News
May 2026
Marcus Pearce delivers keynote address at two conferences
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
4 May 2026Marcus Pearce has delivered two keynote addresses at the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) 2026 conference at the University of Cambridge and at the International Conference on Music and Sleep at Aarhus University, Denmark. These presentations follow the publication of his book Learning to listen, listening to learn ... [more]
April 2026
Queen Mary hosts inaugural event of new London Interdisciplinary Music Research Initiative
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
30 April 2026Yesterday (29th April 2026), the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), part of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, hosted the inaugural event of the London Interdisciplinary Music Research Initiative (LIMRI) - bringing together leading researchers and practitioners from across London to explore the science, scholarship, and art of ... [more]
Dan Gill gives CS in Academia Industry Talk
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
29 April 2026Cognitive Science group PhD student Daniel Gill gave a CS in Academia Industry Talk to the Computer Science Society at the University of Lincoln. Dan's PhD concerns the Identification of Interactive Motion Patterns in Neurodivergent Children and Adults. He is using a robotic system to experimentally investigate how neurodivergent people ... [more]
Flip the Script: supporting better university progression
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
21 April 2026Paul Curzon and Edmund Robinson were part of the expert panel at the Flip the Script participatory design workshop at the British Computer Society offices. The aim of the meeting was to co-develop a new practice model that can help Computing departments across the UK to support better progression and ... [more]
March 2026
Humans vs Vision-Language Models
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
26 March 2026Shalom Lappin is part of a team centred at the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) at the University of Gothenburg that have published new work on a comparison of Humans vs Vision-Language Models It proposes a unified way to measure narrative coherence in writing about about ... [more]
Ekaterina Ivanova: Using haptic coupling enhances children's handwriting
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
25 March 2026A team including Ekaterina Ivanova from the Centre for Human-Centred Computing have a paper published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Haptics. It shows that physically linking a child with a more experienced writer through a haptic interface when practicing handwriting leads to improvement in their handwriting skill. Abstract: The ... [more]
Ekaterina Ivanova: Haptic Coupling to Negotiate Motion Plans
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
5 March 2026Ekaterina Ivanova is part of a team to have research published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. They investigated how two people, when mechanically connected and had to achieve some task together coordinated their plans of what to do. In this study they started with ... [more]
February 2026
Queen Mary Spinout Dragonfly AI Secures £5m to Accelerate Global Growth
Faculty of Science and Engineering
12 February 2026Queen Mary University of London is celebrating the success of its spinout company Dragonfly AI, which has secured £5 million in new investment to fuel its next phase of international expansion and product innovation. Dragonfly AI, co-founded by Dr Hamit Soyel, Chief Scientist and inventor of the underlying technology, has rapidly ... [more]
Ekaterina Ivanova has been appointed an Associate Editor for EuroHaptics 2026 and the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
1 February 2026Ekaterina Ivanova has recently been made an Associate Editor for two different conferences. The first EuroHaptics 2026 takes place in Siena, Italy in July. It is a world renowned event that brings together the brightest and most innovative minds in the field of haptic perception and technology. Those attending will experience ... [more]
Grant on Identification of Sensory-Motor Patterns of Autism
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
1 February 2026Ekaterina Ivanova and Rachael Bedford have been awarded a grant from the QMUL CIRCLE Fund to run a pilot study to identify the Sensory-Motor Patterns of Autism. It runs until the end of 2026, and is worth £7,873.16 The main objective of the project is to investigate differences in interaction motion patterns ... [more]
January 2026
Grant on the Impact of Semantic Waves
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
1 January 2026Paul Curzon and Jo Brodie have been awarded a QMUL Impact grant of £8,712 to investigate the impact of Paul's research on Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). Paul Curzon's research with Jane Waite and Karl Maton of the University of Sydney has shown how the Semantics dimension of LCT provides a way ... [more]
Women in Higher Education Network plus grant
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
1 January 2026Ekaterina Ivanova and Anna Xambo Sedo have been awarded a grant from the QMUL Erica fund worth £13,200 to support the Women in Higher Education Network plus (WHEN+), until July 2027. The Women in Higher Education Network (WHEN) was founded in 2023 at EECS with the aim of building a strong and sustainable ... [more]