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UCLIC research seminars generally take place on Wednesdays at 3PM in Room 4.05 (66-72 Gower Street) during term-time. Please see notices below in case of deviating dates/times/locations of individual seminars (indicated in italic). Coffee and tea will be served afterwards around 4PM in the 2nd floor hub room (please bring your own cups). If you would like to arrange to meet with a seminar speaker before/after a talk, kindly contact the host(s) or Giulia Barbareschi.
To arrange to give a seminar talk at UCLIC, please contact Temitayo Olugbade.
UCLIC Research Seminars
30 August 2019 - 3PM
Andreas Holzinger (Medical University of Graz)
From explainable AI to human‐centered AI
Hosts: Duncan Brumby, Anna Cox
Location: Room 110, Roberts Engineering Building, Torrington Place
6 September 2019 - 2PM
Gregory Abowd (Georgia Institute of Technology)
The Internet of Materials: The next logical step or a paradigm shift?
Host: Ann Blandford
Location: Room 4.05, 66-72 Gower Street
18 September 2019 - 3PM
Ellen Bass (Drexel University)
An integrated information processing and task-based approach to making function allocation decisions
Host: Giulia Barbareschi
Location: Room 4.05, 66-72 Gower Street
2 October 2019 - 3PM
Dorian Peters (Cambridge University)
Wellbeing-supportive design: Designing technologies to support psychological needs
Host: Julia Manning
Location: Room 4.05, 66-72 Gower Street
9 October 2019 - 3PM
Jo Vermeulen (Aarhus University)
Explainable AI - What can we do as HCI researchers?
Hosts: Enrico Costanza, Nicolai Marquardt
Location: Room 4.05, 66-72 Gower Street
23 October 2019 - 3PM
Ben Oldfrey (University College London)
The Future of Tech is Squidgy
Host: Giulia Barbareschi
Location: Room 6.12A, Malet Place Engineering Building
30 October 2019 - 3PM
Bran Knowles (Lancaster University)
Understanding older adults' distrust of digital technology
Host: Yvonne Rogers
Location: Room 6.12A, Malet Place Engineering Building
13 November 2019 - 3PM
Annie Lau (University College London)
Patient Work
Host: Giulia Barbareschi
Location: Room 4.05, 66-72 Gower Street
20 November 2019 - 3PM
Pawel Wozniak (Utrecht University)
Designing for the 51%: Technologies for advanced amateurs in sports
Host: Tao Bi
Location: Room 4.05, 66-72 Gower Street
27 November 2019 - 3PM
Regan Mandryk (University of Saskatchewan)
Fun Science: The power of play
Host: Anna Cox
Location: Room 6.12A, Malet Place Engineering Building
4 December 2019 - 3PM
UCLIC Meet & Greet seminar with presentations from UCLIC staff:
Dr Nic Marquardt, Dr Enrico Costanza, Dr Cathy Holloway
Location: Room 4.05, 66-72 Gower Street
11 December 2019 - 3PM
Conor Linehan (University College Cork)
Understanding and improving how people learn through playing games
Host: Anna Cox
Location: Room 4.05, 66-72 Gower Street
Calendar
Past seminars
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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UCLIC Research Seminar 15th November: Akhil Mathur, UCLIC & Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge - Tiny Habits in the Giant Enterprise: Reflections from a Quantified Workplace Study
In this talk, I will present insights from a longitudinal in-the-wild Quantified Workplace study conducted in two offices of a research organization. Using a prototype Quantified Workplace system equipped with passive and participatory sensing modalities, we collected and visualized various…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 1st November: Daniela Romano, UCLIC - From Bio-Affective to Brain Computer interfaces
Imagine a world where we can think about moving a robotic harm and it happens. Play a video game thinking about moving our arm or leg (without actually doing it). Science fiction? Virtual reality? or a real new possibility to interact with our digital world? How close are we to use our brain…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 16th October: Fabrice Matulic, Preferred Networks Inc., Japan - Leveraging pen and touch input on interactive surfaces
Please note the changed day and time of the seminar Tablets and large displays that support simultaneous and differentiated pen and touch input provide interactive capabilities that go well beyond the sum of those modalities' individual input spaces. In this talk, I will present some of the…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 4th October: Antti Salovaara, University of Helsinki, Finland - Evaluations as time machines: Studying the future HCI in the present
In his talk, Antti will extend his CHI2017 essay (http://bit.ly/2lHXodD) that discussed the problem of possible futures in HCI methodology, especially in its prototype evaluations. He addresses a blind spot in HCI's evaluation methodology: that we rarely consider the implications of the problem…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 27th September: Steve Whittaker, University of California at Santa Cruz - Rethinking the Quantified Self to make personal data engaging and useful
The Quantified Self (QS) vision argues for collecting and analysing rich collections of personal data. According to the vision, such personal data facilitate greater self-insight promoting behaviour change. But although self quantification is important, quantified self technologies show poor rates…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 18th July: Nicole Werner, University of Wisconsin-Madison - How Do Patients and Caregivers’ Engage Strategies to Accomplish Healthcare Work at Home?
Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Chronic illness management requires a majority of healthcare to be performed by lay individuals. Paramount to understanding the process of illness self-management by lay individuals is understanding the sociotechnical system in which it…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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