Jack Jamieson wants to help build a better, more egalitarian internet – in effect, helping to realize the vision of the technology’s early pioneers. The PhD candidate in the KMDI-Semaphore research institute at the UniversityContinue reading
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Interview with Professor Sara Grimes: The Franklin Lecture and Ursula Franklin Working Group
Who is Ursula Franklin, and what does she represent? Ursula Franklin was a scholar, a scientist and an activist. She conducted research and taught at the University of Toronto for over 40 years and wasContinue reading
Kids DIY Media: Best Practices for Designers Report
Sara Grimes, Director KMDI-Semaphore Reports: Best Practices for Designing Connected, Digital DIY Media Platforms for Kids I am so very happy to finally share with the world key results from our Kids DIY Media Partnership —Continue reading
The Zen Path to Learning New Technology
Have you ever wanted to use a new tech gadget, but were too afraid to try it? Or, you wanted to learn how to code, but thought you couldn’t do it? This happens more thanContinue reading
How Living Labs Help Solve Urban Challenges
“Living labs” have become the latest trend and a new feature for urban development projects, most notably for cities that want to define themselves as smart cities—or at least are trying to become smart cities.Continue reading
Welcome New Director, Professor Sara Grimes!
We would like to take this opportunity to welcome Dr. Sara Grimes, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information, Director of Semaphore Lab, and Fellow in Book and Media Studies at St. Michael’s College, as the newContinue reading
{Interesting Reads} Digital Zombies – the Reanimation of our Digital Selves
KMDI is made up of a community of interdisciplinary studies. We engage with the community around us to advance the study and creation of knowledge media. Every so often we will share a link to anContinue reading
{Interesting Reads} Composing the Layer of Knowledge of Digital Technology in Architecture
KMDI is made up of a community of interdisciplinary studies. We engage with the community around us to advance the study and creation of knowledge media. Every so often we will share a link to anContinue reading
KMDI & UXD Graduate Showcase
In celebration of another term end, KMDI hosted its spring poster session in the Inforum Library on Monday, April 2nd, 2018. Sponsored by the University of Toronto Libraries’ UX Lab, this year’s session showcased theContinue reading
KMD Job Spotlight: Customer Experience at Tangerine Bank
Meet David McDonald, a CX Innovation Senior Manager at Tangerine, and a customer experience guru. David, a former U of T grad, has an abundance of knowledge on designing for consumers and providing theContinue reading
From U of T to Augmented Reality
Recent grad Shanlon Gilbert works to improve user interface design and is pushing herself to learn more about augmented reality and its cultural applications. After finishing her masters in Museum Studies at the University ofContinue reading
Spring ’17 Poster Session: New Applications in Knowledge Media
On April 11, KMDI hosted the 8th bi-annual poster session in the recently renovated Faculty of Information Inforum. The event featured many bright ideas that included projects like designing travel app features to presenting whyContinue reading
Fall 2016 poster session celebration and photo gallery
On Dec. 12, KMDI celebrated its 7th bi-annual poster session. Both KMD classes 1001 and 2002 presented their projects to a team of judges. Members of the KMDI faculty, community and students filled the East CommonContinue reading
U of T fellow on the intersection of science and art technology
Nina Czegledy spoke to KMDI writer Raquel Russell about life as fellow, KMDI a decade ago and how she got started. When entering Nina Czegledy’s home, the first impression one receives is of a person who lovesContinue reading
Introducing Dr. Olivier St-Cyr
The fall semester is less than two months away and KMDI is excited to announce the addition of new iSchool/KMDI faculty member, Dr. Olivier St-Cyr. St-Cyr completed his PhD at U of T and has specializedContinue reading
The Faculty Who Inspire: Dr. Anthony K. P. Wensley
The KMDI community continues to thrive because of the inter-disciplinary focus and commitment of its instructors. Dr. Anthony K. P. Wensley is an appreciated example of such faculty. If you’ve been to many KMDI seminars,Continue reading
KMDI Year in Review: 2015-2016
It has been an action-packed year for the Knowledge Media Design Institute. To continue in our mission of inspiring graduate students and fostering a collaborative environment, we have continued with our successful events and introducedContinue reading
{Interesting Reads} Improving Spoken Document Retrieval by Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation [contd.]
KMDI is made up of a community of interdisciplinary studies. We engage with the community around us to advance the study and creation of knowledge media. Every so often we will share a link to anContinue reading
The Faculty Who Inspire: Dr. Matt Ratto
The KMDI faculty is not short of great research minds. Dr. Matt Ratto continues to direct and lead research that “crosses boundaries between the digital and physical world.” Dr. Ratto received his PhD from theContinue reading
{Interesting Reads} Editorial on Knowledge translation
KMDI is made up of a community of interdisciplinary studies. We engage with the community around us to advance the study and creation of knowledge media. Every so often we will share a link to anContinue reading