Tony Tang

Tony leads the RICELab (Rethinking Interaction, Collaboration and Engagement) group which focuses on Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Ubiquitous Computing. His interdisciplinary research team explores how to design new technologies that allow people to connect, communicate and understand one another through their interactions with people and data.

His current work investigates the design of immersive analytics tools, where tools give people new ways of thinking about and interacting with their data, and analyzing and discussing their data with others. His research involves primarily three major types of activities: the investigation of domain-specific communication and interaction practices between people and technology; the design of new technologies to address needs in those domain-specific contexts, and the evaluation of interaction technologies. These activities cut across three theme areas:

• Mixed-reality computing. Augmented reality technologies allow us to use context (e.g. visual context, physical location, etc.) to design rich embodied experiences interaction (e.g. gestures) that take advantage novel output devices (head-mounted displays, tablets, mobiles).
• Digital workrooms. New technologies for collaboration in next generation meeting rooms, which are be comprised of large interactive surfaces (walls and tables), and personal devices.
• Digital fashion. Exploring new means of self-expression through wearable technologies.

Recent projects include designing new tools that:

• Reducing sexual violence against women
• Teaching new streamers how to stream on Twitch.tv
• Use mixed reality tutorials for physical fabrication
• Enable search and rescue teams to work effectively together

Tony’s work is generously funded by NSERC.

• Human-Computer Interaction
• User Experience Design
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work
• Ubiquitous Computing

List of Papers

Current:

Lev Poretski, Post-Doctoral Fellow

Terrance Mok (co-supervised), PhD in progress, University of Calgary

Sydney Pratte (co-supervised), PhD in progress, University of Calgary

Martin Fieck (co-supervised), PhD in progress, German Centre for Artificial Intelligence

Karthik Mahadevan (co-supervised), PhD in progress, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Warren Park (co-supervised), PhD in progress, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Ava Lew (co-supervised), PhD in progress, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

Andrey Mintchev, MMSt in progress, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

Past:

Xing-Dong Yang  (co-supervised), Post-Doctoral Fellow

Brennan Jones (co-supervised), PhD

Bon Adriel Aseniero (co-supervised), PhD

Teddy Seyed (co-supervised), PhD

Rojin Vishkaie (co-supervised), PhD

Katherine Currier (co-supervised), MSc

Flavia Cavalcanti (co-supervised), MSc

Jessica Stark (co-supervised), MSc

Kody Dillman, MSc

Omid Fakourfar, MSc

Waliur Rahman (co-supervised), MSc

Lisa Graham, MEng

Hesam Alizadeh (co-supervised), MSc

Richard Tang, MSc

Matthew Dunlap (co-supervised), MSc