Past Newsletters
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September 2003
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Summer Barbeque
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Thanks to Karyn and Leah who organized a fabulous barbeque!
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Thanks to Rob Scharein for the photos. More available on his website.
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Imager Lab Meetings
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The new time and place for the Imager lab meetings has been confirmed for the fall.
Day: (every other) Wednesday
Time: 12:30-2:00
Place: MacMillian Building, 2357 Main Mall (across from CICSR)
Room: 260
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Hello!
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Welcome to all the new Imager grads! The Imager Lab Introductory session will be on November 11.
Thanks to Brian de Alwis and Barry Po for their organizing of the orientation activities!
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A very special welcome to Jason's baby, Anthony John Harrison!
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Good-bye!
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A number of people left us over the summer. Please let me know the names of those I missed!
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Xavier Granier is off to France! Congratulations and best of luck.
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Shirley Gaw is heading back to Princeton after spending the summer here at UBC. She will continue to be part of the Aphasia Project, so we hope to see her back here again soon. We'll miss you Shirley!
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Experiment Room
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A mailing list has been set up for Experiment Room (FSC2331) inquiries :hci-room@cs.ubc.ca
Christine Lee, Mike Xue, and Jason Harrison can all be contacted through that mailling list. Please use it to make all reservations and inquiries about the room.
An Experiment Room web page will soon be available and will list upcoming experiment dates.
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Lab Duties
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Over the summer lab duties were re-assigned. The new list is available here.
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CHI Student competition (thanks Regan)
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The 2004 CHI conference is holding a student competition. Each team will come up with a solution to the problem of audience participation in scoring judged events at the summer Olympics.
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More details here
The submission deadline for the competition is January 12, 2004
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Trivia (thanks Jason)
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Cognitive Capacity of Bees
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Bees have an impressive cognitive capacity, but the strategies used by
individuals in solving foraging tasks have been largely unexplored.
Here we test bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) in a colour-discrimination
task on a virtual flower meadow and find that some bees consistently
make rapid choices but with low precision, whereas other bees are
slower but highly accurate. Moreover, each bee will sacrifice speed in
favour of accuracy when errors are penalized instead of just being
unrewarded. To our knowledge, bees are the first example of an insect
to show between-individual and within-individual speed accuracy
trade-offs.
Nature Contents: 24 July 2003 Volume 424 No. 6947 pps 355-472
Psychophysics: Bees trade off foraging speed for accuracy
LARS CHITTKA, ADRIAN G. DYER, FIOLA BOCK & ANNA DORNHAUS
http://info.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/eBLw0BgFas0Ch0CnX0AZ
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Upcoming Conferences
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Please let me know of any conferences you would like to see listed here.
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EUROGRAPHICS |
September 1-6 2003, Granada, Spain |
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SIBGRAPI |
October 12-15 2003, Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil |
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InfoVis |
October 19-21 2003, Seattle, Washington
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VIS 2003 |
October 19-24 2003, Seattle, Washington
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UIST |
November 2-5 2003, Vancouver, BC |
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ICMI |
November 5-7 2003, Vancouver, BC |
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GROUP |
November 9-12 2003, Sanibel Island, Florida |
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CUU |
November 10-11 2003, Vancouver, BC |
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WSCG |
February 2-6 2004, Plzen, Czech Republic |
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CHI |
April 24-29 2004, Vienna, Austria |
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Graphics Interface |
May 17-19 2004, London, Ontario |
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CASA |
May 26-28 2004, Geneva, Switzerland |
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CSCW |
May 26-28 2004, Xiamen, P.R. China |
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SIGGRAPH |
August 8-12 2004, Los Angeles, California |
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Drop me a line if you want anything in the next newsletter: Rhian [davies at cs] All items greatly appreciated!
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