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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 or Aneesha Singh.
Calendar
Past seminars
UCLIC Research Seminar 6th of October: Leah Findlater (University of Washington). The Potential, Challenges and Risks of AI-based Accessibility: An HCI Perspective
AI-based accessibility tools hold tremendous potential to counter everyday disabling experiences with computing technologies and the physical world—from personalizing how a device interprets each user's input to amplifying a user's sensory abilities with additional information. In this talk,…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 23rd of June: Arunesh Mathur (Princeton University). Unravelling the web of manipulative and deceptive user interfaces.
Manipulative and deceptive user interfaces --- the so-called "dark patterns" --- have been the focus of growing scrutiny from researchers, legislators, and regulators. The academic literature on dark patterns has curated collections of objectionable user interface designs, describing them…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 16th of June: Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy (BBC R&D) . Designing for the Future: Anticipating the needs of BBC audiences.
The role of BBC Research & Development is to provide world-class leading edge technical research and innovation expertise to the BBC in order to better serve the UK audience. This enables the corporation to continue to create and deliver innovative high-quality content and services, on a wide…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 9th of June: Angelika Strohmayer (Northumbria University). Reflections on Justice-oriented Design and Academia.
In this talk, Angelika will talk about justice-oriented design and development of technologies. She will first explain what this ethos of work relates to, and illustrate this with examples of her own practice. Furthermore, Angelika will discuss how this way of working can seep into all the nooks…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 26th of May: Xing-Dong Yang (Dartmouth College). Creating Smart Everyday Things.
In my vision, the user interfaces of the future are in a blend of smart physical and virtual environments. My research focuses on the physical side by bringing interactivity to everyday things. I believe this vision is only achievable if people with varying backgrounds and abilities can work…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 14th of April: Ali Goode (Gorilla in the room). Ways of researching documentary: research into, for and through documentary.
George Bernard Shaw said "England and America are two countries separated by the same language". Having moved from academic cognitive science to market research Dr Ali Goode tells how business and academia can be similarly separated by the concept of what research is.
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UCLIC Research Seminar 31st of March: Dave Green (Lancaster University). Ways of researching documentary: research into, for and through documentary.
In this talk, I will discuss my experiences as a researcher and documentary-maker in various contexts. I will focus on projects I have been involved in that combine documentary and research in interesting ways, including my current research, which seeks to develop new ways of understanding design…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 24th of March: Audrey Girouard (Carleton University, Ottawa). Deformable and wearable devices: Leveraging new devices for more tangible interactions.
Deformable and shape-changing devices offer users the ability to physically manipulate objects to interact with them, which in turns can offer new interaction techniques to users. When wearable, devices can integrate on the body or on clothes to make this interaction more ubiquitous. These devices…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 17th of March: Thijs Roumen (Hasso Plattner Institute). Portable Laser Cutting
Laser-cut 3D models shared online tend to be basic and trivial—models build over long periods of time and by multiple designers are few/nonexistent. I argue that this is caused by a lack of an exchange format that would allow continuing the work. At first glance, it may seem like such a…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 10th of March: Carl Hayden Smith(Ravensbourne University London). Generating New Forms of Media from the Horizon Programme to the XPRIZE: Wearable experience (WE) and Neuroadaptive Mixed Reality Training.
The Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC) conducts design research into the application of information and communication technologies to augment, support and transform cognition. LTRC research areas include i) XR technologies and techniques for learning, industry and work-based learning. ii)…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 3rd of March: Marianna Obrist (UCLIC). A ‘Flavour’ of Things to Come: Feeling Human in a Digital World
Nature has provided us with many senses for perceiving and interacting with the world around us. The multisensory world we live in is increasingly transformed through technological advances like novel multisensory devices and interfaces. Such multisensory technologies not only stimulate our eyes…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 24th of February: Khan M. Iftekharuddin (Batten College of Engineering and Technology). Deep Simultaneous Recurrent Learning
Deep neural networks have revolutionized the use of artificial neural networks for recognition tasks. Deep learning alleviates the need for hand-crafted feature discovery and enables autonomous learning using large scale data. The organization and workings of recurrent neural networks mimics the…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 10th of February: Daniel Leithinger (University of Colorado Boulder). Shape Displays for Remote Togetherness
We need physicality in computing now more than ever, and shape displays may help us reclaim it. While socially distant, our daily experience of work and learning is a stark reminder that videos on a flat computer screen cannot replace the intimacy of touch and the sense of presence when sharing a…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 20th of January: Diego Martinez Plasencia (UCL). Seamless Multimodal 3D Interfaces.
Virtual and Augmented Reality interfaces have long promised to revolutionize the way we visualize and interact with 3D information. However, the need for devices such as headsets, controllers or feedback devices means that these benefits remain behind a prior boundary. That is, users will need to…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 13th of January: Stefanie Mueller (MIT). Advancing Personal Fabrication by Making Physical Objects as Reprogrammable as Digital Data
Computing has revolutionized how we process and interact with data today, unfortunately, these capabilities are constraint to the digital realm and cannot yet be applied to physical matter. For instance, today, we can already quickly update the appearance of a digital photo by applying a filter or…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 9th of December: Sriram Subramanian (UCLIC). My Current and Future research plans at UCL
I want to use this talk to chart my past, present and future research plans. I would like this to be a very informal talk where I outline some of our past successes and failures along with details of projects we will be starting in 2021.
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UCLIC Research Seminar 2nd of December: Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech). Making Play Work 4D
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, like other mechanisms for conceptualizing societal wellbeing, center problems of immediate and pervasive importance: gender equality, world hunger, global health, quality education, and more. These are challenges of global relevance to be examined,…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 25th of November: Katarzyna Stawarz (Cardiff University). Integrating the Digital and the Traditional to Deliver Therapy for Depression: A User-Centred Design Study
Traditional approaches to psychotherapy emphasise face-to-face contact between patients and therapists, while current computerised approaches tend to minimise this contact. This can limit the range of mental health difficulties for which computerised approaches are effective. In this talk, Kathy…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 18th of November: Mark Perry (Brunel University). Rich interactions with digital money: from use to design
From cryptocurrencies to mobile banking apps, and QR codes to facial recognition-enabled payment, digital currencies and financial technologies are changing the ways that we think about and use money. The emergence of various forms of digital money and innovative digital financial services allows…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 4th of November: Marios Constantinides (Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge University). Tools for augmenting meetings experience.
In this talk, I will present a series of projects that aim at augmenting our workplace experience through tools that not only improve our productivity, but also account for our emotional and psychological experience. Taking meetings as a common workplace activity, I will demonstrate how the use of…
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