March 2020 - vrg - dgp mailing lists

Collaborate on my "Global South COVID-19" grant proposal?
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Dear HCI Colleagues, Hope you are in good health. I am trying to put together a grant proposal (UofT internal) to develop an accessible voice-based healthcare system for marginalized communities both in Ontario and in the Global South. I already have partners from the Global South, but I do not have many from UofT. If you find this proposal interesting, I will be very happy to add you as my collaborator on this proposal (and your required workload for this is close to zero). I have attached the grant call to this mail. The deadline is April 1. Here is the first draft of the proposal, and I will keep polishing it until the deadline is over. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UPFExVfpjxgy5H2XDFNN8C94IOABcw58_RSfYKj… Please let me know if you are interested. Also, your comments, suggestions, etc. are welcome. Best Regards, Ishtiaque *[P.S. (March 15, 2020, and onward): My response may be late because of my engagement with the COVID-19 response teams in Canada, Bangladesh, and Australia. I appreciate your patience.]* 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 Meeting
by vicky 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

Hi all, There will be an HCI meeting tomorrow, on Tuesday, March 24th, from 1PM - 2PM. Josh is holding a "data collection" session which will involve drawing. Come prepared with simple drawing materials. All skills welcome! Although we won't be starting the exercise until 1PM, feel free to show up any time after 12:30PM to chat and say hello. :-) Link: bluejeans.com/dgpmeeting. Meeting sign-up and info doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q4z64YkFaiNszk6kFPx1BOlocuB5fJDyMKaDYqQ… See you then, Vicky

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HCI Meeting March 17
by Blaine Lewis 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Hi Everyone, There will be an HCI meeting on Tuesday, Zhicong has signed up to give his practice job talk. Excited to see everybody there :) Link: bluejeans.com/dgpmeeting. PS: We don't have anything set in stone for next week except UIST paper swaps but it feels a bit early for that. So sign something up in the doc if you have ideas https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q4z64YkFaiNszk6kFPx1BOlocuB5fJDyMKaDYqQ… Best, Blaine

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Encouraged to work from home, and a note on good practices for staying healthy
by Fanny Chevalier 12 Mar '20

12 Mar '20

Hi all, Given the rapidly changing situation around COVID-19, I just wanted to make sure everyone in the lab is aware that you are strongly encouraged to work from home and attend meetings virtually. A lot of us do this already, to varying degrees. At this moment, no one is strictly required to work from home, but just a reminder that it is an option that I would encourage you to consider seriously. Social distancing is one of the most effective means to avoid spreading of a disease, along with basic guidelines as follows. Regardless of whether you decide to work from home, we do want to heavily encourage everyone to follow PHAC guidelines <https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronav…> for preparing and staying healthy: Wash your hands with soap and water frequently (Handy graphical guide to best handwashing practices <https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmaritimeprogress.com%2Fw…>) If you are sick, stay home. Practice good cough and sneeze etiquette (cough or sneeze into a tissue and throw the tissue right away, or the inside of your elbow and wash your hands immediately) Avoid touching your face as much as possible, especially mouth, nose and eyes Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces (or, in lieu of this, wash your hands after touching such surfaces) Please do let me know if you have any questions or concerns, Best, Fanny

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[Tux] Professor Justine Cassell@ MaRS - Tuesday, March 10 at 12:30pm
by Anita Kivi 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

A reminder that Prof Cassell’s talk is scheduled for tomorrow in the MaRS Auditorium. [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 Professor Justine Cassell of Carnegie Mellon University and the founding international chair at the PRAIRIE Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI in Paris, France. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Fraser, Daniel and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture – Prof Justine Cassell: Conversational Commerce March 10, 2020. MaRS Auditorium @ 661 University Avenue, Toronto, ON. Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm. Professor Justine Cassell: Conversational Commerce 661 University Avenue, MaRS Auditorium<https://www.tux-hci.org/speaker/justine-cassell/?preview=true> [cid:image005.jpg@01D5F623.368546D0] “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. [cid:image009.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image007.jpg@01D5F623.368546D0] 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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[Tux] TUX: Professor Justine Cassell@ MaRS next week
by Anita Kivi 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

On Tuesday, March 10 we will be welcoming Prof Cassell at MaRS Auditorium for her talk. [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 Professor Justine Cassell of Carnegie Mellon University and the founding international chair at the PRAIRIE Institute on Interdisciplinary Research in AI in Paris, France. We look forward to seeing you there! Ali, Fraser, Daniel and Tovi Sanders Series Invited Lecture – Prof Justine Cassell: Conversational Commerce March 10, 2020. MaRS Auditorium @ 661 University Avenue, Toronto, ON. Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm. Professor Justine Cassell: Conversational Commerce 661 University Avenue, MaRS Auditorium<https://www.tux-hci.org/speaker/justine-cassell/?preview=true> [cid:image002.jpg@01D5F173.B0ADC950] “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. [cid:image009.png@01D357B6.5B82A7B0] OUR SPONSORS: [cid:image008.jpg@01D5F174.61F7D570] 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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[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 Meeting Tomorrow
by vicky 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Hi all, We will have an HCI meeting tomorrow at 12:30pm in the DGP conference room. Food will be served! Yasaman will be holding a brainstorming session for her FinTech project. We can probably fit in an additional brainstorm/other activity tomorrow, if anyone is interested-- just let me know. If you'd like to run a future HCI meeting feel free to ask me about it, or add yourself to the schedule: https://tinyurl.com/hcimeetings See you all tomorrow, Vicky

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Fwd: HCI/UX Tenure Stream Assistant Professor Position at the University of Toronto
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 29 Feb '20

29 Feb '20

FYI - UofT iSchool is hiring a TT faculty. Find the details below. 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…> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Olivier St-Cyr <olivier.st.cyr(a)utoronto.ca> Date: Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 8:34 PM Subject: HCI/UX Tenure Stream Assistant Professor Position at the University of Toronto To: Dear Colleagues: Please distribute this e-mail widely to your respective lab mailing list(s), your Post-Docs, your PhD students who are close to finishing, and anyone who you know might be interested in joining our growing UX program in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. We are particularly interested in people with expertise in user interface design and evaluation methods, information visualization, sustainability, and accessibility and inclusive design. The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto invites applications for a tenure stream position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience Design. The position start date is July 1, 2020, or shortly thereafter. More details can be found here: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?job=2000388&tz… Best, Olivier -- Olivier St-Cyr, PhD, LEL Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream Director, KMD Collaborative Specialization (interim) Faculty of Information University of Toronto +1-416-978-8876 olivier.st.cyr(a)utoronto.ca Office Hours: https://profstcyr.youcanbook.me/ Webpage: http://profstcyr.ca/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/profstcyr Twitter: http://twitter.com/profstcyr LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/profstcyr

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