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Africa, ChatGPT, and Generative AI Systems: Ethical Benefits, Concerns, and the Need for Governance (2024)
Journal Article
Wakunuma, K., & Eke, D. (2024). Africa, ChatGPT, and Generative AI Systems: Ethical Benefits, Concerns, and the Need for Governance. Philosophies, 9(3), Article 80. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9030080

This paper examines the impact and implications of ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies within the African context while looking at the ethical benefits and concerns that are particularly pertinent to the continent. Through a robust analysis... Read More about Africa, ChatGPT, and Generative AI Systems: Ethical Benefits, Concerns, and the Need for Governance.

"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, 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.

Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Benford, S. D., Mancini, C., Chamberlain, A., Schneiders, E., Castle-Green, S. D., Fischer, J. E., …Row Farr, J. (2024). Charting Ethical Tensions in Multispecies Technology Research through Beneficiary-Epistemology Space. In CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641994

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.

Communication, Collaboration, and Coordination in a Co-located Shared Augmented Reality Game: Perspectives From Deaf and Hard of Hearing People (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Luna, S. M., Xu, J., Papangelis, K., Tigwell, G. W., Lalone, N., Saker, M., …Wang, Y. (2024). Communication, Collaboration, and Coordination in a Co-located Shared Augmented Reality Game: Perspectives From Deaf and Hard of Hearing People. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA (1-14). https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642953

Co-located collaborative shared augmented reality (CS-AR) environments have gained considerable research attention, mainly focusing on design, implementation, accuracy, and usability. Yet, a gap persists in our understanding regarding the accessibili... Read More about Communication, Collaboration, and Coordination in a Co-located Shared Augmented Reality Game: Perspectives From Deaf and Hard of Hearing People.

Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Schneiders, E., Benford, S., Chamberlain, A., Mancini, C., Castle-Green, S., Ngo, V., …Fischer, J. (2024). Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA (1-16). https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642115

We reflect on the design of a multispecies world centred around a be-spoke 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 proj... Read More about Designing Multispecies Worlds for Robots, Cats, and Humans.

Understanding Entrainment in Human Groups: Optimising Human-Robot Collaboration from Lessons Learned during Human-Human Collaboration (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Schneiders, E., Fourie, C., Celestin, S., Shah, J., & Jung, M. (2024). Understanding Entrainment in Human Groups: Optimising Human-Robot Collaboration from Lessons Learned during Human-Human Collaboration. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA (1-13). https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642427

Successful entrainment during collaboration positively affects trust, willingness to collaborate, and likeability towards collaborators. In this paper, we present a mixed-method study to investigate characteristics of successful entrainment leading t... Read More about Understanding Entrainment in Human Groups: Optimising Human-Robot Collaboration from Lessons Learned during Human-Human Collaboration.

Insights Into Legacy: Issues of Handover from a Partner-Initiated Project (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Thorn, E., Spence, J., Koleva, B., & Benford, S. D. (2024). Insights Into Legacy: Issues of Handover from a Partner-Initiated Project. In CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642620

We report on a six-year collaboration with a small community organisation to develop and deploy a permanent physical / digital locative media experience as part on an ongoing community regeneration project. We describe how this unfolded over four pha... Read More about Insights Into Legacy: Issues of Handover from a Partner-Initiated Project.

Jess+: AI and robotics with inclusive music-making (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Vear, C., Hazzard, A., Moroz, S., & Benerradi, J. (2024). Jess+: AI and robotics with inclusive music-making. In CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-17). https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642548

This paper discusses the findings from a cross-sector research project investigating how a digital score created using AI and robotics might stimulate new creative opportunities and relationships within the practices of an inclusive music ensemble. T... Read More about Jess+: AI and robotics with inclusive music-making.

Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance (2024)
Journal Article
Ochang, P., Eke, D., & Stahl, B. C. (2024). Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance. Neuroethics, 17(2), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-024-09558-1

Advances in neuroscience and other disciplines are producing large-scale brain data consisting of datasets from multiple organisms, disciplines, and jurisdictions in different formats. However, due to the lack of an international data governance fram... Read More about Perceptions on the Ethical and Legal Principles that Influence Global Brain Data Governance.

Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Vear, C., Poltronieri, F., DiDonato, B., Zhang, Y., Benerradi, J., Hutchinson, S., …Malekmohamadi, H. (2024). Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (373-388). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56992-0_24

In this paper, we present our findings of the design, development and deployment of a proof-of-concept dataset that captures some of the physiological, musicological, and psychological aspects of embodied musicking. After outlining the conceptual ele... Read More about Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making.

How Personal Value Orientations Influence Behaviors in Digital Citizen Science (2024)
Journal Article
Jeong, E., Jackson, C., Dowthwaite, L., Johnson, C., & Trouille, L. (2024). How Personal Value Orientations Influence Behaviors in Digital Citizen Science. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3637341

While much research has examined motivations for contributing to citizen science projects, few studies have considered the role of personal values in directing citizen scientists' interactions and contribution patterns. We investigated whether person... Read More about How Personal Value Orientations Influence Behaviors in Digital Citizen Science.

Constructing selection hyper-heuristics for open vehicle routing with time delay neural networks using multiple experts (2024)
Journal Article
Tyasnurita, R., Özcan, E., Drake, J. H., & Asta, S. (2024). Constructing selection hyper-heuristics for open vehicle routing with time delay neural networks using multiple experts. Knowledge-Based Systems, 295, Article 111731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2024.111731

Hyper-heuristics are general purpose search methods for solving computationally difficult problems. A selection hyper-heuristic is composed of two key components: a heuristic selection method and move acceptance criterion. Under an iterative single-p... Read More about Constructing selection hyper-heuristics for open vehicle routing with time delay neural networks using multiple experts.

Global oceanic mesoscale eddies trajectories prediction with knowledge-fused neural network (2024)
Journal Article
Zhang, X., Huang, B., Chen, G., Ge, L., Radenkovic, M., & Hou, G. (2024). Global oceanic mesoscale eddies trajectories prediction with knowledge-fused neural network. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 62, Article 4205214. https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2024.3388040

Efficient eddy trajectory prediction driven by multiinformation fusion can facilitate the scientific research of oceanography, while the complicated dynamics mechanism makes this issue challenging. Benefiting from ocean observing technology, the eddy... Read More about Global oceanic mesoscale eddies trajectories prediction with knowledge-fused neural network.

brainlife.io: a decentralized and open-source cloud platform to support neuroscience research (2024)
Journal Article
Hayashi, S., Caron, B. A., Heinsfeld, A. S., Vinci-Booher, S., McPherson, B., Bullock, D. N., …Pestilli, F. (2024). brainlife.io: a decentralized and open-source cloud platform to support neuroscience research. Nature Methods, 21, 809-813. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02237-2

Neuroscience is advancing standardization and tool development to support rigor and transparency. Consequently, data pipeline complexity has increased, hindering FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) access. brainlife.io was develop... Read More about brainlife.io: a decentralized and open-source cloud platform to support neuroscience research.

Improving immersive consumption contexts using virtual & mixed reality (2024)
Journal Article
Barker, I., Yang, Q., Flintham, M., Ankeny, R., & Ford, R. (2024). Improving immersive consumption contexts using virtual & mixed reality. Science Talks, 10, Article 100346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sctalk.2024.100346

Immersive technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR), provide a great opportunity to create relevant contexts in consumer studies. However, challenges persist in consuming food and drink during immersion and ensuring effective data collection. This s... Read More about Improving immersive consumption contexts using virtual & mixed reality.

"Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic"? Feasibility, Fairness, and Ethical Concerns of a Citizen Carbon Budget for Reducing CO2 Emissions (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Reyes-Cruz, G., Craigon, P., Piskopani, A., Dowthwaite, L., Lu, Y., Lisinska, J., …Fischer, J. (in press). "Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic"? Feasibility, Fairness, and Ethical Concerns of a Citizen Carbon Budget for Reducing CO2 Emissions. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3630106.3658904

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.

Precision computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) for adolescents with depression: a pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial protocol for SPARX-UK (2024)
Journal Article
Khan, K., Hall, C. L., Babbage, C., Dodzo, S., Greenhalgh, C., Lucassen, M., …Hollis, C. (2024). Precision computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) for adolescents with depression: a pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial protocol for SPARX-UK. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 10(1), Article 53. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-024-01475-7

Background : A serious game called SPARX (Smart, Positive, Active, Realistic, X-factor thoughts), originally developed in New Zealand and incorporating cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) principles, has been shown to help reduce symptoms of depressi... Read More about Precision computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) for adolescents with depression: a pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial protocol for SPARX-UK.

Deep Reinforcement Learning Assisted Genetic Programming Ensemble Hyper-Heuristics for Dynamic Scheduling of Container Port Trucks (2024)
Journal Article
Chen, X., Bai, R., Qu, R., Dong, J., & Jin, Y. (2024). Deep Reinforcement Learning Assisted Genetic Programming Ensemble Hyper-Heuristics for Dynamic Scheduling of Container Port Trucks. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, https://doi.org/10.1109/tevc.2024.3381042

Efficient truck dispatching is crucial for optimizing container terminal operations within dynamic and complex scenarios. Despite good progress being made recently with more advanced uncertainty-handling techniques, existing approaches still have gen... Read More about Deep Reinforcement Learning Assisted Genetic Programming Ensemble Hyper-Heuristics for Dynamic Scheduling of Container Port Trucks.

The Purr-suit of Happiness: A Tale of Three Kittens, Robots, Humans, Cats, and AI (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Schneiders, E., Benford, S., Row Farr, J., Tandavanitj, N., & Adams, M. (2024). The Purr-suit of Happiness: A Tale of Three Kittens, Robots, Humans, Cats, and AI. In HRI ’24 Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3640791

This paper showcases Cat Royale, an exploration of the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on animal happiness situated at the intersection of Art, Computer Science, and Animal Welfare. We argue for the inclusion of non-human actors when designing... Read More about The Purr-suit of Happiness: A Tale of Three Kittens, Robots, Humans, Cats, and AI.