A reminder that Dr. Morris' Sanders Series Invited Lecture begins at 1pm at MaRS. Lunch is served at 12:30. Come mix & mingle with your fellow HCI researchers and enthusiasts, and see what will no doubt be a wonderful talk.
-Daniel
From: Daniel Wigdor Sent: Monday, February 8, 2016 10:30 AM To: tux-announce@dgp.toronto.edu Subject: Meredith Morris from Microsoft Research speaking tomorrow, past talks now online
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Good morning Tux!
A reminder that our next Sanders Series Invited Lecture will take place tomorrow at 12:30pm in the MaRS multipurpose room (the same room as our most recent Autodesk talk). We are very excited to be hosting Dr. Morris from Microsoft Research.
We are also happy to announce that videos from our first Sanders Series lecturers have been posted on the Tux-hci.org website. To find a video for a speaker, simply look up the listing of their talk under "Past Speakers", and find the YouTube video embedded. You can also find the videos on our new YouTube channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi3ZH7kOtWXlu-ypJ6iD5Bg.
See you tomorrow!
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Dr. Meredith Morris: Collaborative Web Search: Towards Next-Generation Information-Seeking Experiences 2016-02-09 12:30 at MaRS Multipurposehttps://www.google.com/maps/place/Mars+Discovery+District/@43.6599132,-79.3908334,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x882b34b7ccd8ba1f:0x7e6f7af0cc4e65f3 Room
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In this talk, I will give an overview of my research on developing and evaluating novel collaboration technologies in diverse areas of computing such as information retrieval, gesture interaction, accessibility, and education. The talk will particularly focus on collaborative web search - today, web search is largely a solitary experience, with web browsers and search engine sites typically designed to support a single user, working alone. Collaborative tools can result in improved information-seeking outcomes, such as increasing searchers' coverage of the relevant information space, reducing unnecessary redundant work across searchers, and exposing searchers to new search strategies and syntax. In this talk, I will discuss the challenges associated with supporting collaborative information seeking and present several prototype systems that address these challenges. I will conclude with discussing directions for future research with respect to collaborative search as well as for collaborative technologies more broadly.
Meredith Ringel Morris is a computer scientist conducting research in the area of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), social computing, and information retrieval (IR). Morris's main research focus is on social and collaborative web searchhttp://research.microsoft.com/~merrie/socialsearch.html. She wrote the first book on the subject, Collaborative Web Search: Who, What, Where, When, and Why?https://secure.aidcvt.com/mcp/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9781608451210&PG=1&Type=BL&PCS=MCP. Technology Review recognized Dr. Morris's pioneering work on collaborative web search by naming her one of 2008's "35 Innovators Under 35."http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=728
Dr. Morris is a Senior Researcher in the neXushttp://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/nexus/ research group at Microsoft Researchhttp://research.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx. She is also an affiliate associate professor in the department of Computer Science & Engineering and in the Information School at the University of Washington, where she participates in the dubhttp://dub.washington.edu/ research consortium. Dr. Morris joined Microsoft Research in 2006, after receiving her Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. Her doctoral dissertation,Supporting Effective Interaction with Tabletop Groupwarehttp://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/merrie/papers/merrie%20thesis%20final%20double%20sided.pdf, was among the first to explore interaction techniques for collaborative work with surface computers. Before earning her Ph.D., she received an M.S. in computer science from Stanford University and an Sc.B. in computer science from Brown University.
Dr. Morris has held numerous leadership positions in the academic community. In 2009, she served as technical program chair for CHI, the ACM's flagship conference on the topic of human-computer interaction, and she is the technical program chair for CSCW 2014, the ACM's premier conference on collaborative and social technologies (she will be the general chair of the upcoming CSCW 2016 conference). She also chaired the "Interaction Beyond the Individual" papers committee for CHI 2011 and was program chair for the 2012 ACM conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces. She is a member of the editorial board of Transactions on Human Computer Interaction, the leading journal in the field of HCI, and is a member of the ACM CSCW Steering Committee.
Merrie's husband, Dan Morrishttp://research.microsoft.com/~dan, is also a computer scientist at Microsoft Research. They have two small children and one large dog.
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OUR SPONSORS:
[cid:image006.jpg@01D16331.4DEA8EE0] 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.
-Daniel
