HCI@UCD host a monthly seminar series featuring some of the leading researchers in the field of HCI.
The seminars take place online (previously in the Insight Centre at the O’Brien Centre for Science, UCD). The seminars run from 1pm until 1:50.
2023/24 Schedule
October – Dr. Justin Edwards, University College Dublin
Title: Using Speech to Interrupt Complex Tasks (Passcode: ^?6PzzKR)
November – Dr. Madeleine Steeds, University College Dublin
Title: Is Alexa Perpetuating Sexism? The Impact of Virtual Assistant (VA) Use on Stereotypical Gender Views (Passcode: dE9O^4k)
January – Dr. Hannah Pelikan, Linköping University
Title: Designing Sound for Human-Robot Coordination
February – Prof. Andrew Howes, University of Exeter
Title: Towards Machines that Understand People
March – Prof. Tiffany Veinot, University of Michigan
Title: Human Intermediaries as Core Infrastructure for Addressing Telehealth Access Inequities
April – Dr. Niels van Berkel, Aalborg University
Title: Matching Decision Aids to Changing Cognitive Capabilities.
2022/23 Schedule
October – Dr. Iona Gessinger, University College Dublin
Title: Phonetic Accommodation in interaction with a virtual agent
November- Dr. Benjamin Cowan, University College Dublin
Title: All too human? Exploring human-likeness in speech interface design
February – Prof. Corina Sas, Lancaster University
Title: Ethical Design for Wellbeing and Mental Health
May – Dr. Mike Crabb, University of Dundee
Title: Flexible Media: An inclusive and adaptive Approach to media design
2021/22 Schedule
September – Dr. Francisco Nunes, Fraunhofer AICOS
Title: Accompanying Participants During Field Trials, at a Distance
October – Dr. Maximilian A. Friehs, University of Saskatchewan
Title: Impacting Experience and Performance Through External Influences
November – Dr. Philipp Wintersberger, TU Wien
Title: Attentive User Interfaces for Continuous Interaction with Digital Technology
December – Dr. Minha Lee, TU Eindhoven
January – Dr. Diego Garaialde, University College Dublin
February – Dr. Sean Munson, University of Washington
Title: From Personal Data to Personal Health: Designing for Goals and Collaborations
March – Prof. Thomas Olsson, Tampere University
Title: Studies on the Crossroad of ITx Social Interaction
April – Dr. Philip Doyle, University College Dublin
Title: The Dimension and Adaptation of Partner Models in Human-Machine Dialogue
June – Dr. Heloisa Candello, IBM Brazil
Title: The design and evaluation of CUIs
2020/21 Schedule
September – Dr. Kellie Morrissey, University of Limerick
Title: Who’d Be a Citizen?: Surfacing Tensions in Digital Civics Approaches in HCI for Social Care
October – Dr. Shamsi T. Iqbal, Microsoft Research – Redmond
Title: Redefining Productivity to Adapt to a Changing Landscape of Work
November – Dr. Max L. Wilson, University of Nottingham
Title: Physiological Indicators of Task Demand, Fatigue, and Cognition During Work Tasks
Recording link (Passcode: V4t+YKFS)
December – Dr. Paul Marshall, University of Birmingham
Title: End User Engagement with Data
January – Prof. Sue Fussel, Cornell University
Title: Understanding and Supporting Communication
Recording link
February – Prof. Andrew Kun, University of New Hampshire
Title: The Future of Work and Wellbeing: From Automated Vehicles to Working from Home
March – Dr. Vicki Hanson, CEO of the ACM
Title: A Cognitive Psychologist in Computing
Recording link (Passcode: ^rJRO68m)
April – Prof. Jacob O. Wobbrock, University of Washington
Title: Addressing Situational Impairments in Mobile Human-Computer Interaction
2019/20 Schedule
September- Dr. Daniel Rough, University College Dublin
Title: Tailoring Speech Interfaces through Visual Programming: The B-SPOKE Project
October – Dr. Sarah Foley, University College Cork
Title: The Struggle for Recognition in Advanced Dementia: Implications for Design
November – Prof. Anna Cox, University College London
Title: Designing Effective Behaviour Change Apps
January – Dr. Brendan Spillane, Trinity College Dublin
Title: The Impact of Design and Aesthetics on the Perception of Bias in the News
February – Dr. Rachel McDonnell, Trinity College Dublin
Title: How Real is Too Real When Interacting with Virtual Humans?
June- Dr. Anja Thieme, Microsoft UK
Title: Human-Centred Machine Learning for Health and Accessibility
2018/19 Schedule
September- Dr. Marguerite Barry, University College Dublin
Title: Irresponsible and Out of Control! Discourses on the Regulation of Technological Design
October- Dr. Martin Halvey, Strathclyde University
Title: Exploring the Impact of Conversational Strategies for Goal-Oriented Search Tasks
November – Dr. Lilian Genaro Motti Ader, University College Dublin
Title: HCI Challenges in Human Movement Analysis: Touchscreen Interaction for Older Adults
January – Dr. Sébastien Le Maguer, Trinity College Dublin
Title: A Journey from Speech Synthesis to Speech Synthesis Evaluation.
February – Prof. Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University
Title: When My Data Actually Becomes My Data
March – Dr. Saskia Kelders, University of Twente
Title: Engagement to eHealth Interventions and the Role of Technology
April – Dr. Sean Rintel, Microsoft UK
Title: Fidelity ≠ Richness: Designing Video Communication
May – Prof Lucy Yardley, University of Bristol
Title: The Person-Based Approach to Developing and Optimising Digital Interventions
June – Dr. Eimear Morrissey, NUI Galway
Title: eHealth – What does psychology have to do with it?
2017/18 Schedule
September ’17- Prof. Andrew Howes, Birmingham University
Title: How people make decisions through interaction with visualisations
October ’17- Dr. Katarzyna Stawarz, University of Bristol
Title: Designing for obsolescence: How to support the formation of healthy habits with technology
November ’17- Irish HCI 2017- Dr. Duncan Brumby (UCLIC), Dr. Julie Doyle (Dundalk IT) and Prof. Chris Priest (University of Bristol)
December ’17- HCI Mapping Meeting
January ’18- Dr. Stuart Reeves, University of Nottingham
Title: Voice interfaces in everyday life
February ’18- Dr. Chris Janssen, Utrecht University
Title: Automated Vehicles- Why should we care about the human?
March ’18- Dr. Leigh Clark, University College Dublin
Title: Do we know how computers should talk to us? Exploring the concept of appropriate machine like communication through linguistic politeness
April ’18- CHI
May’ 18- Dr. Julie Williamson, University of Glasgow
June’ 18- Dr. Rowanne Fleck, University of Birmingham
Schedule 2016/17
April’ 16- Kevin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin
May’16- Dr. Nadia Pantidi, University College Cork
Title: Reconsidering sustainability and engagement for digitally connected communities
October’ 16- Dr. Brendan Rooney, University College Dublin
Title: Attention and emotion in reading the minds of fictional characters, avatars and “real” people
November ’16- Dr. Sandy Gould, Birmingham University
Title: Input engineering: redesigning input and building better interfaces
December ’16- Dr. Jens Edlund, KTH Stockholm
Title: Humans (and machines) in face-to-face interaction
January ’17- Dr. Paula Silva, Maynooth University
Title: Beyond Ageism: Designing Inclusive, Fun, and Humane User Interfaces
for Older People
February ’17- Prof. Luigina Ciolfi, Sheffield Hallam University
Title: The Collaborative Design of Tangible Interactions in Museums
March ’17: Dr. Conor Linehan, University College Cork
Title: The Challenge of Scholarship in Inter-Disciplinary Research
April ’17: Emilie Giles, Open University
Title: Stories, Crafting and Electronics: Using E-textiles to Create Personal Interactive Experiences with Blind and Visually Impaired Users
May ’17: Dr. Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin
Title: Engaging Users at Scale – Issues and Opportunities in e-Health