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UCLIC Research Seminar 25th of November: Katarzyna Stawarz (Cardiff University). Integrating the Digital and the Traditional to Deliver Therapy for Depression: A User-Centred Design Study
Traditional approaches to psychotherapy emphasise face-to-face contact between patients and therapists, while current computerised approaches tend to minimise this contact. This can limit the range of mental health difficulties for which computerised approaches are effective. In this talk, Kathy…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 18th of November: Mark Perry (Brunel University). Rich interactions with digital money: from use to design
From cryptocurrencies to mobile banking apps, and QR codes to facial recognition-enabled payment, digital currencies and financial technologies are changing the ways that we think about and use money. The emergence of various forms of digital money and innovative digital financial services allows…
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Professor Yvonne Rogers awarded the Suffrage Science award!
Professor Yvonne Rogers has been chosen to receive a prestigious award celebrating the achievements of women in STEM. She was honoured at the third Suffrage Science Awards for Mathematics and Computing online celebration on Friday 6 November 2020. Over one hundred years after the first women in…
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Research Fellow position still available - this position is now closed
The post-doctoral Research Fellow position on the WEISS project is still available! The successful candidate will work with Prof. Ann Blandford in the Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) to investigate clinical needs and practices, including how new tools change…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 4th of November: Marios Constantinides (Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge University). Tools for augmenting meetings experience.
In this talk, I will present a series of projects that aim at augmenting our workplace experience through tools that not only improve our productivity, but also account for our emotional and psychological experience. Taking meetings as a common workplace activity, I will demonstrate how the use of…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 14th of October: Praminda Caleb-Solly (Bristol Robotics Laboratory). Connected and Collaborative – designing assistive robots to change the dynamics of health and social care.
Assistive robots offer the potential to transform people's ability to manage their own health, particularly those with the greatest need and lack of adequate support. Our research is exploring how connecting robots with different types of sensors can provide real-time information to not only…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 7th of October: Ana Javornik (University of Bristol). The effects of augmented reality mirrors on consumers’ self-concept .
Augmented reality mirrors are popular marketing tools that allow virtual try-on of beauty products, such as make-up. In this talk I will discuss my current reserch project where I examined how such sensory experiences affect consumer perception of the self, specifically how consumers experience a…
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Marianna Obrist's new book to be launched this Fri 7 August!
There will be a virtual book launch of Prof. Marianna Obrist's new book Multisensory Experiences tomorrow Friday 7th August at 2pm! You can register for the book launch on Eventbrite or watch the launch live on Youtube.
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Research Fellow position on GetaMoveOn project - closed
We are recruiting a Research Fellow to work on the GetaMoveOn project (GAMO). Please see the UCL advert for more information and how to apply. See also the Job description and Person specification - the deadline is Wed 20 August 2020 and interviews will be around 27 August.
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UCLIC welcomes more staff and students from the University of Sussex!
We are very happy to welcome more staff and students, who are joining us along with Prof Subramanian, Prof. Obrist and Dr Martinez-Plasencia. These are: Lucy Arnold (Project Administrator) Shubhi Bansal (Research Fellow) Oliver Benton (PhD student) George Butler (Business Development Manager)…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 8th of July: Ahmed Alqaraawi (University College London). Evaluating Saliency Map Explanations for Convolutional Neural Networks
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) offer great machine learning performance over a range of applications, but their operation is hard to interpret, even for experts. Various explanation algorithms have been proposed to address this issue, yet limited research effort has been reported concerning…
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UCLIC Welcomes Three New Staff Members!
UCLIC is very pleased to announce the arrival of three new academic staff who will be joining the department in July 2020. UCLIC will become one of the largest groupings of Human-Computer Interaction researchers in the world! Sriram Subramanian is joining UCL from the University of Sussex where…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 24th of June: Amid Ayobi (University College London and University of Bristol). Trackly: A Customisable and Pictorial Self-Tracking App to Support Agency in Multiple Sclerosis Self-Care
Self-tracking is for many people an important part of understanding and managing their health and wellbeing. However, predefined self-tracking approaches can impede people's self-care agency. In this talk, I will share the findings of our recent CHI paper that addresses this issue. We investigated…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 10th of June: Bran Knowles (Lancaster University), Understanding older adults' distrust of digital technology
It is well known that older adults continue to lag behind younger adults in terms of their breadth of uptake of digital technologies, amount and quality of engagement in these tools and ability to critically engage with the online world. Can these differences be explained by older adults' distrust…
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Data Moves
Yvonne Rogers was recently involved in an exciting research project (pre-COVID19!) looking at what can happen when you fuse a dance class with a computer science class using sensing and visualisation technology that was designed and developed at UCLIC. The UCL Knowledge Exchange funded project took…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 3rd of June: Mark Warner (Northumbria University), Can we effectively remain silent online? Exploring non-disclosure of sensitive information in the context of HIV status within dating apps.
In this talk, I will discuss research I conducted as part of my PhD. The topic centres on people's (in)ability to remain silent online. Within the context of HIV status disclosure in online dating or "hook-up" apps used by gay and bisexual men, I will discuss my research exploring the…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 20th of May: Chris Janssen (Utrecht University), Interrupted by Automation? Why and how to account for human behaviour in human-automation interaction settings
In the past, automated technology was mostly used by trained professionals, in dedicated environments, for specific purposes (e.g., control operators in factories, and pilots of aircraft). At the moment, this is radically changing. Automated technology is used more and more by regular people, for a…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 6th of May: Benjamin Cowan (University College Dublin), Perspective taking in human-machine dialogue: human-likeness, partner models and language production in voice user interface interaction
Voice has now become a mainstream interaction modality. It's therefore surprising how little we know about user centered issues, in particular how design guides a user's mental model (i.e. their partner model) and interaction behaviours. Current voice interfaces fundamentally rely on human…
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UCLIC CHI2020 Seminar Series: 29th April - How can Affect be Detected and Represented in Technological Support for Physical Rehabilitation?
Although clinical best practice suggests that affect awareness could enable more effective technological support for physical rehabilitation through personalisation to psychological needs, designers need to consider what affective states matter and how they should be tracked and addressed. In this…
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UCLIC CHI2020 Seminar Series: 22nd April - The Social Network: How People with Visual Impairment use Mobile Phones in Kibera
In low and middle income countries people with visual impairment are constantly faced with challenges that can affect their abilities to access opportunities and live life to their full potential. In recent years mobile phones have become increasingly common in low resourced settings and they have…
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