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New Scientist article features work by Anna Cox & Marta Cecchinato
Work by Anna Cox & Marta Cecchinato on using microboundaries to reduce digital distraction features in a New Scientist article today. You can read the full article here Their research on how people cope with work-life balance issues and the expectation of being always online shows that people…
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Another Funded PhD opportunity in UCLIC
We have another funded PhD studentship available to UK/EU applicants only, who have settled status in the UK, residing in the UK for 3 years prior to the start of the studentship and not wholly for the purpose of education. The studentship is funded for up to 4 years from October 2017, but…
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Funded PhD opportunity in UCLIC
We have a funded PhD studentship available to UK/EU applicants only, who have settled status in the UK, residing in the UK for 3 years prior to the start of the studentship and not wholly for the purpose of education. The studentship is funded for up to 4 years from September 2017, but applicants…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 18th July: Nicole Werner, University of Wisconsin-Madison - How Do Patients and Caregivers’ Engage Strategies to Accomplish Healthcare Work at Home?
Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Chronic illness management requires a majority of healthcare to be performed by lay individuals. Paramount to understanding the process of illness self-management by lay individuals is understanding the sociotechnical system in which it…
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Academic promotions UCLIC
Congratulations to Anna Cox, Duncan Brumby and Enrico Costanza on their promotions! Anna has been promoted to Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, Duncan has been promoted to Reader in Human-Computer Interaction, and Enrico has been promoted to Senior Lecturer. Full details of recent promotions…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 16th June: Fanny Chevalier, INRIA - Direct spacetime sketching and editing of visual media
Creating dynamic visual media, such as short animations, creative movies or dynamic illustrations requires artists to edit and manipulate content both in the spatial and temporal dimensions. This extension of visual composition into the temporal domain creates a challenging interaction problem.…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 15th June: Ron Wakkary, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Material Speculations
In our design research we aim to expand the notion of interaction design beyond purposed manipulations, explicit interactions, and experiential engagements to also include the implicit, incremental, and at times, unknowing encounters and relations that emerge among people, artifacts, and…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 9th June: Mark Newman, University of Michigan - Collaborating around health data: towards support for patient-caregiver-provider collaboration in the management of chronic health conditions
An explosion in low-cost sensing and mobile self-tracking technologies is promising to transform care for chronic health conditions. As patients have greater access to continuous streams of data regarding their health and related behaviors, they, their caregivers, and their health providers will…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 7th June: Madeline Balaam, Newcastle University – Digital Women's Health
Women's understanding about their own body and their access to quality health information and services is deeply influenced by their social, cultural, political context. As a result, the World Health Organisation has identified that women face significant discrimination globally in terms of access…
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Congratulations to Abdi Diriye
Congratulations to Abdigani Diriye, who was recently selected to be a TED Fellow for his research in mobile-based financial services and for launching a Somalia-based accelerator program for local technology start-ups! Abdi was a PhD student in UCLIC who graduated in 2012.
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Congratulations to Miguel Aulet
Congratulations to Miguel Aulet who was recently awarded theUlf Aberg award from the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors for his MSc project on 'Cognitive offloading in air traffic control'!
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UCLIC Research Seminar 17 May: Lola Cañamero, University of Hertfordshire – An Embodied Cognition and Affect Approach to Human-Robot Interaction
Emotions are a key aspect of human behavior, communication and cognition. Affective computing and human-oriented approaches to technology design take into account different aspects of emotions and their expression in order to create technology that humans feel comfortable with. However, the…
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Positions available at UCLIC - all now closed
We are now recruiting a Senior Teaching Fellow - this is a full-time temporary role to cover parental leave and is for 4.5 months initially starting in September, but it is possible the role may be extended. Please see the UCL advert for more information and how to apply. The deadline is 29 May…
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UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2017
Authors from UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2017, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction, which will take place in Denver, CO, USA, 6 - 11 May 2017. Here is a sneak peek at our accepted contributions. Full Papers Quantifying the Body and Caring for the Mind: Understanding…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 26 April: Abigail Durrant, Northumbria University – Design for Being Online through Life Transitions
The proliferation of pervasive computing, including online platforms like social media, means that being online is for many now a feature of everyday life. Whilst offering new forms of personal expression, such platforms raise new challenges: for managing separate identities in different life…
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New book on research in the wild
Yvonne Rogers and Paul Marshall have published a new ebook entitled 'Research in the Wild' . The phrase "in-the-wild" is becoming popular again in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI), describing approaches to HCI research and accounts of user experience phenomena that differ…
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Welcome to new staff and students!
We would like to welcome a number of people who have recently joined UCLIC ! These are: Ahmed Alqaraawi is a new a PhD student who will be supervised by Enrico Costanza Temi Olugbade who is now working as a part-time post-doc on Nadia Berthouze on the WeDraw project Nicola Binetti who just stared…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 15th March: Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire – Interaction with Robots - Challenges and opportunities in Human-Robot Interaction
Please note changed time and location of this seminar Human-robot interaction (HRI) is a highly interdisciplinary field that has grown substantially over the past 15 years. My talk will reflect on the concept of 'social robots' and focus on companion robots, i.e. robots that provide useful…
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ICRI receives Honorable Mention at CSCW 2017
Martin Dittus, Giovanni Quattrone, and Licia Capra from ICRI Cities have been awarded Honorable Mention at CSCW 2017, the world's premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. This year's conference was held in…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 8th March: Cecilia Katzeff, KTH Royal Institute of Technology – A Design Perspective On Sustainable Practices Related To Energy And Food
The seminar will circle around the general theme of sustainable practices, what is meant by sustainable practices in relation to energy consumption and especially in relation to electricity use and food practices. The seminar will also explore how interaction design may play a role in the emergence…
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