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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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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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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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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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Welcome to new PhD students
Welcome to our new PhD students who are starting on the UCLIC PhD programme this term! These are: Akhil Mathur being supervised by Nadia Berthouze Maryam Bandukda being supervised by Cathy Holloway Chongyang Wang being supervised by Nadia Tao Bi being supervised by Nadia Anna Rudnicka being…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 4th October: Antti Salovaara, University of Helsinki, Finland - Evaluations as time machines: Studying the future HCI in the present
In his talk, Antti will extend his CHI2017 essay (http://bit.ly/2lHXodD) that discussed the problem of possible futures in HCI methodology, especially in its prototype evaluations. He addresses a blind spot in HCI's evaluation methodology: that we rarely consider the implications of the problem…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 27th September: Steve Whittaker, University of California at Santa Cruz - Rethinking the Quantified Self to make personal data engaging and useful
The Quantified Self (QS) vision argues for collecting and analysing rich collections of personal data. According to the vision, such personal data facilitate greater self-insight promoting behaviour change. But although self quantification is important, quantified self technologies show poor rates…
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Youngjun's work featured in news
Well done to Youngjun Cho, whose thermal camera work has been featured on Phys.org. Read the article here: New software turns mobile-phone accessory into breathing monitor The journal paper of the featured work is below: Cho, Y; Julier, S; Marquardt, N; Berthouze, N; (2017). Robust tracking of…
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Congratulations to Kathy Stawarz!
Congratulations to Dr. Kathy Stawarz, who graduated with a PhD in HCI earlier this month!
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Welcome to Dr Daniela Romano!
Welcome to Dr Daniela Romano, who joined us as a Senior Teaching Fellow on Friday 1 September!
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Congratulations to Aneesha!
Congratulations again to Abdi!
Dr Abdigani Diriye, a former PhD student at UCLIC, has been recognized by MIT as a visionary on the Innovators Under 35 list for his work on technologies to enable people in Africa to access financial services more easily! He has also launched an accelerator for startups in his native Somalia,…
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New Scientist article features work by Anna Cox & Marta Cecchinato
Work by Anna Cox & Marta Cecchinato on using microboundaries to reduce digital distraction features in a New Scientist article today. You can read the full article here Their research on how people cope with work-life balance issues and the expectation of being always online shows that people…
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