Mersivity / WaterHCI 2023 Dec. 14 Symposium Schedule

Mersivity-2023 Schedule

• 12noon Introductory remarks, and Land + Water Acknowledgement, Meric Gertler, President of University of Toronto.
  
• 12:10pm, Tom Furness ("Grandfather of Virtual Reality"), Avi Bar-Zeev (co-inventor of Microsoft Hololens), and Steve Mann ("The Father of Wearable Technologies"), "Spatial Computing and Virtual Worlds for Sustainable Society"
  
• 1pm Mei Lin Fung, Founder, with Vint Cerf, People Centered Internet, Chair IEEE SSIT Sustainability Tech Cttee, "A. I. for Sustainable Society: Adaptive Intelligence for People and Planet"
  
• 1:30pm Jeff Archbold, Mete Isiksalan, and Steve Mann: "Freehicles: Vehicles and Veyances for freedom of mobility that reconfigure themselves for land, water, or air"
• 1:50pm Akarsh Aurora, Akash Anand, Massachusetts Institute of Technology CSAIL, "Autoregressively decoding EEG brain responses on a conditional language model prior"
  
• 2:10pm Perry Toone, "Freesource / Freecode for Mersivity"
  
• 2:30pm Reid Godshaw, "Chat GPT and DALL·E 3: How to Create Generative A.I. Imagery for Sustainable Activism"
  
  
• 2:55pm Anita Krajnc, "Plant Based Treaty's Safe and Just report provides framework for planet in peril" (presented at 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference)
  
• 3:20 to 4pm, mid-symposium food break
• 4pm-4:20 Ed Hore, Lawyer and Founder, Waterfront for All
  
• 4:30pm Mike Shoreman, "Technology, Humans, and Water" (a link)
  
• 5:00pm - 5:40pm Ajay Agrawal, "Prediction, Judgment, and Mersivity: Towards Intelligent Systems for All People and Our Planet"
  
• 5:40-6:10 Ryan Janzen, "Part 1: Advancing Transportation for Sustainable Society"
  
• 6:10pm Superhumachines team 1: "Heaven-Met" smart bike helmet
  (rehearsal picture, Dec. 7th)
• 6:35pm Superhumachines team 2: "Sensing and machine learning lucid-dream states using Muse-S sleep band"
  (rehearsal picture, Dec. 7th)
• 7pm Superhumachines Team 3: "EMG-controlled wheelchair with SWIM-based biofeedback"
  (rehearsal picture, Dec. 7th)
• 7:25pm Josh Matlow (confirmed) and Olivia Chow (to be confirmed), "Mersivity in the City..."
  
• 8pm Kyle Simmons and Kelson Rumak: Continuous interpersonal body and environment connection: Bridging distance using wearable humanistic intelligence.
  

See also our previous (now past) Summer Symposium (August Symposium) Schedule.