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UCLIC Research Seminar 29th January: Eva-Maria Skottke, Changes in Driving Behaviour After Long and Automated Drives in Convoy
Objective: In the presented study, we tested to what extent highly automated convoy driving involving small spacing ("platooning") may affect time headway (THW) and standard deviation of lateral position (SDLP) during subsequent manual driving. Background: While many previous studies…
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PhD Studentships available in UCLIC - now closed
We have a number of funded PhD opportunities available to UK/EU applicants at the moment! These include EPSRC funded studentships as well as one Demonstrator position. All studentships are for up to 4 years from October 2018, and cover tuition fees at the UK/EU level, and a stipend. Eligibility…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 24th January: Can Liu, From Surfaces to Places - Understanding & Designing Phygital User Experiences
Ubiquitous technologies enable user experiences with new form factors, sizes and modalities, which blend the physical and digital worlds in various ways. While the digital can be efficient, dynamic and versatile, the physical can be natural, embodied and easy to learn. How can we design future…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 10th January: Katie Seaborn, Citizen Engagement and Engaging Citizens: Two Cases in Co-Design for the Public
Governments, healthcare sectors, public organisations, and innovation tanks are investing in initiatives and projects that directly engage and involve the public in the design of civic and other services. Yet how such "citizen engagement" work should be carried out and what human factors…
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Professor Heinz Wolff
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Prof Heinz Wolff, who passed away on Friday 15 December. Not only was he honoured by the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors a number of times, but he was instrumental in the foundation of the London University MSc in Ergonomics and he…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 13th December: Nicolai Marquardt, UCLIC -Sketching User Experiences: Hands-on Course of Sketching Techniques for HCI Research
When designing novel user experiences, paper-pencil sketches can support the design thinking process and are valuable for communicating design ideas to others. This hands-on course will demonstrate how to integrate sketching into researchers' and interaction designers' everyday practice - with a…
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Yvonne Rogers named as a 2017 ACM Fellow!
Congratulations to Prof. Yvonne Rogers, who has been named as one of the ACM Fellows in 2017! This is an honour which recognises ACM members for major contributions in areas including database theory, design automation, information retrieval, multimedia computing, network security and HCI! Yvonne…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 6th December: Suzanne Martin, University of Ulster - Involving users in novel research from concept to implementation isn’t rocket science!
To achieve impact the ultimate aim of novel technical research and development must therefore be to create usable solutions for real world environments. New and innovative technologies have the potential to enable choice, dignity and person centered care for people living with complex neurological…
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MSc HCI Open Evening
Join us to meet with tutors, researchers, current students and alumni over drinks and nibbles to find out more about our MSc Human-Computer Interaction. You will be able to explore interactive demonstrations of UCLIC's research and hear talks from the programme director and alumni. Location:…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 22nd November: Mikael Wiberg, Umeå university, Sweden - The Materiality of Interaction
Smart watches, smart cars, the Internet of things, 3D printing: all signal a trend toward combining digital and analog materials in design. Interaction with these new hybrid forms is increasingly mediated through physical materials, and therefore interaction design is increasingly a material…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 20th November: Pedro Lopes, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany - Interactive Systems based on Electrical Muscle Stimulation
In the past years interfaces got smaller and closer to the human body to the point that now, they literally attach to it, such as wearable devices and virtual reality headsets. But what limits the current state of miniaturization is that the devices are still external to us and require a lot of…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 15th November: Akhil Mathur, UCLIC & Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge - Tiny Habits in the Giant Enterprise: Reflections from a Quantified Workplace Study
In this talk, I will present insights from a longitudinal in-the-wild Quantified Workplace study conducted in two offices of a research organization. Using a prototype Quantified Workplace system equipped with passive and participatory sensing modalities, we collected and visualized various…
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Lecturer in HCI psition available - now closed
We are now recruiting externally to a new Lecturer in HCI position in UCLIC! The advert for this post is now live on the UCL Jobs pages - the deadline is Fri 15 December 2017 and interviews will begin on the week commencing Mon 8 January 2018. More information about the job and the person spec can…
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Part time Research Assistant position - now closed
We have a part-time Research Assistant position available on the EU funded WeDraw project. Fore more details and how to apply, please see the advert. The deadline for applications is 20 November 2017 with interviews very soon after (around 22 November).
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Congratulations to Matej Kaninsky
Matej Kaninsky, a recent MSc HCI graduate 2016-2017, has won the student prize for the prestigious UX UK Awards, that celebrates excellence in user-focused digital design. The award is highly competitive and this year there was a record 14 student projects that got shortlisted. Matej's project i…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 1st November: Daniela Romano, UCLIC - From Bio-Affective to Brain Computer interfaces
Imagine a world where we can think about moving a robotic harm and it happens. Play a video game thinking about moving our arm or leg (without actually doing it). Science fiction? Virtual reality? or a real new possibility to interact with our digital world? How close are we to use our brain…
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Research Associate position available - now closed
We are recruiting a Research Associate in Human-Computer Interaction and User Studies of Online Learning - please see the advert for more details and how to apply. The deadline for applications is 15 November 2017 and interviews will be around 17 November 2017.
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Senior Teaching Fellow position available - closed
We are recruiting a Senior Teaching Fellow to the Computer Science department - please see the advert for more details and how to apply. The deadline for applications is 26 November 2017 - date for interviews is TBC.
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UCLIC Research Seminar 16th October: Fabrice Matulic, Preferred Networks Inc., Japan - Leveraging pen and touch input on interactive surfaces
Please note the changed day and time of the seminar Tablets and large displays that support simultaneous and differentiated pen and touch input provide interactive capabilities that go well beyond the sum of those modalities' individual input spaces. In this talk, I will present some of the…
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Anna Cox in podcast on Work-Life Balance
In the latest episode of the Digital Mindfulness podcast, Anna Cox talks about her research on using technology and the Internet of Things to help people gain work and life balance. You can listen to the full podcast here: digitalmindfulness.net/84-tech-work-life-balance-anna-cox
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