UCL Interaction Centre
UCLIC is the leading UK Centre of Excellence in Human-Computer
Interaction, working collaboratively with industry and the
research community and drawing on the best scientific traditions in
Computer Science and Psychology. UCLIC is the only UK
HCI Centre with formal interdisciplinary support.
More information about UCLIC can be found in our 2008
Newsletter.
Current Opportunities
News
- A team led by Ann Blandford -- along with co-applicants from the FIT lab at Swansea, the Department of Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London, and the Centre for HCI Design at City University -- has been awarded £5,792,050 for an EPSRC Programme Grant entitled CHI+MED: Multidisciplinary Computer-Human Interaction research for the design and safe use of interactive medical devices. The
programme grant is for 6 years from October 2009, and will employ 3-4 researchers and 3 PhD students at UCLIC, along with similar numbers at Swansea and Queen Mary.
- Comings & goings: Our teaching administrator
Romy Beattie
is now on maternity leave for a year, bearing our best wishes for the coming weeks & months. A warm welcome to
Sally Watson
who joins us from LSE to cover Romy's duties while she's away.
- Kyriakos Spiliotopoulos, a student on the MSc HCI-E course, has been presented with an award for coming second in the competition for the UCL Union Student Employee of the Year. Well done, Kyriakos!
- Nadia Berthouze
is one of the team awarded an EPSRC "Sandpit" grant
for a project on Digital Sensoria: Design through digital perceptual experience.
The project is led by
University of the Arts London,
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
UCLIC's share is £177,024, and will employ an RA for 18 months.
- Congratulations to
Charlene Jennett,
who won third place in the CHI 2009
Student Research Competition.
- Comings & goings: We say hello to Chris Janssen who joins us as a PhD student from the U of Groningen. Chris will be working with Duncan Brumby on modelling how people (e.g. drivers) adapt their strategies in multitask environments.
We also welcome Enzian Baur, who joined us in February as a researcher working with Anna Cox and Jennifer Rode on a KTP project with Paperstone.
- Kimberley Kelley Hiltz, an MSc student at UCLIC 2006-7, is awarded the 2009 Ulf Aberg Prize of the Ergonomics Society for her MSc thesis entitled An exploration of internal cues to reduce omission errors in a procedural task.
- Stephann Makri has won a one-year ESRC post-doctoral award.
- Three UCLIC former students have recently been awarded their PhDs. Congratulations to
Dr Dominic Furniss,
Dr Sarah Faisal, and
Dr Stephann Makri!
- A UCLIC team led by
Ann Blandford,
together with the
FIT lab at Swansea,
was awarded an EPSRC Platform Grant entitled Healthy Interactive Systems in Healthcare. The grant is for 5 years from February 2009, with the UCLIC share being for £422,828.
- The book Research Methods for Human Computer Interaction, edited by
Paul Cairns
and Anna Cox
was published by Cambridge University Press.
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WE HAVE MOVED!!
Early in May 2008 we moved from Remax House to our new premises on the 8th floor of the Malet Place Engineering Building, in the same building as Computer Science. For the first time, all of UCLIC are together in one place, and we look forward to the benefits of being co-located with one of our parent departments. (Also, the views from the 8th floor windows are stupendous.) Please see the
how-to-find-us
page for details of our new location, address, etc.