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Fwd: TUX 2017: Poster Day and Speaker Schedule
by John Hancock 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: TUX 2017: Poster Day and Speaker Schedule Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 21:14:06 +0000 From: Tovi Grossman <Tovi.Grossman(a)autodesk.com> To: tux-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu <tux-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu> CC: Ali Mazalek <mazalek(a)ryerson.ca>, Daniel Wigdor (daniel(a)dgp.toronto.edu) <daniel(a)dgp.toronto.edu>, Khai N. Truong <khai(a)cs.toronto.edu>, Tovi Grossman <Tovi.Grossman(a)autodesk.com> cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210 Hello Tux! We have some exciting announcements for upcoming events in 2017! TUX 2017 Research Poster Day - Tuesday February 7^th , 2017 We are excited to officially announce TUX 2017 Research Poster Day. The event will take place on February 7^th , 2017 in the MaRS auditorium starting at 10:30am. We would like to encourage you to share your research with the TUX community. We welcome submission of posters presenting previously published work, work-in progress, or other HCI projects of interest. We also encourage posters of recently accepted CHI 2017 papers, or other soon to be published works. The event will be followed by lunch and an invited Sander Series Lecture from Prof. Mark Gross, University of Colorado Boulder. Poster submissions, consisting of only a short description of the project, will be due on January 13^th , 2017. For full details and submission information, please see the following webpage: http://www.tux-hci.org/tux-2017-research-poster-day/ TUX 2017 Speaker Schedule The speaker scheduled for the winter 2017 season has been finalized, and we have some really exciting speakers lined up. The full schedule is below, and can also be found on the TUX website: http://www.tux-hci.org/speakers/ *Date* *Event* *Location* *Speaker* 10-Jan-17, 12:30pm Sanders Series Lecture MaRS Sheelagh Carpendale <http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/%7Esheelagh/>, University of Calgary 24-Jan-17, 12:30pm Tux Member Presentation U of T Lennart Nacke <http://www.acagamic.com/lennart-nacke/>, University of Waterloo 7-Feb-17, 10:30am Tux Research Poster Day MaRS 7-Feb-17, 12:30pm Sanders Series Lecture MaRS Mark Gross <http://mdgross.net/>, University of Colorado Boulder 21-Feb-17, 12:30pm Tux Member Presentation U of T Azam Khan <https://autodeskresearch.com/people/azam-khan>, Autodesk Research 14-Mar-17, 12:30pm Sanders Series Lecture MaRS Marcelo Coelho <http://www.cmarcelo.com/>, Marcelo Coelho Studio 28-Mar-17, 12:30pm Tux Member Presentation U of T Daniel Vogel <http://www.nonsequitoria.com/>, University of Waterloo We wish everyone a Happy Holiday Season and Happy New Year, and look forward to seeing you in 2017! Thanks, Ali, Daniel, Khai, and Tovi ** *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 2017: Poster Day and Speaker Schedule
by Tovi Grossman 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

Hello Tux! We have some exciting announcements for upcoming events in 2017! TUX 2017 Research Poster Day - Tuesday February 7th, 2017 We are excited to officially announce TUX 2017 Research Poster Day. The event will take place on February 7th, 2017 in the MaRS auditorium starting at 10:30am. We would like to encourage you to share your research with the TUX community. We welcome submission of posters presenting previously published work, work-in progress, or other HCI projects of interest. We also encourage posters of recently accepted CHI 2017 papers, or other soon to be published works. The event will be followed by lunch and an invited Sander Series Lecture from Prof. Mark Gross, University of Colorado Boulder. Poster submissions, consisting of only a short description of the project, will be due on January 13th, 2017. For full details and submission information, please see the following webpage: http://www.tux-hci.org/tux-2017-research-poster-day/ TUX 2017 Speaker Schedule The speaker scheduled for the winter 2017 season has been finalized, and we have some really exciting speakers lined up. The full schedule is below, and can also be found on the TUX website: http://www.tux-hci.org/speakers/ Date Event Location Speaker 10-Jan-17, 12:30pm Sanders Series Lecture MaRS Sheelagh Carpendale<http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~sheelagh/>, University of Calgary 24-Jan-17, 12:30pm Tux Member Presentation U of T Lennart Nacke<http://www.acagamic.com/lennart-nacke/>, University of Waterloo 7-Feb-17, 10:30am Tux Research Poster Day MaRS 7-Feb-17, 12:30pm Sanders Series Lecture MaRS Mark Gross<http://mdgross.net/>, University of Colorado Boulder 21-Feb-17, 12:30pm Tux Member Presentation U of T Azam Khan<https://autodeskresearch.com/people/azam-khan>, Autodesk Research 14-Mar-17, 12:30pm Sanders Series Lecture MaRS Marcelo Coelho<http://www.cmarcelo.com/>, Marcelo Coelho Studio 28-Mar-17, 12:30pm Tux Member Presentation U of T Daniel Vogel<http://www.nonsequitoria.com/>, University of Waterloo We wish everyone a Happy Holiday Season and Happy New Year, and look forward to seeing you in 2017! Thanks, Ali, Daniel, Khai, and Tovi 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 Reminder: Roel Vertegaal Tomorrow @ DGP UofT
by Ali Mazalek 21 Nov '16

21 Nov '16

cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210 Hello TUX! A reminder that tomorrow we will have a member presentation by Roel Vertegaal. 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, November 22 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Roel Vertegaal *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. *Towards Real Reality Interfaces: From Interactive Light Fields to Programmable Matter* The current hype cycle of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) fails to recognize the inherent problem with these technologies: That they require alteration of the human perceptive channels in order to achieve the illusion of immersion in a virtual world. This requirement leads not only to bulky head mounted displays, but also to cumbersome tracking technologies to keep these displays in sync with the user's movements. At the Human Media Lab in Kingston, Ontario, we have been working since 2004 on an alternate approach: Modifying the real world, by turning physical materials into programmable software objects. I will begin with our first attempts, which utilized dynamic projection mapping to imbue solid objects, paper and textiles with high resolution interactive displays. Next, I will discuss our use of conforming flexible displays to create digital skins that allow objects of any shape to appear like a display without the need for projection or tracking. I will then discuss our recent progress in developing light field displays that allow glasses-free, head tracking free stereoscopic images with motion parallax on any object. I will conclude with a discussion of our work on programmable matter, via self-levitating physical voxels. *Bio* Dr. Roel Vertegaal is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at Queen’s University’s School of Computing in Kingston, Ontario, and director of the Human Media Laboratory. He is also CEO of Xuuk, inc., a startup that develops ubiquitous eye input applications. Roel’s first degree is in electronic music from Utrecht Conservatory in The Netherlands. He did an MSc in computing in Britain, studied design in the hague, and holds a PhD in HCI from Twente University. Roel is one of the world’s experts on eye communication between humans, and between humans and technology. His work on Attentive User Interfaces (AUI) [Google TechTalk] was featured in media across the globe, from Good Morning America to Scientific American. Roel helped create the first north-american conference on eye tracking (ACM ETRA), established alt.chi as the alternative papers venue at the annual ACM CHI conference and advised the National Academy of Sciences. his current interest is in Organic User Interfaces (OUI). “In the near future, a computer will have any shape or form, and flexible computer displays will start appearing on any product of any form. These Organic User Interfaces will be completely embedded in real world interactions.” ** *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: talk tomorrow (Tuesday)
by Daniel Wigdor 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

[cid:image001.png@01D22335.FB93C510] [cid:image002.png@01D22335.FB93C510] [cid:image003.png@01D22335.FB93C510] Hello Tux, and happy Thanksgiving! A reminder, we have our first talk of the year tomorrow (Tuesday, October 11). Academy Award-winner Ken Perlin from NYU will be giving a Sanders Series Invited Lecture. We look forward to seeing you at MaRS for lunch at 12:30, and the talk at 1:00 sharp! This and other talks are detailed on tux-hci.org<http://www.tux-hci.org/>, along with a handy calendar add-in so you won't miss a single event! Ken Perlin: The Coming Age of Computer Graphics [http://www.tux-hci.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/perlin-150x150.jpg] Abstract Sometime in the next five to ten years, millions of people will start wearing light-weight mixed reality glasses. Your hologlasses will be able to display extremely realistic 3D computer graphics, which will appear to exist in the world itself, and will be capable of locating and identifying the objects, people and places around you, wherever you go. This will be the dawn of what might be called the Age of Computer Graphics. Virtual objects will appear to float in the air between us, and young children will simply take for granted that they can draw in the air with their fingers, just as we now take for granted the magic of the telephone and the internet. There will be many consequent changes to our shared public space. Physical signs will gradually be replaced by virtual ones, and navigation aids we currently associate with Google Streetview will simply be part of our visual landscape. But the changes to the next generation will be far more profound. Children who grow up in a world where gesturing in the air produces visible results will start to evolve language itself. They will invent ways to communicate and interact with each other that we cannot yet imagine. In the intervening years, a continuum of experiments and prototyping experiences need to be done, to understand how people will socially engage with each other, and how they will go through their day while wearing their hologlasses. At the NYU Future Reality Lab, we are dedicated to creating those prototype, and to working with domain experts in many areas to understand the implications of the coming Age of Computer Graphics. About Prof. Perlin Ken Perlin<http://mrl.nyu.edu/perlin>, a professor in the Department of Computer Science<http://cs.nyu.edu/> at New York University<http://www.nyu.edu/>, directs the Media Research Lab<http://mrl.nyu.edu/>, and is a participating faculty member at NYU MAGNET<http://magnet.nyu.edu/>. His research interests include future reality, graphics and animation, user interfaces and education. He received an Academy Award for Technical Achievement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his noise and turbulence procedural texturing techniques, which are widely used in feature films and television, as well as the 2008 ACM/SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award<http://old.siggraph.org/awards/2008/2008_CG_achievement.pdf>, the TrapCode award for achievement in computer graphics research, the NYC Mayor's award for excellence in Science and Technology and the Sokol award for outstanding Science faculty at NYU, and a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. He serves on the Advisory Board for the Centre for Digital Media at GNWC<http://mdm.gnwc.ca/>, and external examiner for the Interactive Digital Media program at Trinity College<https://www.scss.tcd.ie/postgraduate/mscidm/>. Previously he served on the program committee of the AAAS<http://www.aaas.org/>, was general chair of the UIST2010<http://uist.org/> conference, directed the NYU Center for Advanced Technology and Games for Learning Institute, and has been a featured artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art<http://artport.whitney.org/gatepages/january04.shtml>. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from NYU, and a B.A. in theoretical mathematics from Harvard. Before working at NYU he was Head of Software Development at R/GREENBERG Associates in New York, NY. Prior to that he was the System Architect for computer generated animation at MAGI. [cid:image006.png@01D22335.FB93C510] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image007.jpg@01D22335.FB93C510] 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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First Sanders Series Invited Lecture next week
by Daniel Wigdor 04 Oct '16

04 Oct '16

[cid:image011.png@01D21E2B.7B61CE00] [cid:image012.png@01D21E2B.7B61CE00] [cid:image013.png@01D21E2B.7B61CE00] Hello Tux! We are very pleased to announce our exciting program of speakers for 2016/2017! You can always stay up to date, by adding our calendar of events<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/un3lidp8potad9jqb66c3i942g%40grou…> to your calendaring application, and of course the Tux website<http://www.tux-hci.org/> contains all the details as well. Note that our first Sanders Series Invited Lecture of the year is a week from today; Prof. Ken Perlin of NYU<https://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/>. See below for the complete schedule. Schedule: All Sessions are Tuesdays @ 12:30-2:00pm As with last year, we will be meeting on alternating Tuesdays, *usually*. Note that, to enable us to use the MaRS space, we have juggled the schedule a bit, so that there will be only one week between two of the meetings in November. The complete schedule of meetings is below. As invited lecturers are confirmed, we will update the schedule. October 11: Sanders Series Invited Lecture: Professor Ken Perlin, Ph.D.<https://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/>, New York University October 25: Internal: David Levin<http://diwlevin.webfactional.com/researchdb/> & Alec Jacobson<http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson/>, University of Toronto November 8: Sanders Series Invited Lecture: Professor Yvonne Rogers, Ph.D., University College London<https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers> November 22: Internal: Roel Vertegaal, Queens<http://www.hml.queensu.ca/people/roelvertegaal> November 29: Sanders Series Invited Lecture Andrew Wilson, Ph.D., Microsoft Research<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/awilson/> December 13: Internal: Daniel Wigdor, University of Toronto<http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~dwigdor/?acm=N03906> (holiday break) January 10: Sanders Series Invited Lecture: TBA January 24: Internal: Lennart Nacke, Waterloo<https://uwaterloo.ca/drama-speech-communication/people-profiles/lennart-nac…> February 7: Student Poster Day; Sanders Series Invited Lecture: TBA February 21: Internal: Azam Khan, Autodesk Research<https://autodeskresearch.com/people/azam-khan> March 14: Sanders Series Invited Lecture: TBA March 28: Internal: Daniel Vogel, University of Waterloo<http://www.nonsequitoria.com/> Student Poster Session: February 7, 2016 February 7th will be our student poster day. All are invited to attend! Stay tuned for details. -Ali, Daniel, Khai, Tovi [cid:image014.png@01D21E2B.7B61CE00] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image015.jpg@01D21E2B.7B61CE00] 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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Tux year 2: your invitation
by Daniel Wigdor 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

[cid:image001.png@01D1F73E.7CF7C260] [cid:image002.png@01D1F73E.7CF7C260] [cid:image003.png@01D1F73E.7CF7C260] Hello Tux! We hope all are having a wonderful summer. Many of you are busily preparing submissions for CHI 2017; best of luck to you all! We are pleased to say that a very large number of Tux members are playing important roles in the CHI 2017 papers process<https://chi2017.acm.org/select-subcommittee.html>. A testament to our strong research community. We have been busy preparing for the next season of Tux, with the invaluable help of a new editorial board member; see below. We are happy to say that our sponsors are all onboard again this year, and we will be able to continue to offer an exciting set of Sanders Series Invited Lecturers; see below for two of our Invited Lecturers. We also are happy to say that we will be continuing to offer great opportunities for members of our community to participate: this email contains two such opportunities. It also includes the 2016/17 schedule. If you would like to give a talk, the time is now to reply; please see below. Schedule: Tuesdays @ 12:30-2:00pm As with last year, we will be meeting on alternating Tuesdays, *usually*. Note that, to enable us to use the MaRS space, we have juggled the schedule a bit, so that there will be only one week between two of the meetings in November. The complete schedule of meetings is below. As invited lecturers are confirmed, we will email the list. October 11: Sanders Series Invited Lecture: TBA October 25: Internal: could be you! November 8: Sanders Series Invited Lecture: Professor Yvonne Rogers, Ph.D., University College London<https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/people/yvonne-rogers> November 22: Internal: could be you! November 29: Sanders Series Invited Lecture Andrew Wilson, Ph.D., Microsoft Research<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/awilson/> December 13: Internal: could be you! (holiday break) January 10: Sanders Series Invited Lecture: TBA January 24: Internal: could be you! February 7: Student Poster Day, and Sanders Series Invited Lecture: TBA February 21: Internal: could be you! March 14: Sanders Series Invited Lecture: TBA March 28: Internal: could be you! Student Poster Session: February 7, 2016 For the first time, we will be inviting students and post docs to share their research with the community. On February 7, students and post docs will be offered the opportunity to present a poster in advance of the Sanders Series Invited Lecture. Details coming soon! Give a Talk: Please Reply ASAP, and no later than Friday Last year, we had more volunteers than we had slots to speak. We are hoping to continue this excitement! We hope that you will volunteer to speak about your research. To volunteer, please reply to this email, and give a list of 3 preferred dates from among the "Internal" slots listed above. We will sort the schedule and share it out in the following week. New Editorial Board Member We are very pleased to announce that we have a new member of our editorial board: Prof. Khai Truong<http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~khai/> of the Department of Computer Science at U of T has already been working hard to help build an exciting program of Sanders Series Invited Lectures. We look forward to seeing you at Tux in the coming year! -Ali, Daniel, Khai, Tovi [cid:image004.png@01D1F73E.7CF7C260] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image005.jpg@01D1F73E.7CF7C260] 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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Tux Tequila Party @ CHI2016
by Daniel Wigdor 07 May '16

07 May '16

[cid:image011.png@01D1A8B3.80423510] [cid:image012.png@01D1A8B3.80423510] [cid:image013.png@01D1A8B3.80423510] Good evening, Many of you are making your way to San Jose for CHI 2016. Several of our members are presenting work at the conference; don't miss a single paper! The complete schedule is now online: https://chi2016.acm.org/program/?tab=chi2016-schedule Not on the CHI program, however, is the first Tux event outside of Toronto: the Tux Tequila Party! For those not "in the know", the DGP has a long tradition of throwing the hot-ticket at CHI, and we are very pleased that all of Tux will now be joining-in on the fun. The details are below. If you are attending CHI, this is the party not to be missed! For those not attending CHI, watch for photos on tux-hci.org coming soon. Hope to see you there! Tequila Party: Wednesday, May 11 @ 9pm Haijun Xia and Seyong Ha have planned an epic Tequila party. The party is at Loft Bar & Bistro<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Loft+Bar+%26+Bistro/@37.3352633,-121.89030…>, an easy walk from the convention centre (Google Maps<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Loft+Bar+%26+Bistro/@37.3352633,-121.89030…>). Make sure you see a current DGP student to get an invitation, and skip the line! [cid:image014.png@01D1A8B3.80423510] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image015.jpg@01D1A8B3.80423510] 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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Rhonda McEwen Tomorrow @ DGP
by Tovi Grossman 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

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.

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Tomorrow, Tux presents: Dr. Yang Li's Sanders Series lecture
by Ali Mazalek 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

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! --- 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. ** *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./

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Today: Cosmin Munteanu @ DGP Lab at U of T
by Daniel Wigdor 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

[cid:image013.png@01D18397.BC4C9190] [cid:image014.png@01D18397.BC4C9190] [cid:image015.png@01D18397.BC4C9190] Good morning. A reminder of Cosmin Munteanu's talk tomorrow, in the DGP Lab at U of T. Come to 40 St. George St, room 5187. Today! Tuesday, March 22 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Prof. Cosmin Munteanu, PhD DGP Lab @ 40 St. George St. room 5187 Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm, talk to begin at 1:00 sharp. Please share this invitation with anyone who conducts HCI research, corporate or academic, in the Toronto area. [http://www.tux-hci.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cosmin-150x150.jpg] Abstract Humans' natural abilities have allowed us to interact with the surrounding environment in complex ways, from easily manipulating physical objects to communicating with others through speech. Yet when we interact with many digital technologies, we largely do so by ceding direct control and instead employing (digital) proxies. For marginalized user groups, such interactions may present insurmountable barriers that only widen our information-centric society's digital divide. While speech and multimodal interaction are often challenging computationally, I have shown in my research that, despite their inherent lack of accuracy, they can empower the users and allow them to interact in almost material ways with digital artefacts. This has the potential to make assistive technologies more interactive and more adoptable by their users. In this talk, I will briefly discuss how speech processing, despite its inherent limitations, can be used to enhance current interaction paradigms. I will then argue that such natural interactions can be particularly useful in improving marginalized users' interaction with assistive technologies. To support this, I will present several examples of multimodal assistive technologies that support older adults and low-literacy adults in their daily lives. Bio Cosmin Munteanu is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology (University of Toronto at Mississauga), and Co-Director of the Technologies for Ageing Gracefully lab (Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto). His area of expertise is at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural User Interfaces, Mobile Computing, Ethics in Computing Research, and Assistive Technologies. His main research goal is to bridge the digital divides faced by under-represented users by designing natural, meaningful, culturally-appropriate, and safe interactions between people, media, and computing devices. Cosmin's multidisciplinary interests include developing applications that improve access to information for marginalized user groups, such as for elders whose enjoyment of life and participation in society could be better supported by advances in interactive assistive technologies. [cid:image017.png@01D18397.BC4C9190] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image018.jpg@01D18397.BC4C9190] 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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