Speaker Anna Carter is an Innovation Fellow at Northumbria University she has extensive experience in designing technologies for local council regeneration programs, her work focuses on creating accessible digital experiences in a variety of contexts using human-centred methods and participatory design. She works on building Digital Civics research capacities of early career researchers as part of…
Speaker Clara Kliman-Silver is a Staff UX Researcher at Google, where she leads a research team focused on design tools, designer-developer collaboration, and the emergent role of artificial intelligence in the design process. Her research interests lie in computer-supported cooperative work, the role of AI in productivity tools, and enterprise technologies. Before Google, she worked as…
Speaker Débora is an activist, social designer, and Amazonian Decolonial thinker. She is currently a research associate at University of Siegen, where her research is about how communities experience and deal with economic and technological pressures in areas of post-conflict and social instability. Her PhD dissertation explored how peripheral communities in the Amazon rainforest make use…
Tiffany Knearem is a UXR at Google on the Material Design team. She is interested in AI applications for design tooling to support product designer-developer collaboration and unlock creativity. For her PhD her primary research focus was on understanding and enabling community innovation through information and communication technologies, with a dissertation focus on community-based care during…
Speaker Denise Lengyel is an Innovation Fellow at the Centre for Digital Citizens within Open Lab, exploring the ‘Ageless’ citizen. My work is centered around the exploration of arts-based and creative research methods including text-, image- and perfomance-based methods such as (visual) storytelling, drawing and dance. My interest is in arts as an embodied way of…
Speaker Katta Spiel is an Assistant Professor for ‘Critical Access in Embodied Computing’ at TU Wien. They research marginalised perspectives on embodied computing through a lens of Critical Access. Their work informs design and engineering supporting the development of technologies that account for the diverse realities they operate in. In their interdisciplinary collaborations with neurodivergent…
Abstract : In this presentation, I share research insights on the complex societal effects of AI-generated content, with a particular emphasis on Deepfakes and their ethical implications. Drawing on empirical research, I will discuss how society perceives and interacts with AI-generated content and its technologies. Through audience participation, I aim to showcase the impact of digital…
Abstract In this talk, I will talk about the way in which artificial intelligence mirrors collective intelligence, and what that means for its governance. I will draw from research exploring citizen deliberation to explain how collective ideas and values are shaped in a variety of domains, including in online townhalls and Indigenous parliaments. I will…
Miriam Sturdee: Abstract Human Computer Interaction is already the unusual subfield of computer science, but it gets even better! Research methods can reach far beyond quantitative and qualitative, and even become More Than Human. With the advent of technology that requires a whole subgenre to make it ‘explainable’, how can we re-establish the ‘human’ in…
Abstract In this talk, I will share our key findings from a multi-year ICT4D research on mobility aid for Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. Humanitarian crises hit vulnerable groups hardest, such as people with disabilities. Conflicts also increases disabilities caused by injuries or malnutrition. When these disabilities result in the need for mobility assistive devices, navigating environmental…