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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
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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,…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 30th January: Leigh Clark (University College Dublin) on "Mapping Speech Research in HCI: Trends, Themes and Challenges"
Speech interfaces are growing in popularity and while their technical underpinnings are well documented, less is understood about the user side in the HCI field. This talk presents work from a review of 68 research papers on speech interfaces in HCI, where the trends, themes, findings and methods…
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Funded PhD studentship in HCI - deadline 25 Feb 2019! This position is now closed
We are recruiting to an EPSRC funded PhD studentship at UCLIC! The project will start in April 2019 and will be focused on 'Developing future interfaces for digital health data' and will be in collaboration with Great Ormond Street Hospital. Please see the full advert for more information and how…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 23rd January: Giles Bergel (University College London) on "Computer vision, facial recognition and the face as interface"
Computer vision is increasingly ubiquitous. This talk will, first, outline the state of the art in computer vision, demonstrating a number of open-source tools and resources developed as a result of colllaborations within the digital humanities. It will then outline some of the problems and…
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Competitive EPSRC funded studentship available!
The UCL Interaction Centre is eligible to nominate two applicants for an EPSRC funded studentship in the Psychology Division (PALS). We invite those who may be interested in pursuing a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction at UCLIC to apply; to do so, please visit our webpage and follow our application…
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Human-Computer Interaction MSc video is out now!
We would like to share with you our brand new video about studying Human-Computer Interaction at UCL! In this video, students talk about their experience of being part of a world-leading research centre, how the student environment has inspired them and much more.
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UCLIC Research Seminar 12th December: Stuart Reeves (University of Nottingham) on "How UX practitioners produce findings in usability testing"
Usability testing has long been a core interest of HCI research and forms a key element of industry practice. Yet our knowledge of it presents striking absences. There are few, if any detailed accounts of the contingent, material ways in which usability testing is actually practiced. Further, it is…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 5th December: Ana Tajadura-Jiménez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & UCLIC) on "The Hearing body: Body-centred sound technologies for emotional and physical health"
People, through their bodily actions, engage in sensorimotor loops that connect them to the surrounding world and to their own bodies. The incoming sensory information is integrated to form perceptions of one's own body appearance and capabilities. These body perceptions highly impact on people's…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 28th November: Effie Lai-Chong Law (University of Leicester) on "Pick the Right Game Type and Game Experience Tool: Not that Easy!"
Picking a right game type to maximise the impact of a digital educational game (DEG) for learning a particular topic is not easy. Picking a right tool for evaluating game experience with digital games is not easy either. In fact, both tasks proved very challenging. In this talk I illustrate these…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 21st November: Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire) on "User Experience: a step towards Natural User Interfaces"
The road to natural interfaces is still long and we are now witnessing an artificial naturality. These interfaces are natural, in the sense they employ hand gestures, but they are also artificial, because the system designer imposes the set of gestures. In this lecture we will explore together the…
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Teaching Fellow position in Human Computer Interaction - now closed
We are currently advertising a Teaching Fellow position in UCLIC. The post is initially available from 7th January 2019 or as soon as possible after this date up to 31st October 2019, with the possibility of being extended. This is a full-time fixed term appointment to cover parental leave. The…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 14th November: Matt Jones (University of Swansea) on "Designed in California... Whose future is it anyway? "
Mobile and ubiquitous computing researchers have long imagined future worlds for users in developed regions. Steered by such visions, they have innovated devices and services exploring the value of these with and for individuals, groups and communities. Meanwhile, such radical and long-term…
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Funded PhD studentship in HCI available - this is now closed
We are recruiting to an EPSRC funded PhD studentship at UCLIC! The project will start in January 2019 and will be focused on 'Designing and Evaluating New Digital Technologies For HealthCare in Hospitals' and will be in collaboration with Great Ormond Street Hospital. Please see the full advert for…
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Research Fellow in Affective Computing position available - now closed
We are currently advertising a post-doctoral Research Fellow position on the EU EntimeMENT project to redeployees only until just before midnight on Wed 7 November 2018. The project brings together European partners from industry and academia to explore how multi-modal and multi-sensory technology…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 31st October: Ifat Yasin (University College London) on "Past, Present and Future: Assistive Devices for the Hearing Impaired"
The World Health Organisation (2010, 2013) has identified hearing loss as a significant global problem, not least because of the long-term effects of any untreated/unmanaged hearing loss on speech development, social integration, educational achievement and the psychological well-being of an…
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UCL GRS, ORS & CSC Scholarships 2019
The UCL Interaction Centre is eligible to nominate up to two applicants per year for the UCL Graduate Research Scholarship and Overseas Research Scholarship. We are also permitted to submit one nomination for the UCL-China Scholarship Council Research Scholarship. We invite those who may be…
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Welcome to new staff and students at UCLIC!
We would like to welcome Dr Aneesha Singh, who joined our academic team in UCLIC on 1 September 2018! We also welcome our new PhD students who joined us at the end of September 2018! These are: Tigi Bhatnagar being supervised by Cathy Holloway Robert Cinca being supervised by Enrico Costanza Tudinh…
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Fully funded PhD opportunity at UCLIC -- deadline coming soon!
The Computer Science department at UCL is advertising an EPSRC-funded PhD scholarship open to any topics that fall under the remit of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), including Human Computer Interaction. So if you are interested in the opportunity of a fully funded…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 17th October: Lynne Baillie (Heriot-Watt University) on "Designing User Centered Rehabilitation Technologies"
My research has recently been focused on health technology (see Uzor and Baillie, 2012, Ayoade and Baillie, 2014, Micallef and Baillie, 2016, Salai and Baillie, 2018; Uzor & Baillie 2018). My talk, as a result, will concentrate on some of my recent research projects which have investigated how…
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