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UCLIC research seminars are on Wednesdays at 3pm during term-time. Please see notices for confirmation of the room number for each seminar.
If you would like to come and give a seminar talk, or would like further details on any seminars listed here, please contact Enrico Costanza or Aneesha Singh.
UCLIC Research Seminar 17 May: Lola Cañamero, University of Hertfordshire – An Embodied Cognition and Affect Approach to Human-Robot Interaction
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…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 26 April: Abigail Durrant, Northumbria University – Design for Being Online through Life Transitions
The proliferation of pervasive computing, including online platforms like social media, means that being online is for many now a feature of everyday life. Whilst offering new forms of personal expression, such platforms raise new challenges: for managing separate identities in different life…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 15th March: Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire – Interaction with Robots - Challenges and opportunities in Human-Robot Interaction
Please note changed time and location of this seminar Human-robot interaction (HRI) is a highly interdisciplinary field that has grown substantially over the past 15 years. My talk will reflect on the concept of 'social robots' and focus on companion robots, i.e. robots that provide useful…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 8th March: Cecilia Katzeff, KTH Royal Institute of Technology – A Design Perspective On Sustainable Practices Related To Energy And Food
The seminar will circle around the general theme of sustainable practices, what is meant by sustainable practices in relation to energy consumption and especially in relation to electricity use and food practices. The seminar will also explore how interaction design may play a role in the emergence…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 1st March: David Coyle, University College Dublin – Measuring Personal Agency in Human Computer Interactions
In cognitive neuroscience literature the sense of agency is defined as the experience of controlling one's own actions and, through this control, affecting the external world. Personal agency is a surprisingly malleable experience that links to concepts such as ownership, responsibility and…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 22nd February: Ewa Luger, University of Edinburgh – Making AI Intelligible; Designing for ethical and comprehensible intelligent systems
The development of complex, intelligent systems has surpassed our ability to explain them. The market is increasingly populated with algorithmically-driven products for which users have limited mental models, putting their privacy at risk, and raising questions of human agency and control. Ensuring…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 1st February: Antonio Krüger - On-body Interaction with wearables for sports and leisure activities.
In this talk I will review our recent research activities related to wearable and ambient interaction. I will present some concepts of smart-watch gesture interaction, then discuss ambient on-body notification principles which we have investigated for climbing activities and smart watch…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 25th January: Mike Fraser -Classifying and Measuring Unencumbered Hand Gestures
I will present recent work exploring how to identify and measure hand gestures using sensors worn on the upper arm or wrist working towards interactive input and prosthetic control applications. Previous work has identified computer vision approaches to unencumbered gesture tracking, and these…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 7th December: Nic Lane - Squeezing Deep Learning onto Wearables, Phones and Things
In just a few short years, breakthroughs from the field of deep learning have transformed how computational models perform a wide-variety of tasks such as recognizing a face, tracking emotions or monitoring physical activities. Unfortunately, deep models and algorithms typically exert severe…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 30th November: Daniela Petrelli - Emotional engagement with heritage
Since the early 90s museums and cultural heritage sites have experimented with emerging technology. From early multimedia to mobiles to tabletops to AR / VR, technology has been used to enrich the visit, but always keeping the material and the digital as distinct. New interactions that combine the…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 23rd November: Kwame Ferreira - Sustainability in design thinking
UCLIC Research Seminar 16th November: Scott MacKenzie, York University, Canada – Design, Engineering, Research Truth and Reconciliation
*Please note changed seminar time. This talk will examine the relationship between design, engineering, and research. The context is human-computer interaction (HCI), as embodied in touch-based mobile devices and other high-impact products bearing novel user interface features. Introductory…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 9th November: Tilde Bekker, Eindhoven University of Technology - Creating tools for teachers and children to support Design-Based Learning (DBL) in schools
This seminar is co-organised by UCL KL and UCLIC. *Please note changed seminar location. Following a Design Based Learning approach can provide an integrated process to teach children some of the 21st century skills, such as problem solving, creativity and critical thinking in an integrated…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 2nd November: Stuart Reeves, University of Nottingham - Embeddedness and sequentiality in social media
Over the last decade, there has been an explosion of work around social media within CSCW. A range of perspectives have been applied to the use of social media, which we characterise as aggregate, actor-focussed or a combination. We outline the opportunities for a perspective informed by…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 26th October: Enrico Costanza - Interaction with the IoT: Visualizations, Autonomous Systems & Sustainability
The wealth of data made available by the Internet of Things (IoT) keeps growing. How can we best design interactive systems to help us take advantage of this data, to make our lifestyle more efficient, more sustainable and more healthy? My research aims to address this question in two ways: first,…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 28th September: Jakob E Bardram, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) – On the Design of Personal Health Technologies for Mental Disorder
This seminar is co-organised by UCLIC and UCL IDH. *Please note changed seminar location. Mental disorders like depression and bipolar disorder impose a very high societal burden in terms of cost, lost productivity, morbidity, suffering, and mortality, and are a leading cause of disability and…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 24th August: Luca Chittaro, University of Udine – Virtual Reality and Serious Games for Safety Education: Design and Evaluation aspects
Virtual reality (VR) experiences and serious games, i.e. video games to further training and education objectives, are increasingly used in a variety of domains, including health and safety. However, compared to entertainment games, the design and evaluation of such applications is more complex…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 13th July: Chris Evans, UCL Interaction Centre – Flipping the Classroom
In conventional university lectures, the core material is usually delivered in the class (lecture) room. Students then try and make sense of the material at home. Interactive e-lectures allow the possibility of delivering the material outside the lecture room and then using classroom time to help…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 7th July: L. Enrique Sucar, INAOE, Puebla, Mexico – Gesture Therapy: Recent Developments
Gesture Therapy (GT) is a virtual reality based motor rehabilitation platform for the upper limbs. The platform includes three main elements: (i) a specially designed gripper that facilitates 3D tracking of the patient's arm movements and allows measuring flexion and extension of the fingers, (ii)…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 5th July: Kaya de Barbaro, Georgia Tech – Mobile sensing for behavioral science: motivation, possibilities, and challenges
Developments in mobile sensors open new possibilities for the study of human activity. Motivated by the fields of embodied and distributed cognition, this new behavioral science can move us from sparse and static measures in highly constrained situations to richer multimodal and dynamic…
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