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CIEHF Awards Success

We are pleased to announce the following awards to UCLIC staff and students from the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors. A volunteer group Design for Real People Action Group - lead by UCLIC Honorary Senior Lecture Rachel Benedyk has recieved the the Richard Clive Holman…

CIEHF award for Design for Real People Group

The Design for Real People Action Group, led by Rachel Benedyk, has received the Richard Clive Holman Communications Award for its recent work creating the Teacher's Guide to UCD for Design and Technology in schools! This award is made for effective communication such as a blog or social media…

People of ACM - Yvonne Rogers

Yvonne Rogers is featured in this month's "People of ACM". People of ACM highlights the unique scientific accomplishments and compelling personal attributes of ACM members who are making a difference in advancing computing as a science and a profession. These bulletins feature ACM members…

Dean's List Success for MSc HCI Students

We're delighted to announce that three of our 2017 MSc graduates have been included in the Faculty of Brain Sciences Postgraduate Dean's List. The Dean's List recognises the top performing 5% of masters students in the faculty. The students were: Elise Hein - MSc Human-Computer Interaction with…

Professor Heinz Wolff

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Prof Heinz Wolff, who passed away on Friday 15 December. Not only was he honoured by the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors a number of times, but he was instrumental in the foundation of the London University MSc in Ergonomics and he…

Yvonne Rogers named as a 2017 ACM Fellow!

Congratulations to Prof. Yvonne Rogers, who has been named as one of the ACM Fellows in 2017! This is an honour which recognises ACM members for major contributions in areas including database theory, design automation, information retrieval, multimedia computing, network security and HCI! Yvonne…

Congratulations to Matej Kaninsky

Matej Kaninsky, a recent MSc HCI graduate 2016-2017, has won the student prize for the prestigious UX UK Awards, that celebrates excellence in user-focused digital design. The award is highly competitive and this year there was a record 14 student projects that got shortlisted. Matej's project i…

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

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…

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…

Congratulations to Kathy Stawarz!

Congratulations to Dr. Kathy Stawarz, who graduated with a PhD in HCI earlier this month!

Welcome to Dr Daniela Romano!

Welcome to Dr Daniela Romano, who joined us as a Senior Teaching Fellow on Friday 1 September!

Congratulations to Aneesha!

Congratulations to Dr. Aneesha Singh, who graduated with a PhD in HCI earlier this week!

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,…

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…

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…

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.

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'!

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…

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…