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UCLIC research featured in BBC TV programme Click
Nadia Berthouze, together with Temitayo Olugbade and Youngjun Cho, recently contributed to the BBC TV programme "Click". The episode, called 'It's Been Emotional', features Nadia's research on emotion-detecting technology. The episode is available to watch online at the link below: bb…
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UCLIC Joint Research Seminar 4th June: Catherine Holloway: The GDIHub & Siobhan Strike: Exercise for health, primarily from a biomechanical perspective
Talk 1: 20 Minutes Catherine Holloway explains the GDI Hub http://gdihub.cs.ucl.ac.uk/gdi_hub/ and https://www.disabilityinnovation.com/ Talk 2: 30 minutes Siobhan's talk Exercise for health, primarily from a biomechanical perspective Abstract: The relationship between physical activity and…
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Two New Lecturer Positions in the Computer Science Dept - now closed
Dr Cathy Holloway is recruiting two new Lecturers in the UCL Computer Science Dept in the area of Global Disability Innovation. Please see the advert for more information and how to apply - the deadline is 25th May 2018.
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Ann Blandford's podcast on the future of healthcare
Ann Blandford recently contributed to a Technology Intelligence podcast from The Telegraph exploring the future of health! You check it out at the links below: Telegraph Episode URL Apple Podcast Episode URL Telegraph Series URL And on twitter, you can use the handle @telegraphtech.
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UCLIC Research Seminar 9 May: Hamed Alavi, User Research in a Swiss Smart Living Lab
"Smart Living Lab" in Fribourg, Switzerland, is a platform for multidisciplinary research on the relation between people and their built environments of today and the ones of future. In this talk, I will briefly describe the contributions of our HCI team, Human-IST, to some of the smart…
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Student Choice Awards nominations for UCLIC staff
Congratulations to several UCLIC teaching and support staff, who have been nominated for Student Choice Awards this year! The awards are an initiative by the Students' Union UCL and an opportunity for students to nominate people who do a great job, as a way to thank them and let them know that…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 2nd May: Paul Marshall, End user engagement with data
Computer science is going through something of a data revolution, with new mathematics and algorithms being developed to make sense of the global explosion of data. However, the perspective of most of this work has been on what insights large organisations - governments, IT companies or the NHS -…
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UCLIC newsletter 2018
We have a new UCLIC newsletter for 2018! Please download the newsletter and check out information about new projects and events.
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UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2018
Authors from UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2018, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction, which will take place in Montreal, Canada, 21 - 26 April 2018. Here is a sneak peek at our accepted contributions. Full Papers Mediating Conflicts in Minecraft: Empowering Learning in…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 21st March: Corina Sas, Technologies for emotional wellbeing and mental health
This talk provides an overview of my work on technologies for wellbeing and mental health, with an emphasis on the value of significant objects and the human body. Then, it outlines two studies exploring digital disposal following life transitions marked by social loss. The talk concludes with an…
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CIEHF Awards Success
We are pleased to announce the following awards to UCLIC staff and students from the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors. A volunteer group Design for Real People Action Group - lead by UCLIC Honorary Senior Lecture Rachel Benedyk has recieved the the Richard Clive Holman…
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Research Associate position on WeDraw - now closed
We are recruiting a Research Associate to work on the WeDraw project in UCLIC! The advert for this post is now live and open to all applicants - for more details, see the UCL Jobs pages. The deadline for applications is Mon 19 March - interviews will be from Mon 26 March. See more information ain…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 21st February: Petr Slovak, Promoting mental health with technology
Technologies have already found an important role in detecting and helping treat mental health difficulties. However, much less is known about applying technology within prevention approaches, with the aim to promote resilience of those at risk and mitigate the occurrence of mental illness later in…
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CIEHF award for Design for Real People Group
The Design for Real People Action Group, led by Rachel Benedyk, has received the Richard Clive Holman Communications Award for its recent work creating the Teacher's Guide to UCD for Design and Technology in schools! This award is made for effective communication such as a blog or social media…
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People of ACM - Yvonne Rogers
Yvonne Rogers is featured in this month's "People of ACM". People of ACM highlights the unique scientific accomplishments and compelling personal attributes of ACM members who are making a difference in advancing computing as a science and a profession. These bulletins feature ACM members…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 7th February: Anja Thieme, Extending Peoples’ Capabilities with Technology
Historically, in healthcare and accessibility contexts, a disability was often regarded as a functional limitation or even 'deficit' in need of overcoming. Consequently, much HCI research in this space has focused on assisting people through tools that address the 'problems' associated with…
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Dean's List Success for MSc HCI Students
We're delighted to announce that three of our 2017 MSc graduates have been included in the Faculty of Brain Sciences Postgraduate Dean's List. The Dean's List recognises the top performing 5% of masters students in the faculty. The students were: Elise Hein - MSc Human-Computer Interaction with…
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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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