anderson.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Ali, Daniel, and Tovi
TUX Member Presentation: Prof. Ashton Anderson
*October 5, 2018. DGP Lab, Department of Computer Science at U of T @
40 St. George Street Room 5166*
Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm.
*The Design of Social Incentives
*
An increasingly common feature of online communities and social media
sites is a mechanism for rewarding user achievements based on a system
of social incentives, such as badges. Badges are given to users for
particular contributions to a site, such as performing a certain number
of actions of a given type. In this talk, I will speak about
how badges can influence and steer user behavior on a site—leading both
to increased participation and to changes in the mix of activities a
user pursues on the site. I’ll introduce a formal model for reasoning
about user behavior in the presence of badges, and in particular for
analyzing the ways in which badges can steer users to change their
behavior. To evaluate the main predictions of our model, we study the
use of badges and their effects on the widely used Stack Overflow
question-answering site, and find evidence that their badges steer
behavior in ways closely consistent with the predictions of our model.
We then investigate the problem of how to optimally place badges in
order to induce particular user behaviors. Several robust design
principles emerge from our framework that could potentially aid in the
design of incentives for a broad range of sites.
Finally, I’ll report on a large-scale deployment of badges as incentives
for engagement in a MOOC, including randomized experiments in which the
presentation of badges was varied across sub-populations. We find
that badges significantly increased student engagement, with the
magnitude of the increase varying with the saliency of
the badge presentation.
*Bio*
Ashton Anderson (University of Toronto) is an Assistant Professor of
Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he is also a
Faculty Affiliate with the Vector Institute and a Research Fellow in
Behavioural Economics. He received his PhD from Stanford University in
2015 and completed a postdoctoral appointment at Microsoft Research NYC
in 2017. His research in computational social science focuses on
questions in the increasingly vital intersection of data and society.
His work has appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, Sociological Science, and The Web Conference.
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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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Looking forward to seeing you today at the last Sanders Series Invited Lecture of the season. Please remember the talk will begin at 12:45, with an introduction by Dr. Bill Buxton, followed immediately by Prof. van Dam's talk. We will be serving lunch from 12:15.
See you there!
-Daniel
From: Daniel Wigdor
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 2:38 PM
To: 'tux-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu' <tux-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu>
Subject: Sanders Series tomorrow: **Starting Early**
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Hello Tux!
We are very pleased to have not only one, but two special visitors tomorrow. Please see below that we have added a little extra time to the talk to accommodate what will no-doubt be a very popular speaker. Please come early to avoid disappointment (food! seats!). We look forward to seeing you there.
Tomorrow! Tuesday, March 12 at 12:15pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Prof. Andries van Dam (Brown University), with introduction by Dr. Bill Buxton (Microsoft)
Please note the special time: lunch will be served at 12:15, talk will begin at 12:45pm and continue to 2pm.
Location: Autodesk Research,The MaRS Discovery District Auditorium @ 661 University Ave<https://goo.gl/maps/QNNkvjdRQe92>.
Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who conducts HCI and graphics research, corporate or academic, in the Toronto area.
Abstract
In 2019 we are continuing to commemorate the 50th anniversaries of many momentous events of 1968 and 1969 in the US, with television programs, technical symposia, and online media Those years were marked by devastating events such as the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and by the "flower power" hippie movement and the closely related anti-Vietnam war movement. There also were stunning technical achievements including the first walk on the moon by Neil Armstrong and the even more societally impactful "Mother of All Demos" of NLS by Doug Engelbart and his team at the '68 Fall Joint Computer Conference that helped shape the personal computer revolution in ways that are still evolving today. Less well remembered is that graphics pioneer Ivan Sutherland presented a paper on "a head-mounted three dimensional display" at the same conference. Commemorative symposia were held to mark these two key events last year, and being on a panel last December at "The Demo @ 50: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doug Engelbart's Landmark Demo", paired with another panel titled "Doug's Unfinished Revolution," led me to a framework for this TUX talk.
Using a very early version of our personal and workgroup hypermedia information management system, Dash, I will interweave six technical visions and some of the visionaries that have inspired me in my research over the last five decades. My group and I have concentrated on the natural intersection of interactive graphics used for human-computer interaction and hypertext. While these six visions, which overlap in significant ways, can be characterized by slogans and catch phrases associated with well-known personalities, they typically are based on much earlier antecedents. I picked "Information at Your Fingertips", Personal Computing, Information Management and Structures, "Connecting the World", "UBIcomp" and "Natural User Interfaces". In line with the meme of "unfinished revolutions" I will give an example scenario of a device-independent integrated system encompassing key aspects of these visions that is seamless and ubietous (in the Buxton sense), and talk about how far we still have to go in component technologies and integration to achieve that vision. I will finish with some personal reflections about societal issues that are increasingly urgent and that comprise part of our field's unfinished revolutions.
Bio
Andries van Dam, is the Thomas J. Watson Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He has been a member of Brown's faculty since 1965, was a co-founder of Brown's Computer Science Department and its first Chairman from 1979 to 1985, and was also Brown's first Vice President for Research from 2002 - 2006.
His research includes work on computer graphics, hypermedia systems, post-WIMP and natural user interfaces (NUI), including pen- and touch-computing, and educational software. He has been involved for five decades with systems for creating and reading electronic books with interactive illustrations for use in teaching and research.
In 1967 Prof. van Dam co-founded ACM SICGRAPH (the precursor of SIGGRAPH) and from 1985 through 1987 was Chairman of the Computing Research Association. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS, a member of the SIGGRAPH Academy, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has received the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics, and the IEEE Centennial Medal, and holds honorary doctorates from Darmstadt Technical University, Swarthmore College, the University of Waterloo, and ETH Zurich. He has authored or co-authored over 100 papers and nine books, including "Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics" and three editions of "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice".
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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!
We are very pleased to have not only one, but two special visitors tomorrow. Please see below that we have added a little extra time to the talk to accommodate what will no-doubt be a very popular speaker. Please come early to avoid disappointment (food! seats!). We look forward to seeing you there.
Tomorrow! Tuesday, March 12 at 12:15pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Prof. Andries van Dam (Brown University), with introduction by Dr. Bill Buxton (Microsoft)
Please note the special time: lunch will be served at 12:15, talk will begin at 12:45pm and continue to 2pm.
Location: Autodesk Research,The MaRS Discovery District Auditorium @ 661 University Ave<https://goo.gl/maps/QNNkvjdRQe92>.
Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who conducts HCI and graphics research, corporate or academic, in the Toronto area.
Abstract
In 2019 we are continuing to commemorate the 50th anniversaries of many momentous events of 1968 and 1969 in the US, with television programs, technical symposia, and online media Those years were marked by devastating events such as the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and by the "flower power" hippie movement and the closely related anti-Vietnam war movement. There also were stunning technical achievements including the first walk on the moon by Neil Armstrong and the even more societally impactful "Mother of All Demos" of NLS by Doug Engelbart and his team at the '68 Fall Joint Computer Conference that helped shape the personal computer revolution in ways that are still evolving today. Less well remembered is that graphics pioneer Ivan Sutherland presented a paper on "a head-mounted three dimensional display" at the same conference. Commemorative symposia were held to mark these two key events last year, and being on a panel last December at "The Demo @ 50: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doug Engelbart's Landmark Demo", paired with another panel titled "Doug's Unfinished Revolution," led me to a framework for this TUX talk.
Using a very early version of our personal and workgroup hypermedia information management system, Dash, I will interweave six technical visions and some of the visionaries that have inspired me in my research over the last five decades. My group and I have concentrated on the natural intersection of interactive graphics used for human-computer interaction and hypertext. While these six visions, which overlap in significant ways, can be characterized by slogans and catch phrases associated with well-known personalities, they typically are based on much earlier antecedents. I picked "Information at Your Fingertips", Personal Computing, Information Management and Structures, "Connecting the World", "UBIcomp" and "Natural User Interfaces". In line with the meme of "unfinished revolutions" I will give an example scenario of a device-independent integrated system encompassing key aspects of these visions that is seamless and ubietous (in the Buxton sense), and talk about how far we still have to go in component technologies and integration to achieve that vision. I will finish with some personal reflections about societal issues that are increasingly urgent and that comprise part of our field's unfinished revolutions.
Bio
Andries van Dam, is the Thomas J. Watson Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He has been a member of Brown's faculty since 1965, was a co-founder of Brown's Computer Science Department and its first Chairman from 1979 to 1985, and was also Brown's first Vice President for Research from 2002 - 2006.
His research includes work on computer graphics, hypermedia systems, post-WIMP and natural user interfaces (NUI), including pen- and touch-computing, and educational software. He has been involved for five decades with systems for creating and reading electronic books with interactive illustrations for use in teaching and research.
In 1967 Prof. van Dam co-founded ACM SICGRAPH (the precursor of SIGGRAPH) and from 1985 through 1987 was Chairman of the Computing Research Association. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS, a member of the SIGGRAPH Academy, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has received the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics, and the IEEE Centennial Medal, and holds honorary doctorates from Darmstadt Technical University, Swarthmore College, the University of Waterloo, and ETH Zurich. He has authored or co-authored over 100 papers and nine books, including "Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics" and three editions of "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice".
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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.
From: Daniel Wigdor [mailto:daniel@dgp.toronto.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 12:07 PM
To: Tovi Grossman
Subject: RE: please print?
Good idea. Don't forget you owe me an email footer :)
-Daniel
From: Tovi Grossman [mailto:Tovi.Grossman@autodesk.com]
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 11:48 AM
To: Daniel Wigdor <daniel(a)dgp.toronto.edu<mailto:daniel@dgp.toronto.edu>>
Subject: RE: please print?
Maybe include in the mailing list message you send that we're looking for someone to run the website? It needs a bit of love :)
Tovi
From: Daniel Wigdor [mailto:daniel@dgp.toronto.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 11:04 PM
To: Tovi Grossman
Subject: RE: please print?
Updating: sure, they can do this. But the sort of hacking I'm doing now is way above their pay grade. I've got a guy who bills me $55/h to do fixes, he's the one who got the site up by day-of.
-Daniel
From: Tovi Grossman [mailto:Tovi.Grossman@autodesk.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 11:05 AM
To: Daniel Wigdor <daniel(a)dgp.toronto.edu<mailto:daniel@dgp.toronto.edu>>
Subject: RE: please print?
The comment is less about honoring sponsors and more about logo overkill on the page. Maybe the sponsors could all be moved to the footer? I'd see if Justin could help with the website but were all overwhelmed here right now with the Pavilion project...
Can you use your minimum wage thingy to get an undergrad to do the web design/maintenance?
Tovi
From: Daniel Wigdor [mailto:daniel@dgp.toronto.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 11:00 AM
To: Tovi Grossman
Subject: RE: please print?
No, Vogel did some initial setup and now it's all me.
I'm happy to reduce blending, but am very reluctant to remove this section. It's all about the members! But definitely want to honour sponsors appropriately.
I just updated them yesterday - anyone to add? I have my admin parsing the sign-in sheets and will send personal follow-ups to people who aren't presently represented.
-Daniel
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 7:48 AM -0700, "Tovi Grossman" <Tovi.Grossman(a)autodesk.com<mailto:Tovi.Grossman@autodesk.com>> wrote:
I don't think we need any text.
Regarding the webpage, think it may also be better to remove the "members" logos from the home page, it blends in too much with the sponsors. Also, the "member organizations" lists on the about page seems incomplete.
Is Vogel not maintaining the website?
Tovi
From: Daniel Wigdor [mailto:daniel@dgp.toronto.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 10:40 AM
To: Tovi Grossman
Subject: RE: please print?
Re website: does Autodesk have any text it would like? I'll create a "sponsors" page that people can click and includes all of the text.
-Daniel
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 7:24 AM -0700, "Tovi Grossman" <Tovi.Grossman(a)autodesk.com<mailto:Tovi.Grossman@autodesk.com>> wrote:
Ok, its updated, make sure it looks ok (screenshot below). Can you:
Add the requested MaRS text to the website? Remember to add sponsors to the email?
Thanks,
Tovi
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From: Daniel Wigdor [mailto:daniel@dgp.toronto.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 3:41 PM
To: Tovi Grossman
Subject: RE: please print?
Site's up. Need more data.
Could you take the schedule from the slide deck and update your google calendar? We can post a link to the website, and use it as an excuse to send email to all those who signed-up for the mailing list.
-Daniel
From: Tovi Grossman [mailto:Tovi.Grossman@autodesk.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 10:08 AM
To: Daniel Wigdor <daniel(a)dgp.toronto.edu<mailto:daniel@dgp.toronto.edu>>
Subject: RE: please print?
Slide deck looks great, thanks for assembling. Should we remove the website link until the page is in a better state? And should there be a slide to introduce the 3 of us?
Benko's visit going well so far... how was your dinner last night?
Tovi
From: Daniel Wigdor [mailto:daniel@dgp.toronto.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 9:59 AM
To: Tovi Grossman
Subject: RE: please print?
Yes, of course - you should receive a link shortly that will let you edit in-place.
Note that Jan' is simply "Autodesk Research", if you had a name to put in there it would complete the thing nicely :)
Note that Leila accepted our invitation, though she too wanted to do Monday/Tuesday for her visit due to Thanksgiving. No big deal; talk will still be on Tuesday at the usual time.
Running a little slow this morning - don't try to match Eugene drink for drink!
-Daniel
From: Tovi Grossman [mailto:Tovi.Grossman@autodesk.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 8:45 AM
To: Daniel Wigdor <daniel(a)dgp.toronto.edu<mailto:daniel@dgp.toronto.edu>>
Subject: Re: please print?
Great - Can you share the slides?
Thanks,
Tovi
On Oct 13, 2015, at 8:26 AM, Daniel Wigdor <daniel(a)dgp.toronto.edu<mailto:daniel@dgp.toronto.edu>> wrote:
Good morning,
Sorry about the Drs - here's the source if you'd like to edit:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=5336F127BF7D5AA2!156046&authkey=!AFLx…
Agreed re intro content. I've got a set of slides, I think the only one that isn't on it is the mailing list, I'll add something. We can discuss choreography on site.
-Daniel
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From: Tovi Grossman <tovi.grossman(a)autodesk.com<mailto:tovi.grossman@autodesk.com>>
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: please print?
To: Daniel Wigdor <daniel(a)dgp.toronto.edu<mailto:daniel@dgp.toronto.edu>>
Sure.
There's some misleading Dr titles in the adsk section, not a big deal (most of the list is Drs).
How were you thinking of doing the tux intro? Should we have a couple of slides or just say some words of wisdom? We should quickly:
-introduce ourselves
-talk about hci in toronto
-introduce tux and its mission
-talk about schedule
-talk about webpage/mailing list
-Talk about tux next year
-thank sponsors
-Ali & Tovi sit, Daniel introduces Benko
Tovi
On Oct 13, 2015, at 1:13 AM, Daniel Wigdor < daniel(a)dgp.toronto.edu<mailto:daniel@dgp.toronto.edu>> wrote:
I meant to give Benko a physical copy at the house tonight and I forgot; mind printing this for him tomorrow? It's always nice to have a paper version.
-Daniel
<Dr. Hrvoje Benko Itinerary_b.pdf>
