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UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2017
Authors from UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2017, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction, which will take place in Denver, CO, USA, 6 - 11 May 2017. Here is a sneak peek at our accepted contributions. Full Papers Quantifying the Body and Caring for the Mind: Understanding…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 26 April: Abigail Durrant, Northumbria University – Design for Being Online through Life Transitions
The proliferation of pervasive computing, including online platforms like social media, means that being online is for many now a feature of everyday life. Whilst offering new forms of personal expression, such platforms raise new challenges: for managing separate identities in different life…
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New book on research in the wild
Yvonne Rogers and Paul Marshall have published a new ebook entitled 'Research in the Wild' . The phrase "in-the-wild" is becoming popular again in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI), describing approaches to HCI research and accounts of user experience phenomena that differ…
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Welcome to new staff and students!
We would like to welcome a number of people who have recently joined UCLIC ! These are: Ahmed Alqaraawi is a new a PhD student who will be supervised by Enrico Costanza Temi Olugbade who is now working as a part-time post-doc on Nadia Berthouze on the WeDraw project Nicola Binetti who just stared…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 15th March: Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire – Interaction with Robots - Challenges and opportunities in Human-Robot Interaction
Please note changed time and location of this seminar Human-robot interaction (HRI) is a highly interdisciplinary field that has grown substantially over the past 15 years. My talk will reflect on the concept of 'social robots' and focus on companion robots, i.e. robots that provide useful…
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ICRI receives Honorable Mention at CSCW 2017
Martin Dittus, Giovanni Quattrone, and Licia Capra from ICRI Cities have been awarded Honorable Mention at CSCW 2017, the world's premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. This year's conference was held in…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 8th March: Cecilia Katzeff, KTH Royal Institute of Technology – A Design Perspective On Sustainable Practices Related To Energy And Food
The seminar will circle around the general theme of sustainable practices, what is meant by sustainable practices in relation to energy consumption and especially in relation to electricity use and food practices. The seminar will also explore how interaction design may play a role in the emergence…
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MSc students finalists CHI Student Competition
Congratulations to three student teams in our HCI MSc Programme, who have been selected to participate in the final stage of the ACM CHI Student Design Competition. CHI only accepted 12 out of the 70 submissions for the CHI Student Design Competition (~17% acceptance rate) to present their design…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 1st March: David Coyle, University College Dublin – Measuring Personal Agency in Human Computer Interactions
In cognitive neuroscience literature the sense of agency is defined as the experience of controlling one's own actions and, through this control, affecting the external world. Personal agency is a surprisingly malleable experience that links to concepts such as ownership, responsibility and…
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Congratulations Cathy and Susan!
Congratulations to Catherine Holloway and Susan Lechelt, who have both won Provost's Engineering Engagement Awards 2017. Cathy has won the UCL Engineering Engager of the Year - Research / Academic Staff (grade 8 or above) Award, while Susan has won the UCL Engineering Engager of the Year Awards -…
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MSc Human-Computer Interaction Open Evening 2017
Join UCLIC staff, students and alumni to find out more about our MSc Human-Computer Interaction at our Open Evening on 22nd February. 5 - 7pm in the Roberts Building Foyer. You can register for thsi event here https://ucl.hobsonsradius.com/ssc/eform/N67d82TT868Ex6700mx675.ssc Visit our prospective…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 22nd February: Ewa Luger, University of Edinburgh – Making AI Intelligible; Designing for ethical and comprehensible intelligent systems
The development of complex, intelligent systems has surpassed our ability to explain them. The market is increasingly populated with algorithmically-driven products for which users have limited mental models, putting their privacy at risk, and raising questions of human agency and control. Ensuring…
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Two new funded PhD studentships available - currently closed, but one to be advertised again soon!
We are currently recruiting to two funded PhD studentships in HCI in the UCL Interaction Centre, each of which begin in October 2017. One of these is on 'Exploring the modelling of behaviour using deep learning in relation to Digital Health' - see prism.ucl.ac.uk/#!/?project=219 for more…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 1st February: Antonio Krüger - On-body Interaction with wearables for sports and leisure activities.
In this talk I will review our recent research activities related to wearable and ambient interaction. I will present some concepts of smart-watch gesture interaction, then discuss ambient on-body notification principles which we have investigated for climbing activities and smart watch…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 25th January: Mike Fraser -Classifying and Measuring Unencumbered Hand Gestures
I will present recent work exploring how to identify and measure hand gestures using sensors worn on the upper arm or wrist working towards interactive input and prosthetic control applications. Previous work has identified computer vision approaches to unencumbered gesture tracking, and these…
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UCLIC featured in IET partners magazine
UCLIC is featured in the IET's latest Partner Magazine! Children are growing up in the newly emerging Internet of Things, but it is not always the case they understand how these devices and apps work. Digital Fluency is a learning approach intended to fill this gap, and brings together disparate…
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RA position on WeDraw project - position now closed
We are recruiting a Research Associate to work as part of a multidisciplinary group within the EU-funded project weDraw. WeDraw is a 2-year research project that brings together European partners from industry and university to explore how multi-modal and multi-sensory technology can support the…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 7th December: Nic Lane - Squeezing Deep Learning onto Wearables, Phones and Things
In just a few short years, breakthroughs from the field of deep learning have transformed how computational models perform a wide-variety of tasks such as recognizing a face, tracking emotions or monitoring physical activities. Unfortunately, deep models and algorithms typically exert severe…
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UBEL DTP studentships
There are funded opportunities available for interdisciplinary PhD studentships funded through the ESRC through a UCL, Bloomsbury, East London Doctoral Training Partnership (UBEL DTP). This DTP consists of a number of training pathways, with studentships available on a full-time or part-time basis…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 30th November: Daniela Petrelli - Emotional engagement with heritage
Since the early 90s museums and cultural heritage sites have experimented with emerging technology. From early multimedia to mobiles to tabletops to AR / VR, technology has been used to enrich the visit, but always keeping the material and the digital as distinct. New interactions that combine the…
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