vrg November 2019

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HCI Reading Group on Monday, November 11 3-4PM
by bryanw 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Hi HCI folks, We will have our first HCI reading group today at 3 pm in the seminar room. NICOLE (the best!) will be leading the discussion on the paper "_Data Changes Everything: Challenges and Opportunities in Data Visualization Design Handoff_" Coffee will be served, come join us to make the HCI reading group great again! Please try to READ THE PAPER, if even just a skim read, and take note of your thoughts to share in our open discussion. The presentation video link is below, but it doesn't cover much of the findings, so not really a substitute for reading the paper. The paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00192 [1] The conference presentation video is here: https://vimeo.com/368703151 [2] Best, Bryan Links: ------ [1] https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F1908.00192 [2] https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F368703151

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Demo/meeting schedule for Professor Michel Beaudouin-Lafon
by Haijun Xia 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

Hello all, Prof. Michel Beaudouin-Lafon from the Université Paris-Sud will be giving a Tux talk on Tuesday November 19th and visit the lab Wednesday afternoon, November 20th. We will host him with demos from 1pm to 2:45pm. Please sign up in this google sheet by tomorrow night if you want a slot. Students signed up for demo are invited to lunch with Michel at 12:00pm at Rm5256. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19sumRDO9STIpckAbabVOxphDIDqPL7_deo1… Cheers, Haijun

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DGP HCI Meeting
by ericlu 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

Hello all, We will have our bi-weekly HCI group meeting at 12.30pm on Tuesday Nov 5 in the DGP seminar room. Caleb (Zhicong) Lu will be giving a practice talk. Food will be served. Additionally, if we have time left, we will take a look at UIST video preview. Title Vicariously Experiencing it all without Going Outside: A Study of Outdoor Live Streaming in China Abstract: The livestreaming industry in China is gaining greater traction than its European and North American counterparts and has a profound impact on the stakeholders' online and offline lives. An emerging genre of livestreaming that has become increasingly popular in China is outdoor livestreaming. With outdoor livestreams, streamers broadcast outdoor activities, travel, or socialize with passersby in outdoor settings, often for 6 or more hours, and viewers watch such streams for hours each day. However, given that professionally produced content about travel and outdoor activities are not very popular, it is currently unknown what makes this category of livestreams so engaging and how these techniques can be applied to other content or genres. Thus, we conducted a mixed methods study consisting of a survey (N=287) and interviews (N = 20) to understand how viewers watch and engage with outdoor livestreams in China. The data revealed that outdoor livestreams encompass many categories of content, environments and passersby behaviors create challenges and uncertainty for viewers and streamers, and viewers watch livestreams for surprising lengths of time (e.g., sometimes more than 5 continuous hours). We also gained insights into how live commenting and virtual gifting encourage engagement. Lastly, we detail how the behaviors of dedicated fans and casual viewers differ and provide implications for the design of livestreaming services that support outdoor activities. The preprint of the paper can be found here: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~luzhc/media/cscw025-lu-new.pdf Kind regards, Eric Lu

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correction the meeting time is 12:30pm on Tuesday Nov 5.
by Cheng Lu 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

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DGP HI Meeting
by Cheng Lu 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

Hello all, We will have our bi-weekly HCI group meeting at 12.30pm on Tuesday Oct 22nd in the DGP seminar room. Caleb (Zhicong) Lu will be giving a practice talk. Food will be served. Additionally, if we have time left, we will take a look at UIST video preview. Title Vicariously Experiencing it all without Going Outside: A Study of Outdoor Live Streaming in China Abstract: The livestreaming industry in China is gaining greater traction than its European and North American counterparts and has a profound impact on the stakeholders' online and offline lives. An emerging genre of livestreaming that has become increasingly popular in China is outdoor livestreaming. With outdoor livestreams, streamers broadcast outdoor activities, travel, or socialize with passersby in outdoor settings, often for 6 or more hours, and viewers watch such streams for hours each day. However, given that professionally produced content about travel and outdoor activities are not very popular, it is currently unknown what makes this category of livestreams so engaging and how these techniques can be applied to other content or genres. Thus, we conducted a mixed methods study consisting of a survey (N=287) and interviews (N = 20) to understand how viewers watch and engage with outdoor livestreams in China. The data revealed that outdoor livestreams encompass many categories of content, environments and passersby behaviors create challenges and uncertainty for viewers and streamers, and viewers watch livestreams for surprising lengths of time (e.g., sometimes more than 5 continuous hours). We also gained insights into how live commenting and virtual gifting encourage engagement. Lastly, we detail how the behaviors of dedicated fans and casual viewers differ and provide implications for the design of livestreaming services that support outdoor activities. The preprint of the paper can be found here: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~luzhc/media/cscw025-lu-new.pdf Kind regards, Eric Lu

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