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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 24th August: Luca Chittaro, University of Udine – Virtual Reality and Serious Games for Safety Education: Design and Evaluation aspects
Virtual reality (VR) experiences and serious games, i.e. video games to further training and education objectives, are increasingly used in a variety of domains, including health and safety. However, compared to entertainment games, the design and evaluation of such applications is more complex…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 13th July: Chris Evans, UCL Interaction Centre – Flipping the Classroom
In conventional university lectures, the core material is usually delivered in the class (lecture) room. Students then try and make sense of the material at home. Interactive e-lectures allow the possibility of delivering the material outside the lecture room and then using classroom time to help…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 7th July: L. Enrique Sucar, INAOE, Puebla, Mexico – Gesture Therapy: Recent Developments
Gesture Therapy (GT) is a virtual reality based motor rehabilitation platform for the upper limbs. The platform includes three main elements: (i) a specially designed gripper that facilitates 3D tracking of the patient's arm movements and allows measuring flexion and extension of the fingers, (ii)…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 5th July: Kaya de Barbaro, Georgia Tech – Mobile sensing for behavioral science: motivation, possibilities, and challenges
Developments in mobile sensors open new possibilities for the study of human activity. Motivated by the fields of embodied and distributed cognition, this new behavioral science can move us from sparse and static measures in highly constrained situations to richer multimodal and dynamic…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 29th June: Lorna Wall, Government Digital Service – User Research at Government Digital Service and insights from GOV.UK Verify
In this talk I'll discuss how we do user research at GDS (Government Digital Service). I'll talk about what it's like to work somewhere where the principle "start with user needs not government needs" is at the heart of everything we do. I'll also share insights from our research on…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 22nd June: John Vines, Newcastle University – Designing with, for and by Older Communities
Over the last several decades there has been a huge emphasis from funding councils, government agencies, industry and academia alike on designing technology to enhance later life. This can be seen most prominently in research focused on assistive technologies and interventions to support…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 15th June: Christopher Frauenberger, Vienna University of Technology – OutsideTheBox - Rethinking Technology Design with Autistic Children
Most technology that is designed for people with disabilities, pragmatically focuses on mitigating their functional limitations. With the OutsideTheBox project, we take a different approach and critically reflect on concepts of disability and how these are embodied in the technologies we design. In…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 8th June: Wendy Moncur, University of Dundee – Emergent digital memorialisation practices
Memorialization is a ubiquitous human practice, with deep roots in culture and tradition. As digital technologies increasingly pervade our lives, opportunities are created to memorialise and to sustain the bereaved's continuing bonds with the dead in new ways. While memorials that utilise digital…
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UCLIC Research Seminar, 25th May: Phillip Morgan, University of the West of England – The effects of computer-based interruptions on cognition, behaviour and task performance: Applications, new frontiers, and challenges
Interruptions are a common feature of everyday and workplace settings and are increasing with the charging development of communicative and connected technology ranging from smartphones to fully automated road vehicles. Interruptions divert attention away from a primary task, consume cognitive…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 19th May: Justine Cassell, Carnegie Mellon University – The Future of Technology-Enhanced Learning in a Global Context
The promise of new digital technologies to improve education has raised expectations around the world, but so far the results have been disappointing. While the internet and video lectures provide wide access to content, access alone does not deliver strong learning outcomes. What is needed are…
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SEMINAR 27th Apr: Jussi Okkonen – Researching Information Ergonomics
Note: Time and location are different this week Jussi Okkonen is currently Associate Professor in Department of Information Systems in Economics and Management at Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University and Senior Researcher in Tauchi at University of Tampere. After receiving his…
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SEMINAR 20th Apr: Simon Buckingham Shum – Algorithmic Accountability & Learning Analytics
This talk is a joint UCL Knowledge Lab/ UCL Interaction Seminar being held at the Knowledge Lab at 12:30pm. The talk will propose different lenses that we can bring to bear on a given learning analytics tool, to ask what it would mean for it to be accountable, and to whom. As algorithms pervade…
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SEMINAR 23rd March: Christopher Elsden - Fitter, Happier, More Productive?: What to ask of a Data-Driven Life?
Our lives are increasingly suffused with data, and a 'data-driven life' is frequently presented as an aspiration and panacea. In this talk, I will present three recent projects which aim to expand how we think and talk about the role of data in our lives. In particular, I'll argue that designing…
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SEMINAR 16th March: Catherine Holloway and Team – Accessibility Research at UCLIC
Catherine and her team collect datasets which explain how people with impairments move and navigate with a view to making tasks, journeys and life genrally a bit easier. Catherine will briefly look at the research to make the wheelchair part of the Internet of Things; navigation for people with…
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Sarah Kettley – The Person-Centred Approach: a non-deterministic framework for ethical participatory design research
In this this talk, I'll introduce a multidisciplinary project being undertaken at Nottingham Trent University in partnership with Nottinghamshire Mind Network. Funded by the EPSRC, An Internet of Soft Things is a 'research-in the-wild' project which aims to develop new person-centred methodologies…
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SEMINAR 23rd Feb: Maria Wolters – Designing Reminders That Work
All of us forget to do things that we should have remembered, and most people cope with this issue by setting themselves reminders. These reminders come in three main modalities, visual (e.g., a note on the screen), auditory (e.g., a phone alarm), or tactile (e.g., the phone buzzing in one's…
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SEMINAR 10th Feb: Sriram Subramanian – Shape of Things to Come
One of the visions on my research is to deliver novel experiences to users without instrumenting them with wearable or head-mounted displays. My team has been exploring various technical solutions to creating systems that can deform and transform into new objects or shapes while still supporting…
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SEMINAR 3rd Feb: m.c. schraefel – Aspiration Aligned Performance Rather than Prevention-focussed Approaches for Health & Wellbeing with Future Athlete vs Future Invalid & Experiment in a Box
How do we design to support better health and wellbeing practices? What is the role of interactive, computational technologies, IoT ecosystems and so on in this space? I'd argue that to design for health and wellbeing - as HCI researchers we can better approach these questions if we ourselves are…
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SEMINAR 20th Jan: Andrew Manches – Interaction, Embodiment and Technologies in Early Learning
(Andrew will also be available to meet with individual LKL researchers and students after the seminar between 4-5pm, with drinks to follow at the George Birkbeck Bar from 5pm) Most of us might agree that 'hands-on learning' is good for children in the early years. But why? Is it simply more fun and…
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SEMINAR 13th Jan: Adrian Friday – A role for ICT toward Sustainable Futures?
To say that we are living at a time where unprecedented threats to our survival may be mediated or undermined by digital technology is no exaggeration. From climate change to national security, digital tools' strengths bring unparalleled potential for understanding and controlling our world in new…
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