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UCLIC research seminars will take place online for the rest of the summer term. Kindly check the calendar below for scheduled seminars and how to join them online.
To arrange to give a seminar talk at UCLIC, please contact Temitayo Olugbade.
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Past seminars
Recordings of recent past (from 22 April) seminars will be uploaded soon. Please bear with us.
UCLIC Research Seminar 8th of July: Ahmed Alqaraawi (University College London). Evaluating Saliency Map Explanations for Convolutional Neural Networks
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) offer great machine learning performance over a range of applications, but their operation is hard to interpret, even for experts. Various explanation algorithms have been proposed to address this issue, yet limited research effort has been reported concerning…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 24th of June: Amid Ayobi (University College London and University of Bristol). Trackly: A Customisable and Pictorial Self-Tracking App to Support Agency in Multiple Sclerosis Self-Care
Self-tracking is for many people an important part of understanding and managing their health and wellbeing. However, predefined self-tracking approaches can impede people's self-care agency. In this talk, I will share the findings of our recent CHI paper that addresses this issue. We investigated…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 10th of June: Bran Knowles (Lancaster University), Understanding older adults' distrust of digital technology
It is well known that older adults continue to lag behind younger adults in terms of their breadth of uptake of digital technologies, amount and quality of engagement in these tools and ability to critically engage with the online world. Can these differences be explained by older adults' distrust…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 3rd of June: Mark Warner (Northumbria University), Can we effectively remain silent online? Exploring non-disclosure of sensitive information in the context of HIV status within dating apps.
In this talk, I will discuss research I conducted as part of my PhD. The topic centres on people's (in)ability to remain silent online. Within the context of HIV status disclosure in online dating or "hook-up" apps used by gay and bisexual men, I will discuss my research exploring the…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 20th of May: Chris Janssen (Utrecht University), Interrupted by Automation? Why and how to account for human behaviour in human-automation interaction settings
In the past, automated technology was mostly used by trained professionals, in dedicated environments, for specific purposes (e.g., control operators in factories, and pilots of aircraft). At the moment, this is radically changing. Automated technology is used more and more by regular people, for a…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 6th of May: Benjamin Cowan (University College Dublin), Perspective taking in human-machine dialogue: human-likeness, partner models and language production in voice user interface interaction
Voice has now become a mainstream interaction modality. It's therefore surprising how little we know about user centered issues, in particular how design guides a user's mental model (i.e. their partner model) and interaction behaviours. Current voice interfaces fundamentally rely on human…
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UCLIC CHI2020 Seminar Series: 29th April - How can Affect be Detected and Represented in Technological Support for Physical Rehabilitation?
Although clinical best practice suggests that affect awareness could enable more effective technological support for physical rehabilitation through personalisation to psychological needs, designers need to consider what affective states matter and how they should be tracked and addressed. In this…
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UCLIC CHI2020 Seminar Series: 22nd April - The Social Network: How People with Visual Impairment use Mobile Phones in Kibera
In low and middle income countries people with visual impairment are constantly faced with challenges that can affect their abilities to access opportunities and live life to their full potential. In recent years mobile phones have become increasingly common in low resourced settings and they have…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 19th of February: Birsen Donmez (University of Toronto), Young drivers, distraction, and automated vehicle technologies
Distraction is a significant contributing factor to young driver crashes. Crash risk is known to decrease with driving experience, partly because of the improved skills to control the vehicle, but also because of the improved capability to distribute attention, even when distracted. Although driver…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 12th of February: Yiannis Demiris (Imperial College London), Personalisation in Human Robot Interaction
As humans and robots increasingly co-exist in home and rehabilitation settings for extended periods of time, it is crucial to account for the users' constantly evolving profiles and adapt the interaction to the personal characteristics of the individuals involved. I will describe our predictive…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 5th of February: Jo Iacovides (Univeristy of York), Impact beyond play: Exploring the complexity of player experience
Gameplay frequently involves a combination of positive and negative emotions, where there is increasing interest in understanding more complex forms of player experience. In this talk I will present the findings of three different studies that consider overlooked aspects of gameplay. The first…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 29th of January: Simone Stumpf (City University of London), Making AI Intelligible
We are currently on the cusp of a revolution in smart technologies based on complex algorithmic decision-making, data science and machine learning. These systems are starting to be integrated into everyday life but it has been shown that users need to understand how these systems work, so that…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 22nd of January: Babak Taati (University of Toronto), Computer Vision in Rehabilitation and Ambient Health Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities
Computer vision systems can play an important role in providing care to individuals living with physical or cognitive disability. This talk will provide an overview of several vision-based systems under development for such purpose at KITE, the research arm of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute -…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 15th of January: Martin Porcheron (University of Nottingham), Co-designing interaction with AI
In this talk I will discuss my on-going work on two substantially different projects I am involved in at the University of Nottingham. The first, RoboClean, focuses on the use of semi-autonomous cleaning robots in food and drink factories. The second, Inter-ALTCAI, is a DfID Transform programme…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 11th of December: Conor Linehan (University College Cork), Reorienting Geolocation Data through Mischievous Design
The increasing capability of smart mobile devices to use geolocation and networking has resulted in a proliferation of services that respond to the social and physical places we visit as we move through the world. This chapter reports and comments on a series of four provocative design projects…
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***CANCELLED*** UCLIC Research Seminar 27th of November: Regan Mandryk (University of Saskatchewan)
Games have long been used to support social interaction and create shared experiences that draw us closer together. Digital games are increasingly being used to form and maintain relationships and researchers have been investigating the role that social games play in satisfying our need to relate…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 20th of November: Pawel Wozniak (Utrecht University), Designing for the 51%: Understanding Technologies for Physically Active Individuals
Recent data indicates that more than a half of the European Union's population exercises three times a week or more. While HCI has an established history of understanding and designing technologies for healthcare, the question of how technologies can benefit the wellbeing of active users is less…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 13th of November: Annie Lau (Macquarie University) on Patient work – a context and time-use approach
It is commonly known that many digital health interventions suffer from poor uptake, with some studies reporting participant retention rates as low as 1%. One of the reasons for discontinuation is poor 'fit' of the intervention in participants' daily lives. 'Patient work', a concept that forms the…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 30th of October: Bran Knowles (Lancaster University) on "Understanding older adults' distrust of digital technology"
It is well known that older adults continue to lag behind younger adults in terms of their breadth of uptake of digital technologies, amount and quality of engagement in these tools and ability to critically engage with the online world. Can these differences be explained by older adults' distrust…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 23rd of October: Ben Oldfrey (UCL) on "The future of tech is squidgy"
Humans have a huge array of technological achievements, but most of this is done using hard, rigid materials. The beautiful weavesOur soft material technology has not kept pace, and is mostly just protection for our hard tech. Although the greatest computational device we know of - our brains - are…
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