Tag archives: Pump Priming

A co-design framework for empowering future care workforces

Authored by Cian O’Donovan, Lead Contact, Empowering Future Care Workforces – April 2022 Just before 8 pm on the last Thursday of March 2020, millions of us in the UK picked up a pot and a wooden spoon. We headed for our front doors, our balconies and our windows. And when our clocks struck the hour we […]

Reimagining Trustworthy Autonomous Systems with Disabled Young People: Our Project Launch!

A project blog by the Reimagining Trustworthy Autonomous Systems with Disabled Young People, 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, […]

What’s the Shape of Your Trust?

 Trust me? (I’m an autonomous machine) project blog | Written by Joseph Lindley, Project Lead, and Franziska Pilling, PhD Candidate and Project Research Associate| March 2022 This project aims to understand the gap between expert and everyday peoples’ views of Trust in the context of Autonomous Systems—things like self-driving cars, product recommendation systems, or automatic […]

Why will codesign methods be critical for acceptance and adoption of AI in chronic disease management?

COTADS project blog by Michael Boniface, Director of the IT Innovation Centre | University of Southampton     Autonomous systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are expected to have a crucial role in the delivery of healthcare and in supporting populations in effective management of disease. Yet, today, digital health solutions insufficiently consider how AI […]

Asking the Experts: So, what is Trust anyway?

February 2022 | A project blog update for Trust Me? (I’m an Autonomous Machine) We held a workshop with 22 experts representing various sectors including the tech industry, the media, and the academic world. The aim is to establish a ‘master narrative’ of Trust.   This project aims to bridge the gap between expert and […]

Using LEGO serious play to understand stakeholder imaginaries of robotics in care

Project update | February 2022 | Imagining Robotic Care: Identifying conflict and confluence in stakeholder imaginaries of autonomous care systems If I ask you to imagine a robot providing care, what does this look like to you? What is the robot doing? Is the robot working alone, or with a human carer? Can it communicate […]

Kaspar the social robot is returning to school to meet students with autism

Researchers from the Adaptive Systems Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire are about to bring a Kaspar robot to Garston Manor, a specialist school for autism, learning difficulties, and speech and language. The TAS Pump Priming project “Kaspar explains” uses the state-of-the-art social robot Kaspar to see whether explanations might help persons with autism better […]

Hack me if you can: are drivers keen to use automated vehicles when exposed to cyberattacks?

January 2022: A project blog for Understanding user trust after software malfunctions and cyber intrusions of digital displays: a use case of automated automotive systems If you were to use an automated car capable of handling its acceleration, deceleration and direction (also known as level 3), what would you do if it was hacked? This is […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted Resilience Governance Systems: AI in Urban Planning

ARGOS Project Blog By Jeffrey Tong, MSc Student in Regional and Urban Planning at LSE | Yale-NUS Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted systems and technologies have been prevalent for a number of years and present in many domains familiar to our everyday lives. Algorithms for instance determine how suggestions are featured on one’s social media feeds, while […]