SOCIAM: The Theory and Practice of Social Machines
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Computer Science
Abstract
SOCIAM - Social Machines - will research into pioneering methods of supporting purposeful human interaction on the World Wide Web, of the kind exemplified by phenomena such as Wikipedia and Galaxy Zoo. These collaborations are empowering, as communities identify and solve their own problems, harnessing their commitment, local knowledge and embedded skills, without having to rely on remote experts or governments.
Such interaction is characterised by a new kind of emergent, collective problem solving, in which we see (i) problems solved by very large scale human participation via the Web, (ii) access to, or the ability to generate, large amounts of relevant data using open data standards, (iii) confidence in the quality of the data and (iv) intuitive interfaces.
"Machines" used to be programmed by programmers and used by users. The Web, and the massive participation in it, has dissolved this boundary: we now see configurations of people interacting with content and each other, typified by social web sites. Rather than dividing between the human and machine parts of the collaboration (as computer science has traditionally done), we should draw a line around them and treat each such assembly as a machine in its own right comprising digital and human components - a Social Machine. This crucial transition in thinking acknowledges the reality of today's sociotechnical systems. This view is of an ecosystem not of humans and computers but of co-evolving Social Machines.
The ambition of SOCIAM is to enable us to build social machines that solve the routine tasks of daily life as well as the emergencies. Its aim is to develop the theory and practice so that we can create the next generation of decentralised, data intensive, social machines. Understanding the attributes of the current generation of successful social machines will help us build the next.
The research undertakes four necessary tasks. First, we need to discover how social computing can emerge given that society has to undertake much of the burden of identifying problems, designing solutions and dealing with the complexity of the problem solving. Online scaleable algorithms need to be put to the service of the users. This leads us to the second task, providing seamless access to a Web of Data including user generated data. Third, we need to understand how to make social machines accountable and to build the trust essential to their operation. Fourth, we need to design the interactions between all elements of social machines: between machine and human, between humans mediated by machines, and between machines, humans and the data they use and generate. SOCIAM's work will be empirically grounded by a Social Machines Observatory to track, monitor and classify existing social machines and new ones as they evolve, and act as an early warning facility for disruptive new social machines.
These lines of interlinked research will initially be tested and evaluated in the context of real-world applications in health, transport, policing and the drive towards open data cities (where all public data across an urban area is linked together) in collaboration with SOCIAM's partners. Putting research ideas into the field to encounter unvarnished reality provides a check as to their utility and durability. For example the Open City application will seek to harness citywide participation in shared problems (e.g. with health, transport and policing) exploiting common open data resources.
SOCIAM will undertake a breadth of integrated research, engaging with real application contexts, including the use of our observatory for longitudinal studies, to provide cutting edge theory and practice for social computation and social machines. It will support fundamental research; the creation of a multidisciplinary team; collaboration with industry and government in realization of the research; promote growth and innovation - most importantly - impact in changing the direction of ICT.
Such interaction is characterised by a new kind of emergent, collective problem solving, in which we see (i) problems solved by very large scale human participation via the Web, (ii) access to, or the ability to generate, large amounts of relevant data using open data standards, (iii) confidence in the quality of the data and (iv) intuitive interfaces.
"Machines" used to be programmed by programmers and used by users. The Web, and the massive participation in it, has dissolved this boundary: we now see configurations of people interacting with content and each other, typified by social web sites. Rather than dividing between the human and machine parts of the collaboration (as computer science has traditionally done), we should draw a line around them and treat each such assembly as a machine in its own right comprising digital and human components - a Social Machine. This crucial transition in thinking acknowledges the reality of today's sociotechnical systems. This view is of an ecosystem not of humans and computers but of co-evolving Social Machines.
The ambition of SOCIAM is to enable us to build social machines that solve the routine tasks of daily life as well as the emergencies. Its aim is to develop the theory and practice so that we can create the next generation of decentralised, data intensive, social machines. Understanding the attributes of the current generation of successful social machines will help us build the next.
The research undertakes four necessary tasks. First, we need to discover how social computing can emerge given that society has to undertake much of the burden of identifying problems, designing solutions and dealing with the complexity of the problem solving. Online scaleable algorithms need to be put to the service of the users. This leads us to the second task, providing seamless access to a Web of Data including user generated data. Third, we need to understand how to make social machines accountable and to build the trust essential to their operation. Fourth, we need to design the interactions between all elements of social machines: between machine and human, between humans mediated by machines, and between machines, humans and the data they use and generate. SOCIAM's work will be empirically grounded by a Social Machines Observatory to track, monitor and classify existing social machines and new ones as they evolve, and act as an early warning facility for disruptive new social machines.
These lines of interlinked research will initially be tested and evaluated in the context of real-world applications in health, transport, policing and the drive towards open data cities (where all public data across an urban area is linked together) in collaboration with SOCIAM's partners. Putting research ideas into the field to encounter unvarnished reality provides a check as to their utility and durability. For example the Open City application will seek to harness citywide participation in shared problems (e.g. with health, transport and policing) exploiting common open data resources.
SOCIAM will undertake a breadth of integrated research, engaging with real application contexts, including the use of our observatory for longitudinal studies, to provide cutting edge theory and practice for social computation and social machines. It will support fundamental research; the creation of a multidisciplinary team; collaboration with industry and government in realization of the research; promote growth and innovation - most importantly - impact in changing the direction of ICT.
Planned Impact
The proposed programme will have beneficial impact on a wide range of stakeholders. Via technology transfer, companies will gain access to new technologues, and also gain the understanding that will allow them to develop new products for communities organising themselves in social machines. Those companies that partner us or support our research will of course have the ability to feed ideas into the research, and frame the problems we are trying to solve; we consider it essential that fundamental research feeds into, and back from, real-world applications.
Smaller-scale entrepreneurs will have new outlets for innovation, and new opportunities to develop radical business models. The public sector and third sector will have available new tools and methods for achieving policy ends. Communities using social machines will also benefit, of course, by the ability to identify and define their own problems, and develop their own solutions. These benefits, in social cohesion and cooperation, will often outlive the immediate issue which drove the development of the social machine.
We should not forget the benefits to the wider academic community of the proposed research. Of course, the development of a community of multi-disciplinary researchers in social machines will benefit the computer science field, but via the observatory and the strong social relevance of the research, we would expect a wide academic community in science and social science benefiting from the deepening of expertise in this area, and the large quantity of data. The 5-year programme would allow a strong multi-disciplinary cohort of researchers to emerge, able to influence a range of fields, spreading expertise in these relatively novel methods of social collaboration. Dissemination will also take place via our programme of Town Meetings, sandpits, hackathons, disruptive skills workshops, etc. Groups associated with the consortium, such as the Web Science Trust, will be able to ensure that SOCIAM's work is widely disseminated and one of our Partners is the world's largest Technical PR Agency.
The impacts will be both economic and non-economic. The economic impacts will be the benefits that come from innovation and cooperation, and from bottom-up solutions to problems. These will include both lowering costs of social problems (e.g. via community policing lowering the costs of crime), and creating opportunities for innovation and commercial exploitation of innovation (as for example with the development of new services based on creative uses of available data). Some of these benefits will fall to entrepreneurs, while others will spill over into the wider community.
Furthermore, the research will enable value to be extracted from the ever-growing quantities of data we see. The social return on investment in data acquisition, particularly public open data, will be dramatically improved as more tools and methods are created for using the data to drive services.
There will be several non-economic impacts too. In policy terms, the impacts will be high, particularly as local solutions for problems - inherently more efficient than centralised problem-solving which cannot always take account of local conditions - will emerge from collaboration in social machines in small communities. Communities will become empowered and self-reliant. The result will be a suite of tools and methods which can be put to work in social contexts by a range of actors - government, to achieve policy goals, groups of people, to achieve social goals, or entrepreneurs, to achieve commercial goals. Indeed, one would expect a social machine to encompass all of these at different times.
Smaller-scale entrepreneurs will have new outlets for innovation, and new opportunities to develop radical business models. The public sector and third sector will have available new tools and methods for achieving policy ends. Communities using social machines will also benefit, of course, by the ability to identify and define their own problems, and develop their own solutions. These benefits, in social cohesion and cooperation, will often outlive the immediate issue which drove the development of the social machine.
We should not forget the benefits to the wider academic community of the proposed research. Of course, the development of a community of multi-disciplinary researchers in social machines will benefit the computer science field, but via the observatory and the strong social relevance of the research, we would expect a wide academic community in science and social science benefiting from the deepening of expertise in this area, and the large quantity of data. The 5-year programme would allow a strong multi-disciplinary cohort of researchers to emerge, able to influence a range of fields, spreading expertise in these relatively novel methods of social collaboration. Dissemination will also take place via our programme of Town Meetings, sandpits, hackathons, disruptive skills workshops, etc. Groups associated with the consortium, such as the Web Science Trust, will be able to ensure that SOCIAM's work is widely disseminated and one of our Partners is the world's largest Technical PR Agency.
The impacts will be both economic and non-economic. The economic impacts will be the benefits that come from innovation and cooperation, and from bottom-up solutions to problems. These will include both lowering costs of social problems (e.g. via community policing lowering the costs of crime), and creating opportunities for innovation and commercial exploitation of innovation (as for example with the development of new services based on creative uses of available data). Some of these benefits will fall to entrepreneurs, while others will spill over into the wider community.
Furthermore, the research will enable value to be extracted from the ever-growing quantities of data we see. The social return on investment in data acquisition, particularly public open data, will be dramatically improved as more tools and methods are created for using the data to drive services.
There will be several non-economic impacts too. In policy terms, the impacts will be high, particularly as local solutions for problems - inherently more efficient than centralised problem-solving which cannot always take account of local conditions - will emerge from collaboration in social machines in small communities. Communities will become empowered and self-reliant. The result will be a suite of tools and methods which can be put to work in social contexts by a range of actors - government, to achieve policy goals, groups of people, to achieve social goals, or entrepreneurs, to achieve commercial goals. Indeed, one would expect a social machine to encompass all of these at different times.
Publications
Binns R
(2018)
'It's Reducing a Human Being to a Percentage'
Lyngs U
(2017)
'It's More Fun With My Phone'
Lyngs Ulrik
(2020)
'I Just Want to Hack Myself to Not Get Distracted': Evaluating Design Interventions for Self-Control on Facebook
in arXiv e-prints
Lyngs U
(2020)
'I Just Want to Hack Myself to Not Get Distracted'
Wang G
(2022)
'Don't make assumptions about me!': Understanding Children's Perception of Datafication Online
in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Tinati R
(2015)
'/Command' and Conquer
Smart P
(2018)
"Towards an Understanding of Social Machines "
Taylor J
(2018)
#Deathbedlive: the end-of-life trajectory, reflected in a cancer patient's tweets.
in BMC palliative care
Description | 2023: The "Ethical Web and Data Architectures" (EWADA) awarded to Professors Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee continues to investigate the technical and instituional archectures that could result in a decentralisation of web based social machines. The SOLID architecture continues to gain ground and attention and the EWADA project is contributing examples of SOLID implementations is domains such as gig working, recommender systems and age appropriate design. Various data instituions have been researched and proposed that allows for the data held in social machines to be more equitably accessed - this work has been aligned with that of the Open Data Institute (ODI) - a not-for-profit that seeks to build more trusted data ecosystems. The continued entanglement of humans, data and algorithms at scale is featuring in the emergence of generative AI systems such as ChatGPT. A project inspired, in part, by the SOCIAM project is looking at the properties of these new generative AI systems to understand their capabilities when interacting with humans across wide range of tasks including common sense reasoning, reasoning about human values and the the beliefs and aspirations of others. This potentially offers the prospect of new types of emergent social machine. Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt will be one of the Principal Investigators on this project funded by the Alan Turing Institute. Two other areas of research that emerged from the original SOCIAM grant continue to grow in impact. The first of these was work on digital distraction - one of the downsides of our increasing engagement in social machines is their potential for capturing too much of a user's attention and effectively distracting them from other tasks. The Reduce Digital Distraction (ReDD) Workshops have been developed to help users and are being used in higher education and other settings at various insitutions around the world. A second area of impact is around age appropriate design for recommender systems and other algorithmically driven social machines that engage with young children. This work has led to policy interventions, additional research and associated publications to understand how to design systems that respect young users agency and autonomy. 2022: The "Ethical Web and Data Architectures" awarded to Professors Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee is now producing its first results as it researches ways of decentralising the Web to put users more effectively in control of their data - a key original idea of the SOCIAM project. The SOLID architecture on which a substantial part of the project is based is gaining widespread attention with various keynotes from Professors Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee. A DPhil student supported by the project has been award a Carlsberg Foundation Oxford Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford's Human Centred Computing group to continue his work on how can we design digital devices that make it easier for people to stay in control of their use. 2021: The SOCIAM work was a strong influence in the successful bid to the Oxford Martin School - a £1.5 million, three year project to research "Ethical Web and Data Architectures" awarded to Professors Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee. This project is researching ways of decentralising the Web to put users more effectively in control of their data - a key original idea of the SOCIAM project. Dissemination activity continued with additional keynotes from the PI referencing the SOCIAM work. A student supported by the grant (Ulrik Lyngs) has been awarded his DPhil at Oxford - his thesis investigated a range of ways of dealing with digital distraction, one of the downsides of some social machines. 2020: Dissemination activity continued with respect to the key findings of the SOCIAM project with 6 major keynotes and invited lectures from the PI referencing the work. Its approach has been influential in a number of newly commenced PhD projects and in work carried out as part of Oxford's engagement in the EPSRC funded PETRAS project EP/N02334X/1 and EP/S035362/1. The findings have substantially figured in a significant bid for funding from Oxford University. 2019: A new book "The Theory and Practice of Social Machines" has been published by Springer in early 2019. This book comprises the SOCIAM Project's research and outputs for the duration of the project. A 2018 popular book "The Digital Ape: How to live (in peace) with Smart Machines" features significant amounts of the SOCIAM research agenda including a chapter on Social Machines and results from the project.The book has been published to critical acclaim in the UK and also in the US, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, India and Vietnam. It has featured at the Hay and Edinburgh Book Festivals. The impacts below relate to the research headings described under the "Key Findings" Section. Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing Citizen Science: SOCIAM has had a significant impact on the Zooniverse citizen science platform. Zooniverse is the world's largest and most popular platform for citizen science, currently hosting over 50 live projects across multiple fields of research. It has tens of thousands of active volunteers worldwide, with over 1.5 million registered volunteers in total taking part throughout the last decade. SOCIAM studies and experiments have helped the Zooniverse better understand its community, looking at their motivations, structure, and behaviour. This in turn has enabled the Zooniverse to create a better platform that suits the specific needs and behaviours of their crowd. 2018: In the last year SOCIAM has continued to have a significant impact on its main citizen science project partner, The Zooniverse. One key moment was the development and running of a bespoke dashboard for the live television events BBC Stargazing Live (UK) and ABC Stargazing Live (Australia). The SOCIAM dashboard allowed Zooniverse team members and scientists to observe their community of volunteers in real time during a massive event like never before, enabling them to interact with the social machine in a new way. Importantly it also helped the team quickly identify interesting findings being produced by the project (in this case, planets around distant stars!). Finally, the data collected during these live events is now being studied by SOCIAM to help unveil even more insights into how the Zooniverse social machine operates. Crowdsourcing: As well as classical citizen science we have explored the effects of motivation, incentives, and task design in contexts that use other forms of crowdsourcing, in particular paid microtask platforms. We looked at ways to make paid crowdsourcing more effective and rewarding for the people involved by testing how gamification enhances crowd experience. We have also studied how different incentives related to game mechanics influence retention - keeping individuals engaged the tasks (additional rewards, feedback on task performance, feedback on performance compared to others) have on retention. Data Citation: Our paper on data citation was made the lead article in CACM (September 2016) and the proposals have been partly implemented in two curated databases. Health Social Machines We have worked closely with clinical teams in the NHS and applied our methodology to help them record and rethink their patient pathways and social interactions. Our most notable collaborations are the following: - Modelling HIV care pathways in collaboration with the sexual health care team at NHS Lothian. - Workflow modelling for the care of burns in Scotland in collaboration with the Care Of Burns In Scotland (COBIS) network. - Designing a social machine for the Heart Manual Service, which is led by NHS Lothian and delivered by several clinical teams worldwide. - Carrying out a practical experiment between data safe haven jurisdictions in Scotland and Trentino. 2018: Our work with the eDRIS team has received positive feedback. Our report has helped inform the entire team on the effectiveness of their current operating procedures, giving a detailed overview of the workflow and an analysis of its gaps and bottlenecks. The eDRIS team has acknowledged the usefulness of our report and proposed solutions and aims to use it as a key driver for change and improvement going forward. This has the potential to vastly improve the ways in which NHS data is shared with researchers by minimizing the time and effort required without compromising the privacy and public benefit safeguards they currently have in place. Machine Intelligence and the Mind of Society Some informal collaboration has occurred with IBM UK to explore the implications of the work into digital immortality, data cryogenics, neuromorphic computing and sentient machines. Provenance and Annotation The initial driver for this work was the Human Brain project, with which the findings were shared. https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/ 2018: While data citation is hardly "non-academic", it is an application that is quite general and extends well beyond the scope of SOCIAM research. The results are already in use in some curated databases. Supporting Privacy and End-User Data Management Social Machines On the basis of the X-Ray work, we are launching an Ethical Data Pledge, to encourage developers to create apps which respect privacy and data ethics. We are also aiming to share the results of our large scale measurement with data protection and competition regulators to help inform their activities with respect to third party tracking. Our work on curation of online identity through deception was featured on a BBC Radio 4 Programme, "The Online Identity Crisis", which first aired on Sunday 11 September 2016, and later twice on 9 December 2016. Two SOCIAM senior research fellows, Max Van Kleek and Dave Murray-Rust, were interviewed in the programme as online identity privacy experts in the context of the WebSci paper on online identity discussed above. The key findings from our analysis have been published as a full article in the December 2016 issue of "Inspired Research", a magazine that is edited and published twice a year by the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, to showcase world leading research outcomes from the department, for the general public. Our work has also drawn interest from the Oxford University, and been invited to be part of the first ever Oxford University European Researcher's Night, to take place on 25th September 2017. European Researchers' Night is a Europe-wide celebration of academic research for the public, supported by the European Commission. This will be a city-wide public-facing celebration of research happening at the University. The event aims to seek to engage a diverse audience through activities such as live experiments, debates, bite-sized talks and other activities. A six month digital and media engagement campaign will lead up to the event, and the university aims to reach over 100,000 public audience before the event and attract over 10K public visitors on the night of the event. Work on privacy theory also informed the Global Commission on Internet Governance, chaired by Carl Bildt, and commissioned by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and Chatham House in response to trends toward fragmentation of the Internet, with the aim of offering guidance on how to address new challenges as they emerge. SOCIAM researchers produced a chapter on the implementation of the controversial Google Spain/right to be forgotten decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Papers in the Data Protection Law review and IEEE Internet Computing extended the arguments. The INDX Data platform, was demonstrated at various venues, including the ReDecentralise Conference in 2015 in London, and to the W3C at MIT CSAIL. The INDX repository has been cloned over 200 times, forked 7 times and is being watched by 25 individuals, and has now been registered in the project of Alternative Internets. 2018: The privacy theories developed during SOCIAM were used to inform a Royal Society/British Academy consultation about a Data Stewardship Governance Council. A paper was commissioned from O'Hara in 2017 to present at a seminar on the topic, to explore the details of a key recommendation of the Royal Society/British Academy report into Data Governance. The implications of our work on smartphone app privacy for children have led to several outreach efforts. We hosted an interactive stall at the Oxford Super Science Festival, where 400 families attended and were able to interact with our personalised smartphone app privacy interface and learn about privacy risks. In response, we established links with several local organisations including Oxford Coding Club (at Wolvercote Primary School), Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board, and Safer Internet day (Watlington Primary) who have requested to use our materials in their education and safeguarding efforts. We were invited by Parent Zone to advise on parents how to take additional considerations of privacy risks when choosing smart toys or smart home devices (https://parentzone.org.uk/article/everything-you-need-know-about-digital-assistants). We also contributed to policy-making processes relating to privacy and data protection in a variety of venues. We provided advice to the UK Parliamentary Digital Service on the technical capacity and risks associated with third party analytics (derived from our X-Ray project), which has helped support their efforts to move to an in-house analytics platform to better protect citizens' privacy while browsing UK Parliament documents online. We provided consultation feedback to ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names), on upcoming changes to the domain name system registration information, in order to protect the ability of researchers to access key information for privacy and security research. (https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gdpr-legal-analysis-2017-11-17-en). We were invited to provide evidence and guidance based on our privacy research to a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research on user profiling in smart homes (ABIDA). Our work on algorithmic fairness and accountability led to invitations to participate in the revision of the Government Digital Service and Cabinet Office's Data Science Ethical Framework, and an invited talk on explaining automated decisions by the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP) and the Scottish Information Commissioner's Office in March 2018. We provided an invited briefing presentation to the British Standards Institute/NESTA on the need for standards for ethical artificial intelligence in October 2017. Finally, this work also inspired an interactive educational session on explaining algorithmic decisions at the Mozilla Festival in November 2017 entitled 'Why Does Computer Say No?'. Social Machine and Web Observatory The Web Observatory has become the core platform for many of the SOCIAM observational studies performed across several themes. The underlying data streaming architecture has powered the Web macroscope, which has had direct impact to the non-academic community. We have run several public engagement activities interested in interpreting and analysing big data and social machine activity. The development of the Web Observatory schema.org extension has contributed to the development of services outside the SOCIAM projects, included organisations such as the Library of Congress, where services have been built in order to enrich and improve discoverability of their dataset and archives. We have also been working with other institutes such as Stanford in order to enrich institute data. 2018: Ethics Ethics and Group Privacy has been the focus of a Workshop to be held in 2018 in Amsterdam at the ACM Web Science Conference, organised largely by SOCIAM researchers. |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Electronics,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice |
Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
Description | Oral evidence at the Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry into the Right to Privacy and the Digital Revolution |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | The Joint Committee on Human Rights undertook an inquiry into whether new safeguards to regulate the collection, use, tracking, retention and disclosure of personal data by private companies are needed in the new digital environment to protect human rights. The key human right at risk is the right to private and family life (Article 8 ECHR), but freedom of expression (Article 10 ECHR), freedom of association (Article 11), and non-discrimination (Article 14 ECHR) are also at risk. The Joint Committee on Human Rights seeks evidence on the threats posed to human rights by the collection, use and storage of personal data by private companies and examples of where they have been breached. I provided evidenced to the committee based on our research into the third party tracking ecosystem in relation to our analysis of 1 million mobile apps. |
URL | https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/joint-select/human-rights-committee/new... |
Description | Participation in revision of Government Digital Service and Cabinet Office's Data Science Ethical Framework |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | ReDD : Reducing Digital Distractions |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Digital distraction and addiction is an increasingly salient problem especially for teenagers and younger adults, which has profound impacts on mental well-being, educational attainment and even cognitive development. Ulrik Lyng, as part of his DPhil research on digital self control worked with, and carried out a series of "Reducing Digital Distraction (ReDD)" workshops jointly with the University of Oxford's mental health and wellbeing specialists. These workshops were open to students and the public suffering from Problematic Facebook Use (PFU) and other forms of digital addiction and distraction. These workshops served both as a research instrument and a means of providing actual advice and guidance based on the availability of several kinds of digital interventions. |
Description | Royal Society/British Academy consultation about a Data Stewardship Governance Council |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | Technology and the Law Policy Commission evidence sessions |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | Technology and the Law Policy Commission evidence sessions. The commission held three public sessions where our commissioners took oral evidence from experts on the topic of algorithms in the justice system. We were looking to hear from practitioners, academics, tech professionals, civil liberties organisations, companies that make algorithms, public bodies that use them, and anyone who has an interest in technology, the rule of law and human rights. Guest commissioner Andrea Coomber, director of Justice, joined the Commission for this session, which concerned the current state of algorithms in the justice system and what is on the horizon. The witnesses the commissioners heard were: Dr Reuben Binns, Dr Nikos Aletras and Michael Veale Professor Burkhard Schafer and Professor Lilian Edwards Dr Ricardo Silva, Professor Lorna McGregor and Alexander Babuta Roger Bickerstaff and Professor David Hand OBE Chief Constable Michael Barton |
URL | https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/support-services/lawtech/articles/algorithms-evidence-sessions/ |
Description | Carlsberg Foundation Oxford Visiting Fellowship |
Amount | £80,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Carlsberg Foundation |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | Denmark |
Start | 05/2021 |
End | 04/2023 |
Description | Cyber Security of the Internet of Things |
Amount | £229,714 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/N022912/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2016 |
End | 08/2019 |
Description | EPSRC Doctoral Prize Scheme award to Dr Ulrik Lyngs |
Amount | £27,915 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EPSRC Doctoral Prize Scheme funded as part of DTP Grant EP/R513295/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2019 |
End | 04/2020 |
Description | EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account Award (UKRI Grant Reference - EP/X525777/1) |
Amount | £74,129 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EPSRC IAA award (EP/X525777/1) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2023 |
End | 05/2024 |
Description | HEALTH-I: Hybrid Engagement Architecture Layer for Trusted Human-centric IoT |
Amount | £130,064 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2017 |
End | 02/2019 |
Description | Impact Acceleration Account - KOALA Kids Online Anonymity & Lifelong Autonomy |
Amount | £67,813 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/R511742/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2017 |
End | 03/2020 |
Description | Oxford Martin Programme on Ethical Web and Data Architectures |
Amount | £1,581,947 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Oxford |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2021 |
End | 11/2024 |
Description | PETRAS-IoT Data Management and Sharing Infrastructure: An Evolution of IoT Observatory |
Amount | £119,761 (GBP) |
Funding ID | PEDaSI |
Organisation | PETRAS |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2018 |
End | 02/2019 |
Description | Respectful Things in Private Spaces |
Amount | £137,226 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ReTIPS |
Organisation | PETRAS |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2017 |
End | 02/2019 |
Description | The Macroscope: A lens on the World Wide Web |
Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | Ing1516/10/70 |
Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2016 |
End | 12/2018 |
Title | Crowdsourcing |
Description | In 2014, SOCIAM researchers developed a small crowdsourcing tool (http://prov.usewod.org/), based on a compact research community centred around USEWOD workshops (Usage Analysis and the Web of Data - http://usewod.org/), to crowdsource provenance metadata about how USEWOD datasets had been used in research papers over several years of workshops. The tool developed was intended to be generic about crowdsourcing any type of provenance. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The experiment was small and contained, but still demonstrated that crowdsourcing was a suitable tool for a posteriori collection of links between publications and datasets. |
URL | http://prov.usewod |
Description | Anna Freud Centre |
Organisation | Anna Freud Centre |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Jun Zhao is connecting to parents and educators of young children, as well as young children themselves, to better understand the impact of personal data collection by mobile apps upon the well-being and health of young children. |
Collaborator Contribution | Anna Freud Centre provide input and perspective from researchers in child mental health. The general goal is to investigate the impact of the personal data collection practices of mobile apps upon the general well-being of young children aged 6-10. |
Impact | The main objective of Kids Online Anonymity & Lifelong Autonomy (KOALA) is to work with mental health researchers, parents and educators of young children, as well as young children themselves, to better understand the impact of personal data collection by mobile apps upon the well-being and health of young children. A set of guidelines for parents of young children regarding use of smartphone apps and privacy. Reports on young children and their parents' perception of online privacy issues in relation to children's use of mobile apps. Poster presentation at Oxford University IAA showcase day. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Heart Manual Service |
Organisation | NHS Lothian |
Department | The Heart Manual |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Designing a social machine for the Heart Manual Service, which is led by NHS Lothian and delivered by several clinical teams worldwide. |
Collaborator Contribution | An important case study on how to design social machines for healthcare contexts, this project investigated the Heart Manual Programme, a home-based cardiac rehabilitation programme. Through various participatory design methods, our work on this project elicited the requirements for a social machine in this space and we carried out a proof of concept evaluation with a prototype. |
Impact | Our prototype system was largely positively received and rated highly on system usability. Our work suggests that adopting a participatory approach where stakeholders are active, equal participants throughout the design process leads to more usable, likeable, and thus more successful social machines. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Machine learning for mental health |
Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Participating in the research effort, writing and editing the final workshop publication and poster. Attending the poster presentation. |
Collaborator Contribution | Our partners provided the initial research idea and offered guidance based on their considerable experience in the research area. |
Impact | At the intersection of machine learning, geography and psychology. The main outcome is a workshop publication. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Modelling HIV care pathways |
Organisation | NHS Lothian |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Modelling HIV care pathways in collaboration with the sexual health care team at NHS Lothian. The ambition of the Integrated Care Pathways project is to develop formal models that capture the necessary sequence of steps for effective patient care. |
Collaborator Contribution | We work in close collaboration with the NHS Lothian and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde boards to improve HIV care by mapping the processes involved in the form of an Integrated Care Pathways (ICPs). We employ a rigorous methodology involving contextual interviews, questionnaires, and shadowing to capture the and record necessary knowledge. Using the logic-based tool WorkflowFM for this purpose offers the following advantages: |
Impact | Our work has resulted in a rigorous, collaborative methodology for formal modelling of care pathways, from the collection of data from all the involved stakeholders to an optimised, executable support system that enhances clinical coordination and care practices. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Workflow Modelling |
Organisation | Burns Scotland |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Workflow modelling for the care of burns in Scotland in collaboration with the Care Of Burns In Scotland (COBIS) network. |
Collaborator Contribution | We accomplished this through unstructured interviews and multidisciplinary meetings, combining years of experience in burns care from the COBIS network with process modelling expertise from the University of Edinburgh, in a small group of 6, and for a total of 6 hours. We recorded information about typical clinical procedures, common problems and patient complications, the roles involved, and the existing IT infrastructure. We also shared medical literature, including COBIS documents and notes on standard practices. |
Impact | Preliminary survey results suggest that we acquired sufficient domain knowledge to represent the treatment of burns as a formal workflow; the majority of clinicians found the workflows clearly conveyed knowledge and complied with their experience of burns care. However, the survey identified that for the workflows to be used in clinical practice, additional knowledge about the individual patient context (e.g. medication, other medical conditions, risks) will be required. Evidence of the understandability of our workflows was also found in every interaction with the clinical staff. During the iterative knowledge capture and model validation, the workflows were used to effectively communicate and discuss the medical practices without the involvement of the workflow experts. We found the close collaboration between process modelling experts and clinical stakeholders to be a key challenge in the knowledge acquisition effort. Medical knowledge needs to be recorded in a way that is understandable among all involved parties |
Start Year | 2016 |
Title | Data Safe Havens |
Description | In this project, we deal with the intricate issue of secure methods and infrastructures for sharing of healthcare data. Current medical records hold great opportunity for development of precision and stratified medicine by making them available for use in data-intensive experiments, but this potential is a long way from being realised. A key architectural problem remaining to be solved is how to maintain control of patient data within the governance of local data jurisdictions, while also allowing making the data available for experiments which, because of the need to scale to large population sizes, may require analyses across several jurisdictions. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | Data Safe Havens are trialed for actual use in healthcare research and have resulted in four publications: Robertson, D., Giunchiglia F., Pavis S., Turra E., Bella G., Elliot E., et al. (2016). Healthcare Data Safe Havens: Towards a Logical Architecture and Experiment Automation. The Journal of Engineering. Tursunbayeva, A., Bunduchi R., Franco M., & Pagliari C. (2016). Human resource information systems in health care: a systematic evidence review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. ocw141. Cucciniello, M., Lapsley I., Nasi G., & Pagliari C. (2015). Understanding key factors affecting electronic medical record implementation: a sociotechnical approach. {BMC} Health Services Research. 15, Pinciroli, F., & Pagliari C. (2015). Understanding the evolving role of the Personal Health Record. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 59, 160-163. |
URL | https://sociam.org/data-safe-havens |
Title | INDX |
Description | INDX is the world's first Social Personal Data Store (SPDS) that aims to give people control over their data by enabling them to build decentralised social applications in which their personal data remains on their own devices. Unlike traditional personal data stores, in which applications store data in one place, INDX supports applications that work across multiple people's INDX data stores, to support distributed data governance. At its core INDX relies on a fully versioned graph data store that can store RDF, JSON, and relational data models. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2015 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Many publications have resulted from the INDX work, including "7 billion home telescopes: observing social machines through personal data stores M Van Kleek, DA Smith, R Tinati, K O'Hara, W Hall - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on the WWW. (WWW 2014)" "Van Kleek M., OHara K. (2014) The Future of Social Is Personal: The Potential of the Personal Data Store. In: Miorandi D., Maltese V., Rovatsos M., Nijholt A., Stewart J. (eds) Social Collective Intelligence. Computational Social Sciences. Springer, Cham"; Van Kleek, Max, et al. "Social personal data stores: the nuclei of decentralised social machines." Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web. ACM, 2015. Van Kleek, Max. "Not in my castle: the case for the web, not app platforms, as a model for digital home ecosystems." (2015). |
URL | https://github.com/sociam/indx |
Title | LSC - Lightweight Social Calculus |
Description | LSC, or Lightweight Social Calculus is a modified version of a modified version of the Lightweight Coordination Calculus (LCC) , that is an executable, declarative process calculus for interactions between heterogeneous agents. Use of LSC is based on the enaction of protocols, which give a minimally intrusive framework for defining patterns of communication without overly constraining the internal knowledge and decision making architecture of the actors involved. Since protocols can be mechanically enacted, they provide the potential for mixed initiative human computer interaction and human computation applications. Creating a protocol which represents human interaction allows computational agents to join in on an equal footing with the humans. Making protocols first class objects allows for their exchange and manipulation. It means that communities can discover interactions which suit their needs and adopt them, after making any modifications necessary. Protocols can be transparent to users, indicating what the bounds and rules of the interactions are, leading to a greater facility for understanding the implications of engaging. This does, of course, on being able to represent the protocols in a manner which makes sense to users. There is a clear separation of concerns between the structure of the interac- tion and the mediums and communities where it is enacted. The interaction can then be framed in a manner which is most appropriate to the community in question, and integrated into their existing practice by connecting the in- teraction model with the technical platforms already in use-essentially, the interaction becomes key, rather than the substrate on which it is performed. A protocol is amenable to formal techniques. For example, properties can be verified, such as the flow of data through the interaction, termination criteria, and other qualities which relate to privacy and security. n order for this to work, humans need some way to engage with protocols as they are enacted. One mechanism for doing this is to create an interface with which people can engage, whether through webpages or mobile devices, or mediated through APIs of some sort. This is the means of engagement with which we're familiar from earlier LCC work. Another possibility is to find a way to run the protocols alongside existing interaction, annotating their behaviour with formal structures. We call this approach 'Soft Institutions', where the formal edges of electronic institutions are softened to provide natural, human ways for people to engage with them. LSC is a declarative, executable specification designed to give enough structure to manage fully distributed interactions by coordinating message passing and the roles which actors play, while leaving space for the actors to make their own decisions. It is derived from LCC with extensions designed to make it more amenable to mixed human-machine interactions; in practice, this means having language elements which cover user input, external computation or database lookup and storing knowledge and state. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | Several SOCIAM projects have been built on LSC, including Sociograms, Integrated Care Pathways, and Data Safe Havens. |
URL | http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ppapapan/?p=81 |
Title | ProvToolbox |
Description | Provenance is a record that describes the people, institutions, entities, and activities involved in producing, influencing, or delivering a piece of data or a thing. In particular, the provenance of information is crucial in deciding whether information is to be trusted, how it should be integrated with other diverse information sources, and how to give credit to its originators when reusing it. In an open and inclusive environment such as the Web, where users find information that is often contradictory or questionable, provenance can help those users to make trust judgements. PROV is a set of W3C specifications defining a model, corresponding serializations and other supporting definitions to enable the inter-operable interchange of provenance information in heterogeneous environments such as the Web. ProvToolbox is a Java library to create Java representations of the PROV data model (PROV-DM), and convert them between RDF, XML (in PROV-XML format), text (in PROV-N format), and JSON (in PROV-JSON format). |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2013 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | ProvToolbox is the basis of community services for provenance translation and validation at https://provenance.ecs.soton.ac.uk. ProvToolbox was used in the inter operability phase of the W3C Provenance Working group https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-implementations/ 2016 contribution: templating system |
URL | http://lucmoreau.github.io/ProvToolbox/ |
Title | SOCIAM Web Macroscope |
Description | The Web Macroscope is an infrastructure to enable real-time views of social machines. Macroscope installations in Southampton, Oxford, and the Digital Catapult in London demonstrated the use of high-resolution visualisations spanning high-resolution display arrays, to that enable web scientists and social machine researchers to see, in real time, the "pulse" of the Web and other Social Machines. The Macroscope has specific lenses for Wikipedia, The Zooniverse, Twitter, which allow viewing contributions and changes to be seen on these social machines as they occur. Using macroscopes, web scientists can identify hotspots (spikes) of activity as they occur across multiple social machines, identify conflict on social machines (such as wikipedia edit wars or spambot attacks on Twitter), and observe short-term temporal trends from their germination. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | The Macroscope was installed at the London Science Museum, and showcased at multiple locations including the Web We Want Festival and Digital Catapult. |
URL | https://sociam.org/web-macroscope |
Title | Sociograms: Social Machines for All |
Description | This project enabled the rapid assembly of social machine using a visual programming interface, and the specification of social interactions formally modeled in LSC (Lightweight Social Calculus). |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Impact | Two publications: Dave Murray-Rust, Alan Davoust, Petros Papapanagiotou, Areti Manataki, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt, Dave Robertson Towards Executable Representations of Social Machines, 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams 2018 Petros Papapanagiotou, Alan Davoust, Dave Murray-Rust, Areti Manataki, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt, Dave Robertson. Social Machines For All, 17th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS), 2018. |
URL | https://sociam.org/sociagrams |
Title | The Digital Heart Manual |
Description | An important case study on how to design social machines for healthcare contexts, this project investigates the Heart Manual Programme, a home-based cardiac rehabilitation programme. Through various participatory design methods, our work on this project elicited the requirements for a social machine in this space and we carried out a proof of concept evaluation with a prototype. Our prototype system was largely positively received and rated highly on system usability. Our work suggests that adopting a participatory approach where stakeholders are active, equal participants throughout the design process leads to more usable, likeable, and thus more successful social machines. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | Two publications have resulted, including: Hanschke, V., Manataki A., Alexandru C. Adriana, Papapanagiotou P., Deighan C., Taylor L., et al. (2017). Designing a Social Machine for the Heart Manual Service. Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2017). 435-440. Deighan, C., Michalova L., Pagliari C., Elliott J.., Taylor L., & Rinaldi H.. (2017). The Digital Heart Manual: A pilot study of an innovative cardiac rehabilitation programme developed for and with users. Patient Education and Counseling. 100, |
URL | https://sociam.org/the-digital-heart-manual |
Title | X-Ray Core |
Description | A system for acquiring and analysing Smartphone apps at scale from major app market places to determine 1st and 3rd party data controllers. This infrastructure provides services for a variety of apps and interfaces to both visualise the data networks behind Smartphone apps and facilitate the control of individual data privacy preferences. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | Resulting first very large scale analysis of actual personal information exposure for almost 1 million applications. |
URL | https://sociam.org/mobile-app-x-ray |
Title | Zooniverse (Panoptes) |
Description | The Zooniverse is the world's largest and most successful citizen science platform to date, having over 1 million registered volunteers and contributions to hundreds of academic publications spanning the sciences and humanities. It initially pioneered fundamental methods and best practices in citizen science; but as it has developed and matured it has expanded its ambitions towards enabling citizens to be able to create, launch, and manage projects themselves. Supported by SOCIAM and contributions from other projects, Zoonvierse launched Panoptes, which is a tool for enabling non-specialists to create and launch citizen science projects themselves. Panoptes is now actively used and creates hundreds of candidate projects for Zooniverse each month, and continues to evolve to enable greater citizen autonomy. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Panoptes continues to generate hundreds of new projects each month, which are then used by Zooniverse's active citizen volunteer army. |
URL | http://zooniverse.org/ |
Description | Advised UK Parliamentary Digital Service |
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 | Advised UK Parliamentary Digital Service on privacy and third party analytics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Age of Social Machines: Town Hall Meeting at Microsoft |
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 | The Town Hall Meeting at Microsoft HQ London was an all-day event designed filled with plenaries and demonstrations of results from the SOCIAM project that took place in central London at Microsoft's HQ. The event featured a live demonstration of the Social Machines (Web) Macroscope, the Web Observatory, and the INDX personal data platform. We also had a plenary from our industry partner, Microsoft, who discussed work on cloud computing as it relates to Social Machines. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | BBC Radio 4 interview |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Our work on curation of online identity through deception was featured on a BBC Radio 4 Programme, "The Online Identity Crisis", which first aired on Sunday 11 September 2016, and later twice on 9 December 2016. Two SOCIAM senior research fellows, Max Van Kleek and Dave Murray-Rust, were interviewed in the programme as online identity privacy experts in the context of a Web Science Conference paper. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07tqvvp |
Description | BBC Stargazing Live UK |
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 | A key moment was the development and running of a bespoke dashboard for the live television event BBC Stargazing Live (UK) in 2017 and ABC Stargazing Live (Australia) in 2018. The SOCIAM dashboard allowed Zooniverse team members and scientists to observe their community of volunteers in real time during a massive event like never before, enabling them to interact with the social machine in a new way. Importantly it also helped the team quickly identify interesting findings being produced by the project (in this case, planets around distant stars). The data collected during these live events was studied by SOCIAM to help unveil even more insights into how the Zooniverse social machine operates. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Balliol College Undergraduate Maths Society Speaker: Autonomy-Enhancing Technologies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | I was invited to give the plenary address at Balliol College's formal Oxford's Balliol Undergraduate Maths Society annual dinner. Nearly 40 undergraduates attended along with a half dozen tutors (faculty and postgraduates). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Cabinet Office Data Science Ethical Framework |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Our work on algorithmic fairness and accountability (Theme 5, sub-project 5) led to invitations to participate in the revision of the Government Digital Service and Cabinet Office's Data Science Ethical Framework, and an invited talk on explaining automated decisions by the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP) and the Scottish Information Commissioner's Office. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Cabinet Office Data Science Ethical Framework |
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 | Involvement in Cabinet Office Data Science Ethical Framework |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Chapter |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | SOCIAM researchers produced a chapter on the implementation of the controversial Google Spain "right to be forgotten" decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Papers in the Data Protection Law Review and IEEE Internet Computing extended the arguments. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Consultation to ICANN |
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 | Consultation response to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names) on domain register privacy |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Consultation with Royal Society/British Academy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The SOCIAM project's privacy theories were used to inform a Royal Society/British Academy consultation about a Data Stewardship Governance Council. A paper was commissioned in 2017 to present at a seminar on the topic and to explore the details of a key recommendation of the Royal Society/British Academy report into Data Governance. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School |
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 | The Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) offers training to anyone with an interest in the Digital Humanities, including academics at all career stages, students, project managers, and people who work in IT, libraries, and cultural heritage to come together for a 1-week intensive set of workshops and mini-courses on specific digital humanities related topics. For two years running, the SOCIAM project has partnered with DHOxSS to deliver a special track called SOCHUMS (Social Humanities) in which SOCIAM researchers teach participants how to apply social machine theory and practice to the study and design of online social systems. Course participants gain exposure and hands-on experience with methods for understanding social machines (such as posopography) and with designing and building social machines (such as with Panoptes and Sociograms). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
URL | http://www.dhoxss.net/ |
Description | Enabling Provenance on the Web: Standardization and Research Questions (Keynote at International Conference on WWW/INTERNET 2015) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Enabling Provenance on the Web: Standardization and Research Questions Provenance is a record that describes the people, institutions, entities, and activities, involved in producing, influencing, or delivering a piece of data or a thing in the world. Some 10 years after beginning research on the topic of provenance, I co-chaired the provenance working group at the World Wide Web Consortium. The working group published the PROV standard for provenance in 2013. In this talk, I will present some use cases for provenance, the PROV standard and some flagship examples of adoption. I will then move onto our current research area in exploiting provenance, in the context of the Sociam, SmartSociety, ORCHID projects. Doing so, I will present techniques to deal with large scale provenance, to build predictive models based on provenance, and to analyse provenance. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Ethics & Privacy for Social Machines" Workshop at ACM Web Science Conference, Amsterdam |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | "Ethics and Privacy for Social Machines, Social Groups and Aggregations", Workshop at ACM Web Science Conference, Amsterdam |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | German Ministry of Education and Research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Invited contribution to German Ministry of Education and Research funded project on smart home privacy |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Global Commission on Internet Governance |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Work on privacy theory informed the Global Commission on Internet Governance, commissioned by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and Chatham House in response to trends towards fragmentation of the Internet, with the aim of offering guidance on how to address new challenges as they emerge. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | INDX platform |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | The INDX Data platform (Theme 3, sub-project 6) was demonstrated at various venues, including the ReDecentralise Conference in 2015 in London, and to the W3C at MIT CSAIL. The INDX repository has been cloned over 200 times, forked 7 times, is currently being watched by 25 individuals, and has now been registered in the project of Alternative Internets. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | IPAW 2006-2016: Retrospect and Prospect of Provenance (Keynote at International Provenance and Annotation Workshop ipaw'16) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IPAW 2006-2016: Retrospect and Prospect of Provenance IPAW, the biannual International Provenance and Annotation Workshop series, was launched in 2006. We celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2016. During those 10 years, the field of provenance has seen a tremendous amount of development. Among the 30 events I identified, I will highlight some successes, such as the Provenance Challenge and a standardisation activity at the World Wide Web Consortium. What is the next step for the provenance community? By reviewing existing applications of provenance and tooling, and by discussing some research activities, I will attempt to map future directions for the provenance community. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www2.mitre.org/public/provenance2016/ipaw.html |
Description | Invited Keynote London International Youth Science Forum "Artificial Intelligence: Fact and Fantasy" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Keynote delivered to one of the oldest residential science conferences in the world, hosting approximately 500 students from 65 counties all over the world in London. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.liysf.org.uk/uncategorized/science-at-the-interface-our-plenary-lectures |
Description | Invited Talk at The Athenaeum "Privacy in the Age of AI" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Invited by the Talk Dinner Committee - over 150 attendees of Club members from a broad range of backgrounds. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Invited Talk at the Ulster Museum "The Digital Ape" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Invited talk as part of ongoing NI Science Festival |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Keynote Vodafone Institute Berlin "The Digital Ape" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Invited talk at the Vodafone Institute in Berlin How will humans and technology shape each other? Under this lead question Prof. Alexander Görlach and Prof. Sir Nigel Shadbolt discussed the future of human and machine to a broad audience of policy makers, business, academia and the general public. This led to a number of articles in the German news media |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.vodafone-institut.de/events/im-grunde-sind-wir-schon-heute-digitale-primaten-ai-anthropo... |
Description | Keynote "The Digital Ape" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Talk to the premier business network in Wales |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.cardiffbusinessclub.org/event/159/professor-sir-nigel-shadbolt |
Description | Keynote "The Digital Ape: How to live (in peace) with smart machines" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote to the Institute for Policy Research - large and varied audience of 400 or so |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/the-digital-ape-how-to-live-in-peace-with-smart-machines/ |
Description | Keynote at CogX - The Festival of all things AI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A presentation of key ideas in recently published book by Shadbolt "The Digital Ape" that references the research of the project - in particular privacy, IoT and control of data emanating from an individual's patterns of life and digital activity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://cogx.co/cogx-2018 |
Description | Keynote at Edinburgh Book Festival 2018 "The Digital Ape" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation at main venue of the Digital Ape including EPSRC research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/press-release/robots-are-neither-out-to-get-us-nor-after-our-jobs |
Description | Keynote at Royal Society ALLEA Event "Data as Infrastructure for the 21st Century" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Lead talk in a 2 day meeting around the topic of "Flourishing in a data enabled society" with other European Academies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.allea.org/events/flourishing-in-a-data-enabled-society/ |
Description | Kids Mobile App X-Ray demonstration |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Kids Mobile App X-Ray demonstration at local Oxford school Science Evening event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
Description | Kids Mobile App publication |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Kids Mobile App publication in University of Oxford Computer Science "Research Impact" magazine . |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/inspiredresearch/InspiredResearchsummer2018.pdf |
Description | London Science Museum |
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 | Demonstration of the SOCIAM Macroscope, a multi-screen hardware solution which uses Web-based visualisations in order to provide context to several of the curated social data streams, such as Instagram, Twitter, Wikipedia, and the Zooniverse. The public engagement exercise involved a study of how individuals engage and understand the production of data on the Web. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Mobile app privacy for young children publication |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Mobile app privacy for young children publication featured on the front page of the University of Oxford's Medium Office and MPLS Division's webpage on the day of publication. SOCIAM as well as its follow-up project, KOALA, were featured in the research impact magazine published by the Department of Computer Science of Oxford University in its June 2018 issue. Dr Jun Zhao and Prof. Nigel Shadbolt articulated the vision of the KOALA project, directly built upon research outputs from the SOCIAM project, for raising parents and young children's awareness of online privacy risks during the use of mobile tablets, and achieve understandings towards the impact of these risks toward young children's general well-being, together with the Anna Freud Research Centre. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://medium.com/oxford-university/what-do-angry-birds-know-about-your-children-ac73bd59fa39 |
Description | MozFest - session on explaining algorithmic decisions |
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 | Participants in the workshop learned how to detect biases and explain the decisions of the machine learning models behind many of the systems that affect our lives. In groups, they investigated models trained on specific datasets to uncover how they work and their potential biases. Participants came away with a greater understanding of how biases can arise in algorithmic systems, to help them to advocate for responsible use of data in their communities, companies and platforms. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1412-full.html |
Description | Open Conference 2019: Can Disinformation Be Empowering? Social Machines & ?Pro-Social Uses of Disinformation in ?Algorithmically-Mediated Environments |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The OPEN Conference (11-12 March 2019) was organised by the OSGA (Oxford School of Global Affairs, OII (Oxford Internet Institute) and the UK's DSTL as an interdsiciplinary conference discussing the problem of disinformation and how to cope with it. The conference feature speakers from academia, the public sector, and industry. I presented a 30 minute (full length) invited talk about IoT and disinformation. During my talk, I summarised our ReTIPS research findings in the context of empowering end users to understand and take control of their privacy and autonomy through new kinds of tools. A mixed crowd of 40-50 people attended and heard about our research studies relating to the Privacy X-Ray Project, including IoT Refine, and presented our plans for completing ARETHA: the world's first moral virtual assistant. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Organised Data Readiness: A 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 | Nigel Shadbolt, and I organised a Data Readiness workshop at Oxford 25-26 February relating to establishing a framework with which the quality of data can be characterised and measured towards more effective and ethical data repurposing and use. This event was a "working group" style event in which a 10 influential internationally-recognised experts were invited across academia, industry, and the third sector, to come take part - from the United States, France, Belgium, Israel, and the UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Oxford Super Science Festival |
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 | We hosted an interactive stall at the Oxford Super Science Festival at the Oxford Museum of Natural History, where 400 families attended and were able to interact with our personalised smartphone app privacy interface and learn about privacy risks. This included X-Ray Core, X-Ray Refine, and new work pertaining to privacy perceptions and risks associated with apps for children.The implications of our work on smartphone app privacy for children have lead to several outreach efforts. We hosted an interactive stall at the Oxford Super Science Festival, where 400 families attended and were able to interact with our personalised smartphone app privacy interface and learn about privacy risks. In response, we established links with several local organisations including Oxford Coding Club (at Wolvercote Primary School), Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board, and Safer Internet day (Watlington Primary) who have requested to use our materials in their education and safeguarding efforts. We were invited by Parent Zone to advise on parents how to take additional considerations of privacy risks when choosing smart toys or smart home devices |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.ox.ac.uk/event/super-science-saturday-1 |
Description | Oxford University European Researcher's Night |
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 | In September 2017, our work featured in the first ever Oxford University European Researcher's Night, which is a Europe-wide celebration of academic research for the public, supported by the European Commission. This was a city-wide public-facing celebration of research happening at the University. The event aimed to seek to engage a diverse audience through activities such as live experiments, debates, bite-sized talks and other activities. A six-month digital and media engagement campaign led up to the event, with the aim of reaching over 100,000 public audience before the event and attracting over 10,000 public visitors on the night of the event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Plenary at Cryptoparty Oxford |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Gave a plenary talk titled: "Autonomy-Enhancing Technologies: Re-gaining privacy, autonomy, and mutual respect in an age of algorithmic governance" outlining privacy and security issues in a hyper-connected world. Featured the Privacy X-Ray work, ARETHA, IoT Refine, and RESPECT as a framework for smart home IoT devices. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.cryptoparty.in/oxford |
Description | Presentation at Brussels Privacy Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The 2nd Annual Brussels Privacy Symposium is a global convening of practical, applicable, substantive privacy research and scholarship. The Symposium will draw on the expertise of leading EU and US academics, industry practitioners and policy makers to produce an annual workshop highlighting innovative research on emerging privacy issues. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://fpf.org/brussels-privacy-symposium-november-6-2017-brussels-belgium/ |
Description | Presentation at JP Morgan TechFest, Bournemouth, Enabling Provenance on the Web: Standardization and Research Questions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Enabling Provenance on the Web: Standardization and Research Questions Provenance is a record that describes the people, institutions, entities, and activities, involved in producing, influencing, or delivering a piece of data or a thing in the world. Some 10 years after beginning research on the topic of provenance, I co-chaired the provenance working group at the World Wide Web Consortium. The working group published the PROV standard for provenance in 2013. In this talk, I will present some use cases for provenance, the PROV standard and some flagship examples of adoption. I will then move onto our current research area in exploiting provenance, in the context of the Sociam, SmartSociety, ORCHID projects. Doing so, I will present techniques to deal with large scale provenance, to build predictive models based on provenance, and to analyse provenance. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | RAEng Hinton Lecture 2016 "Engineering the Future of Data" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Hinton Lecture is the Flagship Lecture of the Royal Academy of Engineering |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.raeng.org.uk/events/events-programme/2016/november/hinton-lecture-2016 |
Description | Roundtable Event, The British Library |
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 | "Social Machines, Social Intelligence, Intelligent Society": A roundtable discussion covering subjects including: UK Context: Data and AI Governance Privacy, Ethics, Governance and Sovereignty IoT meets Social Machines Future Trends/Shaping the Future |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | SOCIAM Machines Social Science Workshop, Oxford |
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 | SOCIAM Machines Social Science Workshop, Oxford. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | SOCIAM Personal Data Stores Workshop, Southampton |
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 | SOCIAM Personal Data Stores Workshop, Southampton |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | SOCIAM Scholarly Social Machines Workshop, Oxford |
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 | SOCIAM Scholarly Social Machines Workshop, Oxford |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | SOCIAM Social Machines Workshop, World Wide Web Conferences |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | SOCIAM Social Machines Workshops held at the World Wide Web Conferences in Brazil, Korea, Italy and Montreal |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014,2015,2016 |
Description | SOCIAM Social Scientists Workshop, Southampton |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | SOCIAM Social Scientists Workshop, Southampton. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | SOCIAM session at "Web We Want" Web Foundation Event, London |
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 | SOCIAM session at "Web We Want" Web Foundation Event, London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | SOCIAM session at Wikimania, London |
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 | SOCIAM session at Wikimania, London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | SOCIAM/KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) joint Workshop, Southampton. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | SOCIAM/KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) joint Workshop, Southampton. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | SOCIAM/MIT Joint Workshop, Boston, MA. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | SOCIAM/MIT Joint Workshop, Boston, MA. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | SOCIAM/NUS (National University of Singapore) joint Workshop, Southampton |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | SOCIAM/NUS (National University of Singapore) joint Workshop, Southampton |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Sir Gareth Roberts Lecture "Engineering Intelligence" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Annual keynote talk at the University of Durham |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.dur.ac.uk/physics/newsandevents/lectures/roberts/ |
Description | Social Machines Workshop at FutureEverything |
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 | Social Machines Workshop at FutureEverything |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Talk Delivered by Ulrik Lyngs to Google "Digital Wellbeing in Practice: Designing for Digital Self-Control" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A number of google researchers (50) working in the area of Digital Wellbeing attended the talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Talk at the Hey Festival 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A presentation of key ideas in recently published book by Shadbolt "The Digital Ape" that references the research of the project - in particular work on Social Machines, privacy, IoT and control of data emanating from an individual's patterns of life and digital activity. The talk was capture by the event and is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFtCuvz44oc |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13827-nigel-shadbolt.aspx |
Description | Talk at the Tate Modern: Autonomy-Enhancing Technologies ?Granting End-Users Superpowers in an Age of Algorithmic Governance |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I gave a 40 minute talk as part of the Living in the Internet of Things event at the Tate Modern, which took place at the Tate Exchange over the weekend of 8-9 Feb 2019. During my talk, I summarised our ReTIPS research findings in the context of empowering end users to understand and take control of their privacy and autonomy through new kinds of tools. A mixed crowd of 40-50 people arrived and others passed through the space, pausing momentarily. I discussed our research studies relating to the Privacy X-Ray Project, including IoT Refine, and presented our plans for completing ARETHA: the world's first moral virtual assistant. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/tate-exchange/workshop/living-internet-things |
Description | Talk for the New York Times sponsored How to Academy - Artificial Intelligence: Changing our World |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A presentation of key ideas in recently published book by Shadbolt "The Digital Ape" that references the research of the project - in particular work on Social Machines, privacy, IoT and control of data emanating from an individual's patterns of life and digital activity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.howtoacademy.com/conferences/artificial-intelligence-changing-world |
Description | WWW2020 Keynote Presentation: Architectures for Autonomy: Towards an Equitable Web of Data in the Age of AI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited keynote to the largest international conference on the WWW held virtually from Taipei |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www2020.thewebconf.org/program#keynotes |
Description | Web Observatory Workshop, Web Science Conferences |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Web Observatory Workshop, Web Science Conferences (Paris and Indiana) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014 |
Description | X-Ray Refine at ICT Forum Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The ICT Forum exists to serve all whose job function includes support of ICT throughout the Collegiate University of Oxford. The annual conference and termly meetings showcase activities that are supported or enabled by the ICT services provided by staff at the University. At this meeting, we showcased the X-Ray Core and Refine projects that empower end-users to take control of their privacy by showing them the first and third-party data collection activities contained within smartphone apps. Attendees were invited to ask questions and interact with the Refine prototype. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ictf.ox.ac.uk/conference/conferences |