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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010If you missed attending CHI or if you just want to get together with other HCI folks from Ottawa-Gatineau, tonight is the monthly CapCHI meeting. The subject of the evening is CHIlights and CHIstuds, a presentation of some of the highlights of this year’s CHI; as well as some of the student projects presented at […]
CapCHI meeting on digital tabletop interfaces
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009Unfortunately, I won’t be able to get to CapCHI’s meeting tonight, which is a pity since it sounds interesting. The title is “Next Generation Digital Tabletop Interfaces: Moving Beyond Photosharing” and the speaker is Stacey Scott from the University of Waterloo.
Even before Microsoft announced the Surface system in 2007, the Human-Computer Interaction community was actively […]
CapCHI meeting on security and web browsers
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009For people in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, tonight’s CapCHI meeting is entitled Browser Interfaces and Extended Validation SSL Certificates and is being presented by Tara Whalen who used to work at the CRC in our group.
Secure socket layer (SSL) certificates have been deployed to provide security for web-based transactions, which allow information to be transmitted securely […]
CapCHI meeting on privacy and copyright
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009For Ottawa-Gatineau people, the monthly CapCHI meeting will be held tomorrow the 22nd at 6pm (note the new time this year) at the Code Factory, in downtown Ottawa.
This month’s presentation will be by Sam Trosow, from the University of Western Ontario. The presentation is entitled Applying Privacy by Design concepts to Copyright Policy:
There is a […]
CapCHI meeting on personal sensor networks
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009If you’re in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, don’t miss tonight’s CapCHI meeting. Anthony Whitehead will be presenting a talk entitled Personal Sensor Networks as Input Devices.
Personal sensor networks are also known as Body Area Networks and consist of sensor placed on various parts or around the body. In this talk we look at a heterogeneous accelerometer […]
CapCHI meeting
Monday, June 22nd, 2009If you’re in the Ottawa region, you don’t want to miss CapCHI, which is having its last meeting of the year this Wednesday at 7pm. There will be short presentations by local grad students. Also, if you have a hankering for doing some volunteer work, this is the meeting to attend as CapCHI is looking […]
CapCHI meeting on accessibility
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Mark McKay is doing a talk tonight at CapCHI entitled Accessible interface design: Tips, patterns and concepts to making accessible web applications.
There are a lot of places where you can learn about the standards but there is almost no information on how best to apply them. This article tries to fill the void by showing […]
