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Responsible AI in policing (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Webb, H., Fitzroy-Dale, N., Aqeel, S., Piskopani, A.-M., Stafford-Fraser, Q., Dowthwaite, L., McAuley, D., & Hargreaves, C. (2024, September). Responsible AI in policing. Presented at Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS '24), Austin, Texas, USA

The deployment of AI-driven technologies in policing is often welcomed as an opportunity to enhance efficiency in dealing with crime. At the same time, however, these technologies pose risks around data bias, data protection, accuracy and privacy. In... Read More about Responsible AI in policing.

The Earth, Brain, Health Commission: how to preserve mental health in a changing environment (2024)
Journal Article
Schumann, G., Barciela, R., Benegal, V., Bernard, A., Desrivieres, S., Feng, J., Gong, P., Heinz, A., Hunt, X., Jin, L., Luterbacher, J., Marquand, A., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Salomon, J., Schwalber, A., Shetty, S., Stahl, B., & Thompson, P. (2024). The Earth, Brain, Health Commission: how to preserve mental health in a changing environment. nature mental health, 2, 1121–1123. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-024-00314-1

Examining the Feasibility of AI-Generated Questions in Educational Settings (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zeghouani, O., Ali, Z., Simson Van Dijkhuizen, W., Wei Hong, J., & Clos, J. (2024, September). Examining the Feasibility of AI-Generated Questions in Educational Settings. Presented at Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS '24), Austin, Texas, USA

Educators face ever-growing time constraints, leading to poor work-life balance and a negative impact on work quality. Through their language generation capabilities, large language models offer an interesting avenue to ease this academic workload, a... Read More about Examining the Feasibility of AI-Generated Questions in Educational Settings.

A Multimethod Analysis of US Perspectives towards Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barnard, P., Boudouraki, A., & Clos, J. (2024, September). A Multimethod Analysis of US Perspectives towards Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. Presented at Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS '24), Austin, Texas

The Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub is a collabora-tive platform that aims to guide the development of autonomous systems that are safe, reliable, and ultimately trusted by society. Its mission is to address the challenges surrounding the gr... Read More about A Multimethod Analysis of US Perspectives towards Trustworthy Autonomous Systems.

A Taxonomy of Domestic Robot Failure Outcomes: Understanding the impact of failure on trustworthiness of domestic robots (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, H. R., Castle-Green, S., Chughtai, M., Dowthwaite, L., Kucukyilmaz, A., A. Maior, H. A., Ngo, V., Schneiders, E., & C. Stahl, B. (2024, September). A Taxonomy of Domestic Robot Failure Outcomes: Understanding the impact of failure on trustworthiness of domestic robots. Presented at Trustworthy Autonomous Systems International Symposium '24, Austin, Texas, USA

Domestic robots are fast becoming an integrated part of daily life. In anticipation of increased uptake of robotic assistants in the home, researchers and designers must investigate what makes domestic robotic interventions trustworthy or untrustwort... Read More about A Taxonomy of Domestic Robot Failure Outcomes: Understanding the impact of failure on trustworthiness of domestic robots.

Trustworthy Airspaces of the Future: Hopes and concerns of experts regarding Uncrewed Traffic Management systems (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
R. Cameron, H., McBride, N., Ochang, P., & C. Stahl, B. (2024, September). Trustworthy Airspaces of the Future: Hopes and concerns of experts regarding Uncrewed Traffic Management systems. Presented at Trustworthy Autonomous Systems International Symposium '24, Austin, Texas, USA

Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) such as drones are an increasingly mundane part of our skies, and are expected as an industry to undergo exponential growth in the coming decade. In order to monitor and manage the airspace, Uncrewed Traffic Management (... Read More about Trustworthy Airspaces of the Future: Hopes and concerns of experts regarding Uncrewed Traffic Management systems.

An Interdependence Frame for (Semi) Autonomous Robots: The Case of Mobile Robotic Telepresence (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Boudouraki, A., & Reyes-Cruz, G. (2024, September). An Interdependence Frame for (Semi) Autonomous Robots: The Case of Mobile Robotic Telepresence. Presented at TAS '24: Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Austin, Texas, USA

Technological advancements often promise to alleviate our reliance on one another through automating assistance. One such example is Mobile Robotic telePresence (MRP), which gives users the ability to move independently, whilst having a video call, b... Read More about An Interdependence Frame for (Semi) Autonomous Robots: The Case of Mobile Robotic Telepresence.

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.

Reimagining the Design of Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Reflections from a Hybrid Design Workshop (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Martinez Avila, J., Schneiders, E., & Boudouraki, A. (2024, September). Reimagining the Design of Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Reflections from a Hybrid Design Workshop. Presented at TAS '24: Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Austin, Texas, USA

Mobile robotic telepresence systems have been around for more than a decade, promising to improve on traditional video conferencing by enabling remote movement, and more recently, providing autonomous features for navigation, yet their use in the rea... Read More about Reimagining the Design of Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Reflections from a Hybrid Design Workshop.

Developing a process for assessing the safety of a digital mental health intervention and gaining regulatory approval: a case study and academic’s guide (2024)
Journal Article
Taher, R., Hall, C. L., Gomez Bergin, A. D., Gupta, N., Heaysman, C., Jacobsen, P., Kabir, T., Kalnad, N., Keppens, J., Hsu, C.-W., McGuire, P., Peters, E., Shergill, S., Stahl, D., Wensley Stock, B., & Yiend, J. (2024). Developing a process for assessing the safety of a digital mental health intervention and gaining regulatory approval: a case study and academic’s guide. Trials, 25, Article 604. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-024-08421-1

Background: The field of digital mental health has followed an exponential growth trajectory in recent years. While the evidence base has increased significantly, its adoption within health and care services has been slowed by several challenges, inc... Read More about Developing a process for assessing the safety of a digital mental health intervention and gaining regulatory approval: a case study and academic’s guide.

Explain the world – Using causality to facilitate better rules for fuzzy systems (2024)
Journal Article
Zhang, T., Wagner, C., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2024). Explain the world – Using causality to facilitate better rules for fuzzy systems. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1109/TFUZZ.2024.3457962

The rules of a rule-based system provide explanations for its behaviour by revealing the relationships between the variables captured. However, ideally, we have AI systems which go beyond explainable AI (XAI), that is, systems which not only explain... Read More about Explain the world – Using causality to facilitate better rules for fuzzy systems.

The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum (2024)
Journal Article
Mediastika, C. E., Sudarsono, A. S., Utami, S. S., Setiawan, T., Mansell, J. G., Santosa, R. B., Wiratama, A., Yanti, R. J., & Cliffe, L. (2024). The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum. Built Heritage, 8(1), Article 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00145-0

Kotagede, the capital of the ancient Mataram Kingdom and currently an area in the Yogyakarta Province of Indonesia, is known as a ‘real living museum’. It was previously a residential area with many vital premises and heritage buildings that became a... Read More about The sound heritage of Kotagede: the evolving soundscape of a living museum.

"It's All Connected" -A Boardgame to Communicate Climate Impacts of IoT (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Castle-Green, T., Lewandowska, K., & Sailaja, N. (2024, September). "It's All Connected" -A Boardgame to Communicate Climate Impacts of IoT. Presented at GoodIT '24: International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, Bremen, Germany

Fueled by the rapidly increasing Internet of Things industry, the volume of global e-waste escalates annually posing significant health and environmental risks. Our research around repairability of IoT devices to elongate their lifespan has uncovered... Read More about "It's All Connected" -A Boardgame to Communicate Climate Impacts of IoT.

Predicting Acute Pain Levels Implicitly from Vocal Features (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Williams, J., Schneiders, E., Card, H., Seabrooke, T., Pakenham-Walsh, B., Azim, T., Valls-Reed, L., Vigneswaran, G., Bautista, J. R., Chandra, R., & Farahi, A. (2024, September). Predicting Acute Pain Levels Implicitly from Vocal Features. Poster presented at Interspeech 2024, Kos Island, Greece

Evaluating pain in speech represents a critical challenge in high-stakes clinical scenarios, from analgesia delivery to emergency triage. Clinicians have predominantly relied on direct verbal communication of pain which is difficult for patients with... Read More about Predicting Acute Pain Levels Implicitly from Vocal Features.

Advancing container port traffic simulation: A data-driven machine learning approach in sparse data environments (2024)
Journal Article
Chen, X., Qu, R., Dong, J., Dong, H., & Bai, R. (2024). Advancing container port traffic simulation: A data-driven machine learning approach in sparse data environments. Applied Soft Computing, 166, Article 112190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2024.112190

Efficient truck dispatching strategies are paramount in container terminal operations. The quality of these strategies heavily relies on accurate and expedient simulations, which provide a crucial platform for training and evaluating dispatching algo... Read More about Advancing container port traffic simulation: A data-driven machine learning approach in sparse data environments.

Ethics and Governance of Neurotechnology in Africa: Lessons From AI (2024)
Journal Article
Eke, D. (2024). Ethics and Governance of Neurotechnology in Africa: Lessons From AI. JMIR Neurotechnology, 3, Article e56665. https://doi.org/10.2196/56665

As a novel technology frontier, neurotechnology is revolutionizing our perceptions of the brain and nervous system. With growing private and public investments, a thriving ecosystem of direct-to-consumer neurotechnologies has also emerged. These tech... Read More about Ethics and Governance of Neurotechnology in Africa: Lessons From AI.

Calculating Compilers Effectively (Functional Pearl) (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Garby, Z., Hutton, G., & Bahr, P. (2024, September). Calculating Compilers Effectively (Functional Pearl). Presented at Haskell 2024: Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN International Haskell Symposium, Milan, Italy

Much work in the area of compiler calculation has focused on pure languages. While this simplifies the reasoning, it reduces the applicability. In this article, we show how an existing compiler calculation methodology can be naturally extended to lan... Read More about Calculating Compilers Effectively (Functional Pearl).

A Call to Action: Designing a more transparent online world for children and young people (2024)
Journal Article
Portillo, V., Dowthwaite, L., Creswick, H., Vallejos, E. P., Ten Holter, C., Koene, A., Jirotka, M., & Zhao, J. (2024). A Call to Action: Designing a more transparent online world for children and young people. Journal of Responsible Technology, 19, Article 100093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2024.100093

This paper reports on a qualitative research study that explored the practical and emotional experiences of young people aged 13–17 using algorithmically-mediated online platforms. It demonstrates an RI-based methodology for responsible two-way dialo... Read More about A Call to Action: Designing a more transparent online world for children and young people.

Time-Memory Trade-Offs Sound the Death Knell for GPRS and GSM (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Avoine, G., Carpent, X., Claverie, T., Devine, C., & Leblanc-Albarel, D. (2024, August). Time-Memory Trade-Offs Sound the Death Knell for GPRS and GSM. Presented at Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2024, Santa Barbara, USA

This paper introduces a practical TMTO-based attack against GSM (A5/3) and GPRS (GEA-3), which are both technologies used in 2G mobile networks. Although designed in the 80 s, these networks are still quite active today, especially for embedded syste... Read More about Time-Memory Trade-Offs Sound the Death Knell for GPRS and GSM.

Beyond Trees: Calculating Graph-Based Compilers (Functional Pearl) (2024)
Journal Article
Bahr, P., & Hutton, G. (2024). Beyond Trees: Calculating Graph-Based Compilers (Functional Pearl). Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 8(ICFP), 370-394. https://doi.org/10.1145/3674638

Bahr and Hutton recently developed an approach to compiler calculation that allows a wide range of compilers to be derived from specifications of their correctness. However, a limitation of the approach is that it results in compilers that produce tr... Read More about Beyond Trees: Calculating Graph-Based Compilers (Functional Pearl).