Meeting Minutes

Date:	September 9, 2009
Location:	DC 1331
Time:	1:30
Chair:	Kate Kinnear

0. Introduction of New Lab Members

1. Attendance

Bill Cowan, Elodie Fourquet, Eugene Greene, Marshall Hahn, Craig Kaplan, Kate Kinnear, Stephen Mann, Zainab Meraj, Alex Pytel, Matthew Thorne, Cherry Zhang, Philippe Lamoureux, Tiffany Inglis, Andrew Seniuk

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Xin Ling- thanks!
Coffee hour this week:: Andrew Seniuk, Steve Mann
Coffee hour next week:: Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date:	September 16, 2009	September 23, 2009	September 30, 2009	October 7, 2009
Location:	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1331 1:30	DC 1304 1:30
Chair:	Ben Lafreniere	Ed Lank	Zainab Meraj	Matei Negulescu
Technical Presentation:	Marshall Hahn	Matthew Kay	Craig Kaplan	Kate Kinnear

4. Technical Presentation

Eugene Greene	Title : Visual feedback during manual interaction in virtual environments Abstract: There is a large gap between the stimuli provided in real-world interactions and those provided in simple virtual environments. It is conceivable to simulate these stimuli through a visual modality. Current attempts at this simulation are mostly simple, and exhibit drawbacks. Hence, there is apparently much room for more nontrivial forms of this kind of visual feedback.

Eugene Greene

Title : Visual feedback during manual interaction in virtual environments
Abstract:
There is a large gap between the stimuli provided in real-world interactions and those provided in simple virtual environments. It is conceivable to simulate these stimuli through a visual modality. Current attempts at this simulation are mostly simple, and exhibit drawbacks. Hence, there is apparently much room for more nontrivial forms of this kind of visual feedback.

5. Discussion Items

CGL web service may be temporarily interrupted in the near future

6. Action Items

Need to prepare for Oct 16 presentation for graduate students

7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Pacific Graphics 2009

Upcoming Deadlines

Sep 17, 2009: CHI 2010 Papers and Notes deadline

8. Directors' Meeting

9. Seminars and Events

2009 Sep 10, 13:00 - Programming Languages Lab PhD Seminar Jun Shen, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo Guided Testing of Concurrent Programs Using Value Schedules 2009 Sep 14, 16:30 - Distinguished Lecture Series Seminar Shafi Goldwasser, MIT, USA, and Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Cryptography without (Hardly) Any Secrets 2009 Sep 15, 13:00 - Database Research Group Master's Thesis Presentation Mahsa Emami Taba, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo Solving Traveling Salesman Problem With a non-complete Graph 2009 Sep 16, 15:30 - Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar Elena Lesvia Velasquez Ruiz, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Drawing planar 3-trees with fixed face areas 2009 Sep 16, 16:00 - Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar Therese Biedl, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Small drawings of series-parallel graphs and other planar graphs 2009 Sep 18 Department picnic 2009 Sep 10, 13:30 - Meet new grad students in the fishbowl 2009 Oct 15-25 Quantum to Cosmos Festival. Tickets (free) are available from the website: q2cfestival.com

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