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Research Fellow position available - IoT for Sustainability - now closed
We are recruiting a Research Fellow to work on a project titled "Beyond Individual Persuasion: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Interactive Visualisation and Sensing for Environmental Change" funded by the UKRI Digital Economy Theme. The position is available immediately until 31 March 2024 -…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 21 April: James Landay, AI For Good” Isn’t Good Enough: A Call for Human-Centered AI
A recording of this talk is available on the UCLIC YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/DnwXhIA2TkY AI for Good initiatives recognize the potential impacts of AI systems on humans and societies. However, simply recognizing these impacts is not enough. To be truly Human-Centered, AI development must be…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 19 April: Martin Dechant - Socially Anxious Play: Design, Development, and Evaluation of Game-Based Digital Behavioural Markers for the Assessment of Social Anxiety
During the COVID-19 lockdowns, the already rising prevalence of mental illnesses intensified. To connect with others and to find a stress relieve many turned to digital gaming. Not surprisingly digital games were recommended as a tool to satisfy social needs during lockdowns. While many researchers…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 29 March: Amid Ayobi - Computational Notebooks as Co-Design Tools: Engaging Young Adults with Diabetes, Family Carers, and Clinicians with Machine Learning Models
Engaging end user groups with machine learning (ML) models can help align the design of predictive systems with people's needs and expectations. In this talk, I will present a co-design study [1] investigating the benefits and challenges of using computational notebooks to inform ML models with end…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 22 March: Talya Porat - Human Centred Design in Healthcare
Successful innovations require consideration of three main criteria: Feasibility: is the solution technically feasible? Viability: is it cost-effective? and Desirability: will people want to use it? This is where human centred design is crucial. In this talk I will discuss how we apply a human…
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Top performing HCI MSc students selected for the Dean’s List 2021-22
We are delighted to announce that no fewer than 15 students from the MSc Human-Computer Interaction programme have been selected for the Dean's List of top performing students for 2021-22. Every year Professor Alan Thompson, the Dean of Brain Sciences, recognises the top performing students in…
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UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2023
We will have a great presence at CHI 2023, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction. The conference will take place in Hamburg, Germany from April 23-28, 2023. We got 13 papers accepted to CHI 2023. We shall also have academics present in two panel discussions at the conference and…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 1 March: Advait Sarkar, Cogito, =SUM: The Hidden History of Spreadsheets and How They Transform the World
Spreadsheets are the world's most popular and influential software for data analysis. What makes them so unique? In this talk, I trace the history of tabular data from its Bronze age origins to the modern electronic spreadsheet. You'll learn about the spreadsheet wars of the 1980s and 1990s, of…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 15th February: Sajjadur Rahman, Designing Holistic Human-Centered Data Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
In recent years, data science has emerged as one of the most exciting disciplines for facilitating data-driven decision-making in various domains, from banking and finance to agriculture and healthcare. Data science workflows are human-centered processes where stakeholders interact with different…
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Chinese New Year – 新年快乐，万事顺意!
With Chinese New Year coming round the corner on Sunday 22 January 2023, UCLIC celebrated by visiting Stew Master 铁锅炖 restaurant on Bloomsbury Way. The stew pot 铁锅炖 is a speciality of Northeast China, including regions such as Shandong province. Each of the three tables were treated to one steaming stew pot - …
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We welcome new staff and students!
The UCLIC family has grown again. Please join us in welcoming the following new colleagues and students: Dr Victoria Austin, Associate Professor of Social Justice and Innovation Dr Ceylan Besevli, Research Fellow Dr Giada Brianza, Research Fellow Dr Hongyi Chen, Research Fellow Dr Martin Dechant,…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 11th January: Sandy Gould, An Exploration of Measurement in Human-Centred Computing Research
Much of human-centred computing research is empirical. This kind of research requires us to decide what things we will observe (or measure) and how we will observe them. How do we decide on these things, and which constraints influence the decisions that we make? In this talk, I will explore these…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 14th December: Narges Mahyar and Ali Sarvghad, Designing and Building Tools for Fostering Equity and Inclusion in Civic Decision-Making
Inclusive community engagement is paramount for fair and impartial civic decision-making. However, traditional methods rarely provide opportunities for inclusive public participation. While advances in digital civics have broadened public participation, these technologies still face several…
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Festive Christmas fun at UCLIC!
Our 21st birthday celebrations for UCLIC ended with the Christmas party, which was held at 66-72 Gower Street this year! The event kicked off with a ginger bread house making competition, which was won by Temi Olugbade. We also had a quiz on general knowledge, HCI and UCLIC, and the team led by…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 7th December: Ida Damen, Designing for active office work and Rens Brankaert, Warm Technology by design
Designing for active office work - Ida Damen How can we sit less and move more? The focus of this talk is on the role of interaction design in the office environment to reduce physical inactivity. Not only can we find a considerable amount of sitting in this context, but it is also prone to change. …
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Professor Ann Blandford's Festschrift event
Professor Ann Blandford has often been described as a 'pioneer' in the field of digital health and human-computer interaction. To celebrate her work and career, former and current colleagues, PhD students and members of the wider HCI community attended a 'Festschrift' event on 10 November, as…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 16th November: Abi Sellen, Transforming the Future of Work through Human-Centred Design
What does the future of work look like in this post-pandemic world? What would we like it to look like? Using a large compendium of research carried out at Microsoft over the past two and a half years on how work is transforming, I will speculate on where we are heading and discuss how…
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MSc HCI Prize Winners 2021-22
The MSc HCI Board of Examiners is pleased to announce that the following student prizes were awarded at the recent Board of Examiners meeting. The MSc HCI Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement was awarded to Lisa Malki. The MSc HCI Project Prize was awarded to Qing Xia for her project…
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RES/CSC and/or ROS scholarships
Please be aware UCL are offering RES/CSC and/or ROS scholarships for a start on 2023-24: the RES replaces the GRS/ORS scholarships, but the application process is pretty much the same as it was for those scholarships. As in previous years, applicants from China with an Overseas status can also be…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 2nd November: Max Wilson, Brain data as cognitive personal informatics
Classifying the cognitive states of people, using physiological data is basically a machine learning problem now, whether its brain data, heart/breathing data, or off-body camera data. So what is the HCI question? For us, the question is how will this become mixed up in wearable tech and personal…
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