MUX Meeting

What happened? (2011)

Nov 3, 2011	Paper discussions
	Greenberg S. and Buxton B.: Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time), CHI 2008. (Discussion led by Hasti Seifi)
	Zimmerman J., Stolterman E. and Forlizzi J.: An analysis and critique of research through design: towards a formalization for a research approach. DIS 2010. (Discussion led by Charlotte Tang)
Oct 19, 2011	MUX Social
	Getting together, having yummy snacks and chatting with folks.
Oct 12, 2011	Guest talk
	Dr. Joel Lanir from University of Haifa, Department of Information Systems, presented his research group's work on "Examining proactiveness and choice in a context-aware mobile museum guide".
Oct 5, 2011	Work-in-progress presentations
	Yasaman Sefidgar presented her work on "TAMER - Touch Guided Anxiety Management via Engagement with a Robotic Pet".
	Vincent Levesque gave an update on his recent work on "Exploring the Design Space for Enhanced Touch Interactions".
Sept 21, 2011	CHI prep
	We were discussing CHI paper drafts.
Sept 14, 2011	CHI prep
	We were discussing CHI paper drafts.
Sept 7, 2011	MSc presentation
	Gokhan Himmetoglu gave his 6-credit thesis presentation talking about "Participatory Design of a Biometrically-driven Portable Audio Player".
Aug 24, 2011	MSc presentation
	Matthew Brehmer gave his MSc presentation talking about "Usability & the Effects of Interruption in C-TOC: Self-Administered Cognitive Testing on a Computer".
Aug 17, 2011	Combined social/ practice talk
	After socializing, Kelly Booth gave a practice version of his upcoming talk at Interact'11.
Aug 10, 2011	Group discussion
	We had a group discussion on Reference Management Software.
Jul 13, 2011	Combined social/ group discussion
	After having some yummy food we had a group discussion of best practices in video coding with perspectives from different fields.
Jul 06, 2011	Work-in-progress presentations
	Kanupriya talked about her time here at UBC, showed design alternatives for Rock's Help Kiosk, and discussed her design process.
	Garth Shoemaker presented his initial ideas on future research with traditional desktop and laptop computers and started off a lively group discussion from there.
Jun 15, 2011	MUX lab workparty
	Space cleanup/ reorg in x508.
Jun 8, 2011	MUX Social
	Scott and Michael brought yummy food.
June 1, 2011	Work-in-progress presentations
	Dane talked about his research how QTCs might be utilized for interacting with the haptic creature and which issues he identified that must be overcome to do so (e.g. hysteresis).
	Mohan R presented an update about his research on how to design dialog boxes for children.
May 25, 2011	CHI postmortem (part II)
	We discussed CHI content: What was your favourite talk? Any trends where HCI research is heading to and what does this mean for our research?
May 18, 2011	CHI postmortem (part I)
	We discussed CHI presentation styles: What were the common characteristics of good/not so good presentations/ madness presentations? What did you like/dislike about the way presenters handled the questions / about the way audience asked questions?
May 4, 2011	CHI practice talks (part II)
	1. Speaker: Matthew Pan - Physiologically Triggered Bookmarks for Audio Books
	2. Speaker: Michael Sedlmair - Cardiogram: Visual Analysis for Automotive Engineers
Apr 27, 2011	CHI practice talks (part I)
	1. Speaker: Idin Karuei - Detecting Vibrations Across the Body in Mobile Contexts
	2. Speaker: Vincent Levesque - Enhancing Physicality in Touch Interaction with Programmable Friction
Apr 19, 2011	Special session
	Final project presentations for 554m and 543
	Potluck lunch
Apr 06, 2011	Work-in-progress presentations
	Mona Haraty reported on her research on adaptive information visualization.
	Amirhossein Mehrabian presented his research on interruptions.
Mar 23, 2011	CHI Madness Preparation
	All CHI'11 speakers got the opportunity to practice and discuss their 20s Madness presentations.
Mar 16, 2011	Work-in-progress presentations
	Syavash Nobarany presented an outline of his research about novel and alternative approaches for peer-reviewing systems.
	Michael Sedlmair presented the current state of his research on human factors in high dimensional data analysis.
Mar 09, 2011	MUX Social
	Louise and Gordon brought yummy food.
Mar 02, 2011	Work-in-progress presentations
	Gordon Chang presented an update on his research about multi-tasking by implicit interaction.
	Louise Oram presented an update on her research on haptic scrolling for small touchscreens.
Feb 23, 2011	Discussion
	Informal Evaluation of redesigned CS Webpage
Feb 09, 2011	Guest talk
	Carman Neustaedter from Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Art + Technology presented his research group's work on "Connecting Families through Video, Social Media, and Games".
Feb 02, 2011	Work-in-progress presentations
	Ricardo presented an update on his research about designing music producing instruments with haptic feedback.
	Idin Karuei presented an update on his research about haptic feedback loop.
Jan 26, 2011	Work-in-progress presentations
	Rock Leung presented his research about improving the learnability of mobile interfaces for seniors. He also sought suggestions for his upcoming study and thesis defense.
	Tao Su presented an update on his research that is building up on Jen's work on using table top displays to help architects, by augmenting it with external large scale displays.
Jan 19, 2011	Work-in-progress presentations
	Yasaman Sefidgar presented her research and experimental design for a forthcoming experiment and sought feedback.
	Garth Shoemaker presented his findings about Fitt's law and sought feedback on effective ways for presenting the findings.
Jan 12, 2011	First MUX meeting
	Joanna introduced the MUX meeting and mailing lists.
	Matthew Brehmer presented his research.

What is the MUX?

Multimedia User eXperience. We are a group of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) researchers at CS (staff, postdocs & students) who meet once a week. We use this time for students to present their research in informal sessions and solicit feedback; to discuss papers; to practice conference talks, MSc thesis presentations, and feature guest speakers.

How does it work?

Since this is a new group, we are still trying things out and figuring out to see how this will take shape.

When and where do you meet?

Our meeting time this term (Jan-April 2011) is every Wednesday 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.

Mailing list structure

Mailing list	Closed/Open for subscription	Description
mux-friends	Open	If you have not recently been a regular IDRG or SPIN attendee, but would like to maintain awareness of the HCI activities in CS at UBC (for example, get talk announcements ..etc) then you belong on mux-friends. For example, alumni would fit in this category.
mux-faculty	Closed	HCI faculty at CS - Kelly Booth, Karon MacLean, Joanna McGrenere, Tamara Munzner, Cristina Conati, and Giuseppe Carenini.
mux-postdocs	Closed	Postdocs working with faculty listed above.
mux-grads	Closed	Graduate students working with faculty listed above.
mux-ugrads	Closed	Undergraduate students working with factulty listed above.
mux-other	Closed	If you have been a (fairly) regular IDRG attendee recently and want to keep coming to meetings, but don't fit into any of the mux-lab categories, then you belong in mux-other. Email joanna at cs to get yourself added.

To subscribe to mux-friends, email majordomo@cs.ubc.ca with "subscribe mux-friends" in the body (not the subject line and without quotes) of the message. The list email address is mux-friends at cs.ubc.ca.

To unsubscribe, email the same address with the command "unsubscribe mux-friends".

There are 2 meta-lists: 1. mux-all, which includes all the mailing lists mentioned above and 2. mux-lab, which includes all mailing lists except mux-friends To add to or change the order of the presenter queue - MUX Roster (requires UBC CS ID to logon)
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