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UCLIC Students at CHI Student Design Competition
Two student teams in our HCI-E MSc Program have been selected to participate in the final stage of the ACM CHI Student Design Competition. They were amongst the only 12 teams (out of 62, 19% acceptance rate) that were invited to present their design projects at the prestigious international…
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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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Venus Shum featured in teaching resource for UK secondary schools
Dr Venus Shum is featured in a new teaching resource for UK secondary schools developed by the Engineering Education team at Royal Academy of Engineering in partnership with UCL's London Knowledge Lab and the Faculty of Engineering. The resource is given to pupils and teachers across the UK. Below…
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EuroPOND CDT Studentship - this is now closed
Applications are now being accepted for a EuroPOND studentship on Designing user interfaces to support front-end clinical decision-making in neurodegenerative disease: Bridging from research to practice. This industry-sponsored studentship is a collaboration between UCL's Centre for Medical Image…
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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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UCLICers featured in Women at UCL: Presence and Absence
Nadia Berthouze, Anna Cox, and Mara Balestrini are featured in the Women at UCL: Presence and Absence booklet. Women at UCL: Presence and Absence is a collaboration between the UCL Equalities and Diversity team, The Girl at the Door and the UCL Institute for Women's Health, and explores the…
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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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Lecturer and RA posts available - these are now closed
We are recruiting! We are recruiting a Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction to start in post ideally next September 2016! The deadline for applications is 15th May 2016 and interviews will be held on 20th and 21st June 2016. Please download the Lecturer Job description and Person specification to…
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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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Welcome to Catherine Holloway's group!
We would like to welcome Catherine Holloway and her group of PhD students and RAs, who have recently joined UCLIC! Her students are Giulia Barbareschi, Roxana Ramirez-Herrera, Rhys Williams and Dave Wain. Tsu-Jui Cheng is an RA and Sarah Nicholson will join as an RA in September.
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ICRI papers at CSCW 2016
Martin Dittus and Mara Balestrini from ICRI Cities both had papers accepted at the CSCW conference, which takes place in San Francisco, CA, USA, February 27 - March 2 2016. Mara's paper presented Jokebox, an interactive installation designed to be placed in public spaces with the aim to explore how…
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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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Yvonne Rogers HCI Pioneer
Yvonne Rogers has been included in the HCI Pioneers project, a website created by Ben Shneiderman which aims to draw attention to the trailblazers by describing their backgrounds and contributions to the field: "Pioneers in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) are memorable for their…
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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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ICRI researchers launch new app Likeways
Martin Traunmueller and Sarah Gallacher from ICRI Cities have launched Likeways, a mobile app to get you off the beaten path and right into nearby areas you're likely to find cool stuff along the way. So, if you're sick of walking along boring routes through the city suggested by Google Maps or…
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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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Successful outcome for the UCLIC/CIEHF Campaign for Real People!
User-centred design is at last to feature in the Design and Technology core A-level syllabus for UK schools. Design and Technology is the third most popular school subject in the UK, and all school students study it for several years, with a good number going on to A-level. However, the syllabi…
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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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SEMINAR 9th Dec: Christoph Pimmer –From cognition to identity development: the multi-faceted affordances of digital media for health professionals
Digital media are increasingly embedded in work, communication and learning practices of health care professionals. Addressing this development, Christoph Pimmer will provide insights into some of his recent work on the affordances and constraints of the use of digital and, in particular, mobile…
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