University of Leicester, ULEIC (UK)

The University of Leicester is amongst the top 200 world’s best universities and the top 20 Britain’s. Currently, it has about 23,000 students (under- and post-graduates; on campus and distance) and 3,800 staff. ULEIC participates in Go-Lab through the Department of Computer Science, which is young and dynamic in the midst of rapid expansion. Research in the Department is structured in several areas. An increasingly strong research area grounded in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is “Interaction Design & Evaluation of Socio-technical Systems” (IDEAS) which contributes to a number of EU and national projects. These include PROLEARN, iCamp, Merlab, 80Days, iCOPER, ROLE, and TwinTide. The major role that the Department plays in these projects is evaluation and validation, which is one of its major strengths. Applied computing issues addressed in several EU-funded ICT projects have provided rich contexts for IDEAS to explore UCD methodologies. 

In Go-Lab, ULEIC leads WP3 (Participatory Design) to which its strong HCI expertise and experience can contribute.  For  instance,  in  the  project  80Days,  ULEIC  has  applied  Participatory Design  to  get  children actively involved in designing the educational game prototypes for learning geography. In ROLE, ULEIC has augmented the requirements engineering approach to understand and capture distributed stakeholders’ requirements with the use of various social media. ULEIC is also involved in WP1 (Pedagogical Framework) and WP8 (Validation).

Address: University of Leicester, Department of Computer Science, LE1 7RH Leicester, United Kingdom
Contact: Dr. Effie Lai-Chong Law
Tel.: 44 (0) 116 252 5341
Fax: 44 (0) 116 252 3604

eMail: elawATmcs.le.ac.uk