Alan Blackwell

Name:	Alan Blackwell
Affiliation:	Cambridge: Computer Laboratory and Crucible
E-mail:	(only provided to users who are logged into talks.cam)
Last login:	11 Mar 2026, 9:20 a.m.

Public lists managed by Alan Blackwell

• All CRASSH events
• Cafe RSA
• CHUCOL seminars
• Computer Laboratory generic skills courses
• Crucible/Microsoft HCI Reading Group
• Darwin Lectures and Seminars
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Interdisciplinary Design: Debates and Seminars
• Major Public Lectures in Cambridge
• Rainbow Group Seminars

Talks given by Alan Blackwell

Obviously this only lists talks that are listed through talks.cam. Furthermore, this facility only works if the speaker's e-mail was specified in a talk. Most talks have not done this.

• Ethics of Big Data in practice: Inside an Ethics Committee
• Are Machine Learning Systems Unethical?
• Introduction to the Rainbow Group
• Student Design Project Presentations

Talks organised by Alan Blackwell

This list is based on what was entered into the 'organiser' field in a talk. It may not mean that Alan Blackwell actually organised the talk, they may have been responsible only for entering the talk into the talks.cam system.

• Frontier Thinking: Designing Next Generation User Experiences
• Pose and Pathsoformel in Aby Warburg's Bilderatlas
• What is code?
• Are Machine Learning Systems Unethical?
• Automatic human behaviour understanding
• Automatic Recognition of Human Affect and Social Signals
• Tree-Structured Classifiers for Pose Estimation
• Advances in Robust Deformable Object Alignment
• From high dynamic range to perceptual realism
• Computer Vision Systems for Real-World Use
• Two talks on visual analytics
• Authoring in the Fluidic group of projects
• Introduction to the Rainbow Group
• Working with councils to create low carbon towns and cities
• Working with councils to create low carbon towns and cities
• Interactive music technology - demo session
• Exhibition of Student Design Projects
• How do we program the home? Gender, attention investment, and the psychology of programming at home.
• “Resistance is Futile”: Reading Science Fiction Alongside Ubiquitous Computing
• Affective computing: problems, reactions and intentions
• Evaluating user interface systems research
• What Is Good? – A Comparison Between The Quality Criteria Used In Design And Science
• Unpacking a Timesheet: Formalisation and Representation
• Computational Thinking
• Getting to Grips with Technology
• Web 2.0
• Designing for Usability: Key Principles and What Designers Think
• Assessing Dimensions of Perceived Visual Aesthetics of Web Sites
• Learn how to use MatLab
• Design parameters of rating scales for web sites
• Do artifacts have politics?
• Climate Change DIY
• How HCI Interprets the Probes
• Composer in residence conversation
• Arts & Ecology
• Moving on from Weiser's Vision of Calm Computing: engaging UbiComp experiences
• How expert engineering teams use disciplines of innovation
• Emotion recognition in human-computer interaction
• Using action research in information systems design to address change: a South African health information systems case study
• Embodiment and the Sciences of the Mind
• Start of term introduction
• Start of term
• Rethinking Information and Space in Ubiquitous Computing
• Understanding Non-Literacy as a Barrier to Mobile Phone Communication
• Design Research in Academia, Consultancy and the Corporation
• Older People as a focus for Inclusive Design
• Making by making strange: Defamiliarization and the design of domestic technologies
• Implications for Design
• The organizational theory of sexiness
• Cumulative underdevelopment in Brazil: viewing growth through the demand side keyhole
• "The Past is a Foreign Country"? Representations of Greece in the Travel Literature of Nikos Kazantzakis & Lawrence Durrell
• Project Ernestine: Validating a GOMS analysis for predicting and explaining real-world performance
• The invention of the cartographic tradition of the terra australis incognita in the context of the scientific tradition of the XVI century
• The Tipping Point: Human Behaviour and the Takeoff Phenomenon of New Technologies
• How can we talk about the world? Likely cosmology in Platos Timaeus
• Is there any reason why we should do design as research in Cambridge?
• Parents and Children doing Homework: Cycles of Self-Regulated Learning
• An evaluation of integrated zooming and scrolling on small screens
• Management and Multiple Identities
• Hunting Stone Age hunters and herders: a southern African perspective
• The streamlined cognitive walkthrough method, working around social constraints encountered in a software development company
• An archaeological perspective on trade and travel in the Eastern Desert of Egypt
• New Questions from Old Hands: Outlines of human representation in the Palaeolithic
• "Things that talk": the voices of Victorian objects
• Science and political debate in ancient China
• User interface design with matrix algebra.
• The People of Anglo-Saxon England
• Nature or Nurture? Does early childhood development predict mental illness in adulthood?
• Alliance of Net Contributors? The British Budgetary Question - Germany and the UK in the EC
• Bounding Rational Analysis: Constraints on the Approach to Optimality
• Wicked Problems Revisited
• Let's stop pushing the envelope and start addressing it: a reference task agenda for HCI
• An activity theory approach to affordance
• What we talk about when we talk about context
• Funding a Design Research Cluster
• The Next Big Thing - Proposals and Programmes
• Art and Science - Funding, Theories and Careers