Graduate Student Consortium
The Graduate Student Consortium is only open to those students that have been accepted to attend. The GSC will take place in Beamish-Munro Hall Room 109
The GSC is mentored by:
Caroline Hummels (TU/e, Netherlands)
Orit Shaer (Wellesley College, USA)
Amon Millner (Olin College, USA)
Saturday, 17th February
8:00pm Welcome Dinner
Welcome dinner at Woodenheads 192 Ontario Street, Kingston, Ontario
Sunday, 18th February
9:00 Introduction
9:10 Student presentations 1
What I Grasp is What I control: Interacting through Grasp Releases
Katrin Wolf, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin
Body-Centric Interaction with Mobile Devices
Xiang ‘Anthony’ Chen, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary
Peripheral Interaction: Facilitating Interaction with Secondary Tasks
Doris Hausen, University of Munich
10:15 Discussion
Focused discussion about the area(s) of work the students presented in session 1
10:30 Break
11:00 Student presentations 2
Embedded Soft Material Displays
Eszter Ozsvald, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts ITP
Exploring the expressiveness of shape-changing surfaces
Alice Bodanzky, Leiden University
Jing Hua: Interacting with Virtual Flowers in A Physical Garden
Jifei Ou, Faculty of Product Design of Offenbach Academy of Art and Design
12:05 Discussion
Focused discussion about the areas of work the students presented in session 2
12:30 Lunch
Working lunch: career discussion led by GSC mentors
13:30 Student presentations 3
Fostering Exploratory Learning in Students with Intellectual Disabilities: How Can Tangibles Help?
Taciana Pontual Falcão, London Knowledge Lab - Institute of Education
SnapToTrace: A New E-Textile Interface and Component Kit for Learning Computation
Liza Stark, Parsons The New School for Design
A Software Architecture for Tangible Interaction with Distributed, Heterogeneous Resources
Cornelius Toole, Jr., Department of Computing Science, Louisiana State University
14:35 Discussion
Focused discussion about the area(s) of work the students presented in session 3
15:00 Break
15:30 Student presentations 4
Social contraptions as breaching environments
Robb Mitchell, Horizon DTC, Computer Science, University of Nottingham
Algo.Rhythm: Computational Thinking through tangible music device
Huaishu Peng, Computational Design Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Designing Tangible Interaction for Embodied Facilitation
Augusto Esteves, University of Madeira
16:30 Discussion and Wrap Up
Focused discussion about the areas of work the students presented in session 4 and Conclusion
