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Czar

Current Czar: Izabelle Janzen mux-czar@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca

Past Czars:

• Soheil Kianzad (May 2016-2017)
• Izabelle Janzen bjanzen@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca (Sep 2014 - May 2016)
• Peter Beshai pbeshai@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca (Sep 2013 - Sep 2014)
• Andrea Kanneh kanneh@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca (May 2013 - Aug 2013)
• Brian Gleeson gleesonb@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca (Dec 2011 - Apr 2013)
• Michael Sedlmair (Jan 2011 - Nov 2011)

Full czar description and how-to

MUX Meeting Monthly Schedule

MUX socials will be once per term, to be scheduled on a case-by-case basis.

The concrete schedule of MUX meetings can be found as part of the imager-lab google calendar: imager-lab iCal

Presenter Queue

A Presenter Queue has been set up to help grads and postdocs to take turns and present/lead discussion during the bi-weekly MUX meetings. Please feel free to arrange your place (but not specifically reorder others) in the queue. The 2 persons at the top of the queue are first in line to present/prepare a discussion (at the next meeting). If you want to present/lead a discussion at a particular MUX meeting, email the czar and she/he'll slot you in. If you don't care about when to slotted in, keep your name in the queue. After it was your turn you will be moved to the end of the queue again.

Please keep track of the list in order to estimate when your turn will be. There also will be a general weekly reminders on the mux-lab mailing list, announcing the speakers/discussion leaders of this and the next week. However, keep in mind that there will be NO personal reminder. If you are for any reason not able to present at your assigned slot, it is your responsibility to find a person who can takes over your slot and email the czar.

If possible, presenters should make an effort to bring some snacks in for the group.

People currently out of the queue

What to do in your slot

You can choose from 4 options of what to do with "your" 25 minutes slot. These are:

1. Research Update talks and discussion: 10-15 minutes talk about your research + 10-15min discussion (for more guidance on the format of the talk see below)
2. Pick a research paper to discuss: You pick a paper that folks read before the meeting and then we will have a discussion introduces and led by you (a brief summary of the paper at the beginning is usually a good idea). Note that your are supposed to send out a link to the paper the Monday before the meeting (10am).
3. Talk + background reading: Mixes 1 and 2 ... You give a brief talk (~10 min) about some ideas of yours and also you provide a list of papers. From that list everyone picks just one paper and reads it upfront so we can have a more diverse discussion. Note that your are supposed to send out (a) a list of the papers plus links to them, and (b) a brief description of your ideas you want to talk about the Monday before the meeting (10am).
4. Special topic talk + discussion: You also can pick a special topic beyond your research focus that interests you (e.g. ethics, task management, literature organization tools, etc.) prepare a talk communicating your ideas and thoughts (~10 min) and leading the following discussion. Please make sure that you send out a brief summary of what you will talk about the Monday before the meeting.

General note: for all communication please use the mux-lab list.

Presentation Guidelines

Please keep in mind the three following aspects when preparing and giving a presentation:

• The presentations are meant to be informal, e.g., can be at any stage of your project for a research talk! It is NOT necessary to have a polished conference talk.

• Each presenter gets a strict 25 minutes time slot to present and discuss her/his work/ideas/etc. This makes it fairer for the 2nd presenter and gives us a little bit of time to discuss general things at the end of each meeting.

• The pure-talk time is restricted to 15 minutes, giving us at least 10 minutes for discussing your work. If the talk is longer than 15 minutes, the talk will be stopped. If you doing sth. more interactive going forth and back between discussion and presentation, you get the entire 20 minutes for this of course...

CHI Title/Abstract review session tips

Here is an efficient process which generated great feedback in 10min/paper:

1) assign a time keeper who gives a 1-min warning

2) start with abstract, then go on to the title in last 1-2 minutes once we understand what the paper’s about

3) focus discussion on items such as:

• Comprehensibility
• Relevance to CHI
• Clear contribution (type)
• Do you want to read this paper?
• Reviewer selection

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Master thesis presentation

If you want to present/defend your Master thesis in a MUX meeting you can do that and will get an entire slot (i.e. 50 minutes) for that, split in 30 min talk and 20 min discussion. Keep in mind that if the talk is longer than 30 minutes, the talk will be stopped!

Meetings, 2017

Meetings, 2016

Meetings, 2015

Date	Presenter	Tags	Description
Dec 2	Matt, Oliver, Paul	Conference Recap	Matt gave a recap of IEEE VIS 2015, Oliver gave a recap of ACM UIST 2015, and Paul gave a recap of ACM ICMI 2015
Nov 4	Laura Cang	Practice Talk	Laura presented the results of her research study investigating the effectiveness of the cuddle bot gesture recognition systems.
Nov 4	Oliver Schneider	Practice Talk	Oliver presented his haptic design tool in preparation for a conference presentation.
Oct 21	Paul Bucci	Research Presentation	Paul presented a talk on rapid prototyping in HCI.
Oct 21	Merel Jung	Guest Presentation	Merel presented her experiments to validate the effectiveness of the cuddle bot for helping children in hospitals.
Oct 7	Matt Brehmer	Practice Talk	Matt gave a practice talk for his IEEE InfoVis 15 paper: "Matches, Mismatches, and Methods: Multiple-View Workflows for Energy Portfolio Analysis"
Aug 26	Derek Cormier	Thesis presentation
Aug 19	Pax Escalona	Thesis presentation
Aug 5	Cathy & Ernest	Tour	Demo of the Decision Theatre in CIRS hosted by summer students Cathy & Ernest in the CIRS Building
July 15, 2015	Kamyar Ardekany	Research Update	Kamyar presented the design for his currently running experiment investigating suggestion systems for firefox features.
June 17, 2015	Johanna Fulda	Research Update	Johanna presented her work on timeline generation and natural language processing.
May 20, 2015	Oliver Schneider	Prototyping Discussion	Oliver organized a session on the various prototyping tools used in the MUX lab.
May 6, 2015	Ben Janzen	Research Update	Ben updated us on their submission to UIST and prototype for latency free pointing evaluation
	Derek Cormier	Research Update	Derek updated us on his study to evaluate his pear review system for supporting peer review in academic conferences.
April 1, 2015	Kailun Zhang	Research Update	Kailun updated us on the preliminary results from her experiment investigating pointing in older adults for home administered mental tests.
	Francisco Escalona	Research Update	Pax updated us on his prototype for natural pointing in the classroom.
Mar 4, 2015	Antoine Ponsard	Research Update	Antoine updated us on his prototype for more integrated and user friendly customization.
	Hasti Seifi	Research Update	Hasti updated us on the experiment results for her visualizations of vibrotactile libraries.
Feb 4, 2015	Oliver Schneider	Research Update	Oliver updated us on his thesis progress into haptic experience.
	Mona Haraty	Research Update	Mona updated us on the prototype for personalized task management software that she has been developing.
Jan 21 2015	Kamyar Adrekany	Research Update	Kamyar updated us on the systems and experiments he's been working on to intelligently provide help tutorials for less used features.
	Johanna Fulda	Research Update	Johanna introduced us to the tools she has been developing to automatically process news articles into easy to read, understand and disseminate timelines.
Nov 26 2014	Ben	544 Paper presentation	What's on Your Mind? Investigating Recommendations for Inclusive Social Networking and Older Adults
Nov 19 2014	Keyi	544 Paper presentation	Understanding Email Writers: Personality Prediction from Email Messages
	Qian	544 Paper presentation	Bau, Olivier, and Ivan Poupyrev. "REVEL: tactile feedback technology for augmented reality." ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 31.4 (2012): 89.
Nov 12 2014	Laura	544 Paper presentation	Touché: enhancing touch interaction on humans, screens, liquids, and everyday objects
	Stephanie	544 Paper presentation	Choe EK, Lee N, Lee B, Pratt W, Kientz J. Understanding quantified-selfers' practices in collecting and exploring personal data. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on human factors in computing systems. ACM; 2014:1143-1152.
Oct 29 2014	Laura	544 Paper presentation	BrainPort: An Alternative Input to the Brain by Danilov and Tyler (2005)
	Matthew	544 Paper presentation	Kaptelinin, V., & Nardi, B. (2012). Activity theory in HCI Morgan & Claypool Publishers.
Oct 22, 2014	Matt Brehmer	IEEE VIS '14 practice talk	Matt gave the presentation on the various issues in VIS designs they have encountered for the IEEE BELIV 2014 workshop
	Ben Janzen	Research Update	Ben updated us on the research he's been doing over the summer, and update Fitts law with results from large screen pointing
Oct 15 2014	Monica	544 Paper presentation	Trust me, I'm partially right: incremental visualization lets analysts explore large datasets faster by Fisher et al.
	Krista	544 Paper presentation	Information Scraps: How and Why Information Eludes Our Personal Information Management Tools by Bernstein et all
Oct 08, 2014	Francisco Escalona	Research Update	Francisco updated us on his plans to improve the teaching experience in a classroom through computer vision based pointing
	Derek Cormier	Research Update	Derek updated us on his plans surrounding the pear review system, and for creating a document independent annotation system
Oct 01 2014	Arvind	544 Paper presentation	Screenfinity: extending the perception area of content on very large public display by Schmidt et al, Proc. CHI '13.
	Xueqin Zhang	544 Paper presentation	Personalized News Recommendation Based on Click Behavior by Liu et al, Proc. IUI '10.
Sep 17, 2014	CHI Paper Review	Paper Review	MUX attendee's broke off into small groups to give feedback to authors submitting papers to CHI this year.
Sep 10, 2014	544 Discussion	Paper Pitches	The 544 grad buddy volunteers pitched there research areas to the 544 students. Students selected topics to present.
Aug 20, 2014	Andrew Strang	Research Update	Andrew updated us on the physical state of the haptic creature and showed off the current prototype.
	Kailun Zhang	Research Update	Kailun updated us on her plans to extend the work on C-TOC.
Aug 13, 2014	Peter Beshai	Master's Thesis Presentation	Peter presented his work entitled "Implementation and Evaluation of a Classroom Synchronous Participation System."
Aug 06, 2014	Michael Phan-Ba	Research Update	Michael updated us on his work with the cuddlebot.
	Antoine Ponsard	Research Update	Antoine updated us on the state of his research on advanced customization techniques.
Jul 30, 2014	Huan Li	Master's Essay Presentation	Huan gave a presentation on his Master's work on Multipresenter++.
Jul 23, 2014	Jessica Dawson	Brainstorm	We brainstormed project ideas for CPSC 344/544.
Jul 16, 2014	Matt Brehmer	Research Update	Matt updated us on his ongoing visualization design study in commercial energy management.
Jun 18, 2014	Matei Negulescu	Research Update	Matei updated us on his work on predicting tap location based on phone positional data.
Jun 04, 2014	Various	Conference Recap	People who had recently been to conferences (GI, CHI, GRAND) shared some highlights from their experience. (Joanna) Allison Woodruff. 2014. Necessary, unpleasant, and disempowering: reputation management in the internet age. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 149-158. DOI=10.1145/2556288.2557126 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2556288.2557126 (Hasti) Xing-Dong Yang's home page (Hasti) Experimental Study of Stroke Shortcuts for a Touchscreen Keyboard with Gesture-Redundant Keys Removed by Ken Hinckley (Antoine) Liu, Yong, et al. "CHI 1994-2013: Mapping two decades of intellectual progress through co-word analysis." (Peter) O’Rourke, Eleanor, et al. "Brain Points: A Growth Mindset Incentive Structure Boosts Persistence in an Educational Game." (2014).
May 21, 2014	Hasti Seifi	Research Update	Hasti updated us on her plans for researching vibrotactile feedback.
	Mona Haraty	Research Update	Mona gave an update on her work on personalized task managers.
Apr 23, 2014	Shathel Haddad	Practice Talk	Interface Design for Aging Adults with Varying Cultural Attitudes towards Uncertainty
Apr 16, 2014	543 and 554m Presentations	Class Presentations	Presentations of the projects completed in CPSC 543 and CPSC 554m were given.
Apr 02, 2014	Narges Mahyar	Visiting Speaker	Supporting team communication and coordination in visual analytics
Mar 19, 2014	Peter Beshai	Research Update	Peter gave an update on his work with clickers and discussed plans for an experiment.
Mar 05, 2014	Oliver Schneider	Research Update	Oliver gave an update on his current work on haptic design interfaces.
Feb 05, 2014	Andrew Strang	Research Brainstorm	We brainstormed on various aspects of the development of the haptic creature.
Jan 15, 2014	Hasti Seifi	Research Update	Hasti updated us on her work with customizing haptic vibrations and their association with affect
	Brian Gleeson	Research Update	Brian gave an update on his work on human-robot synchronization

Past Meetings