News, Events, Seminars

Seminars, Apr 24 2019 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 24th of April: Sarah Bell (UCL) on Co-designing infrastructure: engaging communities in complex, urban decisions

Infrastructure resilience is vital for the safety of the public, the strength of the economy, the health of the environment and local quality of life. Community resilience is also recognised as a key factor in determining responses to extreme events and delivering climate adaptation. To date,…

Seminars, Mar 20 2019 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 20th of March: Lola Cañamero (University of Hertfordshire) on Embodied Affect in Autonomous and Social Robots

Emotions are a key aspect of human behavior, communication and cognition. Affective computing and human-oriented approaches to technology design take into account different aspects of emotions and their expression in order to create technology that humans feel comfortable with. However, the…

Seminars, Feb 27 2019 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 27th of February: Tim Adlam (UCL) on Technology for capability: technology to enable exploration

Assistive technology design and product creation has been conservative and incremental for many years. This is changing with a new focus on the needs and desires of the user; the emergence of enabling innovations in sensing, control, manufacturing, information systems and service delivery; and a …

Seminars, Feb 06 2019 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 6th of February: Youngjun Cho (UCL) on Physiological Computing towards Mental Disability Innovation

Physiological computing is an emerging research area enabling technologies to listen to our bodily functions and psychological needs. This talk provides an overview of my computational works in this area, summarised by three key components: physiological sensing, automatic affect recognition,…

Seminars, Jan 30 2019 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 30th January: Leigh Clark (University College Dublin) on "Mapping Speech Research in HCI: Trends, Themes and Challenges"

Speech interfaces are growing in popularity and while their technical underpinnings are well documented, less is understood about the user side in the HCI field. This talk presents work from a review of 68 research papers on speech interfaces in HCI, where the trends, themes, findings and methods…

Seminars, Jan 23 2019 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 23rd January: Giles Bergel (University College London) on "Computer vision, facial recognition and the face as interface"

Computer vision is increasingly ubiquitous. This talk will, first, outline the state of the art in computer vision, demonstrating a number of open-source tools and resources developed as a result of colllaborations within the digital humanities. It will then outline some of the problems and…

Seminars, Dec 12 2018 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 12th December: Stuart Reeves (University of Nottingham) on "How UX practitioners produce findings in usability testing"

Usability testing has long been a core interest of HCI research and forms a key element of industry practice. Yet our knowledge of it presents striking absences. There are few, if any detailed accounts of the contingent, material ways in which usability testing is actually practiced. Further, it is…

Seminars, Dec 05 2018 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 5th December: Ana Tajadura-Jiménez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & UCLIC) on "The Hearing body: Body-centred sound technologies for emotional and physical health"

People, through their bodily actions, engage in sensorimotor loops that connect them to the surrounding world and to their own bodies. The incoming sensory information is integrated to form perceptions of one's own body appearance and capabilities. These body perceptions highly impact on people's…

Seminars, Nov 28 2018 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 28th November: Effie Lai-Chong Law (University of Leicester) on "Pick the Right Game Type and Game Experience Tool: Not that Easy!"

Picking a right game type to maximise the impact of a digital educational game (DEG) for learning a particular topic is not easy. Picking a right tool for evaluating game experience with digital games is not easy either. In fact, both tasks proved very challenging. In this talk I illustrate these…

Seminars, Nov 21 2018 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 21st November: Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire) on "User Experience: a step towards Natural User Interfaces"

The road to natural interfaces is still long and we are now witnessing an artificial naturality. These interfaces are natural, in the sense they employ hand gestures, but they are also artificial, because the system designer imposes the set of gestures. In this lecture we will explore together the…

Seminars, Nov 14 2018 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 14th November: Matt Jones (University of Swansea) on "Designed in California... Whose future is it anyway? "

Mobile and ubiquitous computing researchers have long imagined future worlds for users in developed regions. Steered by such visions, they have innovated devices and services exploring the value of these with and for individuals, groups and communities. Meanwhile, such radical and long-term…

Seminars, Oct 31 2018 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 31st October: Ifat Yasin (University College London) on "Past, Present and Future: Assistive Devices for the Hearing Impaired"

The World Health Organisation (2010, 2013) has identified hearing loss as a significant global problem, not least because of the long-term effects of any untreated/unmanaged hearing loss on speech development, social integration, educational achievement and the psychological well-being of an…

Seminars, Oct 17 2018 @ 16:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 17th October: Lynne Baillie (Heriot-Watt University) on "Designing User Centered Rehabilitation Technologies"

My research has recently been focused on health technology (see Uzor and Baillie, 2012, Ayoade and Baillie, 2014, Micallef and Baillie, 2016, Salai and Baillie, 2018; Uzor & Baillie 2018). My talk, as a result, will concentrate on some of my recent research projects which have investigated how…

Seminars, Oct 10 2018 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 10th October: Alan Dix (Swansea University) on "More than a Moment"

In understanding and designing effective and engaging interaction, we often focus on the moments of interaction the periods of minutes or hours while keystrokes, mouse clicks or finger movements across the screen elicit changing patterns of pixels and bits on computer memory. Yet these moments of…

Seminars, Sep 19 2018 @ 16:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 19th September: Antonio Cerone (Nazarbayev University) on "A Cognitive Architecture to Support Verification and Validation of Formal System Models and Validation of Research Hypotheses on Cognition"

Abstract: Formal Methods are successfully used in the verification of interactive systems, especially for safety-critical properties. However, formal approaches are normally applied in an ad hoc manner to restricted application domains or even just to specific case studies. Although a large numbers…

Seminars, Sep 03 2018 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 3rd September: Atsushi Hiyama (University of Tokyo) on "Geron-Informatics"

The demographic ratio of people over 65 in Japan recently exceeded 27% in 2016, creating what is being called a "hyper-aged society." Although there are countless challenges posed by an aging population, they can be overcome by the power of ICT. Geron-informatics is a newly coined term…

Seminars, Aug 17 2018 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 17th August: Marcus Carter (University of Sydney) on "Kinecting with Orangutans"

Contemporary zoos in Australia have two principal goals; ensure the welfare of animals in captivity and act as leading conservation organisations by motivating behavioural change through connecting visitors with animals. Despite the increasing ubiquity of digital technology in similar social and…

Seminars, Aug 08 2018 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 8th August: Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine) on "Understanding the workplace experience through sensor tracking of behavior"

Understanding the workplace experience is important in order to develop solutions to improve health, mood, and performance, and reduce stress. However, until recently, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral measurements of the workplace experience have been constrained by methodologies based on…

Seminars, Jul 04 2018 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 4 July: Judy Kay (University of Sydney) on "From sensors to dashboards for lifelong learning for health and wellness"

This talk overviews several projects that have harnessed emerging sensors, transforming their data into dashboards. The sensors range from widely available physical activity trackers, such as Fitbits and phones, to ones that are still in the lab and those that facilitate explicit tracking by the…

Seminars, Jun 27 2018 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 27 June: Sarah Wiseman (Goldsmiths) on "Control and being controlled: Exploring technology for immersive theatre"

Immersive theatre is a relatively new entertainment form - no longer are theatre audiences expected to sit in rows of seats watching action unfold on stage, now they can wander through the performance, sometimes changing the actions themselves. There is an opportunity to explore how technology can…