ISocials < Imager

---+ Imager Socials

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---++ Description

See also the [[http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/96hkljo5uc5a0p05ronloklusk%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics]["imager-lab" google calendar]].

Current Moderator: Alla !Sheffer (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.



---+++ Setup: 
   * 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.


---++ IMAGER Social Schedule 2012/13 
   * 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): title TBA
      2. Graphics - Shuo Shen (MSc; van de Panne): "The Uprising of Simulated Characters"
   * January 23rd
      1. SIGGRAPH video show
   * February 27th
      1. HCI/Vis - Jessica Dawson (MSc; McGrenere/Munzner): title TBA
      2. Graphics - Ben Humberston (Pai): title TBA
   * March 27th
      1. HCI - Idin Karuei (!PhD; !MacLean): "Rhythm Susceptibility Study"
      2. Graphics - Essex Edwards (!PhD; Bridson): title TBA
   * April 24th
      1. Graphics - Todd Keeler (!PhD; Bridson): title TBA
      2. Graphics - Stephen Ingram (!PhD; Munzner): title TBA
   * May 22nd
      1. HCI - 
      2. Graphics - Daniel Troniak (MSc; Pai/van de Panne): title TBA
 
  


---++ IMAGER Social Schedule 2011/12 W1
   * 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 
 
      
       
---++ IMAGER Social Schedule 2010/11 W2
   * 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"
      1. 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
 
---++ IMAGER Social Schedule 2010
   * 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.

---++ IMAGER Social Schedule 2006

<a href="ImagerSocials">2006 Imager Socials schedule</a>

---++ ISocial czar responsibilities and history

---+++ ISocial Czar responsibilities
   * 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
    

---+++ Frequency of participation
   * 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). 



---+++ Position  held by:
   * 2012 - W2 - Alla
   * 2011-12 W1 - Karon
   * 2010-11 W2 - Karon
   * 2010-11 W1 - Tamara (inaugural)
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Topic revision: r57 - 2012-11-20 - LauraSelander