Hello TUX! A reminder that today we will have a member presentation by Dr. George Fitzmaurice. The details of the talk are below. The talk will be in the MaRS Multipurpose room (main floor). We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Daniel, and Tovi Tuesday, January 26 at 12:30pm, Tux Proudly Presents: Dr. George Fitzmaurice The MaRS Discovery District Multipurpose Room @ 101 College St. (Main Floor) Lunch reception begins at 12:30pm. Presentation begins at 1pm. George Fitzmaurice: Tackling the User Interface Challenges of Today and Tomorrow In this talk, my group and I will present a variety of research projects undertaken by the User Interface Research Group at Autodesk Research. Our talk will reflect the diversity of research interests in the group, spanning the Internet of Things, wearable interaction techniques, human-robot interaction, software learning, information visualization, and dynamic sketching – we’ll even present a recent project that combined many of these themes together. George Fitzmaurice, Ph.D. is a Director of Research and runs the User Interface Research Group for Autodesk Research. He has been with Autodesk (including Alias) for almost 20 years conducting research in 2D and 3D UIs including: input devices, large displays, two-handed interaction, multi-touch, pen-based UIs, recommender systems, spatially-aware displays, 3D navigation and tangible UIs. In the HCI community he established the field of Graspable UIs which is the pre-cursor to what is known as Tangible UIs. Working with his colleagues he has helped to author over 90 HCI papers and over 50 patents. Notable product contributions include Maya 1.0 UI, SketchBook Pro UI design, ShowMotion™ for Showcase, and the 3D Navigation tools (ViewCube™ and SteeringWheels™) for Autodesk products. Recently his extended team has productize Chronicle (a research project that allows users to share their expertise by authoring videos with metadata) into Autodesk Screencast. Fitzmaurice received a B.Sc. in Mathematics with Computer Science at MIT, an M.Sc. in Computer Science at Brown University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
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.