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Creativity, fun and networking in Bremen
As part of her Excellence Chair at Bremen University (2020-2024) UCLIC Director, Professor Yvonne Rogers, attended a workshop in person at Bremen with PhD and postdocs from Bremen and PhD students from UCLIC. Much creativity, fun and networking was had including a highlight which was a walk and…
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A number of new grants have recently been awarded to UCLIC research teams!
The Textile Circularity Centre (UKRI, 2021-2025. PI: Prof. Sharon Baurley, Royal College of Art) Within the new Textile Circularity Centre (https://www.rca.ac.uk/research-innovation/research-centres/materials-science-research-centre/textiles-circularity-centre) UCLIC is driving the development of…
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A taste of UCLIC in the Spring
On 23 February 2022 we held a Spring edition of a 'Taste of UCLIC', on the strength of our successful gathering last Autumn. We took the opportunity offered by this lunchtime event to informally kick off our 21st Birthday celebrations, with students and staff sharing food and drinks from their own…
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Congratulations to Josie Carmichael
PhD student Josie Carmichael was selected to receive the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) International Travel Grant to present her research at their conference in Denver, USA, in May 2022. Joise's research focuses on tele-ophthalmology-enabled and Artificial…
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GDI Hub has been awarded EPSRC Public Engagement for ICT grant
Professor Catherine Holloway, Academic Director of GDI Hub, and PhD student Maryam Bandukda have been awarded the EPSRC Public Engagement for ICT grant. Their funded project 'Inclusive Public Activities for Information and Communication Technologies (IN-PACT)' is a public engagement initiative to…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 2nd March: Garreth Tigwell, Addressing the Issue of Inaccessible Design
Technology continues to enrich our lives—we make extensive use of apps and websites to communicate, learn, play, socialize, and work. Digital designers must make these services accessible so as not to exclude a significant percentage of the population who have a disability. However, prior…
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Top performing HCI MSc students selected for the Dean’s List 2020/21
We are delighted to announce that no fewer than 20 students from the MSc Human-Computer Interaction programme have been selected for the Dean's List of top performing students for 2020/21. Every year Professor Alan Thompson, the Dean of Brain Sciences, recognises the top performing students in…
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New book by Catherine Holloway and Giulia Barbareschi (UCLIC and GDI Hub) just published
Disability interactions (DIX) is a new approach to combining cross-disciplinary methods and theories from Human Computer Interaction (HCI), disability studies, assistive technology and social development to co-create new technologies, experiences and ways of working with disabled people. It focuses…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 19th January: Oliver Haimson, Designing Trans Technology
Transgender and nonbinary people face substantial challenges in the world, ranging from social inequities and discrimination to lack of access to resources. Though technology cannot fully solve these problems, technological solutions may help to address some of the challenges trans people and…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 12th January: Samantha Chan, Augmenting Human Memory through Cognition-Aware AI-based Technologies
Memory is a cognitive ability used in our everyday lives. However, our memory capabilities eventually decline and the adaptive nature of these capabilities results in memory troubles. With the growth of the ageing population, new requirements and opportunities arise. In this talk, I introduce how…
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Welcome to new starters in UCLIC Jan 2022
January 2022 We have welcomed a number of new students and staff to UCLIC in recent months. These are: Jing Amy Xue, who is doing a PhD under the supervision of Prof Marianna Obrist; Zhouyang Shen, who is doing a PhD under the supervision of Dr Diego Martinez Plasencia; Zak Morgan, who is doing a…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 15th December: Dr Judith Odili Uchidiuno, Designing culturally relevant early literacy and STEM educational technologies that supplement formal education for underserved students
Education technologies are often posited as solutions for closing early literacy and STEM gaps for students with limited access to quality formal education. Some technologies have shown success as educational interventions; however, many others fail as they do not account for the culture and…
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A taste of UCLIC!
We had our first lunch social in the event space of 169 Euston Rd on 3 November. Staff and students were invited to bring food from their country to share with others - we had around 15 people attend with food from all over the world, including the UK, Nigeria, Ireland, India, the Middle East,…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 24th November: Andrew McStay, Gauging civic feeling of emotion recognition: ethics, policy, and citizen opinion
Focus Drawing on past and ongoing work, this talk will consider the social trajectory of technologies that pertain to gauge and interact with human emotion. With hitherto unseen attention from policymakers and civil society groups, emotion recognition is now high on human rights and data…
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Congratulations to Josie Carmichael for being selected for the Dean’s list for the MRes CDT i4Health!
Congratulations! We are delighted to announce that Josie Carmichael has been selected for the Dean's list for the MRes CDT i4Health. Every year the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences recognises the top performing students, in terms of academic performance, from across the Faculty. These…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 17th November Nithya Sambasivan, Google Research, The myopia of model centrism
AI models seek to intervene in increasingly higher stakes domains, such as cancer detection and microloan allocation. What is the view of the world that guides AI development in high risk areas, and how does this view regard the complexity of the real world? In this talk, I will present results…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 3rd November Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin) Content Moderation: Understanding Health Risks for Workers and Designing Interventions
Social media platforms must detect and block a variety of unacceptable user-generated content, such such as adult or violent images. This detection task is difficult to automate due to high accuracy requirements, costs of errors, and nuanced rules for what is and is not acceptable. Consequently,…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 27th of October: Katie Shilton (University of Maryland, College Park). Levers for Ethics in Technology Design
The values and ethics built into technological systems are gaining increasing attention. This talk will introduce the challenges of values-oriented design for technologies which are meant to be flexible, adaptable, interoperable, and global. It will then present research on two salient values for…
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Congratulations to Emma Holliday for being awarded an honourable mention in the CHI PLAY student game design competition!
Emma Holliday was awarded an honourable mention in the CHI PLAY student game design competition for work she conducted as part of the Serious and Persuasive Games module.
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UCLIC Research Seminar 13th of October: Carsten Sørensen (London School of Economics and Political Science). The Age of Value-Sensitive Digital Infrastructures?
The technical process of digitizing analogue data into digital bit-streams and the associated socio-technical processes of digitalisation has yet to fully reveal their disruptive potentials - yet researchers and practitioners alike must comprehend these phenomena. Digitalization removes tight…
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