News

June 2010

Congratulations to Jeremy Scott & Nikola Banovic for completing their B.S. in Engineering Science and Computer Science respectively. Jeremy will be going to grad school at MIT. Nikola will be going to grad school at UofT.

Congratulations to Andrew Trusty & Leila Rezai for completing their M.Sc. in Computer Science (from Toronto) and Media Informatics (from RWTH Aachen) respectively.

May 2010

TorURG members contribute to 2 papers to appear at UBICOMP 2010.

April 2010

Dave Dearman presents his CHI 2010 note " Why users of Yahoo! Answers do not answer questions." authored with Khai Truong.

TorURG members contribute to 1 paper to appear at MobileHCI 2010.

TorURG members contribute to 1 paper to appear at SOUPS 2010.

March 2010

Khai Truong gives an HCI Seminar at CMU.

TorURG members contribute to 1 paper to appear at GI 2010.

January 2010

TorURG members contribute to 1 alt.chi paper to appear at CHI 2010.

December 2009

TorURG members contribute to 1 note to appear at CHI 2010.

November 2009

Khai Truong gives an Informatics Seminar at UC Irvine.

October 2009

Dave Dearman presents his UBICOMP 2009 note "BlueTone: A framework for interacting with public displays using dual-tone multi-frequency through bluetooth" authored with Khai Truong.

Frank Li presents his UIST 2009 note "Virtual shelves: interactions with orientation aware devices" authored with David Dearman & Khai Truong.

Koji Yatani presents his UIST 2009 paper "SemFeel: a user interface with semantic tactile feedback for mobile touch-screen devices" authored with Khai Truong.

September 2009

Frank Li enters the Masters program.

June 2009

TorURG members contribute to 2 papers (1 full & 1 note) to appear at UIST 2009.

TorURG members contribute to 2 papers (1 full & 1 note) to appear at UBICOMP 2009.

Congratulations to Frank Li & Michael Novati for completing their B.S. in Engineering Science. Frank will be going to grad school at UofT. Michael will be going to grad school at the University of Washington.

Congratulations to Justin Ho for completing his M.Sc. in Computer Science. Justin has joined BumpTop

Alyssa Rosenzweig joins the TorURG group!

April 2009

Khai Truong presents his CHI 2009 note "An Exploration of Social Requirements for Exercise Group Formation" authored with Mike Wu & Abhishek Ranjan.

Koji Yatani presents his CHI 2009 paper "Understanding How and Why Open Source Software Contributors Do and Do not Use Diagrams" authored with Eunyoung Chung, Carlos Jensen & Khai Truong

December 2008

TorURG members contribute to 3 papers (1 full & 2 notes) to appear at CHI 2009.

November 2008

David Dearman presents his CSCW 2008 paper "An Examination of Daily Information Needs and Sharing Opportunities" authored with Melanie Kellar & Khai Truong.

David Dearman gives a Google Tech Talk

October 2008

Khai Truong gives an HCI Seminar at MIT CSAIL.

September 2008

Andrew Trusty enter the Masters program.

April 2008

TorURG members receive 1 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award & 1 Best Note Award at CHI 2008.

Elaine Huang & Khai Truong. (2008). Breaking the Disposable Technology Paradigm: Opportunities for Sustainable Interaction Design for Mobile Phones. CHI 2008 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award.

Karen Cheng, Francisco Ernesto & Khai Truong. (2008). Participant and Interviewer Attitudes toward Handheld Computers in the Context of HIV/AIDS Programs in Sub- Saharan Africa. CHI 2008 Best Note Award.

David Dearman presents his CHI 2008 paper "It's on my other computer!: computing with multiple devices" authored with Jeff Pierce.

Koji Yatani presents his CHI 2008 paper "Escape: a target selection technique using visually-cued gestures." authored with Kurt Patridge, Marshall Bern, Mark Newman.

December 2007

TorURG members contribute to 4 full papers and 1 note to appear at CHI 2008.

November 2007

First version of TorURG.org Website created.

September 2007

David Dearman presents his Ubicomp 2007 paper "An Exploration of Location Error Estimation" authored with Alex Varshavsky, Eyal de Lara and Khai Truong.

Khai Truong co-organizes the Ubiquitous Computing in the Office workshop at Ubicomp 2007.

Koji Yatani presents his Mobile HCI 2007 paper "An Evaluation of Stylus-based Text Entry Methods on Handheld Devices in Stationary and Mobile Scenarios" authored with Khai Truong.

David Dearman presents his Mobile HCI 2007 paper "Target Selection on Mobile Devices using Display Segmentation" authored with Kori Inkpen and Khai Truong.

Justin Ho enter the Masters program.

May 2007

Khai Truong in the National Post story "In future, everything will be a computer"

Khai Truong chairs the Pervasive 2007 conference.

September 2006

David Dearman & Koji Yatani enter the Ph.D. program.

June 2006

Khai Truong presents his DIS 2006 paper "Storyboarding: an empirical determination of best practices and effective guidelines" authored with Gillian R. Hayes and Gregory D. Abowd.

January 2006

Khai Truong joins the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.