UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub

Lead Research Organisation: University of Southampton
Department Name: Sch of Electronics and Computer Sci

Abstract

Public opinion on complex scientific topics can have dramatic effects on industrial sectors (e.g. GM crops, fracking, global warming). In order to realise the industrial and societal benefits of Autonomous Systems, they must be trustworthy by design and default, judged both through objective processes of systematic assurance and certification, and via the more subjective lens of users, industry, and the public. To address this and deliver it across the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) programme, the UK Research Hub for TAS (TAS-UK) assembles a team that is world renowned for research in understanding the socially embedded nature of technologies. TASK-UK will establish a collaborative platform for the UK to deliver world-leading best practices for the design, regulation and operation of 'socially beneficial' autonomous systems which are both trustworthy in principle, and trusted in practice by individuals, society and government.

TAS-UK will work to bring together those within a broader landscape of TAS research, including the TAS nodes, to deliver the fundamental scientific principles that underpin TAS; it will provide a focal point for market and society-led research into TAS; and provide a visible and open door to engage a broad range of end-users, international collaborators and investors. TAS-UK will do this by delivering three key programmes to deliver the overall TAS programme, including the Research Programme, the Advocacy & Engagement Programme, and the Skills Programme.

The core of the Research Programme is to amplify and shape TAS research and innovation in the UK, building on existing programmes and linking with the seven TAS nodes to deliver a coherent programme to ensure coverage of the fundamental research issues.

The Advocacy & Engagement Programme will create a set of mechanisms for engagement and co-creation with the public, public sector actors, government, the third sector, and industry to help define best practices, assurance processes, and formulate policy. It will engage in cross-sector industry and partner connection and brokering across nodes.

The Skills Programme will create a structured pipeline for future leaders in TAS research and innovation with new training programmes and openly available resources for broader upskilling and reskilling in TAS industry.

Organisations

People

ORCID iD

Sarvapali Ramchurn (Principal Investigator)
Steve Benford (Co-Investigator)
James Scanlan (Co-Investigator)
Carmine Ventre (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1464-1215
Diana Eccles (Co-Investigator)
Paul Luff (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5046-2279
Tina Seabrooke (Co-Investigator)
Mark Kleinman (Co-Investigator)
Murray Goulden (Co-Investigator)
Christine Evers (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0757-5504
PROKAR DASGUPTA (Co-Investigator)
Alexa Spence (Co-Investigator)
Neville Stanton (Co-Investigator)
Paurav Shukla (Co-Investigator)
Ayse Kucukyilmaz (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3202-6750
Wendy Adams (Co-Investigator)
Tanya Aplin (Co-Investigator)
Adriane Chapman (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3814-2587
Mercedes Torres Torres (Co-Investigator)
Rita Samiolo (Co-Investigator)
Michael Boniface (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9281-6095
Helena Webb (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4303-7773
Horia Maior (Co-Investigator)
Elvira Perez Vallejos (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0258-9440
David Branson III (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5818-666X
Crawford Spence (Co-Investigator)
Ann-Marie Hughes (Co-Investigator)
Sarah Sharples (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0288-915X
Luca Vigano (Co-Investigator)
Wendy Hall (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4327-7811
Hana Chockler (Co-Investigator)
Rita Borgo (Co-Investigator)
Joel Fischer (Co-Investigator)
Luc Moreau (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3494-120X
Boriana Koleva (Co-Investigator)
Christian Wagner (Co-Investigator)
Adela Devlin (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4647-2826
Derek McAuley (Co-Investigator)
Susan Gourvenec (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2628-7914
Michael Butler (Co-Investigator)
Richard Hyde (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2576-3448
Christian Enemark (Co-Investigator)
Gary Burnett (Co-Investigator)
 
Title AirUsecases 
Description Video compilation of interviews with TAS artists-in-residents discussing their contributions to the TAS UseCase Library. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact 69 views. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR5c-FozLHg
 
Title An experimental Murmuration: Ways of Seeing Design Research 
Description A unique combination of research paper, interactive video-conferencing environment, exhibition and performance. This combined our work into 'ways of seeing design research' with the novel Gather.Town platform to enable an interactive event at the international design festival Uroborus. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Lively discussion, ongoing collaboration and change of views in the audience. 
URL https://uroboros.design/person/david-green-joseph-lindley-zach-mason/
 
Title Cat Royale 
Description As part of our role as Cultural Ambassadors for the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub, we're making a work to explore our ambivalence about AI. In Cat Royale we will create a utopia for cats. An intelligent machine will care for them and entertain them. Obviously the safety and comfort of the cats is our top priority, so our next step is to bring an animal behaviourist on board to help us shape the project every step of the way. We hope you will follow us as we begin to translate this idea into a project. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact This project is currently (2022) being developed - no impact yet. 
URL https://www.blasttheory.co.uk/introducing-cat-royale/
 
Title GroupThink 
Description The Internet of Neurons An explosion of biohybrid technologies is bringing our bodies and brains online. What happens when we're all connected? Groupthink gives a glimpse into a future where art emerges from the heart. Audiences anywhere can join via webcam. Software detects their pulse and translates it into a visual score performed live by sitarist Shama Rahman and percussionist Mick Grierson. Located in the National Gallery's basement, a resident AI reinterprets famous paintings in the museum above as a pulsating video environment that responds to the audience and performers to grow the entangled roots, limbs and life of imaginary forests. Ali Hossaini - Collaborative artist (GB): The New York Times calls Ali Hossaini 'a biochemist turned philosopher turned television producer turned visual poet'. Hossaini's pioneering work in media and the arts includes launching seven TV networks, creating immersive video installations, commissioning artworks with A-list Hollywood talent, and serving on IEEE standards committees for AI & BCI. Current projects span biological autonomy, equal access to healthcare, film and immersive theatre. Hossaini is co-founder of National Gallery X. Olive Gingrich (GB): Olive Gingrich is a media artist, researcher and co-founder, and curator at Art in FLUX London. His practice oscillates between intangible phenomena and presence - working frequently with mixed reality environments and bio-sensors such as EEGs. With the collective Analema Group, the use of high-end technology results in immersive experiences (Tate Exchange, 2019, National Gallery X 2020). Olive is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the National Centre for Computer Animation. Mick Grierson - Collaborative artist (GB): Mick Grierson is Research Leader at UAL Creative Computing Institute. His research explores new approaches to the creation of sounds, images, video and interactions through signal processing, machine learning and information retrieval techniques. Mick is also a co-founder of the Daphne Oram Trust. Hardware and software based on his research has been widely used by production companies, start-ups and artists including Massive Attack, Sigur Ros, Christian Marclay and Philippe Parreno. Joshua Murr - Collaborative artist (GB): Joshua Murr is studying for a PhD with the Creative Computing Institute. He is researching novel and creative means of interacting with generative machine learning models looking to find ways of democratising machine learning by making expressive tools for artists and designers Shama Rahman - Collaborative artist (GB): Shama Rahman is a scientist, artist, creative technologist and futurist. She holds a PhD in the neuroscience and complex systems of Creative Cognition and Innovation and her work has encompassed the use of wearable technology to enhance storytelling. She is the co-author of 'Creativity in the Twenty First Century: Multidisciplinary Contributions to the Science of Creative Thinking' and 'NeuroDesign by Springer. She has toured internationally and was the first Sitarist Explorer to perform in Antarctica on the first ever Antarctic Biennale. Alain Renaud - Collaborative artist (HE): Born in Switzerland, Alain Renaud is an interactive sound designer. He started his career in music production in the USA before moving to London. In 2009, he completed a PhD. in network music performance at SARC, Queen's Belfast. He then moved to Bournemouth University in the UK to develop a cutting research initiative. He later moved back to co-found the digital strategy think-tank, MintLab and a digital events startup. He is a member of the Analema Group collective and works on commercial projects in fields such as VR. Alain mentors aspiring artists in foundations and art schools. 
Type Of Art Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Raised awareness and engagement with the issues of trustworthy autonomous systems. 
URL https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/en/groupthink/
 
Title Jenny: Stroke rehab with a smart mirror, negative scenario 
Description An example negaitve scenario for using a smart mirror for stroke rehabilitation 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Used in TAS for Health workshops 
URL https://www.tas.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Stroke-negative.mp4
 
Title Jenny: Stroke rehab with a smart mirror, positive scenario 
Description Example of a positive scenario using a smart mirror to monitor stroke rehabilitation. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Used in workshops in the TAS for Health project 
URL https://www.tas.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Stroke-positive.mp4
 
Title Reimagining TAS with Young People 
Description Trustworthy autonomous systems (TAS) are technologies that we might use in our everyday lives and that assist us, work with us to complete tasks, and we might trust them to do things for us. Disabled young people are key end-users and potential co-designers of these future systems, although their experiences and aspirations are rarely acknowledged. This interdisciplinary project has brought together young people, social and computer science researchers and school and industry partners. We have centralised the expertise and aspirations of our young co-researchers around questions of trust, resilience and capacity in relation to autonomous systems; thus embedding inclusion, equity, responsible research and innovation in studies of TAS. The project team worked with 9 co-researchers who are students at Greenacre Special School in Barnsley. The team hosted a series of workshops exploring technology, TAS and robots and set about designing and making our own together with the team maker{futures}. To find out more about the project, please watch our animation. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact Celebration with school partners 
URL https://vimeo.com/818619464
 
Title Responsibility Research for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (Blue Sky Ideas Track) 
Description Read the paper: http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2021/pdfs/p57.pdf Chat about this paper on Discord: https://discord.com/channels/827790531085336607/833059653860196352 Discord is intended for in-depth chat with authors, independently from the AAMAS schedule. Please post any questions to the authors you would like them to address during the live Q&A right here on Underline. Watch the video on SlidesLive: https://slideslive.com/38954794/responsibilityresearchfortrustworthyautonomous-vahidyazdanpanah-enricoh_gerdi-38954794-m3zg.mp4 Abstract: To develop and effectively deploy Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS), we face various social, technological, legal, and ethical challenges in which different notions of responsibility can play a key role. In this work, we elaborate on these challenges, discuss research gaps, and show how the multidimensional notion of responsibility can play a role to bridge them. We argue that TAS requires operational tools to represent and reason about responsibilities of humans as well as AI agents. We review major challenges to which responsibility reasoning can contribute, highlight open research problems, and argue for the application of multiagent responsibility models in a variety of TAS domains. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact This work received the "special mention" award at AAMAS-2021, $500 monetary prize, and acknowledgement by the Computing Community Consortium: https://cra.org/ccc/visioning/blue-sky/ 
URL https://underline.io/lecture/15188-responsibility-research-for-trustworthy-autonomous-systems-(blue-...
 
Title Sequences of choreography in collaboration with robots 
Description A series of improvised and partly choreographed dance sequences in partnership with robots, performed by disabled dance artists. 
Type Of Art Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) 
Year Produced 2024 
Impact New insights to the collaboration potential for dancers and robots. 
 
Title The AI Gallery - Trusting machines? 
Description An art exhibition created with machine learning and other AI techniques. In partnership with the UKRI's Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub, National Gallery X is exhibited art created with machine learning and other AI techniques. The exhibition was launched at Trusting Machines?, a conference co-produced with RUSI and the TAS Hub. The gallery contains new commissions, projects from Nottingham's Mixed Reality Lab, and art from around the world It was curated by National Gallery X co-director Ali Hossaini and Neus Torres Tamarit of Phenotypica. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact In years to come, the AI Gallery will continue as a 'cultural exchange programme' between humanity and the systems whose influence - and mystery - grows daily. Machine arts challenge traditional notions of creativity, but we think it is vital not to anthropomorphise autonomous systems. As the exhibition grows, the TAS Hub will work with National Gallery X to develop a rigorous framework for understanding the emerging palettes of AI art and how they fit into human society. 
URL https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/national-gallery-x/the-ai-gallery
 
Title The First 
Description The Turing Test is a classic way of distinguishing humans from AI. What happens when humans turn the tables on machines? This film explores a future scenario where the rights of sentient beings clash with freedom, identity and ethical judgment. The film was first presented at the Trusting Machines? Cross sectorial lessons from Healthcare and security conference on 30 Jun 2021. 
Type Of Art Film/Video/Animation 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact The film is currently live on the National Gallery (as well as RUSI and UKRI TAS Hub) website and generating considerable debate. 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RFD8cCYw7o
 
Title The Shape of Trust 
Description An interactive web tool allowing users to define a series of geometric shapes in response to prompts about trust. It allows users to define the 'shape' of their own trust. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2022 
Impact The work is due to be presented in the near future at a series of public events where it will be used as a research tool in the first instance. Further collaboration will explore integrating learning based no this work into future autonomous vehicles. 
 
Title The Thingamabobas 
Description 'Thingamabobas' is a playful, sensory experience where participants meet and interact with a circus troupe of performative mechanical and kinetic structures. In this animatronic and robotic circus of bizarrely wonderful machines created to inspire, delight and intrigue, including a robotic installation developed by our team in Nottingham. 
Type Of Art Artistic/Creative Exhibition 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact In October 2021, to help further develop and test our learning resource for Thingamabobas Installation we delivered a series of workshops in two schools, one in Hong Kong and one in Nottingham, to explore design thinking and tinkering. We worked in collaboration with Lakeside Arts at The University of Nottingham, Djanogly Strelley Primary School UK, Hong Kong artists Agnes Pang and Zoie So and Huen King Wing School, Hong Kong. The results of our collaboration and the children's work was published in several Galleries and a panel discussion was held on 20th October at Spark 2021 British Council Online Festival. 
URL https://makersofimaginaryworlds.co.uk/projects/thethingambobas/
 
Title This is not a paper 
Description Employing a game-like interactive video conferencing system (based on Gather Town) to stretch the boundaries between publication, conference presentation, and performance art. 
Type Of Art Artefact (including digital) 
Year Produced 2021 
Impact Influencing conference formats and debate within the Human Computer Interaction community. Contributing to emerging discourse around next generation telepresence systems. 
URL https://designresearch.works/thisisnotapaper/
 
Description The £33m UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems(TAS) programme involves a Hub and six TAS Nodes, each focusing on specific elements of trustworthiness. TAS projects investigate emerging sociotechnical issues and develop mitigations for unintended consequences, informing policy and industry practice. The programme has engaged with more than 150 industry, government, and third-sector organisations to ensure we ground core concepts of trust and responsibility in real-world use. TAS has fostered collaborations between researchers from many disciplinary backgrounds at over 26 universities, espousing the principles of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and promoting Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) at every step. Defence and Security Cybersecurity frameworks for autonomous systems that introduce new attack surfaces due to autonomous behaviours and human-machine interactions. Software to enable situational awareness, explaining the state and intention of multiple autonomous systems to a single human operator without increasing the operator's mental workload. An open-source platform called HARIS for operating large multi-robot systems that is now accessible to the general public, researchers, industry experts, and policymakers to learn what it means to have control over not only one but multiple autonomous systems.  Contributions to the Defence AI Strategy. Health and Wellbeing A robot-assisted triage system triage system called DAISY, which has the potential to reduce waiting times in A&E. A causal explanation-based robot called Kasper that supports education and social mediation for children with autism spectrum disorder. Natural Language Processing systems to classify behaviouralharms in online forums. Methods to increase trust in digital mental health interventions.  Explainable Machine Learning systems to detect cancer. AI-powered multidisciplinary teams in oesophagealcancer diagnosis. Cultural and Creative Industries Increasing participation in creative experiences for people with disabilities. "The First" film by Luca Viganò and Ali Hossaini, created in partnership with the National Gallery, using art created with machine learning and other AI techniques.  Cat Royale showcased at the Brisbane World Science Fair and at the Science Gallery in London. Energy and the Environment Verifiable and explainable AI to help address whale strikes across the shipping industry. AI methods to support anticipatory planning for climate change and resilience, simulation for policy appraisal in view of compound risks, and coordination mechanisms for resilience-aware decision making.  Exploration of how an autonomous system might be used to deliver more trustworthy electoral oversight. Transport Contributions to the Law Commission on AI consultation on Automated Vehicles that led to shaping the Automated Vehicles Bill. Study of avatars to communicate with passengers of autonomous vehicles.  Driving simulators to study driver behaviours in automated vehicles with different levels of autonomy. AI controlled drones on construction sites to comply with safety standards and regulation. Governance and Regulation Policy Lab with Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on AI Regulation ahead of the AI White paper. Workshop series on AI Regulation with multiple regulators, including the Department for Transport, the Ministry of Defence, and the Law Commission amongst others. AI Skills landscape mapping with DCMS. 4 Policy Landscape Reviews in collaboration with the King'sPolicy Institute. Over 15 responses to policy consultations.
First Year Of Impact 2023
Sector Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Agriculture, Food and Drink,Construction,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Energy,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Security and Diplomacy,Transport
Impact Types Cultural

Societal

Economic

Policy & public services

 
Description 3rd UK StratCom AI Forum: 'Trustworthy Human-Machine Teams', organised by Strategic Command, UK Ministry of Defence
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or Improved professional practice
 
Description AI large language models inquiry: TASHub Response
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/481740/
 
Description AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach - policy proposals
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/478329/1/AI_Regulation_Proposals_UKRI_TAS_Hub_Response_1.pdf
 
Description Automation in military operations
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0681/
 
Description Closing the Skills Gap in AI-Ecosystems
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or improved professional practice
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-workshop-closing-the-skills-gap-in-ai-ecosystems-tickets-528...
 
Description Connected tech: smart or sinister?
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/connected-tech-smart-or-sinister-a-call-for-evidenc...
 
Description Connected tech: smart or sinister? A call for evidence from Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/connected-tech-smart-or-sinister-a-call-for-evidenc...
 
Description Connected tech: smart or sinister? A call for evidence from Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/connected-tech-smart-or-sinister-a-call-for-evidenc...
 
Description Consulted to the Home Office on access control via AI and speech technology
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description Contribution to a national consultation/review - Connected tech: smart or sinister? A call for evidence from Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (2022)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/connected-tech-smart-or-sinister-a-call-for-evidenc...
 
Description Contribution to a national consultation/review - Governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI). A call for evidence from UK Parliament: Science and Technology Committee.
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/response-to-parliamentary-inquiry-on-governance-of-...
 
Description Contribution to a national consultation/review - Governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI). A call for evidence from UK Parliament: Science and Technology Committee.
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/response-to-parliamentary-inquiry-on-governance-of-...
 
Description Data: a new direction: A call for evidence from Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/163776916/Data_a_new_direction_FINAL_APPROVED.pdf
 
Description Delivering the AI Strategy - the use of new AI technologies in industry and the public sector
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or Improved professional practice
URL https://www.foundation.org.uk/Events/2022/Delivering-the-AI-Strategy-%E2%80%93-the-use-of-new-AI-tec
 
Description Developing value-sensitive standards for digital mental healthcare (Pump priming project)
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or Improved professional practice
URL https://standards.ieee.org/industry-connections/data-driven-tech-healthcare/
 
Description How to win at policy? Workshop delivered at All hands TAS-hub event
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact The event has improved the level of policy understanding within TAS-hub researchers, ways of different engagement and capturing policy engagement. 39 people attended.
 
Description How to win at policy? Workshop delivered at All hands TAS-hub event
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact The event has improved the level of policy understanding within TAS-hub researchers, ways of different engagement and capturing policy engagement. 39 people attended
 
Description Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact The submission of TAS-hub has been cited, I especially contributed to the question of misinformation, where I pointed out that misinformation cannot be simply regulated due to many forms of it. This has been cited on page 36 in the report issued by the Joint Committee.
URL https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/8206/documents/84092/default/
 
Description Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill. UKRI TAS Hub cited on page 36 of the report.
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Citation in other policy documents
URL https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt5802/jtselect/jtonlinesafety/129/129.pdf
 
Description Masterclass webinar on YouTube
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact N/A
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m620-pv8rzA
 
Description Participation in Automation and Autonomous Systems Roundtable
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://www.tas.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Automation-and-Autonomous-Systems-Roundtable-Final-...
 
Description Policy submission to the Consultation by Communications and Digital Committee, House of Lords, AI Large Language Models Inquiry.
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact Input to the evolving AI policy landscape around large language models (e.g. ChatGPT)
URL http://dx.doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/P1126
 
Description Response To The Competition And Markets Authority Call For Information: Algorithms, Competition and Consumer Harm
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Response to The future of connected and automated mobility in the UK: call for evidence
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/450228/
 
Description Response to the Law Commissions' Consultation Paper Automated Vehicle - A regulatory framework for automated vehicles
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/9916...
 
Description Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) prompt and practice cards
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
URL https://rdmc.nottingham.ac.uk/handle/internal/9564
 
Description Roundtable on 'Responsible AI in Defence', organised by Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, UK Government
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description TAS Hub and TAS Governance and Regulation Node: Artificial Intelligence and IP: copyright and patents: A call for evidence from Intellectual Property Office.
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/167851815/AI_IP_Consultation_response_form_AplinSchafer_Li_fi...
 
Description The Right to Privacy: Digital Data (An Engineering Perspective)
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/43469/pdf/
 
Description The future of connected and automated mobility in the UK: call for evidence
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/450228/
 
Description The future of connected and automated mobility in the UK: call for evidence
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/450228/
 
Description Trusted Autonomous Systems Course (TAS/ANU School of Engineering.)
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact The key learning outcomes of this course are: Analyse, identify and communicate the needs and requirements of trusted autonomous systems. Understand the gaps in existing standards and regulations around autonomous systems. Examine the challenges of developing and implementing trusted autonomous systems. Develop strategies to identify and communicate with various stakeholders of trusted autonomous systems.
URL https://cce.anu.edu.au/all-subjects/trusted-autonomous-systems.aspx
 
Description Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS): Engaging TAS experts in curriculum design
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or Improved professional practice
URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07447
 
Description Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Response to Artificial Intelligence and IP: copyright and patents: A call for evidence from Intellectual Property Office.
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://www.tas.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/AIIP_Consultation-response-form_AplinSchaferLi-fina...
 
Description UKRI TAS: A Response to Draft Online Safety Bill - a call for evidence from the Joint Committee
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/39179/pdf/
 
Description Use of Verifiability Node Research Talk in MSc teaching materials.
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact Extracts from the Verifiability Node recording are being utilised within the teaching materials of MSc students at King's College London.
URL https://vimeo.com/577116419
 
Description Workshop on 'Imagining 2030', to inform the drafting of the UK International and National Security Strategy, organised by the UK Cabinet Office
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact The Deputy National Security Adviser wrote to thank the TAS Co-I for contributing in this way to the strategy development process for the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy. The workshop discussions were described as incredibly helpful to the government as it shaped its planning and thinking for the Integrated Review.
 
Description AI Hub for Causality in Healthcare AI with Real Data (CHAI)
Amount £9,599,993 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/Y028856/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2024 
End 01/2029
 
Description CAPES/PRINT program - Call no. 41/2017
Amount R$ 13,790 (BRL)
Organisation Federal University of Santa Catarina 
Sector Academic/University
Country Brazil
Start 03/2024 
End 04/2024
 
Description Co-Designing Audio Games: Vice Chancellors Prize for Participatory Research
Amount £25,000 (GBP)
Organisation Lancaster University 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2022 
End 07/2022
 
Description Disability Matters
Amount £2,977,154 (GBP)
Funding ID 226705/z/22/z 
Organisation Wellcome Trust 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2023 
End 08/2029
 
Description Institute of Healthcare Engineering Healthy Ageing Challenge Award: Empowering Infrastructures
Amount £10,000 (GBP)
Organisation University College London 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2022 
End 03/2023
 
Description King's Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Amount £1,000 (GBP)
Funding ID NMS-Weerawardhana 
Organisation King's College London 
Department Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 07/2022 
End 09/2022
 
Description King's Undergraduate Research Fellowships
Amount £1,000 (GBP)
Funding ID NMS-Masters 
Organisation King's College London 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 06/2022 
End 09/2022
 
Description LivingLAPT: future apt LIVING Lab for Autonomous Public Transport
Amount € 163,181,000 (EUR)
Funding ID 23373 
Organisation European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) 
Sector Public
Country Hungary
Start 01/2023 
End 12/2023
 
Description LivingLAPT: future apt LIVING Lab for Autonomous Public Transport
Amount € 1,558,746 (EUR)
Funding ID 22026 
Organisation European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) 
Sector Public
Country Hungary
Start 01/2022 
End 12/2022
 
Description National edge AI hub for real data: edge intelligence for cyber-disturbances and data quality
Amount £6,000,000 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2024 
End 02/2029
 
Description Next Generation Rehabilitation Technologies
Amount £831,040 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/W000679/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2022 
End 08/2025
 
Description Non-Dynamic driving tasks
Amount £250,000 (GBP)
Funding ID TFTS1018 - Non-Dynamic driving tasks 
Organisation Department of Transport 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2024 
End 01/2025
 
Description Open All Senses:
Amount £57,000 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/T022493/1 
Organisation HORIZON Digital Economy Research 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2022 
End 06/2023
 
Description Robots Mediating Interaction - UKRI Horizon Digital Economy Research Agile Projects Programme Round 1
Amount £50,000 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/T022493/1 
Organisation HORIZON Digital Economy Research 
Sector Academic/University
Country United Kingdom
Start 04/2021 
End 06/2023
 
Description SBRI UK National Robotics Proving Ground: Feasibility studies
Amount £112,285 (GBP)
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2022 
End 04/2022
 
Description Smart Solutions Towards Cellular-Connected Unmanned Aerial Vehicles System
Amount £351,584 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/W004364/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2022 
End 08/2025
 
Description Smart Solutions Towards Cellular-Connected Unmanned Aerial Vehicles System (AUTONOMY)
Amount £432,537 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/W004348/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2022 
End 08/2025
 
Description Socially-Acceptable Extended Reality Models and Systems (SERMAS)
Amount € 5,086,842 (EUR)
Funding ID 1124430 
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2022 
End 09/2025
 
Description The University of Sydney - University College London Partnership Collaboration Awards (PCA)
Amount $20,000 (AUD)
Organisation University of Sydney 
Sector Academic/University
Country Australia
Start 09/2022 
End 07/2023
 
Description UKRI EMERGENCE Network+ :CPD Ecosystems for wearable robotics
Amount £28,166 (GBP)
Organisation United Kingdom Research and Innovation 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2023 
End 10/2024
 
Description Understanding Trust of Perceived Voice Anonymization - TAS Hub Project
Amount £43,000 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2022 
End 04/2023
 
Title An analytical methodologyto identify EEG signatures associated with SA on various regions of the brain 
Description An important aspect in safety-critical domains is Situational Awareness (SA) where operators consolidate data into an understanding of the situation that needs to be updated dynamically as the situation changes over time. Among existing measures of SA, only physiological measures can assess the cognitive processes associated with SA in real-time. Some studies showed promise in detecting cognitive states associated with SA in complex tasks using brain signals (e.g. electroencephalogram/EEG). We developed an analytical methodology to identify EEG signatures associated with SA on various regions of the brain. 
Type Of Material Physiological assessment or outcome measure 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact How to identify operator's situational awareness is one of the most important problems in ergonomics study. Although there are several methods (SAGAT, 3D-SART, SPAM, operation performance, et al.) which can be used for measuring operator's situational awareness, the physiological index which can clearly reflect operator's situational awareness is hard to find, especially for the level 2 and level 3 of situational awareness. We investigated the correlation between situational awareness and EEG signals. 
URL https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231220319263
 
Title Audio system 
Description A new audio system which increases the realism decisively and enhances user experience. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Improved immersion and enhanced user experience, hence better datasets were collected for analysis. 
URL https://www.ucl-intelligent-mobility.com/
 
Title Development of a 3D environment for simulated driving 
Description A driving environment based on Coventry digital twin have been designed for the TAS Understanding user trust after software malfunctions and cyber intrusions of digital displays: A use case of automated automotive systems research programme. It consists of a dense urban environment in daytime (Coventry city centre) with sections of the M6 North and M45. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact The environment and scenario designed for the project can be reused for future studies, as they have been fully integrated into Coventry University driving in-the-loop simulator. The main use cases encompass dense urban environment, motorways, intersections, left turn, merging, overtaking slower vehicles, following an itinerary and activating/deactivating automated driving. 
 
Title High graphics in the drive simulator 
Description Better graphics for increases realism as well as better hardware and software integration, also with other services (e.g. OSM) and interfaces (e.g. UDP). 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Improved immersion and enhanced user experience, hence better datasets were collected for analysis. 
URL https://www.ucl-intelligent-mobility.com/
 
Title Human capabilitiy mapping for research and researcher evaluation 
Description we propose a systematic framework for evaluating transdisciplinary research based on the Capability Approach, a set of concepts designed to assess practices, institutions and people based on public values. The framework is operationalised through a mixed-method procedure which evaluates capabilities as they are valued and experienced by researchers themselves. The framework uses bibliometic methods as well as interviews and workshop data. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Originally published in 2021, our research capability mapping tool has been expanded from measuring research capacity across a sustainability and transdisciplinary research programme, to assessing responsible research cultures across European synthetic biology networks. And for assessing capabilities for health and care professionals to use robotics systems and ai technologies on their own terms. 
URL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7674613
 
Title Hybrid fluidic actuation system for a foam-based soft actuator 
Description Actuation means for soft robotic structures are manifold: despite actuation mechanisms such as tendon-driven manipulators or shape memory alloys, the majority of soft robotic actuators are fluidically actuated - either purely by positive or negative air pressure or by hydraulic actuation only. The novel idea of employing hybrid fluidic - hydraulic and pneumatic - actuation for soft robotic systems is proposed in this project. The concept and design of the hybrid actuation system as well as the fabrication of the soft actuator are: Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) foam is embedded inside a casted, reinforced silicone chamber. A hydraulic and pneumatic robotic syringe pump are connected to the base and top of the soft actuator. We found that a higher percentage of hydraulics resulted in a higher output force. Hydraulic actuation further is able to change displacements at a higher rate compared to pneumatic actuation. Changing between Hydraulic:Pneumatic (HP) ratios shows how stiffness properties of a soft actuator can be varied. 
Type Of Material Technology assay or reagent 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact Contribution to fundamental science in soft robotic actuation presented at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipa3_-FVvHw
 
Title Open Dynamic Optical Micro-Environment (Open DOME) 
Description The DOME is an open-source platform for the control of microscale agents using light. Through the integration of digital light processing and light microscopy into a closed-loop set up, the DOME provides an accessible method by which to explore spatiotemporal optical control techniques. 
Type Of Material Technology assay or reagent 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact As a result of this open tool, several labs in the UK and abroad have started building their own DOME for the control of microsystems. 
URL http://theopendome.org/
 
Title Sound system 
Description A realistic sound environment for driving scenes. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Improved immersion and enhanced user experience, hence better datasets were collected for analysis. 
URL https://www.ucl-intelligent-mobility.com/
 
Title Benchmark models for evaluating the robustness of machine learning 
Description The dataset provides a list of models that come from common databases and can be used as a benchmark for robustness in ML algorithms 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact We actively collaborate with different research partners on improving algorithms and their quality by using these specific models 
URL https://github.com/hdg7/ictai2023models
 
Title Driving scenarios embedded in Unity 
Description Unity simulation of the M3 between London and Southampton. The driving scenario of our experiment is embedded in Unity based on our analysis of real-world incidents involving highly automated vehicles to enable further research/application-driven analysis. The whole simulation environment is modular, so one can create any real-world road layout from Open Street Map (OSM) automatically as a scene and only have to define a starting point for the vehicle. 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact It enables critical peer assessment and established open collaborative partnerships across the globe. 
URL https://liveuclac-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ucesjka_ucl_ac_uk/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx
 
Title Driving simulation model 
Description (1) Vehicle drives autonomously and the driver can override inputs by turning the steering wheel or pressing the throttle or brake pedal. (2) Other vehicles (NPCs) are randomly populating the scene. 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Fundamental - this enabled collecting data for our experiments and monitoring the cognitive and physical engagement of the driver (e.g., hands/eyes/mind on/off). 
URL https://github.com/BaniAnvari/SAVE
 
Title Model for analysis of EEG and eye tracking datasets 
Description Model for analysis of EEG and eye tracking datasets in order to identify Situational Awareness level and investigate trust. Data processing include FFT, machine learning algorithms (e.g. ICA, PCA, neural networks), direct measures (e.g. blinking, gaze patterns, reaction times, questionnaire responses) and statistical methods (e.g. t-test, ANOVA). 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Through this model, other EEG and eye tracking datasets can be studied to identify Situational Awareness level and investigate trust. This enables critical peer assessment and establishes open collaborative partnerships across the globe. 
URL https://github.com/BaniAnvari/SAVE
 
Title Model for analysis of EEG datasets 
Description A problem formulation is proposed to design a model under label uncertainty, which is able to differentiate between high and low Situational Awareness. 
Type Of Material Computer model/algorithm 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Based on the new classifier the spatial areas and frequency ranges associated with Situational Awareness can be identified. Through this model, other EEG datasets can be studied and this enables critical peer assessment and establishes open collaborative partnerships across the globe. 
URL https://github.com/BaniAnvari/SAVE
 
Title Quantitative (i.e. physiological/behavioural) and qualitative (i.e. self-reporting SA/ratings) datasets 
Description New anonymised quantitative (i.e. physiological/behavioural) and qualitative (i.e. self-reporting SA/ratings) data sets from participants completing the experiments using a 32-channel dry-EEG headset and eye tracker in the car simulator of IM@UCL. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2022 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact It enables critical peer assessment and established open collaborative partnerships across the globe. 
URL https://liveuclac-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ucesjka_ucl_ac_uk/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx
 
Description A participatory approach to the ethical assurance of digital mental healthcare 
Organisation Alan Turing Institute
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided the flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution This project will use a participatory methodology to develop a novel approach to assurance, which can underwrite the responsible design, development, and deployment of autonomous and intelligent systems in digital mental healthcare, and build trust among stakeholders that ethical issues have been properly considered throughout a project's lifecycle.
Impact This project will use a participatory methodology to develop a novel approach to assurance, which can underwrite the responsible design, development, and deployment of autonomous and intelligent systems in digital mental healthcare, and build trust among stakeholders that ethical issues have been properly considered throughout a project's lifecycle.
Start Year 2021
 
Description ACM 
Organisation Association for Computing Machinery
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution We agreed with ACM that the outputs of our project will be shared with relevant committees (e.g., their Technology Policy Committee) in order to assess the value of this kind of approach.
Collaborator Contribution ACM have provided access to a number of committee chairs and staff.
Impact Forthcoming output will be a report into the viability of Design Led interventions as a tool for ACM committees to form and critique their policies.
Start Year 2021
 
Description ARGOS: AI-assisted Resilience GOvernance Systems 
Organisation University of Southampton
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided the flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution Existing governance measures for ensuring resilience in society are struggling to deal with compound risks such as extreme climate change events during pandemics. We argue that resilience governance systems can benefit from technological advancements in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI has the capacity to support resilience governance to be geared towards anticipatory action to increase resilience in society. The ARGOS project focuses on AI-assisted Resilience Governance Systems and investigates the applicability of machine learning methods to support anticipatory planning for resilience, simulation-based AI techniques for policy appraisal in view of compound risks, and AI-based coordination mechanisms for resilience-aware decision making.
Impact The ARGOS project focuses on AI-assisted Resilience Governance Systems and investigates the applicability of machine learning methods to support anticipatory planning for resilience, simulation-based AI techniques for policy appraisal in view of compound risks, and AI-based coordination mechanisms for resilience-aware decision making.
Start Year 2021
 
Description AXA 
Organisation AXA
Department AXA Research Fund
Country France 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussions around research synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussions around research synergies.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Ada Lovelace Institute 
Organisation Ada Lovelace Institute
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Synergies between the research strategies have been identified.
Collaborator Contribution The CEO of the Ada Lovelace Institute chairs the TAS Board.
Impact The Ada Lovelace Institute CEO is chair of the TAS Board, which provides strategic advise to the UKRI TAS Hub Executive Management Board.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Agri-Food Robotics CDT 
Organisation University of Lincoln
Department Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology (LIAT)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Access to the TAS Skills Programme and the wider TAS community.
Collaborator Contribution Membership of the TAS Skills Committee. Development of the TAS Doctoral Training Network (TAS DTN.) Promotion of the TAS DTN seminars.
Impact Development of the TAS Doctoral Training Network (TAS DTN.) Promotion of the TAS DTN seminars. TAS ECR event held at Prince Philip House, London on 23 Feb 2022.
Start Year 2020
 
Description AgriTrust: Trust Assurance in Autonomous Cyber Physical Agriculture Farms of Future 
Organisation University of Strathclyde
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided the flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution With the explosive growth in global greenhouse emissions, the FAO has recommended the use of AgriTech to deal with climate change and food insecurity. However, the growth of new adversarial capabilities makes it challenging for stakeholders to trust autonomous smart farms. AgriTrust will carry out the first multi-disciplinary study that investigates legal, regulatory, and technological aspects of smart farming. It will also develop novel measures to deal with that trust deficit to enable the AgriTech farmer's posture to change from a reactive and forensics based approach to a predictive and pro-active approach to addressing the safety, cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory risks.
Impact This project is multi-disciplinary.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Alan Turing Institute 
Organisation Alan Turing Institute
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Discussions around research synergies. Access to the wider TAS Network.
Collaborator Contribution Discussions around research synergies. Pump priming project partner: A participatory approach to the ethical assurance of digital mental healthcare
Impact Pump priming project: A participatory approach to the ethical assurance of digital mental healthcare: Publication - Ethical Assurance: A practical approach to the responsible design, development, and deployment of data-driven technologies Sub-Projects Assuring a Duty of Care: Digital Mental Healthcare for University Students Interactive Platform and Resources Developing value-sensitive standards for digital mental healthcare IEEE Industry Connections Programme-https://standards.ieee.org/industry-connections/data-driven-tech-healthcare.html Developing and evaluating the ethical assurance methodology Case Studies with NHS Digital and Samaritans Workshops with stakeholder groups (March-May) Policy Engagement Multi-agency advice service (MAAS)-NICE, MHRA, HRA, CQC Nuffield Council on Bioethics (Workshop and White Paper) Centre for Data Ethics Assurance Roadmap Council of Europe CAHAI Policy Working Group Exploratory work with Office for AI and Department for Digital, Culture Media, and Sport
Start Year 2021
 
Description Alliance Innovation (Nissan) 
Organisation Nissan Motor Company
Country Japan 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Alliance Innovation are a project partner for Chatty Car, which aims to use existing datasets to design an exemplar, socially responsible, anthropomorphised, natural language interface, incorporating both lexical and non-lexical mediators of trust - findings will be curated in a preliminary design framework.
Collaborator Contribution Alliance Innovation are a project partner for Chatty Car, which aims to use existing datasets to design an exemplar, socially responsible, anthropomorphised, natural language interface, incorporating both lexical and non-lexical mediators of trust - findings will be curated in a preliminary design framework.
Impact A journal paper, arising from the Chatty Car project, has been submitted.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Assuring Responsibility for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (Responsibility project) 
Organisation University of York
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The responsibility projects form part of the TAS Community. They have the opportunity to engage with the TAS Research Programme (via the Integrator Programme).
Collaborator Contribution The Project Lead has accepted an invitation to sit on the Node Liaison Committee.
Impact This project is UKRI funded under the TAS umbrella. The Project Lead is a member of the UKRI TAS Nodes Liaison Committee.
Start Year 2022
 
Description BAE Systems 
Organisation BAE Systems
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Discussed robotics and shared control mechanisms to be applied on BAE applications, including remote healthcare delivery.
Collaborator Contribution BAE has offered use of facilities and supported 3 EPSRC grant proposals with support letters.
Impact Project ideas
Start Year 2022
 
Description BAE Systems 
Organisation BAE Systems
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Discussions around the identification of research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussions around the identification of research challenges and synergies.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2020
 
Description BBC 
Organisation British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Discussions around the identification of research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussions around the identification of research challenges and synergies. Membership of the TAS Board. Membership of the TAS Strategic Advisory Network.
Impact Advisory involvement (creative industries) via the TAS Board and Strategic Advisory Network.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Beko Plc 
Organisation Beko PLC R&D Centre
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution We created a partnership with with Beko to start in the form of one joint PhD studentship to be part funded by the company. The company will benefit from our know how provided through outcomes of different projects to advance their domestic products. We have started discussions on long term autonomy, robotic failure management, and shared control in the device operations.
Collaborator Contribution Beko has agreed to share their use cases. Beko will part-fund an international PhD studentship starting in 2023/2024, with agreement to be negotiated afterwards.
Impact NA.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Boeing 
Organisation Boeing
Country United States 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussions around the identification of research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussions around the identification of research challenges and synergies. Membership of the TAS Strategic Advisory Network.
Impact Identification of research challenges via the TAS Strategic Advisory Network.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Brantwood 
Organisation Brantwood
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Developing a case for relevance for John Ruskin's writing to 21st century technological dilemmas, e.g., Trust.
Collaborator Contribution Several meetings with the project team to discuss Ruskin's writings and history.
Impact Main output is forthcoming in the form of an interactive Trust tool inspired by Ruskin's view of the natural/technological world.
Start Year 2021
 
Description CHAPTER - Cognitive HumAn in the looP TEleopeRations 
Organisation University of Nottingham
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution TAS pump priming award
Collaborator Contribution With increasingly autonomous robotics taking on lots of the physical workload for people, current HRI research looks to how collaborative robots might adapt with an awareness of the mental workload being experienced by users. Research continues to develop on two fronts: making estimates of user state from mixed observable data, and understanding how different options for autonomy affect the efforts of users. This demonstrator will achieve two things: 1) embodying recent research findings into a reusable demonstrator for subsequent studies of autonomous cobots, and 2) testing the application of a new neuroergonomics machine learning framework.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description CMU 
Organisation Carnegie Mellon University
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Impact Initial discussions around research challenges and potential research exchanges.
Start Year 2020
 
Description COTADS: COdesigning Trustworthy Autonomous Diabetes Systems 
Organisation University of Southampton
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided the flexible funds to support the project.
Collaborator Contribution This project brings together people with type-1 diabetes, clinicians, and data scientists to design algorithms for diabetes management during life transitions. It aims to increase trust and understanding using co-design, provenance and explainable AI.
Impact This project brings together people with type-1 diabetes, clinicians, and data scientists to design algorithms for diabetes management during life transitions. It aims to increase trust and understanding using co-design, provenance and explainable AI.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Capital One 
Organisation Capital One
Country United States 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussion of research challenges.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion of research challenges.
Impact Initial discussion around sector specific challenges.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) 
Organisation National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS)
Country France 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Our collaboration with CNRS started in the scope of Open All Senses Horizon project and extended to TAS-ART, where we build a wearable toolkit for generating haptic sensations for robotic experiences. We focus on how telepresence robots can be augmented through wearable technologies.
Collaborator Contribution CNRS has shared some of their wearable kits with us and researchers commit to attending monthly meetings.
Impact Zhou, F., Price, D., Pacchierotti, C. & Kucukyilmaz, A. (2023, July). Somabotics Toolkit for Rapid Prototyping Human-Robot Interaction Experiences using Wearable Haptics. In IEEE World Haptics Conference (Work-in-Progress paper). Collaboration between engineering and computer science.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Citizen Carbon Budget 
Organisation University of Southampton
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution TAS Pump priming project
Collaborator Contribution To reach "Net Zero" by 2050, we need some radical and disruptive interventions. The Citizen Carbon Budget (CCB) idea is simple: every person has a carbon budget that they can spend each month. Every consumer decision that has a carbon footprint has an impact on their budget. For example, the carbon footprint of travel will be impacted by the mode of transport and distance travelled. The footprint of consumables such as food and clothes will be impacted by the type of product, origin, manufacturing processes, `food miles' and so on.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Competition and Markets Authority 
Organisation Competition and Markets Authority
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution We've delivered research on recommender systems, to provide evidence to the policy report the CMA is currently working on.
Collaborator Contribution The CMA hosts our final workshop in London (20 March 2023). Consultations with CMA experts.
Impact Two working papers: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4036813 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4319311
Start Year 2022
 
Description Computational Agent Responsibility (Responsibility Project) 
Organisation University of Manchester
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution This project is funded by UKRI with the TAS Programme, this provides the project team with access to the Integrator Programme.
Collaborator Contribution The Project Lead sits on the TAS Node Liaison Committee.
Impact No reported outputs at present.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Consent Verification in Autonomous Systems 
Organisation University of Glasgow
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub has provided flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution This project aims to replace existing deterministic regulatory verification activities that Data Protection Officers rely on with automated reasoning techniques. To build an argument for compliance, the DPO relies on a set of deterministic activities (e.g., data discovery, DPIA, list of assets/processing activities, etc.) and assumptions such as: 1. Personal data is accurately identified; 2.There is no emergent data sharing behaviour that invalidates data discovery effort; 3.The purpose of data processing remains unchanged after DPIA.
Impact To replace existing deterministic regulatory verification activities that Data Protection Officers rely on with automated reasoning techniques
Start Year 2021
 
Description Critically Exploring Biometric AI Futures. 
Organisation University of Edinburgh
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution TAS pump priming award
Collaborator Contribution In this project, we examine emerging biometric AI systems and the socio-technical and legal issues they pose, especially for trust. Both regulators and emerging legislation seeks to curb use of these technologies. There are increasing calls for bans and stricter regulation around their use, particularly when utilised by law enforcement. We will utilise novel design fiction scenarios to envision future uses of biometric technologies, and the tensions/issues they could create. We will then explore the implications of these with domain experts in order to critically reflect on the challenges and in order to shape policy debates around biometric AI.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description DAISY: Diagnostic AI System for Robot-Assisted A&E Triage 
Organisation University of York
Department Department of Computer Science
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided the flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution Healthcare is without doubt the sector most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The figures report-ed by the British Medical Association in October 2021 are alarming. The number of patients waiting over 12hours in corridor trolley beds for A&E admission is at a record high, and 236-fold more NHS England patients than in August 2019 are waiting for over a year for treatment. DAISY will develop a prototype robot-assisted A&E triage system aimed at alleviating this situation. Co-created and co-evaluated with doctors and patients at York Hospital, DAISY will contribute to lowering A&E patient waiting time and doctor workload.
Impact The project is multi-disciplinary.
Start Year 2022
 
Description DCMS 
Organisation Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Professor Dame Wendy Hall, TAS Skills Director, took part as a member of the Panel.
Collaborator Contribution Professor Tom Rodden took part as a member of the Panel.
Impact The CSA for DCMS took part in a TAS/Foundation for Science and Technology event - 'Delivering the AI Strategy - the use of new AI technologies in industry and the public sector' in London on 23 Feb 2022.
Start Year 2020
 
Description DOMINOES: aDaptive human-rObot teaMINg fOr rEmote taskS 
Organisation Culham Science Centre
Department Remote Applications in Challenging Environments (RACE)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Connected Everything Feasibility Study
Collaborator Contribution This project focuses on the analysis of human workload to design effective human-robot teaming for remote teleoperation, where the robotic system may also be equipped with adaptive behaviours (e.g. smoothly following a given trajectory based on human intentions). A manufacturing scenario is designed in collaboration with industrial partner RACE,to create test cases to investigate different sources of workload (physical and cognitive). We evaluate the feasibility of using physiological workload indicators in robotic teleoperation.
Impact This is a multidisciplinary project involving experts in psychology, human factors, neuroscience and computer science.
Start Year 2023
 
Description DORIAN/MACAIF: Doctor-centred Auditing of Healthcare AI With Testing of Fairness 
Organisation Johns Hopkins University
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution This collaboration aims to build trust in AI-aided diagnosis by engaging doctors' interest in the auditing process of AI tools. We will develop an audit tool and dashboard that will enable doctors to visualise their audits of AI systems.
Collaborator Contribution King's College London provides the MLighter tool,that will be the starting point for the project and will contribute to its development, evaluation, and research related outcomes, apart from coordinating the project. Johns Hopkins University will contribute to the design and development of the prototype of the auditing algorithms and the dashboard. University of Nottingham will contribute on the engagement with UK doctors. University of Texas at Austin will contribute on the engagement with USA doctors. University of Southampton will contribute on creating policies related to the evaluation and validation of AI.
Impact The collaboration started in March 2023. The main current output is the funding of 72460 pounds obtained by the team. This is a multidisciplinary collaboration involving: medicine, computer science and law.
Start Year 2023
 
Description DORIAN/MACAIF: Doctor-centred Auditing of Healthcare AI With Testing of Fairness 
Organisation King's College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution This collaboration aims to build trust in AI-aided diagnosis by engaging doctors' interest in the auditing process of AI tools. We will develop an audit tool and dashboard that will enable doctors to visualise their audits of AI systems.
Collaborator Contribution King's College London provides the MLighter tool,that will be the starting point for the project and will contribute to its development, evaluation, and research related outcomes, apart from coordinating the project. Johns Hopkins University will contribute to the design and development of the prototype of the auditing algorithms and the dashboard. University of Nottingham will contribute on the engagement with UK doctors. University of Texas at Austin will contribute on the engagement with USA doctors. University of Southampton will contribute on creating policies related to the evaluation and validation of AI.
Impact The collaboration started in March 2023. The main current output is the funding of 72460 pounds obtained by the team. This is a multidisciplinary collaboration involving: medicine, computer science and law.
Start Year 2023
 
Description DORIAN/MACAIF: Doctor-centred Auditing of Healthcare AI With Testing of Fairness 
Organisation University of Nottingham
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution This collaboration aims to build trust in AI-aided diagnosis by engaging doctors' interest in the auditing process of AI tools. We will develop an audit tool and dashboard that will enable doctors to visualise their audits of AI systems.
Collaborator Contribution King's College London provides the MLighter tool,that will be the starting point for the project and will contribute to its development, evaluation, and research related outcomes, apart from coordinating the project. Johns Hopkins University will contribute to the design and development of the prototype of the auditing algorithms and the dashboard. University of Nottingham will contribute on the engagement with UK doctors. University of Texas at Austin will contribute on the engagement with USA doctors. University of Southampton will contribute on creating policies related to the evaluation and validation of AI.
Impact The collaboration started in March 2023. The main current output is the funding of 72460 pounds obtained by the team. This is a multidisciplinary collaboration involving: medicine, computer science and law.
Start Year 2023
 
Description DORIAN/MACAIF: Doctor-centred Auditing of Healthcare AI With Testing of Fairness 
Organisation University of Southampton
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution This collaboration aims to build trust in AI-aided diagnosis by engaging doctors' interest in the auditing process of AI tools. We will develop an audit tool and dashboard that will enable doctors to visualise their audits of AI systems.
Collaborator Contribution King's College London provides the MLighter tool,that will be the starting point for the project and will contribute to its development, evaluation, and research related outcomes, apart from coordinating the project. Johns Hopkins University will contribute to the design and development of the prototype of the auditing algorithms and the dashboard. University of Nottingham will contribute on the engagement with UK doctors. University of Texas at Austin will contribute on the engagement with USA doctors. University of Southampton will contribute on creating policies related to the evaluation and validation of AI.
Impact The collaboration started in March 2023. The main current output is the funding of 72460 pounds obtained by the team. This is a multidisciplinary collaboration involving: medicine, computer science and law.
Start Year 2023
 
Description DORIAN/MACAIF: Doctor-centred Auditing of Healthcare AI With Testing of Fairness 
Organisation University of Texas at Austin
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution This collaboration aims to build trust in AI-aided diagnosis by engaging doctors' interest in the auditing process of AI tools. We will develop an audit tool and dashboard that will enable doctors to visualise their audits of AI systems.
Collaborator Contribution King's College London provides the MLighter tool,that will be the starting point for the project and will contribute to its development, evaluation, and research related outcomes, apart from coordinating the project. Johns Hopkins University will contribute to the design and development of the prototype of the auditing algorithms and the dashboard. University of Nottingham will contribute on the engagement with UK doctors. University of Texas at Austin will contribute on the engagement with USA doctors. University of Southampton will contribute on creating policies related to the evaluation and validation of AI.
Impact The collaboration started in March 2023. The main current output is the funding of 72460 pounds obtained by the team. This is a multidisciplinary collaboration involving: medicine, computer science and law.
Start Year 2023
 
Description Design Museum 
Organisation Design Museum London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution We partnered with the Design Museum to develop and create a Design Research intervention, to be delivered by the Design Museum's education arm, as a research vehicle.
Collaborator Contribution Design Museum team met with us on several occasions to shape the project and discuss ways in which we can drive impact through the partnership.
Impact The significant output is currently a work in progress.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Digital Forensics Platform 
Organisation University of Nottingham
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution TAS pump priming project.
Collaborator Contribution This project will design, implement and test an open source modular digital forensics platform. The unique qualities will be the ability to provide a filtering service to offer some proportionality in investigations. Given a specific targeted request for data the software will only produce the relevant subset of data for subsequent analysis. The modular nature will allow a wider community to build plugins to analyse specific apps within the generic framework, as well as the ability for the community to extend the visualisations and analysis tools available to meet specific investigative needs.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Dstl 
Organisation Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Discussions and identification of research challenges and synergies. Access to the wider TAS network and events.
Collaborator Contribution Discussions and identification of research challenges and synergies. Co-chairing the TAS Skills Committee. Membership of the TAS Sector Leads Committee. Membership of the TAS Strategic Advisory Network. Participation in TAS events such as the TAS AHM 21 and Trusting Machines? Access to AIFest Project Partner: Trustworthy human-swarm partnerships in extreme environments
Impact Development of TAS Skills Programme via co-chairing of the TAS Skills Committee and participation in the TAS DTN seminar series. Membership of the TAS Strategic Advisory Network. Trusting Machines? Cross sector lessons in healthcare and defence event. TAS participation in AIFest. Project:Trustworthy human-swarm partnerships in extreme environments.
Start Year 2020
 
Description EAG 
Organisation Electric Aviation Group
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussions of research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussions of research challenges and synergies.
Impact Initial discussion around sector specific research challenges and the TAS Skills Programme.
Start Year 2020
 
Description EDI card development 
Organisation University of Nottingham
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution TAS pump priming award
Collaborator Contribution Considering the subject matter of EDI, the current inaccessibility of the prototype cards and cards as a format to those with visual impairment or low (English) literacy is problematic. This project will support the development of an app to present the cards and make them screen readable and more accessible.
Impact None yet as app in development.
Start Year 2022
 
Description ETHICAL ASSURANCE OF DATA-DRIVEN TECHNOLOGIES FOR MENTAL HEALTHCARE 
Organisation Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Department IEEE Standards Association
Country United States 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution I am the chair of an IEEE Industry Connections programme, which is exploring possible standards for ethical design, development, and deployment of digital mental health technologies. We currently have over 40 participants across the international community who are supporting the programme.
Collaborator Contribution Rosamund Powell is supporting this collaboration as programme secretary.
Impact This initiative is both multi-disciplinary and also includes researchers, developers, and policy representatives across the international community. Early planned outputs include white papers exploring the development of ethical standards for digital mental healthcare.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Empowering Future Care Workforces: Scoping Capabilities to Leverage Assistive Robotics through Co-Design 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided the flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution This project aims to understand what kind of capabilities care professionals need to use physically assistive robotics on their own terms, and in ways that are safe, trustworthy, and meet the legal and ethical standards of their profession. Empowering care professionals through digital training is urgently needed as governments invest in post-pandemic digital transformation. By using co-design approaches, a diverse and inclusive group of professionals, care receivers, family-members and partner organisations will scope the capability needs of today's care professionals. And we will identify the conceptual building blocks of research infrastructure essential for empowering care workforces tomorrow.
Impact This project is multi-disciplinary.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Experian 
Organisation Experian
Country Ireland 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussions around research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussions around research challenges and synergies.
Impact Initial discussion around sector specific challenges.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Exploring Fairness and Bias of Multimodal Natural Language Processing for Mental Health 
Organisation Northeastern University - Boston
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Our collaboration is centred around ethical application, ensuring fairness and avoiding biases in the models. Our key activities will include sharing resources between institutions (datasets and models), evaluating models for potential biases, and proposing policy recommendations for AI in mental health, as well as broadening collaborations and incorporating stakeholders early in the process, ensuring that AI integration in mental health is both innovative, ethically grounded and addressing real users' needs.
Collaborator Contribution Northeastern University is providing data and NLP models for our work, and working with us to develop the evaluation framework.
Impact Workshop bid submission (collaboration has just started)
Start Year 2024
 
Description Foundations of a Trustworthiness Risk Assessment for AI Systems 
Organisation University of Southampton
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution TAS pump priming award.
Collaborator Contribution The project aims to lay the foundations for a trustworthiness risk assessment framework that can describe and automatically assess trustworthiness risks associated with AI systems. Trustworthiness risk assessment is expected to form an integral element within the future governance and management of AI systems, and as such is expected to be a key component within the blueprint for implementation of trustworthy AI.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Fujitsu 
Organisation Fujitsu
Country Japan 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussions around synergies of TAS research and skills.
Collaborator Contribution Involvement with the Strategic Advisory Network. Input to the TAS Skills Programme.
Impact Identification of research challenges via the Strategic Advisory Network.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Harvard 
Organisation Harvard University
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The TAS Director visited in person in March 2022, giving an invited talk and developing the relationship.
Collaborator Contribution Hosted a visit by the TAS Director and other TAS researchers in March 2022. Other research synergies and visits are under discussion.
Impact An invited talk was given by the TAS Director at Harvard in March 2022. Further research synergies and visits are being organised.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Horizon CDT 
Organisation Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Access to the TAS Skills Programme and wider network.
Collaborator Contribution Membership of the TAS Skills Committee. Development of the TAS Doctoral Training Network (TAS DTN.) Promotion of the TAS DTN seminars via the Horizon network.
Impact Development of the TAS Doctoral Training Network (TAS DTN.) Promotion of the TAS DTN seminars. TAS ECR event at Prince Philip House, London on 23 Feb 2022.
Start Year 2020
 
Description IET 
Organisation Institution of Engineering and Technology
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Discussions and identification of synergies, particularly around the TAS Skills Programme.
Collaborator Contribution Discussions and identification of synergies, particularly around the TAS Skills Programme.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Imaging predictors of Oesophageal Cancer MDT patient outcomes 
Organisation Southampton General Hospital
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Hospitals 
PI Contribution TAS pump priming award.
Collaborator Contribution The Upper Gastrointestinal (UGI) multidisciplinary team (MDT) makes critical treatment decisions in every oesophageal cancer (OC) patient's journey (e.g. surgery or chemotherapy). This has a profound impact on survival and quality of life. Recent studies have highlighted that rising caseloads and time pressures can lead to variable and sometimes suboptimal decisions. In this context, machine learning (ML) approaches offer the potential to standardize and produce consistent, data-driven decisions. Mirroring the decision-making process by incorporating critical variables chosen by humans, will ensure that the solution is transparent, trustworthy, and ultimately, ensure routine clinical use to improve OC patients' lives. This pump-priming award will enable the collection, processing, curation, and interpretation of image-based data (CT-scan and pathology slides) for later incorporation into a bespoke ML model. Explainability and trustworthiness of the model will be enhanced by the application of spatial transcriptomics to biopsy slides to discover the "ground truth" of gene expression programmes in cellular neighbourhoods that underpin model performance. This award will facilitate accelerated delivery of a comprehensive project to deliver "A Trustworthy Mirrored Machine Learning approach to predict Upper Gastrointestinal Multidisciplinary team treatment decisions in Oesophageal Cancer".
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Imaging predictors of Oesophageal Cancer MDT patient outcomes 
Organisation University of Southampton
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution TAS pump priming award.
Collaborator Contribution The Upper Gastrointestinal (UGI) multidisciplinary team (MDT) makes critical treatment decisions in every oesophageal cancer (OC) patient's journey (e.g. surgery or chemotherapy). This has a profound impact on survival and quality of life. Recent studies have highlighted that rising caseloads and time pressures can lead to variable and sometimes suboptimal decisions. In this context, machine learning (ML) approaches offer the potential to standardize and produce consistent, data-driven decisions. Mirroring the decision-making process by incorporating critical variables chosen by humans, will ensure that the solution is transparent, trustworthy, and ultimately, ensure routine clinical use to improve OC patients' lives. This pump-priming award will enable the collection, processing, curation, and interpretation of image-based data (CT-scan and pathology slides) for later incorporation into a bespoke ML model. Explainability and trustworthiness of the model will be enhanced by the application of spatial transcriptomics to biopsy slides to discover the "ground truth" of gene expression programmes in cellular neighbourhoods that underpin model performance. This award will facilitate accelerated delivery of a comprehensive project to deliver "A Trustworthy Mirrored Machine Learning approach to predict Upper Gastrointestinal Multidisciplinary team treatment decisions in Oesophageal Cancer".
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Imagining robotic care: identifying conflict & confluence in stakeholder imaginaries of autonomous care systems 
Organisation University of Sheffield
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution Identify the conflicts and confluences in the imaginaries of robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) in the health-social care ecosystem by conducting a series of expert interviews and LEGO Serious Play workshops with stakeholders and members of the public. Support TAS members in exploring and incorporating the stages of Responsible Innovation (RI) as projects progress, by developing RI tools that enable creative reflection and engagement between stakeholders with different experience and expertise, to enrich TAS activities in this area.
Impact Identify the conflicts and confluences in the imaginaries of robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) in the health-social care ecosystem by conducting a series of expert interviews and LEGO Serious Play workshops with stakeholders and members of the public. Support TAS members in exploring and incorporating the stages of Responsible Innovation (RI) as projects progress, by developing RI tools that enable creative reflection and engagement between stakeholders with different experience and expertise, to enrich TAS activities in this area.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Industrial Collaboration Horiba MIRA 
Organisation Horiba
Department HORIBA MIRA
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Knowledge exchange
Collaborator Contribution Knowledge exchange
Impact Knowledge exchange
Start Year 2021
 
Description Industrial Collaboration with Ansible Motion 
Organisation Ansible Motion
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Knowledge exchange; software and hardware support
Collaborator Contribution Knowledge exchange; software and hardware support
Impact Knowledge exchange; software and hardware development and update
Start Year 2021
 
Description International Partnership (UK, US, Australia) with Australia National University and George Washington University 
Organisation Australian National University (ANU)
Country Australia 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution University of Southampton is leading this partnership and organising the team of core members, advisor network, and extended network. We also contribute deep expertise in AI from the communications sector.
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute their expertise for AI in maritime and aerospace sectors.
Impact The collaboration is multidisciplinary. Outputs and outcomes are in-progress as the project has just started several weeks ago.
Start Year 2024
 
Description International Partnership (UK, US, Australia) with Australia National University and George Washington University 
Organisation George Washington University
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution University of Southampton is leading this partnership and organising the team of core members, advisor network, and extended network. We also contribute deep expertise in AI from the communications sector.
Collaborator Contribution The partners contribute their expertise for AI in maritime and aerospace sectors.
Impact The collaboration is multidisciplinary. Outputs and outcomes are in-progress as the project has just started several weeks ago.
Start Year 2024
 
Description Intersectional Approaches to Design and Deployment of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 
Organisation King's College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided the flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution For TAS to contribute to the creation of an inclusive, fair and just world, researchers and practitioners need to address intersectional inequalities. Intersectionality is a theory/praxis that uncovers how institutional inequalities shape experiences of discrimination or disadvantage based on how multiple aspects of a person's identity (gender, ethnicity, disability, and so on) come together at one time and place. Our project researches how to translate and operationalise intersectionality into the design and deployment of TAS. We focus specifically on the healthcare and maritime sectors, where TAS are actively used and considered, but intersectional inequalities are not always meaningfully addressed.
Impact The project involves a multidisciplinary team from the fields of intersectionality, technology education, digital trust, and AI ethics.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Intuitive Surgical 
Organisation Intuitive Surgical Inc
Country United States 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution The COVID19 pandemic has presented novel challenges for routine tasks such as surgery and cleaning. Social distancing makes working in close proximity difficult, exacerbated by additional pressures due to employee sickness and austerity measures. These challenges present increased opportunities for human-robot collaborative teams but questions remain relating to trust towards the robot within the team and more broadly, the trust of affected groups (e.g., patients) towards tasks carried out by robot-assisted teams. An interdisciplinary TAS Hub agile project (Trustworthy Human-Robot Teams) explores different aspects related to trust within and towards human-robot teams in two essential tasks: surgery and cleaning.
Collaborator Contribution Project partner of the Trustworthy Human-Robot teams research project.
Impact No outcomes reported yet.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Ipsos 
Organisation Ipsos MORI
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies. Support for research projects.
Impact Journal paper published.
Start Year 2020
 
Description J P Morgan 
Organisation JPMorgan Chase & Co
Country United States 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Impact A virtual meeting has taken place to discuss research collaboration in the field of climate finance.
Start Year 2020
 
Description John Hopkins University 
Organisation Johns Hopkins University
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Introduction of sandpit methodology for co-creating research projects. Research expertise.
Collaborator Contribution Research expertise.
Impact This multi-disciplinary collaboration with the Institute of Assured Autonomy at JHU has resulted in the co-creation of TAS research projects. Horizon Researcher, Pepi Barnard facilitated workshops for computer science and applied physics lab researchers and post graduates at John Hopkins and received positive feedback and requests for further information and a deck of Horizons 'prompt and practice RRI cards developed as in the early iteration of Horizon DER Agile projects (hoRRIzon 1, 2 & 3): https://rdmc.nottingham.ac.uk/handle/internal/9564
Start Year 2022
 
Description Kaspar Explains: the impact of explanation on human-robot trust using an educational platform 
Organisation University of Hertfordshire
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided the flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution The project focuses on identifying how causal explanation can influence trust in an educational robotic platform, the Kaspar robot. The robot has been used as a tool for Autism education for more than a decade. Children with autism struggle with the concept of causality particularly in the context of social interaction with others. We hypothesise that a robot's ability to explain its educational actions would make it a more trustworthy educational tool, for the pupils, their parents and their teachers. This may in turn make the robot-mediation more successful.
Impact We hypothesise that a robot's ability to explain its educational actions would make it a more trustworthy educational tool, for the pupils, their parents and their teachers. This may in turn make the robot-mediation more successful.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Kooth 
Organisation Kooth Plc
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Behaviour classification NLP in a socio-technical AI setting for online harmful behaviours for children and young people   Exploring the use of Socio-Technical Natural Language Processing (NLP) for classifying behavioural online harms within online forum posts (e.g. bullying; drugs & alcohol abuse; gendered harassment; self-harm), especially for young people.
Collaborator Contribution Kooth interview results are interesting and will form the basis of a research paper.
Impact A paper is being prepared based on the research results.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Lloyd's Register Group 
Organisation Lloyd's Register Group Limited
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussion of research challenges and sector specific (Industry X.0) synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion of research challenges and sector specific (Industry X.0) synergies.
Impact Initial discussion of sector specific (Industry X.0) research challenges.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Making Systems Answer: Dialogical Design as a Bridge for Responsibility Gaps in Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (Responsibility project) 
Organisation University of Edinburgh
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The responsibility project is funded by UKRI under the TAS umbrella. The project team members are eligible for the TAS Integrator Programme.
Collaborator Contribution The Project Lead sits on the TAS Node Liaison Committee and is actively involved in the Governance and Regulation Node.
Impact The Project Lead sits on the TAS Node Liaison Committee.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Mapping Contracts and Licenses around Large Generative Models: private ordering and innovation 
Organisation Newcastle University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution None yet.
Collaborator Contribution Large Language Models (LLMs) such as Open AI's GPT-3, and models for creating AI images from text prompts (eg DALL-E2, Stable Diffusion) and even text-to-video (eg Meta's Make-me-a-Video; Google's Imagen) are being widely hailed as fulcrums for innovation and creativity; however literature already emphasises numerous issues arising eg embedding and creation of bias; generation of "fake news" and sexual material; breaches of copyright, privacy and reputation rights. Bespoke public (state) regulation of large models does not yet exist although proposals in the draft EU AI Act relating to "general purpose" AI may arrive. Private regulation by terms and conditions of use is thus so far the most relevant form of governance. Social media platform terms have been extensively studied in the past but almost no work has yet been done on foundation models. This project thus seeks to map what licenses and acceptable use constraints are being placed on a range of generative models, what "code" measures exist to apply and enforce these rules (eg APIs, filters) & what trends can be seen (eg standardised open source licenses).
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Maritine and Coastguard Agency 
Organisation Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Invitation to join the TAS Strategic Advisory Network, meet researchers and be involved in the development of research challenges.
Collaborator Contribution Membership of the Strategic Advisory Network and project partner on a recently awarded pump priming project - Intersectional Approaches to Design and Deployment of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems.
Impact Pump priming project partner: Intersectional Approaches to Design and Deployment of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. Membership of the TAS Strategic Advisory Network.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Max Planck Institute 
Organisation Max Planck Society
Department Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Country Germany 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Impact Initial discussion of research challenges.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Microlise 
Organisation Microlise
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussions and identification of synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussions and identification of synergies. Participation in the TAS Strategic Advisory Network.
Impact Identification of research challenges via the TAS Strategic Advisory Network.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Mindtech 
Organisation NIHR MindTech MedTech Co-operative
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Discussion of research and sector specific challenges.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion of sector specific challenges for researchers.
Impact Discussion with project team in Nottingham.
Start Year 2020
 
Description National Gallery X 
Organisation National Gallery, London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution TAS researchers have worked with the National Gallery X to produce creative provocations for a conference in 2021 - Trusting machines? Cross sectors lessons from healthcare and security (https://www.tas.ac.uk/bigeventscpt/trusting-machines/)
Collaborator Contribution The National Gallery X co-director produced the film 'The First' from a script by Professor Luca Vigano (TAS Co-Investigator), which is available on youtube and in a National Gallery X gallery of creative provocations.
Impact A gallery of creative work is available (https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/national-gallery-x/the-ai-gallery). In addition a film 'The First' has also be produced in collaboration between the National Gallery X and the TAS Hub.
Start Year 2021
 
Description National Grid 
Organisation National Grid UK
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Impact Initial discussions around participation in upcoming TAS events.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Naver Labs Europe 
Organisation NAVER LABS Europe
Country France 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Talks and presentations.
Collaborator Contribution Engagement with research.
Impact Engagement with research.
Start Year 2022
 
Description North Yorkshire Council (formerly North Yorkshire County Council) 
Organisation North Yorkshire County Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Our team has worked with NYC on a pump-priming project, Mapping Trustworthy Systems for RAS in Social Care, aimed at better understanding of whole service design and how a specific robot (for dressing, developed in the Resilience Node) would fit within this council's existing services if perfected.
Collaborator Contribution Partners contributed knowledge and expertise from proposal development through to data-gathering, as well as time and premises for eight participants in a day-long workshop plus follow-up interviews.
Impact Data is still under analysis but has led to a new collaboration with Sheffield City Council, which has offered staff and time for participation in a second workshop.
Start Year 2023
 
Description Northrup Grumman 
Organisation Northrop Grumman
Country United States 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution A number of discussions have taken place around research challenges.
Collaborator Contribution A number of discussions have taken place around research challenges and a financial contribution has been offered to the TAS Hub. Membership of the TAS Strategic Advisory Network.
Impact Membership of the TAS Strategic Advisory Network.
Start Year 2020
 
Description OPEN-TAS: An Open Laboratories Programme for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 
Organisation University of Sheffield
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub has provided flexible funds to support the delivery of this initiative.
Collaborator Contribution This project will create infrastructure for access via web/VR interfaces and telepresence robots to UK laboratories researching TAS. Beginning with a seed group of universities, companies and NGOs, the project will run a pilot with 4 leading laboratories to create an engagement experience that is educational, scalable and meets social-distancing requirements due to Covid-19.
Impact This project will create infrastructure for access via web/VR interfaces and telepresence robots to UK laboratories researching TAS. Beginning with a seed group of universities, companies and NGOs, the project will run a pilot with 4 leading laboratories to create an engagement experience that is educational, scalable and meets social-distancing requirements due to Covid-19.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Open-Source Interaction Interface for Human-Swarm Teaming 
Organisation University of Southampton
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution TAS pump priming award
Collaborator Contribution Motivated by RRI, this project aims at providing an open-source platform that is suitable for experimentation with a large group of semi-autonomous systems that can be monitored and controlled by a few human operators. Establishing an efficient human-machine teaming is a challenging task that can be enabled through a highly usable and efficient interaction interface. It is necessary for such an interface to be: (1) understandable: so that operators can monitor the state of the autonomous systems with minimal effort and training, (2) scalable: such that the performance of the system is not bound to any specific number of agents, (3) highly usable: so that the platform can easily be used for online experimentation, and (4) maintainable: such that researchers and developers can build upon the existing code or tailor the platform to their specific needs and domains of application.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description PA Consulting 
Organisation PA Consulting
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussions around the identification of research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussions around the identification of research challenges and synergies.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Principles for Building Fair and Trustworthy Autonomous Fraud Detection in Retail 
Organisation University of Southampton
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution TAS pump priming project
Collaborator Contribution Product returns fraud has been increasing strongly, especially since the pandemic (Zhang et al. 2022, 2023). Meanwhile, due to the sheer volume of sales and returns transactions, retailers are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence (AI) and particularly machine learning (ML) algorithms to detect and combat fraud. For example, customers can be profiled based on a risk score and denied the ability to purchase or return items on that basis. This includes serial returners who engage in 'wardrobing' (buying something, using it, and then returning it) as well as people who actively commit fraud and frequently change their identifying details to avoid being caught easily. However, there are potential ethical and legal concerns with such automated fraud detection systems. For example, fraud detection algorithms can be biased and even discriminatory, targeting certain types of individuals (Akter et al., 2021), as demonstrated by the court case against The Retail Equation.1 To address this problem, in this study, we will set the foundations for building the principles and guidelines for ensuring that such systems are fair and transparent. The aim in doing so is to ensure that such systems benefit and do not harm society. The guidelines are not limited to the design of the algorithms themselves, but also how they are subsequently used. For example, one way to prevent harm is to use the system to start a conversation with the alleged fraudsters, rather than using it to make a final judgement and induce consequences, such as banning them or reporting them to law enforcement. Another way is to use explainable AI techniques, so that decisions are more transparent. In this project, we will evaluate a range of approaches and learn from current best practice, as well as existing guidelines for building trustworthy AI systems. To this end, we will conduct literature reviews and interviews with experts and retailers to explore the techniques, algorithms, and current best practice for detecting returns fraud.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Qinetiq 
Organisation Qinetiq
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussions around the identification of research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Membership and participation in the TAS Strategic Advisory Network and Sector Leads Committee.
Impact Contribution to the identification of research challenges via the Strategic Advisory Network.
Start Year 2020
 
Description RAC Foundation 
Organisation RAC Foundation
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The Chatty car project aims to use existing datasets supported by relevant theory and apply multi-disciplinary methods to design an exemplar, socially responsible, anthropomorphised, natural language interface, encompassing both lexical and non-lexical mediators of trust, and curating findings in a preliminary design framework.
Collaborator Contribution Chatty car project partner. Chatty car aims to use existing datasets supported by relevant theory and apply multi-disciplinary methods to design an exemplar, socially responsible, anthropomorphised, natural language interface, encompassing both lexical and non-lexical mediators of trust, and curating findings in a preliminary design framework.
Impact A journal paper has been submitted.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Reckitt 
Organisation Reckitt Benckiser
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution We discussed our work in long term autonomy with Reckitt and will develop an inspection use case with a mobile quadruped robot.
Collaborator Contribution Reckitt has agreed to part fund an international PhD studentship to work on the project and will share the facilities and the use case.
Impact NA
Start Year 2022
 
Description Reimagining TAS with Disabled Young People 
Organisation University of Sheffield
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided the flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution TAS are envisaged to become part of our everyday lives. Disabled young people (DYP) are key end-users and potential co-designers of these future systems, although their experiences and aspirations are rarely acknowledged. This interdisciplinary project brings together DYP, social and computer science researchers and school and industry partners. We centralise the expertise and aspirations of DYP around questions of trust, resilience and capacity in relation to autonomous systems; thus embedding inclusion, equity, responsible research and innovation in studies of TAS. Our project will make use of coproduction methods and maker spaces (collaborative workspaces for making, learning, exploring and sharing).
Impact This project is multi-disciplinary.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Responsible AI for Long-term Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (RAILS): Integrating Responsible AI and Socio-legal Governance (Responsibility project) 
Organisation University of Oxford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The responsibility projects are funded by UKRI under the TAS umbrella. The project members are eligible to apply to the TAS Integrator Programme.
Collaborator Contribution The Project Lead sits on the TAS Node Liaison Committee and members of the team have been involved in a 21/22 pump priming project (RoAD).
Impact The project lead sits on the TAS Node Liaison Committee.
Start Year 2022
 
Description RoAD: responsible av data ethical, legal, and societal challenges of using data from AVs 
Organisation University of Oxford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution Autonomous Systems (AS) may offer significant societal benefits but will also create new types of incidents and accidents. The ability to access, explain and understand data related to failure or accidents will be a fundamental requirement for ensuring safety, liability and public trust. Drawing on Responsible Research and Innovation principles, we analyse a particular AS - autonomous vehicles (AVs) - with three objectives: 1) Investigate the ethical risks and legal implications related to the collection, access and use of data. 2) Test the legal usefulness of data sets. 3) Evaluate public acceptance of data recorders ('black boxes') for AS.
Impact Drawing on Responsible Research and Innovation principles, we analyse a particular AS - autonomous vehicles (AVs) - with three objectives: Drawing on Responsible Research and Innovation principles, we analyse a particular AS - autonomous vehicles (AVs) - with three objectives: 1) Investigate the ethical risks and legal implications related to the collection, access and use of data. 2) Test the legal usefulness of data sets. 3) Evaluate public acceptance of data recorders ('black boxes') for AS.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Rolls Royce 
Organisation Rolls Royce Group Plc
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussion of research challenges and sector specific synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion of research challenges and sector specific synergies.
Impact Initial discussion around the research challenges in the Industry X.0 sector.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Royal Academy of Arts 
Organisation The Royal Academy of Arts
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Discussion around the TAS Creative Engagement Programme.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion around the TAS Creative Engagement Programme.
Impact Initial discussion around the TAS Creative Programme.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Royal Academy of Engineering 
Organisation Royal Academy of Engineering
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Discussions around research challenges and identification of synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussions around challenges and identification of synergies.
Impact Presentation at the TAS ECR event held at Prince Philip House, London on 23 Feb 2022.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) 
Organisation Royal United Services Institute
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution RUSI and the UKRI TAS - Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub - presented Trusting Machines? Cross-sector Lessons from Healthcare and Security. Over three days of debate, it brought together academic experts, policy leaders, industry professionals and the public to discuss a future where autonomous machines integrate into two of our most vital sectors.
Collaborator Contribution RUSI and the UKRI TAS - Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub - presented Trusting Machines? Cross-sector Lessons from Healthcare and Security. Over three days of debate, it brought together academic experts, policy leaders, industry professionals and the public to discuss a future where autonomous machines integrate into two of our most vital sectors.
Impact RUSI and the UKRI TAS - Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub - presented Trusting Machines? Cross-sector Lessons from Healthcare and Security. Over three days of debate, it brought together academic experts, policy leaders, industry professionals and the public to discuss a future where autonomous machines integrate into two of our most vital sectors. Sometimes ideas are sparked not by academic debate, but by engaging with creative and artistic expressions. To encourage fresh voices, artworks and creative provocations designed to engage and challenge both speakers and audience were presented.
Start Year 2020
 
Description SA2VE: Situational Awareness and trust during shift between autonomy levels in automated VEhicles 
Organisation University College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided the flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution This project aims to understand the effect of situational awareness (SA) and take-over request procedures on trust between drivers and highly AVs, we: - implement driving scenarios based on our analysis of real-world incidents involving highly automated vehicles reported between 2014 and 2021. - collect & analyse the aforementioned quantitative and qualitative data in these implemented driving scenarios during crucial take-over tasks. - understand the correlation between objective SA measures & subjective and objective trust.
Impact This project aims to understand the effect of situational awareness (SA) and take-over request procedures on trust between drivers and highly AVs, we: - implement driving scenarios based on our analysis of real-world incidents involving highly automated vehicles reported between 2014 and 2021. - collect & analyse the aforementioned quantitative and qualitative data in these implemented driving scenarios during crucial take-over tasks. - understand the correlation between objective SA measures & subjective and objective trust.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Safe and trusted AI CDT 
Organisation King's College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Access to the TAS Skills Programme and the wider TAS Network.
Collaborator Contribution Membership of the TAS Skills Committee. Development of the TAS Doctoral Training Network (TAS DTN.) Promotion of the TAS DTN seminars.
Impact Development of the TAS Doctoral Training Network (TAS DTN.) Promotion of the TAS DTN seminars. Participation in the TAS ECR event held at Prince Philip House on 23 Feb 2022.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Shell 
Organisation Shell International Petroleum
Department Shell UK Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Siemens Smart Infrastructure 
Organisation Siemens AG
Country Germany 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Impact Initial discussion around sector specific challenges.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Slaughter and May 
Organisation Slaughter and May
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Impact Initial discussions around sector specific research challenges.
Start Year 2020
 
Description TARICS: Trustworthy Accessible Robots for Inclusive Cultural experiences 
Organisation University of Lincoln
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided the flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution Cultural experiences, such as going to a museum are an important activity in society, and an important source for personal enrichment that can affect a person's wellbeing. However, guided visits are not always accessible for everybody, often leading to vulnerable members of society feeling excluded. TARICS aims to create an interactive cultural experience for museum visits by provisioning a social robot to make the experience more accessible and inclusive for people with learning disabilities. The proposed learning and interaction techniques will be deployed on Lindsey, a robot tour guide operating autonomously in The Collection Museum since 2018.
Impact This project is multi-disciplinary.
Start Year 2022
 
Description TAS Accelerator 
Organisation University of Nottingham
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution TAS award, access to research outputs.
Collaborator Contribution A series of actions to deliver extra outputs from further analysis of existing data gathered through "UK/USA Moral IT cards", "SafeSpaces" and "Digital Twins" projects.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description TAS Industry Short Course 
Organisation Australian National University (ANU)
Country Australia 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Translation and preparation of TAS Hub research into educational resources (case studies, discussion questions, teaching content), and co-organisation and delivery of an online short course for industry professionals.
Collaborator Contribution Administration and hosting of the short course, co-organisation and co-delivery of the short course.
Impact 3 day online short course for industry professionals.
Start Year 2022
 
Description TAS Programme - Functionality 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The TAS Hub is working with the Functionality Node to develop a coherent unified UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme.
Collaborator Contribution The UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Node in Functionality involves a team of social scientists, ethicists, computer scientists and engineers. They are exploring methods for designing autonomous systems (such as robots) with the ability to adapt how they function in response to changes in the world around them. The TAS Functionality Node is working with the Hub to develop a unified brand for the National Programme.
Impact The TAS Hub is working with the Functionality Node to develop a coherent unified UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme.
Start Year 2020
 
Description TAS Programme - Governance and regulation 
Organisation University of Edinburgh
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The TAS Hub is working with the Governance and Regulation Node to develop a coherent unified UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme.
Collaborator Contribution Led by Professor Subramanian Ramamoorthy from the School of Informatics and Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, the team are tasked with developing the governance and regulation of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS). By developing a novel framework for the certification, assurance and legality of TAS, the project will address whether such systems can be used safely.
Impact The TAS Hub is working with the Governance and Regulation Node to develop a coherent unified UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme.
Start Year 2020
 
Description TAS Programme - Resilience 
Organisation University of York
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The TAS Hub is working with the Resilience Node to develop a coherent unified UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme.
Collaborator Contribution The project brings together the disciplines of computer science, engineering, law, mathematics, philosophy and psychology from five UK universities to develop a comprehensive toolbox of principles, methods and systematic approaches for the engineering of resilient autonomous systems.
Impact The TAS Hub is working with the Resilience Node to develop a coherent unified UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme.
Start Year 2020
 
Description TAS Programme - Security 
Organisation Lancaster University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The TAS Hub is working with the Security Node to develop a coherent unified UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme.
Collaborator Contribution TAS-S, is the security node of the EPSRC's Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) programme. Bringing together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers and practitioners, TAS-S aims to develop a portfolio of fundamental security techniques to provide practical and scientifically rigorous principles for provisioning secure Autonomous Systems.
Impact The TAS Hub is working with the Security Node to develop a coherent unified UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme.
Start Year 2020
 
Description TAS Programme - Trust 
Organisation Heriot-Watt University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The TAS Hub is working with the Trust Node to develop a coherent unified UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme.
Collaborator Contribution Investigating how to build, maintain and manage trust in robotic and autonomous systems.
Impact The TAS Hub is working with the Trust Node to develop a coherent unified UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme.
Start Year 2020
 
Description TAS Programme - Verifiability 
Organisation King's College London
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The TAS Hub is working with the Verifiability Node to develop a coherent unified UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme.
Collaborator Contribution The Verifiability Node will develop novel rigorous techniques that automate the systematic and holistic verification of autonomous systems: their increasing technological significance ensures that advances will have a real impact. The Node provides a focal point for verification research in the area of autonomous systems, linking to national and international initiatives.
Impact The TAS Hub is working with the Verifiability Node to develop a coherent unified UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Thales 
Organisation Thales Group
Department Thales UK Limited
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Thought pieces (21/22): Participation by researchers across the TAS Community in 6 workshops on Functionality, Governance and Regulation, Resilience, Security, Trust and Verifiability. The output from these workshops was written up in a series of reports - which are intended to form the basis of a white paper and other material for the TAS Programme. Project: Trustworthy human-swarm partnerships in extreme environments
Collaborator Contribution Thought pieces (21/22): A Thales point of contact attended each of the workshops and contributed to the outputs. Thales provided support in taking the outputs from the workshops and developing materials both for Thales and the TAS Programme. Project Partner: Trustworthy human-swarm partnerships in extreme environments Membership of the TAS Strategic Advisory Network.
Impact Thought pieces: The outputs are still currently being developed (Mar 22). Project: Trustworthy human-swarm partnerships in extreme environments (outputs reported in relevant areas of form). Membership of the TAS Strategic Advisory Network.
Start Year 2020
 
Description The Mental Health Foundation 
Organisation Mental Health Foundation
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution Exploring monitoring of the general health and wellbeing of non-clinical users in the home (including vulnerable groups), TAS for Health aims to integrate understandings of attitudes towards the use of AI in healthcare decision-making in the home across the potential spectrum of use, including patients, carers, and other service users. In particular, the project looks at how decision-making relates to shared values, such as trust, self-efficacy, privacy, and so on.
Collaborator Contribution Dr David Crepaz-Keay is Head of Applied Learning at the Mental Health Foundation, says "This project has been very helpful in stimulating our thinking about the impact of emerging technology and in particular the questions raised for public mental health as this tech becomes more widespread".
Impact A series of workshops with four different groups: a) people who use technology to support their health and wellbeing during lockdown, b) people who have experience caring for others with conditions such as stroke and MS c) people with MS and d) people who have had a stroke. We have output from the perspective of: human factors, HCI, mental health, MS care, and stroke care. Reflection paper in upcoming special issue of the Journal of Responsible Technology.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Trust me? (I'm an autonomous machine) 
Organisation Lancaster University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub has provided flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution This project explores the gap between citizen and expert viewpoints on autonomous systems. It will utilize Design Research, Documentary Methods, and Ethnographic analysis. We will capture, document, and explicate 'Master Narratives' in order to build societal trust and foster the adoption of autonomous systems
Impact This project explores the gap between citizen and expert viewpoints on autonomous systems.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Trustworthy Autonomous Recommender Systems on Music Streaming Platforms 
Organisation University of East Anglia
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided the flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution Autonomous Recommender Systems (ARS) used by music streaming platforms are becoming the dominant vehicle for distributing content to listeners. A recent Parliamentary inquiry (citing evidence from our team) suggested that these platforms are not fair to independent artists, and can reduce new music discovery, homogenise tastes, and disempower artists. Our research will provide evidence on how ARS contribute to this bias and limit competition, using simulations and real-life data and experiments to establish a causal link between ARS and the undesirable social outcome. This evidence is aimed to contribute to the current policy debate on competition on music streaming platforms.
Impact This project is multi-disciplinary.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub 
Organisation University of Southampton
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution We worked together with the TAS Hub to promote workshop events in the Network and used the TAS network to share information and get participants for events
Collaborator Contribution TAS Promoted the event, asked for participants from their Hub and shared this via the Creative theme of their project We worked together with the TAS Hub to promote workshop event in the Network and used the TAS network to share information and get participants for events
Impact This partnership led to working with: BBC R&D Thales Group National Gallery X - TAS partners See events here https://www.ntail.org/copy-of-workshops
Start Year 2021
 
Description Trustworthy light-based robotic devices for autonomous wound healing 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution Each year approximately 2.2 million UK adults are inflicted with a wound. Robotic technologies have the potential to guide wound healing at the cellular level. Machine learning allows us to tailor the control to individual cellular dynamics on the go, enabling personalised solutions. This raises questions about how to ensure these systems are trustworthy and safe. In this project we will: 1) demonstrate wound healing in the laboratory, and 2) define an envelope of operation that balances the risks and benefits of machine learning and autonomous control.
Impact Robotic technologies have the potential to guide wound healing at the cellular level. Machine learning allows us to tailor the control to individual cellular dynamics on the go, enabling personalised solutions. This raises questions about how to ensure these systems are trustworthy and safe. In this project we will: 1) demonstrate wound healing in the laboratory, and 2) define an envelope of operation that balances the risks and benefits of machine learning and autonomous control.
Start Year 2021
 
Description UK Hydrographic Office 
Organisation United Kingdom Hydrographic Office
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Access to TAS research, involvement in discussions.
Collaborator Contribution Contribution to the discussion around real-world TAS challenges.
Impact Contribution to the discussion around TAS challenges.
Start Year 2022
 
Description UK RAS 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Department UK-RAS Network
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies. Cross-network support and promotion of events.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies. Cross-network support and promotion of events.
Impact Support and involvement of both TAS and UK-RAS members in events and joint outputs.
Start Year 2020
 
Description UKAEA RACE 
Organisation Culham Science Centre
Department Remote Applications in Challenging Environments (RACE)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution We have started our partnership with RACE through the teleoperation use cases developed primarily for the HEAP project. The collaboration extended to agile and feasilibility studies funded by the TAS-HUB and ConnectedEverything. The company benefits from our expertise in teleoperation interfaces and shared control.
Collaborator Contribution RACE has share their use cases on JET and the MASCOT system. They supported a CDT student, who started his studies in 2021/2022 through access to facilities and will part fund an international PhD studentship starting in 2023/2024. We are in the process of writing research grants
Impact Bid funded by TAS-Hub Agile Programme Bid funded by Connected Everything Feasibility Studies 1 Workshop and 1 IEEE conference paper The collaboration is multidisciplinary, with experts contributing from psychology, neuroscience, human factors, computer science as well as RACE engineering.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Understanding Trust of Perceived Voice Anonymization 
Organisation University of Avignon
Country France 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution TAS pump priming award.
Collaborator Contribution We will investigate why some voices are easy or difficult to anonymize, and how this contributes to attitudes of trust toward voice anonymization systems. The mechanisms at work between algorithmic measurements of anonymity (objective metrics) and human perception of anonymity (subjective metrics) are not well understood. Different adversarial scenarios may require optimizing for objective metrics (e.g., attacks on automatic speaker verification systems) while other scenarios require optimizing for subjective metrics (e.g., human eavesdroppers). The problem of achieving trustworthy anonymization capabilities becomes especially difficult because it is not clear what the ground truth should be.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Understanding Trust of Perceived Voice Anonymization 
Organisation University of Southampton
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution TAS pump priming award.
Collaborator Contribution We will investigate why some voices are easy or difficult to anonymize, and how this contributes to attitudes of trust toward voice anonymization systems. The mechanisms at work between algorithmic measurements of anonymity (objective metrics) and human perception of anonymity (subjective metrics) are not well understood. Different adversarial scenarios may require optimizing for objective metrics (e.g., attacks on automatic speaker verification systems) while other scenarios require optimizing for subjective metrics (e.g., human eavesdroppers). The problem of achieving trustworthy anonymization capabilities becomes especially difficult because it is not clear what the ground truth should be.
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Understanding user trust after software malfunctions and cyber intrusions of digital displays 
Organisation Coventry University
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub has provided flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution This research investigates the cybersecurity, human factors and trust aspects of screen failures during automated driving. Screen failures can be either silent (i.e., drivers are not informed) or explicit (i.e., drivers are warned). From the cyber perspective, we will be conducting a threat analysis, with our industrial stakeholders, of in-vehicle digital displays. This will lead to a series of use cases being developed, when possible, malfunction or intrusion (hacking) would occur. These use cases are replicated in our driving simulator where we will investigate participants' responses to aspects like trust in the automation, driving performance, safety, and biometrics.
Impact This research investigates the cybersecurity, human factors and trust aspects of screen failures during automated driving.
Start Year 2021
 
Description United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) 
Organisation United Nations (UN)
Department United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute
Country Italy 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Discussions around research synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussions around research synergies. Provided the keynote at the TAS AHM 21. Membership of the TAS Strategic Advisory Network.
Impact UNICRI gave the keynote at the TAS All Hands Meeting in September 2021. Contribution to research challenge discussions via the TAS Strategic Advisory Network.
Start Year 2021
 
Description University of Texas @ Austin 
Organisation University of Texas at Austin
Country United States 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Introduction of sandpit methodology for co-creating research projects. Research expertise.
Collaborator Contribution Research expertise.
Impact This multi-disciplinary collaboration is bringing together TAS and Good Systems (University of Texas at Austin) together to co-create research projects. Horizon Researcher Pepi Barnard facilitated RRI educational workshops for City of Austin's office of innovation in Oct 2023. Additionally a number of workshops with academics, post docs and lecturers also took place during the visit.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Virtually There: Exploring Presence, Ethics and Aesthetics in Immersive Semi-Autonomous Teleoperation for Hazardous Environments 
Organisation University of the West of England
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The UKRI TAS Hub provided the flexible funds to support this project.
Collaborator Contribution UWE Bristol in collaboration with Sellafield Ltd will explore the role of sound (sonification) in the context of semi-autonomous robotic teleoperation in VR. In a co-designed, pioneering user study we will investigate the impact of data sonification on task performance, trust in the VR system and the robots it operates, presence, and the ethics of simulating a hazardous environment. If these types of systems are to become trusted and trustworthy, we need to better understand the experience of the immersed tele-operator in hazardous conditions. Trustworthiness is vital for the future of these types of systems, in nuclear decommissioning and beyond.
Impact This project is multi-disciplinary.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Warwick Manufacturing Group 
Organisation University of Warwick
Department Warwick Manufacturing Group
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies. Development of the TAS Industrial Fellowship Programme, as part of the Skills Programme.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies. Membership of the TAS Skills Committee. Leading the TAS Industrial Fellowship Programme.
Impact The development of the TAS Internship and Fellowship programme.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Web Science Institute 
Organisation University of Southampton
Department University of Southampton Web Science Institute
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Access to the TAS Skills Programme and wider Network.
Collaborator Contribution Contributions to the development of the TAS Doctoral Training Network (TAS DTN.) Promotion of the TAS DTN seminars. Support for TAS Skills events.
Impact Support of the TAS Skills Programme. TAS ECR event held in London on 23 Feb 2022.
Start Year 2020
 
Description nquiring minds 
Organisation NquiringMinds
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Collaborator Contribution Discussion of research challenges and synergies.
Impact Discussions around research challenges and synergies.
Start Year 2020
 
Title COTADS Co-design notebook 
Description Duckworth, C, Ayobi A., Boniface, M. (2022). First Release of COTADS Codesign notebook (v0.1). We have defined a new process for users to participate in the codesign of machine learning models through the example of diabetes. This is important to improve participation in development of predictive models with a consequence of greater inclusive, acceptability, and explainability of AI-based chronic disease management systems. Using a combination of computational notebooks and human computer interaction will create new interfaces to development environments and trust research environments, allowing data subjects to bring their own data as a way of reflective understanding that can result in narratives for others to follow. 
Type Preventative Intervention - Behavioural risk modification
Current Stage Of Development Early clinical assessment
Year Development Stage Completed 2022
Development Status Actively seeking support
Impact Allowing data subjects to bring their own data as a way of reflective understanding that can result in narratives for others to follow. 
URL https://zenodo.org/record/6376782#.Yrrk4ezMIWI
 
Title Cobot-Maker-Space/tas-art: v1.0.0 
Description Augmented Reality Telepresence for Double 3 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2023 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact This software has been used in workshops with external project partners, and has been used as part of further project proposals to secure extra funding. 
URL https://zenodo.org/record/8079524
 
Title Human-Agent Interactive Path Finding Simulator 
Description This software is used to conduct a human subject study. The software allows the human user to interact with different path planning agents optimizing different objective criteria and collaboratively solve path finding tasks. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2022 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact This software platform simulates an intuitive but complex use case, i.e., path finding suitable for studying trust in human-software agent collaborations in an online environment. 
 
Title MLighter: The holistic tool for security evaluations of machine learning systems 
Description MLighter is a tool for machine learning testing that aims to integrate three testing levels: performance, security and reliability. The tool can be used as a library although it also contains a graphical user interface that aims to connect all the different levels. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2023 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact MLighter is finding multiple applications in different areas. At KCL we are extending the abilities of MLighter to discover vulnerabilities in software related to machine learning. The team is also collaborating with the TAS Hub in a project called DORIAN, which focuses on auditing medical diagnosis systems based on machine learning. This collaboration involves people from the Johns Hopkins University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Southampton, and the University of Nottingham, making it an international project. Furthermore, MLighter is also being applied to measure the robustness of mental state examination models, in an international multi-disciplinary collaboration involving Dr Mariana Pinto da Costa, a Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and a Senior Lecturer at the Psychological Medicine Department at King's College London, and Dr Gema Bello-Orgaz from the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid. 
URL http://mlighter.freedevelop.org/
 
Title TASLibrary web application 
Description Web application that underpins the TAS UseCase Library including content management system, implemented in PHP by e-Research at King's College London. 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2024 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact Facilitates V1.0 implementation of the TAS UseCase Library. 
URL https://github.com/TASLibrary/main?tab=readme-ov-file#readme
 
Title UVc Sensor Data Logger 
Description Code for a custom made UVc data logger. It records UVc light intensity at regular intervals and transmits this to an MQTT server, which in turn is logged to persistent storage. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2021 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact This software was used as part of the Trustworthy Human-Robot Teams project as part of the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems hub. 
URL https://github.com/Cobot-Maker-Space/tas-hrt-uvc-sensor
 
Description 'Collaboration and interaction: Opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary research in technological design and development' Keynote 'Digitalizing Social Practices: Changes and Consequences" University of Southern Denmark, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This talk was to discuss the challenges of collaborative research between social scientists, computer scientists and participants from industry. The practitioners mainly addressed issues related to consumer behaviour and retail. But the conference also discussed social practices in businesses, institutions and organizations that are being digitalized. Examples included buying and selling, medical consultations, financial advising and business meetings, In the discussion the questions concerned whether and how to adapt research approach to make it appropriate for practitioners in these domains.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.conferencemanager.dk/resemina
 
Description 17. Trustworthy Autonomous Systems: Why do we need them? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Invited talk at the Australian National University, online.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://twitter.com/ANU_CPAS/status/1557521025096896512
 
Description 3rd UK StratCom AI Forum: 'Trustworthy Human-Machine Teams', organised by Strategic Command, UK Ministry of Defence 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited participants (military officers, civil servants, defence industry professionals, and some academics) engaged in an online forum, exploring the idea of and requirements for 'Trustworthy Human-Machine Teams', and this included discussion of ethical challenges arising from the incorporation of AI technologies into military systems.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description A Conversation with the Artists in Residence 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact his session introduces the Creative Theme of the TAS Hub, a core part of the project. It allows the Artists in Residence and the TAS Hub Cultural Ambassadors (Blast Theory) to introduce themselves and briefly talk about their emerging projects. This session will be of interest to anyone with an interest in the Creative Industries, Arts and Autonomy, it will enable people to start to appreciate the ways in which the Arts and Research come together and will act as a catalyst for TAS projects to engage with the artists in residence by giving initial insights into their work, practices, and approaches. Session programme 12:00 - Introduction from Alan Chamberlain (Creative Industries Lead - TAS Hub, Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham) & Prof Steve Benford (Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham) Video Artist's Videos 12:05 - Ali Hossaini Video Ali Hossaini is an American artist, philosopher, theatrical producer, television producer, and businessperson. In 2010, The New York Times described him as a "biochemist turned philosopher turned television producer turned visual poet". In 2017 Hossaini published the Manual of Digital Museum Planning and subsequently became co-director of National Gallery X. https://pantar.com Groupthink 12:10 - Richard Ramchurn Video Richard Ramchurn is a Scottish artist and film director. He directed, wrote and produced a pair of films with relatively new technology that allows audiences to portray films by control from the brain. This is done under his production and research company AlbinoMosquito which explores the creation of interactive cinematic content that can be interacted with via neurological data. His films include The Disadvantages of Time Travel (2015) and The Moment (2018). http://braincontrolledmovie.co.uk/ 12:15 - Blast Theory (Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr and Nick Tandavanitj) Video Blast Theory creates interactive art to explore social and political questions, placing audience members at the centre of our work. Led by Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr and Nick Tandavanitj, the group creates interactive art drawing on popular culture, performance, technology and games, the work often blurs the boundaries between the real and the fictional. In virtual and physical spaces from pubs, canals and abandoned warehouses to libraries, museums, and apps - we go to unexpected places to make our work accessible to everyone. https://www.blasttheory.co.uk/ 12.20 - Makers of Imaginary Worlds (Roma Patel and Rachel Ramchurn) Makers of Imaginary Worlds is a Nottingham based installation and performing arts company. We make dynamic narrative experiences and sensory environments for children 0-10 years. We specialise in designing interfaces that seamlessly combine traditional craft techniques with various sensing technologies. We are passionate about making work for children and believe they have the right to quality art and culture. Our first interactive installation Enchanted Forest made in collaboration with the Mixed Reality Lab and Theatre Hullabaloo, was visited by over 20,000 children & families in one year. Video https://makersofimaginaryworlds.co.uk/ 12.25 - Rachel Jacobs Video Rachel Jacobs is an independent artist and researcher. She co-founded the artist collective Active Ingredient in 1996, Mudlark Production Company in 2008 and finished a PhD at Horizon CDT in 2013. She continues to work collaboratively combining art, science and technology to create environmentally and socially engaged interactive artworks. Rachel is currently working on a 30 year interactive artwork - the Future Machine. https://www.i-am-ai.net/rachel-jacobs/ 12:30 - Live discussion with the Artists in Residence and Cultural Ambassadors - led by Prof Steve Benford and Alan Chamberlain (The Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://vimeo.com/636948690
 
Description A lecture on security of semi-autonomous systems, including a presentation of the short film "The First" (Luca Vigano) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact PhD course "Formalizing the Human Dimension of Cybersecurity", including a lecture on security of semi-autonomous systems, at the PhD School of the National Doctorate on Artificial Intelligence (AI & Security), Rome, Italy, 14-15 September 2022, including a presentation of the short film "The First"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description A presentation at TAS ECR workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact About 10-25 people from the TAS network, early career researchers, which sparked questions about making an impact within their research proposals
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description A short talk at Dagstuhl Seminar 22351 Interactive Visualization for Fostering Trust in ML 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The intended outcome of the seminar was to gain a better understanding of how interactive visualizations could aid in building trust in artificial intelligence systems by making them more comprehensible and accountable. The seminar fostered joint research projects to address the issue. Concrete results include a position paper currently under review describing the research challenges identified during the seminar, new research collaborations on the topic of Trust in AI.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/seminar-calendar/seminar-details/22351
 
Description A talk at TAS Hub All hands event 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Raising awareness about policy activities and types of policy engagement for the TAS-hub programme. This activity resulted in getting more people engaged and interested in doing policy engagement type of work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://vimeo.com/733538731
 
Description AAAI: Symposium on Responsible AI 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation on Design-led ways of responding to the challenges of responsible AI at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Symposium.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.aaai.org/
 
Description AAMAS 2023 Demo 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We presented a demo of our research on the performance benefits of human-swarm teaming to an international academic audience, attendees of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023) in London, United Kingdom. We were awarded the Best Demo award for AAMAS 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://uos-haris.online/demo/aamas2023/
 
Description AHRC Focus Group on Responsible AI Policy and Practice 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Focus group hosted by AHRC regarding how to strategically align to key issues relating ot AI and policy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description AI Regulation Workshops in London 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Jennifer Williams organised two AI regulation workshops in London.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description AI Regulation and Governance Panel talk 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Speaking at the panel about the regulation AI - the discussion sparked discussions about new topics and collaboration activities
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description AI UK 2023 Demo 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact We presented a demo of our research on the performance benefit of human-swarm teaming at the AI UK 2023 event.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://uos-haris.online/demo/aiuk2023/
 
Description AI and rare disease: with great power comes great responsibility! 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This is an informative meeting to present Responsible AI UK and bring awareness about incorporating AI into the treatment and diagnosis of rare medical conditions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description AI in Healthcare (Leeds) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This was a general talk about Responsible AI UK given in a community space in Leeds. The audience was diverse and interested to understand the pros and cons of applying AI into the healthcare sector.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description APGDA: AI and ethics roundtable - Prof Marina Jirotka 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Prof. Marina Jirotka was invited as a speaker in a panel debate as part of a virtual evidence sessions which focusses on uncovering key current developments in the UK on creating ethical AI regulation, as well as looking at what is happening in other jurisdictions, and lastly examining any big issues around ethics in the supply chain.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/events/appg-data-analytics-inquiry-evidence-session-2
 
Description ARDUOUS Workshop Keynote 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Delivered keynote talk at workshop on natural language processing
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Accountability Requirements for AI Applications 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact The workshop was organized by two institutions from TU Munich forming an interdisciplinary team with social and technical expertise. The Chair of Automotive Technology deals with cutting edge technology for the future of vehicles and mobility systems. The Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence addressed the question of how AI can meet societal needs with an ethical mindset. The outcome of this workshop and future research will be published and shared with the scientific community. The aim of this online event was to mutually share experiences on today's problems and issues for AI accountability and safety in practice. We discussed (in expert groups) case studies from different sectors, including healthcare and autonomous driving, to identify practical risks linked to AI-based systems. The overall goal was to identify pressing challenges of the distribution of accountability obligations amongst the different actors and discuss the various approaches to solve them.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Algorithmic futures podcast episode on Caitlin Bentley and Intersectional TAS 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact In this episode we talk with Caitlin Bentley, a Lecturer in AI Education at King's College London. Caitlin's research has predominantly engaged with questions around how technology systems can be designed and implemented in ways that promote social inclusion, empowerment and democratic participation. Tune in to hear about a theme of fierce women in history, the ups and downs of experimenting with educational pedagogies, intersectionality and its applications in technology research, and critical Black feminists across history.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://algorithmicfutures.org/episode-9/
 
Description Amazon's Astro robot uses fear to get into your home (Dr Kate Devlin contributor) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Dr Kate Devlin, TAS Hub Co-Investigator, contributed to, and is quoted in, the article.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.wired.co.uk/article/amazon-astro-surveillance
 
Description Announcement of Sub-Project 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact We wrote a short post announcing and explaining a series of engagement activities with students and universities, designed to understand attitudes and issues related to digital mental health technologies. The workshops and engagement activities have since been undertaken and a longer policy report is being developed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://ethicalassurance.netlify.app/2022/01/14/assuring-a-duty-of-care-digital-mental-healthcare-fo...
 
Description Artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and renewable energy - UK-RAS Podcast featuring Gopal Ramchurn 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact In the latest episode of Robot Talk, Claire chatted to Gopal Ramchurn from the University of Southampton about artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and renewable energy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.ukras.org.uk/RobotTalk/episode-24-Gopal-Ramchurn/
 
Description Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence: Towards Responsible AI in Surveillance, Media, and Security through Licensing 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I presented a provocation and hosted a debate about the value of Design Research approaches for operationalising ethical AI frameworks. In attendance were a wide range of academics, professionals, 3rd sector employees and tech industry professionals.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss20.php
 
Description AsturCon: Keynote about the malware Arms Race 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This activity was a cybersecurity industry workshop with more than 400 attendees, 15 speakers and more than 30 companies involved. My presentation as a keynote speaker was related to the security of systems, mainly how malware attack them and how to defend from them.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://asturcon.tech/
 
Description Automation and Autonomous Systems Roundtable 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact UKRI has commissioned the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) to convene a Roundtable to bring together colleagues from across UKRI and the wider research and innovation community, with interest in the areas of Automation and Autonomous systems (AAS). The work is being undertaken as part of the Sciencewise1 public dialogue programme, which is delivered by UKRI, to serve the insight and evidence needs of research funders, and policymakers.
The purpose of the roundtable is to build a shared understanding of where public perspectives may be most critically needed in AAS and identify areas where further work is necessary with the possible support of the Sciencewise team. It will also explore how UKRI might best approach future cross-cutting areas like automation, which have strong public interest and significant ethical sensitivity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description BAE Systems strategic planning workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Discussions with BAE systems started. Research collaboration links are established with BAE providing support letters to 3 bids currently being evaluated.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Blog post on Autonomous systems in healthcare: why trust matters? (by Rachel Hesketh and Mark Kleinman) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The purpose of this activity was to promote the full report on policy issues arising from the introduction of autonomous systems in healthcare. It resulted in reaching a wider audience, requests for further information from researchers and industry partners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/autonomous-systems-healthcare-why-trust-matters
 
Description Blog post on Rise of the killer robots? Why it's time for a more nuanced discussion of autonomous defence systems (by Juljan Krause) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The purpose of this activity was to promote the full report on policy issues arising from the introduction of autonomous systems in defence. The blog post helped to reach more people, and industry partners asked for policy landscapes in other sectors.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/the-rise-of-the-killer-robots-autonomous-defence-systems
 
Description Blog post on the current topic of shortage of lorry drivers and how autonomous systems can help with that (by Justyna Lisinska) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The blog post was written to contribute to the current debate of the shortage of lorry drivers in the UK and to promote the policy landscape review of autonomous vehicles. The activity resulted in raising awareness amongst researchers about the policy landscape review, asking further questions and commenting on how the report helped them see the bigger picture in their own current research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/are-autonomous-systems-a-solution-to-labour-shortages-in-the-logistics-se...
 
Description Blogpost for TAS Hub 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Blogpost for TAS website and also published on RTI website
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.rti.ox.ac.uk/2021/10/05/accidents-will-happen-so-lets-learn-from-them
 
Description Bridging the gap between academia and industry (KTP Event) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact KTP events provide an excellent opportunity to engage face-to-face with Business Development teams involved in KTPs.
The event was an opportunity to connect with new and existing businesses that have an innovation idea with the academic expertise to help deliver it and viceversa.
In this context we presented work from the ThUMP project with specific focus on the Explainability through Visualization.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/bridging-the-gap-between-academia-and-industry
 
Description Briefing contributor and external reviewer of a POSTnote on "Automation in Military Operations" (POSTNOTE 681, October 2022), published by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, UK Parliament 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Prof Christian Enemark (TAS Hub Co-I) undertook this activity in response to a request from the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology for advice on ""Ethical and legal debates around the use of automation, both within the UK and globally"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://post.parliament.uk/research-briefings/post-pn-0681/
 
Description Bringing the Lab to Life - an in-conversation breakfast event exploring how Design Connects Science with Society. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Cian O'Donovan was an invited panel member as part of a London Design Week talk about design and public engagement at the Francis Crick Institute, London
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.londondesignfestival.com/activities/bringing-the-lab-to-life
 
Description British Academy event on AI and work 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The British Academy is a partner to the AI Fringe, a series of events hosted across London and the UK to complement the UK government's AI Safety Summit by bringing a broad and diverse range of voices into the conversation. The AI Fringe is a separate event to the AI Safety Summit. As part of the AI Fringe, the British Academy and UCL Public Policy hosted a panel debate on 30 October on 'The Possibilities of AI and Good Work'.

The development, adoption, and use of AI in the context of work holds a range of possibilities for the future, including both opportunities and uncertainties for the future of work in its various forms. This panel discussion brought together representatives from business, civil society, and academia to generate dialogue, shared understanding, and ways forward around the role of AI in work. The event was free and open to public attendance, and held at the British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH. A video recording of the discussion can be viewed below.

The event was chaired by Professor Jack Stilgoe (Professor of Science and Technology Policy, UCL), with opening remarks to be provided by Professor Helen Margetts FBA (Director of the Public Policy Programme at the Alan Turing Institute and Professor of Society and the Internet at the University of Oxford). The panellists were:

Anna Thomas, Co-Founder and Director, Institute for the Future of Work
Dan Conway, CEO, Publishers Association
Rob McCargow, Technology Impact Leader, PwC United Kingdom
Sophia Adams Bhatti, Head of Purpose and Impact, Simmons & Simmons LLP
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://policypostings.medium.com/the-possibilities-of-ai-and-good-work-eb2261e60b48
 
Description CUSP London Data Dive 2022: Working towards Healthier Cities 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact The CUSP London Data Dive 2022 brings together students from King's and our global partners to work in teams of about seven over four days on one of a range of data challenges that relate to data from and about healthier more liveable cities. Mentors will help guide the application and technical progress of each team. Student teams solve a challenging data analytics and visualization problems using public domain data and propose policy recommendations based on the findings.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019,2020,2021,2022
URL https://cusplondon.ac.uk/events.html
 
Description Caitlin Bentley - 42BR Employment Annual Lecture 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact TBC
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.42br.com/latest-news/hey-chatgpt-is-ai-after-our-jobs-employment-annual-lecture.htm
 
Description Caitlin Bentley - Advance HE DVC/PVC Senior Network Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Caitlin Bentley on Panel.

The upcoming DVC/PVC Network will be exploring three key themes:

1- Teaching Excellence Framework
David Kernohan from Wonkhe will take the group through what can be learned from TEF 2023 results, which will place greater weight on submissions from providers and students.

2- Higher Education for an AI-enabled workplace
Academic, student and employer voices will inform this highly interactive session aimed at considering key issues around how generative AI is changing the way we work and learn.

3- Access and progression in Higher Education: Are we widening the road without fixing the potholes?
With a positive sectoral response to the challenge of widening access, faculty and institutions must consider how students can be supported to be competent, confident and resilient.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://evasys.co.uk/dvc-pvc-network-nov-2023/
 
Description Caitlin Bentley - BARDES, Dentistry Education Research Network, (Keynote Talk). 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The main event on Friday 10 November 2023 titled 'Recognising and Supporting Authentic Learning in a Changing World' hosted by the new President-elect Dr Vivian Binnie, delved into the pressing topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and its profound influence on various facets of dental education, including assessment.

The morning session featured Professor Luke Dawson from the University of Liverpool with his captivating plenary lecture, titled 'I Got 51%, Now Let Me Treat Your Mother!' Dr Caitlin Bentley, a Lecturer in AI Education at King's College London, who shared her insights and experiences in shaping the future of AI through education. Professor Al Dowie, an expert in medical ethics and law from the University of Glasgow, wrapped up the morning by delivering a thought-provoking plenary lecture, addressing some of the complex ethical issues associated with AI in the field of dentistry.

Throughout the conference, there was an interactive workshops on AI. Additionally, delegates were invited to participate by submitting abstracts for verbal presentation sessions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.nature.com/articles/s41415-023-6360-1
 
Description Caitlin Bentley - British Science Association Thought Leadership Summit 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This year's programme will focus on pressures felt across society. Rising prices have shone a light on the issue of food security; advances in AI are shifting the education and skills landscape; and new applications of health technology could change how conditions are diagnosed and treated. In each of these areas, science and innovation are driving progress, but also presenting questions about the long-term future of systems that underpin daily life.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://forthought.uk/for-thought-2023/
 
Description Caitlin Bentley - Embracing AI within dentistry education: Pathways to responsible AI education 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Summary TBC
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.gdc-uk.org/
 
Description Caitlin Bentley - LSE Eden Centre for Education Enhancement Network 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact TBC
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Caitlin Bentley - Royal Society Student Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Caitlin gave a lightening lecture on Responsible AI Education (aimed at secondary school level teachers) at the Royal Society Student Conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Caitlin Bentley - Sage Global Responsible AI education 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact TBC
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.sage.com/en-gb/products/sage-for-education/?utm_source=GOOGLE&utm_medium=paidsearch&utm_...
 
Description Caitlin Bentley - Webinar for International Association for Disability and Oral Health on AI skills and training 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This talk was delivered by Caitlin Bentley which explored the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on education and healthcare, emphasising its role in offering new tools and techniques for praxis (such as, diagnosis and treatment, telemedicine, assistive devices or wearables, as well as in strengthening inclusive health data systems through predictive modelling).

Additionally, further discussions included application in education, including personalising or augmenting learning experiences. Things to consider are the opportunities and challenges of making AI fit for purpose in low-resource environments, underserved regions, or for neglected populations.

Furthermore, the talk highlights AI's potential role in upskilling the healthcare workforce through innovative training methods and simulations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023,2024
URL https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GyuixVvHQN6IPpoQSNBpBA#/registration
 
Description Caitlin bentley - Agenda Radio Show 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Summary TBC
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Call with Ofcom on RecSys 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A call with Ofcom's economists and recommender systems experts to discuss how our work could inform Ofcom's policies on RecSys.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Call with the Competition and Markets Authority 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The CMA are designing their guidelines on recommender systems. We discussed how our work could inform these guidelines.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Can Robots Care? Edinburgh Science Festival workshop and public talk 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Can Robots Care? Edinburgh Science Festival workshop and public talk (Organiser and speaker) was an event organised as part of Edinburgh Science Festival 2023. The event feature material and insights from two UKRI projects. TAS Empowering future care workforces and EPSRC Enviornmental Impacts of Digital Services. The event was free and open to members of the public and consisted of a public talk and collaboration cafe which included technology demonstrations. 12 Apr 2023. The Bayes Centre. University of Edinburgh.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.edinburghscience.co.uk/festival/
 
Description Children and Screens webinar on Algorithms 'Youth and AI driven tech' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This was an online webinar 'Ask the Experts' that brought panelists with expertise in computer science, human-computer learning, communications, and mental health health. The aims was to survey the current state of data driven media online, how algorithms work to increase and solidify bias, and what families need to know to develop essential skills to cope with the growing influence of algorithmically-delivered content on youth's development, preferences and minds.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.childrenandscreens.org
 
Description Climate Fictions Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Co-organised this international workshop on climate futures.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.climatefictionworkshopicids.com/
 
Description Closing the Skills Gap in AI-Ecosystems 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The TAS Hub performs cutting-edge research to understand the effects autonomous systems can have on society, with a view to making them trustworthy in principle and trustworthy by design. This research workshop invites participants to investigate sector-specific skills required to build, implement, and manage autonomous systems. To ensure that AI benefits everyone in the future, more needs to be done to educate future generations of trustworthy autonomous systems engineers and practitioners - industries continue to struggle to resource, upskill and reskill their workforces to implement AI effectively.

The purpose of this research workshop is to inform UK policy-makers about how best to close the AI skills gap in the UK. Through investigating scenarios based on ongoing TAS Hub research projects, attendees will be exposed to the latest AI developments in transport and healthcare, learn and reason about the skills required to ensure proper practice and network with other professionals.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-workshop-closing-the-skills-gap-in-ai-ecosystems-tickets-528...
 
Description Co-design workshops 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Co-design workshops for the use of social robots and telepresence robots in museums.
Participants: 5 children that were autistic and/or had learning difficulties or disabilities, 6 adults that were autistic and/or had learning difficulties or disabilities, guardians of participants, one museum representative, 4 experts in Special Education.
We explored perceptions of robots in general and co-designed with participants how both a social robot and a telepresence robot used in a museum environment should look like. Participants in the workshop interacted with two robots for this activity, as we used a mixed of discussion-based activities, drawing activities and questionnaires.
Attendees reported interest in being involved in this type of activities in the future as they believes it was critical for the successful deployment of any technology, and some of the key aspects discovered during the workshops will be included in scientific publications.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Competition Policy blogpost 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Blogpost - Public service broadcasting - a renewed need in the time of recommender systems?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://competitionpolicy.wordpress.com/2022/12/06/public-sector-broadcasting-a-renewed-need-in-the-...
 
Description Conference Presentation at European Network for Qualitative Inquiry 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Lauren White presented an academic paper entitled, 'Makers and Movements: Critical Disability Studies, Makerspaces and Co-production Methodologies' to European Network of Qualitative Inquiry.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Conference presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact As part of a panel on Technological Crisis, presentation of a research paper: "Devolving drone violence to artificial intelligence technologies: a differentiated approach to ethical human-machine interaction".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.isanet.org/Conferences/IDSS-Crete-2022
 
Description Configuring ethical AI in healthcare 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Configuring ethical AI in healthcare project was funded by the Wellcome Trust to apply a feminist Science and Technology Studies perspective to exploring how AI can be 'configured' ethically.

This activity involved devising, developing and delivering a novel workshop format to capture figurations of an ethical AI are not only descriptive but also performative, but normative implications in policy, technology development and use.

The workshop series was conducted across 2021 with various groups of professional AI ethicists.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cemore/new-project-configuring-ethical-ai-in-healthcare/
 
Description Consequences, Schmonsequences! Considering the Future as Part of Publication and Peer Review in Computing Research 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Organising and facilitating this workshop at the international conference for Human Factors in Computing.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://designresearch.works/schmonsequences-workshop/
 
Description Cumulus Showcase 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hosting a showcase of ImaginationLancaster's design-led research around emerging technologies for the International Cumulus community.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description DP World AI in Practice: Challenges and Use cases 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This was a follow-up event from the Tech Solent PWC event last year. We were invited to DP World Southampton to discuss AI in practice. We presented our research work on Swarm Robotics. They also presented us with use cases for adopting AI in their business and the challenges they are currently facing with deploying AI. We are currently discussing partnership opportunities based on this.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.techsolent.org/event-details/ai-in-practice-dp-world
 
Description Dagstuhl seminar on "'Trustworthiness and Responsibility in AI - Causality, Learning, and Verification' (24121)" - organizer 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact At Dagstuhl Seminars and Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshops, the most renowned scientists in computer science along with promising young researchers discuss scientific developments and exchange their ideas. Both these seminar types are subject to an exacting quality assurance process. A small group of scientists of international standing submit a proposal for a seminar on a specific research topic along with a list of possible participants. The proposal is reviewed and decided on by the center's Scientific Directorate. If accepted, Schloss Dagstuhl provides its facilities as well as logistical and administrative support. The proposers remain responsible for the scientific program of their event. Participation in a seminar is by invitation from Schloss Dagstuhl. Such extensive support is not afforded to the other types of events at Schloss Dagstuhl: Summer schools, research meetings, and so-called GI-Dagstuhl Seminars, which are offered in cooperation with the Gesellschaft für Informatik (German Informatics Society), and are predominantly aimed at junior scientists. Retreats for research guests are also hosted by Schloss Dagstuhl.

This seminar focusses on all aspects of trustworthiness and responsibility in AI.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/seminar-calendar/seminar-details/24121
 
Description Dame Wendy Hall - Royal Society workshop on international AI governance 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Governments and regulators across the globe are considering the rapid changes which are being brought about by artificial intelligence, the huge potential benefits it can bring, but also the significant potential harms. The EU AI Act is the new European regulatory framework in the EU, with the USA and other major economies discussing similar issues, and with much discussion at the UN and OECD amongst others. In the UK, some aspects of AI are included in the new online safety bill, and the UK was also the host in November 2023 of the first global AI Safety Summit.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.rai.ac.uk/events/can-ai-be-regulated-and-if-so-how
 
Description Delivering the AI Strategy - the use of new AI technologies in industry and the public sector 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Participation in discussions at this event sponsored by the Foundation for Science and Technology.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.foundation.org.uk/
 
Description Delivering the AI Strategy - the use of new AI technologies in industry and the public sector 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact In September 2021, the UK Government published the National AI Strategy. Part of this Strategy is to support the transition to an AI-enabled economy. In this event, we looked at how AI technologies are being deployed now in the public and private sectors, and expectations for the coming years.
Speakers:
Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng
Regius Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton
Lord Clement-Jones CBE
House of Lords
Professor Geraint Rees FMedSci
Pro-Vice-Provost, AI, University College London
Professor Tom Rodden
Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.foundation.org.uk/Events/2022/Delivering-the-AI-Strategy-%E2%80%93-the-use-of-new-AI-tec
 
Description Delivery of RRI Workshop at TAS All-Hands Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Delivery of interactive workshop on Responsible Research and Innovation at the TAS Hub All-Hands Meeting in September 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Delivery of workshop at TAS All-Hands Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Co-delivery of workshop entitled Responsibility in Autonomous Systems at TAS All-Hands Meeting September 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Demo at the EIT Urban Mobility Booth in the Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact At the Tomorrow.Mobility World Congress, our team showcased a demonstration at the EIT Urban Mobility Booth, highlighting our groundbreaking project, LivingLAPT. This international research endeavor aims to revolutionize urban transport by introducing sustainable and transferable autonomous shuttle and logistics services across various European cities. A pivotal aspect of our project is the innovative transition from onboard safety operators to remote operators capable of simultaneously overseeing multiple services.

The primary purpose of this demo was to exhibit the potential of autonomous mobility solutions to enhance urban transportation efficiency and sustainability. By illustrating the operational model and the technology underpinning the shift to remote operation, we sought to engage stakeholders, including city planners, transportation officials, and the broader public, in a dialogue about the future of urban mobility.

The outcomes and impacts of this activity were significant. The demonstration generated considerable interest among attendees, sparking in-depth discussions about the practical implementation, safety, and scalability of autonomous shuttle and logistics services. Many expressed enthusiasm about the project's approach to reducing the carbon footprint and alleviating urban congestion through innovative technology.

Feedback from the event indicated a heightened awareness and optimism regarding the viability and benefits of autonomous mobility solutions. Several city representatives in attendance expressed keen interest in exploring potential collaborations to pilot the LivingLAPT project within their urban settings. This response underscores the growing recognition of the need for sustainable transport alternatives and the pivotal role of advanced technologies in shaping the future of urban mobility.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.eiturbanmobility.eu/tomorrow-mobility/
 
Description Department for Transport Away Day visit to the Cobot Maker Space, UoN 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The Department for Transport held their annual away day at the University of Nottingham. As part of this they visited the Cobot Maker Space where they met researchers and academics for a series of demos and discussions. This prompted a lot of discussion, particularly around robotics, automation, and how they apply to transport.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Design Research presentation to Security Lancaster 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation on Design Research to Lancaster Security Institute
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Design Summit: Flourishing Organisations 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presenting a position piece at the international Design Summit series relating to how Design Research may bring about a paradigm shift in how organisations construct strategy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Design and delivery of workshop at TAS All-Hands Meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Design and delivery of workshop entitled "Data and Decisions in connected and autonomous transport- keeping humans in the loop" at TAS All-Hands Meeting September 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Design of new UCL postgraduate and undergraduate module: The sociology and politics of the digital age 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact UKRI funded research was used extensively as case studies and theory development for this 10 week classroom taught module for undergrad and postgrad students at UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/file/13434
 
Description Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal - Centric Robotic & AI Systems 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Following introduction a Dr Jane Tyson from RSPCA Research, provided a Keynote presentation.
Participants discussed ideas relating to the workshop theme, a Miro board allowed participants to add comments throughout
the sessions.
The day consisted of two separate sessions. Session One (AM) presented materials. Each person discussed or showed their work and discussion and debate after each presentation: people asked the presenter questions (in-person or online). The presentations were added to the webpage with a small abstract and related materials. People were encouraged to offer constructive criticism. The last part of Session One was f an introduction to a Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) tool (a card-set). This was used as a way to segue into Session Two.
Session Two (PM) was hosted by the Cat Royale project, an ongoing artistic exploration of cat-human-robot interaction, being
led by the artists Blast Theory as part of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub. They shared the story so far, engaging with questions of responsibility, trust and autonomy while inviting other participants to reflect on this with a view to establishing an agenda for future research. This session also engaged attendees in an RRI design activity and allowed attendees to understand and discuss the design and deployment of artist-led systems in the wild and how to best engage people in discussions pertaining to the future application of technologies in multi-species settings to understand trust. Miro board was used to document this for further discussion at the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub symposium in 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://tas.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Trust-AI-Design-TAS-HCI-CHI-ACI-Robots-Art-CSCW.pdf
 
Description Devolving drone violence to artificial intelligence technologies: a differentiated approach to ethical human-machine interaction 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This seminar addresses the morality of using armed and remotely-piloted aircraft ('drones') when 'drone violence' is conceptualised as violence devolved from humans to artificial intelligence (AI). As governments worldwide plan to incorporate more and better AI technologies into various weapon systems, this is fuelling debate among scholars, diplomats and military professionals about the ethics and governance of so-called 'lethal autonomous weapon systems'. A critical issue in this debate is whether any system can or should incorporate ethical decision-making by AI, but progress has arguably been inhibited by excessive attention to 'lethal' weapons and by confusion over the meaning of 'autonomous'. In response, the seminar introduces an alternative, differentiated approach to the task of ethically assessing the incorporation of AI, focusing on one kind of weapon system: the armed drone. This approach rejects the notion of artificial moral agency and is based instead upon the emergent principle of 'meaningful human control' (MHC). It focuses on the performance (by humans or AI) of 'critical' functions within drone systems that might operate in different modes of human-machine interaction to meet different MHC standards. Then, this differentiated approach involves assessing the ethical permissibility of devolving function-performance to AI when drone violence is directed against: human or non-human targets; for different purposes (offensive or defensive); in armed conflict or law enforcement environments.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://airpower.airforce.gov.au/events/devolving-drone-violence
 
Description Digital Contract Tracing talk at TAS/RUSI conference "Trusting Machines?" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 50-100 online attendees attended talk on Understanding Trust and Public Acceptance of Digital Contact Tracing in the UK
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://rusi.org/events/conferences/trusting-machines-cross-sector-lessons-healthcare-and-security
 
Description Disruptive Thinkers: Video Series 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Each month, UCL is releasing a new video showcasing a different side to engineering, explaining how our researchers are innovating and helping to make a difference in the world from across the UCL Engineering Faculty. We were selected for the first round of these videos.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering/research/disruptive-thinkers-video-series#Autonomous%20vehicles
 
Description Dr. Prokar Dasgupta - AI in Surgery - Royal Photographic Society 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Prof Dasgupta in his presentation highlighted the exciting digital future of surgery. It gave the attendees an overview of AI and in particular the role of Responsible and Trustworthy AI, two large projects funded by UK Research and Innovation. It covered applications of AI in diagnostics, predictive modelling, automated 3D printing to guide surgery and surgical data science. Finally it mentioned the emerging role of automated performance metrics in surgical training.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://events.rps.org/JeTiCZq/rps-medical-group-76th-annual-general-meeting-4a2NN2TqGB/overview
 
Description Dr. Prokar Dasgupta - Future perspectives and innovations in AI 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact UROtech24 is a meeting that showcases the latest in technology in urology in its widest sense. By combining advanced 3D-reconstruction with imaging technology and AI, surgeons will soon be able to see hidden anatomical and tumour details, projected onto the organs they are operating on and constantly corrected for manipulation or positioning.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://urotech.uroweb.org/using-ai-to-get-augmented-reality-ready-for-prime-time/
 
Description Dr. Prokar Dasgupta - Robotic Surgery 10000 cases over 20 years - Uro-Andrology meeting, Vilnius 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact TBC
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://wchh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/tre.323
 
Description Dynamic leader election in cellular connected UAV swarms (CMI-TAS event) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This presentation at the CMI-TAS event on dynamic leader election was done to report progress on the AUTONOMY project carried out at the University of Southampton and to engage with members of the local academic community on ideas being explored that may be helpful in actualizing the research goals of this project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description EPIDOME Public Engagement Event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This public engagement event was an opportunity for the public to find out more about the EPIDOME technology and let researchers know what they think about it. Lasting for an hour, it contained a talk from the researchers about the EPIDOME and how it might fit into clinical practice. The presentation was followed by a discussion with the public.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://www.bristol.ac.uk/population-health-sciences/centres/ethics/news/2021/epidome-public-engageme...
 
Description East Midlands Policing Academic Collaboration website post - Trustworthy and Useful Tools for Mobile Phone Extraction project 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A post about the project was made on the website of the East Midlands Police Academic Collaboration - a unit based to bring police and researchers together in the region and nationally.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.empac.org.uk/new-mobile-phone-data-research/
 
Description End of Project Celebration at Greenacre School 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact As a team, we created an end of project research celebration event. This was hosted and led by our co-researchers at Greenacre School. Dr Lauren White and Dr Alison Buxton attended the day, offering talks on the project findings and the student co-researchers' contributions. Student co-researchers also shared their own presentations and conclusions from the project with fellow students and teachers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description End of Project Event: Celebrating Co-production and TAS 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The TAS and DYP team celebrated the end of project with a one day conference on the 26th April held at the University of Sheffield. The team were joined by Professor Geert Van Hove from the University of Ghent; whose work has been engaged with co-production methods for over thirty years. This day was an opportunity to listen to lessons learnt from Professor Van Hove - who has worked with various communities using participatory methods for 25 years - and also a chance to share some the key findings of the TAS and Disabled Young People project.

This work led by CoPI Dr Lauren White and CoI Dan Goodley, brought together students of Greenacre school who worked as researchers with social science and robotic researchers from the Universities of York and Sheffield. Findings are being shared through a number of outputs.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/news/tas-and-disabled-young-people-end-project-conference
 
Description Engagement at TAS Pump-Prime kickoff meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation and Q&A as part of TAS Hub kickoff meeting for Pump-Prime projects
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Equality Podcast 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Discussion referencing the TAS Usecase Library in context of equality.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.buzzsprout.com/1447474/13159110-equality-and-autonomous-systems
 
Description Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Fireside Chat (2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Professor Sarah Sharples, Professor Sarvapali Ramchurn, and Professor Pauline Leonard and Philip Inglesant discussed EDI specific to TAS, and how EDI and RRI intersect at the 2021 All Hands Meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://vimeo.com/637024494
 
Description Establishing an EDI Framework for the TAS Network 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The aim of this group was to establish principles that promote EDI across the TAS network and put this into a strategic document, in the context of it involving lots of universities and partners with their own local EDI policies.

Three meetings were organised by Ben Coomber - Research Development Manager at Horizon Digital Economy Research and chaired by Professor Sarah Sharples, commencing with a kick-off session to define terms of reference for the EDI working group and plan activities (31 March 2021), a 2 h workshop to collect ideas for the TAS EDI Framework (8 April 2021), and then a third meeting to review the framework (11 May 2021).

An EDI Framework was established and is available on the TAS Hub website and derived impact involved the recruitment of a co-Chair for the EDI team going forward - Genovefa Kefalidou (University of Leicester)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.tas.ac.uk/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/
 
Description Evidence for Policymakers: Creating a Learning Government through a better use of Public Research & substantiating Public Values 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Evidence for Policymakers conference invited policymakers, evaluators, academia, research managers, science advisers and knowledge brokers to continue the discussion on issues that influence our capacity to enhance the development and practical use of evidence for policymakers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Explanations on the Web: A Provenance-based Approach. Keynote at WEBIST 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Keynote at the WebIST conference. Due to the pandemic, the event was held virtually.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://vimeo.com/478043709
 
Description Explanations on the Web: a Provenance-based Approach, Expert Seminar Series, University of Warwick 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Cyber Security GRP hosts seminars throughout the academic year, open to all University staff. Presenters include high-profile external speakers and internal staff. Each event is focused on a topic of their choice related to their current research interests, followed by a Q&A.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://warwick.ac.uk/research/priorities/cyber-security/seminarseries/
 
Description Exploring Novel Approaches to Responsible Research and Innovation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a panel debate on RRI with colleagues such as Rene von Schomberg and Bernd Carsten-Stahl, which looked at novel approaches to steering research and innovation towards socially desirable goals.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgS20fovQrI
 
Description Exploring the Capabilities and Potential of ChatGPT: A Deep Dive into Large Language Models and Interaction 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Invited talk at the Computational Foundry at Swansea University to a mix of academics, PhD students and postgraduate students.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://twitter.com/CompFoundry/status/1621530326924230656
 
Description Festival of Emergence: Moments of Imagination 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hosted a show and tell event promoting the range of Design-led activities conducted at ImaginationLancaster, shared with an international community via the Design Research Society.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/update/drs-festival-of-emergence/
 
Description Festival of Emergence: QuBr 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Launch of the QuBr (Question Bridge) project as part of the Design Research Society's festival of emergence. This is an online engagement tool with a broad reach. Reached ~500 people during the launch event.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022
URL https://qubr.designresearch.works/
 
Description Forum on 'Ethical AI for Defence', Strategic Command, UK Ministry of Defence 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact To discuss ethical questions associated with possible incorporation of AI technologies into defence systems, the forum involved military officers, civil servants, defence industry professionals and academics.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Gatsby/SWC symposium 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Talk on Swarms for People at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Annual Student Symposium: How Dumb Agents Act Clever Together.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/events/annual-student-symposium-how-dumb-agents-act-clever-tog...
 
Description Gender Equity in AI 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The intended purpose was to bring awareness about the lack of diversity in AI. The outcomes from this event feed a white paper.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description HCPC Council Meeting presentation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) is a statutory regulator of 15 health and care professions in the United Kingdom, with over 300,000 registrants on our Register. Our role and remit are underpinned by the Health Professions Order 2001. We maintain a register of professionals, set standards for entry to our register,  approve education and training programmes for registration and deal with concerns where a professional may not be fit to practise. Our role is to protect the public.

Our governing body, known as the Council, is interested in developing AI for use in the services that the HCPC provides, particularly utilising and sharing the data and intelligence we have in our privileged position as a multi-professional regulator in health and care. In our role supporting the professions we regulate and protecting the public when AI and other generative technologies and tools are increasingly used in the provision of health and care services our Council also wants to ensure it has a broader understanding of these areas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.hcpc-uk.org/
 
Description Human AI-Partnerships (George Washington University) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Recent advances in AI, Machine learning and Robotics have significantly enhanced the capabilities of machines. Machine intelligence is now able to support human decision making, augment human capabilities, and, in some cases, take over control from humans and act fully autonomously. Machines are becoming more tightly embedded into systems alongside humans, interacting and influencing each other in a number of ways. Such human-AI partnerships are a new form of socio-technical system in which the potential synergies between humans and machines are much more fully utilised. Designing, building, and deploying human-AI partnerships present a number of new challenges as we begin to understand their impact on our physical and mental well-being, our personal freedoms, and those of the wider society. In this talk Professor Ramchurn focused on the challenges in designing trustworthy human-AI partnerships. He explored the multiple elements of trust in human-AI partnerships and discuss the associated research challenges.I will also aim to identify the risks associated with human-AI partnerships and therefore determine the associated measures to mitigate these risks. He concluded by giving a brief overview of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme (www.tas.ac.uk), a £33m programme launched in 2020 involving over 20 universities, 100+ industry partners, and over 200 researchers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Human-AI Partnerships (ALP) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Recent advances in AI, Machine learning and Robotics have significantly enhanced the capabilities of machines. Machine intelligence is now able to support human decision making, augment human capabilities, and, in some cases, take over control from humans and act fully autonomously. Machines are becoming more tightly embedded into systems alongside humans, interacting and influencing each other in a number of ways. Such human-AI partnerships are a new form of socio-technical system in which the potential synergies between humans and machines are much more fully utilised. Designing, building, and deploying human-AI partnerships present a number of new challenges as we begin to understand their impact on our physical and mental well-being, our personal freedoms, and those of the wider society. In this talk Professor Ramchurn focused on the challenges in designing trustworthy human-AI partnerships. He explored the multiple elements of trust in human-AI partnerships and discuss the associated research challenges.I will also aim to identify the risks associated with human-AI partnerships and therefore determine the associated measures to mitigate these risks. He concluded by giving a brief overview of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme (www.tas.ac.uk), a £33m programme launched in 2020 involving over 20 universities, 100+ industry partners, and over 200 researchers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Human-AI Partnerships (Harvard) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Recent advances in AI, Machine learning and Robotics have significantly enhanced the capabilities of machines. Machine intelligence is now able to support human decision making, augment human capabilities, and, in some cases, take over control from humans and act fully autonomously. Machines are becoming more tightly embedded into systems alongside humans, interacting and influencing each other in a number of ways. Such human-AI partnerships are a new form of socio-technical system in which the potential synergies between humans and machines are much more fully utilised. Designing, building, and deploying human-AI partnerships present a number of new challenges as we begin to understand their impact on our physical and mental well-being, our personal freedoms, and those of the wider society. In this talk Professor Ramchurn focused on the challenges in designing trustworthy human-AI partnerships. He explored the multiple elements of trust in human-AI partnerships and discuss the associated research challenges.I will also aim to identify the risks associated with human-AI partnerships and therefore determine the associated measures to mitigate these risks. He concluded by giving a brief overview of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme (www.tas.ac.uk), a £33m programme launched in 2020 involving over 20 universities, 100+ industry partners, and over 200 researchers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Human-AI Partnerships (John Hopkins) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Recent advances in AI, Machine learning and Robotics have significantly enhanced the capabilities of machines. Machine intelligence is now able to support human decision making, augment human capabilities, and, in some cases, take over control from humans and act fully autonomously. Machines are becoming more tightly embedded into systems alongside humans, interacting and influencing each other in a number of ways. Such human-AI partnerships are a new form of socio-technical system in which the potential synergies between humans and machines are much more fully utilised. Designing, building, and deploying human-AI partnerships present a number of new challenges as we begin to understand their impact on our physical and mental well-being, our personal freedoms, and those of the wider society. In this talk Professor Ramchurn focused on the challenges in designing trustworthy human-AI partnerships. He explored the multiple elements of trust in human-AI partnerships and discuss the associated research challenges.I will also aim to identify the risks associated with human-AI partnerships and therefore determine the associated measures to mitigate these risks. He concluded by giving a brief overview of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme (www.tas.ac.uk), a £33m programme launched in 2020 involving over 20 universities, 100+ industry partners, and over 200 researchers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Human-AI Partnerships (Stanford HAI) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Recent advances in AI, Machine learning and Robotics have significantly enhanced the capabilities of machines. Machine intelligence is now able to support human decision making, augment human capabilities, and, in some cases, take over control from humans and act fully autonomously. Machines are becoming more tightly embedded into systems alongside humans, interacting and influencing each other in a number of ways. Such human-AI partnerships are a new form of socio-technical system in which the potential synergies between humans and machines are much more fully utilised. Designing, building, and deploying human-AI partnerships present a number of new challenges as we begin to understand their impact on our physical and mental well-being, our personal freedoms, and those of the wider society. In this talk Professor Ramchurn focused on the challenges in designing trustworthy human-AI partnerships. He explored the multiple elements of trust in human-AI partnerships and discuss the associated research challenges.I will also aim to identify the risks associated with human-AI partnerships and therefore determine the associated measures to mitigate these risks. He concluded by giving a brief overview of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme (www.tas.ac.uk), a £33m programme launched in 2020 involving over 20 universities, 100+ industry partners, and over 200 researchers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Human-AI Partnerships (UAustin, Good Systems) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Recent advances in AI, Machine learning and Robotics have significantly enhanced the capabilities of machines. Machine intelligence is now able to support human decision making, augment human capabilities, and, in some cases, take over control from humans and act fully autonomously. Machines are becoming more tightly embedded into systems alongside humans, interacting and influencing each other in a number of ways. Such human-AI partnerships are a new form of socio-technical system in which the potential synergies between humans and machines are much more fully utilised. Designing, building, and deploying human-AI partnerships present a number of new challenges as we begin to understand their impact on our physical and mental well-being, our personal freedoms, and those of the wider society. In this talk Professor Ramchurn focused on the challenges in designing trustworthy human-AI partnerships. He explored the multiple elements of trust in human-AI partnerships and discuss the associated research challenges.I will also aim to identify the risks associated with human-AI partnerships and therefore determine the associated measures to mitigate these risks. He concluded by giving a brief overview of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme (www.tas.ac.uk), a £33m programme launched in 2020 involving over 20 universities, 100+ industry partners, and over 200 researchers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Human-AI Partnerships (WEF) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Recent advances in AI, Machine learning and Robotics have significantly enhanced the capabilities of machines. Machine intelligence is now able to support human decision making, augment human capabilities, and, in some cases, take over control from humans and act fully autonomously. Machines are becoming more tightly embedded into systems alongside humans, interacting and influencing each other in a number of ways. Such human-AI partnerships are a new form of socio-technical system in which the potential synergies between humans and machines are much more fully utilised. Designing, building, and deploying human-AI partnerships present a number of new challenges as we begin to understand their impact on our physical and mental well-being, our personal freedoms, and those of the wider society. In this talk Professor Ramchurn focused on the challenges in designing trustworthy human-AI partnerships. He explored the multiple elements of trust in human-AI partnerships and discuss the associated research challenges.I will also aim to identify the risks associated with human-AI partnerships and therefore determine the associated measures to mitigate these risks. He concluded by giving a brief overview of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme (www.tas.ac.uk), a £33m programme launched in 2020 involving over 20 universities, 100+ industry partners, and over 200 researchers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Human-Data Interaction through Design 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Organising and facilitating this workshop to define a forward-looking agenda for Human Data Interaction, conducted at the international conference for Human Factors in Computing (CHI)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://designresearch.works/chi2021-hdi-workshop/
 
Description Humanitarianism and Global Governance in the Age of AI 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact International governments, leading AI companies, civil society groups and experts in AI will gather at Bletchley Park for the UK AI Safety Summit in November to discuss possible mitigation measures to reduce potential harms associated with the development and use of AI.

This event included RAI UK representative Professor Dame Muffy Calder along with representatives from government, industry, technical bodies and civil society for a discussion on both the humanitarian opportunities that AI presents and the types of harm that AI engenders for communities impacted by armed conflict.

The panel considered how we can develop the necessary mitigation measures to protect those caught up in conflict, either through existing tools at our disposal, or through the creation of new regulatory tools. This is vital for ensuring that discussions on the use of AI take account of the perspectives of those caught up in conflict.

This event was organized in partnership with, and with support from, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the British Computer Society (BCS).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/research-event/humanitarianism-and-global-governance-age-ai
 
Description IM@UCL event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Launch of the IM@UCL facility, dissemination of the on-going research using this facility, and invitation for collaboration with industry and across disciplines. departments, and faculties at UCL.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description IM@UCL podcast series 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact A podcast to disseminate our research activities within the field of CAV.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.ucl-intelligent-mobility.com/
 
Description IMA (The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications) talk 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation to the regional branch of the UK Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description IROS 2022 Keynote on Swarms for People 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Invitation to present a keynote on "Swarms for People" at top international robotics conference IROS. Over 500 people where in attendance.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://iros2022.org/program/keynote-speakers/
 
Description ISCA Postdoc and Early Career Research Advisory Committee (PECRAC) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Workshop to support early career researchers in speech technology
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022,2023
 
Description ISCA SIG-SPSC invited webinar 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Gave a talk to the SPSC special interest group
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description ISCA Security and Privacy Symposium 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact International workshop at the ISCA Interspeech conference on security and privacy in speech technology
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022,2023
URL https://www.spsc-sig.org/
 
Description ISCA Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop (YFRSW) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Workshop that promotes research among under-represented woman-identifying groups in speech technology
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022,2023
URL https://sites.google.com/view/yfrsw-2022/
 
Description Imagine a future with caring robots! (organiser and workshop facilitator) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This was a family friendly workshop supported by the ESRC Festival of Social Science. It adapted the Lego Serious Play methodology used in the 2021 pump-priming project 'Imagining Robotic Care', which took place at Weston Park Museum, Sheffield and was open to members of the public, including families with children. Approximately 50 people attended the two sold-out sessions, including two members of Sheffield City Council who subsequently arranged for the Council to join our current pump-priming project, 'Mapping Trustworthy Systems for RAS in Social Care'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/family-workshop-lego-serious-play/
 
Description Industry engagement workshop - Closing the AI Skills Gap 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact 23 participants (3 policy stakeholders, 4 industry representatives, 16 academic) attended a workshop to unpack two TAS Hub case studies in healthcare and transport. The goal of the workshop was to uncover the sector-specific skills required in AI-ecosystems across a range of roles and disciplinary perspectives. This enabled the participants to learn about TAS Hub research, and contribute their perspectives to future policy-making around closing the skills gap in the UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Interactive Telepresence visit for Trinity Wakefield School 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact The University of Sheffield provided an interactive telepresence activity for students from Trinity Wakefield School on 10th February 2022, in which students were able to remote control a robot at Sheffield Robotics Lab via immersive telepresence. The activity included controlling the animal-like MiRo through a maze, and controlling the humanoid Pepper robot to tour around the laboratory. The activity was part of the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems "Open Labs" pump-priming project. It was also supported by two companies Cyberselves Ltd, and Consequential Robotics Ltd and by the not-for-profit Discovery Stem. Student numbers, approx. 15-20. from the School's coding club, and Y7-10 Computer Science students.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://seras.org.uk/open-labs/
 
Description International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited workshop presentation at International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in London, UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://hauertlab.com/icra2021-workshop-on-micro-nano-swarm-robotics/
 
Description Interoperability in Robotics & Autonomous Systems Proving Grounds Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This workshop was a UKRAS event hosted at the RCA in London. Attendance was strictly by invitation. We had two round table discussions. The first session was focused on the following:
• What are the challenges to maintaining interoperability across multi-vendor fleets of robots?
• How can we produce guidelines for measuring interoperability performance? What regulatory frameworks should be followed?
• How can we encourage the adoption of interoperability standards and practices amongst the robotic systems suppliers?
• How can we facilitate innovation and UK leadership in the area?
The second roundtable discussion was focused on specific use cases such as applications spanning from aerial surveying to underwater construction, assembly line autonomy, and power plant operations; identifying potential stakeholders of relevant interoperability problems, the measurement and implementation challenges, and how relevant solutions can be achieved.

The aim is to publish a white paper based on the roundtable discussions by attendees from academia and the industry, which could inform future UKRI research funding focus.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Intersectional TAS serious game workshop pilot 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presentation of intersectional TAS project and pilot of serious game design method to members of the School of Cybernetics, Australian National University
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Invited Seminar for Lancaster University - SafeSpacesNLP: Exploring behaviour classification around online mental health conversations from a multi-disciplinary context - NLP, applied linguistics, social science and human-in-the-loop AI 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presentation (virtual) to 50-100 postgrads and researchers of SafeSpacesNLP poject work, and post-seminar formal discussions with team from Lancaster University around SafeSpacesNLP and ProTechThem project work. This led to plans for future collaboration around datasets and NLP models in 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/crs/presentation.php?id=261
 
Description Invited Seminar for UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub Doctoral Training Network (DTN) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Invited Seminar for UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub Doctoral Training Network (DTN)
Title: SafeSpacesNLP and ProTechThem - Socio-technical Natural Language Processing for Behaviour Classification
Seminar sparked questions and discussion and led to followon telecalls with researchers to discuss work. Helped audience understand issues around NLP and online behaviour classification.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.tas.ac.uk/doctoral-training-network/
 
Description Invited Talk - SAB 2022 - Swarms for People 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Invited to give a talk at SAB 2022 on "Swarms for People": Around 100 academics were in the room.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://sab2022.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/4
 
Description Invited Talk at AgriFoRwArdS Seminar Series 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A research seminar was given at the EPSRC AgriFoRwArdS CDT Seminar Series. A mix of undergraduate and postgraduate students and research staff attended the Zoom seminar, which focused on shared control and roles for human-robot teamwork. The talk is followed by a discussion session, where participants displayed great interest in the subject area. The talk is streamed on youtube.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJPcGfoLEpHH37TdbdwZUCA
 
Description Invited Talk at IRLab Seminar Series 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A research seminar was given at the IRLab of University of Birmingham. A mix of undergraduate and postgraduate students, full time researchers and senior research staff attended the Zoom seminar, which focused on human-robot teamwork. The talk is followed by a discussion session, where students displayed great interest in the subject area. A youtube link is shared
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fOkN7oG2Ec&feature=youtu.be
 
Description Invited presentation 'The Role of Trade Secrets Protection in AI Transparency', Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Invited presentation 'The Role of Trade Secrets Protection in AI Transparency', 24 February 2022, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge. (See https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/press/events/2022/02/cipil-evening-seminar-role-trade-secrets-protection-ai-transparency. This had about 20 attendees.)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Invited presentation 'Trade Secrets in the Data Economy' at EPIP Conference, (Tanya Aplin) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Invited presentation 'Trade Secrets in the Data Economy' at EPIP Conference, September 2022 (See https://epip2022.org/. The audience for our session was about 30 participants. I am now working on a co-authored article for submission to a law journal).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Invited presentation at EPIP Conference 2021 on 'Trade Secrecy, Factual Secrecy and the Hype Surrounding AI', 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited presentation at EPIP Conference 2021 on 'Trade Secrecy, Factual Secrecy and the Hype Surrounding AI', September 2021 (See https://epip2021.org/ ; there was an audience of approximately 20 people. The follow up activity was a jointly authored chapter - see Sharon K. Sandeen and Tanya Aplin, 'Trade Secrecy, Factual Secrecy and the Hype Surrounding AI' in Ryan Abott (ed) Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence (Edward Elgar, forthcoming), King's College London Law School Research Paper Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3929928)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Invited presentation at World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Symposium on Trade Secrets and Innovation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited presentation at World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Symposium on Trade Secrets and Innovation, 23-24 May 2022 on the panel 'Trade Secrets and the Data Economy' (see https://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/2022/symposium-tradesecrets.html#:~:text=Theme%20of%20the%20WIPO%20Symposium,and%20driven%20by%20digital%20information. This has an in-person and on-line audience that reached over 100 attendees).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Invited presentation on IP and Transparency in an Algorithmic Society' at Symposium on 'The Role of Intellectual Property in times of Radical Change' Munich 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited presentation on IP and Transparency in an Algorithmic Society' at Symposium on 'The Role of Intellectual Property in times of Radical Change' Munich, 13-14 June 2022 (The audience were members - past and present - from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Law. There were only 8 invited speakers and approximately 50 attendees. The follow up activity is a co-authored drafting working paper with Perry Keller).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Invited speaker at Workshop "New Trends and Beyond Worst-case Analysis on Mechanism Design and Approximation Algorithms" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Presented the latest advances in research methods to design incentive-aware systems in presence of imperfect rationality.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL http://pages.cs.aueb.gr/othersites/TheoryGroup/comrade/workshop/
 
Description Invited speaker at the Pint of Science public engagement event 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Pint of Science is a grassroots non-profit organisation that has grown astronomically over the few years since two people decided to share their research in the pub. The aim of the event is to to provide a space for researchers and members of the public alike to come together, be curious, and chat about research in a relaxed environment outside of mysterious laboratories or daunting dark lecture theatres. The event was attended by the public in a casual environment, where our work on robotic wheelchairs and robotics in general is discussed and disseminated.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://pintofscience.co.uk/about/
 
Description Invited talk (Bristol), Interactive AI Summer School (BIAS) 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Schem