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Symposium on HCI Grand Challenges
UCLIC is hosting a symposium that brings together leading HCI researchers to identify and discuss the grand challenges for HCI research in the next decade. Speakers • Gregory Abowd • Susanne Bødker • Andrew Howes • Vassilis Kostakos • Stuart Reeves • Yvonne Rogers …
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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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Congratulations to Prof. Yvonne Rogers!
Congratulations to Yvonne Rogers, who has been announced as a Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator 2016! In its 25th Anniversary Year, Microsoft is highlighting 32 great academics worldwide - this award celebrates the vital contributions that academics have made to help shape the direction,…
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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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MSc Applications Close 5 at pm 1st July 2016
Due to an unusually high number of applications for entry to the MSc Human Computer Interaction in September 2016, we will be closing to new applications at 5pm on 1st July 2016. References must be submitted by Friday 15th July 2016. For further details about the UCLIC MSc Human…
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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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RA post on ECLIPSE project - this position is now closed
We are recruiting a Research Associate to undertake observational studies of infusion device use across multiple hospitals as part of the ECLIPSE project! This post is available from 18 July 2016 or as soon as possoble afterwards and is funded until 30th June 2017 in the first instance. The…
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New UCLIC newsletter 2016!
We have a new UCLIC newsletter for 2016. A lot has happened since the last one in 2014 - please click on the image below to download the pdf and check it out!
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Rachel Benedyk retiring
After almost 40 years in UCL, Rachel Benedyk is retiring from her pivotal role as Lecturer and Programme Director on the MSc course in HCI with Ergonomics. Rachel was a student of the course in the days of the Ergonomics Unit in the seventies, and taught on the course over the following four…
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PhD Studentships on HCI - these positions are now closed
Applications are invited for a Funded PhD Studentship on HCI in the UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC), funded by an EPSRC DTP grant for up to 4 years from October 2016. The PhD project can be on any area of Human Computer Interaction, although it is anticipated that the student will contribute to one…
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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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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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