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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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UCLIC Research Seminar 24th of March: Audrey Girouard (Carleton University, Ottawa). Deformable and wearable devices: Leveraging new devices for more tangible interactions.

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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GDI Hub Announced as Global Driver of Assistive Technology!

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.

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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Research Fellow position in UCLIC available - now closed

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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Welcome to new people!

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 13th of January: Stefanie Mueller (MIT). Advancing Personal Fabrication by Making Physical Objects as Reprogrammable as Digital Data

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

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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