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
- Family lexicon: Using language models to encode memories of personally familiar and famous people and places in the brain
Bruera A and Poesio M
Plos One, Public Library of Science (Plos) vol. 19 (11)
22-11-2024 - During haptic communication, the central nervous system compensates distinctly for delay and noise
Eden J, Ivanova E and Burdet E
Plos Computational Biology, Public Library of Science (Plos) vol. 20 (11)
06-11-2024 - The Automated Verification of Textual Claims (AVeriTeC) Shared Task
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
The Seventh Workshop on Fact Extraction and Verification (FEVER).
01-11-2024
Recent Grants
- Chronic Obstructive pulmonary disease-MultiPle Long tErm conditions and Assistive Technology
Ratna Sohanpal, Stephanie Taylor, Jamie Ross, Nina Fudge, Charlotte Edwards Roscamp, Veronica Toffolutti, Pat Healey, Zion Tse and Mohammad Hassannezhad
£92,754 NIHR National Institute for Health Research
03-02-2025 - 02-05-2026 - 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