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---++ Meetings, 2013
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| Dec 04, 2013 | Syavash Nobarany  | Research Update | Syavash gave an update on his work on peer-reviews. |
| Nov 20, 2013 | Mona Haraty       | Research Update | Mona gave an update on her prototype for personalized task management systems: "Meta-designing a personal task management system" |
| ^            | Idin Karuei       | Research Update       | Idin gave an update on his research on affecting walking cadence with haptics: "Periodic Vibrotactile Guidance of Human Cadence"  |
| November 5 | Andrea Bunt | Visiting Speaker | "Understanding and Improving User Experience with Complex Software" |
| October 16 | Louise Oram | MSc Presentation | "Scrolling in Radiology Image Stacks: Multimodal Annotations and Diversifying Control Mobility" |
| October 09 | Matt Brehmer | InfoVis Practice Talk | "A Multi-Level Typology of Abstract Visualization Tasks" |
| October 02 | Matei Negulescu | UIST Practice Talk | "Open Project: A Lightweight Framework for Remote Sharing of Mobile Applications" |
| ^    | Peter Beshai | Research Update | Peter gave an update on the clicker system he has been working on. |
| September 25 | Oliver Schneider | HAPTICS Paper Review | "Haptic Jazz: Collaborative Touch with the Haptic Instrument" |
| September 11 | Louise Oram | CHI Paper Review | "A Model and Analysis of Two-Handed Interaction with a Keyboard and Pointing Device" |
| ^    | Juliette Link | ^ | "Stack Scrolling: Diversification and Use of Vibrotactile Feedback" |
| September 4 | Shathel Haddad | CHI Paper Review | "East is Not West: Interface Design for Older Adults with Varying Cultural Attitudes toward Uncertainty" | 
| August 7  | Andrea & Brian  | Discussion| Discussion on strategies for writing effective research papers | 
| July 27  | Joel Ferstay  | Presentation  | Visualizing Genetic Sequence Variants in their Gene |
| July 17  | Larissa Leong  | Presentation  | Mechanical Turk |
| July 3  | Hasti Seifi   | Paper  | Role of REBs in modern research |
| June 26  | Shathel   | MSc Presentation| East is not West: Is there Validity in Cultural Usability? |
| June 19  | Mona Haraty (lead discussion)   | Discussion  | CHI and GI 2013 discussion |
| June 5  | Visitor Sharifa Alghowinem - Phd student Australian National University  | Presentation  | From Joyous to Clinically Depressed: Mood detection using multi-modal analysis of a person's appearance and speech |
| April 24  | 554m Final Project students   | Course taught by Joanna McGrenere  | Three Groups of Students presented their final projects for this course |
| April 10  | Antoine Ponsard  | Guest Lecture  | Visiting student Antoine gave a talk on his work with very large screen displays  |
| April 3  | Diane Tam  | CHI Practice Talk  | Diane practiced her CHI talk, "Design and Field Observations of a Haptic Notification System for Timing Awareness During Oral Presentations"  |
| March 20  | Juliet Link  | Research Update  | Juliet gave an update on her research with some preliminary results- "Two-Handed Interactions with Design Applications"  |
| March 6  | Matt and Syavash  | Research Update, etc.  | Syavash gave a talk on "privacy and peer review", and Matt discussed work he's submitting to InfoVis '13 later this month, "A taxonomy of multi-level visualization tasks".  |
| Feb 13  | Brian  | Practice Talk  | Brian gave a practice talk on "Design of Human-Robot Interaction For Assembly Tasks" for the HRI conference  |
| Feb 4  | Tony Tang  | Guest Lecture  | Visiting Research Tony Tang from the University of Calgary spoke on "Representation and Remote Interaction"  |
| Jan 16  | Hasti  | Research Update  | Hasti gave a research update on affect and perception of tactile stimuli and we discussed experimental design  |
| ^  | Louise  | Research Update  | Louise brought us up to date on her research with Haptics in Radiology Image Interaction  |


---++ Meetings, 2012
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| * Date * | * Presenter * | * Tags * | * Description * |
| Nov 21  | All  | Misc.  | Matt Brehmer and others gave an introduction to the qualitative methods class, then we discussed some general MUX issues  |
| Nov 7  | Salma Kheiravar  | Research Presentation  | "Tablet PC in Education"  |
| Oct 24  | Vasanth Rajendran  | MSc Presentation  | "Interaction with Large Stereoscopic Displays"  |
| October 3  | Diane  | MSc Presentation  | "The design and field observation of a haptic notification system for timing awareness and speaker notification"  |
| September 12  | Diane  | CHI Paper Review  | "Haptic Reminder"  |
| ^  | Mona  | CHI Paper Review  | "A Model of Triggers to Changes in Personal Task Management"  |
| September 5  | Syavash  | CHI Paper Review  | "Use of Politeness Strategies in Signed Open Peer Review"  |
| ^  | Kerem  | CHI Paper Review  | Recognizing a User’s Affect Through Touch of a Robot  |
| August 29  | Oliver  | MSc Presentation  | Oliver presented his MSc work on gait recognition: "Sensing gait on smartphones to support mobile exercise applications and games"  |
| August 15  | Anna  | MSc Presentation  | Anna gave a summary of her work with the fur sensor titled, "Sensing and Recognizing Affective Touch in a Zoomorphic Object"  |
| August 1  | Mona  | Research Update  | Mona gave a talk on Changes in Personal Task Management Behavior and got some feedback from the group  |
| ^  | Kerem  | Research Update  | Kerem gave an update on his work on Gesture Recognition for the haptic creature and we discussed some ways to present his data  |
| July 18  | Syavash  | Research update  | Syavash talked about prelim results of his large-scale survey with CHI reviewers  |
| ^  | Idin  | Research update  | Idin talked about his plans on conducting a user study to test haptic feedback to guide walking speed  |
| July 4  | Jeremy Cooperstock  | Guest Lecture  | Jeremy Coopertock of McGill gave a guest lecture, "They don't use Skype on the Holodeck"  | 
| June 20  | Joey Scarr and Stephen Fitchett  | Guest Lecture  | Visiting students from the University of Canterbury gave two guest talks: Stephen: "Using better predictions to help you find files" and Joey: "Improving command selection with CommandMaps"  | 
| June 6  | Oliver  | Research Update  | Oliver talked about his work with inertial sensors in phones and how to get the best data out of them.  |
| May 23  | Mona  | Practice talk  | Mona gave a practice talk for the GI confernce  |
| May 16  | Mary Muir  | Practice talk  | Mary gave a practice talk "An Analysis of Attention to student-adaptive hints in an educational game"  |
| April 25  | Matthew  | CHI Practice talk  | Matt gave a practice talk on evaluating the effects of distraction on older users in a cognitive evaluation test.  |
| April 18  | All  | Karon's Haptics Class demos  | Karon's 543 class gave presentations and demoed their class projects. We had some good snacks and played with cool devices.  |
| April 11  | Syavash  | CHI Practice talk  |   |
| April 4  | Jill Woelfer  | CHI Practice Talk  | Visiting scholar Jill gave an interesting talk, "Homeless young people on social network sites"  |
| March 28  | All  | Imager Social  | Alla Sheffer and Timothy Edmunds spoke about "Garment Resizing" and "Virtual Surgeries for Probing Motor Control", respectively. There was lots of pizza.  |
| March 21  | Shathel  | Research Talk  | Shathel gave a talk on his research entitled "East is not West: cross-cultural design of a home-based cognitive testing tool". The talk inspired lots of good discussion.  |
| March 14  | All  | MUX Social  | Chatting and tasty food  |
| March 7  | All  | No Meeting  | Everyone gone at Haptics Symposium  |
| Feb 29  | Anna  | Practice Talk  | Anna practiced her Haptics Symposium Fur Sensor talk  |
| Feb 15  | Brian  | Research Talk  | Brian gave a Haptics Symposium practice talk titled, "Mental Rotation of Directional Tactile Stimuli"  |
| Feb 8  | All  | MUX Social  | Hanging out and chatting  |
| Feb 1  | Kerem  | Research Talk  | Kerem gave a brief summary of his PhD research and presented and outline of his future research plans  |
| ^  | Mona  | Research Talk  | Mona presented on her ongoing work in personal task management and we discussed some ideas for her future work  |
| Jan 19  | Syavash  | Practice Talk  | Syavash gave a practice talk for his CSCW paper  |
| Jan 25  | All  | Imager Social  | We got to see all of the SIGRAPH video submissions from Imager. It was pretty cool.  |

---++ Meetings, 2011 
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| * Date * | * Presenter * | * Tags * | * Description * |
| Dec 14  | Yasaman  | MSc Presentation  | Yasaman gave her MSc presentation on her research with the haptic creature  |
| Dec 10  | All  | Holiday Party  | Holiday party at Karon's house. Lots of fun.  |
| Nov 30  | Mohan  | MSc Presentation  | Mohan gave his MSc presentation on his research in dialog box interfaces for childeren  |
| Nov 16  | Michael Terry  | Guest Talk  | Presented his group's research - "Google Knows What You Hate About Your Kindle: Using Search Queries to Infer User Needs and Desires in Consumer Products"  |
| Nov 9  | All    | MUX Social  | Social Time  |
| Nov 3  | Hasti  | Paper  | Greenberg S. and Buxton B.: Usability evaluation considered harmful (some of the time), CHI 2008.  |
| ^  | Charlotte  | Paper  | Zimmerman J., Stolterman E. and Forlizzi J.: An analysis and critique of research through design: towards a formalization for a research approach. DIS 2010.  |
| Oct 19  | All  | MUX social  | Getting together and chatting with folks.  |
| Oct 12  | Joel Lanir  | guest talk  | presented his research group's work on "Examining proactiveness and choice in a context-aware mobile museum guide".  |
| Oct 5 | Yasaman  | research update  | Yasaman presented her work on "TAMER - Touch Guided Anxiety Management via Engagement with a Robotic Pet". </td>  |
| ^  | Vincent  | research update  | Vincent gave an update on his recent work on "Exploring the Design Space for Enhanced Touch Interactions".  |
| Sept 21  | All  | CHI prep  | discussing Charlotte's CHI paper draft.  |
| Sept 14  | All  | CHI prep  | discussing Mona's and Syavash's CHI paper drafts.  |
| Sept 7  | Gokhan  | MSc presentation  | Gokhan  gave his MSc presentation.  |
| Aug 24  | Matthew  | MSc presentation  | Matthew gave his MSc presentation.  |
| Aug 17  | All/Kelly  | Combined social/ practice talk  | After socializing, Kelly gave a practice version of his upcoming talk at Interact'11.  |
| Aug 10  | All  | Group discussion  | We had a group discussion on Reference Management Software.  |
| Jul 13  | All  | 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 6  | Kanupriya  | research wrap up  | talked about her time here at UBC, showed design alternatives for Rock's Help Kiosk, and discussed her design process.  |
| ^  | Garth  | research update  | presented his initial ideas on future research with traditional desktop and laptop computers and started off a lively group discussion from there.  |
| Jun 15 | All  | MUX lab workparty  | Space cleanup/ reorg in x508.  |
| Jun 8 | All  | MUX Social  | Scott and Michael brought yummy food.  |
| Jun 1  | Dane  | research update  | 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  | research update  | presented an update about his research on how to design dialog boxes for children.  |
| May 25  | All  | CHI postmortem  | We retrospectively discussed CHI papers in terms of content: personal best papers, research implications for MUX, etc.  |
| May 18  | All  | CHI postmortem  | We retrospectively discussed CHI presentations and madness in terms of presentation style, dos and don'ts, etc.  |
| May 4  | Matthew P  | CHI prep  | Matthew gave his CHI practice talk  |
| ^  | Michael  | ^  | Michael gave his CHI practice talk  |
| Apr 27  | Idin  | CHI prep  | Idin gave his CHI practice talk  |
| ^  | Vincent  | ^  | Vincent gave his CHI practice talk  |
| Apr 19  | All  | Special session  | Final project presentations for 554m and 543  |
| ^  | ^  | ^  | Potluck lunch  |
| Apr 6 | Mona  | research update  | reported on her research on adaptive information visualization.  |
| ^  | Amir  | research update  | presented his research on interruptions.  |
| Mar 23  | All  | CHI prep  | CHI Madness preparation talks.  |
| Mar 16  | Syavash  | research update  | presented an outline of his research about novel and alternative approaches for peer-reviewing systems.  |
| ^  | Michael  | research update  | presented the current state of his research on human factors in high dimensional data analysis.  |
| Mar 9  | All  | MUX social  | Louise and Gordon brought yummy food.  |
| Mar 2  | Gordan  | research update  | presented an update on his research about multi-tasking by implicit interaction.  |
| ^  | Louise  | research update  | presented an update on her research on haptic scrolling for small touchscreens.  |
| Feb 23  | All  | Discussion  | Informal Evaluation of redesigned CS Webpage  |
| Feb 9  | Carman Neustaedter  | guest talk  | presented his research group's work on "Connecting Families through Video, Social Media, and Games".  |
| Feb 2  | Ricardo  | research update  | presented an update on his research about designing music producing instruments with haptic feedback  |
| ^  | Idin  | research update  | presented an update on his research about haptic feedback loop  |
| Jan 26  | Rock  | research update  | 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  | research update  | 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  | Yasaman  | research update  | presented her research & experimental design and sought feedback.  |
| ^ | Garth  | research update  | presented findings about Fitt's law.  |
| Jan 12  | Matthew Brehmer  | research update  | presented his research on interruptions and older adults.  |
| ^ | Joanna  | | First MUX meeting. Joanna explained about the structure of future meetings and mux-* mailing lists.  |
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