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UCLIC research seminars are (usually) on Wednesdays at 3pm during term-time. Please see notices (e.g. below) for date/time and location of individual seminars. Please contact Aline de Borst for enquiries about seminar notices. If you would like to arrange to meet with a seminar speaker before/after a talk, kindly contact Giulia Barbareschi.
To arrange to give a seminar talk at UCLIC, please contact Temitayo Olugbade.
UCLIC Research Seminar 19th September: Antonio Cerone (Nazarbayev University) on "A Cognitive Architecture to Support Verification and Validation of Formal System Models and Validation of Research Hypotheses on Cognition"
Abstract: Formal Methods are successfully used in the verification of interactive systems, especially for safety-critical properties. However, formal approaches are normally applied in an ad hoc manner to restricted application domains or even just to specific case studies. Although a large numbers…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 3rd September: Atsushi Hiyama (University of Tokyo) on "Geron-Informatics"
The demographic ratio of people over 65 in Japan recently exceeded 27% in 2016, creating what is being called a "hyper-aged society." Although there are countless challenges posed by an aging population, they can be overcome by the power of ICT. Geron-informatics is a newly coined term…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 17th August: Marcus Carter (University of Sydney) on "Kinecting with Orangutans"
Contemporary zoos in Australia have two principal goals; ensure the welfare of animals in captivity and act as leading conservation organisations by motivating behavioural change through connecting visitors with animals. Despite the increasing ubiquity of digital technology in similar social and…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 8th August: Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine) on "Understanding the workplace experience through sensor tracking of behavior"
Understanding the workplace experience is important in order to develop solutions to improve health, mood, and performance, and reduce stress. However, until recently, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral measurements of the workplace experience have been constrained by methodologies based on…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 4 July: Judy Kay (University of Sydney) on "From sensors to dashboards for lifelong learning for health and wellness"
This talk overviews several projects that have harnessed emerging sensors, transforming their data into dashboards. The sensors range from widely available physical activity trackers, such as Fitbits and phones, to ones that are still in the lab and those that facilitate explicit tracking by the…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 27 June: Sarah Wiseman (Goldsmiths) on "Control and being controlled: Exploring technology for immersive theatre"
Immersive theatre is a relatively new entertainment form - no longer are theatre audiences expected to sit in rows of seats watching action unfold on stage, now they can wander through the performance, sometimes changing the actions themselves. There is an opportunity to explore how technology can…
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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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