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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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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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SEMINAR 2nd Dec: Jo Pugh – Here be dragons: information seeking in digital heritage collections
Visitors to archival reading rooms receive a considerable amount of help and support from archivists and overwhelmingly report positive experiences from their engagement with professionals. Conversely, many users of large scale digitised archival catalogues and collections spend much of their time…
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SEMINAR 25th Nov: Joel Fischer – Appropriate ‘intelligent' systems for the real world
Recent research into the use of consumer devices such as the NEST 'learning' thermostat has shown that interaction with these systems is problematic as they are, for example, unable to interpret human intent. In this talk, I want to explore what (in-)appropriate interaction with such proactive…
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SEMINAR 19th Nov: Sylvain Malacria and Nicolas Roussel – Mjolnir: Computing tools to empower users
Mjolnir is an Inria research team created in January 2015 in partnership with Université Lille 1. Our research aims at producing original ideas, fundamental knowledge and practical tools to inspire, inform and support the design of human-computer interactions. We favor the vision of computers as …
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SEMINAR 28th Oct: Robb Mitchell – Design Patterns for Social Icebreaking
Bored? Lonely ? Have you ever… struggled for an excuse to approach someone? found it difficult to make eye contact? recoiled from interpersonal touch (whilst secretly yearning it)? felt that your actions were ignored? Or found it too easy to ignore other people? had the sensation that everyone w…
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Congratulations Judith!
Congratulations to Judith Borghouts, who has received a best student paper award from the HFES Healthcare Technical Group (HCTG)! She will be presenting this paper, along with a second paper on a related topic, at the conference in LA next week. Check out the two papers below: Prize winning paper:…
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SEMINAR 14th October: Fraser Allison - User Experiences of Voice Interaction in Games: Identity, Power and Control
In the past half-decade, advances in voice recognition technology and the proliferation of consumer devices such as the Microsoft Kinect have seen a significant rise in the use of voice interaction in games. While the use of player-to-player voice is widespread and well-researched, the use of voice…
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