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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 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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UCLIC Research Seminar 2nd March: Garreth Tigwell, Addressing the Issue of Inaccessible Design
Technology continues to enrich our lives—we make extensive use of apps and websites to communicate, learn, play, socialize, and work. Digital designers must make these services accessible so as not to exclude a significant percentage of the population who have a disability. However, prior…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 19th January: Oliver Haimson, Designing Trans Technology
Transgender and nonbinary people face substantial challenges in the world, ranging from social inequities and discrimination to lack of access to resources. Though technology cannot fully solve these problems, technological solutions may help to address some of the challenges trans people and…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 12th January: Samantha Chan, Augmenting Human Memory through Cognition-Aware AI-based Technologies
Memory is a cognitive ability used in our everyday lives. However, our memory capabilities eventually decline and the adaptive nature of these capabilities results in memory troubles. With the growth of the ageing population, new requirements and opportunities arise. In this talk, I introduce how…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 15th December: Dr Judith Odili Uchidiuno, Designing culturally relevant early literacy and STEM educational technologies that supplement formal education for underserved students
Education technologies are often posited as solutions for closing early literacy and STEM gaps for students with limited access to quality formal education. Some technologies have shown success as educational interventions; however, many others fail as they do not account for the culture and…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 24th November: Andrew McStay, Gauging civic feeling of emotion recognition: ethics, policy, and citizen opinion
Focus Drawing on past and ongoing work, this talk will consider the social trajectory of technologies that pertain to gauge and interact with human emotion. With hitherto unseen attention from policymakers and civil society groups, emotion recognition is now high on human rights and data…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 17th November Nithya Sambasivan, Google Research, The myopia of model centrism
AI models seek to intervene in increasingly higher stakes domains, such as cancer detection and microloan allocation. What is the view of the world that guides AI development in high risk areas, and how does this view regard the complexity of the real world? In this talk, I will present results…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 3rd November Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin) Content Moderation: Understanding Health Risks for Workers and Designing Interventions
Social media platforms must detect and block a variety of unacceptable user-generated content, such such as adult or violent images. This detection task is difficult to automate due to high accuracy requirements, costs of errors, and nuanced rules for what is and is not acceptable. Consequently,…
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