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A taste of UCLIC!
We had our first lunch social in the event space of 169 Euston Rd on 3 November. Staff and students were invited to bring food from their country to share with others - we had around 15 people attend with food from all over the world, including the UK, Nigeria, Ireland, India, the Middle East,…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 24th November: Andrew McStay, Gauging civic feeling of emotion recognition: ethics, policy, and citizen opinion
Focus Drawing on past and ongoing work, this talk will consider the social trajectory of technologies that pertain to gauge and interact with human emotion. With hitherto unseen attention from policymakers and civil society groups, emotion recognition is now high on human rights and data…
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Congratulations to Josie Carmichael for being selected for the Dean’s list for the MRes CDT i4Health!
Congratulations! We are delighted to announce that Josie Carmichael has been selected for the Dean's list for the MRes CDT i4Health. Every year the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences recognises the top performing students, in terms of academic performance, from across the Faculty. These…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 17th November Nithya Sambasivan, Google Research, The myopia of model centrism
AI models seek to intervene in increasingly higher stakes domains, such as cancer detection and microloan allocation. What is the view of the world that guides AI development in high risk areas, and how does this view regard the complexity of the real world? In this talk, I will present results…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 3rd November Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin) Content Moderation: Understanding Health Risks for Workers and Designing Interventions
Social media platforms must detect and block a variety of unacceptable user-generated content, such such as adult or violent images. This detection task is difficult to automate due to high accuracy requirements, costs of errors, and nuanced rules for what is and is not acceptable. Consequently,…
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Communications and Administration Officer
Grade 6 (£29,802 to £34,867) Closing date 14th November Why apply? This is an exciting opportunity to join a small, friendly team in a dynamic, world-leading, department, and further develop your communications and administration experience. The role is part time (60% FTE) with some…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 27th of October: Katie Shilton (University of Maryland, College Park). Levers for Ethics in Technology Design
The values and ethics built into technological systems are gaining increasing attention. This talk will introduce the challenges of values-oriented design for technologies which are meant to be flexible, adaptable, interoperable, and global. It will then present research on two salient values for…
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Congruatulations to Emma Holliday for being awarded an honourable mention in the CHI PLAY student game design competition!
Emma Holliday was awarded an honourable mention in the CHI PLAY student game design competition for work she conducted as part of the Serious and Persuasive Games module.
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UCLIC Research Seminar 13th of October: Carsten Sørensen (London School of Economics and Political Science). The Age of Value-Sensitive Digital Infrastructures?
The technical process of digitizing analogue data into digital bit-streams and the associated socio-technical processes of digitalisation has yet to fully reveal their disruptive potentials - yet researchers and practitioners alike must comprehend these phenomena. Digitalization removes tight…
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Fully funded PhD Studentship in Human-Computer Interaction at UCL and Microsoft
Designing Apps that Teach You How to Use Them. Summary: Applications are invited for a PhD studentship at the UCL Interaction Centre, funded by a Microsoft and EPSRC iCASE studentship, for up to 4 years. Minimum enhanced stipend of £22,109 per annum, plus fees. Start date is flexible between…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 6th of October: Leah Findlater (University of Washington). The Potential, Challenges and Risks of AI-based Accessibility: An HCI Perspective
AI-based accessibility tools hold tremendous potential to counter everyday disabling experiences with computing technologies and the physical world—from personalizing how a device interprets each user's input to amplifying a user's sensory abilities with additional information. In this talk,…
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Research Fellow in HCI: Interactive Visualisation of IoT Data for Sustainability
We are recruiting a Research Fellow to work on a project with Dr Enrico Costanza on Interactive Visualisation of IoT Data for Sustainability. We are looking for a talented, HCI or Ubicomp researcher to join our team at the UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC) at University College London. You will…
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Congratulations to Prof Yvonne Rogers - Winner of the Royal Society’s Milner Award!
Three UCL academics have received prestigious awards from the Royal Society, recognising their 'exceptional research and contributions' to the world of science and helping to 'expand our understanding of the world'. Professor Yvonne Rogers (UCL Computer Science, 1st on the left in the picture) has…
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Congratulations to Prof Anna Cox! Winner of the Provost's Awards for Embedding Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
UCL Inclusion Awards 2021 Almost 100 nominations were received for UCL's annual Inclusion Awards, which recognise work or contributions that individuals or teams make to progressing equality, diversity, or inclusion practice within the institution. There are 6 different award categories, covering a…
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Royal Academy of Art Postdoc Vacancy: Consumer Experience (CX) Digital Tools for Dematerialisation for the Circular Economy
Closing Date: 21st July 2021. Interviews: 2nd August 2021. Salary: £37,388 - £40,601 per annum (Fixed Term for 30 months) The Materials Science Research Centre (MSRC) in partnership with UCL are seeking to recruit a highly energetic and enthusiastic early-career researcher, who works in…
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Temporary RA position in the Dept of Computer Science: AI in Dementia Care
Temporary RA position to explore self-supervised learning tasks for synchronisation of multimodal physiological signals and analysis of physiological signatures of dementia Project start date: Flexible (starting date between 12th July and 6th September 2021) Post duration: Part-time (2 days a week…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 23rd of June: Arunesh Mathur (Princeton University). Unravelling the web of manipulative and deceptive user interfaces.
Manipulative and deceptive user interfaces --- the so-called "dark patterns" --- have been the focus of growing scrutiny from researchers, legislators, and regulators. The academic literature on dark patterns has curated collections of objectionable user interface designs, describing them…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 16th of June: Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy (BBC R&D) . Designing for the Future: Anticipating the needs of BBC audiences.
The role of BBC Research & Development is to provide world-class leading edge technical research and innovation expertise to the BBC in order to better serve the UK audience. This enables the corporation to continue to create and deliver innovative high-quality content and services, on a wide…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 9th of June: Angelika Strohmayer (Northumbria University). Reflections on Justice-oriented Design and Academia.
In this talk, Angelika will talk about justice-oriented design and development of technologies. She will first explain what this ethos of work relates to, and illustrate this with examples of her own practice. Furthermore, Angelika will discuss how this way of working can seep into all the nooks…
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Welcome to some newcomers
We would like to welcome some newcomers to UCLIC: Dr Soojeong Yoo and Dr Roos Van Greevenbroek, who are both working as research fellows with Prof Ann Blandford Ms Elinor Haynes, who has joined us as a design technician in Prof Sriram Subramanian's Multisensory Devices Group Esta Qi, who joined us…
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