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.
News
Recent Publications
- Mono- and cross-lingual evaluation of representation language models on less-resourced languages
Ulčar M Žagar A Armendariz CS Repar A Pollak S Purver M Robnik-Šikonja M
Computer Speech & Language, Elsevier vol. 95, 101852-101852.
01-01-2026 - Referential ambiguity and clarification requests: comparing human and LLM behaviour
Madge C Purver M Poesio M
Eighth Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference.
01-11-2025 - Data Matters Most: Auditing Social Bias in Contrastive Vision Language Models
Sahili ZA Patras I Purver M
Transactions on Machine Learning Research
26-10-2025
Recent Grants
- (PROCLAIM) Polarization, Radicalization and extremism Online identifying Covert hate speech in state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence technologies and social Media - PI Zubiaga - QM is partner
Arkaitz Zubiaga
£366,743 EU Commission - Horizon Europe
01-10-2026 - 30-09-2029 - Frontier AI Discovery - Fundamental AI
Maria Liakata
£41,351 Innovate UK
01-10-2026 - 31-12-2026 - KTP Collaboration Agreement with UoE and Cooper Parry
Yunfei Long
£11,086 Innovate UK
26-02-2026 - 05-01-2028