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[ICTD Talk] March 3, 2020: Aparna Moitra on voice-based media platform in rural India
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Dear All, Aparna Moitra, a visiting Postdoc at the Third Space research group of the DGP Lab, will deliver a talk on her research in rural India. You all are cordially invited. Also, please feel free to share this with your students and colleagues. Details are as follows: Time: Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 1630 to 1730 hrs Location: Bahen Centre, Room 5187 (DGP Seminar Room), 40 Saint George St. Title: An Analysis of Community Mobilization Strategies of a Voice-based Community Media Platform in Rural India Abstract: We define community mobilization as offline activities typically required in ICTD initiatives to train users and drive adoption for the sustained use of ICTs within the community. Community mobilization forms an important but under-discussed component of ICTD initiatives. In this talk, I will present a case study of a voice-based community media platform in rural central India and the experiments it has undergone with multiple community mobilization strategies over a period of five years. We have analyzed different phases of community mobilization and draw insights related to how technology platforms can be appropriated by specific actors to drive their own agendas, how organizational control can be imposed to prevent undesirable appropriation, yet give communities the flexibility to use the platform according to their needs, and how group structures and hybrid financial-social incentives can be created to build sustainable networks that can be replicated and scaled in a standardized manner. We have used the Actor-Network Theory, along with Olson’s Theory of Groups and Incentives to explain our observations. Our methods can be generalized and applied by other ICTD initiatives to evaluate their own community mobilization strategies. Bio: Aparna Moitra is a Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher with the Third Space group of the DGP Lab at the Department of Computer Science, UofT. She has a PhD from the University of Delhi, India, where she worked on embedding an externally-driven voice-based community media platform among the low-literacy and socially marginalized populations of Rural India. Her talk is based on a paper she published in the Journal of Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) from her PhD work. Post-PhD, her research interests have diversified towards qualitatively investigating the role of technological interventions (such as online feminist movements) and their design in supplementing on-ground social justice ecosystems in case of gender-based violence. Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA Ph: +1 647 220 3482 Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ My Availability: Google Calendar Link <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&c…>

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[HCI seminar] Mathieu Nancel & Sylvain Malacria @27 Feb, 10:30AM
by Fanny Chevalier 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Hi everyone, Mathieu Nancel (http://mathieu.nancel.net/ <http://mathieu.nancel.net/>) and Sylvain Malacria (http://www.malacria.com/ <http://www.malacria.com/>), Research Scientists at Inria, will be visiting this week. They will both give a talk in the morning Thursday, and would love to see demos on the afternoon. Thursday February 27 DGP seminar room - Bahen 5166 10:00AM-11:30AM **Snacks and refreshments will be served** Pointing Preconceptions Out (Mathieu Nancel) The design of interactive systems today builds a lot upon previous system architectures and interaction paradigms, and upon general knowledge about the user's needs and skills. However, classical system architectures hide technical constraints in their midst that we may not even acknowledge, and “what everybody knows” about user capabilities can turn out to be false. In this talk I will present some of my recent and ongoing work on the design, tuning, and engineering of cursor control mechanisms, under the scope of common blind spots and misconceptions in interaction design. I will in particular discuss the consequences of system and human delays, why we consider them inevitable, and what interactive systems would need to address them. Bio: Mathieu Nancel is a permanent researcher in the Loki research group at Inria Lille since 2016. After defending his Ph.D. in Saclay with Michel Beaudouin-Lafon in 2012, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Andy Cockburn in Univ. of Canterbury (Christchutch, NZ), with Dan Vogel and Ed Lank in Univ. of Waterloo (ON), and with Antti Oulasvirta in Aalto Univ. (Helsiniki, Finland). His research interests span interaction technique design, understanding psychomotor phenomena, and the engineering of interactive systems. He works in particular on the ubiquitous task of cursor control, with a focus on fine-grained timing phenomena on both the user and the system sides. Recognition or recall? The case of expert features in GUIs (Sylvain Malacria) Users have many options to enhance their productivity with applications, for instance by learning new interaction techniques to get their work done faster. One example of such interaction techniques are hotkeys which enable rapid execution of frequently used commands. However, “expert” features like hotkeys are often ignored and users stick to “novice” interaction mechanisms, limited by a relatively low cap of performance. In this talk, I will describe some of my previous work that attempted to foster and facilitate the adoption of these features. I will also present more recent work discussing why we may be expecting too much from the user and how “expert” features could be re-designed to provide similar performance with less effort. Bio: Sylvain Malacria is a permanent researcher in the Loki research group at Inria Lille. His research in Human-Computer Interaction investigates the design of novel interaction techniques and user interface refinements, with a focus on fostering the transition from novice to expert mode when interacting with systems. Before joining Inria, Sylvain has worked with Eric Lecolinet at Télécom Paristech on identifying which type of resources (software and hardware) can be used to enrich the input bandwidth, spent two years at the University of Canterburry (New Zealand) working with Andy Cockburn, and one year in the UCL/BBC Lab London. Sign up for a demo slot: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1An-Bca0szkWCkXcB6p1LUaXnD8_7MDcZqL7… <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1An-Bca0szkWCkXcB6p1LUaXnD8_7MDcZqL7…> Cheers, Fanny — Fanny Chevalier Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistical Sciences University of Toronto fanny(a)cs.toronto.edu http://fannychevalier.net/

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HCI Meeting
by vicky 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Hi all, There will be no HCI meeting today, as the guest talk was moved to Thursday 10AM (see the recent [HCI Seminar] e-mail). >From the handful of survey results I received last week, the majority are interested in weekly HCI meetings, 12:30 - 1:30pm. If you'd still like to share your opinion, you can fill out the survey here [1]. So, we need a volunteer to run next week's meeting on March 3rd. Contact me if you're interested or have any questions, or sign yourself up in the meeting doc here [2]. Thanks! Vicky Bilbily Links: ------ [1] https://forms.gle/te3oQABDaMhjQ2FN8 [2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q4z64YkFaiNszk6kFPx1BOlocuB5fJDyMKaDYqQ…

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Student Demos with Prof. Justine Cassell from CMU
by bryanw 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Hello all, Prof. Justine Cassell [1] from Carnegie Mellon University will be giving a Tux talk on Tuesday, March 10th and visit the lab Wednesday afternoon, March 10. We will host her with demos from 1 pm to 2:45 pm. Please sign up in this google sheet if you want a slot. Students signed up for demo are invited to lunch with Justine at 12:00 pm at Rm5256. I've added her talk abstract and bio below. Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19sumRDO9STIpckAbabVOxphDIDqPL7_deo1… [2] Cheers, Bryan "CONVERSATIONAL COMMERCE" "Conversational Commerce" is a meme that just won't seem to go away. And within conversational commerce the new buzzword is "empathy" - systems as diverse as smart speakers and websites that generate insurance quotes are said to be empathetic. However, as Inigo Montoya so aptly said "I do not think it means what you think it means." In this talk I'll discuss where conversational interfaces have come from, where they are today, and where they could go tomorrow if we learn how to really create bonds between computational systems and their users Bio Justine Cassell is currently on leave from Carnegie Mellon to hold the founding international chair at the PRAIRIE Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI, in Paris, France. Before going on leave, she was Associate Dean of Technology Strategy and Impact in the School of Computer Science at CMU, co-director of the Simon Initiative on Technology-Enhanced Learning, and co-director, with Professor Tom Mitchell, of the Yahoo (Oath/Verizon) InMind Project on the Future of Personal Assistants. She is Director Emerita of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at CMU. Previously Justine was faculty at Northwestern University where she founded the Technology and Social Behavior Doctoral Program and Research Center. Before that she was a tenured professor at the MIT Media Lab. Justine has received the MIT Edgerton Prize, Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision award, the AAMAS Test of Time paper award, and the National Academy of Sciences Henry and Bryna David Prize. She is a fellow of the AAAS, Royal Academy of Scotland, and the ACM. Links: ------ [1] http://www.justinecassell.com/ [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WrpZvvB7ARmvgGDzcNTDcpwbfoo4k2V90kR…

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Future HCI Meetings
by vicky 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Hi all, This week, we discussed some potential changes to the HCI meeting format. From those who attended, it seems there is some interest in meeting more regularly: once a week. This is effectively what we used to do back when TUX talks used to be bi-weekly. I've created a survey about potentially changing the meeting frequency, please fill it out here: https://forms.gle/te3oQABDaMhjQ2FN8 As well, here's a Google Doc with a meeting schedule (please sign up!), as well as other general meeting info (please contribute!): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q4z64YkFaiNszk6kFPx1BOlocuB5fJDyMKaDYqQ… Thanks! Vicky

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DGP HCI Meeting
by Vicky 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Hi everyone, We’ll be starting up HCI meetings again next week, on Tuesday, February 18th, 12:30pm ~ 2:00pm. Here are some potential items on the agenda: catching up on what everyone’s working on (quick demos are welcome, too!) discussing the format/content/organisation of future meetings discussing grad visit day whatever else people might like to discuss with the group! Food will be served! Looking forward to meeting as a group again :-) - Vicky

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[Tux] TUX: Saleema Amershi @ MaRS Auditorium today!
by Anita Kivi 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

[cid:image005.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] [cid:image008.png@01D10810.C2D01210] [cid:image008.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] Hello TUX! A reminder that we have a Sanders Series Lecture by Saleema Amershi of Microsoft today. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Fraser, Daniel and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture – Saleema Amershi: Toward Responsible AI by Planning to Fail February 11, 2020. MaRS Auditorium @ 661 University Avenue, Toronto, ON. Lunch reception begins at 12:00 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm. [cid:image002.jpg@01D5E0BA.A7ADECF0] Abstract The potential for AI technologies to enhance human capabilities and improve our lives is of little debate; yet, neither is their potential to cause harm and social disruption. While preventing or minimizing AI biases and harms is justifiably the subject of intense study in academic, industrial and even legal communities, an approach centered on acknowledging and planning for AI-based failures has the potential to shed new light on how to develop and deploy responsible AI-based systems. In this talk, I will discuss the sociotechnical nature of several inherent and unavoidable AI failures and why it is important for the industry to systematically and proactively identify, assess, and mitigate harms caused by such failures in our AI-based products and services. I will then present Microsoft’s recently released Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction and how we’ve been using them at Microsoft to help teams think through and prepare for different types of AI failures. Bio Saleema Amershi<http://research.microsoft.com/~samershi> is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research AI and currently chairs Microsoft’s Aether Working Group on Human-AI Interaction and Collaboration. Aether is Microsoft’s advisory committee on responsible and ethical AI. Saleema’s research focuses on helping people create effective and responsible AI user experiences. Her recent work includes leading Microsoft’s effort to develop general Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction<https://aka.ms/aiguidelines>, a unified and validated set of guidelines to establish a foundation for human-AI interaction design. Throughout the years, she has developed tools and methodologies to support practitioners in designing and building AI-based products and services, including general purpose platforms and visualizations for data scientists building predictive models, and application specific techniques for supporting end-users interacting with AI-systems in their everyday lives. Saleema holds a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from the Paul G. Allen School at the University of Washington. Prior to UW she completed an MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Computer Science & Mathematics from the University of British Columbia. [cid:image009.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image006.jpg@01D5E0BB.57331790] TUX is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk, University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and Chatham Labs. _______________________________________________ Click here to unsubscribe : https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/tux-announce/hci%40dgp.…

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Re: [vrg] [Tux] TUX Reminder: Saleema Amershi - Tuesday, February 11
by Daniel Wigdor 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

Hello Benjamin, This is a user administered list. Whenever you signed up, you would have received unsubscribe instructions. No one who is on this mailing list has more power than you do. -Daniel ________________________________ From: tux-announce <tux-announce-bounces(a)dgp.toronto.edu> on behalf of Benjamin Barrett <b.barrett(a)mail.utoronto.ca> Sent: Monday, February 3, 2020 6:05 PM To: tux-announce(a)dgp.toronto.edu; Anita Kivi Subject: Re: [Tux] TUX Reminder: Saleema Amershi - Tuesday, February 11 Hi Anita, Could you please unsubscribe me from these (this is my ~4th time asking now, I believe). _____ Ben Barrett JD/MBA Candidate 2023 University of Toronto Faculty of Law / Rotman School of Management On Feb 3, 2020, 1:05 PM -0500, Anita Kivi <anitakivi(a)dgp.toronto.edu>, wrote: A reminder that next week Saleema Amershi is the featured speaker at the TUX Talk in the MaRS Auditorium (lower level). The talk commences at 1:00 p.m. and lunch is available from 12:00 noon onwards. Please contact me if you have any questions. Saleema Amershi: Toward Responsible AI by Planning to Fail 2020-02-11 12:30 at 661 University Avenue, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1<http://www.tux-hci.org/> [cid:image005.jpg@01D5DA88.AFF71270] Abstract The potential for AI technologies to enhance human capabilities and improve our lives is of little debate; yet, neither is their potential to cause harm and social disruption. While preventing or minimizing AI biases and harms is justifiably the subject of intense study in academic, industrial and even legal communities, an approach centered on acknowledging and planning for AI-based failures has the potential to shed new light on how to develop and deploy responsible AI-based systems. In this talk, I will discuss the sociotechnical nature of several inherent and unavoidable AI failures and why it is important for the industry to systematically and proactively identify, assess, and mitigate harms caused by such failures in our AI-based products and services. I will then present Microsoft’s recently released Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction and how we’ve been using them at Microsoft to help teams think through and prepare for different types of AI failures. Bio Saleema Amershi<http://research.microsoft.com/~samershi> is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research AI and currently chairs Microsoft’s Aether Working Group on Human-AI Interaction and Collaboration. Aether is Microsoft’s advisory committee on responsible and ethical AI. Saleema’s research focuses on helping people create effective and responsible AI user experiences. Her recent work includes leading Microsoft’s effort to develop general Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction<https://aka.ms/aiguidelines>, a unified and validated set of guidelines to establish a foundation for human-AI interaction design. Throughout the years, she has developed tools and methodologies to support practitioners in designing and building AI-based products and services, including general purpose platforms and visualizations for data scientists building predictive models, and application specific techniques for supporting end-users interacting with AI-systems in their everyday lives. Saleema holds a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from the Paul G. Allen School at the University of Washington. Prior to UW she completed an MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Computer Science & Mathematics from the University of British Columbia. With thanks, Anita _______________________________________________ Click here to unsubscribe : https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/tux-announce/hci%40dgp.…

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[Tux] TUX Reminder: Saleema Amershi - Tuesday, February 11
by Anita Kivi 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

A reminder that next week Saleema Amershi is the featured speaker at the TUX Talk in the MaRS Auditorium (lower level). The talk commences at 1:00 p.m. and lunch is available from 12:00 noon onwards. Please contact me if you have any questions. Saleema Amershi: Toward Responsible AI by Planning to Fail 2020-02-11 12:30 at 661 University Avenue, Toronto, ON M5G 1M1<http://www.tux-hci.org/> [cid:image005.jpg@01D5DA88.AFF71270] Abstract The potential for AI technologies to enhance human capabilities and improve our lives is of little debate; yet, neither is their potential to cause harm and social disruption. While preventing or minimizing AI biases and harms is justifiably the subject of intense study in academic, industrial and even legal communities, an approach centered on acknowledging and planning for AI-based failures has the potential to shed new light on how to develop and deploy responsible AI-based systems. In this talk, I will discuss the sociotechnical nature of several inherent and unavoidable AI failures and why it is important for the industry to systematically and proactively identify, assess, and mitigate harms caused by such failures in our AI-based products and services. I will then present Microsoft's recently released Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction and how we've been using them at Microsoft to help teams think through and prepare for different types of AI failures. Bio Saleema Amershi<http://research.microsoft.com/~samershi> is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research AI and currently chairs Microsoft's Aether Working Group on Human-AI Interaction and Collaboration. Aether is Microsoft's advisory committee on responsible and ethical AI. Saleema's research focuses on helping people create effective and responsible AI user experiences. Her recent work includes leading Microsoft's effort to develop general Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction<https://aka.ms/aiguidelines>, a unified and validated set of guidelines to establish a foundation for human-AI interaction design. Throughout the years, she has developed tools and methodologies to support practitioners in designing and building AI-based products and services, including general purpose platforms and visualizations for data scientists building predictive models, and application specific techniques for supporting end-users interacting with AI-systems in their everyday lives. Saleema holds a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from the Paul G. Allen School at the University of Washington. Prior to UW she completed an MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Computer Science & Mathematics from the University of British Columbia. With thanks, Anita _______________________________________________ Click here to unsubscribe : https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/tux-announce/hci%40dgp.…

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