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 […]
Category archives: Research project update
‘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, […]
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 […]
Could a robotic device be trusted to heal your wounds using light?
Authored by Ana Maria Rubio Denniss, Research Associate, University of Bristol Project blog for Trustworthy light-based Robotic Devices for Autonomous Wound Healing As the largest organ in the body, skin plays a critical role in the functioning of the human body, both sensing the world around us and protecting us from it. […]
On building trust: Co-producing what it means to be trustworthy
Co-written by the Reimagining TAS with Disabled Young People research team Trust is central to conversations of trustworthy autonomous systems. However, what does it mean to be trustworthy? What does trust mean? Who, or what, is involved when we talk about trust? Trust is also, as we hope to show in this blog post, a […]
Developing machine learning models with codesign: how everyone can shape the future of AI
COTADS project blog by Chris Duckworth Research Engineer at the IT Innovation Centre | University of Southampton Chronic medical conditions, such as type-1 diabetes (T1D), place a significant emotional and physical burden on individuals and their families. People with T1D face a daily balance to keep their blood glucose levels within safe levels […]