Imager Socials

Description

Held on 4th Wed of month, generally Sept-Nov, Jan-May.

Current Moderator: Karon MacLean (history at bottom of page)

Imager socials are held in x836 as a mix of socializing and short talks:

12:30: pizza and informal chatting
12:45-1:00, 1:05-1:20: two 10-minute talks (+5m questions each), pitched at level for all of Imager)
between the two talks: announcements, arrivals/departures, news events
til 2: finish the pizza and chatting.

Imager faculty claim slots at start of term, and take responsibility for identifying a speaker (themselves, an articulate grad or postdoc) and a title.
Moderator reminds faculty owner and/or speaker 2-3 weeks in advance to supply speaker/title
Moderator announces forum a few days in advance of event, and again the same day.
Imager GA deals with pizza.

January 22nd: Final Siggraph deadline Jan 22. Evening party following week? or in Feb?
1. full period: Siggraph review? Too close? or else cancel?

November 27th
1. HCI - Oliver Schneider (PhD; MacLean): "Haptic Jazz: Collaborative Touch with the Haptic Instrument"
2. Graphics - James Gregson (PhD; Heidrich): "Fluid velocity estimation"
October 23rd
1. HCI - Juliette Link (MSc; McGrenere/Booth): "A Model and Analysis of Two-handed Interaction with a Keyboard and Pointing Device"
2. Graphics - Daniel Troniak/Chuan Zhu (MSc; van de Panne/Pai): "Structured Predictions from Sensorimotor Data during Non-prehensile Manipulation"
September 25th
1. Introductions

September 26th
1. Introductions
October 24th
1. HCI - Louise Oram (MSc; MacLean): Interacting with Radiology Images
2. Graphics - Mikhail Bessmeltsev (MSc; Alla Sheffer): "Design-Driven Quadrangulation of Closed 3D Curves"
November 28th
1. HCI - Diane Tam (MSc; MacLean/McGrenere): "A Haptic Notification System for Timing Awareness During Oral Presentations."
2. Graphics - Shuo Shen (MSc; van de Panne): "The Uprising of Simulated Characters"
January 23rd
1. SIGGRAPH video show
February 27th
1. HCI/Vis - Matei Negulescu (PhD; McGrenere): A Recognition Safety Net: Bi-Level Thresholding for Mobile Motion Gestures
2. Graphics - Ben Humberston (MSc; Pai): Dihaptic: An Intuitive Interface for Creating Dexterous Manipulations
March 27th
1. HCI - Idin Karuei (PhD; MacLean): "Rhythm Susceptibility Study"
2. Graphics - Essex Edwards (PhD; Bridson): "Fine Water on Coarse Grids"
April 24th
1. Graphics - Todd Keeler (PhD; Bridson): "Smoke and Waves and Integral Equations"
2. Graphics - Stephen Ingram (PhD; Munzner): title TBA
May 22nd
1. HCI - Syavash Nobarany (PhD; Booth): How do reviewing motivations differ across reviewers?
2. Graphics - Chongyang Ma (Postdoc; Sheffer): Dynamic Element Textures
June 26th. Cancelled.

September 28th
1. HCI - Mona Haraty (PhD; McGrenere): "A field investigation of personal task management"
2. Viz - Michael Sedlmair (PDF; Munzner): "Characterizing Dimensionally Reduced Data: Human Judgement vs. Quality Metrics"
October 26th
1. HCI - Idin Karuei (PhD) and Oliver Schneider (MSc) (MacLean): "A Frequency Based Gait Measurement Algorithm for Mobile Phones"
2. Graphics - Matthias Hullin (PDF; Heidrich): "Bixels"
November 23rd Problems & challenges in graphics
March 28th
1. Graphics - Alla Sheffer: "Garment Resizing"
2. Graphics/Neuro - Timothy Edmunds (PDF; Pai): "Virtual Surgeries for Probing Motor Control"
April 25th
1. HCI - John Harris (Phd; MacLean) - "The Joys of Making Real Things"
2. Graphics - Shailen Agrawal (Phd; van de Panne) - "Crowd Sourcing Controllers for Character Animation"
May 23rd
1. HCI/Visualization - Matthew Brehmer (PhD; Munzner / McGrenere) - "Document mining in data journalism: 2 evaluation projects"
2. Graphics - Robert Bridson

January 26th - canceled in lieu of Jan 28 Imager Party
February 23rd
1. HCI - Garth Shoemaker (new postdoc; Booth): "Body Centric Interaction with Very Large Wall Displays"
2. Graphics - Ben Jones (MSc; van de Panne): "I've fallen and I CAN get up. Fall recovery controllers for physically simulated characters"
March 23rd
1. Graphics - Gordon Wetzstein (PhD; Heidrich) - "Glasses-Free 3D Displays of the Future"
2. HCI - Charlotte Tang (postdoc; McGrenere) - "Computer Use and Interruptions in the Home"
April 27th
1. Viz - Stephen Ingram (PhD; Munzner) - "Large Document Corpus Visualization for Data Journalism"
2. HCI - Steve Yohanan (PhD; MacLean) - "Social Human-Robot Interaction through Affective Touch"
May 25th
1. Graphics - Tyson Brochu (PhD; Bridson): "Really, Really Robust Collision Detection."
2. Graphics - Ron Maharik (MSc; Sheffer): "Context-Aware Garment Modeling"
June 22nd - replaced by Imager Spring/Summer Beach Party
July 27th - no social
August 24th - no social
September 28th
October 26th
November 23rd

August 25th
September 22nd
1. Stelian Coros (postdoc; van de Panne)
2. David Levine (postdoc; Pai).
October 27th
1. Jeff Hendy (PhD; Booth / McGrenere):"Graphically Enhanced Keyboard Accelerators"
2. Vincent Levesque (Postdoc; MacLean):"Enhancing Physicality in Touch Interaction with Programmable Friction".
November 24th - Pizza only
December 22nd - canceled - holiday.

Send out general call for speakers, to faculty, at beginning of term (try to fill whole term)
1 week in advance (can do at imager facstaff mtg)
- Remind speakers
- Ask for news announcements from faculty
- Add these to news on website
At event & afterwards:
- Announce news events
- Announce speakers

4-5 socials in a given term -> 8-10 slots or about one for each of us.
- -> Every faculty should be represented by a talk (student, postdoc, self) ~once during term
- Co-supervised by two imager faculty -> only counts half
Shut down for Jun-Aug
Replaced by Imager party, sometime in summer, and in January (2011).

Topic revision: r80 - 2014-03-07 - LauraSelander