News Archive
RBKC Apollo Award 2009 Runner-up Prize PhD student Makayla Lewis from the Centre for HCI Design was awarded runner-up prize in the volunteer category at the 2009 Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Apollo Awards
RCUK Award Fernando Loizides has been awarded an RCUK National Science and Engineering Week award.
Membership of Editorial Board of Journal of Software Engineering and Applications Bill Karakostas has been invited and accepted to join the editorial board of the Journal of Software Engineering and Applications.
HCID commendation prize in the University's Staff Research Prize Competition Stephanie Wilson, Peter Woodward and Rebecca Randall of the GHandI Project team have won a commendation prize in the University's Staff Research Prize Competition.
Call for Papers First International Workshop on Automated Configuration and Tailoring of Applications - call for papers. Held in conjunction with the 25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
City student builds DIY multi-touch tabletop PC to rival computing giants Meirion Williams - a Masters student at City University London - has built a fully-functioning, touch screen, tabletop computer, using components purchased from high-street stores, and at a fraction of the cost of a tablet PC or surface computer.
Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership City University London has launched a New Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership.
Newsletter issue 20 - the latest issue of our Newsletter has now been published. if you wish to receive a copy please email Fiona at fionam@soi.city.ac.uk
Best Paper Award at European Conference on Digital Libraries Paper entitled "Hear It Is: Enhancing Rapid Document Browsing with Sound Cues" by Parisa Eslambochilar, George Buchanan and Fernando Loizides, in the European Conference on Digital Libraries wins Best Paper Award
City researchers trial new medical information system at Great Ormond Street School of Informatics researchers are trialling a new handover system for medical information at a leading London children's hospital - article in CityNews
New hardware solutions for GP consultations - research participants required At City University London, we are running a small study to explore the potential for new hardware technologies, such as tablet PCs and tabletop computers, to be used in GP consultations. We are looking to recruit London-based General Practitioners (GPs) and General Practice Registrars (GPRs) to take part in simulated consultations.
Newsletter Issue 19 - the latest issue of our Newsletter has now been published. if you wish to receive a copy please email Monica at monicaf@soi.city.ac.uk
"How Business Analysts Can Be Innovative when Gathering Requirements\": Neil Maiden and James Robertson from the Atlantic Systems Guild will give a half-day workshop entitled "How Business Analysts Can Be Innovative when Gathering Requirements" at the Business Analysis Conference London 2009, on Monday 28th September.
Centre Administrator - The Centre is recruiting a Centre Administrator. Closing date: 5pm, 10th June 2009
Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction - City University is looking for a new Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction, with specific interests in social computing and accessibility. Closing date 5pm, 19th June 2009
EPSRC PhD Studentship - The School is currently accepting applications for an EPSRC-funded PhD studentship with the closing date for receipt of applications, Monday 18 May 2009
Call for participation: HCI 2009, Tuesday 1st September 2009, in conjunction with HCI 2009, 23rd BCS conference on Human Computer Interaction, Cambridge, UK, 1 - 5 September, 2009.
New! : Photos from Open Day 31/03/09 added
OPEN DAY - Tuesday 31st March 2009 (1PM - 7PM) Come and visit us!!!
Towards a Truly Digital Economy: Friday 6th March 2009 - Northampton Suite, 9am - 5pm - keynote speakers will consider Digital Inclusion from both policy and research perspectives
Learn, Teach and Play in 3D Virtual Worlds Wednesday 18th March: Jim, Panayiotis and Uli will be hosting a one-day seminar on the topic "Learn, Teach and Play in 3D Virtual Worlds". Please register the event at http://learnteachandplay.eventbrite.com/
Five years on, what's Facebook's future? Jim Ang adviced on Facebook 5th Birthday!!
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UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP for 2009-10 entry - Applications are now invited for the 2009-10 University Research Fellowship positions. Four new posts are being made available for appointment from 1 September 2009
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS City University London is currently offering a number of three-year, full-time PhD studentships for 2009 entry. Closing date for applications is Monday 2 March 2009. Enquiries about PhD study in the Centre for HCI Design should be directed to Stephanie Wilson steph@soi.city.ac.uk. Studentship applications should be sent to Robin Syred rsyred@soi.city.ac.uk.
HCII 2009 Staff from HCID will be hosting two tutorials at the next HCII 2009 conference in San Diego in July 2009. Panayiotis and Jim will be delivering a full day tutorial on Social Network Analysis and Jim with colleagues from Serco will be delivering a half day tutorial on Game Usability: Methods and Practice.
31st IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering Neil Maiden, with Jaelson Castro and Eric Yu, will be delivering a one-day tutorial on Goal Oriented Requirements Engineering at the 31st IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, in Vancouver in May, 2009
January 2009
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The Centre has recruted a "Centre Director: Interdisciplinary Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice". For more information and an application form, visit http://www.city.ac.uk/jobs/job_ads/profess_admin_clerical/RH12003.html. Closing date – 31 January 2009.
December 2008
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Winter Issue 18 of the HCID Newsletter has now been published.
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IEEE Software Top Pick
Over the past 25 years, from 1984 through 2008, IEEE Software published more than 1,200 peer-reviewed full-length articles. As part of its 25th anniversary celebration, Software's editorial and advisory boards embarked upon the ambitious task of distilling those articles into a compact list of recommended reading. The result was 35 articles that, in the committee's own words, represented the best of the bunch. One of these 35 was:
'Provoking Creativity: Imagine What Your Requirements Could be Like'
by Neil Maiden, Suzanne Robertson and Alexis Gizikis, and published in IEEE Software in September/October 2004 21(5), 68-75. The article was one of only 2 in the field of requirements engineering selected by the committee.
The full list of the 35 Top Picks will be published in the January/February 2009 issue of IEEE Software. Dr Sara Jones is Co-investigator in a new research project with the School of Arts - "Information Technology and its Use in the Context of Museums and Art Galleries".
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Dr Sara Jones has received a pump-priming award from City university London of £5,000. Read project's details here.
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The Centre helped Royal Opera House to improve web accessibility.
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Three new JISC funded research projects:
a) Sara Jones and Panayiotis Zaphiris with colleagues from Middlesex University have been awarded a new project (£199,983) from JISC titled "Information Spaces for Collaborative Creativity". This project will address a recurrent problem in design education: that students are sometimes disengaged from key 'creative conversations' and that this problem can be exacerbated by learning technologies present in the classroom or the students' wider networked world. The project will deploy trial 'information spaces' that will provide learners with the appropriate artefacts and modes of interacting with a learning situation, and with their peers and tutors, to enable them to engage more flexibly and effectively in conversations characterised by innovation and reflective, critical thinking. The project will run for 2 years.
b) Stephanie Wilson, Chee Siang Ang and Panayiotis Zaphiris have secured a new JISC grant (£14,861) to look at the use of eye-tracking technologies and methods to explore the usability and learner experience of Multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) e.g. Second Life. The project will run for 5 months.
c) Chee Siang Ang (Jim) and Panayiotis Zaphiris, alongside colleagues from Oxford University, King's College and University of Leicester have been awarded £5,000 from JISC to organize a new workshop on the topic of 3D Virtual Worlds and Social Learning.
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New Interdisciplinary Centre
The University has agreed to fund a new Interdisciplinary Centre - the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice - to be located in the Centre for HCI Design. The Interdisciplinary Centre, which involves academics from Cass, Arts, Social Sciences and Engineering as well as Informatics, will coordinate research, teaching and knowledge transfer activities associated with creativity and innovation around the University. Funding of £250,000 is available over 2 years to appoint a Centre director and one researcher who will coordinate activities and seek to grow self-sustaining activities in the medium term. Anticipated outcomes include new undergraduate and postgraduate offerings related to creativity and innovation, new consultancy offering, and institution-wide research projects.
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Bill Karakostas at the 12th IEEE International EDOC Conference
Bill Karakostas was invited to the 12th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2008) Industry Track to give a presentation on engineering service oriented systems using a model driven approach.
With a number of other partners we are gathering information from companies and organisations in the UK to determine the current status of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Accessibility Awareness and Practice. Please click here to take the questionnaire.
November 2008
Friday 7th November, 12pm, Interaction Lab room A222 - Philip Wu from University of Maryland will give a talk on "Designing A Community-Based Emergency Communication System.".
October 2008
CFP: CHI 2009 Workshop: Evaluating new interactions in healthcare. - Rebecca and Steph are organisers for the following workshop to be held at CHI 2009 in Boston in April 2009. Read more...
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FREE Seminar and Demonstrations - Service Centric Software Engineering on 23rd October: Central London
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Prof Neil Maiden and Dr Cornelius Ncube's paper, "Acquiring COTS Software Selection Requirements", published in the proceedings of ICRE 1998, has been selected as the most influential paper to be awarded at RE 2008.
September 2008
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Neil Maiden has given a talk entitled 'Creativity in Requirements Engineering' to the International Institute of Business Analysis, in London on the evening of 24th September 2008. The abstract of the talk is:
"Traditionally requirements for computer-based systems are elicited from stakeholders by analysts. However the advance of technical solutions means that stakeholders are increasingly unaware of what is possible. We view requirements engineering as a creative process in which stakeholders and designers work together to create ideas for new systems that are eventually expressed as requirements. In this presentation I will outline workshops, techniques and tools that have been applied to support creative requirements processes, and provide some opportunities for you to use these solutions in your own requirements processes."
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Panayiotis Zaphiris has presented a Tutorial on Social Network Analysis at NordiCHI 2008.
July - August 2008
Issue 17 Summer 2008 of the HCI Newsletter is now out!
The Centre's blog has been launch...
Neil Maiden and Sara Jones have presented all new creativity tutorials in September RE'08 in Barcelona. We look forward to seeing you there!
June 2008
The Centre is recruiting a full time Interaction Lab and Knowledge Transfer manager. For more information and an application form, visit http://www.city.ac.uk/jobs/job_ads/acad_research/NT_10778.html. Closing date – 13 June 2008.
May 2008
Come and meet us on our open evening on Wednesday 28th May 2008.
Professor Neil Maiden, Head of the Centre, and Nigel Lewis, Chief Executive of AbilityNet request the pleasure of your company to celebrate the collaboration between AbilityNet and City University London. Read more...
March 2008
28th March, Seminar: Prof. Kurt Schneider, Leibniz Unviersität Hannover, Germany
Title: Experience, Heuristics, and Information Flow in Requirements EngineeringUNIVERSITY RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS for 2008 entry - City University is currently offering a number of three-year, full-time PhD studentships for 2008 entry. Closing date for applications is 14 March 2008.
Social Learning in Virtual Worlds - As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science we are organising a virtual seminar on the topic of "Social Learning in Virtual Worlds" in Second Life!
Virtual Worlds (such as Second Life) are increasingly becoming a medium through which young people socialise, work and learn. A community of researchers and educators are utilising these spaces for their delivery of teaching and for conducting research.
The seminar will explore and discuss the potential of the use of virtual worlds for social teaching and learning.
Date: 13 March 2008 (Thursday)
Start at: 7:30am (SL time) / 3:30pm (UK time)
Duration: 1 hour
location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Emerge/193/59/39
Contact information:
Dr. Chee Siang Ang cf559@soi.city.ac.uk
Dr. Panayiotis Zaphiris zaphiri@soi.city.ac.uk
January-February 2008
The Autumn 2007 issue 16 of our News Letter has now been published. If you'd like to receive next issues by email, please let Monica know your email address.
Tuesday 18 September 2007 - Ben Shneiderman gave a talk at HCID on the topic of information visualisation for high-dimensional spaces. Over 100 people from industry and academia attended the talk.
For those of you who might have not been able to attend Ben Shneiderman's talk at City University London you can watch the video or listen to the audio at: http://hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/Seminars/shneiderman2007/
Launch of The City Interaction Lab supported by The Vodafone UK Foundation
December's 2007 news
Research Seminar: "Using everyday technology in healthcare" by Prof. Jonathan Kay, Centre for Health Informatics, City University London 12pm, Friday 30th November 2007, Focus Room of the Interaction Lab
October's 2007 news
Panayiotis and Uli presented a tutorial on Social Network Analysis at the next British HCI conference. Information on how to register are provided on the conference website.
CFPs: "Online Communities and People with Disabilities" special issue for ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)
Apologies to those who have received our Summer 2007, HCID Newsletter, issue 15 with typographic errors on page three. An amended version of the newsletter is now available online.
June's 2007 news
- The GHandI project team are organising a workshop on handover at the ECSCW'07 conference. Please join us for some lively discussion of a topic that is crucial to effective work practice in safety critical settings.
- Dr Andrew Lahgos (PhD) and Ulrike Pfeil (MSc) both graduated at Southwark Cathedral in London Bridge, May 2007 - Congratulations!
- Ben Shneiderman is giving a talk at City University: The Thrill of Discovery: Information Visualization for High-Dimensional Spaces
May's 2007 news
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Neil Maiden, Cornelius Ncube and Suzanne Robertson have had a full experience paper titled: Can Requirements Be Creative? Experiences with an Enhanced Air Space Management System' accepted for ICSE 2007
- Title: Hypermedia Discourse: Contesting Networks of Ideas and Arguments by Simon Buckingham Shum, Knowledge Media Institute & Centre for Research in Computing The Open University. Friday 25th May 2007, 1pm, HCID Common Room
April's 2007 news
- Dr Vassilios (Bill) Karakostas has had his paper accepted for IADIS International Conference on Web Based Communities 2007 on An Exploratory Study of the Requirements for a VC in Contemporary Arts co-authored by D Kardaras and G. Petropoulos
March's 2007 news
- Stephanie Wilson and Julia Galliers have been awarded an EPSRC grant of £ 494,777 to fund research into clinical handover on the GHandI project, as of January 2007 and would like to welcome two new Research Assistants, who will be working on the Ghandi project Peter Woodward and Rebecca Randell.
Febuary's 2007 news
- The Centre has received a grant of £49,228 from the Vodafone UK Foundation for the development of our Interaction Lab. - read more ...
January's 2007 news
Panayiotis Zaphiris and Ulrike Pfeil have had a full paper titled 'Patterns of empathy in online communication' accepted for CHI 2007 conference.
Panayiotis Zaphiris and Chee Siang Ang have had a tutorial (titled 'Introduction to Social Network Analysis') accepted for HCII 2007 conference.
December's 2006 news
The Autumn 2006 issue 14 of our News Letter has now been published. If you'd like to receive next issues by email, please let Nadia know your email address.
August's 2006 news
The Centre is sponsoring a RCUK fellowship in the area of creativity in software and product design.For more information and an application please visit www.city.ac.uk/jobs/job_ads/acad_research/AK10505.html.
June-July's 2006 news
REDEPEND: Extending i* Modelling into Requirements Processes - James Lockerbie and Neil Maiden have had their submission for a Research Demonstration at RE'06 accepted. James will be presenting a poster on the REDEPEND i* modelling tool, and will also be demonstrating the tool's new usability and productivity features.
Neil is again co-organiser of the SOCCER'2006 workshop on service-oriented computing and requirements. Submit a paper before the 15 June deadline.
April-May's 2006 news
The Centre will present 3 papers on service-centric computing and i* requirements modelling at the CAiSE'06 and REFSQ'06 events in Luxembourg.
Wednesday 31st May 2006 - Centre for HCID Open Evening.
The Centre has moved into its new offices - see some photos...
Neil Maiden, with Suzanne and James Robertson of the Atlantic Systems Guild, presented a tutorial entitled Creative Requirements: Invention and its Role in Requirements Engineering at ICSE'2006 in Shanghai, China in May 2006.
March's 2006 news
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS for 2006 entry - City is currently offering a number of three-year, full-time PhD studentships for 2006 entry. Closing date for applications is 24 March 2006.
Call for papers: HCI 2006: ENGAGE, 11-15 September 2006, Queen Mary, University of London.
February's 2006 news
Please consider submitting a paper to the IEEE Requirements Engineering 2006 Conference.
November's 2005 news
Panayiotis Zaphiris has co-edited a special issue on "Web and Aging: challenges and opportunities" for the Universal Access in the Information Society Journal.
A new version of the ART-SCENE scenario walkthrough tool is released in summer 2005.
October's 2005 news
Panayiotis Zaphiris had a paper accepted for the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI) Journal. The paper titled "Trends, Similarities and Differences in the Usage of Teen and Senior Public Online Newsgroups" was co-authored with Rifaht Sarwar.
August/September's 2005 news
Jim presented a poster titled Social Interaction in Game Communities and Second Language Learning at the British HCI 2005 conference. The poster was selected by the conference delegates as the best poster of the conference and awarded the 1st price.
The Centre for HCI Design held its first open evening on 22nd June 2005 - read more...
The Centre for HCI Design held its summer picnic on Thursday 14th July in Regent's Park - read more...
James Robertson and Neil Maiden gave their ground-breaking tutorial - Creative Requirements, Invention and its Role in Requirements Engineering - at 13th IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference RE'05, in Paris, France. August 29 2005. It was not only about work!!! - read more...
July's 2005 news
James Robertson and Neil Maiden will give their ground-breaking tutorial - Creative Requirements, Invention and its Role in Requirements Engineering - at 13th IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference RE'05, in Paris, France. August 29 2005. Come and discover how to invent better software - read more ...
Neil will present a workshop entitled Creativity, the Path to Innovative Requirements' at miniSPA2005 on 5th August 2005 in London. The workshop is co-authored with Suzanne and James Robertson.
June's 2005 news
May's 2005 news
65 academics and practitioners attended the Modelling Your System Goals: the i* Approach workshop held at City University on Wednesday 20th April.
Centre staff will present 3 papers on requirements processes for service-centric systems, multi-media scenario walkthroughs and goal-driven requirements processes at the REFSQ'2005 workshop
Neil King one of the departments researchers successfully completed his sponsored skydive for the National Library for the Blind on Sunday 24th April with the weather finally holding out. It was a full on adrenaline rush from start to finish. At 12,000 feet he exited the plane with two instructors and then went through freefall for around 40 seconds till he had descended to the height of 5,000 feet, where upon he opened the parachute. It was a bit nerving to look up and see that the lines where twisted but thanks to the training Neil had received he was competent, and clam enough, to know what to do to rectify it. After that it was a gentle return to earth with a smooth landing. An amazing experience!
Thanks to everyone who has supported Neil in this challenge to raise money for the National Library for the Blind (NLB). He has received pledges totalling over £600 which is great. If you still have to make good your pledge, you can visit www.justgiving.com/nlb which has been set up to accept secure payments by debit or credit card.
April's 2005 news
Dean Mohamedally, Dr Panayiotis Zaphiris and Prof Helen Petrie have a full paper accepted for presentation and publication at the forthcoming British Computing Society's British HCI 2005 Conference in Edinburgh, titled "PROTEUS: Artefact-Driven Constructionist Assessment within TabletPC-Based Low-Fidelity Prototyping". The PROTEUS TabletPC software tool was developed by Dean here at the Centre for HCI Design.
Prof Helen Petrie has been asked to join the ISO TC159/SC4 Ergonomics of Human-System Interaction Committee to assist in development of a standard regarding tactile and haptic human-computer interaction. As part of this initiative, a workshop will be held in October 2005 to discuss tactile and haptic interaction. Anyone with an interest in this area is invited to submit a proposal.