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Professor Rogers awarded SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

UCLIC Director, Professor Yvonne Rogers, has been awarded the prestigious SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award 2022. SIGCHI, one of the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest groups, is the leading international community of professionals interested in research, education and the…

Graduation: celebrating our HCI students

Graduation has always been a landmark event for students and staff at UCL. It's a great moment to celebrate our achievements with those that are closest to us; it's great a moment to catch-up with old friends; it's a great moment to dress-up in academic robes and wear one of those silly hats. On…

WEISS team going from strength to strength

Congratulations to the team at the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) for being awarded second place in the best project award (medical education category) at the Medical Augmented Reality Summer School (MARSS2022), Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich.…

UCLIC's 21st Birthday Celebrations officially open

On Tuesday 8 March 2022 a good number of UCLIC staff and students travelled to north London, to enjoy lunch at Lemonia, a Greek restaurant in the picturesque 'village' of Primrose Hill. The event officially opened our 21st birthday celebrations and UCLICkers had much fun. Forthcoming events in…

Creativity, fun and networking in Bremen

As part of her Excellence Chair at Bremen University (2020-2024) UCLIC Director, Professor Yvonne Rogers, attended a workshop in person at Bremen with PhD and postdocs from Bremen and PhD students from UCLIC. Much creativity, fun and networking was had including a highlight which was a walk and…

A number of new grants have recently been awarded to UCLIC research teams!

The Textile Circularity Centre (UKRI, 2021-2025. PI: Prof. Sharon Baurley, Royal College of Art) Within the new Textile Circularity Centre (https://www.rca.ac.uk/research-innovation/research-centres/materials-science-research-centre/textiles-circularity-centre) UCLIC is driving the development of…

A taste of UCLIC in the Spring

On 23 February 2022 we held a Spring edition of a 'Taste of UCLIC', on the strength of our successful gathering last Autumn. We took the opportunity offered by this lunchtime event to informally kick off our 21st Birthday celebrations, with students and staff sharing food and drinks from their own…

Congratulations to Josie Carmichael

PhD student Josie Carmichael was selected to receive the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) International Travel Grant to present her research at their conference in Denver, USA, in May 2022. Joise's research focuses on tele-ophthalmology-enabled and Artificial…

GDI Hub has been awarded EPSRC Public Engagement for ICT grant

Professor Catherine Holloway, Academic Director of GDI Hub, and PhD student Maryam Bandukda have been awarded the EPSRC Public Engagement for ICT grant. Their funded project 'Inclusive Public Activities for Information and Communication Technologies (IN-PACT)' is a public engagement initiative to…

Top performing HCI MSc students selected for the Dean’s List 2020/21

We are delighted to announce that no fewer than 20 students from the MSc Human-Computer Interaction programme have been selected for the Dean's List of top performing students for 2020/21. Every year Professor Alan Thompson, the Dean of Brain Sciences, recognises the top performing students in…

New book by Catherine Holloway and Giulia Barbareschi (UCLIC and GDI Hub) just published

Disability interactions (DIX) is a new approach to combining cross-disciplinary methods and theories from Human Computer Interaction (HCI), disability studies, assistive technology and social development to co-create new technologies, experiences and ways of working with disabled people. It focuses…

Welcome to new starters in UCLIC Jan 2022

January 2022 We have welcomed a number of new students and staff to UCLIC in recent months. These are: Jing Amy Xue, who is doing a PhD under the supervision of Prof Marianna Obrist; Zhouyang Shen, who is doing a PhD under the supervision of Dr Diego Martinez Plasencia; Zak Morgan, who is doing a…

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,…

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…

Congratulations 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.

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…

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…

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…

Launch of eWorkLife Podcast Series hosted by Anna Cox

The eWorkLife podcast series offers long-form conversations with academics and thought leaders, on how technology can help and hinder us in managing our work and wellbeing. You can explore the conversations below. These tell personal stories of career journeys that demonstrate a common theme of…

Prof Anna Cox's New Podcast: the future of work

Coronavirus: The Whole Story - What does the future of work look like? Coming out of lockdown doesn't mean returning to life as we knew it, especially in the world of work. So this week, we've brought together two UCL experts to talk us through the future of work, and how COVID-19 has the potential…