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Lecturer in HCI psition available - recruiting internally at the moment
We are initiating recruitment to a new Lecturer in HCI position in UCLIC! This post is only available to internal candidates at risk of redundancy at present - the deadline for these applicants is 25 October 2017. If we have not recruited to this post after this internal round, we will advertise…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 16th October: Fabrice Matulic, Preferred Networks Inc., Japan - Leveraging pen and touch input on interactive surfaces
Please note the changed day and time of the seminar Tablets and large displays that support simultaneous and differentiated pen and touch input provide interactive capabilities that go well beyond the sum of those modalities' individual input spaces. In this talk, I will present some of the…
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Anna Cox in podcast on Work-Life Balance
In the latest episode of the Digital Mindfulness podcast, Anna Cox talks about her research on using technology and the Internet of Things to help people gain work and life balance. You can listen to the full podcast here: digitalmindfulness.net/84-tech-work-life-balance-anna-cox
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Welcome to new PhD students
Welcome to our new PhD students who are starting on the UCLIC PhD programme this term! These are: Akhil Mathur being supervised by Nadia Berthouze Maryam Bandukda being supervised by Cathy Holloway Chongyang Wang being supervised by Nadia Tao Bi being supervised by Nadia Anna Rudnicka being…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 4th October: Antti Salovaara, University of Helsinki, Finland - Evaluations as time machines: Studying the future HCI in the present
In his talk, Antti will extend his CHI2017 essay (http://bit.ly/2lHXodD) that discussed the problem of possible futures in HCI methodology, especially in its prototype evaluations. He addresses a blind spot in HCI's evaluation methodology: that we rarely consider the implications of the problem…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 27th September: Steve Whittaker, University of California at Santa Cruz - Rethinking the Quantified Self to make personal data engaging and useful
The Quantified Self (QS) vision argues for collecting and analysing rich collections of personal data. According to the vision, such personal data facilitate greater self-insight promoting behaviour change. But although self quantification is important, quantified self technologies show poor rates…
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Youngjun's work featured in news
Well done to Youngjun Cho, whose thermal camera work has been featured on Phys.org. Read the article here: New software turns mobile-phone accessory into breathing monitor The journal paper of the featured work is below: Cho, Y; Julier, S; Marquardt, N; Berthouze, N; (2017). Robust tracking of…
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Congratulations to Kathy Stawarz!
Congratulations to Dr. Kathy Stawarz, who graduated with a PhD in HCI earlier this month!
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Welcome to Dr Daniela Romano!
Welcome to Dr Daniela Romano, who joined us as a Senior Teaching Fellow on Friday 1 September!
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Congratulations to Aneesha!
Congratulations again to Abdi!
Dr Abdigani Diriye, a former PhD student at UCLIC, has been recognized by MIT as a visionary on the Innovators Under 35 list for his work on technologies to enable people in Africa to access financial services more easily! He has also launched an accelerator for startups in his native Somalia,…
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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 - now closed
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 - now closed
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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