Professor JOEL FISCHER's Outputs (8)

Technology for Environmental Policy: Exploring Perceptions, Values, and Trust in a Citizen Carbon Budget App (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dowthwaite, L., Reyes-Cruz, G., Lu, Y., Lisinska, J., Craigon, P., Piskopani, A.-M., Shafipour, E., Stein, S., & Fischer, J. (2024, September). Technology for Environmental Policy: Exploring Perceptions, Values, and Trust in a Citizen Carbon Budget App. Presented at TAS '24: Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Austin, Texas, USA

Personal Carbon Allowances (PCAs) are a policy idea for reducing individual carbon emissions, originally proposed in the UK in the 1990s, but promptly discarded due to concerns about low public acceptability and technological limitations. Decades lat... Read More about Technology for Environmental Policy: Exploring Perceptions, Values, and Trust in a Citizen Carbon Budget App.

Design and Evaluation of a Tool to assist Small-Medium Organisations (SMOs) to implement Automated Decision-Making (ADM). (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baguley, K., Fischer, J., & Hyde, R. (2024, September). Design and Evaluation of a Tool to assist Small-Medium Organisations (SMOs) to implement Automated Decision-Making (ADM). Presented at Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Austin, Texas

We present a new prototype tool intended to enable SMOs without specialist expertise in the area to implement Automated Decision-Making (ADM) with confidence. We report on the design and (briefly) evaluation of the tool, demonstrating the potential u... Read More about Design and Evaluation of a Tool to assist Small-Medium Organisations (SMOs) to implement Automated Decision-Making (ADM)..

Telepresence Robots for Remote Participation in Higher Education (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hu, J., Reyes Cruz, G., Fischer, J., & Maior, H. A. (2024, June). Telepresence Robots for Remote Participation in Higher Education. Presented at CHIWORK 2024, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Telepresence robotics enable people to synchronously communicate and interact at a distance. The Covid-19 pandemic caused in-person teaching and research activities to migrate online in almost all society sectors (including higher education). In hybr... Read More about Telepresence Robots for Remote Participation in Higher Education.

"Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic"? Feasibility, Fairness, and Ethical Concerns of a Citizen Carbon Budget for Reducing CO2 Emissions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Craigon, P., Piskopani, A.-M., Dowthwaite, L., Lu, Y., Lisinska, J., Shafipour, E., Stein, S., & Fischer, J. (2024, June). "Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic"? Feasibility, Fairness, and Ethical Concerns of a Citizen Carbon Budget for Reducing CO2 Emissions. Presented at FAccT '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Radical and disruptive interventions are needed to reach "Net Zero" by 2050 to avert the climate catastrophe. Although governments, companies, cities, and institutions have pledged to take action and reduce their carbon emissions, the idea of persona... Read More about "Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic"? Feasibility, Fairness, and Ethical Concerns of a Citizen Carbon Budget for Reducing CO2 Emissions.

“The ChatGPT bot is causing panic now – but it’ll soon be as mundane a tool as Excel”: analysing topics, sentiment and emotions relating to ChatGPT on Twitter (2024)
Journal Article
Heaton, D., Clos, J., Nichele, E., & Fischer, J. E. (2024). “The ChatGPT bot is causing panic now – but it’ll soon be as mundane a tool as Excel”: analysing topics, sentiment and emotions relating to ChatGPT on Twitter. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 28, 875–894. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01811-x

ChatGPT, a sophisticated chatbot system by OpenAI, gained significant attention and adoption in 2022 and 2023. By generating human-like conversations, it attracted over 100 million monthly users; however, there are concerns about the social impact of... Read More about “The ChatGPT bot is causing panic now – but it’ll soon be as mundane a tool as Excel”: analysing topics, sentiment and emotions relating to ChatGPT on Twitter.

Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schneiders, E., Benford, S., Chamberlain, A., Mancini, C., Castle-Green, S., Ngo, V., Row Farr, J., Adams, M., Tandavanitj, N., & Fischer, J. (2024, May). Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans. Presented at CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), Honolulu, HI, USA

We reflect on the design of a multispecies world centred around a bespoke enclosure in which three cats and a robot arm coexist for six hours a day during a twelve-day installation as part of an artist-led project. In this paper, we present the proje... Read More about Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans.

Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S. D., Mancini, C., Chamberlain, A., Schneiders, E., Castle-Green, S. D., Fischer, J. E., Kucukyilmaz, A., Salimbeni, G., Ngo, V. Z. H., Barnard, P., Adams, M., Tandavanitj, N., & Row Farr, J. (2024, May). Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space. Presented at CHI '24 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hawaii, USA

While ethical challenges are widely discussed in HCI, far less is reported about the ethical processes that researchers routinely navigate. We reflect on a multispecies project that negotiated an especially complex ethical approval process. Cat Royal... Read More about Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space.

The Effect of Predictive Formal Modelling at Runtime on Performance in Human-Swarm Interaction (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abioye, A. O., Hunt, W., Gu, Y., Schneiders, E., Naiseh, M., Fischer, J. E., Ramchurn, S. D., Soorati, M. D., Archibald, B., & Sevegnani, M. (2024, March). The Effect of Predictive Formal Modelling at Runtime on Performance in Human-Swarm Interaction. Presented at HRI '24: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Boulder CO USA

Formal Modelling is often used as part of the design and testing process of software development to ensure that components operate within suitable bounds even in unexpected circumstances. In this paper, we use predictive formal modelling (PFM) at run... Read More about The Effect of Predictive Formal Modelling at Runtime on Performance in Human-Swarm Interaction.