News, Events, Seminars

Congratulations to Catherine Holloway for winning East London Innovators Award!

We are delighted to annouce that Dr Catherine Holloway won an East London Innovators award for her work with Disability Innovation. See the Twitter announcement.

Prof Anna Cox has been appointed as Specialist Advisor to the DCMS Select Committee at the House of Commons!

We are proud to annouce that Prof Anna Cox has been appointed as Specialist Advisor to the DCMS Select Committee at the House of Commons for their inquiry into Immersive and Addictive Technologies. Congratulations! The inquiry will examine the development of immersive technologies such as virtual…

Congratulations to our MSc student Tassilo Bouwmam for winning the Ulf Aberg Award!

We are delighted to announce that our HCI MSc student Tassilo Bouwmam won the prestigious Ulf Aberg Award for his MSc project! Ulf Aberg Award is given for the best postgraduate student project in Ergonomics and Human Factors, CIHFE. Well-done! Ulf Aberg Award

Ten HCI MSc students among the Faculty's top 5% performers!

We are very proud to announce that ten HCI MSc students from our 2017/2018 cohort have been featured on the Dean's list. This award recognises the top 5% of students in the Faculty of Brain Sciences at UCL. Congratulations to you all! Dean's List of top performing students for 2017/18

Human-Computer Interaction MSc video is out now!

We would like to share with you our brand new video about studying Human-Computer Interaction at UCL! In this video, students talk about their experience of being part of a world-leading research centre, how the student environment has inspired them and much more.

Welcome to new staff and students at UCLIC!

We would like to welcome Dr Aneesha Singh, who joined our academic team in UCLIC on 1 September 2018! We also welcome our new PhD students who joined us at the end of September 2018! These are: Tigi Bhatnagar being supervised by Cathy Holloway Robert Cinca being supervised by Enrico Costanza Tudinh…

UCLIC quoted in BBC article

Anna Cox is quoted by the BBC in their article on checking work emails outside work. With more of us checking emails outside working hours, Anna stresses the need to switch-off from work and how not doing so can affect productivity and physical and mental health problems. View the full article…

UCLIC research on errors cited in Psychology Today

Work by Maartje Ament, Anna Cox, Ann Blandford and Duncan Brumby on common errors made with technology is cited in an article by Psychology Today. The article lists the top 5 memory mistakes—and strategies people can use to overcome them. View the full article here: How to Avoid Your Five…

Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub awarded £10m to widen access to assistive technology

The Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub has been awarded £10m from the Department for International Development (DfiD) to widen access to assistive technology for disabled people. The funding will support the AT:2030 programme, which consists of six projects: Publish a framework of…

UCLIC research featured in BBC TV programme Click

Nadia Berthouze, together with Temitayo Olugbade and Youngjun Cho, recently contributed to the BBC TV programme "Click". The episode, called 'It's Been Emotional', features Nadia's research on emotion-detecting technology. The episode is available to watch online at the link below: bb…

Ann Blandford's podcast on the future of healthcare

Ann Blandford recently contributed to a Technology Intelligence podcast from The Telegraph exploring the future of health! You check it out at the links below: Telegraph Episode URL Apple Podcast Episode URL Telegraph Series URL And on twitter, you can use the handle @telegraphtech.

Student Choice Awards nominations for UCLIC staff

Congratulations to several UCLIC teaching and support staff, who have been nominated for Student Choice Awards this year! The awards are an initiative by the Students' Union UCL and an opportunity for students to nominate people who do a great job, as a way to thank them and let them know that…

UCLIC newsletter 2018

We have a new UCLIC newsletter for 2018! Please download the newsletter and check out information about new projects and events.

UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2018

Authors from UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2018, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction, which will take place in Montreal, Canada, 21 - 26 April 2018. Here is a sneak peek at our accepted contributions. Full Papers Mediating Conflicts in Minecraft: Empowering Learning in…

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…