Meeting Agenda

Date:	January 14th
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Jie Xu

1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Martin Talbot - thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Jie
Coffee hour next week:: Cherry

3. Forthcoming

Date:	January 21st	January 28th	February 4th	February 11th
Location:	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30	DC 1304 1:30
Chair:	Cam Zwarich	Andrea Bunt	Bill Cowan	Gabriel Esteves
Technical Presentation:	Jie Xu	Stephen Mann	Cam Zwarich	Andrea Bunt

4. Technical Presentation

Martin Talbot	Title : A user-centric design for spatial auditory maps Abstract: I will present the results of a user-study on environmental maps involving five blind participants and two orientation mobility specialists. The study consisted of interviewing the seven participants and observing the five blind participants interacting with tangible maps and low-fidelity prototypes. A design framework for the construction of spatial auditory maps will make use the information presented in this talk.

Martin Talbot

Title : A user-centric design for spatial auditory maps

Abstract:
I will present the results of a user-study on environmental maps involving five blind participants and two orientation mobility specialists. The study consisted of interviewing the seven participants and observing the five blind participants interacting with tangible maps and low-fidelity prototypes. A design framework for the construction of spatial auditory maps will make use the information presented in this talk.

5. Discussion Items

None so far...

6. Action Items

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2009 Jan 14, 13:30, DC 2314 - Software Engineering Research Group PhD Seminar: Abbas Heydarnoori, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo Automatically Extracting Implementation Templates of Framework-Provided Concepts from Dynamic Traces (Part II)

2009 Jan 14, 13:30, DC 1304 - Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar: Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo Market Equilibrium and Convex Programs (with two agents)

2009 Jan 15, 15:00, DC 1304 - Database Research Group Master's Essay Presentation: Hasan Ammar Rafiq, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo Storing and Querying RDF Triples In Relational Databases

2009 Jan 16, 14:00, DC 1331 - Database Research Group PhD Seminar: Mohamed Soliman, PhD Candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo Ranking with Uncertain Scores

2009 Jan 19, 14:00, DC 1304 - Bioinformatics Group PhD Seminar: Babak Alipanahi, PhD Candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo IPASS: Error Tolerant NMR Backbone Resonance Assignment by Linear Programming

2009 Jan 21, 15:00, DC 2314 - Networks and Distributed Systems Master's Thesis Presentation: Mosharaf Chowdhury, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo Identity Management and Resource Allocation in the Network Virtualization Environment

Also see other Math and CS postings.