2020

2020-12-15 Service Design for Victims of Violence

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You are invited to a special evening with Dr. Benjamin Roebuck, Research Chair of the Victimology Research Centre at Algonquin College. Ben has been invited to discuss findings from his collaborative study with the University of Ottawa that examines services that support victims of violence. As per his report:

“Understanding how people interact with service providers, the justice system, and other supports is central to exploring their process of navigating and negotiating the adversity that violence has introduced to their lives. Learning from what is helpful and unhelpful along the way becomes important to designing responses to violence that can better support resilience.”

Read the executive summary: https://bit.ly/CapCHI-2020-Roebuck

As featured on CBC’s All in a Day: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-92

As featured on CTV News: http://ctv.news/29XAdFF

Dr. Benjamin Roebuck is Research Chair of the Victimology Research Centre and Professor of the Victimology postgraduate program at Algonquin College. https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-roebuck-5008a719/

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2020-11-17 Bicycle Craft Brewery Virtual Field Trip

Join us for an exciting virtual field trip to Bicycle Craft Brewery, makers of beer inspired by the wild places you discover when riding your bike. Your host, Anna Theus, will broadcast from the brewery via live video to our Zoom channel. Tune in to learn how Bicycle makes their different kinds of unfiltered ales. Ask their brewmaster anything about the art and science of our favourite suds. At the end of the night, enter your name in a draw to win some Bicycle swag! For the full experience, you can order Bicycle ales via their website in advance using their curb-side pickup and delivery option.

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2020-09-15 Homecoming Trivia Night

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A very warm welcome home for our CapCHI family!

We are excited to kick-off the 2020–2021 season with a trivia networking event. The evening will feature an introduction to the CapCHI executive team, followed by an overview of the fantastic season we have lined up. Then, we will break out into several rooms to get to know each other, and test our wits with a round of carefully crafted UX brain teasers.

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2020-04-07 Ethics in UX (Online)

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We are excited to announce this event has been rescheduled online!

You are invited to a panel discussion on ethics in user-experience research and design. Professionals from government, not-for-profit, academic, and private sectors have been invited to discuss ethics from their perspective. Following these short talks, we will break out into virtual rooms to discuss specific themes in smaller groups. Afterwards, we will return to the main room to for a moderated discussion, when we will open the floor to everyone.

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2020-02-18 Startup Showcase

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Several new businesses have been invited to present their product or service to the CapCHI community. Each entrepreneur will have five minutes to introduce their company and underline some of the key challenges they have faced in the first few years since launch. Following each presentation will be a short question period, and later in the evening there will be time to meet the presenters to discuss their challenges in greater detail.

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2020-01-21 CapCHI meets Civic Tech: A Mixer!

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Welcome back! Let’s start off the decade on a positive note by getting to know another amazing local community group: Ottawa Civic Tech! Members of Ottawa Civic Tech have been gathering and working on projects together for four years. During that time, they’ve fostered civic engagement between citizens, elected officials, and public servants; hosted over a hundred talks, including by a number of internationally renowned speakers, and; developed several unique civic-minded projects, such as the Meeting Cost Calculator, DemocracyKit, Is This Blocked in My Department, and Big Little Contracting.

This social mixer will be an informal way for the communities to meet and get to know each other. We’ll start the evening with a short introductory presentation from each group, and then leave the night open for mostly unstructured conversation. We’ll have a few back-up activities and games on hand to keep conversations moving, if necessary.

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