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 - 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 - A Survey of Coreference and Zeros Resolution for Arabic
Aloraini A Yu J Aliady W Poesio M
Acm Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Association For Computing Machinery (Acm) vol. 24 (10), 1-24.
29-09-2025
Recent Grants
- KTP Collaboration Agreement with UoE and Cooper Parry
Yunfei Long
£11,086 Innovate UK
26-02-2026 - 05-01-2028 - Improving motor learning via haptic human-human and human-robot interaction
Ekaterina Ivanova
£12,000 Royal Society
24-03-2025 - 23-03-2027 - 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