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CS staff form part of Interdisciplinary Textiles Circularity Centre
12 December 2020
A multidisciplinary team of UCL researchers will co-lead the research strand on consumer experience. The team is drawn from several UCL departments and institutes (IOE, PALS and CS)
As part of the new Interdisciplinary Textiles Circularity Centre (UKRI, £5.4m) led by the Royal College of Art, a multidisciplinary team of UCL researchers will co-lead the research strand on consumer experience, seeking ways to engage people so they move from being consumers to co-creators of a sustainable product cycle. The team is drawn from several UCL departments and institutes:
Institute of Education
UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences (PALS)
and UCL Computer Science: Meet the CS team;
Dr Youngjun Cho (Lecturer, CS/UCLIC and GDI Hub at UCL)
"This new EPSRC Textiles Circularity Centre will support us to improve inclusion in textile consumer experience throughout co-design of interactive consumer interfaces"
Prof. Nadia Berthouze (UCL UCLIC/PALS)
Bringing together a very interdisciplinary team and involvement of diverse stakeholders and consumers, the centre will drive technological innovation for supporting engagement with new renewable material through the delivery of enhanced and novel sensory experiences
Professor of Multisensory Interfaces at UCL UCLIC, Marianna Obrist:
““Understanding consumers and how they experience reused materials will be increasingly important to material circularity and resource flow. The Centre will provide us with the unique opportunity to explore the use of emerging multisensory technologies to engage consumers in digitally immersive experiences and services that amplify couplings between the resource flow, human well-being and satisfaction.”
And its other UCL collaborators:
Prof. Carey Jewitt (KLab, CCM, IoE)
Prof. Aikaterini Fotopoulou, (CEHP, PALS)