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Seminars, Jun 16 2017 @ 13:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 16th June: Fanny Chevalier, INRIA - Direct spacetime sketching and editing of visual media

Creating dynamic visual media, such as short animations, creative movies or dynamic illustrations requires artists to edit and manipulate content both in the spatial and temporal dimensions. This extension of visual composition into the temporal domain creates a challenging interaction problem.…

Seminars, Jun 15 2017 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 15th June: Ron Wakkary, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Material Speculations

In our design research we aim to expand the notion of interaction design beyond purposed manipulations, explicit interactions, and experiential engagements to also include the implicit, incremental, and at times, unknowing encounters and relations that emerge among people, artifacts, and…

Seminars, Jun 09 2017 @ 11:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 9th June: Mark Newman, University of Michigan - Collaborating around health data: towards support for patient-caregiver-provider collaboration in the management of chronic health conditions

An explosion in low-cost sensing and mobile self-tracking technologies is promising to transform care for chronic health conditions. As patients have greater access to continuous streams of data regarding their health and related behaviors, they, their caregivers, and their health providers will…

Seminars, Jun 02 2017 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 7th June: Madeline Balaam, Newcastle University – Digital Women's Health

Women's understanding about their own body and their access to quality health information and services is deeply influenced by their social, cultural, political context. As a result, the World Health Organisation has identified that women face significant discrimination globally in terms of access…

Seminars, May 17 2017 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 17 May: Lola Cañamero, University of Hertfordshire – An Embodied Cognition and Affect Approach to Human-Robot Interaction

Emotions are a key aspect of human behavior, communication and cognition. Affective computing and human-oriented approaches to technology design take into account different aspects of emotions and their expression in order to create technology that humans feel comfortable with. However, the…

Seminars, Apr 26 2017 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 26 April: Abigail Durrant, Northumbria University – Design for Being Online through Life Transitions

The proliferation of pervasive computing, including online platforms like social media, means that being online is for many now a feature of everyday life. Whilst offering new forms of personal expression, such platforms raise new challenges: for managing separate identities in different life…

Seminars, Mar 15 2017 @ 16:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 15th March: Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire – Interaction with Robots - Challenges and opportunities in Human-Robot Interaction

Please note changed time and location of this seminar Human-robot interaction (HRI) is a highly interdisciplinary field that has grown substantially over the past 15 years. My talk will reflect on the concept of 'social robots' and focus on companion robots, i.e. robots that provide useful…

Seminars, Mar 08 2017 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 8th March: Cecilia Katzeff, KTH Royal Institute of Technology – A Design Perspective On Sustainable Practices Related To Energy And Food

The seminar will circle around the general theme of sustainable practices, what is meant by sustainable practices in relation to energy consumption and especially in relation to electricity use and food practices. The seminar will also explore how interaction design may play a role in the emergence…

Seminars, Mar 01 2017 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 1st March: David Coyle, University College Dublin – Measuring Personal Agency in Human Computer Interactions

In cognitive neuroscience literature the sense of agency is defined as the experience of controlling one's own actions and, through this control, affecting the external world. Personal agency is a surprisingly malleable experience that links to concepts such as ownership, responsibility and…

Seminars, Feb 22 2017 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 22nd February: Ewa Luger, University of Edinburgh – Making AI Intelligible; Designing for ethical and comprehensible intelligent systems

The development of complex, intelligent systems has surpassed our ability to explain them. The market is increasingly populated with algorithmically-driven products for which users have limited mental models, putting their privacy at risk, and raising questions of human agency and control. Ensuring…

Seminars, Feb 01 2017 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 1st February: Antonio Krüger - On-body Interaction with wearables for sports and leisure activities.

In this talk I will review our recent research activities related to wearable and ambient interaction. I will present some concepts of smart-watch gesture interaction, then discuss ambient on-body notification principles which we have investigated for climbing activities and smart watch…

Seminars, Jan 25 2017 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 25th January: Mike Fraser -Classifying and Measuring Unencumbered Hand Gestures

I will present recent work exploring how to identify and measure hand gestures using sensors worn on the upper arm or wrist working towards interactive input and prosthetic control applications. Previous work has identified computer vision approaches to unencumbered gesture tracking, and these…

Seminars, Dec 07 2016 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 7th December: Nic Lane - Squeezing Deep Learning onto Wearables, Phones and Things

In just a few short years, breakthroughs from the field of deep learning have transformed how computational models perform a wide-variety of tasks such as recognizing a face, tracking emotions or monitoring physical activities. Unfortunately, deep models and algorithms typically exert severe…

Seminars, Nov 30 2016 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 30th November: Daniela Petrelli - Emotional engagement with heritage

Since the early 90s museums and cultural heritage sites have experimented with emerging technology. From early multimedia to mobiles to tabletops to AR / VR, technology has been used to enrich the visit, but always keeping the material and the digital as distinct. New interactions that combine the…

Seminars, Nov 23 2016 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 23rd November: Kwame Ferreira - Sustainability in design thinking

Seminars, Nov 16 2016 @ 16:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 16th November: Scott MacKenzie, York University, Canada – Design, Engineering, Research Truth and Reconciliation

*Please note changed seminar time. This talk will examine the relationship between design, engineering, and research. The context is human-computer interaction (HCI), as embodied in touch-based mobile devices and other high-impact products bearing novel user interface features. Introductory…

Seminars, Nov 09 2016 @ 12:30

UCLIC Research Seminar 9th November: Tilde Bekker, Eindhoven University of Technology - Creating tools for teachers and children to support Design-Based Learning (DBL) in schools

This seminar is co-organised by UCL KL and UCLIC. *Please note changed seminar location. Following a Design Based Learning approach can provide an integrated process to teach children some of the 21st century skills, such as problem solving, creativity and critical thinking in an integrated…

Seminars, Nov 02 2016 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 2nd November: Stuart Reeves, University of Nottingham - Embeddedness and sequentiality in social media

Over the last decade, there has been an explosion of work around social media within CSCW. A range of perspectives have been applied to the use of social media, which we characterise as aggregate, actor-focussed or a combination. We outline the opportunities for a perspective informed by…

Seminars, Oct 26 2016 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 26th October: Enrico Costanza - Interaction with the IoT: Visualizations, Autonomous Systems & Sustainability

The wealth of data made available by the Internet of Things (IoT) keeps growing. How can we best design interactive systems to help us take advantage of this data, to make our lifestyle more efficient, more sustainable and more healthy? My research aims to address this question in two ways: first,…

Seminars, Sep 28 2016 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 28th September: Jakob E Bardram, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) – On the Design of Personal Health Technologies for Mental Disorder

This seminar is co-organised by UCLIC and UCL IDH. *Please note changed seminar location. Mental disorders like depression and bipolar disorder impose a very high societal burden in terms of cost, lost productivity, morbidity, suffering, and mortality, and are a leading cause of disability and…