Eight new TAS projects announced

Mar 23, 2023
10:30

We’re excited to announce eight new TAS projects to be funded as part of the Pump Priming Programme. Congratulations to all the successful applicants and thank you to all who submitted a bid.

The new projects; which will last up to 15 months and start in April 2023, cover a range of sectors including healthcare, creative industries, environmental/net-zero, and financial services. The project pages will go live in due course.

 

The Projects

  1. Autonomous Systems for Forest ProtEctioN | Lead contact: Dr Norman Dandy,  Senior Research Fellow in Sustainable Land Use, Bangor University
  2. REFORMIST: Mirrored decision support fRamEwork FOR Multidisciplinary Teams in Oesophageal cancer | Lead contact: Dr Ganesh Vigneswaran, NIHR Clinical Lecturer, University of Southampton
  3. Embodied trust in TAS: robots, dance, different bodies | Lead contact: Sarah Whatley, Professor, Director, Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University
  4. Trustworthy and Useful Tools for Mobile Phone Extraction | Lead contact: Helena Webb, Transitional Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham
  5. Delivering Trustworthy Electoral Oversight: Developing an Automated Analysis of Electoral Spending Disclosures in the UK | Lead contact: Dr Samuel Power, Senior Lecturer (Politics), University of Sussex
  6. Mapping trustworthy systems for RAS in social care (MAP-RAS) | Lead contact: Dr Stevienna de Saille, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Sheffield
  7. Co-designing Inclusive and Trustworthy Conversational Agents on Basic Services with Older Adults (CA4OA) | Lead contact: Effie Lai-Chong Law,  Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Durham University
  8. InterNET ZERO: Towards Resource Responsible Trustworthy Autonomous Systems | Lead contact: Dr Michael Stead, Lecturer in Sustainable Design Futures, Lancaster University