TEDtoChina salon Pranav Mistry

TEDtoChina Salon
HCI ROCKS!

Introduction
TEDtoChinaSalon was created in the spirit of TED's mission, "ideas worth spreading." It is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. Salon is a small quarterly recurring event that keeps a TEDtoChinacommunity engaged between larger TEDx events.

Speakers in different fields
It started out (in Apr. 2010) as a regional meet-up bringing together people from different domains, art, design, business, education, technology, etc. More TED speakers will join our salon in the future.

Passion!
Every single salon was over-subscribed! !Thousands of TED fans on our mail-list & over 50,000 followers in our social media .

This time: more interactive than ever!
Celebrating our future—
Human-Computer Interaction!

HCIRocks!/overview
Bring global innovator together with local creators; facilitate networking and inspire real actions!
Theme
Speech + Prototype demo + networking
format
Speech focused on sharing experience and personal reflection as successful designer/ engineers.
Speech/ Q&A
Demo as showcase of latest products or findings; will engage audience as much as possible.
demo
speaker
Global speaker: PranavMistry (inventor of SixthSense on TED.com)
2-3 local speakers: TBD
Sept. 18th (tentative)
date
3-4 hours in the afternoon
length
50-100 participants; equipped with basic knowledge of HCI.
audience
Mainstream media would be invited
media

Pranavmistry
Inventor of SixthSense
He is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT's Media Lab.
Before his studies at MIT, he worked with Microsoft as a UX researcher; he's a graduate of IIT.
Selected projects from Mistry's work at MIT includes intelligent sticky notes, Quickies, that can be searched and can send reminders; a pen that draws in 3D.
Areas of interests: Social Computing, HCI, Interaction Design, Robotics, New media, Cognitive Science, Virtual Reality, Visual Reality, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Interactive Systems and Environments.

SELECTED WORK
TeleTouch
Sparsh
SixthSense
Mouseless
PreCursor
BlinkBot

TED 2009
TEDIndia 2009

The 2009 Invention Award by Popular Science (2009)
Top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by MIT Technology Review (2009)
15 Asian Scientists to Watch by Asian Scientist Magazine (2011)

To celebrate this fun&productivegathering;
To meet with local talents;
To give back to community;
Come & Support Us!

Salon#4: HCI Rocks!/Team
We are a group of passionate, committed TEDsters. We are well connected with local thought-leaders and various organizations.
We have organized or supported a series of activities, including TEDxShanghai, TEDxFiveStarSquare, TEDtoChina Salon, MaD Shanghai Meetup…
We believe in the power of positive idea and positive action!

TEDtoChina
First focused on talk translation; later host TEDx events
Introducing TED to China
~30 main content generators across China, US
Online collaborative community
One co-founder, Tony Yet, is appointed as TED Ambassador in China
Recognized by TED global
Over 30,000 followers on weibo and blog subscribers
Warmly received by public
Cooperated with YouChange Foundation, MaD (HK), 3DS, SIP…
Involved in community building
TEDxShanghai, TEDxFSS, TEDxXiamenTEDxGuangzhou, TEDxNanjing, etc
Engaged in local TEDx events
Reported by mainstream newspaper

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TEDtoChina salon Pranav Mistry

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