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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 13 June: Rita Borgo (KCL) on "Glyphs-based Visualization, Opportunities and Challenges"
Multivariate data visualization (MDV) is a common requirement across different disciplines, from the sciences to the social sciences, from engineering to arts and humanities, and from media to industry. In this talk I will introduce glyph-based visualization, a form of MDV featuring some unique…
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UCLIC Joint Research Seminar 4th June: Catherine Holloway: The GDIHub & Siobhan Strike: Exercise for health, primarily from a biomechanical perspective
Talk 1: 20 Minutes Catherine Holloway explains the GDI Hub http://gdihub.cs.ucl.ac.uk/gdi_hub/ and https://www.disabilityinnovation.com/ Talk 2: 30 minutes Siobhan's talk Exercise for health, primarily from a biomechanical perspective Abstract: The relationship between physical activity and…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 9 May: Hamed Alavi, User Research in a Swiss Smart Living Lab
"Smart Living Lab" in Fribourg, Switzerland, is a platform for multidisciplinary research on the relation between people and their built environments of today and the ones of future. In this talk, I will briefly describe the contributions of our HCI team, Human-IST, to some of the smart…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 2nd May: Paul Marshall, End user engagement with data
Computer science is going through something of a data revolution, with new mathematics and algorithms being developed to make sense of the global explosion of data. However, the perspective of most of this work has been on what insights large organisations - governments, IT companies or the NHS -…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 21st March: Corina Sas, Technologies for emotional wellbeing and mental health
This talk provides an overview of my work on technologies for wellbeing and mental health, with an emphasis on the value of significant objects and the human body. Then, it outlines two studies exploring digital disposal following life transitions marked by social loss. The talk concludes with an…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 21st February: Petr Slovak, Promoting mental health with technology
Technologies have already found an important role in detecting and helping treat mental health difficulties. However, much less is known about applying technology within prevention approaches, with the aim to promote resilience of those at risk and mitigate the occurrence of mental illness later in…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 7th February: Anja Thieme, Extending Peoples’ Capabilities with Technology
Historically, in healthcare and accessibility contexts, a disability was often regarded as a functional limitation or even 'deficit' in need of overcoming. Consequently, much HCI research in this space has focused on assisting people through tools that address the 'problems' associated with…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 29th January: Eva-Maria Skottke, Changes in Driving Behaviour After Long and Automated Drives in Convoy
Objective: In the presented study, we tested to what extent highly automated convoy driving involving small spacing ("platooning") may affect time headway (THW) and standard deviation of lateral position (SDLP) during subsequent manual driving. Background: While many previous studies…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 24th January: Can Liu, From Surfaces to Places - Understanding & Designing Phygital User Experiences
Ubiquitous technologies enable user experiences with new form factors, sizes and modalities, which blend the physical and digital worlds in various ways. While the digital can be efficient, dynamic and versatile, the physical can be natural, embodied and easy to learn. How can we design future…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 10th January: Katie Seaborn, Citizen Engagement and Engaging Citizens: Two Cases in Co-Design for the Public
Governments, healthcare sectors, public organisations, and innovation tanks are investing in initiatives and projects that directly engage and involve the public in the design of civic and other services. Yet how such "citizen engagement" work should be carried out and what human factors…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 13th December: Nicolai Marquardt, UCLIC -Sketching User Experiences: Hands-on Course of Sketching Techniques for HCI Research
When designing novel user experiences, paper-pencil sketches can support the design thinking process and are valuable for communicating design ideas to others. This hands-on course will demonstrate how to integrate sketching into researchers' and interaction designers' everyday practice - with a…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 6th December: Suzanne Martin, University of Ulster - Involving users in novel research from concept to implementation isn’t rocket science!
To achieve impact the ultimate aim of novel technical research and development must therefore be to create usable solutions for real world environments. New and innovative technologies have the potential to enable choice, dignity and person centered care for people living with complex neurological…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 22nd November: Mikael Wiberg, Umeå university, Sweden - The Materiality of Interaction
Smart watches, smart cars, the Internet of things, 3D printing: all signal a trend toward combining digital and analog materials in design. Interaction with these new hybrid forms is increasingly mediated through physical materials, and therefore interaction design is increasingly a material…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 20th November: Pedro Lopes, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany - Interactive Systems based on Electrical Muscle Stimulation
In the past years interfaces got smaller and closer to the human body to the point that now, they literally attach to it, such as wearable devices and virtual reality headsets. But what limits the current state of miniaturization is that the devices are still external to us and require a lot of…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 15th November: Akhil Mathur, UCLIC & Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge - Tiny Habits in the Giant Enterprise: Reflections from a Quantified Workplace Study
In this talk, I will present insights from a longitudinal in-the-wild Quantified Workplace study conducted in two offices of a research organization. Using a prototype Quantified Workplace system equipped with passive and participatory sensing modalities, we collected and visualized various…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 1st November: Daniela Romano, UCLIC - From Bio-Affective to Brain Computer interfaces
Imagine a world where we can think about moving a robotic harm and it happens. Play a video game thinking about moving our arm or leg (without actually doing it). Science fiction? Virtual reality? or a real new possibility to interact with our digital world? How close are we to use our brain…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 16th October: Fabrice Matulic, Preferred Networks Inc., Japan - Leveraging pen and touch input on interactive surfaces
Please note the changed day and time of the seminar Tablets and large displays that support simultaneous and differentiated pen and touch input provide interactive capabilities that go well beyond the sum of those modalities' individual input spaces. In this talk, I will present some of the…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 4th October: Antti Salovaara, University of Helsinki, Finland - Evaluations as time machines: Studying the future HCI in the present
In his talk, Antti will extend his CHI2017 essay (http://bit.ly/2lHXodD) that discussed the problem of possible futures in HCI methodology, especially in its prototype evaluations. He addresses a blind spot in HCI's evaluation methodology: that we rarely consider the implications of the problem…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 27th September: Steve Whittaker, University of California at Santa Cruz - Rethinking the Quantified Self to make personal data engaging and useful
The Quantified Self (QS) vision argues for collecting and analysing rich collections of personal data. According to the vision, such personal data facilitate greater self-insight promoting behaviour change. But although self quantification is important, quantified self technologies show poor rates…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 18th July: Nicole Werner, University of Wisconsin-Madison - How Do Patients and Caregivers’ Engage Strategies to Accomplish Healthcare Work at Home?
Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Chronic illness management requires a majority of healthcare to be performed by lay individuals. Paramount to understanding the process of illness self-management by lay individuals is understanding the sociotechnical system in which it…
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