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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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UCLIC Research Seminar 6th of October: Leah Findlater (University of Washington). The Potential, Challenges and Risks of AI-based Accessibility: An HCI Perspective
AI-based accessibility tools hold tremendous potential to counter everyday disabling experiences with computing technologies and the physical world—from personalizing how a device interprets each user's input to amplifying a user's sensory abilities with additional information. In this talk,…
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Congratulations to Prof Yvonne Rogers - Winner of the Royal Society’s Milner Award!
Three UCL academics have received prestigious awards from the Royal Society, recognising their 'exceptional research and contributions' to the world of science and helping to 'expand our understanding of the world'. Professor Yvonne Rogers (UCL Computer Science, 1st on the left in the picture) has…
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Congratulations to Prof Anna Cox! Winner of the Provost's Awards for Embedding Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
UCL Inclusion Awards 2021 Almost 100 nominations were received for UCL's annual Inclusion Awards, which recognise work or contributions that individuals or teams make to progressing equality, diversity, or inclusion practice within the institution. There are 6 different award categories, covering a…
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Royal Academy of Art Postdoc Vacancy: Consumer Experience (CX) Digital Tools for Dematerialisation for the Circular Economy
Closing Date: 21st July 2021. Interviews: 2nd August 2021. Salary: £37,388 - £40,601 per annum (Fixed Term for 30 months) The Materials Science Research Centre (MSRC) in partnership with UCL are seeking to recruit a highly energetic and enthusiastic early-career researcher, who works in…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 23rd of June: Arunesh Mathur (Princeton University). Unravelling the web of manipulative and deceptive user interfaces.
Manipulative and deceptive user interfaces --- the so-called "dark patterns" --- have been the focus of growing scrutiny from researchers, legislators, and regulators. The academic literature on dark patterns has curated collections of objectionable user interface designs, describing them…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 16th of June: Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy (BBC R&D) . Designing for the Future: Anticipating the needs of BBC audiences.
The role of BBC Research & Development is to provide world-class leading edge technical research and innovation expertise to the BBC in order to better serve the UK audience. This enables the corporation to continue to create and deliver innovative high-quality content and services, on a wide…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 9th of June: Angelika Strohmayer (Northumbria University). Reflections on Justice-oriented Design and Academia.
In this talk, Angelika will talk about justice-oriented design and development of technologies. She will first explain what this ethos of work relates to, and illustrate this with examples of her own practice. Furthermore, Angelika will discuss how this way of working can seep into all the nooks…
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Welcome to some newcomers
We would like to welcome some newcomers to UCLIC: Dr Soojeong Yoo and Dr Roos Van Greevenbroek, who are both working as research fellows with Prof Ann Blandford Ms Elinor Haynes, who has joined us as a design technician in Prof Sriram Subramanian's Multisensory Devices Group Esta Qi, who joined us…
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