News, Events, Seminars

Professor William Newman

We are saddened to hear of the death of Professor William Newman (1939-2019). William was a Visiting Professor in UCLIC, closely involved in both research and teaching, 2004-2009. In particular, he developed and taught a module, jointly with John Dowell, on "Perspectives on Design", supervised…

New! MSc in Disability, Design & Innovation at UCL

This September UCL's Global Disability Innovation Hub will welcome its first cohort of students for its ground-breaking new MSc in Disability, Design and Innovation. The deadline for applications is 12 July 2019. MSc in Disability, Design & Innovation at UCL Computer Science The course: Where…

Funded PhD studentship in Physiological Computing and Artificial Intelligence -deadline 21 July 2019!!

We are seeking to appoint a talented PhD student who will explore an emerging research area, 'physiological computing and artificial intelligence' with the specific aim to boost disability innovation. This is a 4-year fully funded post (tuition fee + stipend) in the department of Computer Science…

Seminars, Jun 05 2019 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 5th of June: Bernardino Romera-Paredes (DeepMind) on "The U-net and its impact to medical imaging"

The U-net has become the predominant choice when facing any medical image segmentation task. This is due to its high performance in many different medical domains. In this talk, I will introduce the U-net, and I will present three projects from DeepMind Health Research that use the U-net to address…

Seminars, Jun 04 2019 @ 14:00

Joint UCL Knowledge Lab & UCLIC Seminar 4th of June: Gijs Huisman (Amsterdam University of Applied Science) on "A personal touch: adventures in haptic technology"

In this talk I will share my work on haptic technology, in particular haptics applied to social communication, from creating wearable technology for academic research to joining a startup company to create actual products. I will draw on work from psychology to outline my thoughts on social touch…

Seminars, May 22 2019 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 22nd of May: Joel Fischer (University of Nottingham) on "The trouble with Alexa: voice interfaces and conversation design"

In this talk I will present our conversation analytic study of recordings of people's talk with Alexa in several homes in the UK, developed with colleagues Martin Porcheron and Stuart Reeves. I will examine fragments of Alexa-talk to show key features of the interaction of importance to those…

Seminars, May 15 2019 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 15th of May: Ron Baecker (University of Toronto) on What society must require from AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, especially machine learning (ML) programs, are now being employed or proposed for use in: a) scanning résumés to weed out job applicants; b) evaluating risks children face in their families; c) informing judicial decisions about bail, sentencing, and parole; d…

5th Edition of Interaction Design book published!

The 5th edition of the textbook Interaction Design by Helen Sharp, Yvonne Rogers and Jenny Preece has just been published and is available through various outlets! This time it has a lovely green cover - see id-book.com for more information.

Welcome to new staff and students-May19

We welcome Joe Newbold and Niels van Berkel, who are now working as Research Fellows in UCLIC! Joe is working on the GetaMoveIOn project with Prof. Anna Cox and Niels is working with Prof. Ann Blandford on the WEISS project. We also welcome Kuba Maruszczyk, who has just started his PhD with Prof.…

Summer internship in UCLIC available - now closed

We are looking for a UCL student registered for a Computer science or Engineering Degree undergraduate course to work as a summer intern with Professor Yvonne Rogers and Dr Nic Marquardt. The main purpose of this internship is to work on a project to build an interactive sensing tool by hacking a…

Seminars, Apr 24 2019 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 24th of April: Sarah Bell (UCL) on Co-designing infrastructure: engaging communities in complex, urban decisions

Infrastructure resilience is vital for the safety of the public, the strength of the economy, the health of the environment and local quality of life. Community resilience is also recognised as a key factor in determining responses to extreme events and delivering climate adaptation. To date,…

UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2019

Authors from UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2019, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction, which takes place in Glasgow, UK 4 - 9 May 2019. Here is a sneak peek at our accepted contributions. Full Papers Why Do You Need This? Selective Disclosure of Data Among Citizen…

Seminars, Mar 20 2019 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 20th of March: Lola Cañamero (University of Hertfordshire) on Embodied Affect in Autonomous and Social Robots

Emotions are a key aspect of human behavior, communication and cognition. Affective computing and human-oriented approaches to technology design take into account different aspects of emotions and their expression in order to create technology that humans feel comfortable with. However, the…

Congratulations to Catherine Holloway for winning East London Innovators Award!

We are delighted to annouce that Dr Catherine Holloway won an East London Innovators award for her work with Disability Innovation. See the Twitter announcement.

Seminars, Feb 27 2019 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 27th of February: Tim Adlam (UCL) on Technology for capability: technology to enable exploration

Assistive technology design and product creation has been conservative and incremental for many years. This is changing with a new focus on the needs and desires of the user; the emergence of enabling innovations in sensing, control, manufacturing, information systems and service delivery; and a …

Research Fellow position in GetaMoveOn Network - this position is now closed

We are currently advertising a post-doctoral position in UCLIC until just before midnight on Mon 25th March 2019. The post is for a Research Fellow to work on the GetaMoveOn Network and is available immediately, funded full-time for 12 months initially. The post will involve taking a leading role…

Prof Anna Cox has been appointed as Specialist Advisor to the DCMS Select Committee at the House of Commons!

We are proud to annouce that Prof Anna Cox has been appointed as Specialist Advisor to the DCMS Select Committee at the House of Commons for their inquiry into Immersive and Addictive Technologies. Congratulations! The inquiry will examine the development of immersive technologies such as virtual…

Congratulations to our MSc student Tassilo Bouwmam for winning the Ulf Aberg Award!

We are delighted to announce that our HCI MSc student Tassilo Bouwmam won the prestigious Ulf Aberg Award for his MSc project! Ulf Aberg Award is given for the best postgraduate student project in Ergonomics and Human Factors, CIHFE. Well-done! Ulf Aberg Award

Ten HCI MSc students among the Faculty's top 5% performers!

We are very proud to announce that ten HCI MSc students from our 2017/2018 cohort have been featured on the Dean's list. This award recognises the top 5% of students in the Faculty of Brain Sciences at UCL. Congratulations to you all! Dean's List of top performing students for 2017/18

Seminars, Feb 06 2019 @ 15:00

UCLIC Research Seminar 6th of February: Youngjun Cho (UCL) on Physiological Computing towards Mental Disability Innovation

Physiological computing is an emerging research area enabling technologies to listen to our bodily functions and psychological needs. This talk provides an overview of my computational works in this area, summarised by three key components: physiological sensing, automatic affect recognition,…