minutes for October 16, 2008
Eugene Greene
Location: DC 1304
Time: 1:30
Chair: Eugene Greene
0. Attendance
Bill Cowan
Elodie Fourquet
Eugene Greene
Marshall Hahn
Jingyuan Huang
Matthew Kay
Kate Kinnear
Stephen Mann
Alexander Pytel
Mike Terry
Jie Xu
Cherry Zhang
1. Changes to the Agenda - additions or deletions
2. Coffee Hour
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Marshall
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Zainab
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Cherry
3. Forthcoming
Date:
Oct 23, 2008 Oct 30, 2008 Nov 6, 2008 Nov 13, 2008
Location:
DC 1304 1:30 DC 1304 1:30 DC 1304 1:30 DC 1304 1:30
Chair:
?Matthew Kay? Kate Kinnear Ghulam Lashari Stephen Mann
Technical Presentation:
Eugene Greene Ed Lank Kate Kinnear Ghulam Lashari
4. Technical Presentation
Matthew Kay
Title:
Your Attention Please! Getting People's Attention with Software Notices
Abstract:
Software often needs to communicate vital information to users: License
agreements, crash report information, security risks in installing
third-party plug-ins, and so on. These messages must be localized and
presented in a way that compels users to read them, two goals that can
be difficult to achieve in resource-limited open source software
development. In this talk, we will present new visual design techniques
to help address both issues. The techniques employ a blend of
typography, graphic design, and layout strategies to capture people's
attention and encourage reading, while wordless diagrams help address
localization problems. We present our specific instantiation of these
techniques in the data collection agreements of ingimp, an instrumented
version of GIMP, and describe how they can be applied to other scenarios.
5. Discussion Items
* Bill is updating the mailer: More mail will be considered as spam.
6. Action Items
* Disk failure.
* The Fall Open House is on Saturday November 1, 2008.
* Cherry will be making ice cream when Steve does not; She will be
taking requests.
7. Conferences and Special Journal Issues
Recent Additions
Upcoming Deadlines
8. Directors' Meeting
See Discussion Items.
9. Seminars and Events
* 2008 Oct 17, 10:00 DC 1304 - PhD Oral Defence
Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh, PhD Candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp.
Sci., Univ. Waterloo
Geometric Approximation Algorithms in the Online and Data Stream Models
* 2008 Oct 17, 13:30 MC 5158 - Algorithms and Complexity Group Seminar
Prosenjit Bose, Professor, School of Computer Science, Carleton University
How easily can we find our way without a map?
* 2008 Oct 22, 10:00 DC 1304 - Waterloo Formal Methods PhD Seminar
Alma Juarez-Dominguez, PhD Candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp.
Sci., Univ. Waterloo
mdl2smv: a Tool for Translating Automotive Features Models in MATLABs
Stateflow to SMV to Detect Feature Interactions
* 2008 Oct 24, 14:00 DC 1331 - Database Research Group PhD Seminar
George Beskales, PhD Candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci.,
Univ. Waterloo
Survey of Record Deduplication Techniques
* 2008 Oct 27, 14:00 DC 2314 - PhD Oral Defence
Jiwen Huo, PhD Candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ.
Waterloo
A Formalism for Visual Query Interface Design
* 2008 Oct 28, 14:30 DC 1302 - Bioinformatics Group PhD Seminar
David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo
On the structure of small motif recognition instances
* 2008 Oct 29, 15:00 - 16:30 DC 1302 - SMARTER HEALTH SEMINAR
William W. Stead, M.D., Associate Vice Chancellor for
Strategy/Transformation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
System-Supported Clinical Practice: Linking People, Process and
Informatics Together as a System
(Webcast and OTN available. Register at: http://infranet.uwaterloo.ca/)
* 2008 Oct 31, 12:00 MC 5158 - Math Staff Halloween Party
Rsvp: Alison Zorian amzorian@math x33474
* 2008 Nov 1 - Fall Open House
Lunch in the Great Hall in the Davis Centre
Also see other Math and CS postings.
10. Lab Cleanup