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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…
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Two new funded PhD studentships available - currently closed, but one to be advertised again soon!
We are currently recruiting to two funded PhD studentships in HCI in the UCL Interaction Centre, each of which begin in October 2017. One of these is on 'Exploring the modelling of behaviour using deep learning in relation to Digital Health' - see prism.ucl.ac.uk/#!/?project=219 for more…
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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…
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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…
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UCLIC featured in IET partners magazine
UCLIC is featured in the IET's latest Partner Magazine! Children are growing up in the newly emerging Internet of Things, but it is not always the case they understand how these devices and apps work. Digital Fluency is a learning approach intended to fill this gap, and brings together disparate…
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RA position on WeDraw project - position now closed
We are recruiting a Research Associate to work as part of a multidisciplinary group within the EU-funded project weDraw. WeDraw is a 2-year research project that brings together European partners from industry and university to explore how multi-modal and multi-sensory technology can support the…
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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…
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UBEL DTP studentships
There are funded opportunities available for interdisciplinary PhD studentships funded through the ESRC through a UCL, Bloomsbury, East London Doctoral Training Partnership (UBEL DTP). This DTP consists of a number of training pathways, with studentships available on a full-time or part-time basis…
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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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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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