News
Archive
- Staff
Appointments - Dec 2005
- Guest
Speaker: Dr Felix Tan October
2005
- "Call
for Papers" The Interaction Design Centre and the British
Computer Society HCI Education & Practice SubGroup are organising
a workshop entitled: In-Use, In-Situ: Extending Field Research
Methods. June
2005
- Peter
Woodward has been appointed Researcher HCI – Human Factors,
AD4 Project, Virtual Airspace Management. July
2005
- Summer
Intern July
2005
- Guest
Speaker: Dr Geoff Busby April 2005
- Dr
William Wong presented his Inaugural
Professorial Lecture entitled "Human-Systems Interaction:
Challenges for Representation Design". April
2005
- Staff
Appointments March
2005
- "AD4
Kicks Off!" - IDC is part of a ten-partner European consortium
set up to develop the AD4 Virtual Airspace Management System.
The project will develop a system for enhancing air traffic handling
capacity while preserving safety. January
2005
- Completed
PhDs - Congratulations to George
Buchanan who completed his PhD entitled "Integrating
Information Seeking and Information Structuring" in December
2004.
- The
first of a run of seminars was held on Tueday 12 October, 2004.
Our first speaker was Dr
Dan Diaper, a new Senior Research Fellow in the School of
Computing Science. His talk was entitled: IF it is HCI; THEN
it is Task Analysis. October
2004
- Research
Vacancies - Applications are invited for two posts to work
closely together in a European FP6 area of novel user interface
technologies in the field of Air Traffic Control. January
2005
- Dr
Rebecca Randell has been awarded the Diana Forsythe Prize
for the best scientific publication in the period March 2003 -
March 2004. September 2004
- Dr
Dan Diaper
and Dr
Satinder Gill
were recently appointed in the latest recruitment round for university
researchers. September 2004
- 'Researching
User Engagements with Technology' Workshop
- A one-day semi-formal workshop (organised by
IDC members Hanna Stelmaszewska and John Salisbury) was held recently
at Trent Park. September
2004
- Farewell
to Paul Curzon - Dr Paul Curzon, Reader,
(former Convenor and Deputy Head IDC) recently moved to Queen
Mary, University of London. July
2004
- New
Deputy Head IDC - Bob Fields will formally take up the position
at the end of June 2004.
June 2004
- Exploring
Codes of Conduct in Catalonia ... - Dr Penny Duquenoy of IDC
was one of four panel members exchanging experiences and advice
on the setting up of codes of conduct. June 2004
- Delivering
citizens advice by kiosk - IDC applied multiple complementary
evaluation strategies to provide a qualitative assessment of 'fit
for purpose' of an Electronic Advice Kiosk. June
2004
- Making
journeys by ferry - IDC's Design for All research group is
participating in a study to determine if new guidance is being
applied and what obstacles remain. June
2004
- Summer
Interns
June 2004
- New
look for IDC -
The new symbol for IDC is Middlesex University-red,
and is based on the Chinese character for fire - life, energy,
vibrancy. May 2004
- Enhancing
our research profile: Opportunities for post-doctoral appointments
June 2004
- Enabling
people to use buses in the developing world - IDC's Design
for All research group are working with the Transport Research
Laboratory on Accessible Road Based Public Transport Information
in the Developed World and Developing World.
April 2004
- £222K
EPSRC grant awarded to Paul Curzon of the Interaction Design Centre
- Paul
Curzon of IDC has recently been awarded a £222K EPSRC grant
(GR/S67500/01) to study the formal verification and empirical
validation of interactive systems with a focus on human error.
January
2004
- Completed
PhDs - Congratulations to Kostas
Giannakis who completed his PhD entitled "Sound Mosaics:
A Graphical User Interface for Sound Synthesis based on Auditory-Visual
Associations" in July 2001.
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