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HCI Poster Showcase Tomorrow
by Tovi Grossman 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

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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TUX Reminder: Ashton Anderson Today!
by Xuan Dam 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

cid:image005.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210 cid:image008.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 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. cid:image009.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 *OUR SPONSORS:* cid:image010.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 *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./ _______________________________________________ tux-announce mailing list tux-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tux-announce

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Reminder: TUX TODAY STARTS EARLY
by Daniel Wigdor 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

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** [cid:image001.png@01D4D8BC.5C8EF130] [cid:image002.png@01D4D8BC.5C8EF130] [cid:image003.png@01D4D8BC.5C8EF130] 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". [cid:image004.png@01D4D8BC.5C8EF130] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image005.jpg@01D4D8BC.5C8EF130] 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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Sanders Series tomorrow: **Starting Early**
by Daniel Wigdor 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

[cid:image001.png@01D4D816.F219BC40] [cid:image002.png@01D4D816.F219BC40] [cid:image003.png@01D4D816.F219BC40] 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". [cid:image004.png@01D4D816.F219BC40] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image008.jpg@01D4D817.95D33000] 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 [cid:image007.png@01D4D816.F219BC40] 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 _____________________________ 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>

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TUX Reminder: Hossein Rahnama Today!
by Shaza'a Fayyaz 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

cid:image005.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210 cid:image008.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 Hello TUX! A reminder that today we have a Member Presentation by Prof. Hossein Rahnama. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi TUX Member Presentation: Prof. Hossein Rahnama *February 26, 2019. 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. Leveraging context and machine learning for the design of predictive and self-adaptive user experiences By leveraging machine learning techniques, digital channels are becoming more predictive and contextual. Through this evolution, user experience design is becoming more than just a two-dimensional user interface consideration. In this talk, Hossein will be talking about how data science and the synthesis of context from data, enable the design of a more adaptive and engaging user experience. He will demonstrate how his team is building tools enabling AI and Machine Learning to be used by non-computer and data scientists and how such capabilities creates a new ecology of services and users. The talk includes real examples and demos of how Fortune 500s are making their user experiences learnable. At the end, Hossein will be talking about his Augmented Eternity project at MIT Media Lab which is focused on enabling users to share expertise using AI. Bio Professor Hossein Rahnama is a recognized figure in ubiquitous and pervasive computing. His research explores artificial intelligence, mobile human-computer interaction, and the effective design of contextual services. In 2017, Hossein was recognized as one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40. In 2012, he was recognized by the MIT Technology Review as one of the world's top innovators under the age of 35 for his research in context-aware computing. The Smithsonian named Hossein as one of the top six innovators to watch in 2013. Hossein has 35 publications and 18 patents in ubiquitous computing, is serving on the board of Canadian Science Publishing, and was a Council Member of the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Hossein is also a visiting professor at the Human Dynamics group at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Ryerson University. cid:image009.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 *OUR SPONSORS:* cid:image010.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 *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 Reminder: Ranjitha Kumar's Talk Tomorrow!
by Shaza'a Fayyaz 13 Feb '19

13 Feb '19

cid:image005.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210 cid:image008.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 Hello TUX! A reminder that tomorrow we have a Sanders Series Invited Lecture by Prof. Ranjitha Kumar. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture: Prof. Ranjitha Kumar *February 12, 2019. Autodesk MaRS IDEaS Lab @ 661 University Ave., Ground Floor* Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm. *Data-Driven Design: Beyond A/B Testing* A/B testing has become the de facto standard for optimizing design, helping designers craft more effective user experiences by leveraging data. A typical A/B test involves dividing user traffic between two experimental conditions (A and B), and looking for statistically significant differences in performance indicators (e.g., conversion rates) between them. In this talk, I’ll introduce three other data-driven methods — complementary to A/B testing — that can tie design choices to desired outcomes. Mining interactiondata from existing designscan provide comparative insights about patterns found in the wild, exposing designers to a greater space of divergent solutions than A/B testing. Lightweight prototypes with tight user feedback loops, or experimentation engines, can bootstrap product design involving technologies that are actively being developed (e.g., artificial intelligence, virtual/augmented reality), where both use cases and capabilities are not well-understood. Finally, generative modelstrained on a set of effective design examples can support predictive workflows that allow designers to rapidly prototype new, performant solutions. *Bio* Ranjitha Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where she leads the Data-Driven Design group. She is the recipient of a 2018 NSF CAREER award, and UIUC’s 2018 C.W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. Her research has won best paper awards/nominations at premier conferences in HCI, and is supported by grants from Google, Amazon, and Adobe. She received her PhD from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University in 2014, and was formerly the Chief Scientist at Apropose, Inc., a data-driven design company she founded that was backed by Andreessen Horowitz and New Enterprise Associates. cid:image009.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 *OUR SPONSORS:* cid:image010.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 *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 Talk - Rescheduled to Tomorrow
by tovi＠dgp.toronto.edu 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Dear TUX Community, Due to today's weather, we are cancelling the TUX talk today. It will be rescheduled tomorrow at the same time - 1pm-2pm, lunch served at 12:30pm. Location is still TBD - it will either be at MaRS or the U of T DGP Lab. A message will be sent later today to confirm. Thanks, Ali, Daniel, and Tovi

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TUX Reminder: Dr. Steven Feiner Tomorrow!
by Shaza'a Fayyaz 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

cid:image005.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210 cid:image008.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 Hello TUX! A reminder that tomorrow we have a Sanders Series Invited Lecture by Dr. Steven Feiner. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi TUX Member Presentation: Dr. Steven Feiner *January 15, 2019. Autodesk-MaRS @ 661 University Ave #200, Toronto, ON. * Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm. *User Interfaces for Collaborative AR and VR * How can we build 3D user interfaces that help people collaborate more effectively? I will present research by the Columbia University Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab that explores the design and implementation of collaborative AR and VR environments. The experimental systems that I will discuss use different kinds of head-tracked eyewear and address a wide range of task domains, from remote maintenance assistance, to urban visualization, to motor rehabilitation. All were developed with our open-source Mercury Messaging toolkit for Unity (https://github.com/ColumbiaCGUI/MercuryMessaging), which supports cross-component communication among scene objects within and between computers. * * *Bio* Steve Feiner is a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where he directs the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab. His lab has been conducting virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and wearable computing research for over 25 years, designing and evaluating novel 3D interaction and visualization techniques, creating the first outdoor mobile AR system using a see-through head-worn display and GPS, and pioneering applications of AR to fields as diverse as tourism, journalism, maintenance, construction, and medicine. Steve received an AB in Music and a PhD in Computer Science, both from Brown University. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, a member of the CHI Academy, and the recipient of the /ACM SIGCHI 2018 Lifetime Research Award/, the/IEEE ISMAR 2017 Career Impact Award/, and the/IEEE VGTC 2014 Virtual Reality Career Award/. He and his students have won the /ISWC 2017 Early Innovator Award/, the /ACM UIST 2010 Lasting Impact Award/, and many best paper awards. Steve has served as general chair or program chair for over a dozen ACM and IEEE conferences and is coauthor of two editions of /Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice/. cid:image009.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 *OUR SPONSORS:* cid:image010.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 *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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HCI Poster Showcase Tomorrow
by tovi＠dgp.toronto.edu 21 Nov '18

21 Nov '18

Dear TUX Community, Id like to invite you to an HCI poster showcase that the students in the Human-Computer Interaction course I am teaching at U of T will be participating in tomorrow. 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, November 22 Time: 2pm-4pm Location: Autodesk-MaRS Hope to see you there! Thanks, Tovi

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TUX Reminder: Regan Mandryk's Talk Tomorrow!
by Xuan Dam 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

cid:image005.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210 cid:image008.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 Hello TUX! A reminder that tomorrow we have a Sanders Series Invited Lecture by Prof. Regan Mandryk. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture: Prof. Regan Mandryk *November 20, 2018. Autodesk MaRS IDEaS Lab @ 661 University Ave., Ground Floor* Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm. *Fun Science: The Paradox of Conducting Scientific Research in the Context of Digital Social Play * Games have long been used to support social interaction and create shared experiences that draw us closer together. Digital games are increasingly being used to form and maintain relationships and researchers have been investigating the role that social games play in satisfying our need for relating to others. However, games researchers must balance the tradeoff between using experimental rigor to control the environment for internal validity with the external validity of having participants feel like they are engaging in play with friends under their own volition, rather than participating in an experiment. In this talk, Mandryk will present her perspective on trying to reconcile the fundamental incompatibility of doing controlled scientific experiments in the context of social play. Drawing from 15 years of experience, she will share what works, what doesn’t, and what she hopes to see in the future. *Bio* Regan Mandryk is a professor in Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan; she pioneered the area of physiological evaluation for computer games in her award-winning Ph.D. research at Simon Fraser University with support from Electronic Arts. With over 200 publications that have been cited thousands of times (including one of Google Scholar’s 10 classic papers in HCI from 2006), she continues to investigate novel ways of understanding players and their experiences, but also develops and evaluates games for health and wellbeing, and games that foster interpersonal relationships. Regan has been the invited keynote speaker at several international game conferences, led Games research in the Canadian GRAND Network, organizes international conferences including the inaugural CHI PLAY, the inaugural CHI Games Subcommittee, and CHI 2018, and leads the first ever Canadian graduate training program on games user research (SWaGUR.ca) with $2.5 million of support from NSERC. She was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists in 2014, received the University of Saskatchewan New Researcher Award in 2015, the Canadian Association for Computer Science’s Outstanding Young Canadian Computer Science Researcher Prize in 2016, and the prestigious E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship in 2018. cid:image009.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 *OUR SPONSORS:* cid:image010.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0 *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./ _______________________________________________ tux-announce mailing list tux-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tux-announce

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