Our paper on “Building Community Resiliency through Immersive Communal Extended Reality (CXR)” was recently accepted to MDPI Multimodal Technologies and Interaction.
Authors: Sharon Yavo-Ayalon, Swapna Joshi, Yuzhen (Adam) Zhang, Ruixiang (Albert) Han, Narges Mahyar, Wendy Ju.
You can find the paper here.
Camera-ready preprint of our CHI paper on “CommunityCrit: Inviting the Public to Improve and Evaluate Urban Design Ideas through Micro-Activities” is now available online. Read it here.
My proposal for Innovation in Participatory Democracy Conference (IPD) got accepted. I will be speaking at IPD on March 8th, 2018.
I have been invited to give a talk at Ignite Conference 2018 on Social Computing to Enhance Public Engagement in Urban Design at Scale on March 6th, 2018.
Our paper on “CommunityCrit: Inviting the Public to Improve and Evaluate Urban Design Ideas through Micro-Activities” conditionally accepted to CHI 2018!
I will be serving on the program committee for the Late-Breaking-Work track at CHI 2018.
I run a session on Technologies for Increasing Public Engagement in Civic Issues for Changemaker Day, UCSD.
I am co-instructing a Civic Design Course along with Prof. Steven Dow and Colleen Emmenegger.
Steven Dow and I will be giving a talk at Collaboratory for Downtown Innovation on Jan 25, 2017. See the details here.
Honoured to receive the honourable mention award at ACM ISS conference for my research on visualization and collaboration technology for engaging the public in urban design.
Presented UD Co-Spaces and Just Scratching the Surface at ISS 2016.
I will be serving on the program committee for Creativity and Cognition, 2017.
I will be running the third annual end-of-the-year Demo and Poster Festival on April 13th, 2016. We are showcasing some of the great HCI research underway at UBC. More about the event: HCI AT UBC
I’ll be giving a research colloquium lecture in the School of Interactive Arts + Technology at Simon Fraser University on Wednesday March 16th from12:30-14:20 pm.
I will be hosting Miriah Meyer‘s talk at HCI@UBC on February 10th 2016. She will be talking about “WHY VIS IS(N’T) HCI“. More about the format: HCI AT UBC.