UCLIC Director Elected to the CHI Academy :> Yvonne Rogers, the director of the UCL INTERACTION CENTRE (UCLIC), has been elected to the CHI Academy. Membership of the Academy is awarded by SIGCHI - the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction

SIGCHI states that; "The CHI Academy is an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of human-computer interaction. These are the principal leaders of the field, whose efforts have shaped the disciplines and/or industry, and led the research and/or innovation in human-computer interaction." 

UCL-CS has completed its first International Software Engineering (ISE) event:> Led by Dr. Dean Mohamedally a party of Software Systems Engineering and UCL-CS students collaborated with Japanese students in a robot programing task. The event was hosted by TopSE at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo Japan.

Dr. Mohamedally reports: "Our students were given an extensive one week project to construct a robotics solution using full software engineering methodologies using mixed teams from UCL-CS and NII Tokyo ... All of the robotics tasks were completed ahead of schedule".

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