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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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New Article Published in Times Higher Education: "Life beyond Zoom and Teams: students are ready for next gen online spaces"
This week, Times Higher Education has published a new article on " Life beyond Zoom and Teams: students are ready for next gen online spaces" by Yvonne Rogers, Paola Lettieri and Ben Meunier. The original article is a 3-minute read. Yvonne Rogers is professor of interaction design at UCL…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 31st of March: Dave Green (Lancaster University). Ways of researching documentary: research into, for and through documentary.
In this talk, I will discuss my experiences as a researcher and documentary-maker in various contexts. I will focus on projects I have been involved in that combine documentary and research in interesting ways, including my current research, which seeks to develop new ways of understanding design…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 24th of March: Audrey Girouard (Carleton University, Ottawa). Deformable and wearable devices: Leveraging new devices for more tangible interactions.
Deformable and shape-changing devices offer users the ability to physically manipulate objects to interact with them, which in turns can offer new interaction techniques to users. When wearable, devices can integrate on the body or on clothes to make this interaction more ubiquitous. These devices…
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Funded PhD: Designing Digital Multisensory Textile Experiences Available!
Qualification type: PhD Location: London Funding for: UK students, EU settled status students only Funding amount: Funded Hours: Full Time Open for application About the Project Multi-Sensory Devices (MSD) group is an interdisciplinary research group within UCLIC with a core interest in creating…
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Funded PhD in Computational Design of Mid-Air Haptics Experiences Available!
Qualification type: PhD Location: London Funding for: UK students, EU students Funding amount: Funded Hours: Full Time Open for application About the Project Multi-Sensory Devices (MSD) group is an interdisciplinary research group within UCLIC with a core interest in creating new forms of…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 17th of March: Thijs Roumen (Hasso Plattner Institute). Portable Laser Cutting
Laser-cut 3D models shared online tend to be basic and trivial—models build over long periods of time and by multiple designers are few/nonexistent. I argue that this is caused by a lack of an exchange format that would allow continuing the work. At first glance, it may seem like such a…
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GDI Hub Announced as Global Driver of Assistive Technology!
The Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub), based at UCL, is the first organisation to be awarded the status of World Health Organisation (WHO) Official Collaborating Centre on Assistive Technology (AT). Led by GDI Hub's Academic Director, Professor Cathy Holloway, the WHO Collaborating Centre…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 10th of March: Carl Hayden Smith(Ravensbourne University London). Generating New Forms of Media from the Horizon Programme to the XPRIZE: Wearable experience (WE) and Neuroadaptive Mixed Reality Training.
The Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC) conducts design research into the application of information and communication technologies to augment, support and transform cognition. LTRC research areas include i) XR technologies and techniques for learning, industry and work-based learning. ii)…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 3rd of March: Marianna Obrist (UCLIC). A ‘Flavour’ of Things to Come: Feeling Human in a Digital World
Nature has provided us with many senses for perceiving and interacting with the world around us. The multisensory world we live in is increasingly transformed through technological advances like novel multisensory devices and interfaces. Such multisensory technologies not only stimulate our eyes…
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UCLIC Research Seminar 24th of February: Khan M. Iftekharuddin (Batten College of Engineering and Technology). Deep Simultaneous Recurrent Learning
Deep neural networks have revolutionized the use of artificial neural networks for recognition tasks. Deep learning alleviates the need for hand-crafted feature discovery and enables autonomous learning using large scale data. The organization and workings of recurrent neural networks mimics the…
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Research Fellow position in UCLIC available - now closed
We are currently advertising a post-doctoral Research Fellow position on HCI for digital sexual health services until just before midnight on Mon 15th March 2021. The post offers offers a unique opportunity for the successful candidate to join UCL Interaction Centre, working with Prof Ann…
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Ann Blandford is a recipient of the prestigious IFIP TC13 Pioneer Award and the 2021 SIGCHI Award!
Ann Blandford has been recently awarded two awards! She is a recipient of the prestigious IFIP TC13 Pioneer Award and the 2021 SIGCHI Award. Congratulations to Ann! The International Federation for Information Processing Technical Committee on Human-Computer Interaction (IFIP TC13) has…
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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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