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Biography Steve Benford is the Dunford Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham where he co-founded the Mixed Reality Laboratory. He is a UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Research Fellow exploring Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI. He is Director of the EPSRC-funded Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training: Creating Our Lives in Data. He was previously an EPSRC Dream Fellow.

Steve's research explores artistic applications of digital technologies through performance-led methods that engage artists in creating, touring and studying unique interactive artworks. Reflection on these experiences inspires fresh perspectives on interaction such as ambiguity as a resource for design, trajectories, uncomfortable interactions, and contesting control. He is also a keen musician.