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Birch Bark Canoe Project: In the late summer of 2010, three friends and I realized a plan that was 3 years in the making: to paddle part of the old fur trade route in Northern Saskatchewan, and to do so in traditional birch bark canoes. Of course, you need a canoe to do so. To learn more about the trip and the construction of the canoe, click on the picture above. The Buxton Collection is a collection of interactive devices that I have been collecting for about 35 years. This site, created with my colleagues from Microsoft Research, documents the collection, and is intended as a resource for those interested in design, user experience, and the history of interaction. Since only about 1/2 the collection is yet on-line, here is the current complete catalogue. This is a prototype video to explore how we plan to add narratiives that link the devices in the collection. And, mia culpa, in the very first example, I misattribute the mouse as being from the 1982 Xerox 8010 Star workstation, whereas it is actually from the follow-up system, the Xerox 6085 Viewpoint workstation. Sigh. Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the things that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name. (Personal mantra.) Upcoming Talks Events:. In order to concentrate on my own work, I am trying to limit speaking engagements. However, I will post what public events I do accept here. Oct. 31-Nov. 3 2019: Keynote, Wild Design for Living in the Wild CanUX, Ottawa, Canada. Nov. 11, 2019: Keynote, Ubiety, Mobility Transitions: The Quest for Ecological Intelligence, ACM ISS Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Conference, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea. Nov. 15 2019: Keynote, Design 3.0, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea. A Touching Story: A Personal Perspective on the History of Touch Interfaces Past and Future.An invited paper presented in Society for Information Display (SID) Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, May 2010, Volume 41(1), Session 31, 444-448. Direct Display Interaction via Simultaneous Pen + Multi-touch Input.Paper presented by Ken Hinckley, Michel myself in Society for Information Display (SID) Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, May 2010, Volume 41(1), Session 38, 537-540. Manual Deskterity : An Exploration of Simultaneous Pen + Touch Direct Input. Paper and video presented , by Ken Hinckley, Koji Yatani, Michel Pahud, Nicole Coddington, Jenny Rodenhouse, myself in, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'10 (alt.chi), 2793 - 2802. April 5, 2019: Artificial Social Intelligence, Mobility Ubiety. Keynote, Interaction 19 // redux: San Francisco Wed. Feb. 6, 2019: Wild Design for Living in the Wild. Keynote, Interaction 19, Seattle, WA. Jan. 4, 2019. CBC SPARK Podcast, Wearables go beyond fitness tracking to help people with chronic health conditions Nov. 29th, 2018, .NET Rocks! Podcast: Morality of Software Development. Oct. 17, 2018, Microsoft Research Podcast, Designing the Future with the Help of the Past. May 27th, 2016. Socializing Technology for the Mobile Human. Keynote, The Next Web Conference, Amsterdam/Europe. March 28, 2013. End Discrimination Now! GVU Distinguished Brown Bag seminar. Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA. March 18, 2013. Designing for Ubiquitous Computing. MSR TechFest, Redmond. Accompanying slides can be downloaded here. Jan. 30, 2013. A Tribute to Bill Moggridge, 1943-2012.With Helen Walters, Ellen Lupton, David Kelley Bruce Nussbaum, NYC. Oct. 28th, 2011: Whereable Media: An Ecological Perspective, Keynote, TIFF Nexus Locative Media Innovation Day @ Digifest 2011, Toronto. Oct. 25th, 2011. Design is Science. A debate with Prof. E.W. Meijer, Spinoza Laureate and professor of Chemical Engineering at TU Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week. March 1st, 2011. Risk and Innovation. Microsoft Canada CIO Dinner, Toronto. Oct. 13th, 2010. How Design Triggers Transformation. Speaker,with Tjeerd Hoek Marcel Kampman, Design Mind Salon, Amsterdam. Oct. 4, 2010. TechTalk: NUI - What's in a Name, Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen, Denmark. July 14th, 2010. On innovation, climate, and peripheral displays. Video, WPC10 Expo Theatre (13:40).May 10th, 2010. Invited Presentation (8:49)(via videoconference), This Happened - Utrecht #6, Utrecht, NL March 31st, 2010. Interview with Student Insiders at MIX10 (23:39). Channel 9. March 30th, 2010. Bill Buxton Erik Meijer - Perspectives on Design (29:38). Channel 9. March 25th, 2010, Interview on Innovation plus Technology as Cultural Artifact (9:32). Bytes by MSDN. March 21st, 2010, Video on Natural User Interfaces (8:18). Microsoft Research. March 16th, 2010, Closing Keynote, MIX10, Las Vegas. Note, a short segment of this talk demonstrating a novel paint program, Project Gustav, using simultaneous pen + touch is available for view here (6:50). March 16th, 2010, An Hour with Bill Buxton (64:44). MIX10, Las Vegas. A Conversation with Bill Buxton and Albert Shum (34:26). A conversation about design and design languages. Channel 9, March 5th, 2010. Digital Swiss Army Knives? (38:34). A radio interview with Jared Spool and myself by CBC's Nora Young about the relative merits of single-purpose and multi-function devices [runs 38:34].A shorter version of this discussion will air on Spark 98, Jan. 10th, 2010. Natural User Interfaces (NUI) (38:42). An interview with Larry Larsen, Channel 9, Jan, 6th, 2010. Debate: the Future of Reading (53:06). The Agenda with Steve Pakin, TV Ontario, Dec. 16th, 2009 Computing Everywhere, Naturally (2:57). A short clip speaking about surface computing and natural interaction. Nov. 15, 2009. On Design, Values History (28:00).Talk/Story at BIF-5 Summit, Business Innovation Factory, Providence RI, Oct. 7-8, 2009. The Future of Advertising. Microsoft Business Forum, Lions Advertising Festival, Cannes, France, June 24, 2009. Keynote, Innovation and Canada (4:08), Interview with Canadian Business Magazine, May 28th, 2009. From the Materialistic to the Experiential: A Changing Perspective on Design, Joint PhillyCHI | NJ UPA April Meeting, Princeton University, April 21, 2009: Return on Experience - By Design. Opening Keynote, MIX 09, Las Vegas, March 18 - 20, 2009. Interview on touch, design, and interaction, Intruder's TV, ReMix, Brighton UK, Sept. 28th, 2008. Designing Experience/The Experience of Design, Microsoft Research New England Opening Symposium, MIT, Sept. 22nd, 2008. T.S. Eliot's The Rock and the Uncertain Path from Noise to Wisdom. Opening Keynote, 77th Annual Summer Conference, Lake Couchiching, Ontario, Canada, August 7, 2008. The Design Ecosystem. Invited Lecture, CHIFOO, Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon, June 11, 2008, Portland, OR. Design Thinking in the Wild, Guest lecture at the annual IIT Institute of Design Strategy Conference, May 22, 2008, Chicago IL Does Location Matter? CBC interview with Nora Young, Mesh Conference, Toronto, May 20, 2008. Managing Design / Design Management, talk delivered as part of the Design Thinking Speaker Series,. Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto, April 14, 2008. On Being Human in a Digital World. Closing Plenary, CHI08, Florence Italy, April 10th, 2008. The Design Eco-System, Keynote, IxDA Interaction 08, SCAD, Savanna, GA., Feb. 10, 2008. Interview associated with keynote at, Canadian Business Leadership Forum, Oct. 18,2007,Toronto, Canada. Above and Below the Surface: A Perspective on Interactive Experience. A talk about user experience and Surface Computing. Expression Around the Clock. October, 2007. Toronto, Ontario. Conversation around Design and User Experience. Video Interview on Channel 9, Sept. 2007. The Importance of Arts and Innovation. A two-part radio interview with Andy Barrie, Metro Morning, CBC Radio. Part I,(7:40),June 25, 2007; Part II (5:42), June 26, 2007. Sketching and Experience Design, HCI Seminar on People, Computers and Design, Stanford University, June 1, 200. A Conversation About Design Thinking. Phone interview with Jon Udell. May 2007. Sketching and Experience Design. Nov. 21st, 2006, BostonCHI. What if Leopold Didn't Have a Piano?, 1st Annual Ingenuity Lecture, Lethbridge, Calgary and Edmonton Alberta, Nov. 22, 23 and 25, 2005. Follow-up radio interview. Mountains, Exploration, Education, Rich Media Design, KMDI, Toronto, Dec. 9, 2004 On Appearances and the 3 Rules of Real Estate. iCore Summit, Banff, Alberta, June 8, 2004. The Role of Design in Software Product Development, KMDI, Toronto, April 22, 2004 relentless advocate for innovation, design, and - especially - the appropriate consideration of human values, capacity, and culture in the conception, implementation, and use of new products and technologies. This is reflected in his research, teaching, talks, and writing - including his past column on design and innovation for BusinessWeek.com, and his 2007 book, Sketching User Experiences. He is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research, where he has been employed since December 2005. Prior to that, he was Principal of his own Toronto-based boutique design and consulting firm, Buxton Design. Buxton began his career as a composer and performer, having done a Bachelor of Music degree at Queen's University. He then studied and taught for two years at the Institute of Sonology, Utrecht, The Netherlands. In 1975 Bill started designing his own digital musical instruments. This is what led him to the University of Toronto, at first as an artist in residence. This led to his earning MSc in Computer Science, after which he joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science, where he is still an adjunct professor. It is this path which led him to the field of human-computer interaction, his technical area of specialty. From 1987-89, Buxton was in Cambridge England, helping establish a new satellite of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (EuroPARC). From 1989-94 he split his time between Toronto, where he was Scientific Director of the Ontario Telepresence Project, and Palo Alto, California, where he was a consulting researcher at Xerox PARC. From 1994 until December 2002, he was Chief Scientist of Alias|Wavefront, (now part of Autodesk) and from 1995, its parent company SGI Inc. In the fall of 2004, he became a part-time instructor in the Department of Industrial Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design. In 2004/05 he was also Visiting Professor at the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI) at the University of Toronto. He currently splits his time between Redmond and Toronto. In 1995, Buxton became the third recipient of the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society Award for contributions to research in computer graphics and human-computer interaction. In 2000 he was given the New Media Visionary of the Year Award at the Canadian New Media Awards. In 2001, The Hollywood Reporter named him one of the 10 most influential innovators in Hollywood. In 2002, Time Magazine named him one of the top 5 designers in Canada. Also in 2002, he was elected to the CHI Academy. In October, 2005, he and Gord Kurtenbach received the Lasting Impact Award , from ACM UIST 2005, which was awarded for their 1991 paper, Issues in Combining Marking and Direct Manipulation Techniques. In 2008 he became the 10th recipient of the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award, for fundamental contributions to the field of Computer Human Interaction. In 2009 he was elected Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM, for his contributions to the field of human-computer interaction, and in 2011 he became the first recipeint of the annual Grand Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award. Buxton has been awarded four doctorates Honoris Causa: Doctor of Design from the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario (June, 2007), Doctor of Laws from his alma mater, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario (June, 2009), Doctor of Industrial Design, from the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands (April, 2010), where he was also appointed Distinguished Professor (October, 2010), and Doctor of Science from his alma mater, The University of Toronto (June, 2013). From 1998-2004, Buxton was on the board of the Canadian Film Centre, and in 1998-99 chaired a panel to advise the premier of Ontario on developing long term policy to foster innovation, through the Ontario Jobs and Investment Board. He is on the advisory board of the Department of Industrial Design of the Technical University in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, the President's Advisory Board of the Ontario College of Art and Design, the Advisory Council of The Mountaineer's Legends and Lore book series, and in 2018 joined the National Council of the Canadian Canoe Museum, where he is also a member of the Collections Committee. Buxton is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery and the Industrial Designers Society of America. Outside of work, Buxton loves the outdoors. He is especially passionate about mountains, including skiing, climbing, and touring. This interest extends to the written word. He has contributed to the literature on mountain history and exploration, is an avid bibliophile, and was on the jury of the 2005 Banff Mountain Book Festival. He is an accomplished equestrian, and in 1996 was awarded the Veteran Rider of the Year award from the Ontario Horse Trials Association, and in 2000 was named to the Talent Squad of the National Eventing Team. In addition, he is an avid cyclist, and active paddlerr - kayaks and canoes. Finally, he has a life-long fascination with both art and his wife, the artist Elizabeth Russ, owner and operator of Toronto-based Studio 888, a gallery whose mission is the promotion of emerging local artists. Selected Papers/Articles (sorted by topic) Selected Research Videos and Demonstrations My YouTube Channel Curriculum Vitae: includes complete listing of papers, etc. Patents Invention Disclosures A Directory of Sources for Input Devices and Technologies Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known and Loved. An overview of multi-point touch systems and their history. Some Milestones in Computer Input Devices: An Informal Timeline: A timeline and overview of key innovations in input technologies, such as mice, pens, touch, gesture, etc. Technology Briefs (Studies of various technologies that I have assembled) Design Narratives: A set of informal narratives describing some of my work. The Active Desk: A brief history of an electronic drafting table developed at the University of Toronto in 1992. Books on Design. This material documents the books on aspects of design, such as sketching, design thinking, creativity, etc. that are in my library. Corporate Technical Advisory Boards / Committees Books on History, Exploration and Mountaineering, with a focus on Central Asia and the Himalaya. This is material, including bibliography, essays, etc. pertaining to my books on Central Asia and mountaineering. Books on the early History of Canada, First Nations, the Fur Trade, and the Canoe. This is material documenting this part of my library. Photos A mixture of personal photos. Some high res for PR purposes, some of historical interest, and some are just for fun. Birch Bark/ Birchbark Canoe Project. Gallery 888: This is a Toronto art gallery devoted to the work of emerging artists that was owned and curated by my wife, the artist Liz Russ. Horse Stuff : This just reflects a past obsession. No excuses. Cambridge 2005: A brief photo diary of our time in Cambridge, UK, Jan-April 2005. I am interested in the contribution made to interactive computing and computer graphics by the researchers at MIT's Lincoln Lab in the 1950's and 60's. Consequently, I organized a panel including some of the key protagonists at the 2005 SIGCHI Conference in Portland Oregon, and I have started a web page which is intended to be a clearing house for some of the material on and by the researchers of the group, which was mainly centred around the TX-2 computer. The page now includes a video of the panel session, including the examples. See the following work in progress: The work in computer music and animation in the early 1970's at the National Research Council of Canada was extremely important in the field of human-computer interaction - not just music and animation. This is where I first saw and used a computer, and that experience had a huge impact on shaping my career. The music work, in particular, is not well known. The following a book chapter contains a summary of the system, my personal experience using it, as well as my comments on its importance. Through the cooperation of the NRC and especially my friend and mentor Marceli Wein, I was able to get some historic 16mm film footage of these systems digitized. These can be viewed on my YouTube channel as follows:

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