Day 2: Saturday, October 13, 2018 (49 McCaul Street)
9:30 BIG IDeA Micro Inclusive Design Challenge Registration
10:00-1:00 BIG IDeA Micro Inclusive Design Challenge
1:00 Lunch Break
2:00 IDRC Open House 25th Anniversary Celebration
Add to the Windows of Time 25-year timeline
Leave a message, share a picture or make a slide for our digital memory book
See some demonstrations of our different projects in the Red Room of Demos
Visit the Black Box of Videos to watch and listen to moments we remember on the IDRC movie reel
Say some words about IDRC at the gallery open mic
Hear a bit about IDRC as we look back and look forward
Have some anniversary cake
5:00 25th Anniversary Dinner and Celebration
Celebrate with the IDRC community
Digging DEEPer on the themes from DEEP 2019: The Digging DEEPer/We Count Series
At DEEP 2019 we had a taste of topics that we want to know more about and advance. The We Count – Digging DEEPer series will be a variety of activities and events that will allow us to learn, collaborate, co-design and share.
Machine Learning Discrimination: Bias In, Bias Out
Join us on July 8th when Toon Calders (University of Antwerp) gives a free webinar to kick-off the Digging DEEPer series.
Description
Artificial intelligence is more and more responsible for decisions that have a huge impact on our lives. But predictions made using data mining and algorithms can affect population subgroups differently. Academic researchers and journalists have shown that decisions taken by predictive algorithms sometimes lead to biased outcomes, reproducing inequalities already present in society. Is it possible to make a fairness-aware data mining process? Are algorithms biased because people are too? Or is it how machine learning works at the most fundamental level?
The International Society for Virtual Systems and Multimedia is a unique cross-disciplinary organization for the exchange of cutting edge research in new media and virtual and augmented reality applied to everything from art to architecture, medicine to engineering, and archaeology to cultural heritage.
Come try virtual reality displays and find out how inclusive design can be integrated with these technologies. Stay for discussions by leaders in the field.
VSMM Toronto 2019 Agenda, 17 October
Part1: 1:30-2:00 Black Box Theatre, 49 McCaul Street: Presentation
(note, seating in the black
box is limited to the first 40 participants)
1:30 Welcome from OCAD University 1:40 Dr Lynne Heller on The Technological Sublime
Part 2: 2:00 – 3:00 Open Gallery, M9 McCaul Street: Technology displays, Networking and refreshments
A chance for students to sign up to work with VSMM 2020 and
opportunity to learn more about free certified Facebook training in Innovation,
AI, Web, Social Media and Cyersecurity training with SMARTlab, and about a few
new scholarships forthcoming in the SMARTlab global practice-based PhD in
Inclusive Design and Creative Technology Innovation
Part 3: 3:00 -5:00 Black Box Theatre, 49 McCaul Street: Presentations
(note, seating in the black box is limited to the first 40 participants)
3:00 Prof Hal Thwaites (Previous President of
VSMM- Sunway University & SMARTlab) Keynote on the Past, Present and
Potential Future of VSMM
3:30 Prof Martha Ladly and team: Decoding
Origins: Approaching African Identities Through Data Collection and
Visualisation
4:00 Dr Nina Czegledy (Leonardo) on
Reporting on Disparity: Two events Oceans apart in Toronto and New Plymouth
(New Zealand)
4:20 Dr Doreen Balabanoff (OCADU)
on The Global Birth Environment Design Network: towards a virtual platform
that can be a global resource for better birth environment design
4:45 Mohsen Mahjoobnia (OCADU +
SMARTlab PhD candidate) on VR to provide access to nature to address
isolation and mental health issues/accessibility issues in XR
5:10 Prof Lizbeth Goodman (Director
SMARTlab, VSMM Vice President): VSMM 2019 Overview- events in 2019 + Introducing INCLUDE, Academy of the
Future, and Be-Earth Experience (with Ylva Hansdotter and the UN Igo for
Sustainability)
5:40 Prof Alonzo Addison (UC Berkeley
& SMARTlab, VSMM President): Generational Planning and Publication: VSMM
and Digital Cultural Heritage- next steps
6pm Prof Jutta Treviranus (Director,
IDRC at OCADU, DEEP Chair & SMARTlab)-
Final wrap-up discussion, WELCOME to DEEP) & Last chance to sign
up for VSMM, publications committee, scholarship and training opportunities etc.
6:30pm End & chance to wander with the
team in the gorgeous city of Toronto!
This conference is one of a series of three conferences in 2019 and is an opportunity for new researchers in the field to share their ideas and be mentored for the conference publication. Be sure to register at the VSMM conference to learn how to participate in the VSMM activities and publications.
DEEP 2019 at a glance
9:00-9:30 Registration and Networking
9:30-12:00 The State of Inclusion
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-4:00 Digging DEEPer I & II–The DEEP workshop series
Michael Bach Andrea Breen Jennifer Chadwick Colin Clark Wendy Cukier Charles Finley Sandra Gabriele Lizbeth Goodman Abby Goodrum John Guido Pina D’Intino Christopher LaRoche Megan Lawrence Laurent Messier Vanessa Pfaff Virginia Rodes David Rokeby Trebor Scholz Lisa Snider Jutta Treviranus Shari Trewin
