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Welcome to new people!
We would like to welcome some new PhD students to UCLIC - these are: Katherine Wang who will be supervsed by Dr Youngjun Cho Felipe Sheward who recently transferred to UCLIC from DIS and will be supervised by Dr Nic Marquardt Eimontas (Monty) Jankauskis who joined as a Research technician from…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 10th of February: Daniel Leithinger (University of Colorado Boulder). Shape Displays for Remote Togetherness
We need physicality in computing now more than ever, and shape displays may help us reclaim it. While socially distant, our daily experience of work and learning is a stark reminder that videos on a flat computer screen cannot replace the intimacy of touch and the sense of presence when sharing a…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 20th of January: Diego Martinez Plasencia (UCL). Seamless Multimodal 3D Interfaces.
Virtual and Augmented Reality interfaces have long promised to revolutionize the way we visualize and interact with 3D information. However, the need for devices such as headsets, controllers or feedback devices means that these benefits remain behind a prior boundary. That is, users will need to…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 13th of January: Stefanie Mueller (MIT). Advancing Personal Fabrication by Making Physical Objects as Reprogrammable as Digital Data
Computing has revolutionized how we process and interact with data today, unfortunately, these capabilities are constraint to the digital realm and cannot yet be applied to physical matter. For instance, today, we can already quickly update the appearance of a digital photo by applying a filter or…
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Welcome to new starters - 2020-21
We would like to welcome back Dr Melanie Herrmann, who returned to UCLIC this week as an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) on the MSc in HCI course! We also welcome back Dr Anna Rudnicka, who returned last Autumn to work as a Research Fellow on the GetaMoveOn project! And we also have quite a large…
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Congratulations to Maryam Bandukda on her Beacon bursary award!
Maryam Bandukda has been awarded a Beacon Bursary award for her project called Co-creating artful representations of blind people's experience at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Maryam will develop her approach to co-creation and relationships with a literature review before recruiting Blind and…
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Prof Berthouze has a new EPSRC program grant starting on 1st February 2021!
Prof. Nadia Berthouze is UCL lead on a project starting February 2021 - the project is called From Sensing to Collaboration: Engineering, Exploring and Exploiting the Building Blocks of Embodied Intelligence. She will be working with Dr Steve Fleming from the Institue of Neurology on this project.…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 9th of December: Sriram Subramanian (UCLIC). My Current and Future research plans at UCL
I want to use this talk to chart my past, present and future research plans. I would like this to be a very informal talk where I outline some of our past successes and failures along with details of projects we will be starting in 2021.
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Temporary Casual Research Assistant position available - this position is now closed
We are looking for a research assistant to conduct online studies with people with chronic pain to understand how wearable technology can help them remain physically active. The work is part of the EnTimeMent project and is from 1 Jan 2021 up to 30 June (~200 hrs) and may be extended. The…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 2nd of December: Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech). Making Play Work 4D
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, like other mechanisms for conceptualizing societal wellbeing, center problems of immediate and pervasive importance: gender equality, world hunger, global health, quality education, and more. These are challenges of global relevance to be examined,…
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UCLIC Associate Lecturer (Teaching) position available - this post is now closed
We are recruiting an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) to support the MSc in HCI at UCLIC. The position is open to all applicants until Thurs 10th Dec 2020. The main purpose of this role is to support the delivery of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) MSc programme at UCL by supervising student…
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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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