Recent Publications by OCAD U Faculty

Recent publications by Dr. Alexis Morris, Canada Research Chair in The Internet of Things

Morris, A., Guan, J., Lessio, N., & Shao, Y. (2020, October). Toward Mixed Reality Hybrid Objects with IoT Avatar Agents. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) (pp. 766-773). IEEE. (Toward Mixed Reality Hybrid Objects with IoT Avatar Agents)

Lessio, N., & Morris, A. (2020, October). Toward Design Archetypes for Conversational Agent Personality. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) (pp. 3221-3228). IEEE. (Toward Design Archetypes for Conversational Agent Personality)

Morris, A., Siegel, H., & Kelly, J. (2020). Towards a Policy-as-a-Service Framework to Enable Compliant, Trustworthy AI and HRI Systems in the Wild. AAAI 2020 Fall Symposium Series on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.07022. ([2010.07022] Towards a Policy-as-a-Service Framework to Enable Compliant, Trustworthy AI and HRI Systems in the Wild - arXiv.org)

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Deadline Extended for ERA/DRA Awards

The Office of Research & Innovation would like to announce that the deadline for nominations for the Awards for Excellence in Early Stage Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity and Distinguished Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity has been extended. The deadline, which was previously February 22nd, 2021, is now March 15th, 2021.

The Award for Distinguished Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity is conferred on the basis of a strong impact on the broad spectrum of art and design research and practice internationally. The award also recognizes meaningful contribution toward undergraduate and graduate research and scholarly training. The OCAD University Award for Excellence in Early Stage Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity recognizes promising, recently-appointed faculty members for their outstanding promise to be distinguished researchers, scholars, artists and designers within a university context.

Eligibility:

  • Permanent, tenured or tenure-track faculty are eligible for nomination. Deans, program chairs, or faculty members can make nominations for the award to the Vice-President, Research and Innovation.
  • Nominations may be sent electronically to research@ocadu.ca and are due Monday, March 15th, 2021, 11:59 pm.
  • Questions may be directed to Samantha Leggett (sleggett@ocadu.ca).
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Dr. David Griffin to Feature in Exhibition from Ryerson Dept. Of Architectural Science

Dr. David Griffin will have work featured in an exhibition from Ryerson’s Department of Architectural Science titled Seeking the Periphery. David's contribution to the show describes a “Drawing into Space” he made with laser light, which searches absolute peripheries of perception and time. A virtual reception for the exhibition will be taking place on March 11th, at 6:30 PM on Zoom. You may register at the link available here. 

From the exhibition website: "The aim is to assemble and display alternative representations that lead away from homogeneity toward an architecture and culture that claims no specific center. The abolition of the center, and its replacement with the void is a position in architecture and culture that places no being in the center and redirects perception to the Periphery."

 

 

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COVID-19 Anxiety: Location, Refuge and Loss: Research Update and Call for Submissions

COVID-19 Anxiety: Location, Refuge and Loss is a collaborative creation research project led by Dr. Pam Patterson, Assistant Professor, TIS, Faculty of Art, with Daniel Payne, OCAD U Library and Joanna Black, University of Manitoba. It is being funded by an OCAD U Seed Grant, a Canada Council Strategic Initiatives Digital Futures COVID-19 Grant, a University of Manitoba Creative Works Grant, and Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grants. Researchers have been exploring the generative potential of working in joyful, vulnerable, and committed communities of practice. Accepting anxiety as a given, as inherent in creative making, and during this pandemic, they are exploring mutually supportive pedagogies among themselves, with Gallery 1313, Toronto, and with OCADU and University of Manitoba students. Creating a resource rich environment for learning, they are developing curricular resources and teaching and learning models that are being articulated as individually expressive research results.

Since June 2020, COVID-19 Anxiety has generated three OCADU Speaker Series. It has also completed a dedicated research creation website for Canada Council for the Arts Strategic Initiatives: Digital Futures. The research team is in the process of developing a COVID-19 Pedagogies Libguide site and an exhibition with Gallery 1313, Toronto, with both to be launched early April. Of the project, PI Dr. Pam Patterson says, "Our students and student researchers have been provided with opportunities for professional development through hands-on research, production experience and through parallel creation activities. We have benefitted from the generative potential of working alongside such students and we would hope that they too will have learned from us."

We invite faculty and graduate students to submit grassroots creative resources/papers/visual work/videos/links to curated exhibitions to be included in our COVID-19 Pedagogies Libguide Resource site at the OCAD library. These resources-to-date have included: a researcher/student exhibit, a video poem performed by Lillian Allen, and videos from our COVID-19 Pedagogies speaker series. We are not only looking at innovative tools you are developing but also the content you are using to address the pressing issues and conversations of this time. The site will be launched April 6, 2021.

Submissions may be sent to Dr. Pam Patterson, ppatterson@faculty.ocadu.ca. Submissions are due March 30, 2021.

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Hartman & Westecott Present Paper at Tangible Embedded Interactions Conference

Kate Hartman & Emma Westecott presented their paper "Textile Game Controllers: Exploring Affordances of E-Textile Techniques as Applied to Alternative Game Controllers" on February 16, 2021 at the Tangible Embedded Interactions Conference hosted by the University of Salzburg. 

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3430524.3446069

Kate Hartman, Emma Westecott, Izzie Colpitts-Campbell, Jennie Robinson Faber, Yiyi Shao, Chris Luginbuhl, Olivia Prior, and Manisha Laroia. 2021. Textile Game Controllers: Exploring Affordances of E-Textile Techniques as Applied to Alternative Game Controllers. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 93, 1–14. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3446069

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UNMASKING HOW AND WHY WE COVER OUR FACES

Throughout human history and across different cultures, masks have taken on diverse forms and functions, from costume accessory, to spiritual accoutrement, to safety gear, to fashion apparel. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has introduced a dynamic new chapter in humanity’s multi-millennia old relationship with face masks. Nithikul Nimkulrat, Acting Chair, Material Art & Design program, and a textile practitioner-researcher, is investigating this relationship. You can learn more about Nimkulrat's research by reading here: https://www.ocadu.ca/news/unmasking-how-and-why-we-cover-our-faces

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How Dr. Jutta Treviranus and the Inclusive Design Research Centre are Responding to Curren

Dr. Jutta Treviranus, director of OCAD University's Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC), provided an interview on her recent essay (It’s time to drop “Darwinism” and listen to Darwin and his successors on human evolution), recent interview (‘Designing a Future Where Everyone Counts'; on The Laura Flanders Show), and the effect the current pandemic has had on the work of the IDRC.

To read about ways in which the IDRC is working to respond to current challenges, please read 'Defending the vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic.'

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THIS IS RESEARCH V4

Sarah Tranum, "CleanCube Project" Poster
Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 11:30am

The Office of Research & Innovation is excited to launch the fourth iteration of the "This is Research" campaign to raise awareness about research at OCAD University. This volume features work by Julius Manapul, Veronika Szudlarek, Sarah Tranum, Pam Patterson, Cindy Poremba, and Nithikul Nimkulrat.

OCAD University faculty are engaged in inclusive, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research that audaciously and responsibly pursues the questions of our time.

THIS IS RESEARCH features posters and media showcasing the many forms of research at the University. You can see the first set of these on the many screens across campus and our website.

In concert with provincial efforts being coordinated through the Council of Ontario Universities, “THIS IS RESEARCH” will help to raise the profile of research performed across faculties by the creative professionals, scholars, and strategic thinkers that make up our research community.

Please join us in celebrating research at OCADU!

If you would like your research to be profiled through “THIS IS RESEARCH” please contact our office at research@ocadu.ca.

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Julius Manapul, "Erasing a Country: An On-Going Series of Research" Poster
Nithikul Nimkulrat, "Experiential Craft: Handmade and Gestural Knowledge in Analog-Digital Material Practice" Poster
Pam Patterson, "Land Liminality Loss" Poster
Cindy Poremba, "VVV: Volumetric Video in Videogames" Poster
Veronika Szudlarek, "Virtual Paint Jam" Poster

OCAD University to Participate in CRAM

Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 2:45pm

On April 5, 2019 OCAD University will be participating in CRAM.

CRAM is the very FIRST event of its kind - a research learning festival for the public that opens the doors to the transformative thinking of Toronto’s universities. University of Toronto, OCAD University, Ryerson University and York University will be participating. It’s about universities working together to bridge the gap between research and community by sharing the research that goes on in these institutions to promote public engagement with a changing world. The public is aware of only a small fraction of the research that goes on in Toronto’s universities. This event will create the opportunity to showcase creative and critical thinking across a multitude of disciplines to better inform the public of how knowledge generated from research will impact our lives. Come join us on April 5, 2019.

To view the CRAM splash page go to https://cramtoronto.com .

THIS IS RESEARCH

"This is Research" Poster: one and the same
"This is Research" Poster: Depth Clouds
Monday, January 28, 2019 - 2:00pm

The Office of Research & Innovation is excited to announce the launch of a new campaign to raise awareness about research at OCAD University: “THIS IS RESEARCH.”

OCAD University faculty are engaged in inclusive, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research that audaciously and responsibly pursues the questions of our time.

THIS IS RESEARCH features posters and media showcasing the many forms of research at the University. You can see the first set of these on the many screens across campus and our website.

In concert with provincial efforts being coordinated through the Council of Ontario Universities, “THIS IS RESEARCH” will help to raise the profile of research performed across faculties by the creative professionals, scholars, and strategic thinkers that make up our research community.

Please join us in celebrating research at OCADU!

If you would like your research to be profiled through “THIS IS RESEARCH” please contact our office at research@ocadu.ca.

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"This is Research" Poster: Quipucamayoc
"This is Research" Poster: Monarch
"This is Research" Poster: INHABITAT
"This is Research" Poster: One Hundred Thousand Lousy Cats