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UCLIC Research Seminar 8th August: Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine) on "Understanding the workplace experience through sensor tracking of behavior"
Understanding the workplace experience is important in order to develop solutions to improve health, mood, and performance, and reduce stress. However, until recently, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral measurements of the workplace experience have been constrained by methodologies based on…
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Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub awarded £10m to widen access to assistive technology
The Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub has been awarded £10m from the Department for International Development (DfiD) to widen access to assistive technology for disabled people. The funding will support the AT:2030 programme, which consists of six projects: Publish a framework of…
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Funded PhD studentship on Digital Technologies for Adolescent Wellbeing - now closed
We have extended the deadline of our EPSRC funded PhD studentship! This is available to UK/EU applicants for up to 4 years from October 2018, and covers tuition fees at the UK/EU level as well as a stipend (£16,000 approx). Eligibility Please be aware that EPSRC funding is only available to…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 4 July: Judy Kay (University of Sydney) on "From sensors to dashboards for lifelong learning for health and wellness"
This talk overviews several projects that have harnessed emerging sensors, transforming their data into dashboards. The sensors range from widely available physical activity trackers, such as Fitbits and phones, to ones that are still in the lab and those that facilitate explicit tracking by the…
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Funded PhD studentship based at UCL Here East
There is a PhD studentship available, funded by Horizon 2020 and supervised by Dr Cathy Holloway. The studentship will be linked to UCLIC, but based at Here East - there is no fixed deadline for applications, but the project must start in October 2018. Please see the advert for more information.
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UCLIC Research Seminar 27 June: Sarah Wiseman (Goldsmiths) on "Control and being controlled: Exploring technology for immersive theatre"
Immersive theatre is a relatively new entertainment form - no longer are theatre audiences expected to sit in rows of seats watching action unfold on stage, now they can wander through the performance, sometimes changing the actions themselves. There is an opportunity to explore how technology can…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 13 June: Rita Borgo (KCL) on "Glyphs-based Visualization, Opportunities and Challenges"
Multivariate data visualization (MDV) is a common requirement across different disciplines, from the sciences to the social sciences, from engineering to arts and humanities, and from media to industry. In this talk I will introduce glyph-based visualization, a form of MDV featuring some unique…
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UCLIC research featured in BBC TV programme Click
Nadia Berthouze, together with Temitayo Olugbade and Youngjun Cho, recently contributed to the BBC TV programme "Click". The episode, called 'It's Been Emotional', features Nadia's research on emotion-detecting technology. The episode is available to watch online at the link below: bb…
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UCLIC Joint Research Seminar 4th June: Catherine Holloway: The GDIHub & Siobhan Strike: Exercise for health, primarily from a biomechanical perspective
Talk 1: 20 Minutes Catherine Holloway explains the GDI Hub http://gdihub.cs.ucl.ac.uk/gdi_hub/ and https://www.disabilityinnovation.com/ Talk 2: 30 minutes Siobhan's talk Exercise for health, primarily from a biomechanical perspective Abstract: The relationship between physical activity and…
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Two New Lecturer Positions in the Computer Science Dept - now closed
Dr Cathy Holloway is recruiting two new Lecturers in the UCL Computer Science Dept in the area of Global Disability Innovation. Please see the advert for more information and how to apply - the deadline is 25th May 2018.
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Ann Blandford's podcast on the future of healthcare
Ann Blandford recently contributed to a Technology Intelligence podcast from The Telegraph exploring the future of health! You check it out at the links below: Telegraph Episode URL https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/0/predictalitics-big-data-revolution-change-see-nhs-forever/ Apple Podcast…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 9 May: Hamed Alavi, User Research in a Swiss Smart Living Lab
"Smart Living Lab" in Fribourg, Switzerland, is a platform for multidisciplinary research on the relation between people and their built environments of today and the ones of future. In this talk, I will briefly describe the contributions of our HCI team, Human-IST, to some of the smart…
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Student Choice Awards nominations for UCLIC staff
Congratulations to several UCLIC teaching and support staff, who have been nominated for Student Choice Awards this year! The awards are an initiative by the Students' Union UCL and an opportunity for students to nominate people who do a great job, as a way to thank them and let them know that…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 2nd May: Paul Marshall, End user engagement with data
Computer science is going through something of a data revolution, with new mathematics and algorithms being developed to make sense of the global explosion of data. However, the perspective of most of this work has been on what insights large organisations - governments, IT companies or the NHS -…
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UCLIC newsletter 2018
We have a new UCLIC newsletter for 2018! Please download the newsletter and check out information about new projects and events.
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UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2018
Authors from UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2018, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction, which will take place in Montreal, Canada, 21 - 26 April 2018. Here is a sneak peek at our accepted contributions. Full Papers Mediating Conflicts in Minecraft: Empowering Learning in…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 21st March: Corina Sas, Technologies for emotional wellbeing and mental health
This talk provides an overview of my work on technologies for wellbeing and mental health, with an emphasis on the value of significant objects and the human body. Then, it outlines two studies exploring digital disposal following life transitions marked by social loss. The talk concludes with an…
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CIEHF Awards Success
We are pleased to announce the following awards to UCLIC staff and students from the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors. A volunteer group Design for Real People Action Group - lead by UCLIC Honorary Senior Lecture Rachel Benedyk has recieved the the Richard Clive Holman…
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Research Associate position on WeDraw - now closed
We are recruiting a Research Associate to work on the WeDraw project in UCLIC! The advert for this post is now live and open to all applicants - for more details, see the UCL Jobs pages. The deadline for applications is Mon 19 March - interviews will be from Mon 26 March. More information about…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 21st February: Petr Slovak, Promoting mental health with technology
Technologies have already found an important role in detecting and helping treat mental health difficulties. However, much less is known about applying technology within prevention approaches, with the aim to promote resilience of those at risk and mitigate the occurrence of mental illness later in…
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