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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…

Welcome to new staff and students!

We would like to welcome a number of people who have recently joined UCLIC ! These are: Ahmed Alqaraawi is a new a PhD student who will be supervised by Enrico Costanza Temi Olugbade who is now working as a part-time post-doc on Nadia Berthouze on the WeDraw project Nicola Binetti who just stared…

ICRI receives Honorable Mention at CSCW 2017

Martin Dittus, Giovanni Quattrone, and Licia Capra from ICRI Cities have been awarded Honorable Mention at CSCW 2017, the world's premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. This year's conference was held in…

MSc students finalists CHI Student Competition

Congratulations to three student teams in our HCI MSc Programme, who have been selected to participate in the final stage of the ACM CHI Student Design Competition. CHI only accepted 12 out of the 70 submissions for the CHI Student Design Competition (~17% acceptance rate) to present their design…

Congratulations Cathy and Susan!

Congratulations to Catherine Holloway and Susan Lechelt, who have both won Provost's Engineering Engagement Awards 2017. Cathy has won the UCL Engineering Engager of the Year - Research / Academic Staff (grade 8 or above) Award, while Susan has won the UCL Engineering Engager of the Year Awards -…

UCLIC featured in IET partners magazine

UCLIC is featured in the IET's latest Partner Magazine! Children are growing up in the newly emerging Internet of Things, but it is not always the case they understand how these devices and apps work. Digital Fluency is a learning approach intended to fill this gap, and brings together disparate…

Ann Blandford awarded for achievements in Computing

Ann Blandford has received an award to celebrate her scientific achievements and ability to inspire others. She is one of the first five women to receive this award for achievements in Computing. The award is part of the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre's initiative to celebrate women in maths and…

Digital Stories of the new MSc students

As part of the Opening of Session induction week, the new MSc students worked hard this week making digital stories, to explain what HCI is to young adults (aged 13-16yrs). Last Friday was the screening of the videos, and the whole class as well as UCLIC staff could vote on a favourite video to win…

Welcome to new staff and students joining UCLIC!

We would like to welcome a number of people who have just joined UCLIC in the last week! These are: Kyrill Potapov, a part-time PhD student who will be supervised by Paul Marshall Gill Conquest, a PhD student in her final year on a secondment from Anthropology via the cross disciplinary training…

Welcome to Dr Enrico Costanza!

We would like to welcome Dr Enrico Costanza, who recently joined UCLIC as a lecturer from the University of Southampton! He will be joined by a number of post-doctoral researchers and PhD students - we are delighted to have his group on board!

Congratulations to Prof. Yvonne Rogers!

Congratulations to Yvonne Rogers, who has been announced as a Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator 2016! In its 25th Anniversary Year, Microsoft is highlighting 32 great academics worldwide - this award celebrates the vital contributions that academics have made to help shape the direction,…

MSc Applications Close 5 at pm 1st July 2016

Due to an unusually high number of applications for entry to the MSc Human Computer Interaction in September 2016, we will be closing to new applications at 5pm on 1st July 2016. References must be submitted by Friday 15th July 2016. For further details about the UCLIC MSc Human…

New UCLIC newsletter 2016!

We have a new UCLIC newsletter for 2016. A lot has happened since the last one in 2014 - please click on the image below to download the pdf and check it out!

Rachel Benedyk retiring

After almost 40 years in UCL, Rachel Benedyk is retiring from her pivotal role as Lecturer and Programme Director on the MSc course in HCI with Ergonomics. Rachel was a student of the course in the days of the Ergonomics Unit in the seventies, and taught on the course over the following four…

UCLIC Students at CHI Student Design Competition

Two student teams in our HCI-E MSc Program have been selected to participate in the final stage of the ACM CHI Student Design Competition. They were amongst the only 12 teams (out of 62, 19% acceptance rate) that were invited to present their design projects at the prestigious international…

Venus Shum featured in teaching resource for UK secondary schools

Dr Venus Shum is featured in a new teaching resource for UK secondary schools developed by the Engineering Education team at Royal Academy of Engineering in partnership with UCL's London Knowledge Lab and the Faculty of Engineering. The resource is given to pupils and teachers across the UK. Below…