June 2010

Congratulations to Jeremy Scott & Nikola Banovic for completing their B.S. in Engineering Science and Computer Science respectively. Jeremy will be going to grad school at MIT. Nikola will be going to grad school at UofT.

Congratulations to Andrew Trusty & Leila Rezai for completing their M.Sc. in Computer Science (from Toronto) and Media Informatics (from RWTH Aachen) respectively.


May 2010

TorURG members contribute to 2 papers to appear at UBICOMP 2010.


April 2010

Dave Dearman presents his CHI 2010 note " Why users of Yahoo! Answers do not answer questions." authored with Khai Truong.

TorURG members contribute to 1 paper to appear at MobileHCI 2010.

TorURG members contribute to 1 paper to appear at SOUPS 2010.


March 2010

Khai Truong gives an HCI Seminar at CMU.

TorURG members contribute to 1 paper to appear at GI 2010.


January 2010

TorURG members contribute to 1 alt.chi paper to appear at CHI 2010.


December 2009

TorURG members contribute to 1 note to appear at CHI 2010.


November 2009

Khai Truong gives an Informatics Seminar at UC Irvine.


October 2009

Dave Dearman presents his UBICOMP 2009 note "BlueTone: A framework for interacting with public displays using dual-tone multi-frequency through bluetooth" authored with Khai Truong.

Frank Li presents his UIST 2009 note "Virtual shelves: interactions with orientation aware devices" authored with David Dearman & Khai Truong.

Koji Yatani presents his UIST 2009 paper "SemFeel: a user interface with semantic tactile feedback for mobile touch-screen devices" authored with Khai Truong.


September 2009

Frank Li enters the Masters program.


June 2009

TorURG members contribute to 2 papers (1 full & 1 note) to appear at UIST 2009.

TorURG members contribute to 2 papers (1 full & 1 note) to appear at UBICOMP 2009.

Congratulations to Frank Li & Michael Novati for completing their B.S. in Engineering Science. Frank will be going to grad school at UofT. Michael will be going to grad school at the University of Washington.

Congratulations to Justin Ho for completing his M.Sc. in Computer Science. Justin has joined BumpTop

Alyssa Rosenzweig joins the TorURG group!


April 2009

Khai Truong presents his CHI 2009 note "An Exploration of Social Requirements for Exercise Group Formation" authored with Mike Wu & Abhishek Ranjan.

Koji Yatani presents his CHI 2009 paper "Understanding How and Why Open Source Software Contributors Do and Do not Use Diagrams" authored with Eunyoung Chung, Carlos Jensen & Khai Truong


December 2008

TorURG members contribute to 3 papers (1 full & 2 notes) to appear at CHI 2009.


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