Authored by: The Reimaging TAS with bla project team As a project team, we’re really excited to announce our project ‘Reimagining trustworthy autonomous systems with disabled young people’. Trustworthy Autonomous Systems in assistive contexts offer the promise of revolutionising the everyday lives of disabled people in their personal lives, education and employment. However, despite […]
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Project Blog | ‘Do you need a designer?’ Centring co-researchers as designers and makers from Reimagining TAS with DYP
The quote, ‘Do you need a designer?’ as listed in our blog title, comes from one of our young co-researchers who, through the process of our makerspace workshops, recognised his skills in designing technology and effective communication of this through sketching, and how he could offer this forward to fellow teams. As we bring this […]
‘Do you need a designer?’ Centring co-researchers as designers and makers from Reimagining TAS with DYP
Authored by Lauren White, Alison Buxton and the Maker{futures} team, Colin Paterson, Dan Goodley In collaboration with our student co-researchers at Greenacre School “When you’re making something, the object you create is a demonstration of what you’ve learned to do…the opportunity to talk about that object, to communicate…to tell a story about it [and] […]
Responding to Responsible Innovation (RI)
In this blog post, Dr Alan Chamberlain offers some thoughts and reflections about the TAS Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Project that he co-leads with Prof Chis Greenhalgh. So far on the project we’ve been supporting the other TAS Agile projects and offering support at events, such as the TAS Pump Priming Project […]
The Next Big Thing in Trustworthy AI: Codesign of Context Aware Trustworthy Audio Capture
Authored by the Codesign of Context-Aware Trustworthy Audio Capture project team Do we really trust the autonomous audio systems (AAUS) that exist around us? If you’ve never thought about this question before, a crisp response to this might seem a bit overwhelming. If you find yourself inclined towards a negative response, you might next […]
The impact of autonomous recommender systems on competition between suppliers on a platform
December 2022: Authored by the Trustworthy Autonomous Recommender Systems on Music Streaming Platforms project team Online platforms are the virtual marketplace that bring together two sides of online markets, the customers and the suppliers. Customers on these platforms often face a plethora of choices from the suppliers that sell their products on the platform, […]
Seven questions to answer before deploying robots in health and care
Written by By Siabhainn Russell with Praminda Caleb Solly, Praveen Kumar and Cian O’Donovan. Empowering Future Care Workforces, UCL Assistive robots promise to transform health and social care. However before robotic technologies can work in the real world, there will undoubtedly need to be significant adaptations at a systemic and process-level to fit them in. Take […]
Dancing with Machines: Aesthetic interactions with an autonomous system
Makers of Imaginary Worlds artist residency as part of the TAS programme 2022 November 2022 As artists who create interactive sensory spaces for young audiences, the TAS (Trustworthy Autonomous Systems) Artists Residency was a chance for us to delve deeper into robotics and help narrow the gap between robotics and interactive arts for […]
Responsible AI – let’s make driving boring again
Authored by the Responsible AI for Long-term Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (RAILS) project team August 2022 The RAILS project – Responsible AI for Long-term Trustworthy Autonomous Systems – is focused on questions of responsibility and how these are understood, mapped, and experienced within the domain of autonomous vehicles. This focus is particularly […]
Project Blog | Intersectional Approaches to Design and Deployment of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems
Authored by Dr Caitlin Bentley, Project Lead Contact Whether or not autonomous systems should carry out tasks or functions previously done by humans is a core question our project considers. If they should, how can we make them safe and inclusive of people from all walks of life to interact with, benefit from, and […]