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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

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 13th of October: Carsten Sørensen (London School of Economics and Political Science). The Age of Value-Sensitive Digital Infrastructures?

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

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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Welcome to some newcomers

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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Launch of eWorkLife Podcast Series hosted by Anna Cox

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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Prof Anna Cox's New Podcast: the future of work

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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UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2021

UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2021
Authors from UCL will have a great presence at CHI 2021, the premier conference in Human-Computer Interaction. The conference will be held as a virtual online conference from May 8-13, 2021, and already received close to 4,000 registrations, more than in any year before. As a special recognition…
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