Submission deadline extended: New deadline Friday 6th July, 2012 Submissions are invited for the workshop on, “People, Computers, and Psychotherapy,” which will be run in conjunction with BCS HCI 2012 (http://hci2012.bcs.org/index.html) in Birmingham, UK in September 2012. There is an urgent and identified need for technology-led interventions for common mental health problems. The successful delivery [...]
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Shaun’s Inaugral Lecture – Seriously Connected: Changing Behaviour Through Social Media
Shaun Lawson, Director of the Lincoln Social Computing (LiSC) Research Centre and Professor in Social Computing, will deliver his inaugral lecture entitled Seriously Connected: Changing Behaviour Through Social Media, taking place on 1 May. Since co-founding LiSC in 2006 – just ahead of the phenomenal interest in services such as Facebook and Twitter – Professor [...]
Research Update: Agent Based Crowd Simulation In Airports Using Games Technology.
PhD student Olivier Szymanezyk is currently working on a framework to simulate real-time pedestrian motion in an airport environment using a scalable layered intelligence technique, a physics middleware and the social force model. Olivier and his supervisors Patrick Dickinson and Tom Duckett have recently published their crowd simulation work in papers entitled “Towards agent-based crowd simulation [...]
Preparing for CHI 2012 in Austin, Texas
A quick update about the upcoming CHI 2012 conference, which is taking place from May 5-10th in Austin, Texas. A total of five members of LiSC are heading to the USA next month for CHI – the worlds leading HCI conference. If you are interested in the work we are doing and will be at [...]
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