News, Events, Seminars

Seminars, Nov 15 2017 @ 15:00

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…

Seminars, Nov 01 2017 @ 15:00

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…

Seminars, Oct 16 2017 @ 16:00

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…

Seminars, Oct 04 2017 @ 15:00

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…

Seminars, Sep 27 2017 @ 15:00

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…

Seminars, Jul 18 2017 @ 15:00

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…

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…