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DFP Grad Information & Professional Development Focus Session

Open to All Interested Candidates and Current Members
DFP Classroom: FSC 2300
DFP Event
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Understanding People and Designing Technology for Sustainable Development

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
University of Toronto
DFP Seminar

In this talk, I will describe my general research approach that combines ethnography and design. I will focus on two projects to explain how understanding the communities through a deep ethnography can result in...

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Context-Aware Computing at the Museum and Beyond

Joel Lanir
Assistant Professor, Information Systems
University of Haifa, Israel
DFP Seminar
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Research Cluster Exchange Day: Poster Sessions, Research Talks, and Tech Demonstrations

Hosted by Bionics Network
Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS)
University of British Columbia
Non-DFP Event
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Priming the Brain to Learn Using Robotics and Stimulation

Dr. Lara Boyd
Professor, Department of Physical Therapy
University of British Columbia
DFP Seminar

DFP Design Showcase

DFP Design Showcase
DFP Event
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Reshaping Security Experience

Dr Koji Yatani
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems (EEIS)
University of Tokyo
DFP Event
DFP Seminar
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Childhood Play in a UbiComp World

Alexis Hiniker
Assistant Professor of Human Computer Interaction
University of Washington
DFP Seminar
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On Multi-modal and Structured Visual Intelligence

Leonid Sigal
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia
DFP Seminar
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The Making of DUB: Building On Body Interfaces

James Landay
Professor, Computer Science
Stanford University
DFP Distinguished Seminar

Today’s most common user interfaces represent an incremental change from the GUI popularized by the Apple Macintosh in 1984. Over the last 30 years the dominant hardware has changed drastically while...