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The University of Toronto's Dynamic Graphics Project (dgp) is an interdisciplinary research laboratory within the Department of Computer Science. The lab's mission is advanced research and graduate instruction in human-computer interaction and computer graphics. dgp is home base to Computer Science faculty and students in these two areas.
News:
ILoveSketch featured on slashdot.
10 new students join the lab in September 2008: Simon Breslav, Rhys Causey, Dustin Freeman, Chris Gonterman, Igor Mordatch, Peter O'Donovan, Nicholas Shim, Huixuan Tang, Jonathan Taylor, Andrew Trusty. Welcome!
DGPis40: Celebrate 40 years since the founding of DGP! Our anniversary celebration will be held on May 28-30.
DGP authors receive 3 Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards and 1 Best Note
Award at the ACM CHI 2008 Conference:
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. Xiang Cao, Jacky Jie Li, & Ravin Balakrishnan. (2008). Peephole Pointing:
Modeling Acquisition of Dynamically Revealed Targets. CHI 2008 Best Paper
Honorable Mention Award.
Géry Casiez & Daniel Vogel. (2008). The Effect of Spring Stiffness and
Control Gain with an Elastic Rate Control Pointing Device. 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.
DGP members co-author 15 Full-length Papers and 4 Notes at CHI 2008. See
program for details.
11 new students join the lab in September 2007: Andy Chow, Patrick Dubroy, Kent Fenwick, Alecia Fowler, Justin Ho,
Miller Peterson, Kevin Tonon, Olga Vesselova, Sofia Karygianni, David Nowak, Matthew O'Toole. Welcome!
Daniel Wigdor's research on
LucidTouch
featured in MIT
Technology Review
Karan Singh awarded an
Ontario Early Researcher Award
Karan Singh and
Alexis Angelidis received the Best Paper Award at the
SCA 2007
Conference for their paper Kinodynamic skinning using volume-preserving
deformations
Khai Truong in the National
Post story, "In
future, everything will be a computer"
Chris Collins' research featured
in the Toronto Star
Ron Baecker awarded a
2007 ORION Leadership Award of Merit
Daniel Vogel and
Patrick Baudisch's research on
Shift
featured in MIT
Technology Review and
ComputerWorld
Shengdong Zhao,
Pierre Dragicevic,
Mark Chignell,
Ravin Balakrishnan, and
Patrick Baudisch''s research on
earPod
featured in MIT
Technology Review
Xiang Cao and
Ravin Balakrishnan's research on
handheld
projector interaction featured in
torontoist
Karan Singh,
Ravin Balakrishnan, Steve Tsang
and Abhishek Ranjan's
research and licensee Sketch2 Corp. featured in the
Globe and Mail
Anand Agarawala and
Ravin Balakrishnan's research and startup
BumpTop featured in
NY Times
(twice),
PCWorld,
MIT Tech Review,
Digg (twice),
BusinessWeek,
CNET,
CBC News,
Lifehacker,
Gizmodo. Others.
Video Interview:
Digital Image Fest Video Podcast. The
video of the BumpTop interface is the
most watched video of software on YouTube, ever (well at least at the time of
the video's release :-).
Daniel Vogel and
Patrick Baudisch received the Best Paper Award at the ACM CHI 2007
Conference for their paper
Shift: A technique for operating pen-based interfaces using touch.
DGP members co-author 15 full papers at CHI 2007.
Ravin Balakrishnan awarded a
2007
Sloan Fellowship
Tovi Grossman awarded a 2007
Microsoft Fellowship.
Sam Hasinoff and
Kyros Kutulakos received the Longuet-Higgins Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention at the 9th
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2006) for their paper
Confocal Stereo.
Abhishek Ranjan,
Jeremy Birnholtz and
Ravin Balakrishnan
received an Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award at the ACM CSCW 2006 Conference for
their paper
An exploratory analysis of partner action and camera control in a video-mediated collaborative
task.
David Fono and Scott Counts received the Best Note Award at the ACM CSCW 2006 Conference for their note
Sandboxes: Supporting social play through collaborative multimedia composition on mobile phones.
Anastasia Bezerianos,
Pierre Dragicevic and
Ravin Balakrishnan
received the Best Student Paper Award at the ACM UIST 2006 conference for their paper
Mnemonic rendering: An image-based approach for exposing hidden changes in dynamic displays.
Michael McGuffin ties for 1st place in the
"Theoretical" category at the Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD) 2006..
Aaron Hertzmann awarded a
Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship.
12 new students to join the lab in September 2006: James
McCrae, Sasidharan Vadakkepat, Chris Scheibe,
Adrian Stere, Kalyan Sunkhavalli, Xiaojun Bi, Gerry Chu, Koji Yatani, Clifton Forlines, Michael
Jurka, Ryan Schmidt, David Dearman. Welcome!
DGP members co-author 6 full papers at UIST 2006, 2 full papers and 2 notes at
CSCW 2006.
Aaron Hertzmann awarded a
2006
Sloan Fellowship, and an
Ontario Early Researcher Award
DGP members to present
8 full papers at CHI 2006. DGP members present 2 papers at NIPS 2005.
Khai Truong joins the DGP
faculty. Welcome!
DGP members present 4 papers at UIST 2005, 2 papers at InfoVis 2005, and 2
papers at ECSCW 2005. Nigel Morris
awarded an OGGST scholarship for 2005-2006.
9 new students to join the lab in September 2005: Michael Daum, Thomas
Diamantis, Todd Goodwin, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Christian Lessig, Michael
Massimi, Simona Mindy, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Ian Vollick; and
Xiang Cao is returning to do
his Ph.D. after a 2 year stint in industry. Welcome! Patrick
Coleman awarded a
ATI Graduate
Fellowship for 2005-2006. Xiang Cao and
Ravin Balakrishnan received the Best Paper
award at the
Graphics Interface 2005
conference for their paper Evaluation of
an online adaptive gesture interface with command prediction. 4 dgp members awarded new OGS scholarships in the 2005 competition:
Anand Agarawala,
Noah Lockwood,
Michael McGuffin and
Steven Tsang.
Tovi Grossman,
and
Ravin Balakrishnan received
the Best Paper award at the ACM CHI 2005
conference for their paper
The Bubble Cursor: Enhancing target
acquisition by dynamic resizing of the cursor’s activation area. 4 dgp members awarded new
NSERC scholarships in the 2005 competition:
Tovi Grossman (CGSD),
Daniel Vogel (CGSD), David Fono (CGSM),
and Tristan Campbell (CGSM).
Gonzalo Ramos
awarded a 2005
Microsoft Graduate Fellowship.
Ryan, the animated
short film directed by Chris Landreth with technical contributions by dgp
members Karan Singh and
Patrick Coleman and dgp
alumni
George ElKoura and
Glenn Tsang wins
the
2005 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film!
Karan Singh
and
Patrick Coleman's
contributions to Ryan highlighted in
an
article in the University of Toronto Bulletin.
Tovi Grossman,
Daniel Wigdor, and
Ravin Balakrishnan's work on
volumetric display interfaces
featured in MIT Technology Review
Ron Baecker to receive the
Canadian Human
Computer Communication Society's 2005
Achievement Award
Ron Baecker named to the
ACM CHI Academy. (citation)
Ryan, the animated
short film directed by Chris Landreth with technical contributions by dgp
members Karan Singh and
Patrick Coleman and dgp
alumni
George ElKoura and
Glenn Tsang was nominated
for a 2005 Academy Award in the Best Animated Short Film category, and also
voted one of the top ten
Canadian films of 2004.
Kevin Forbes,
Mike Pratscher, and
Eron Steger's
game was
voted
Most Innovative in a 72 hour game development competition!
Tovi Grossman,
Daniel Wigdor, and
Ravin Balakrishnan received
the Best Paper award at the ACM UIST 2004
conference for their paper
Multi-finger gestural interaction with 3-D volumetric displays.
9 new students joined the lab in September 2004: Anand Agarawala, Jacobo Bibliowicz, Tristan Campbell, Jonathan Deber, Martin De Lasa, David Fono, Noah Lockwood, Steven Tsang, and Jack Wang. Welcome! |
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