Speaker Series
KMDI Speaker Series: RESPONSIVE LANDSCAPES. CURATED COMPLEXITY
Room 728, Bissell Building 140 St. George St, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaWe are pleased to partner with the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design to present our first Speaker Series event of the fall 2016 semester. Responsive Landscapes. Curated Complexity Guest Speaker: Brad Cantrell,Continue reading
KMDI Speaker Series: Using Vision Sensors for Innovative HCI
Room 507, Claude T. Bissell Building 140 St. George Street, Toronto, AZ*Room changed to BL 507* Guest Speaker: Professor Hideki Koike, Tokyo Institute of Technology Abstract: There are many models of vision sensor available and they are getting smaller, lighter, and less expensive. An important featureContinue reading
KMDI Speaker Series – From Features to Patient Safety: Opportunities for Human Factors
Room 507, Claude T. Bissell Building 140 St. George Street, Toronto, AZGuest Speaker: Yan Xiao, Director for Human Factors and Patient Safety Science Baylor Scott & White Heath, Dallas, Texas Adjunct Professor, University of Texas at Arlington Abstract Technological advances rarely march into healthcare in coordinated manners.Continue reading
KMDI Speaker Series – Grab, Dump, Capture: Screenshot Genealogies
Room 728, Bissell Building 140 St. George St, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaGuest Speaker: Jacob Gaboury, Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Visual Culture at Stony Brook University. Abstract: The screenshot is today a ubiquitous object for the preservation of information, a digital snapshot that documents the visualContinue reading
KMDI Speaker Series – Computational Kids: Research, Intervention, and Practice for Child Development in a Digital World
Room 507, Claude T. Bissell Building 140 St. George Street, Toronto, AZThis event is jointly sponsored by KMDI and the Department of Computer Science Guest Speaker: Professor Gillian Hayes, University of California, Irvine Abstract Child development increasingly takes place in a world saturated by technology andContinue reading
KMDI Speaker Series – Engineering and design in developmental cognitive neuroscience research
room 417, Claude T. Bissell Building, 140 St. George Street, Toronto 140 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, CanadaKMDI is pleased to welcome J Bruce Morton for the first KMDI Speaker Series event of the 2017-2018 academic year. Engineering and design in developmental cognitive neuroscience research Abstract Developmental cognitive neuroscience research examinesContinue reading
KMDI Speaker Series – Unpacking Social Media Privacy: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding
Room 728, Bissell Building 140 St. George St, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaUnpacking Social Media Privacy: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding Guest Speaker: Jacquelyn Burkell, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Research, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario Abstract Conceptions of privacy expectationContinue reading
KMDI Speaker Series – Designing Ubiquitous Collaboration: Tools for anytime, anywhere work
Room 538, Claude T. Bissell Building 140 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDesigning Ubiquitous Collaboration: Tools for anytime, anywhere work Guest Speaker: Anthony Tang, University of Calgary Abstract We are increasingly using digital technology to communicate and collaborate with others in a variety of contexts. Yet, howContinue reading
KMDI Speaker Series – HCI in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Room 728, Bissell Building 140 St. George St, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAbstract How do we understand human-computer interaction (HCI) in an age of ubiquitous computing? As the build environment is increasingly embedded with computational affordances, the ability to identify civic subjects—their location, preferences, secrets—has become trivialContinue reading
KMDI Speaker Series (joint MIE Seminar) – Crash Causation: Prevalence versus Risk, Four Decades Ago versus Now
5 King's College Road, MC 331Crash Causation: Prevalence versus Risk, Four Decades Ago versus Now Guest Speaker: David Shinar, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Abstract Our understanding of the causes of crashes has changed dramatically over the pastContinue reading