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HCI ExplainedUser-Centered Design: More Than Just Talking to Users #HCIExplainedIn today's fast-paced technological landscape, "User-Centered Design" (UCD) is a term often thrown around, but its true depth and transformative power are frequently misunderstood. Too many assume it's simply about conducting a single usability test or a quick user interview. But as this episode will reveal, UCD is a far more comprehensive, dynamic, and profoundly evolving practice that reshapes how we build products and experiences.Join us as we embark on a journey to uncover what UCD truly means, moving beyond superficial understandings to explore its fundamental principles and pervasive influence. We'll delve into the iterative nature...
2025-07-0923 min
ADAPT RadioArtistic Approaches to Ethical AIYou cannot move an inch these days without encountering takes on the future of AI and technology, and concerns about how it may impact our lives for better or worse.
Today we're talking about new ways to approach the ethics of AI and digital technologies and what research is being done to answer the questions and the dilemmas these new technologies raise.
Our experts today are from the ADAPT Centre and are researching alternative methods of ethical and critical thinking in the design of digital technologies and AI.
They are Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Communication Studies...
2024-04-0236 min
CITO ConversationsInvestigate the frontline with Laura Lucia Parolin and Carmen PellegrinelliThis seminar is titled "Investigate the frontline: performing an affective ethnography in a theatre workshop" by Laura Lucia Parolin, University of Southern Denmark & Carmen Pellegrinelli, University of LaplandLaura is an ethnographer who uses the Latourian ANT approach, familiar with SCOT and HCI, Carmen is a theatre director, producer, and playwright. Their research is in the areas of materiality, affectivity and embodiment examining diverse empirical settings. They will present work-in-progress that on an affective ethnography of a theatrical laboratory organised for/by the hospital staff in Bergamo as a form of collective therapy. If you remember...
2023-03-0636 min
ADAPT RadioRobert Ross and Ben Cowan: AI & Chat GPTChat GPT has taken the AI world by storm as a bot that can generate text in conversational human style.
So does this spell the end of students spending hours on homework or college assignments? What does the future hold for this type of generative AI?
Dr Robert Ross (School of Computing at TUD) and Dr. Benjamin Cowan (Associate Professor UCD) explain the pro’s and con’s of the AI and what the future holds.
TOPICS WE DISCUSSED INCLUDE
(01.10) What chat GPT is, and how it is different to chat systems that have gone before
(03.54) ChatGPT comes across as conf...
2023-01-3035 min
HCI @ UCDNovember 2020: Shamsi IqbalAs our work environments and work practices rapidly evolves as a result of the changing landscape of work, what we…
2020-11-1827 minHCI @ UCDJanuary 2020: Brendan SpillaneBias has been a factor of news since time immemorial. A wide range of studies have shown that for radio,…
2020-02-0200 min2019-12-0500 minHCI @ UCDOctober 2019: Sarah FoleyFocusing on the person with advanced dementia as a social being presents a new opportunity for Experience-Centered Design (ECD), opening design to appreciate the agency and intentional actions of the person with advanced dementia.
2019-10-2500 minHCI @ UCDOctober 2019: Sarah FoleyFocusing on the person with advanced dementia as a social being presents a new opportunity for Experience-Centered Design (ECD), opening…
2019-10-2500 min2019-06-0100 minHCI @ UCDMay 2019: Lucy YardleyLucy Yardley from University of Southampton and University of Bristol joins to discuss the LifeGuide Toolbox and the Person-Based Approach…
2019-06-0100 min
Robots on TypewritersEpisode 49: Burgoo King (w/ Carter Barker)This week, our friend Kayla joins and tells us about some interesting assistive technology! Justin serves us a bunch of tiny hats topped by one big Max Woolf-created hat. Then, Allison hosts another installment of RNN (Real, Net, Nik) and Justin and Kayla compete to pick real from fake thoroughbred horse names!
HCI @ UCD Podcast
Robots on Typewriters GitHub
Robots on Typewriters Glossary
Max Woolf's AI Headlines
Email Us: robots@batcamp.org
Follow us on Twitter: @RobotTypewriter
Follow Allison: @allisonperrrone
Visit www.batcamp.org for more projects like this one!
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“Video Challenge” by A...
2019-05-0150 min2019-04-2600 minHCI @ UCDApril 2019: Sean RintelSean Rintel from Microsoft Research UK joins to discuss video conferencing, disaster memes, and his signature email salutation
2019-04-2600 min2019-04-2200 minHCI @ UCDHCI@UCD Podcast – IntroductionWelcome to HCI@UCD, a monthly interview with our human-computer interaction seminar series guests at University College Dublin
2019-04-1200 min
Bat CampHCI@UCD Podcast – IntroductionWelcome to HCI@UCD, a monthly interview with our human-computer interaction seminar series guests at University College Dublin
2019-04-1200 min