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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…
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RA post on HUMAN project - this position is now closed
We are recruiting a Research Associate to to explore how cutting-edge augmented reality systems can be used to provide cognitive and psychological support for people in busy and complex work environments as part of the HUMAN project! This post is available from 1st Feb 2017 and is funded for 18…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 23rd November: Kwame Ferreira - Sustainability in design thinking
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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Ann Blandford awarded for achievements in Computing
Ann Blandford has received an award to celebrate her scientific achievements and ability to inspire others. She is one of the first five women to receive this award for achievements in Computing. The award is part of the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre's initiative to celebrate women in maths and…
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Digital Stories of the new MSc students
As part of the Opening of Session induction week, the new MSc students worked hard this week making digital stories, to explain what HCI is to young adults (aged 13-16yrs). Last Friday was the screening of the videos, and the whole class as well as UCLIC staff could vote on a favourite video to win…
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Welcome to new staff and students joining UCLIC!
We would like to welcome a number of people who have just joined UCLIC in the last week! These are: Kyrill Potapov, a part-time PhD student who will be supervised by Paul Marshall Gill Conquest, a PhD student in her final year on a secondment from Anthropology via the cross disciplinary training…
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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…
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Welcome to Dr Enrico Costanza!
We would like to welcome Dr Enrico Costanza, who recently joined UCLIC as a lecturer from the University of Southampton! He will be joined by a number of post-doctoral researchers and PhD students - we are delighted to have his group on board!
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P/T Manager on the GAMO project - this position is now closed
We are recruiting a Part-time Communications and Impacts Manager to work on the recently set up GetAMoveOn network! Please see more information and how to apply on the UCL Jobs pages at bit.ly/2cTxs6V. The deadline for applications is Mon 10th October 2016 and interviews are on Mon 24th October…
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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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