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Disability Innovation Summit, 13-14 September 2023, h.9:30-16:30
This free, two-day event, organised by the Global Disability Innovation Hub, brings together global experts and new voices to share big ideas and ask the question: What next for disability innovation? This is mainly on online event with in-person audience - register now! Captioning in English will…
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Prof Duncan Brumby appointed SIGCHI Education Committee Chair
Professor Duncan Brumby has been appointed the incoming Chair of the SIGCHI Education committee — an ad hoc committee that seeks to provide guidance on and advance HCI Education within the international ACM SIGCHI community. See the SIGCHI Announcement for more information on the education…
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UCLIC's Summer Picnic
A good dose of optimism and perseverance, not to mention Louise's direct line to AccuWeather, all helped secure a rain-free picnic on Wednesday 19 July. UCLIC's Summer gathering took place in the garden of Gordon Square, a hidden gem in Bloomsbury. This secluded green, surrounded by lovely Georgian…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 19 July: Ofer Bergman, Collecting Music in the Streaming Age
Since Thomas Edison invented the gramophone, and for over one hundred years, the activities of privately listening to music and collecting it have been inseparable. Streaming music applications allow users to collect any amount of music (e.g., by "liking" songs) at no additional cost. On…
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UCL Graduation 2023: Celebrating our HCI Students
Well that was epic! Congratulations to all the HCI MSc graduates who walked across the stage at the London ExCeL ceremony on Friday 14 July 2023. Graduation is a very special day to celebrate your achievements with friends and family. It's such an honour to be part of this truly wonderful event -…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 12th July 2023 - Dean Mohamedally & Sheena Visram: UCL MotionInput: Touchless Computing and its application in Clinical Healthcare Interaction
This talk will introduce UCL MotionInput, a suite of software applications developed since Summer 2020, by over 150 students and academics at University College London's Department of Computer Science. The software enables a variety of pathways of touchless interactions with a computer using a…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 5 July: Xiaoli Wu, How Information Within the Perceptual Span Guides Visual Search and Aids Perception
In this talk, I will introduce some of my previous research on information displays, which will discuss how information visualization work can contribute to the design of experiments underway or to be conducted. We explore the guiding effect of task-related information appearing within the…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 16 June: Jo Iacovides, Designing Games to Support Reflection on Wellbeing: Student-Life Balance
In this talk, I will introduce some of my previous research on games, wellbeing, and reflection, before focusing on the design and evaluation of the Student-Life Balance game, which was created to prompt student reflection on their work-life. We focused on this area as students in higher education…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 14 June: Yuan-Chi Tseng - Understanding and Designing Technological Support for Clients, Professionals and Collaborations
User-centered design recognizes the importance of considering the specific needs of clients and professionals when designing technical support. In some cases, creating a better ecosystem may indeed require facilitating collaboration between clients, professionals, or both. By focusing on…
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Inspiring young Black British students
EDI initiatives at UCL are wide-ranging and thriving. On 1 June the Department of Computer Science hosted an on-campus day with a group of Year 12 students from Thinking Black, an organisation whose mission aims to 'engage, equip and empower a new generation of young Black voices'. The students…
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UCLIC & Infosec Research Seminar 8 June: Sameer Patil, Privacy? There’s no app for that!
Smartphone apps can often be privacy-invasive. Yet, billions around the world routinely use such apps in their everyday lives despite expressing desires for privacy protection. In this talk, I will present the results of a number of empirical studies in which we have attempted to understand this…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 7 June: Timothy Neate, Total Communication Technologies
Human communication is complex. We do so much more than speak, listen, read and write. These modalities are often complemented by a nuanced range of body language, gestures, and myriad other means. These broader notions of expression are termed 'Total Communication' and are particularly important…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 31 May: Marta Cecchinato - Rethinking Family Informatics: A Duoethnography About Shared Data, Sense Making, and (In)visible labour
This talk will provide insights from a two-year long duoethnography of family informatics. The work focuses on tracking technologies designed to support new parents and takes a data feminist perspective. From the findings, I will be discussing how family informatics in particular can encapsulate…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 24 May: Cara Wilson - Co-design Beyond Words: Exploring Digital and Tangible Technology Design in Neurodiverse Classrooms
A recording of this talk is available on the UCLIC YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/ZptwYJ5X_uE This talk will provide insight into participatory design in the context of autism-specific primary school contexts, exploring how to better support the integration of non-verbal and minimally-verbal…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 17 May: Sylvain Malacria - Do we need to `recall` an efficient interaction?
A recording of this talk is available on the UCLIC YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/0rtndISR3iI Graphical User Interfaces still mediate most interaction between users and interactive systems. Their success might stem from the fact that they are adapted to users of various profiles. As an example,…
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Book launch with a bang
Co-authors Jenny Preece (University of Maryland), Helen Sharp (Open University) and Yvonne Rogers (UCLIC) held a party in Hamburg, during the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 23-28 April 2023. The occasion was the launch of the 6th edition of *Interaction Design: Beyond…
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Professor Rogers receives honorary doctorate from St.Gallen University, Switzerland
The University of St.Gallen (HSG) recently awarded an honorary doctorate in computer science for the first time in its 125-year history. The honour was bestowed upon UCLIC Director, Professor Yvonne Roger, for her approach to interdisciplinarity and networked thinking, values which she shares with…
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Record number of UCLIC attendees at CHI 2023
UCLIC exceeded all expectations at this year's CHI 23, the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held in Hamburg on 23-28 April. As detailed in a previous news item we had a record number of staff and students attending the event, sharing knowledge and networking with researchers and…
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UCLIC is growing (again!)
Please join us in welcoming the following colleagues, who recently joined our team: Tao Bi and Chuang Yu, part-time and full-time Research Fellows, respectively, working with Professor Berthouze on the TCC/CXDT project Kyrill Potapov and Min Zhan, part-time Associate Lecturers (Teaching) on our…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 3 May: Julie Williamson, Being Social in XR
A recording of this talk is available on the UCLIC YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/GcbQCBjSbKE Immersive technology (XR) designed for always-on interaction will forever change the way we communicate, collaborate, and connect with one another. XR technologies are rapidly advancing in terms of…
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