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Meetings, 2012

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"
September 12	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"
September 5	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
August 1	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
July 18	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
Feb 1	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.

Winter Meetings, 2011

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.
Nov 3	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".
Oct 5	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.
Jul 6	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).
Jun 1	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
May 4	Michael	CHI prep	Michael gave his CHI practice talk
Apr 27	Idin	CHI prep	Idin gave his CHI practice talk
Apr 27	Vincent	CHI prep	Vincent gave his CHI practice talk
Apr 19	All	Special session	Final project presentations for 554m and 543
Apr 19	All	Special session	Potluck lunch
Apr 6	Mona	research update	reported on her research on adaptive information visualization.
Apr 6	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.
Mar 16	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.
Mar 2	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
Feb 2	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.
Jan 26	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.
Jan 19	Garth	research update	presented findings about Fitt's law.
Jan 12	Matthew Brehmer	research update	presented his research on interruptions and older adults.
Jan 12	Joanna		First MUX meeting. Joanna explained about the structure of future meetings and mux-* mailing lists.

-- BrianGleeson - 24 Jan 2012

Topic revision: r3 - 2013-11-26 - PeterBeshai