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UCLIC research seminars generally take place on Wednesdays at 3PM during term-time. Please see notices below in case of deviating dates/times of individual seminars (indicated in italic). Coffee and tea will be served afterwards around 4PM. If you would like to arrange to meet with a seminar speaker before/after a talk, kindly contact the host(s) or one of the seminar organisers: Duncan Brumby, Georgia Panagiotidou, Jeremy Opie.
To arrange to give a seminar talk at UCLIC, please contact one of the seminar organisers (see above).
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Past seminars
UCLIC Research Seminar 22 March: Talya Porat - Human Centred Design in Healthcare
Successful innovations require consideration of three main criteria: Feasibility: is the solution technically feasible? Viability: is it cost-effective? and Desirability: will people want to use it? This is where human centred design is crucial. In this talk I will discuss how we apply a human…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 1 March: Advait Sarkar, Cogito, =SUM: The Hidden History of Spreadsheets and How They Transform the World
Spreadsheets are the world's most popular and influential software for data analysis. What makes them so unique? In this talk, I trace the history of tabular data from its Bronze age origins to the modern electronic spreadsheet. You'll learn about the spreadsheet wars of the 1980s and 1990s, of…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 15th February: Sajjadur Rahman, Designing Holistic Human-Centered Data Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
In recent years, data science has emerged as one of the most exciting disciplines for facilitating data-driven decision-making in various domains, from banking and finance to agriculture and healthcare. Data science workflows are human-centered processes where stakeholders interact with different…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 11th January: Sandy Gould, An Exploration of Measurement in Human-Centred Computing Research
Much of human-centred computing research is empirical. This kind of research requires us to decide what things we will observe (or measure) and how we will observe them. How do we decide on these things, and which constraints influence the decisions that we make? In this talk, I will explore these…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 14th December: Narges Mahyar and Ali Sarvghad, Designing and Building Tools for Fostering Equity and Inclusion in Civic Decision-Making
Inclusive community engagement is paramount for fair and impartial civic decision-making. However, traditional methods rarely provide opportunities for inclusive public participation. While advances in digital civics have broadened public participation, these technologies still face several…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 7th December: Ida Damen, Designing for active office work and Rens Brankaert, Warm Technology by design
Designing for active office work - Ida Damen How can we sit less and move more? The focus of this talk is on the role of interaction design in the office environment to reduce physical inactivity. Not only can we find a considerable amount of sitting in this context, but it is also prone to change. …
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UCLIC Research Seminar 16th November: Abi Sellen, Transforming the Future of Work through Human-Centred Design
What does the future of work look like in this post-pandemic world? What would we like it to look like? Using a large compendium of research carried out at Microsoft over the past two and a half years on how work is transforming, I will speculate on where we are heading and discuss how…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 2nd November: Max Wilson, Brain data as cognitive personal informatics
Classifying the cognitive states of people, using physiological data is basically a machine learning problem now, whether its brain data, heart/breathing data, or off-body camera data. So what is the HCI question? For us, the question is how will this become mixed up in wearable tech and personal…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 28th September: Ben Shneiderman, Human-Centered AI: Ensuring Human Control While Increasing Automation
A new synthesis is emerging that integrates AI technologies with Human-Computer Interaction to produce Human-Centered AI (HCAI). Advocates of this new synthesis seek to amplify, augment, and enhance human abilities, so as to empower people, build their self-efficacy, support creativity, recognize…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 13th July: Jessi Baker, Sustainability, Startups and Web3 - Outcomes and insights from 9 years of building and experiments all with a mission to make commerce a force for good
Please Join us on Zoom at 3pm. Sustainability, Startups and Web3 - Outcomes and insights from 9 years of building and experiments all with a mission to make commerce a force for good.
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UCLIC Research Seminar 29th June: Joseph Jay Williams, Enhancing and Personalizing Technology Through Dynamic Experimentation
Perpetually Enhancing and Personalizing Technology for Learning & Health Behavior Change: Using Randomized A/B Experiments to integrate Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Crowdsourcing & Statistical Machine Learning How can we transform the everyday technology people use into…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 8th June: Yvonne Rogers, Beyond Zoom: Designing Collaborative Technology That Works
A variety of collaborative software tools have been developed to enable people to learn, communicate and work together. The benefits are many; including being able to learn from one another, better decision-making, community-building and improved work productivity. But how best to achieve this? In…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 25th May: Jesse Josua Benjamin, Design Research of Machine Learning Technologies as Philosophy-in-Practice
In this talk, I show how design research offers distinct opportunities to investigate machine learning (ML) through designerly making and philosophical analysis. After positioning design research in this regard, I showcase three design research projects. First, through analysis of existing design…
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Engaging people with material through low cost technology
This online seminar presents work in progress to develop low-cost ubiquitous technology to support a textile circular economy based on wellbeing. The first part will explore how to best harness interactive low cost ubiquitous tools to capture garment material properties and behaviour. Initial work…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 18th May: Hasti Seifi, Haptic Experience Design - From Simple Vibrations to Touch-Perceiving Robots
Haptics, the science and technology of programmable touch experiences, is increasingly used to improve functionality and user experience in virtual reality, robotics, and wearable applications. Yet, haptic technology is complex and specialized. The impact of haptics is currently hampered by the…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 6th April: Rua Williams, This is an Intervention - Disability Justice and Human-Computer Interaction
In this presentation, Dr. Rua Williams will give an overview of contemporary trends in Human-Computer Interaction and Algorithmic Decision-making Supports, focusing on the implications these trends have for Disabled people as technology users and as vulnerable members of society. They will then…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 30th March: Shaowen Bardzell, Muddled Theories and Vibrant Mud: Notes on HCI, Ecology, and Feminism
As a feminist and critical scholar of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and design, my research pursues social justice via IT innovation, leveraging humanistic traditions of critical theory and feminism, interpretivist social science, and interventionist approaches to design and deploy technological…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 23rd March: Gloria Mark, Our Devices, the Shortening of Attention Spans, and Stress
We spend much of our waking hours using a computer device. To understand how it affects our lives, I argue we need to create a holistic picture of our relationship with technology in the wild. To do this, we use precision tracking of behavior with sensors, logging, and other methods. In this…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 16th March: João Guerreiro, Supporting Independent Navigation of Blind People
Independent navigation is very challenging for blind people often due to a lack of confidence and knowledge about the environment, particularly in unfamiliar or complex locations. In this talk, I will describe some of the technological solutions we developed and evaluated - when I was at Carnegie…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 9th March: Tawanna Dillahunt, In Search of Community-Based Solutions to Transportation Challenges among Historically-Excluded and Transportation-Scarce Communities
Advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) present exciting opportunities for addressing transportation challenges (e.g., poor service availability, reliability, quality, and infrastructure access). However, millions of low-income Americans do not share these benefits equally…
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