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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 19 July: Ofer Bergman, Collecting Music in the Streaming Age
Since Thomas Edison invented the gramophone, and for over one hundred years, the activities of privately listening to music and collecting it have been inseparable. Streaming music applications allow users to collect any amount of music (e.g., by "liking" songs) at no additional cost. On…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 12th July 2023 - Dean Mohamedally & Sheena Visram: UCL MotionInput: Touchless Computing and its application in Clinical Healthcare Interaction
This talk will introduce UCL MotionInput, a suite of software applications developed since Summer 2020, by over 150 students and academics at University College London's Department of Computer Science. The software enables a variety of pathways of touchless interactions with a computer using a…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 5 July: Xiaoli Wu, How Information Within the Perceptual Span Guides Visual Search and Aids Perception
In this talk, I will introduce some of my previous research on information displays, which will discuss how information visualization work can contribute to the design of experiments underway or to be conducted. We explore the guiding effect of task-related information appearing within the…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 16 June: Jo Iacovides, Designing Games to Support Reflection on Wellbeing: Student-Life Balance
In this talk, I will introduce some of my previous research on games, wellbeing, and reflection, before focusing on the design and evaluation of the Student-Life Balance game, which was created to prompt student reflection on their work-life. We focused on this area as students in higher education…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 14 June: Yuan-Chi Tseng - Understanding and Designing Technological Support for Clients, Professionals and Collaborations
User-centered design recognizes the importance of considering the specific needs of clients and professionals when designing technical support. In some cases, creating a better ecosystem may indeed require facilitating collaboration between clients, professionals, or both. By focusing on…
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UCLIC & Infosec Research Seminar 8 June: Sameer Patil, Privacy? There’s no app for that!
Smartphone apps can often be privacy-invasive. Yet, billions around the world routinely use such apps in their everyday lives despite expressing desires for privacy protection. In this talk, I will present the results of a number of empirical studies in which we have attempted to understand this…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 7 June: Timothy Neate, Total Communication Technologies
Human communication is complex. We do so much more than speak, listen, read and write. These modalities are often complemented by a nuanced range of body language, gestures, and myriad other means. These broader notions of expression are termed 'Total Communication' and are particularly important…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 31 May: Marta Cecchinato - Rethinking Family Informatics: A Duoethnography About Shared Data, Sense Making, and (In)visible labour
This talk will provide insights from a two-year long duoethnography of family informatics. The work focuses on tracking technologies designed to support new parents and takes a data feminist perspective. From the findings, I will be discussing how family informatics in particular can encapsulate…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 24 May: Cara Wilson - Co-design Beyond Words: Exploring Digital and Tangible Technology Design in Neurodiverse Classrooms
A recording of this talk is available on the UCLIC YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/ZptwYJ5X_uE This talk will provide insight into participatory design in the context of autism-specific primary school contexts, exploring how to better support the integration of non-verbal and minimally-verbal…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 17 May: Sylvain Malacria - Do we need to `recall` an efficient interaction?
A recording of this talk is available on the UCLIC YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/0rtndISR3iI Graphical User Interfaces still mediate most interaction between users and interactive systems. Their success might stem from the fact that they are adapted to users of various profiles. As an example,…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 3 May: Julie Williamson, Being Social in XR
A recording of this talk is available on the UCLIC YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/GcbQCBjSbKE Immersive technology (XR) designed for always-on interaction will forever change the way we communicate, collaborate, and connect with one another. XR technologies are rapidly advancing in terms of…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 19 April: Martin Dechant - Socially Anxious Play: Design, Development, and Evaluation of Game-Based Digital Behavioural Markers for the Assessment of Social Anxiety
During the COVID-19 lockdowns, the already rising prevalence of mental illnesses intensified. To connect with others and to find a stress relieve many turned to digital gaming. Not surprisingly digital games were recommended as a tool to satisfy social needs during lockdowns. While many researchers…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 29 March: Amid Ayobi - Computational Notebooks as Co-Design Tools: Engaging Young Adults with Diabetes, Family Carers, and Clinicians with Machine Learning Models
Engaging end user groups with machine learning (ML) models can help align the design of predictive systems with people's needs and expectations. In this talk, I will present a co-design study [1] investigating the benefits and challenges of using computational notebooks to inform ML models with end…
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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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