Meeting Agenda


Date:	February 1, 2006
Location:	DC 1304
Time:	12:30 PM
Chair:	Mark Belcarz

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Craig
Coffee hour this week:: ???
Coffee hour next week:: ???

3. Forthcoming


Date:	February 8th	February 15th	February 22nd	March 1st
Location:	CGL	DC1304	DC1304	DC1304
Chair:	Paul Church	Bill Cowan	Gabriel Esteves	Elodie Fourquet
Technical Presentation:	Jie Xu	Mark Belcarz	Paul Church	Bill Cowan

4. Technical Presentation

Maria Wong

Title: Emotion Assessment in evaluation of affective interfaces

Abstract: Affective interfaces are increasingly popular in research, but
how to we properly evaluate these technologies? Due to the difficulties
faced by emotion assessment, current evaluations of affective interfaces
do not seem promising. An overview of emotion assessment techniques and
their difficulties will be discussed.

5. General Discussion Items

I3D 2006 call for participation: posters, demos and doctoral symposium deadline 2/4

6. Action Items

DC1304 will be unavailable on the following dates
- February 8th.
- March 8th.
- April 5th, 12th, 26th.

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2006 Feb 02, 14:30 DC1331 — Cryptography Group
Matthew McKague, University of Waterloo
Playing Card Ciphers

2006 Feb 03, 09:30 DC1331 — Networks and Distributed Systems Seminar
Darcy Kroeker, The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Implementation of a Tetherless Computing Architecture

2006 Feb 06, 10:30 DC1304 — Computer Science
Professor John Watrous, Computer Science, University of Calgary
Distinguishing quantum states and operations

Friday, February 10, 2006 (rescheduled)
        School Achievements Reception
        ICR Corporate Partner Lounge (DC 1301)
        4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
2006 Feb 13, 11:00 -- Computer Science PhD Seminar
Dalia Krieger, PhD candidate, The David Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
On Critical Exponents in Fixed Points of Binary $k$-Uniform Morphisms

Also see other Math and CS postings.