• Human interaction!
  • Human-computer interfaces
  • Interactions across networks
  • Interaction between psychology and computing research

Welcome to The Centre for Human-Centred Computing

Computing technologies impact on almost every aspect of human life. Human-centered computing (HCC) puts people at the centre of the design, development and deployment of these technologies.  We focus on understanding people’s interests, needs and their lived experience.  We consider not just how a new technology affects individuals but also how it affects their communities and the environment they live in.    

We do this by combining theories and methods from anthropology, computer science, cognitive science, psychology and design. We follow the principles of responsible innovation and ensure the people who will use a technology are central to the processes of creating and testing it.  We aim to build systems that recognise diversity, promote inclusion and ensure equitable outcomes.  

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Recent Publications

  • Bruera A and Poesio M (2024). Family lexicon: Using language models to encode memories of personally familiar and famous people and places in the brain. PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science (PLoS) vol. 19 (11) 
    22-11-2024
  • Eden J, Ivanova E and Burdet E (2024). During haptic communication, the central nervous system compensates distinctly for delay and noise. PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science (PLoS) vol. 20 (11) 
    06-11-2024
  • Schlichtkrull M, Chen Y, Whitehouse C, Deng Z, Akhtar M, Aly R, Guo Z, Christodoulopoulos C, Cocarascu O, Mittal A, Thorne J and Vlachos A (2024). The Automated Verification of Textual Claims (AVeriTeC) Shared Task. The Seventh Workshop on Fact Extraction and Verification (FEVER)
    01-11-2024

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Recent Grants

Predicting the Impacts of Global Environmental Change on Ecological Networks
Athen Ma, Vito Latora and Pavel Kratina
£389,809 NERC Natural Environment Research Council (01-06-2024 - 31-05-2027)
Addressing socio-technical limitations of LLMs for medical and social computing
Maria Liakata, Julia Ive, Matthew Purver, Michael Schlichtkrull, Claude Chelala and Greg Slabaugh
£1,799,332 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-05-2024 - 31-03-2028)
Co-Creator for songwriters & producers: generative AI Creator tools to boost efficiency of the creative process
Mark Sandler, Haim Dubossarsky and Mathieu Barthet
£320,887 Innovate UK (01-04-2024 - 31-03-2025)

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