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Summer internship in UCLIC available - now closed
We are looking for a UCL student registered for a Computer science or Engineering Degree undergraduate course to work as a summer intern with Professor Yvonne Rogers and Dr Nic Marquardt. The main purpose of this internship is to work on a project to build an interactive sensing tool by hacking a…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 24th of April: Sarah Bell (UCL) on Co-designing infrastructure: engaging communities in complex, urban decisions
Infrastructure resilience is vital for the safety of the public, the strength of the economy, the health of the environment and local quality of life. Community resilience is also recognised as a key factor in determining responses to extreme events and delivering climate adaptation. To date,…
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UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2019
Authors from UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2019, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction, which takes place in Glasgow, UK 4 - 9 May 2019. Here is a sneak peek at our accepted contributions. Full Papers Why Do You Need This? Selective Disclosure of Data Among Citizen…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 20th of March: Lola Cañamero (University of Hertfordshire) on Embodied Affect in Autonomous and Social Robots
Emotions are a key aspect of human behavior, communication and cognition. Affective computing and human-oriented approaches to technology design take into account different aspects of emotions and their expression in order to create technology that humans feel comfortable with. However, the…
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Congratulations to Catherine Holloway for winning East London Innovators Award!
We are delighted to annouce that Dr Catherine Holloway won an East London Innovators award for her work with Disability Innovation. See the Twitter announcement.
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UCLIC Research Seminar 27th of February: Tim Adlam (UCL) on Technology for capability: technology to enable exploration
Assistive technology design and product creation has been conservative and incremental for many years. This is changing with a new focus on the needs and desires of the user; the emergence of enabling innovations in sensing, control, manufacturing, information systems and service delivery; and a …
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Research Fellow position in GetaMoveOn Network - this position is now closed
We are currently advertising a post-doctoral position in UCLIC until just before midnight on Mon 25th March 2019. The post is for a Research Fellow to work on the GetaMoveOn Network and is available immediately, funded full-time for 12 months initially. The post will involve taking a leading role…
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Prof Anna Cox has been appointed as Specialist Advisor to the DCMS Select Committee at the House of Commons!
We are proud to annouce that Prof Anna Cox has been appointed as Specialist Advisor to the DCMS Select Committee at the House of Commons for their inquiry into Immersive and Addictive Technologies. Congratulations! The inquiry will examine the development of immersive technologies such as virtual…
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Congratulations to our MSc student Tassilo Bouwmam for winning the Ulf Aberg Award!
We are delighted to announce that our HCI MSc student Tassilo Bouwmam won the prestigious Ulf Aberg Award for his MSc project! Ulf Aberg Award is given for the best postgraduate student project in Ergonomics and Human Factors, CIHFE. Well-done! Ulf Aberg Award
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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! Now closed
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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