vrg July 2019

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[Location changed] HCI meeting Tue July 30th
by Jiannan Li 29 Jul '19

29 Jul '19

Hello all, We will have our bi-weekly HCI group meeting at 12.30 on Tuesday July 30th, in *BA 5256*. Since we do not have a volunteer this week, we will: 1. Share recent research progress for feedback 2. Share interesting works (e.g. SIGGRAPH just released their technical paper fast-forward) and lead some discussions 3. If we can find a paper that can draw enough interest tonight, we can have a reading group session. Food will be served. Look forward to seeing you there. Thanks, Jiannan

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Re: [vrg] [Thirdspace] Critical Computing Reading Group
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 28 Jul '19

28 Jul '19

Send me your choices from the pool apu. I am happy to update. On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 4:32 PM Sharifa Sultana <ss3634(a)cornell.edu> wrote: > HI Rifat and Ishtiaque, > > I can't see the doodle since I am in Bangladesh as well. > > - Sharifa > > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 12:25 PM Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat < > rifat(a)cs.toronto.edu> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Dr. Robert Soden (our new faculty (jointly with the School of >> Environment) joining in Fall 2020) and Dr. Ishtiaque Ahmed is starting a >> critical computing reading group. Both of them have a vast knowledge of >> Critical Theories and Concepts. The group should be a great resource for >> many of you. >> >> If you are interested to participate, please let us know. The meetup will >> be online. Below is the link for a doodle poll; please indicate what times >> work for you. >> >> https://doodle.com/poll/tv8hfmr5gietqw8s >> >> Many thanks, >> Rifat >> >> -- >> Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat >> Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. >> http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Thirdspace mailing list >> Thirdspace(a)dgp.toronto.edu >> https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thirdspace >> > > > -- > ________________________ > Sharifa Sultana > PhD Student > Cornell University, USA > _______________________________________________ > Thirdspace mailing list > Thirdspace(a)dgp.toronto.edu > https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thirdspace > -- Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/

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Critical Computing Reading Group
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 28 Jul '19

28 Jul '19

Hi All, Dr. Robert Soden (our new faculty (jointly with the School of Environment) joining in Fall 2020) and Dr. Ishtiaque Ahmed is starting a critical computing reading group. Both of them have a vast knowledge of Critical Theories and Concepts. The group should be a great resource for many of you. If you are interested to participate, please let us know. The meetup will be online. Below is the link for a doodle poll; please indicate what times work for you. https://doodle.com/poll/tv8hfmr5gietqw8s Many thanks, Rifat -- Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/

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Talk Tue 16 July 12:30-2:00 pm in Bahen 5187 (also live streamed & recorded): Rationality Enhancement: Towards theories and tools for helping people become more effective by Falk Lieder
by Joseph Jay Williams 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Just a reminder on this talk tomorrow, see details below. tiny.cc/falktalk <http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ptagqbmajy4sj3yr/8/http://tiny.cc/falktalk> will have link to live stream and recording, plus directions to this room in DGP. Joseph On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 6:47 PM Joseph Jay Williams <williams(a)cs.toronto.edu> wrote: > I thought you might be interested in this, please feel free to forward on > to relevant mailing lists. I've messaged people in open cc (including Falk) > as it's a chance for people from different backgrounds to know of or be > reminded of each other (but feel free to request a different approach). I'm > sure I didn't remember everyone so please feel free to send on. Falk and I > overlapped in Tom Griffiths' computational cognitive science lab, and in > addition to applying reinforcement learning & ML to cognitive science, he's > visiting my Intelligent Adaptive Interventions group for a collaborative > project on HCI & education. > > ***** > Falk Lieder from Max Planck Institute (formerly UC Berkeley) will be > giving a talk Tue 16 July 12:30-2:00 pm in Bahen (BA) 5187 (U of T time, > talk starts 12:40, runs about 50 minutes). The title, abstract and bio are > pasted below. Feel free to forward this on to colleagues or relevant > mailing lists, the audience will be multidisciplinary, crossing > human-computer interaction, psychology, and machine learning. > > > Go to the Google Doc at URL tiny.cc/falktalk > <http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ptagqbmajy4sj3yr/2/http://tiny.cc/falktalk> for > information such as: > > >When he is visiting and how to request a meeting. > > >The information to watch the live stream and recording of his talk (link > will be added at 12:30 Tue 16 July). > > >Directions to BA 5187. > > >Anything else we think of adding or people request. > > Rationality Enhancement: Towards theories and tools for helping people > become more effective > > Abstract: Human judgment and decision-making appear to be riddled with > numerous systematic errors. Previous attempts to attenuate these so-called > cognitive biases by educating people about them or schooling them in the > laws of logic, probability theory, and expected utility theory have had > limited success. In this talk, I will outline an alternative approach to > improving human decision-making that grew out of rethinking what it means > to be rational. In the first part of my talk, I will illustrate that making > Herbert Simon’s notion of bounded rationality mathematically precise allows > us to derive optimal decision strategies from first principles. In the > second part of my talk, I will illustrate how such advances can be > leveraged to improve human decision-making. Concretely, I will present an > intelligent tutor that can discover optimal planning strategies and helps > people to internalize those strategies by providing metacognitive feedback. > Finally, in the third part of my talk, I will present a complementary > approach that combines artificial intelligence with gamification to help > people overcome procrastination and become more productive. > > > > Bio: Falk Lieder is a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for > Intelligent Systems here in Tübingen. His newly established Rationality > Enhancement Group strives to lay the cognitive and technological > foundations for helping people become more effective. He completed his > Ph.D. in Tom Griffiths’s Computational Cognitive Science Lab at the > University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this, he worked as a research > assistant in Klaas Stephan’s Translational Neuromodeling Unit, received a > masters degree in Neural Systems and Computation from ETH Zurich, and > completed two simultaneous bachelor’s degrees in Cognitive Science and > Mathematics/Computer Science at the University of Osnabrück > > Website: > <http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ptagqbmajy4sj3yr/3/https://sites.google.com/site/fa…> > https://sites.google.com/site/ > <http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ptagqbmajy4sj3yr/7/https://sites.google.com/site/> > falklieder/home > > > Joseph > > > Joseph Jay Williams > www.josephjaywilliams.com > <http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ptagqbmajy4sj3yr/4/http://www.josephjaywilliams.com/> > Assistant Professor > Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto > Intelligent Adaptive Interventions (IAI) research group > > <http://mailstat.us/tr/opt-out?guid=ptagqbmajy4sj3yr>

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Comics and Statistics Workshop - Thursday Jul 18, 1:00 - 2:30 PM BA5187
by jritchie 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Hi everybody, I wanted to invite you all to a comics workshop that I'm running in the seminar room (BA5187) this Thursday from 1-2:30 PM (during Daniel's group meeting). In the activity, participants will create a comic-style summary of the statistical analysis used in a research paper. Each attendee should bring a copy of one of their own projects (ideally a finished course project or research paper) that involved a statistical analysis. If you don't have any suitable projects, bring a research paper that you recently read. If you can attend, I'd really appreciate it! It will be a good opportunity to have fun and be creative while getting more comfortable with the statistics used in studies and discussing them with some of the more senior grad students. Please RSVP by replying to this email or my Slack post, so we have an idea of the number of attendees to prepare for. Best, Jacob

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Talk Tue 16 July 12:30-2:00 pm in Bahen 5187: Rationality Enhancement: Towards theories and tools for helping people become more effective by Falk Lieder
by Joseph Jay Williams 06 Jul '19

06 Jul '19

Falk Lieder from Max Planck Institute (formerly UC Berkeley) will be giving a talk Tue 16 July 12:30-2:00 pm in Bahen (BA) 5187 (U of T time, talk starts 12:40, runs about 50 minutes). The title, abstract and bio are pasted below. Feel free to forward this on to colleagues or relevant mailing lists, the audience will be multidisciplinary, crossing human-computer interaction, psychology, and machine learning. Go to the Google Doc at URL tiny.cc/falktalk for information such as: >When he is visiting and how to request a meeting. >The information to watch the live stream and recording of his talk (link will be added at 12:30 Tue 16 July). >Directions to BA 5187. >Anything else we think of adding or people request. Rationality Enhancement: Towards theories and tools for helping people become more effective Abstract: Human judgment and decision-making appear to be riddled with numerous systematic errors. Previous attempts to attenuate these so-called cognitive biases by educating people about them or schooling them in the laws of logic, probability theory, and expected utility theory have had limited success. In this talk, I will outline an alternative approach to improving human decision-making that grew out of rethinking what it means to be rational. In the first part of my talk, I will illustrate that making Herbert Simon’s notion of bounded rationality mathematically precise allows us to derive optimal decision strategies from first principles. In the second part of my talk, I will illustrate how such advances can be leveraged to improve human decision-making. Concretely, I will present an intelligent tutor that can discover optimal planning strategies and helps people to internalize those strategies by providing metacognitive feedback. Finally, in the third part of my talk, I will present a complementary approach that combines artificial intelligence with gamification to help people overcome procrastination and become more productive. Bio: Falk Lieder is a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for Intelligent Systems here in Tübingen. His newly established Rationality Enhancement Group strives to lay the cognitive and technological foundations for helping people become more effective. He completed his Ph.D. in Tom Griffiths’s Computational Cognitive Science Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this, he worked as a research assistant in Klaas Stephan’s Translational Neuromodeling Unit, received a masters degree in Neural Systems and Computation from ETH Zurich, and completed two simultaneous bachelor’s degrees in Cognitive Science and Mathematics/Computer Science at the University of Osnabrück Website: https://sites.google.com/site/falklieder/home Joseph Joseph Jay Williams www.josephjaywilliams.com Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto Intelligent Adaptive Interventions (IAI) research group

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HCI meeting on Tue 2 July at 12:30pm: Learning & Improving Semi-Structured Interview Techniques
by Yuya Asano 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

Hi everyone, I am Yuya. I am a fourth year CS undergrad who is working with Joseph this summer and helping him manage this meeting. The meeting starts at 12:30pm in DGP seminar room. For those who cannot make it in person, I will also set up google hangouts (the link will be sent about 30 minutes before). Prior to the meeting, please add topics you want to discuss and information you want others to know to the agenda from here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fByc4u6qOZyy1NOvBAAzk6T-fxWe85i3AyY3JjB…>. I am looking forward to see you soon. Best, Yuya ---------------------- Yuya Asano University of Toronto Fourth year Specialist in Computer Science Cell: 437-341-0805 Email: yuya.asano(a)mail.utoronto.ca<mailto:yuya.asano@mail.utoronto.ca> ----------------------

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