Cambridge University User Experience

Digital Government: Not Complicated, Just Hard

Tom Loosemore - Government Digital Service.

Norwich Room, University Information Services, West Cambridge.

Friday 04 December 2015, 11:00-12:00

ICT4D: ICT for Development

Global e-Commerce – Breaking Barriers to Inclusivity

Speaker to be confirmed.

Pavilion Room, Hughes Hall, Wollaston Road, Cambridge, CB1 2EW.

Tuesday 06 October 2015, 08:30-17:00

ICT4D: ICT for Development

Wireless communication and poverty reduction in India – Where do we go from here?

Humanitarian Centre ICT4D seminar supported by Cambridge Wireless

Mr M Swaminathan, Senior Vice-President, Reliance Communications Ltd; Mr Shiv Kumar Narayan, Catalyst Management Services, Bangalore..

Seminar Centre, the Hauser Forum, 3 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0GT.

Wednesday 29 June 2011, 18:00-20:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Withdrawing from Exhibits: the interactional organisation of museum visits

Dirk vom Lehn, Kings College London.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

First-year research presentations

Andra Adams, Zhen Bai, Ntombi Banda & Marwa Mahmoud.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

New languages for live coding

Rehearsal for NIME 2011

Sam Aaron, Rainbow Group.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Joint talks on technology for mental health interventions

Dr Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 14:15-15:15

Trust and Cloud Computing

In Machines We Trust? Cloud computing, ambient intelligence and robotics

Prof. Ian Kerr, Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law and Technology (Ottawa).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Benet St., Corpus Christi College.

Wednesday 06 April 2011, 17:00-18:15

Trust and Cloud Computing

Finding our way in the cloud: engineering the shared experience

Dr David D. Clark, Senior Research Scientist, CSAIL (MIT).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Benet St., Corpus Christi College.

Tuesday 05 April 2011, 18:00-19:15

Centre for Commonwealth Education (CCE)

Mobile Technologies for Education: The experience in the developing world

To find out more and to RSVP, please visit: http://m-education.eventbrite.com/

Panel Discussion (see below).

Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, Room GS4.

Wednesday 30 March 2011, 18:30-20:30

ICT4D: ICT for Development

Computers, Mobiles and Internet: Can they make a difference to the lives of poor people?

Professor Tim Unwin, UNESCO Chair in ICT4D at Royal Holloway.

Queen’s Building, Emmanuel College, St Andrew’s Street, Cambridge, CB2 3AP.

Thursday 17 March 2011, 19:00-20:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Third Wave HCI & Gestural Interaction

Dr. Helena Mentis - postdoc researcher with the Socio-Digital System (SDS) group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Design Centre

Design thinking: beyond the buzzwords

Kevin McCullagh - Plan, London.

Arthur Marshall Meeting Room (next to EDC loft), Inglis Building, Engineering Department.

Wednesday 09 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Inference Group

A computer-vision based facial gesture switch

Emli-Mari Nel (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 07 February 2011, 11:00-12:00

ICT4D: ICT for Development

e-Health for Development: using technology to improve healthcare for the world's poor

Dr Michael Barrett (Judge Business School), Professor Geoff Walsham (Judge Business School), Professor Ian Leslie (University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory) and Dr Peter Gough (Khandel Light)..

Room LT3, Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1AG.

Wednesday 19 January 2011, 18:30-20:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Facilitating non-verbal communication with robots: synthesis and perception with applications for clinical communication

Laurel D. Riek (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Learning and generating techno music: a machine learning approach

Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Notes on the Synthesis of Music

Sam Aaron (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Conference summary

Tadas Baltrušaitis and Laurel Riek (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

ICT4D: ICT for Development

Telecoms as a Catalyst for Development in Afghanistan by Karim Khoja

Karim Khoja, CEO of Roshan.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

Monday 08 November 2010, 18:30-20:00

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Sketching Language – User-Centred Design of a Wizard of Oz Prototyping Tool

Stephan Schlögl.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Usable Programming Language Design in Industry and Academia

Luke Church (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

ICT4D: ICT for Development

Global Poverty and ICTs: What Cambridge can do to change the world

David Edelstein, Grameen Technology Center.

Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0DS.

Tuesday 26 October 2010, 19:00-21:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Synthesizing Expressions using Facial Feature Point Tracking: How Emotion is Conveyed

Tadas Baltrusaitis (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Interactive music technology - demo session

Neil Jenkins, Sam Aaron and Rose Johnson.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 03 June 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Coded Chimera: exploring relationships between sculptural form making and biological morphogenesis through computer modeling

Bruce Gernand (Research Fellow Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

MetaSurfacing with the Surface: experience with integrated research environments

Professor Jeremy Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

CHI report

Dr David Coyle and Dr Per Ola Kristensson (Computer Laboratory).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Designing technologies for support mental health interventions

David Coyle, Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Part II Project Presentations

Part II Students, Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Part II Project Presentations

Part II Students, Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Report on ACM IUI 2010 and IEEE IHCI 2010

Pradipta Biswas, Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Subdivision surfaces and the dolphin problem

Tom Cashman.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Collaborative control for a robotic wheelchair

Tom Carlson, Imperial College London.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Term Planning

Ian Davies, Computer Laboratory.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

What's in the eyes for context-awareness?

Andreas Bulling, ETH Zurich.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 10 December 2009, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Supporting Virtuosity in Computer Music

Chris Nash, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

WebSurface: an Interface for Co-located Collaborative Information Gathering

Ian Davies, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

The Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory: What We Do

Dr. Simone Schnall, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Synchrony and Entrainment in Human Interaction

Satinder Gill, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Crossing the digital divide, making emotional connections with digital characters

Ian Wilson, CEO Emotion AI.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Design dimensions of mobile text entry

Dr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Empathizing with Robots

Laurel Riek (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Multimodal Affective Inference for Driver Monitoring

Ian Davies (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Audiovisual Discrimination Between Laughter and Speech

Stavros Petridis, Imperial College London.

SS03.

Thursday 04 December 2008, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

The Usability of Security: A Panel Discussion

Ben Laurie (Google); Luke Church and Robert Watson (Cambridge CL).

SS03.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Summer Conference Summary - Part 2

Shazia Afzal; Pradipta Biswas; Cecily Morrison.

SS03.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Movement expressivity analysis in affective computers: from recognition to expression of emotion

Dr. Ginevra Castellano, Queen Mary University of London.

SS03.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Summer Conference Summary - Part 1

Christian Richardt; Metin Sezgin; Laurel Riek.

SS03.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 14:15-15:15

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

How do we program the home? Gender, attention investment, and the psychology of programming at home.

Steven Clarke and Cecily Morrison.

Jasmine Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Thursday 02 October 2008, 11:00-12:30

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

“Resistance is Futile”: Reading Science Fiction Alongside Ubiquitous Computing

Mark Blythe, University of York.

The Courtyard, William Gates Building.

Thursday 07 August 2008, 11:00-12:30

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Affective computing: problems, reactions and intentions

Shazia Afzal.

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 03 July 2008, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

NIME '08 Conference Report

Chris Nash (University of Cambridge).

SS03.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

User Modelling in HCI

Pradipta Biswas (University of Cambridge).

SS03.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 14:15-15:15

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Evaluating user interface systems research

Per Ola Kristensson.

Rainbow Room (SS03), Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Ubiquitous Tracking for Distributed Mixed Reality Environments

Room changed

Joseph Newman (University of Cambridge).

FW26.

Thursday 29 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Sonic Gems: Exploring the potential of audio recording as a form of sentimental memory capture

Lorna Brown, Microsoft Research.

SS03.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 14:15-15:15

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

What Is Good? – A Comparison Between The Quality Criteria Used In Design And Science

Cecily Morrison.

Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Term planning and feedback from CHI

Daniel Bernhardt (University of Cambridge).

SS03.

Thursday 24 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Modelling user interfaces for special needs

Pradipta Biswas, Rainbow Group.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 03 April 2008, 14:15-15:15

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Unpacking a Timesheet: Formalisation and Representation

Robin Boast and Alan Blackwell.

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Co-located Group Interaction Design

Cecily Morrison (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Designing Playful Programming – Some challenges

Luke Church.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Randomness as a resource for design

Tuck Leong, MSR Cambridge.

SS03.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 14:15-15:15

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Computational Thinking

Simon Peyton Jones and Luke Church.

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Presentations of part II projects

Part II students.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

How to review a technical paper

Neil Dodgson (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Lent Term Kickoff Meeting

T. Metin Sezgin (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 17 January 2008, 14:15-15:15

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Getting to Grips with Technology

Mo Syed and Tim Regan.

Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Thursday 06 December 2007, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Investigating Collaboration around the TableTop

Eva Hornecker, Open University.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Flash-Exposure High Dynamic Range Imaging

Christian Richardt.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Friday 16 November 2007, 14:30-15:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Affective Driver Monitoring Systems

Sezgin, Metin Tevfik.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Designing for Telepresence: An Introduction To Physical Avatar Systems

Laurel Riek.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 08 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Statistics for HCI

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Lead by Cecily Morrison.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Design Centre

A Socio-Technical Approach to Safety and Risk Management

Prof. Leveson is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT & Dr. Joel Hoffman is an expert in biopharmaceutical development systems at Insightful Corporation

Prof. Nancy Leveson (MIT) & Dr. Joel Hoffman (Insightful Corp).

Lecture room 4, Engineering Department.

Friday 26 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Detecting Affect from Non-stylised body motions

Daniel Bernhardt (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 25 October 2007, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

How Do We Know What to Design?

Fred Brooks, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 17 October 2007, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Meet Rainbow

Speaker to be confirmed.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 11 October 2007, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Distributed Tabletops: Supporting Remote and Mixed-Presence Tabletop Collaboration

Phil Tuddenham (University of Cambridge Computer Lab).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 04 October 2007, 14:15-15:15

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Designing for Usability: Key Principles and What Designers Think

Gilbert Cockton and Luke Church.

Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Thursday 04 October 2007, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Simulating HCI for all

Pradipta Biswas, Rainbow Group.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Thursday 27 September 2007, 14:15-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

SQ Minus EQ can Predict Programming Aptitude

Stuart Wray.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 September 2007, 14:15-15:15

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Assessing Dimensions of Perceived Visual Aesthetics of Web Sites

Nathan Crilly and Chris Nash.

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 06 September 2007, 11:00-12:30

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Design parameters of rating scales for web sites

Luke Church and Per Ola Kristensson.

The Courtyard, William Gates Building.

Thursday 02 August 2007, 11:00-12:30

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Do artifacts have politics?

Andrea Grimes and Robert Doubleday.

Jasmine Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Thursday 05 July 2007, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Mixed presence collaboration on tabletop interfaces

This talk has been canceled/deleted

Phil Tuddenham (University of Cambridge Computer Lab).

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 14 June 2007, 14:15-15:15

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

How HCI Interprets the Probes

Alan Blackwell and Richard Harper.

Jasmine Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Thursday 07 June 2007, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

New music notation - design discussion

Alejandro Vinao and Alan Blackwell.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 31 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

Rausing Lecture

Music and technology studies: from the Moog synthesizer to ACIDplanet.com

The Twelfth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Trevor Pinch (Cornell University).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Thursday 24 May 2007, 16:30-18:00

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Feedback and review from CHI conference

Darren Edge, Lorisa Dubuc, Phil Tuddenham and Alan Blackwell.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 24 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks

Accelerating Discovery: A Grand Challenge for HCI

Professor Ben Shneiderman.

Small public lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

Monday 21 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Vision-based sensing of human activities and reflectance analysis

Yoichi Sato, University of Tokyo.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 17 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

India/Bombay/IIT

Metin Sezgin, William Billingsley and Daniel Bernhardt.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 03 May 2007, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Photenote user study results

Gregory Hughes.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 15 March 2007, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Tangible User Interfaces for Peripheral Interaction and Team Coordination

Darren Edge.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 08 March 2007, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Experts at play: Understanding and designing for expert skill

Barry Brown.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 01 March 2007, 14:15-15:15

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Moving on from Weiser's Vision of Calm Computing: engaging UbiComp experiences

Cecily Morrison.

Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 01 March 2007, 11:00-12:30

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

How expert engineering teams use disciplines of innovation

Alan Blackwell and Chris Bishop.

Jasmine Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Thursday 01 February 2007, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Patterns as Signs

James Noble.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 18 January 2007, 14:15-15:00

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Emotion recognition in human-computer interaction

Tal Sobol-Shikler and Lorna Brown.

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 04 January 2007, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Can we hear people think, can we discern genuine laughter … and can a computer do it better?

Tal Sobol-Shikler (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 07 December 2006, 14:15-15:00

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Using action research in information systems design to address change: a South African health information systems case study

Nathan Crilly and Cecily Morrison.

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 07 December 2006, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Doing HCI Differently - Lessons from the Developing World

Gary Marsden (University of Cape Town).

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 30 November 2006, 14:15-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

New Challenges in Describing Digital Music

Alan Blackwell and Alejandro Vinao, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 29 November 2006, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Graphics Seminars

How papers are reviewed and how to write a paper

Dr Malcolm Sabin and Dr Neil Dodgson (Computer Laboratory).

Rainbow Room (FS07), Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 23 November 2006, 14:15-15:00

Interdisciplinary Design: Debates and Seminars

Embodiment and the Sciences of the Mind

Professor Andy Clark, University of Edinburgh.

Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research.

Monday 30 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

Interdisciplinary Design: Debates and Seminars

Understanding People Understanding Technology

Elizabeth Mynatt and Amy Voida, GVU Center, Georgia Tech.

Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research.

Monday 30 October 2006, 11:00-12:00

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Sketch Recognition with Multiscale Stochastic Models of Temporal Patterns

Dr Metin Sezgin, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 26 October 2006, 14:15-15:00

Rainbow Graphics Seminars

A summer at MIT

Daniel Bernhardt, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 12 October 2006, 14:15-15:00

Rainbow Graphics Seminars

Introduction to the Rainbow Group

Rainbow members.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 05 October 2006, 14:15-15:00

Interdisciplinary Design: Debates and Seminars

Rethinking Information and Space in Ubiquitous Computing

Paul Dourish, University of California at Irvine.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 01 September 2006, 11:30-12:30

Rainbow Graphics Seminars

Advances in Image Compositing

Mark Grundland, University of Cambridge.

Rainbow Room (FS07), Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 31 August 2006, 14:15-15:00

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Understanding Non-Literacy as a Barrier to Mobile Phone Communication

Nathan Crilley and Lucia Terrenghi.

Rainbow Room (FS07), Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 03 August 2006, 11:00-12:30

Engineering Design Centre

From 9/11 to 2012: Using Computer Simulations to Model Mass Evacuations from Infrastructure Failures

Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow.

LR6, Engineering, Department of.

Thursday 27 July 2006, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Human Supervisory Control Issues in Complex, Time-critical Systems

Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings, Director Humans & Automation Laboratory, MIT.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 20 July 2006, 14:15-15:00

Interdisciplinary Design: Debates and Seminars

Design Research in Academia, Consultancy and the Corporation

David Gilmore, Head of Design Research, Intel Corporation.

CRASSH, CRASSH (Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanit.

Friday 07 July 2006, 14:00-16:00

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Older People as a focus for Inclusive Design

Joy Goodman and Lorisa Dubuc.

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 06 July 2006, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Tabletop displays to support review meetings

Phil Tuddenham.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 01 June 2006, 14:15-15:00

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Making by making strange: Defamiliarization and the design of domestic technologies

Jack Lang and Andrew Barry.

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 01 June 2006, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Psychoacoustic experiments with virtual violins

Dr Claudia Fritz.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 25 May 2006, 14:15-15:00

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Best of CHI 2006

Alan Blackwell, Phil Tuddenham, Will Billingsley.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 18 May 2006, 14:15-15:00

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Modelling and Handling Seams in Wide-Area Sensor Networks

Joe Newman.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 11 May 2006, 14:15-15:00

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Implications for Design

Abigail Sellen and Nathan Crilly.

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2006, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Inference from Motion Capture Data

Daniel Bernhardt.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 27 April 2006, 14:15-15:00

Rainbow Graphics Seminars

New Concepts for Situated Messaging in the Home

Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research.

Rainbow Room (FS07), Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 09 March 2006, 14:15-15:15

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Project Ernestine: Validating a GOMS analysis for predicting and explaining real-world performance

Alan Blackwell and William Newman.

Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Thursday 02 March 2006, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Graphics Seminars

The Reification of Metaphor as a Design Tool

Alan Blackwell, Rainbow Group.

Rainbow Room (FS07), Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 23 February 2006, 14:15-15:15

Interdisciplinary Design: Debates and Seminars

Is there any reason why we should do design as research in Cambridge?

Gillian Crampton-Smith, EU Convivio Network.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Monday 13 February 2006, 15:00-17:00

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

An evaluation of integrated zooming and scrolling on small screens

Phil Tuddenham + Keith Vertanen.

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 02 February 2006, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Tangible User Interfaces for Distributed Teams

Darren Edge, Rainbow Group, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 01 December 2005, 14:15-15:15

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

The streamlined cognitive walkthrough method, working around social constraints encountered in a software development company

William Newman and Lorisa Dubuc.

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 01 December 2005, 11:00-12:00

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

User interface design with matrix algebra.

William Newman and David Mackay.

Jasmine Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Thursday 03 November 2005, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

blogIT: Electronic Chronicling and Analysis of Contact Center Operations (Maja) and Time-lapse Photography as an Assistive Tool (Greg)

Maja Vukovic (first talk) and Gregory Hughes (second talk), Rainbow Group, University of Cambridge Computer Lab.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 27 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

What we did in our summer holidays

Everyone, led by Phil Tuddenham, Rainbow Group, University of Cambridge Computer Lab.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 20 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Cognitive Support in Dementia

Joe Wherton, Department of Psychology, University of York.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 13 October 2005, 14:15-15:15

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Bounding Rational Analysis: Constraints on the Approach to Optimality

Richard Young and Alan Blackwell, UCL/Cambridge.

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 06 October 2005, 11:00-12:30

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Wicked Problems Revisited

Martyn Dade-Robertson and Alex Taylor.

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 02 September 2005, 11:00-12:30

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

Let's stop pushing the envelope and start addressing it: a reference task agenda for HCI

William Newman and Jost Schatzmann.

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 05 August 2005, 11:00-12:30

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

An activity theory approach to affordance

Abi Sellen and Kasim Rehman, Microsoft Research / Computer Laboratory.

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 July 2005, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Alternative notations and personal information management

Silas Brown.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 16 June 2005, 14:15-15:15

Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group

What we talk about when we talk about context

Alan Blackwell and Richard Harper, University of Cambridge / Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Primrose Room, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Friday 10 June 2005, 11:00-12:30

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Gender HCI

Laura Beckwith, Oregon State University.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 09 June 2005, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Gestural Input on a Desk-Sized Display

Phil Tuddenham.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 02 June 2005, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Conversation, Dementia, and Technology

Lorisa Dubuc.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 05 May 2005, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Interaction Seminars

Towards an Intelligent Textbook for Discrete Mathematics

William Billingsley.

Rainbow Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 28 April 2005, 14:15-15:15

Interdisciplinary Design: Debates and Seminars

Funding a Design Research Cluster

Round-table discussion.

Seminar Room, Social Anthropology.

Tuesday 01 June 2004, 16:00-18:00

Interdisciplinary Design: Debates and Seminars

The Next Big Thing - Proposals and Programmes

Round-table discussion.

Committee Room, Social and Political Science.

Tuesday 18 May 2004, 16:00-18:00

Interdisciplinary Design: Debates and Seminars

Art and Science - Funding, Theories and Careers

Simon Biggs, Art and Design, Sheffield Hallam University.

CRASSH, CRASSH (Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanit.

Tuesday 04 May 2004, 16:00-18:00