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Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment (2025)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Sailaja, N., Chamberlain, A., Coulton, P., Pilling, M., & Forrester, I. (2025). Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment. Human-Computer Interaction, https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2025.2454555

This paper introduces a novel methodological approach for surfacing the acceptability and adoption challenges that confront future and emerging technologies from the perspective of mundane action, in which they will ultimately be embedded and used. T... Read More about Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment.

Coloured Petri Nets-based Approach for Modelling Effects of Variation on the Reliability of the Newborn Life Support Procedure (2025)
Journal Article
Tan, A., Remenyte-Prescott, R., Egede, J., Sharkey, D., & Valstar, M. (2025). Coloured Petri Nets-based Approach for Modelling Effects of Variation on the Reliability of the Newborn Life Support Procedure. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 260, Article 111001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2025.111001

About 10 % of newborns need a life support procedure following birth. However, this procedure has a considerable error rate of more than 25 %, which may compromise its safety and reliability. Continuous studies to improve its performance are carried... Read More about Coloured Petri Nets-based Approach for Modelling Effects of Variation on the Reliability of the Newborn Life Support Procedure.

The roles of responsible innovation researchers in research projects (2025)
Journal Article
Stahl, B. C., Owoseni, A., & Ten Holter, C. (2025). The roles of responsible innovation researchers in research projects. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 12(1), Article 2466897. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2025.2466897

The way in which responsible innovation (RI) is interpreted and implemented depends to a significant degree on how the researchers, scholars and practitioners who work on RI see their own work. There have been several contributions to the RI discours... Read More about The roles of responsible innovation researchers in research projects.

Making Sense of Public Space for Robot Design (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pelikan, H. R. M., Mutlu, B., & Reeves, S. (2025, March). Making Sense of Public Space for Robot Design. Presented at HRI 2025, Melbourne, Australia

If robots are to be deployed in public places, we need to understand what factors their design should consider. Informed by sociological studies of urban settings, particularly the work of William H. Whyte and the Street Life Project, we describe fou... Read More about Making Sense of Public Space for Robot Design.

Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S., Schneiders, E., Martinez Avila, J. P., Caleb-Solley, P., Brundell, P. R., Castle-Green, S., Zhou, F., Garrett, R., Höök, K., Whatley, S., Marsh, K., & Tennent, P. (2025, March). Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction. Presented at HRI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Melbourne, Australia

As robots enter the messy human world so the vital matter of safety takes on a fresh complexion with physical contact becoming inevitable and even desirable. We report on an artistic-exploration of how dancers, working as part of a multidisciplinary... Read More about Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction.

FAIR African brain data: challenges and opportunities (2025)
Journal Article
Wogu, E., Ogoh, G., Filima, P., Nsaanee, B., Caron, B., Pestilli, F., & Eke, D. (2025). FAIR African brain data: challenges and opportunities. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 19, Article 1530445. https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2025.1530445

Introduction: The effectiveness of research and innovation often relies on the diversity or heterogeneity of datasets that are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). However, the global landscape of brain data is yet to achieve desi... Read More about FAIR African brain data: challenges and opportunities.

Knowledge needs of research ethics committees for the integration of ethics in research and technology development (2025)
Journal Article
Stahl, B. C., Aucouturier, E., Lekstutiene, J., Lindemann, T., Maia, M., Marušić, A., Mijatović, A., Naserianhanzaei, E., Ogoh, G., Resseguier, A., Spyrakou, E., Stahl, B. C., Aucouturier, E., Lekstutiene, J., Lindemann, T., Maia, M., Marušić, A., Mijatović, A., Naserianhanzaei, E., Ogoh, G., & Resseguier, A. (2025). Knowledge needs of research ethics committees for the integration of ethics in research and technology development. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 12(1), Article 2466904. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2025.2466904

One well-established way of integrating ethics into the development of emerging technologies is the ethics review process which originated in biomedical research. This relies on an ex-ante review of research proposals through institutional bodies, us... Read More about Knowledge needs of research ethics committees for the integration of ethics in research and technology development.

Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa Case Study Cocreation Workshop Report (2025)
Report
Ochang, P., Eke, D., Stahl, B., Cameron, H., Buckley, M., Poder, I., & Rodrigues, R. (2025). Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa Case Study Cocreation Workshop Report. ESPRC and RAI UK

The University of Nottingham hosted a co-creational workshop from 29th to 31st January at the Jubilee Hotel & Conference facilities, bringing together participants from the RAISE project’s case studies across the UK and Africa. The workshop focused o... Read More about Responsible Generative AI for SMEs in UK and Africa Case Study Cocreation Workshop Report.

Generating new cellular structures for additive manufacturing through an unconditional 3D latent diffusion model (2025)
Journal Article
Yu, L., Kok, Y. E., Parry, L., Özcan, E., & Maskery, I. (2025). Generating new cellular structures for additive manufacturing through an unconditional 3D latent diffusion model. Additive Manufacturing, 101, Article 104712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2025.104712

Advances in additive manufacturing (AM) have facilitated the fabrication of cellular structures inspired by those in the natural world. But the design of complex, tessellating cellular structures remains a challenge for human designers, and only a sm... Read More about Generating new cellular structures for additive manufacturing through an unconditional 3D latent diffusion model.

Trustworthy AI: African Perspectives (2025)
Book
Eke, D. O., Wakunuma, K., Akintoye, S., & Ogoh, G. (Eds.). (2025). Trustworthy AI: African Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75674-0

This book is an Open Access Publication. The Guidelines for Trustworthy AI developed by the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI is a framework that has been developed to promote and achieve the trustworthiness of AI systems. It provides... Read More about Trustworthy AI: African Perspectives.

Supporting data for "High-fidelity Wheat Plant Reconstruction using 3D Gaussian Splatting and Neural Radiance Fields" (2025)
Data
(2025). Supporting data for "High-fidelity Wheat Plant Reconstruction using 3D Gaussian Splatting and Neural Radiance Fields". [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5524/102661

The reconstruction of 3D plant models can offer advantages over traditional 2D approaches by more accurately capturing the complex structure and characteristics of different crops. Conventional 3D reconstruction techniques often produce sparse or noi... Read More about Supporting data for "High-fidelity Wheat Plant Reconstruction using 3D Gaussian Splatting and Neural Radiance Fields".

Into the Here and Now: Explorations within a New Acoustic Virtual Reality (2025)
Journal Article
Cliffe, L. (2025). Into the Here and Now: Explorations within a New Acoustic Virtual Reality. Leonardo, 58(2), 118-124. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02651

The author reflects upon listeners’ experiences and the practice of developing a number of audio augmented reality sound installations deployed between 2019 and 2020. The installations realized audio augmented objects: physical real-world objects aug... Read More about Into the Here and Now: Explorations within a New Acoustic Virtual Reality.

Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Ngo, V., McGarry, G., Kucukyilmaz, A., Benford, S., & Higgins, A. (2025, February). Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations. Presented at Designing for Bodies: Practices, Imaginaries and Discourses, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding

In this piece we start to explore the ways in which we somatise our interaction with robots as a symbiotic system - both as human and robot, and as human-robot. We also consider the ways that we might want to take our physical nature (existence), for... Read More about Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations.

Epimorphisms and acyclic types in univalent foundations (2025)
Journal Article
Buchholtz, U., de Jong, T., & Rijke, E. (2025). Epimorphisms and acyclic types in univalent foundations. Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1017/jsl.2024.76

We characterize the epimorphisms in homotopy type theory (HoTT) as the fiberwise acyclic maps and develop a type-theoretic treatment of acyclic maps and types in the context of synthetic homotopy theory as developed in univalent foundations. We prese... Read More about Epimorphisms and acyclic types in univalent foundations.

Locating the Ethics of ChatGPT—Ethical Issues as Affordances in AI Ecosystems (2025)
Journal Article
Stahl, B. C. (2025). Locating the Ethics of ChatGPT—Ethical Issues as Affordances in AI Ecosystems. Information, 16(2), Article 104. https://doi.org/10.3390/info16020104

ChatGPT is a high-profile technology that has inspired broad discussions about its capabilities and likely consequences. There has been much debate concerning ethical issues that it raises which are typically described as potentially harmful (or bene... Read More about Locating the Ethics of ChatGPT—Ethical Issues as Affordances in AI Ecosystems.

Homogeneous catalyst graph neural network: A human-interpretable graph neural network tool for ligand optimization in asymmetric catalysis (2025)
Journal Article
Aguilar-Bejarano, E., Özcan, E., Rit, R. K., Li, H., Lam, H. W., Moore, J. C., Woodward, S., & Figueredo, G. (2025). Homogeneous catalyst graph neural network: A human-interpretable graph neural network tool for ligand optimization in asymmetric catalysis. iScience, 28(3), Article 111881. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.111881

Optimization of metal-ligand asymmetric catalysts is usually done by empirical trials, where the ligand is arbitrarily modified, and the new catalyst is re-evaluated in the lab. This procedure is not efficient and alternative strategies are highly de... Read More about Homogeneous catalyst graph neural network: A human-interpretable graph neural network tool for ligand optimization in asymmetric catalysis.

ZeroDiff: Solidified Visual-semantic Correlation in Zero-Shot Learning (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ye, Z., Gowda, S. N., Chen, S., Huang, X., Xu, H., Fahad Khan, S., Jin, Y., Huang, K., & Jin, X. (2025, April). ZeroDiff: Solidified Visual-semantic Correlation in Zero-Shot Learning. Presented at ICLR 2025: The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, Singapore

Zero-shot Learning (ZSL) aims to enable classifiers to identify unseen classes. This is typically achieved by generating visual features for unseen classes based on learned visual-semantic correlations from seen classes. However, most current generat... Read More about ZeroDiff: Solidified Visual-semantic Correlation in Zero-Shot Learning.

Speeding up deferred acceptance (2025)
Journal Article
Gutin, G. Z., Karapetyan, D., Neary, P. R., Vickery, A., & Yeo, A. (in press). Speeding up deferred acceptance. Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design,

A run of the deferred acceptance (DA) algorithm may contain proposals that are sure to be rejected. In this paper we introduce the accelerated deferred acceptance algorithm that proceeds in a similar manner to DA but with sure-to-be rejected proposal... Read More about Speeding up deferred acceptance.

Performance metrics outperform physiological indicators in robotic teleoperation workload assessment (2024)
Journal Article
Odoh, G., Landowska, A., Crowe, E. M., Benali, K., Cobb, S., Wilson, M. L., Maior, H. A., & Kucukyilmaz, A. (2024). Performance metrics outperform physiological indicators in robotic teleoperation workload assessment. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 30984. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82112-4

Robotics holds the potential to streamline the execution of repetitive and dangerous tasks, which are difficult or impossible for a human operator. However, in complex scenarios, such as nuclear waste management or disaster response, full automation... Read More about Performance metrics outperform physiological indicators in robotic teleoperation workload assessment.