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Address
  
40 St. George Street

Operating agency
  
University of Toronto

Website
  
www.dgp.toronto.edu

Motto
  
The enhancement of human creativity through advances in human-computer interaction, user interface design, and interactive computer graphics.

Established
  
1967; 50 years ago (1967)

Field of research
  
Computer Graphics, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Vision

Location
  
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Fields of research
  
Computer graphics, Human–computer interaction, Computer vision

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The Dynamic Graphics Project (commonly referred to as dgp) is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the University of Toronto devoted to projects involving Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, and Human Computer Interaction. The lab began as the computer graphics research group of Computer Science Professor Leslie Mezei in 1967. Mezei invited Bill Buxton, a pioneer of human–computer interaction to join. In 1972, Ronald Baecker, another HCI pioneer joined dgp, establishing dgp as the first Canadian university group focused on computer graphics and human-computer interaction.

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Since then, dgp has hosted many well known faculty and students in computer graphics, computer vision and HCI (e.g., Alain Fournier, Bill Reeves, Jos Stam, Demetri Terzopoulos, Marilyn Tremaine). dgp also occasionally hosts artists in residence (e.g., Oscar-winner Chris Landreth). Many past and current researchers at Autodesk (and before that Alias Wavefront) graduated after working at dgp. dgp is located in the St. George Campus of University of Toronto in the Bahen Centre for Information Technology. dgp researchers regularly publish at ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGCHI and ICCV.

dgp hosts the Toronto User Experience (TUX) Speaker Series and the Sanders Series Lectures

Notable Alumni

  • Bill Buxton (MS 1978)
  • James McCrae (PhD 2013)
  • Dimitris Metaxas (PhD 1992)
  • Bill Reeves (MS 1976, Ph.D. 1980)
  • Jos Stam (MS 1991, Ph.D. 1995)
  • References

    Dynamic Graphics Project Wikipedia