So the CSSS will be hosting our first LAN party of the year and I’ve gotta say, we are pretty excited.
Are you prepared to test your skills in the art of the frag?
Or if RTS is your style, can you hold your own against the almighty Zerg rush?
Just show up, bring a network cable and your rig, bring your friends and and prepare for awesomeness.
Suggested games:
Call of Duty
Counter-Strike
Team Fortress 2
Starcraft (1 and 2)
DoTA
Unreal Tournament 99
If you have any questions or games you’d like to see, just e-mail [email protected]
Hey all, for those who couldn’t make Thursday’s BBQ, or just love burgers (and who doesn’t?), the Cube is holding the first of many lunchtime BBQs! We’ll be outside Reboot so stop by when you’re heading out of class and grab a burger.
The CSSS in conjunction with the Department is holding our annual Welcome Back BBQ!
We will be serving burgers and hot dogs for free to all CS students.
Hope to see you there!
The UBC Sailing Club is hosting a beach party to kick off the summer. Local band TV Heart Attack, recently featured on the PEAK Performance Project and Canadian Music Week will be rocking the stage. Brad DJ Winter is back for another season to keep your feet moving by spinning some mean tracks. Experience the ultimate venue located right off the beach overlooking beautiful English Bay. Meet some new people over a BBQ and drinks. This is a party you don’t want to miss. Be a hit with your friends and bring them to party.
Title: Physical Interface Design and Communication Through Touch
Abstract: I’m interested in how people communicate through the sense of touch, and how haptic information transfer interacts with perception in other modalities. As time and interest permit, I’ll discuss two very different kinds of haptic communication that my group has been studying recently. The first is abstract information, delivered one-way to your hand encoded in complex vibrations. We’ve found that humans are better at this than you might expect—depending on how the sensations are created; and the medium has potential for low-effort, background communication. In the second kind, we’re examining haptically communicated affect: what’s behind feels that we like or don’t like—can this be predicted or quantified? How do we communicate emotion haptically, to people or animals, and is this an essential part of emotional communication more generally? We’re building a highly sensed animatronic Creature as an experimental platform, which we plan to use for basic study and in a therapeutic setting.
We’ll meet this time in the HCI Learning Studio, a resource created with a special grant by the CS HCI faculty for studio-style courses. Snacks possibly available for early arrivals.