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This Tuesday, Tux presents: Gregory Abowd's Sanders Series lecture
by Daniel Wigdor 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

[cid:image001.png@01D14A62.65B77F70] [cid:image002.png@01D14A62.65B77F70] [cid:image003.png@01D14A62.65B77F70] Hello Tux, and Happy 2016! A reminder that our first meeting of the year is this Tuesday (Jan. 12), and that it will be featuring our first Sanders Series lecture of 2016: Professor Gregory Abowd, one of the foundational thinkers of Ubiquitous Computing. It is sure to be a wonderful talk; we look forward to seeing you there! Gregory Abowd Beyond Weiser's ubiquitous computing: 2 big ideas to drive us forward together 2016-01-12 12:30 at MaRS Auditorium<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6599132,-79.38…> [http://www.tux-hci.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/abowd-e1443750122859-150x…] Abstract I am an applied computer scientist; my passion is to understand state-of-the-art technologies and create ways they can be integrated into everyday experiences in order to serve some meaningful purpose to a collection of stakeholders. I read Mark Weiser's inspiring vision of ubiquitous computing, or ubicomp, when I joined the faculty in the College of Computing in 1994, and have been pursuing applications of ubicomp ever since. While the grand idea of ubiquitous computing can still inspire lots of research, there are several new technologies that Weiser did not discuss that can and will influence computing research and its application. Weiser described a 3rd generation of computing; I will describe both a 4th generation which has already emerged over the past decade, and a 5th generation that may soon emerge. I will motivate two new collaborative initiatives, one motivated by 4th generation technologies and the other by 5th generation technologies. Bio Gregory D. Abowd (pronounced AY-bowd) is the Distinguished Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. His research interests concern how the advanced information technologies of ubiquitous computing (or ubicomp) impact our everyday lives when they are seamlessly integrated into our living spaces. Dr. Abowd's work has involved schools and homes, with a recent focus on healthcare delivery. He is a member of the GVU Center. Dr. Abowd currently serves as the Director of the Health Systems Institute, a joint Georgia Tech/Emory University research institute investigating the impact of technologies on healthcare delivery. This extends his own work over the past decade on information technologies and autism. Dr. Abowd directs the Ubiquitous Computing Research Group in the School of Interactive Computing. This effort started with the Future Computing Environments research group in 1995, and has since matured into a collection of research groups, including Dr. Abowd's own group. One of the major research efforts that Dr. Abowd initated is the Aware Home Research Initiative, which he founded in 2000 and directed until 2008. Dr. Abowd received the degree of B.S. in Mathematics in 1986 from the University of Notre Dame. He then attended the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom on a Rhodes Scholarship, earning the degrees of M.Sc. (1987) and D.Phil. (1991) in Computation from the Programming Research Group in the Computing Laboratory. From 1989-1992 he was a Research Associate/Postdoc with the Human-Computer Interaction Group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York in England. From 1992-1994, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Software Engineering Institute and the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. In the Fall of 1999, the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine did a profile on Dr. Abowd and some of his research from the 1990's. You can read the article here. Much more news about his research group, both personal and professional, can be found here. [cid:image006.png@01D14A62.65B77F70] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image007.jpg@01D14A62.65B77F70] 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 Reminder: Prof. Jim Slotta @ Bahen Centre UofT Tomorrow
by Ali Mazalek 07 Dec '15

07 Dec '15

cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210 Hello TUX! A reminder that tomorrow we will have a member presentation by Prof. Jim Slotta. The details of the talk are below. *Please note that his talk will be at the Bahen Centre at U of T, room 5166 on the 5th floor*. Some other important announcements: 1)Our website is live at: http://www.tux-hci.org/ <http://www.tux-hci.org/> 2)We have set up a Google Calendar that you can import into your email client. The address for the calendar is: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/un3lidp8potad9jqb66c3i942g%40grou… Most email clients will allow you to import an “internet” calendar so that you can view its events. For example, in Outlook right click “My Calendars”, select “Add Calendar” -> “From Internet” and then paste in the above URL. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi Tuesday, December 8 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Prof. Jim Slotta *Bahen Centre ***room 5166, *University of Toronto @ **40 St. George St* <https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Bahen+Centre+for+Information+Technology/@4…>*.* Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. Presentation begins at 1pm. *Jim Slotta: Knowledge Construction in the Instrumented Classroom: Supporting Student Investigations of Their Physical Learning Environment* *Abstract* There is a long tradition among educators to situate learning within a physical orientation in the classroom, through the use of stations (e.g., in elementary classrooms), value lines (i.e., where students are asked to stand in a location that corresponds to their opinion or other value), or even small groups working on specific themes at different table locations. These longstanding examples have served as a persistent reminder that the physical space of the classroom can be used in pedagogically meaningful ways. A new genre of networked technologies is emerging that can track location and identity, or capture a variety of sensor information. These have opened the doors to new ways of leveraging the physical environment for purposes of learning, creating a new set of interactions with which learners can engage. This talk will present a set of coherent projects that have pushed the boundaries of such applications, instrumenting students and their physical environment to provide students with a learning experience tailored to their location or pedagogical context. These studies are part of the EPIC (Embedded Phenomena for Inquiry Communities) project, a collaboration between Professor Jim Slotta’s research group at the University of Toronto and Professor Tom Moher’s team at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The emphasis of our work is on science inquiry, with a particular interest in collective forms of progress, where students work autonomously within a larger “whole class” context, aggregating their observations or evidence to advance the understanding or progress within the overall community. *Bio* James D. Slotta is an Associate Professor of Education at The University of Toronto, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Education and Technology. Since 2005, he has directed the ENCORE lab – a team of students, designers and developers who investigate new models of collaborative and collective inquiry in K-12 science. His research studies are situated in smart classrooms and distributed learning environments, featuring user-contributed content, aggregated and emergent forms of knowledge, and a variety of scaffolds for the orchestration of individual, small group, and whole class activities. Current research is concerned with collective epistemology, immersive simulations, knowledge building, learning across contexts, and tangible and embodied forms of learning. He maintains international collaborations with scholars from Norway, the United States, Germany and China. Recently, he has begun a program of research in the design and development of a tablet-based scaffolding environment for community health workers in South Africa. ** *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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FW: Leila Takayama of Google[x] this Tuesday
by Daniel Wigdor 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Good morning, A reminder that Dr. Leila Takayama of Google[x] will be presenting our second Sanders Series lecture TODAY at 1:00 in the MaRS auditorium (bottom level). Dr. Takayama is a hugely influential researcher in Human-Robot Interaction. Her talk is entitled What it's Like to be a Robot. Not to be missed! See you there, -Daniel From: Daniel Wigdor Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 11:22 PM To: 'tux-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu' <tux-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu> Cc: 'talks(a)dgp.toronto.edu' <talks(a)dgp.toronto.edu>; semnotice(a)cs.toronto.edu Subject: Leila Takayama of Google[x] this Tuesday [cid:image001.png@01D123E9.ECD0E400] [cid:image002.png@01D123E9.ECD0E400] [cid:image003.png@01D123E9.ECD0E400] This Tuesday, November 24 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Leila Takayama, PhD of Google[x] The MaRS Discovery District Auditorium @ 101 College St<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6598335,-79.38…>. (Lower Level). Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm, talk begins at 1:00pm. Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who conducts HCI research, corporate or academic, in the Toronto area. Anyone may add themselves to our mailing list<https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/mailman/listinfo/tux-announce>. The Tux website<http://www.tux-hci.org/> contains a list of all upcoming speakers, and now includes an iCal calendar. Dr. Leila Takayama of Google[x] [http://www.tux-hci.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/LeilaColor-150x150.jpg] Leila Takayama is a senior user experience researcher at Google[x], a lab that aims for moonshots in science and technology. Prior to joining Google[x] in 2013, Leila was a research scientist and area manager for human-robot interaction at Willow Garage. She is also a World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council Member for the area of AI & Robotics. This year, she was awarded the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Early Career Aware. In 2012, she was named a TR35 winner and one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company. With a background in cognitive Science, psychology, and human-computer Interaction, she examines human encounters with new technologies. Dr. Takayama completed her PhD in communication at Stanford University in June 2008, advised by Professor Clifford Nass. She also holds a PhD minor in psychology from Stanford, a master's degree in communication from Stanford, and bachelor's of arts in psychology and cognitive science from UC Berkeley (2003). During her graduate studies, she was a research assistant in the User Interface Research (UIR) group at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). What it's Like to be a Robot Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a robot? While others are wildly speculating about what the future of robots will look like, we actually already know quite a bit about what it's like to live and work around robots. We also know a lot about what it's like to telecommute to work everyday via telepresence robot. Coming from a human-robot interaction perspective, I'll be sharing some of those experiences and lessons with you. Over the past several years, I've collaborated with remote colleagues via robotic telepresence systems that enabled them to drive themselves around the office, join in those impromptu hallway meetings, pounce on us when we didn't respond to emails, and ultimately build stronger working relationships. I'll present the research lessons learned from several years of fielding prototype telepresence robots in multiple companies and running quantitative user studies in the lab to figure out how to better support remote collaboration. [cid:image005.png@01D123E9.ECD0E400] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image006.jpg@01D123E9.ECD0E400] 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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Leila Takayama of Google[x] this Tuesday
by Daniel Wigdor 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

[cid:image001.png@01D123E9.ECD0E400] [cid:image002.png@01D123E9.ECD0E400] [cid:image003.png@01D123E9.ECD0E400] This Tuesday, November 24 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Leila Takayama, PhD of Google[x] The MaRS Discovery District Auditorium @ 101 College St<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6598335,-79.38…>. (Lower Level). Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm, talk begins at 1:00pm. Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who conducts HCI research, corporate or academic, in the Toronto area. Anyone may add themselves to our mailing list<https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/mailman/listinfo/tux-announce>. The Tux website<http://www.tux-hci.org/> contains a list of all upcoming speakers, and now includes an iCal calendar. Dr. Leila Takayama of Google[x] [http://www.tux-hci.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/LeilaColor-150x150.jpg] Leila Takayama is a senior user experience researcher at Google[x], a lab that aims for moonshots in science and technology. Prior to joining Google[x] in 2013, Leila was a research scientist and area manager for human-robot interaction at Willow Garage. She is also a World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council Member for the area of AI & Robotics. This year, she was awarded the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Early Career Aware. In 2012, she was named a TR35 winner and one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company. With a background in cognitive Science, psychology, and human-computer Interaction, she examines human encounters with new technologies. Dr. Takayama completed her PhD in communication at Stanford University in June 2008, advised by Professor Clifford Nass. She also holds a PhD minor in psychology from Stanford, a master's degree in communication from Stanford, and bachelor's of arts in psychology and cognitive science from UC Berkeley (2003). During her graduate studies, she was a research assistant in the User Interface Research (UIR) group at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). What it's Like to be a Robot Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a robot? While others are wildly speculating about what the future of robots will look like, we actually already know quite a bit about what it's like to live and work around robots. We also know a lot about what it's like to telecommute to work everyday via telepresence robot. Coming from a human-robot interaction perspective, I'll be sharing some of those experiences and lessons with you. Over the past several years, I've collaborated with remote colleagues via robotic telepresence systems that enabled them to drive themselves around the office, join in those impromptu hallway meetings, pounce on us when we didn't respond to emails, and ultimately build stronger working relationships. I'll present the research lessons learned from several years of fielding prototype telepresence robots in multiple companies and running quantitative user studies in the lab to figure out how to better support remote collaboration. [cid:image005.png@01D123E9.ECD0E400] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image006.jpg@01D123E9.ECD0E400] 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: David Holman @ Bahen Centre UofT Tomorrow
by Ali Mazalek 09 Nov '15

09 Nov '15

cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210 Hello TUX! A reminder that tomorrow we will have a member presentation by Dr. David Holman. The details of the talk are below. *Please note that his talk will be at the Bahen Centre at U of T, room 5166 on the 5th floor*. Some other important announcements: 1)Our website is live at: http://www.tux-hci.org/ <http://www.tux-hci.org/> 2)We are looking for a volunteer to help with the website – please let us know if you’d like to get involved. 3)We have set up a Google Calendar that you can import into your email client. The address for the calendar is: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/un3lidp8potad9jqb66c3i942g%40grou… Most email clients will allow you to import an “internet” calendar so that you can view its events. For example, in Outlook right click “My Calendars”, select “Add Calendar” -> “From Internet” and then paste in the above URL. We look forward to seeing you tomorrow! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi Tuesday, November 10 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Dr. David Holman *Bahen Centre ***room 5166, *University of Toronto @ **40 St. George St* <https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Bahen+Centre+for+Information+Technology/@4…>*.* Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. Presentation begins at 1pm. http://www.tux-hci.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/holman-david-forweb.jpg *David Holman: In a world where objects of any shape can be interactive, how do we design effectively?* *Abstract* Organic User Interfaces blend industrial design with interactive experiences, and demonstrate how user interfaces are no longer limited to flat displays. This transformation makes it necessary for designers to move beyond planar interfaces and to contextualize interaction in an object’s physical shape. Designers of multi-shaped and deformable devices face a complex interplay of variables. Materials, shapes, sensors, actuators, and user experience are all entangled. In this context, design explorations can easily become time consuming, tedious, and cost prohibitive. In this talk, I will discuss the need for new interactive materials in early design, akin to an industrial designer’s mockups with clay, foam core, and ceramics—materials that are critical for sketching and exploration, but not for application in a final product. I will also discuss a new approach with the potential to help designers simulate and evaluate designs before construction. The level of complexity encountered when designing an organic user interface is not unique. It exists in other design fields, such as automotive, architectural, and aerospace, and is often managed by using advanced simulation software. In other words, “interaction” could be represented as a new abstraction in multi-physics and simulation software, enabling a device’s design to be critiqued long before any fabrication or prototyping is executed. This approach of simulating interaction via computer-aided interaction design (CAID) is in development, and early examples of its problem space will be presented. *Bio* Dr. David Holman designs and prototypes next generation product concepts at Intel Corporation. His early research in digital-paper interaction led to the development of Organic User Interfaces, a new paradigm in Human-Computer Interaction, and the world’s first interactive paper-like computer. He has worked extensively with flexible display technology and categorized the emergence of a new type of interface, one that has three-dimensional interactive shape. He holds a PhD in Computing from Queen’s University and was a member of the Human Media Lab, one of Canada’s premier multidisciplinary media laboratories. ** *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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Reminder: Steve Mann Next Week @ MaRS
by Tovi Grossman 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

Hello TUX! A reminder that next week we will have a member presentation by Prof. Steve Mann. The details of the talk are below. Please note that his talk will be at MaRS, not at U of T. Some other important announcements: 1) Our website is live at: http://www.tux-hci.org/ 2) We are looking for a volunteer to help with the website - please let us know if you'd like to get involved. 3) We have set up a Google Calendar that you can import into your email client. The address for the calendar is: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/un3lidp8potad9jqb66c3i942g%40grou… Most email clients will allow you to import an "internet" calendar so that you can view its events. For example, in Outlook right click "My Calendars", select "Add Calendar" -> "From Internet" and then paste in the above URL. We look forward to seeing you next week! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi Tuesday, October 27 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Prof. Steve Mann The MaRS Discovery District Auditorium @ 101 College St<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6598335,-79.38…>. (Lower Level) Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. Presentation begins at 1pm. Steve Mann: 41 Years of Wearable Augmented Reality as a Natural User Interface: The Past, Present, and Future of Phenomenal Augmented Reality Steve Mann, Father of Wearable Computing, and founder of Wearable Computing as a discipline. Steve Mann is widely regarded as "The Father of Wearable Computing" [IEEE ISSCC 2000]. His work as an artist<http://wearcam.org/art.pdf>, scientist, designer, and inventor<http://wearcam.org/mannventionz/> made Toronto the world's epicentre of wearable technologies back in the 1980s. In 1992 Mann took this invention from Toronto to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founding the MIT Media Lab's Wearable Computing project as its first member. In the words of the Lab's founding Director, Nicholas Negroponte: "Steve Mann is the perfect example of someone... who persisted in his vision and ended up founding a new discipline.<http://wearcam.org/nn.htm>" Mann also invented the smartwatch videophone<http://patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/2275784/summary.html> (wearable computer) in 1998, which was featured on the cover of Linux Journal in 2000, and presented at IEEE ISSCC2000, 2000 February 7, where he was named "The Father of Wearable Computing". To this day, Toronto remains an international hotbed for the development of wearable technologies. Some of Mann's other inventions include HDR (High Dynamic Range) Imaging<http://wearcam.org/hdr.htm>, now used in nearly every commercially manufactured camera, and the EyeTap Digital Eye Glass which predates the Google Glass by 30 years<http://wearcam.org/mannglas.htm>. Now as the Chief Scientist at Meta, a California-based startup, wearable AR glasses will be brought to a mass market. Recently, Steve and his team successfully raised US$23 million in funding to support Meta's Spacesglasses. Mann has often been described as a modern-day Leonardo daVinci: "Steve Mann has been likened to artist, scientist, and inventor Leonardo da Vinci, .... He creates overlapping and inextricably intertwined syntheses of interventions and inventions that combine design, art, science, technology, engineering, and the environment...." - Ariel Garten, CEO, InteraXon "In Professor Steve Mann - inventor, physicist, engineer, mathematician, scientist, designer, developer, project director, filmmaker, artist, instrumentalist, author, photographer, actor, activist - we see so much of the paradigmatic classical Greek philosopher. ... Steve has always been preoccupied by the application of his ideas into form. In this way too, he can be considered a modern day Leonardo Da Vinci." - K. Michael, Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Technology and Society Steve received his PhD from MIT in 1997 and then returned to Toronto in 1998 where he is now a tenured full professor at the University of Toronto in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments. During his early years at U of T, he created the world's first Mobile Apps Lab (1999) as a part of his wearable computing and AR course. He is also the Chief Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab at Rotman's School of Management. Mann holds multiple patents, and has contributed to the founding of numerous companies including InteraXON, makers of Muse, "The Most Important Wearable of 2014<http://www.betakit.com/venturebeat-calls-torontos-muse-headband-the-most-im…>". 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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Fwd: [nrg] FW: Reminder: Steve Mann Next Week @ MaRS
by Daniel Wigdor 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

A reminder to all of Steve Mann's talk today at Tux. Lunch is served at 12:30 - see you at the MaRS auditorium! [cid:image001.png@01D10C9D.244C6440] [cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210] [cid:image004.png@01D10C9D.244C6440] Hello TUX! A reminder that next week we will have a member presentation by Prof. Steve Mann. The details of the talk are below. Please note that his talk will be at MaRS, not at U of T. Some other important announcements: 1) Our website is live at: http://www.tux-hci.org/ 2) We are looking for a volunteer to help with the website – please let us know if you’d like to get involved. 3) We have set up a Google Calendar that you can import into your email client. The address for the calendar is: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/un3lidp8potad9jqb66c3i942g%40grou… Most email clients will allow you to import an “internet” calendar so that you can view its events. For example, in Outlook right click “My Calendars”, select “Add Calendar” -> “From Internet” and then paste in the above URL. We look forward to seeing you next week! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi Tuesday, October 27 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Prof. Steve Mann The MaRS Discovery District Auditorium @ 101 College St<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6598335,-79.38…>. (Lower Level) Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. Presentation begins at 1pm. [mann] Steve Mann: 41 Years of Wearable Augmented Reality as a Natural User Interface: The Past, Present, and Future of Phenomenal Augmented Reality Steve Mann, Father of Wearable Computing, and founder of Wearable Computing as a discipline. Steve Mann is widely regarded as “The Father of Wearable Computing” [IEEE ISSCC 2000]. His work as an artist<http://wearcam.org/art.pdf>, scientist, designer, and inventor<http://wearcam.org/mannventionz/> made Toronto the world’s epicentre of wearable technologies back in the 1980s. In 1992 Mann took this invention from Toronto to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founding the MIT Media Lab’s Wearable Computing project as its first member. In the words of the Lab’s founding Director, Nicholas Negroponte: “Steve Mann is the perfect example of someone… who persisted in his vision and ended up founding a new discipline.<http://wearcam.org/nn.htm>” Mann also invented the smartwatch videophone<http://patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/2275784/summary.html> (wearable computer) in 1998, which was featured on the cover of Linux Journal in 2000, and presented at IEEE ISSCC2000, 2000 February 7, where he was named “The Father of Wearable Computing”. To this day, Toronto remains an international hotbed for the development of wearable technologies. Some of Mann’s other inventions include HDR (High Dynamic Range) Imaging<http://wearcam.org/hdr.htm>, now used in nearly every commercially manufactured camera, and the EyeTap Digital Eye Glass which predates the Google Glass by 30 years<http://wearcam.org/mannglas.htm>. Now as the Chief Scientist at Meta, a California-based startup, wearable AR glasses will be brought to a mass market. Recently, Steve and his team successfully raised US$23 million in funding to support Meta’s Spacesglasses. Mann has often been described as a modern-day Leonardo daVinci: “Steve Mann has been likened to artist, scientist, and inventor Leonardo da Vinci, …. He creates overlapping and inextricably intertwined syntheses of interventions and inventions that combine design, art, science, technology, engineering, and the environment….” — Ariel Garten, CEO, InteraXon “In Professor Steve Mann — inventor, physicist, engineer, mathematician, scientist, designer, developer, project director, filmmaker, artist, instrumentalist, author, photographer, actor, activist — we see so much of the paradigmatic classical Greek philosopher. … Steve has always been preoccupied by the application of his ideas into form. In this way too, he can be considered a modern day Leonardo Da Vinci.” — K. Michael, Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Technology and Society Steve received his PhD from MIT in 1997 and then returned to Toronto in 1998 where he is now a tenured full professor at the University of Toronto in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments. During his early years at U of T, he created the world’s first Mobile Apps Lab (1999) as a part of his wearable computing and AR course. He is also the Chief Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab at Rotman’s School of Management. Mann holds multiple patents, and has contributed to the founding of numerous companies including InteraXON, makers of Muse, “The Most Important Wearable of 2014<http://www.betakit.com/venturebeat-calls-torontos-muse-headband-the-most-im…>”. [cid:image005.png@01D10C9D.244C6440] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image006.png@01D10C9D.244C6440] 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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Reminder: Hrvoje Benko @ Tux in 12 hours!
by Daniel Wigdor 13 Oct '15

13 Oct '15

Good evening, and happy Thanksgiving! A reminder of Dr. Hrvoje Benko's talk today. Details are below; we look forward to seeing you at the first Tux event! Today! Tuesday, October 13 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Hrvoje Benko, PhD The MaRS Discovery District Auditorium @ 101 College St<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6598335,-79.38…>. (Lower Level) Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. A brief introduction to Tux, followed by our exciting guest speaker: Dr. Hrvoje Benko, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, begin at 1:00 sharp. Dr. Benko is the first of the invited Sanders Series lecturers, who are intermingled with other Tux meetings in our inaugural year. Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who conducts HCI research, corporate or academic, in the Toronto area. All kindly confirm your attendance via email to Grace Chen (gchen(a)dgp.toronto.edu<mailto:gchen@dgp.toronto.edu>). Grace can also add anyone who requests it to this mailing list for future notifications. [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/benko/Hrvoje_Benko_HeadShot_l…] Hrvoje Benko is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. He explores novel interactive computing technologies and their impact on human-computer interaction. In particular, his research interests include augmented reality, touch and gesture-based interfaces, depth sensing, and display technologies. He helped found and lead the Microsoft Touch Mouse project and he has extensively collaborated with the Surface Computing group at Microsoft. He has been active in the human-computer interaction field, authoring more than 50 scientific papers and journal articles, as well as serving as the General Chair (2014) and the Program Chair (2012) of the ACM Conference on User Interface Systems and Technology (UIST). For his publications, he received several best paper awards at both ACM UIST and ACM SIGCHI. Before joining Microsoft, he obtained his PhD at Columbia University. More detail can be found on his website: http://research.microsoft.com/~benko/. Interacting with Photons: Creating Interactive Projected Augmented Reality Experiences We have been investigating how depth sensing cameras and projectors can be used to enable highly immersive and interactive augmented reality experiences. In contrast to head-worn displays, such projector + depth camera systems offer the ability to create wide-field-of-view immersive augmented reality experiences without the user having to wear any additional gear. While large-scale projection mapping installations have become familiar forms of artistic expression, our work showcases how one can leverage the unique capabilities of today's depth cameras and fast GPUs to enable real-time projection mapping on any surface (including deformable moving surfaces), thus enabling truly interactive experiences. In this talk, I present a progression of research prototypes, each one exploring a different use scenario, while discussing the challenges in authoring such experiences. I draw examples from several highly publicized projects such as OmniTouch, IllumiRoom, and RoomAlive, as well as highlight the recent release of our open source RoomAlive Toolkit (https://github.com/Kinect/RoomAliveToolkit/).

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October 13 @ 12:30pm: Dr. Hrvoje Benko
by Daniel Wigdor 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

We have been overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response to Tux! We look forward to seeing you a week from tomorrow for our inaugural event. Some details about next week, as well as our schedule for the year, appear below. See you on Tuesday! This Tuesday, October 13 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Hrvoje Benko, PhD The MaRS Discovery District Auditorium @ 101 College St<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6598335,-79.38…>. Lower Level Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. A brief introduction to Tux, followed by our exciting guest speaker: Dr. Hrvoje Benko, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, begin at 1:00 sharp. Dr. Benko is the first of the invited Sanders Series lecturers, who are intermingled with other Tux meetings in our inaugural year. A complete schedule of talks appears at the end of this email. Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who conducts HCI research, corporate or academic, in the Toronto area. All kindly confirm your attendance via email to Grace Chen (gchen(a)dgp.toronto.edu<mailto:gchen@dgp.toronto.edu>). Grace can also add anyone who requests it to this mailing list for future notifications. [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/benko/Hrvoje_Benko_HeadShot_l…] Hrvoje Benko is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. He explores novel interactive computing technologies and their impact on human-computer interaction. In particular, his research interests include augmented reality, touch and gesture-based interfaces, depth sensing, and display technologies. He helped found and lead the Microsoft Touch Mouse project and he has extensively collaborated with the Surface Computing group at Microsoft. He has been active in the human-computer interaction field, authoring more than 50 scientific papers and journal articles, as well as serving as the General Chair (2014) and the Program Chair (2012) of the ACM Conference on User Interface Systems and Technology (UIST). For his publications, he received several best paper awards at both ACM UIST and ACM SIGCHI. Before joining Microsoft, he obtained his PhD at Columbia University. More detail can be found on his website: http://research.microsoft.com/~benko/. Interacting with Photons: Creating Interactive Projected Augmented Reality Experiences We have been investigating how depth sensing cameras and projectors can be used to enable highly immersive and interactive augmented reality experiences. In contrast to head-worn displays, such projector + depth camera systems offer the ability to create wide-field-of-view immersive augmented reality experiences without the user having to wear any additional gear. While large-scale projection mapping installations have become familiar forms of artistic expression, our work showcases how one can leverage the unique capabilities of today's depth cameras and fast GPUs to enable real-time projection mapping on any surface (including deformable moving surfaces), thus enabling truly interactive experiences. In this talk, I present a progression of research prototypes, each one exploring a different use scenario, while discussing the challenges in authoring such experiences. I draw examples from several highly publicized projects such as OmniTouch, IllumiRoom, and RoomAlive, as well as highlight the recent release of our open source RoomAlive Toolkit (https://github.com/Kinect/RoomAliveToolkit/). Speaker Schedule The Tux website will soon be online with all talk details. In the meantime, here is our current list of speakers. Tux Member presentation dates were set based on participants' requested dates. If you require any changes, please let us know ASAP. Date Event Location Speaker Oct 13 @ 12:30pm Sanders Series Lecture MaRS<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6599132,-79.38…> Hrvoje Benko<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/benko/> Microsoft Research Oct 27@ 12:30pm Tux Member Presentation U of T<https://www.google.ca/maps/place/40+St+George+St,+Toronto,+ON+M5S+2E4/@43.6…> TBA Nov 10@ 12:30pm Tux Member Presentation U of T Steve Mann<http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann/> University of Toronto Nov 24@ 12:30pm Sanders Series Lecture MaRS TBA Dec 8@ 12:30pm Tux Member Presentation U of T Jim Slotta<http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/ctl/Faculty_Staff/Faculty_Profiles/541/Jim_Slot…> Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Jan 12@ 12:30pm Sanders Series Lecture MaRS Gregory<http://www.gregoryabowd.com/> Abowd<http://www.gregoryabowd.com/> Georgia Tech Jan 26@ 12:30pm Tux Member Presentation MaRS David Holman<https://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-holman/a0/4b0/447> Intel Research Feb 9@ 12:30pm Sanders Series Lecture U of T Meredith Morris<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/merrie/> Microsoft Research Feb 23@ 12:30pm Tux Member Presentation U of T Edith Law<https://hci.cs.uwaterloo.ca/faculty/elaw/> University of Waterloo Mar 8@ 12:30pm Sanders Series Lecture MaRS David Salesin<http://www.adobe.com/technology/people/san-francisco/david-salesin.html> Adobe Research Mar 22@ 12:30pm Tux Member Presentation MaRS Ron Baecker<http://ron.taglab.ca/> University of Toronto Apr 5@ 12:30pm Sanders Series Lecture MaRS Yang Li<http://research.google.com/pubs/author38946.html> Google Research Apr 19@ 12:30pm Tux Member Presentation MaRS Rhonda McEwen<http://individual.utoronto.ca/rmcewen/> University of Toronto We look forward to seeing you at the inaugural Tux event this coming Tuesday! -Ali, Tovi, and Daniel

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