PhD Seminars
PhD Student Seminar – Ethnography of Spoken Document Use by Financial Analysts
Room 728, Bissell Building 140 St. George St, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaKMD Collaborative Program PRESENTER: Siavash Kazemian \ Department of Computer Science When: Monday, February 29, 2016 \ 3:30 – 4:00 PM Where: Room 728, Bissell Building, 140 St. George Street *Join us afterwards for refreshmentsContinue reading
KMDI Seminar – Designing Feedback to Induce Safer Driving Behaviour
PRESENTER: Dr. Winnie Chen \ Human Factors & Applied Statistics Lab When: Monday, March 7, 2016 \ 3:30 – 4:30 PM Where: Room 728, Bissell Building, 140 St. George Street *Join us afterwards for refreshments duringContinue reading
PhD Student Seminar – SwarmGuide: Towards Multiple Query Optimization in Graph Databases
Room 728, Bissell Building 140 St. George St, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaPresenter: Zahid Abul-Basher \ Mechanical and Industrial Engineering When: Monday, March 14, 2016 \ 3:30 – 4:30 PM Where: Room 728, Bissell Building, 140 St. George Street *Join us afterwards for refreshments during the KMDIContinue reading
PhD Student Seminar: PracticeCactus – A Mobile App for Piano Students and Teachers
Room 728, Bissell Building 140 St. George St, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaPresenter: Heather Birch, PhD candidate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Abstract PracticeCactus is a mobile app created through the Participatory Design (PD) process for use by private piano teachers and their students to enhanceContinue reading
KMDI Student Seminar: FlipFinance – a mobile app for financial literacy education
Room 728, Bissell Building 140 St. George St, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaPresenter: Yeijean Lee, MEd student, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Abstract FlipFinance is a mobile app created to improve efficiency of financial literacy education in school, following the standards outlined by the Ministry ofContinue reading
PhD Student Seminar: Non-Confidential Clinical Prediction with Summarized Data
Room 728, Bissell Building 140 St. George St, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaPresenter: Mahsa Rouzbahman, PhD candidate, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Abstract: This research reports on a series of four studies that were motivated by the need to incorporate information about similar patients into clinical decisionContinue reading
KMDI Student Seminar: Mobile-based assessment of gait and executive function in a neurorehabilitation setting
Room 728, Bissell Building 140 St. George St, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaPresenter: Jenna Blumenthal, MASc candidate, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Abstract Walking has long been considered to be an autonomic process relying on little to no cognitive input. In healthy adults, variability of gait parametersContinue reading
PhD Student Seminar: How to design and orchestrate a MOOC as a collaborative knowledge community
Room 728, Bissell Building 140 St. George St, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaPresenter: Stian Håklev, PhD candidate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Abstract: There is a long history of pedagogical research on collaborative learning. From a cognitive perspective, when students learn together, they are forced toContinue reading