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We have decided to hit the 'Hibernate' button on IDRG as of Jan 2011.
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What is the IDRG?
We are an informal reading group that meets once a week to discuss papers related to human-computer interaction (HCI). In addition, we often use the IDRG meeting slot for practice conference talks, MSc thesis presentations, and guest speakers.
How does it work?
We collectively decide on a theme we'd like to explore, and then individual members of the group select papers within that theme and lead the discussion on their chosen paper. Typically a theme lasts for 2 to 4 weeks and there is usually one reading per week. Each member is asked to bring at least one question about the paper to the meeting.
When and where do you meet?
Our meeting time this term (September-December 2010) is every Tuesday from 2:00pm - 3:00pm in x836.
How do I get involved?
Come to a meeting (see details above) and/or subscribe to the mailing list. New participants are always welcome, but please note that this is a local reading group.
To subscribe, email majordomo@cs.ubc.ca with "subscribe idrg-l" in the body (not the subject line) of the message. The list email address is idrg-l at cs.ubc.ca.
To unsubscribe, email the same address with the command "unsubscribe idrg-l".
Tips and Suggestions
Meeting Presenter Queue (requires UBC CS id to logon)
Archived meetings from previous years
| Dec 17, 2010 | HCI Group Christmas party |
| Potluck dinner followed by Yankee swap game. | |
| Dec 2, 2010 | HCI/MUX Social |
| Nov 30, 2010 | Information encountering, Mona Haraty |
| Marshall, C.C. and Bly, S. Saving and using encountered information: Implications for Electronic Periodicals. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '05, (2005), 111. [doi] | |
| Nov 23, 2010 | Interplay of statistics, InfoVis and HCI, Michael |
| Hadley Wickham, Dianne Cook, Heike Hofmann, and Andreas Buja. Graphical Inference for Infovis IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS, VOL. 16, NO. 6, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2010 [ieee] | |
| Nov 16, 2010 | Brainstorming and discussion, Mohanr, Charlotte, Rock |
| Mohanr presented his research and invited members to brainstorm on potential design ideas. Charlotte, Rock led the discussion about resuming HCI grad research forum. | |
| Nov 9, 2010 | Social Intelligence, Syavash |
| Thomas Erickson. 'Social' systems: designing digital systems that support social intelligence AI & SOCIETY Volume 23, Number 2, 147-166, DOI: 10.1007/s00146-007-0140-3 [springer] | |
| Nov 2, 2010 | Avatars, Jeff Hendy |
| Ducheneaut, N., Wen, M., Yee, N., and Wadley, G. Body and mind: a study of avatar personalization in three virtual worlds CHI '09 [acm] | |
| Oct 26, 2010 | Mechanical Turk, Kelly |
| Bernstein, M. S., Little, G., Miller, R. C., Hartmann, B., Ackerman, M. S., Karger, D. R., Crowell, D., and Panovich, K. Soylent: a word processor with a crowd inside. UIST '10 [acm] | |
| Oct 19, 2010 | Interruptions in HCI, Matt |
| Monk, C. A., J. G. Trafton, and D. A. Boehm-Davis. The effect of interruption duration and demand on resuming suspended goals. Journal of experimental psychology. Applied 14, no. 4 (December 2008): 299-313. [interruptions.net] | |
| Oct 12, 2010 | Human-aided computing, Zoltan |
| Pradeep Shenoy. Human-aided computing: utilizing implicit human processing to classify images. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Pages: 845-854, 2008 [acm] | |
| Oct 5, 2010 | Enhancing Physicality in Touch Interaction with Programmable Friction, Vincent Levesque |
| Vincent Levesque. Paper submitted to CHI 2011. Under review. [acm] | |
| Sep 28, 2010 | Children, learning and Technology, Mohanr |
| Sugata Mitra. Self organising systems for mass computer literacy: Findings from the 'hole in the wall' experiments. International Journal of Development Issues Vol. 4, No. 1 (2005) 71 - 8 [pdf] | |
| Sep 21, 2010 | CHI Draft reviews |
| About a dozen IDRG members engaged in group discussions on 8 papers that were being considered for submission to the CHI 2011 conference. | |
| Sep 14, 2010 | Welcome session for new students, Rock |
| Discussion on Ten simple rules for: Doing Your Best Research, Getting Published and being a good graduate student. [pdf] |