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UCLIC Research Seminar 17th November Nithya Sambasivan, Google Research, The myopia of model centrism
AI models seek to intervene in increasingly higher stakes domains, such as cancer detection and microloan allocation. What is the view of the world that guides AI development in high risk areas, and how does this view regard the complexity of the real world? In this talk, I will present results…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 3rd November Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin) Content Moderation: Understanding Health Risks for Workers and Designing Interventions
Social media platforms must detect and block a variety of unacceptable user-generated content, such such as adult or violent images. This detection task is difficult to automate due to high accuracy requirements, costs of errors, and nuanced rules for what is and is not acceptable. Consequently,…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 27th of October: Katie Shilton (University of Maryland, College Park). Levers for Ethics in Technology Design
The values and ethics built into technological systems are gaining increasing attention. This talk will introduce the challenges of values-oriented design for technologies which are meant to be flexible, adaptable, interoperable, and global. It will then present research on two salient values for…
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Congratulations to Emma Holliday for being awarded an honourable mention in the CHI PLAY student game design competition!
Emma Holliday was awarded an honourable mention in the CHI PLAY student game design competition for work she conducted as part of the Serious and Persuasive Games module.
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UCLIC Research Seminar 13th of October: Carsten Sørensen (London School of Economics and Political Science). The Age of Value-Sensitive Digital Infrastructures?
The technical process of digitizing analogue data into digital bit-streams and the associated socio-technical processes of digitalisation has yet to fully reveal their disruptive potentials - yet researchers and practitioners alike must comprehend these phenomena. Digitalization removes tight…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 6th of October: Leah Findlater (University of Washington). The Potential, Challenges and Risks of AI-based Accessibility: An HCI Perspective
AI-based accessibility tools hold tremendous potential to counter everyday disabling experiences with computing technologies and the physical world—from personalizing how a device interprets each user's input to amplifying a user's sensory abilities with additional information. In this talk,…
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Congratulations to Prof Yvonne Rogers - Winner of the Royal Society’s Milner Award!
Three UCL academics have received prestigious awards from the Royal Society, recognising their 'exceptional research and contributions' to the world of science and helping to 'expand our understanding of the world'. Professor Yvonne Rogers (UCL Computer Science, 1st on the left in the picture) has…
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Congratulations to Prof Anna Cox! Winner of the Provost's Awards for Embedding Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
UCL Inclusion Awards 2021 Almost 100 nominations were received for UCL's annual Inclusion Awards, which recognise work or contributions that individuals or teams make to progressing equality, diversity, or inclusion practice within the institution. There are 6 different award categories, covering a…
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Royal Academy of Art Postdoc Vacancy: Consumer Experience (CX) Digital Tools for Dematerialisation for the Circular Economy
Closing Date: 21st July 2021. Interviews: 2nd August 2021. Salary: £37,388 - £40,601 per annum (Fixed Term for 30 months) The Materials Science Research Centre (MSRC) in partnership with UCL are seeking to recruit a highly energetic and enthusiastic early-career researcher, who works in…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 23rd of June: Arunesh Mathur (Princeton University). Unravelling the web of manipulative and deceptive user interfaces.
Manipulative and deceptive user interfaces --- the so-called "dark patterns" --- have been the focus of growing scrutiny from researchers, legislators, and regulators. The academic literature on dark patterns has curated collections of objectionable user interface designs, describing them…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 16th of June: Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy (BBC R&D) . Designing for the Future: Anticipating the needs of BBC audiences.
The role of BBC Research & Development is to provide world-class leading edge technical research and innovation expertise to the BBC in order to better serve the UK audience. This enables the corporation to continue to create and deliver innovative high-quality content and services, on a wide…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 9th of June: Angelika Strohmayer (Northumbria University). Reflections on Justice-oriented Design and Academia.
In this talk, Angelika will talk about justice-oriented design and development of technologies. She will first explain what this ethos of work relates to, and illustrate this with examples of her own practice. Furthermore, Angelika will discuss how this way of working can seep into all the nooks…
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Welcome to some newcomers
We would like to welcome some newcomers to UCLIC: Dr Soojeong Yoo and Dr Roos Van Greevenbroek, who are both working as research fellows with Prof Ann Blandford Ms Elinor Haynes, who has joined us as a design technician in Prof Sriram Subramanian's Multisensory Devices Group Esta Qi, who joined us…
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Registration for the MSD Group (Multi-Sensory Devices) Showcase is now open! Ended
Further details, videos and registration, click here Come and learn more about the group and meet the team. You will receive the link to the Zoom webinar and the optional social event on Wonder.me in the Eventbrite confirmation email. Friday 28th May. 2pm-4pm. Social event from 4pm.
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UCLIC Research Seminar 26th of May: Xing-Dong Yang (Dartmouth College). Creating Smart Everyday Things.
In my vision, the user interfaces of the future are in a blend of smart physical and virtual environments. My research focuses on the physical side by bringing interactivity to everyday things. I believe this vision is only achievable if people with varying backgrounds and abilities can work…
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Launch of eWorkLife Podcast Series hosted by Anna Cox
The eWorkLife podcast series offers long-form conversations with academics and thought leaders, on how technology can help and hinder us in managing our work and wellbeing. You can explore the conversations below. These tell personal stories of career journeys that demonstrate a common theme of…
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Funded PhD studentship in HCI: Designing the Teaching Experience for Spreadsheets - closed
PhD Studentship in HCI at the UCL Interaction Centre Designing the Teaching Experience for Spreadsheets University College London Applications are invited for a PhD studentship at the UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC), funded by an EPSRC/Microsoft iCASE studentship, for up to 4 years, from October…
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Prof Anna Cox's New Podcast: the future of work
Coronavirus: The Whole Story - What does the future of work look like? Coming out of lockdown doesn't mean returning to life as we knew it, especially in the world of work. So this week, we've brought together two UCL experts to talk us through the future of work, and how COVID-19 has the potential…
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Research Fellow position in UCLIC - Human Factors and Innovative technologies for AI interventions in Ophthalmology - now closed
We are currently advertising a post-doctoral Research Fellow position to work on Human Factors and Innovative technologies for AI interventions in Ophthalmology - this is available to external applicants until just before midnight on Monday 17th May 2021. Many of the most urgent referrals to…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 14th of April: Ali Goode (Gorilla in the room). Ways of researching documentary: research into, for and through documentary.
George Bernard Shaw said "England and America are two countries separated by the same language". Having moved from academic cognitive science to market research Dr Ali Goode tells how business and academia can be similarly separated by the concept of what research is.
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