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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…

UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2021

Authors from UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2021, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction. The conference will be held as a virtual online conference from May 8-13, 2021, and already received close to 4,000 registrations, more than in any year before. As a special recognition…

New Article Published in Times Higher Education: "Life beyond Zoom and Teams: students are ready for next gen online spaces"

This week, Times Higher Education has published a new article on " Life beyond Zoom and Teams: students are ready for next gen online spaces" by Yvonne Rogers, Paola Lettieri and Ben Meunier. The original article is a 3-minute read. Yvonne Rogers is professor of interaction design at UCL…

GDI Hub Announced as Global Driver of Assistive Technology!

The Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub), based at UCL, is the first organisation to be awarded the status of World Health Organisation (WHO) Official Collaborating Centre on Assistive Technology (AT). Led by GDI Hub's Academic Director, Professor Cathy Holloway, the WHO Collaborating Centre…

Ann Blandford is a recipient of the prestigious IFIP TC13 Pioneer Award and the 2021 SIGCHI Award!

Ann Blandford has been recently awarded two awards! She is a recipient of the prestigious IFIP TC13 Pioneer Award and the 2021 SIGCHI Award. Congratulations to Ann! The International Federation for Information Processing Technical Committee on Human-Computer Interaction (IFIP TC13) has…

Welcome to new people!

We would like to welcome some new PhD students to UCLIC - these are: Katherine Wang who will be supervsed by Dr Youngjun Cho Felipe Sheward who recently transferred to UCLIC from DIS and will be supervised by Dr Nic Marquardt Eimontas (Monty) Jankauskis who joined as a Research technician from…

Welcome to new starters - 2020-21

We would like to welcome back Dr Melanie Herrmann, who returned to UCLIC this week as an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) on the MSc in HCI course! We also welcome back Dr Anna Rudnicka, who returned last Autumn to work as a Research Fellow on the GetaMoveOn project! And we also have quite a large…

Congratulations to Maryam Bandukda on her Beacon bursary award!

Maryam Bandukda has been awarded a Beacon Bursary award for her project called Co-creating artful representations of blind people's experience at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Maryam will develop her approach to co-creation and relationships with a literature review before recruiting Blind and…

Prof Berthouze has a new EPSRC program grant starting on 1st February 2021!

Prof. Nadia Berthouze is UCL lead on a project starting February 2021 - the project is called From Sensing to Collaboration: Engineering, Exploring and Exploiting the Building Blocks of Embodied Intelligence. She will be working with Dr Steve Fleming from the Institue of Neurology on this project.…