PACTMAN: Trust, Privacy and Consent in Future Pervasive Environments
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Computing & Communications
Abstract
We live in a world in which our ability to capture personal user data far exceeds our understanding of how to manage issues of trust, privacy and consent with potentially far-reaching consequences for both individuals and society. Without independent academic research in this space we run the risk of privacy and trust being sacrificed in the rush to commercially exploit these new sensing capabilities. In this project we will conduct pioneering interdisciplinary research to create the world's first comprehensive system for privacy and consent management in future pervasive environments, i.e. environments with a wide range of sensing capabilities. Our work is informed by two scenarios - human memory augmentation and personalised information presentation. Both applications have the potential to transform key areas of our society yet raise significant privacy and consent issues that are likely to inhibit their deployment. Our work involves multiple stakeholders including the NHS and the BBC that represent these application scenarios and that are committed to working closely with the project throughout its lifetime. The project will draw on expertise from computer science, design and psychology to deliver both new models for consent and privacy and, a detailed understanding of the cognitive vulnerabilities of users of future pervasive environments, resulting in a prototype platform for privacy and consent management. In addition to delivering significant near-term benefits to our stakeholders, if successful the project has the potential to position the UK as an international leader in privacy and consent in future pervasive environments and to help catalyse the emergence of this important area of the digital economy.
Planned Impact
The PACTMAN project has the potential for significant economic and societal impacts. The knowledge produced will include new understandings of user attitudes to privacy and consent, insights into new cognitive threats in pervasive environments, new architectures for managing these issues based on existing trust relationships, prototype software and briefing documents aimed at engaging beyond the project and traditional research communities.
Economic benefits have been identified by both our stakeholder groups. Representatives of the NHS (our first stakeholder group) are clear that pervasive environments (i.e. those that are rich in sensing and display capabilities) will have a key role to play in future health care - enabling applications such as augmented cognition and assisted living. They see a direct financial benefit from the development of privacy and consent management techniques that will help applications in this sector flourish. All three of our NHS partner organisations also see the potential for immediate significant benefits if the project is able to deliver new consent models that encourage more effective data sharing within the NHS. Such models could facilitate more efficient ways of working and better patient outcomes with direct and indirect benefits to society as a whole.
Our second stakeholder group are concerned with the delivery of high quality personalised content and associated media experiences. Content personalisation in pervasive environments is a potentially highly significant market - extending beyond digital signage to encompass a wide range of personalised media/content experiences. The results of our project will help provide companies operating in this sector with tools for better management of privacy and consent that we believe will help catalyse this important new market. Support from the BBC illustrates the scale of the challenges being faced and the need to maintain viewer trust while delivering new personalised services in pervasive environments.
Through our networking events that foster UK talent in the area we will also contribute to the long term economic potential of the country in this important area of the digital economy.
In addition to the health and economic benefits outlined about the project will also deliver benefit to society through stimulating societal debate on the issues of trust and privacy in pervasive environments and by contributing to the development of new approaches to consent and privacy within the NHS and beyond.
Economic benefits have been identified by both our stakeholder groups. Representatives of the NHS (our first stakeholder group) are clear that pervasive environments (i.e. those that are rich in sensing and display capabilities) will have a key role to play in future health care - enabling applications such as augmented cognition and assisted living. They see a direct financial benefit from the development of privacy and consent management techniques that will help applications in this sector flourish. All three of our NHS partner organisations also see the potential for immediate significant benefits if the project is able to deliver new consent models that encourage more effective data sharing within the NHS. Such models could facilitate more efficient ways of working and better patient outcomes with direct and indirect benefits to society as a whole.
Our second stakeholder group are concerned with the delivery of high quality personalised content and associated media experiences. Content personalisation in pervasive environments is a potentially highly significant market - extending beyond digital signage to encompass a wide range of personalised media/content experiences. The results of our project will help provide companies operating in this sector with tools for better management of privacy and consent that we believe will help catalyse this important new market. Support from the BBC illustrates the scale of the challenges being faced and the need to maintain viewer trust while delivering new personalised services in pervasive environments.
Through our networking events that foster UK talent in the area we will also contribute to the long term economic potential of the country in this important area of the digital economy.
In addition to the health and economic benefits outlined about the project will also deliver benefit to society through stimulating societal debate on the issues of trust and privacy in pervasive environments and by contributing to the development of new approaches to consent and privacy within the NHS and beyond.
Organisations
- Lancaster University (Lead Research Organisation)
- AGE UK (Collaboration)
- University of Hertfordshire (Collaboration)
- Lancaster City Council (Collaboration)
- Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (Collaboration)
- Carnegie Mellon University (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Collaboration)
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich) (Collaboration)
- Tesco (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- University of Italian Switzerland (Collaboration)
- University of Lugano (Collaboration)
- Heathfield Ladies Residential Home (Collaboration)
- Nokia (Collaboration)
- SEO 24/7 Ltd. (Project Partner)
- Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust (Project Partner)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Universita della Svizzera Italiana (Project Partner)
- University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (Project Partner)
Publications
Mikusz M
(2021)
A Longitudinal Study of Pervasive Display Personalisation
in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Cortis Mack C
(2019)
RECAPP-XPR: A smartphone application for presenting and recalling experimentally controlled stimuli over longer timescales.
in Behavior research methods
Satyanarayanan M
(2019)
Augmenting Cognition Through Edge Computing
in Computer
Davies N
(2017)
Pervasive Data Science
in IEEE Pervasive Computing
Mikusz M
(2019)
New Challenges in Display-Saturated Environments
in IEEE Pervasive Computing
Clinch S
(2018)
Learning from Our Mistakes: Identifying Opportunities for Technology Intervention against Everyday Cognitive Failure
in IEEE Pervasive Computing
Cinel C
(2018)
Towards augmented human memory: Retrieval-induced forgetting and retrieval practice in an interactive, end-of-day review.
in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Clinch S
(2020)
Scheduling Content in Pervasive Display Systems
in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
Nissen B
(2019)
Tangibly understanding intangible complexities: Designing for distributed autonomous organizations
in Ubiquity: The Journal of Pervasive Media
Saeghe P
(2019)
Augmenting Television With Augmented Reality
| Title | Future pervasive displays in care settings |
| Description | Video describing pervasive display research in care homes |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | n/a |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evRznHE44cs&ab_channel=LU-DataScienceInstitute |
| Title | Personalised Media Experiences on Pervasive Display Networks |
| Description | Video submission to the workshop on reconfigurable television experiences at the DESIGNING INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS conference |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | enabled the attendance at the workshop, opened up opportunities for future collaborations with other partners |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4H7_8f7lp8 |
| Title | Trustball - A Playful Physical Questionnaire |
| Description | Trustball is an arcade-style tangible game consisting of (a) a screen, (b) tangible LED buttons and (c) a container of custom-filled vending machine balls with a mechanism that would drop a ball into (d) a series of flippers that guided the ball in accordance with participants' question responses. The blinking buttons and start screen of Trustball invited visitors to "Press any button to play" - denoting the start of an interaction session - followed by a series of interactions that would eventually allow the vending machine balls to be release from the game. This incentivised game activity allows for research data to be captured by asking participants a series of trust and data related questions (in this case but can be edited) with 5 different possible answers (or buttons). Developed by Bettina Nissen, Rory Gianni, Victoria Neumann and Chris Speed with helping hands from Siyao Zhang, Joanna Spreadbury. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | This artefact was installed for 3 weeks during a public exhibition at an international cultural festival and the data captured from this device was the basis for the paper publication "Should I Agree? Delegating Consent Decisions Beyond the Individual" at CHI 2019. |
| URL | http://pactman.uk/2018/08/13/trustball-who-do-you-trust-to-consent/ |
| Description | We have developed a new approach to reasoning about consent by reframing the problem as one of delegation - essentially offering users the opportunity to delegate consent decisions to third parties including experts and family members. We have explored this idea with members of the public and found that there is broad acceptance of this idea. |
| Exploitation Route | We are in discussions with two other care facilities (an elderly care day-centre and a hospice) to leverage outputs from PACTMAN within their daily activities. This represents a direct impact of our work. We expect our new models for consent to inform further research in the community. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
| URL | https://pactman.uk/ |
| Description | Findings from PACTMAN are fostering enhancements in social care, specifically in enhancing the quality of life experienced by elderly care environments through the availability of privacy-preserving health applications. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
| Sector | Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Societal |
| Description | (eCampus For Care) Impact Acceleration Account Seed Funding |
| Amount | £14,851 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Department | Impact Acceleration Account Lancaster |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | (eCampus For Care) Lean Launch Programme Cohort 10 |
| Amount | £3,700 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 06/2021 |
| Description | Nokia Bell Labs Research Grant |
| Amount | € 40,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Nokia |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Global |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| Description | (Lancs & South Cumbia NHS) IAA Evaluation Study Collaboration |
| Organisation | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Technical lead on the IAA project, provision and deployment of eCampus infrastructure. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to deployment building, development of user requirements and participation in user engagement activities (i.e. interviews) |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Advisor / Discussant with colleagues at University of Hertfordshire |
| Organisation | University of Hertfordshire |
| Department | Department of Psychology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Two-day visit to discuss work on PACTMAN (and earlier EU-funded RECALL project). Discussants with expert scientists at University of Hertfordshire, UK and University of Grenoble, France. Discussion of application of PACTMAN memory ideas to individuals living with early onset Alzheimers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussion of a series of experiments and advised on draft funding application to use wearable technology to improve older adult memory |
| Impact | Two day meeting |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboration with Age UK Manchester |
| Organisation | Age UK |
| Department | Age UK Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We are collaborating on the use of new pervasive technology in the context of a daycare centre for older adults. We are conducting a multi-month display deployment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner is providing a physical space and access to logged data. |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University |
| Organisation | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Department | School of Computer Science (SCS) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have been engaged in a number of research discussions and visits to CMU. Nigel Davies visited CMU in 1st Aug - 1st Sep 2018 and 19th - 25th Feb 2018. Mateusz visited CMU from June to Sept 2019. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CMU provided visitor space and access to members of research groups. |
| Impact | Research paper submitted to IEEE Computer. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Collaboration with Nokia Bell Labs on Earables |
| Organisation | Nokia |
| Department | Nokia Bell Labs |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Lancaster has collaborated with Nokia Bell Labs, CMU and USI to secure funding for work on privacy preserving "earable" technology. Lancaster contributed the initial ideas and co-developed the proposal with Nokia Bell Labs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Nokia Bell Labs have made a donation to Lancaster that will be used to support work in this area. |
| Impact | Nokia Bell Labs have made a donation to Lancaster that will be used to support work in this area. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration with the University of Lugano |
| Organisation | University of Italian Switzerland |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | RAs (Mateusz Mikusz and Peter Shaw) spent effort on creating Tacita iOS client and Tacita Cloud Services, enabled USI to utilise the existing applications to deploy a similar display personalisation system |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise and guidance |
| Impact | Publications and dissemination of research outputs to the community. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboration with the University of Lugano |
| Organisation | University of Lugano |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | RA and academic effort contributing to the writing of academic research papers and successful research grant application. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise and guidance and accommodation for the duration of the visit. |
| Impact | Research papers under development. Successful grant funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Freezone study with Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Organisation | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich) |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Equipment and eCampus infrastructure |
| Collaborator Contribution | Purchase of equipment and effort contribution in supporting the study |
| Impact | none yet |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Heathfield Residential Care Home |
| Organisation | Heathfield Ladies Residential Home |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We are collaborating on the use of new pervasive technology in the context of a residential care home. We have conducted a multi-month display deployment and a series of interviews and focus groups. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner helped us recruit 14 participants for our studies including adult children of residents and care home staff. |
| Impact | The interviews have been audio recorded and fully transcribed and we are in the process of analyzing them. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Lancaster City Council Deployment (Salt Ayre Leisure Centre) Partnership |
| Organisation | Lancaster City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Installation and support of the system deployment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to Salt Ayre Leisure centre and support for the deployment of e-Campus. |
| Impact | Active deployment of the e-campus system. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Openshaw Resource Centre Display Wall Collaboration |
| Organisation | Age UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Provision and installation of large-screen displays and supporting computing equipment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access to deployment building, development of user requirements and participation in user engagement activities (i.e. interviews) |
| Impact | n/a |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Project Mercury |
| Organisation | Tesco Plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The partnership has facilitated a lecture series to explore topics such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and data ethics; exploring both current and future applications of these technologies and the impacts that these could have on society. Alongside the lecture series, project participants had the opportunity to put their learnings into practice, through the research and development of three projects. The outputs of this were Deedit, Lens and Tess which were all displayed as part of the Edinburgh International Arts Festival at the specifically built Design Informatics Pavilion, Data Pipe Dreams: Glimpse of a Near Future, on Edinburgh's George Street. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Through Project Mercury, Tesco Bank designers, software engineers, data scientists and programmers have worked in partnership with both students and lecturers from the University of Edinburgh's Design Informatics School. |
| Impact | The outputs of this were Deedit, Lens and Tess which were all displayed as part of the Edinburgh International Arts Festival at the specifically built Design Informatics Pavilion, Data Pipe Dreams: Glimpse of a Near Future, on Edinburgh's George Street. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Research Centre meeting between Design Informatics and BBC R&D |
| Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The two R&D teams from The Centre for Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh and R&D BBC, met in Media City to show and tell their respective research 'play books'. From Edinburgh: Prof. Chris Speed, Chair of Design Informatics, Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Dr. Ewa Luger, Chancellors Fellow, Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Prof. Burkhard Schafer, Professor of Computational Legal Theory, Director, SCRIPT Centre for IT and IP Law, Uni Edinburgh Dr. Larissa Pschetz, Lecturer, Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Dr. Dave Murray-Rust, Lecturer, Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Dr. Susan Lechelt, Research Associate (Creative Informatics), Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Dr. Pip Thornton, Research Associate (Creative Informatics), Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Liam Upton, Marketing and Comms for Creative Informatics, Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Nicola Osborne, Programme Manager, (Creative Informatics), Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Michaela Turner, Business Development Manager, (Creative Informatics), Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Dr. Evan Morgan, Senior Research Developer, Design Informatics, Uni Edinburgh Dr. Chris Elsden, Research Associate (Creative Informatics), Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art* Dr. Michael Smyth, Co-Director Creative Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University Dr. Ingi Helgason, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier University Prof.Chris Speed: presenting an overview of Design Informatics & Creative Informatics Ewa: Data, privacy and ethics Dave Murray-Rust: Social computing and data viz Larissa Pschetz: Interaction design for decentralised networks |
| Collaborator Contribution | From the BBC: Natasha Westland (Intelligible ML tools) Max Leonard (BBC Box/Databox - working with Re Jones) https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2019-06-bbc-box-personal-data-privacy Alex Nelson , on behalf of Lianne Kerlin (Human Values) Libby Miller and Tim Cowlishaw (Tellybox prototypes, Better Radio Experiences, A Better Internet...) https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/public-service-internet https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2018-10-artificial-intelligence-archive-television-bbc4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/responsible-machine-learning https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2019-01-tellybox-content-discovery-video-watch Matt Brooks (Object-based Media) https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/object-based-media-toolkit https://storyplayer.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/experience/click1000 Alia Sheikh (360/VR) https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2017-08-explore-the-edinburgh-festivals-using-360-video-and-webvr https://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/pilots/edinburgh360 James Gibson (5G Augmented Reality Roman Baths demo) https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2019-02-5g-mobile-augmented-reality-bath |
| Impact | TeenTech workshop was a direct outcome, Further work on Values and value is ongoing. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | University of Lugano Sabbatical/Placement |
| Organisation | University of Lugano |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | RA and academic effort contributing to the writing of two publications submitted to PerDis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Academic effort and office resources. |
| Impact | Two joint papers with the University of Lugano based on PETRAS work on smart displays as part of the DiSCC project. This was enabled through two on-site visits. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Title | Creation of world's largest public display personalisation testbed |
| Description | As part of DiSSC we created the world's largest public display personalisation composed of over 65 displays deployed across the Lancaster University campus and a number of software products including: Tacita Cloud Services, Tacita iOS Client and Tacita iLancaster Integration. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The display personalisation deployment at Lancaster was featured by Reuters and has been used by a number of EPSRC-funded projects including DiSSC, ReCoPS and PACTMAN. |
| Title | Tacita Cloud Services |
| Description | cloud service to enable public display personalisation and other location-aware services in the context of DiSSC and PACTMAN |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | research outputs (papers and presentations), press releases (Reuters), collaborations (University of Lugano, Singapore) |
| Title | Tacita iLancaster Integration |
| Description | Integration of the Tacita display personalisation system into iLancaster (student app available to students, staff and visitors at Lancaster University) |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | enabled us to roll out the display personalisation software to a wider audience at Lancaster |
| Title | Tacita iOS Client |
| Description | The Tacita iOS client is a mobile application that allows users to subscribe to content that will be shown on pervasive displays in the space as they walk by - yet still protecting user privacy. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Impact | This software is in daily use across the university campus at Lancaster and two partner institutions (University of Surrey and Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland). A number of conference publications are planned that build on top of this iOS client. |
| Description | Academics warn of the dangers of too much tech in your house, The Metro |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 08/06/2019 Academics warn of the dangers of too much tech in your house, The Metro |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/06/academics-warn-of-the-dangers-of-too-much-tech-in-your-house-9839873/... |
| Description | After Money Geocoin workshop - 21 Nov 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This workshop will introduce new developments such as blockchain and smart contracting technologies to participants in a tangible and experiential way. The aim is to foster and support creative explorations of potential future visions of value exchange in an increasingly 'smart city'. After an initial introduction, the workshop will comprise of a hands-on exploration of GeoCoin and a creative smart contracting activity. GeoCoin is a web app developed by the Design Informatics Team to explore digital currencies and value in the city. Based on the smart contracting platform Ethereum and in association with your phone's GPS data, it will challenge your understanding of data sharing, value exchange, and economic transactions in the city in an experiential way. We will then further dive into the understanding and use of smart contracts through an 'If This Then What' design exercise to envision and imagine new narratives and potential applications. Overall, this workshop aims to foster discussion and understanding of potential issues, concerns and opportunities arising from these new technological developments for society, business and people alike. No prior knowledge of the technologies is required to join the workshop, nor is it necesary to own a smartphone. However, bringing a smartphone along will allow you to get the most out of the experience. Both workshops are part of the After Money Symposium which heralds the end of Design Informatics' research project After Money in collaboration with the Royal Bank of Scotland and the New Economics Foundation, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The event is hosted by New Media Scotland as part of their 48 hours programme. The symposium events are separately ticketed - please book sessions you would like to attend separately. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://aftermoney.design/429-2/ |
| Description | After Money symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This two-day symposium, organised by the Centre for Design Informatics, aims to better understand the implications that FinTech, Cryptocurrency and Smart Contract developments are having on how industry, publics and governments understand money. The fast pace and shifting developments of cryptocurrencies and their underlying technologies have raised significant questions not only about new forms of currency but the economic, social and political constructs that surround them. Challenging current norms of value representation in society and culture, this symposium aims to investigate different perspectives of how financial technologies may influence our lives. The symposium comprised three sessions, each with a unique focus on FinTech Near Futures, Policy, Value and New Economics as well as Cultures of Commodification. The day is intended to bring together a variety of people from academia, industry and culture to understand the broader, cross-cutting implications of these new forms of banking, programmable money and representations of value and its wide-ranging repercussions. Speakers include Sarah Meiklejohn (UCL), Gavin Littlejohn (FDATA), Dug Campbell (Fankletastic Limited), Philip Godsiff (University of Surrey), Alexandre Polvora (European Commission), Doreen Grove (Scottish Government), Pip Thornton (Royal Holloway, University of London), Max Dovey (Artist & Researcher) and Dominic Smith (Independent). The audience was drawn from the Fintech community, policymakers, artists and academics. Those who spoke had already had involvement with Design Informatics, which demonstrated the continual collaboration and impact of past work by Design Informatics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://aftermoney.design/427-2/ |
| Description | Attendance and Talk at MobiUK (First UK Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Systems Research Symposium) 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | RA Mateusz Mikusz and PI Nigel Davies attended MobiUK aiming to foster future collaborations with researchers working in the field of mobile, wearable and ubiquitous systems in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://mobiuk.org |
| Description | Attendance at DIS workshop on Designing Reconfigurable Televisual Experiences |
| 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 | Attendance at the workshop on Designing Reconfigurable TV Experiences introducing participants (experts in the field) to the latest smart campus (DiSSC) research on personalisable public displays. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.designingthefuture.tv |
| Description | Attendance, Talk and Demo at HotMobile 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RAs Mateusz Mikusz and Peter Shaw and PI Nigel Davies attended HotMobile 2019 (The Twentieth International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications). Nigel Davies presented the paper "Mapping of the IoT" that sparked a number of discussions among the research community present. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://hotmobile.org/2019/ |
| Description | BBC World Service Click interview. Polite Robots That Make Way for People |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | BBC World Service Click interview. Polite Robots That Make Way for People http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cstxkx 10th September 2017. Last figures showed this had 12130 views worldwide since 5th September - Discussion and demonstration of the BitBarista prototype which makes supply chains transparent to consumers and demonstrates the potential of autonomous economic agents. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cstxkx |
| Description | Building a Community of UK TIPS Researchers (2nd Event) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 40 PhD students and early career researchers attended a two-day event organised by Dr. Bettina Nissen and Prof. Chris Speed for networking activities, research presentations and interactive workshops. Participants were encouraged to develop new research partnerships. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://pactman.uk/building-a-community-of-uk-tips-researchers-2/ |
| Description | Bytes, bodies and souls: Interrogating human digitalisation Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented at a workshop 'Towards an intelligent end-of-day review to augment human memory' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Charnley Fold meeting with NHS foundation / Age Concern |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with Staff and NHS collaborators working at the Charnley Fold Enhanced Dementia Day Support Centre, Preston regarding the presentation/explanation of our system and subsequent plans to explore a deployment for evaluation as part of the IAA eCampus For Care project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Data is the new oil: Rise of the internet connected smart products means our private information is increasingly valuable to companies, experts warn |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 06/06/2019 Data is the new oil: Rise of the internet connected smart products means our private information is increasingly valuable to companies, experts warn, The Daily Mail |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7111575/Our-data-valuable-oil-expert-warns.html |
| Description | Demonstration, BitBarista: Crypto Payments and Making Data-Driven Choices Visible, National Cyber Security Visit, Informatics Forum, 5th September 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration, BitBarista: Crypto Payments and Making Data-Driven Choices Visible, National Cyber Security Visit, Informatics Forum, 5th September 2017. Discussion and demonstration of the BitBarista prototype which makes supply chains transparent to consumers and demonstrates the potential of autonomous economic agents. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | ECR Event: Building a Community of UK TIPS Researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 35 PhD students and early career researchers attended a two-day event organised by Dr. Bran Knowles and Dr. Sarah Clinch for networking activities, research presentations and interactive workshops. A further 11 academics and other experts were also in attendance. Participants were encouraged to develop new research partnerships, e.g. one workship has directly led to collaboration in cybernetics between Manchester and Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://pactman.uk/building-a-community-of-uk-tips-researchers/ |
| Description | Expert at Summer School for Swiss Graduate School for Cognition, Learning, and Memory |
| 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 | Geoff Ward was one of three International Expert at Summer School for Swiss Graduate School for Cognition, Learning, and Memory. Weggis, near Luzern, Switzerland, Week long event 11-14th June, 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.gsclm.unibe.ch/training/summer_school/pastss/index_eng.html |
| Description | Heathfield Expansion Planning Visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visited Heathfield Care Home to discuss with residential care professionals future plans for expansion of our research activities (including further CEDE experiments) and broadening the existing system deployment. Furthermore, we agreed to engage further with users of the system including the onboarding of new patients and suitable methods to capture user behaviours with the system. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Inspiring Women in Engineering at the University of Manchester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Event held for Y12 and Y13 students to highlight the achievements of female engineers and computer scientists at Manchester. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited Talk: Co-Designing with Things. ScotSoft |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited Talk: Co-Designing with Things. ScotSoft conference 3rd Oct. EICC, Edinburgh |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://scotsoft.scot/speakers/chris-speed/ |
| Description | IoTUK and PETRAS Video Case Study. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | IoTUK and PETRAS Video Case Study. Bitbarista is a bitcoin powered coffee machine https://iotuk.org.uk/bitbarista/ October 2017 . Discussion and demonstration of the BitBarista prototype which makes supply chains transparent to consumers and demonstrates the potential of autonomous economic agents. The video can be used as an educational tool for a variety of technical and non technical audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://iotuk.org.uk/bitbarista/ |
| Description | Keynote at 2nd International Conference on Simulation Technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Keynote on next generation physical analytics using synthetic analytics as an approach to gain more insights about user navigation and interaction patterns in the context of pervasive displays and smart campus environments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://conference.simtech.uni-stuttgart.de/event/1/page/31-nigel-davies |
| Description | Keynote at 7th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote on future saturated display environments and future research challenges and open questions regarding smart environments and pervasive displays. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://pervasivedisplays.org/2018/program.html#keynote |
| Description | Never Alone: Living with the Internet of Things, Panel @ Cheltenham Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The way we live with technology is changing. Objects that were once benign are now thinking. In the future it's not just your family and pets that demand your attention - a global network of needy devices is growing! Danielle Knight, Chris Speed and Joseph Lindley explore how our changing relationship with household objects is affecting our lives, work, families and future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://cheltenhamfestivals-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/File/17250.pdf |
| Description | Newscientist - technology memory aids |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Provided insight and discussion into the potential benefits and drawbacks of pervasive technology being used to provide memory cues and reminders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Nissen, Speed, Oosthuizen: Geocoin workshop, Tesco Bank, 3/11/17 |
| 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 | Nissen, Speed, Oosthuizen: Geocoin workshop, Tesco Bank, 3/11/17. GeoCoin is an explorative platform for geofenced digital currencies. This platform aims to make bitcoin and blockchain technologies accessible in a playful and experiential manner to a wider audience. We have used this platform as bodystorming tool in workshops to explore new models and aspects of geofencing digital currencies. The platform was developed on the distributed smart contracting platform Ethereum with actual underlying blockchain technology and the cryptocurrency Ether which allows this software to be further adapted for real life use cases and scenarios. There are currently 4 different types of GeoCoin which allow users to collect coins which may add or subtract from their current balance. Simulating potential tax, toll and earning scenarios, this speculative software allows users to experience and explore the potential of digital currencies in a 'Smart City' environment. The workshop was held as part of the Tesco Mercury consultancy programme to open up an understanding of smart contracting outside of the realm of finance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://geocoin.site |
| Description | Nissen/Gianni: Workshop on Temporality of Consent |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop as part of PACTMAN project exploring temporal aspects of consent in digital systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Not Equal Network Launch - Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digital innovation is transforming the service economy and public services in significant ways. If harnessed to the wrong economic and socio-political model, technological innovation has the potential to be detrimental to the most vulnerable and reinforce inequality. This one-day event marks the launch of the Not Equal project, and the first call for collaborative research proposals, part of the Open Commissioning Programme. This event is an opportunity Network+ partners to come together and share ideas on possible practical responses to issues flagged up by partners within each challenge area; as well as hear about the funding criteria, process and support available. The event features provocative talks from invited speakers and experts from academia, civic and civil society, who will share their views on the social justice dimensions of emerging technology design and application and the challenges facing us today. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Panel contribution. Secure by Design conference, IoTUK, Southbank Centre, London. Sept 12 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Event Description Secure by design - A Digital Catapult Forum on behalf of IoT UK and Cyber 101 Supported by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport via Digital Catapult's programmes IoT UK and Cyber 101, this one-day event will explore the opportunities and challenges of what it means to be secure by design. Together with representatives from government, industry leaders and academia, we will discuss the challenges of building secure products in a complex IoT supply chain and where responsibility and liability sit within this framework from product design through to retailer and consumer. This event will host a collaborative workshop and forum for discussion with leading figures from across government, industry and research. Who should attend? This event is designed for manufacturers, retailers, startups, government and organisations involved in the internet of things Why attend? This is an opportunity to hear from a panel of experts in the field but also to provoke audience opinion and questions throughout the session. There will be the opportunity to network with experts from a range of industries. Agenda 9.15am - Registration, Coffee & Networking 10am - Key note 1: Building pragmatic and realistic expectations for IoT security: the story behind the UK's Code of Practice for Consumer IoT Security David Rogers. Founder of Copper Horse Solutions, visiting professor in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics at York St John University, Chair of the GSMA Device Security Group and Exec. Board member of the IoT SF. Author of the UK's Code of Practice for Security in Consumer IoT and services 10.30am - Panel 1: Secure By Design - guidelines, compliance and liability Secure by Design is a hot topic in IoT consumer manufacturing and a number of organisations are engaged in defining frameworks and guidelines to support the adoption of 'best practice' in the industry. This panel will consider how companies ensure they are compliant with best practice, what 'good enough' looks like given the innumerable variances in function and category of IoT products and the subsequent 'grey-scale' of criticality versus responsibility. We will also look at considerations of liability within the supply-chain, from chip manufacturers to retailers. Chair - Jamie Harrison, Head of Innovation Programmes, Digital Catapult. 12pm - Lunch 1pm - Keynote 2: Securing the IoT and Beyond Delivered by Jeremy Watson, CBE FREng FIET FICE DPhil, Professor of Engineering Systems & Vice-Dean (Mission) University College of London 1.30pm - Panel 2: How speculative design and new design methods can plan for security and adoption requirements. Chris Speed Paul Coulton Andy Hudson-Smith The panel will discuss how speculative design, prototyping and in-field experiments can help designers and developers identify and better plan for security and adoption requirements. This panel will consider how we think about securing the future, how independent research and speculative design as a methodology enables us not only to prepare ourselves for the future but also to plan for the future that we want, and understand trade-off and potential consequences of emerging technology in the IOT arena. Chair - Rchel Cooper OBE, Distinguished Professor - Design Management and Policy, Director - ImaginationLancaster, Chair - Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts 3pm - Closing remarks and Networking 3.30pm - Close |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/secure-by-design-registration-48916154535?utm_source=eb_email&utm_med... |
| Description | Presentation at Context and Episodic Memory Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Geoff Ward presented "Using three different smartphone applications to further explore serial position curves and temporal contiguity effects of stimuli presented at very longer inter-stimulus intervals". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at Psychonomics International |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Geoff Ward presented "An Examination Of Long-Term Recency And Contiguity Effects Using Smartphone Applications" at the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Speed, Chris, Symons, Kate: Apocalyptic Design in the Capitalocene: Every-day Geopolitics and Blockchain. Workshop paper for Avoiding Ecocidal Smart Cities: Participatory Design for More-than-Human Futures. Participatory Design Conference, Hasselt & Genk, Belgium. 21st August 2018. |
| 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 | Speed presented a paper at the following workshop, part of the Participatory Design Conference https://pdc2018.org/ Call for Participation Many early adopters of sustainable smart city technology employed a technocratic approach. The dominant visions of these future cities, such as in the "eco smart city" [19], address environmental sustainability through the optimisation and rationalisation of urban processes, making them more efficient and therefore more sustainable. However, critics claim that such approaches are too simplistic, are unable to deal with the complexities of real, messy cities [19] and perform sustainability in specific ways that leave little room for participation and citizen agency [7,11,19]. Furthermore, the technocratic approach limited the actual social benefit people could expect from their urban habitat, and this has led to a participatory turn in smart cities [e.g. [1,12]. For example, many local governments have started using human-centred and participatory design for the integration of technology in urban environments to address issues of sustainability. However, the turn to participation within smart cities fails to address a human-exceptionalist notion of cities, in which urban space is designed for, and inhabited by, humans only. Within the age of the Anthropocene - a term used to refer to a new geological era in which human activity is transforming earth systems [16], accelerating climate change and causing mass extinctions [18] - a human-centred perspective is increasingly seen as untenable. In fields such as STS [10,13], environmental humanities [15,17], geography [2,21], planning [16], design [5,8,25] and HCI [24], scholars are expanding and challenging traditional binaries of Western thought such as City/Nature, Human/Non-human, to consider the entanglements between human and nonhuman worlds including in urban contexts, and the ways in which we can conduct participatory research in morethan- human worlds, in order to overcome problematic narratives of human privilege and exceptionalism. The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop is to move the field of participatory design for sustainable smart cities forward by bringing together designers, practitioners, and researchers to explore what it means to co-design genuinely sustainable cities that take into account the ways in which cities and nature, and humans and non-humans are interrelated and interdependent, for the co-creation of environmentally and socially just postanthropocentric cities. We aim to develop new conceptions that move away from traditional binaries and open up new possibilities for thinking about participatory design for urban environments in hybrid digital-physical space. We also aim to explore practical ideas about how more-than-human perspectives can shape actual participatory design practices and policies related to cities. For example, we might explore design responses to new legal rights of non-humans such as trees and rivers [20] and how their participation is negotiated in urban processes in hybrid digitalphysical space [4]. Workshop Topics of Interests The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to the following: Participatory design and use of smart cities, urban informatics and IoT technologies that explore human/morethan- human relations; Methodological approaches, including opportunities and challenges for designing in more-than-human worlds; Speculative designs, design fictions, and art projects; Ethical and legal considerations, e.g. design responses to a new legal status of nature; • Designs that decentre the human or privilege other species; Cultural aspects of sustainable smart cities in this space; Theoretical perspectives from the literature e.g. Anthropocene, Capitalocene [18], Chthulucene [13], and; "World-making", what could a more-than-human city be? Audience We welcome researchers and practitioners working on design cases, prototype development and artistic installations, as well as those working on theoretical, critical, legal, or ethical perspectives, including those from STS, environmental humanities, and other disciplines. We welcome methodological contributions, such as object-oriented ontology [3], non-human ethnographies [22], speculative design, and actor-network and assemblage theories related to decentring the human in design. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://pd4more.urbaninformatics.net/cfp/ |
| Description | Speed, Chris. Future of Work, Pecha Kucha, Whisky Bond, Glasgow, 25th Oct, 2018. |
| 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 | As the age of automation looms, we are now more so than ever at risk of losing elements of our day to day responsibilities or our jobs entirely. In the recent proliferation of 'bullshit jobs' that occupy more and more nuanced versions of traditional work, is this impending future in fact something we should look forward to rather than dread? Are we really 'hardwired to work' as capitalism has lead us to believe? Or, if freed from the clock-in clock-out system are we instead offered a more tranquil, more social and more engaged human experience? Pecha Kucha is a simple idea - 20 images for 20 seconds each making talks that last just 6:40mins. In this format, we will hear from different thinkers, artists, organisations and political groups to address the question of the future of work and present ideas on how our developing work-culture might affect our way of life, our economy, our cities and professions. 80 approx people attended with PETRAS content warmly received |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.thewhiskybond.co.uk/pecha-kucha-talks-future-of-work/ |
| Description | Speed, Chris. Designing Things with Spending Power. Invited talk for Coimbra Group & Group Montevideo (AUGM) Summer School: Smart and Inclusive Cities, Edinburgh. 4th July 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | https://www.ed.ac.uk/contemporary-latin-american-studies/events/summer-school Talk as part of this summer school: The Coimbra Group & Asociacion De Universidades Grupo Montevideo (AUGM) present 'Smart and Inclusive Cities' Summer School The aim of this summer school is to review, discuss and propose means to achieve more inclusive, equal, sustainable and safe cities. 'Smart cities' have been the focus of a range of research approaches in the recent past and, although the importance of developing more efficient and connected cities has been widely recognised, in the implementation of smart cities strategies, often the individual and subsequently a varied patchwork of specific communities - all central to these endeavours - are overlooked. Different models of smart cities strategies can be identified across the globe, from Barcelona to Stockholm, from Sao Paolo to Medellin, from Kigali to Delhi. In order to offer more depth and social awareness to ongoing political trends and research on smart cities, this summer school, and associated workshops, will be led by generating an understanding of the complex networks that interlink: territory-technology-community-individual. The student-led summer school will interrogate: What does smart and smartness mean in relation to complex urban, rural and territorial realities which overlap with even more complex sociocultural, political and economic dynamic relations? How can smart city strategies be implemented, when they depend on a vast technical infrastructure, which often excludes wide layers of society, when looking at the Global South? How does the Global Urban Age relate to specific communities and the individuals they accommodate? It will look at the way information and communication technologies can be used to inform the smart city and also to include 'disadvantaged' groups of society, who are left out due to their lacking connectivity to the digital grid. The summer school will be structured around the following thematic workshops: Technology, Politics and Space Experimental Experiences for Smart Cities Digital Individuality and Corporate Ownership - Hacking the System Materiality of the Smart City Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Cities Social Computing, Sensing and IoT for Smart Cities Smart Cities and Energy Systems There will also be three parallel, roundtable discussions: International migration and the city National and international migration in the context of economic and social development The role of international agencies in developing policy for national and international migration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ed.ac.uk/contemporary-latin-american-studies/events/summer-school |
| Description | Speed, Chris. Designing Things with Spending Power. Invited talk for What the Block - making Blockchain more Human, IDA Innovate, Copenhagen, 9th July 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | https://www.meetup.com/What-The-Block/ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-the-block-making-blockchain-more-human-tickets-46611033857 Description The first meet-up in a series of events looking to bring design thinking and the blockchain together to make this technology more accessible, more human and to spark ideas on its uses. By now you've all heard about Blockchain. You might even understand how it works. But do you really understand its potential? Join us at IDA Innovate for the first in our series of events exploring the blockchain, helping you to understand why this technology matters. Session #1: The Internet of Value To kick-off the series, we will be joined by the Professor Chris Speed, chair of Design Informatics at Edinburgh University, who will share his take on Blockchain as the Internet of Value, through a series of imaginative projects that make use of the features of distributed ledger technology. Joining Chris on stage will be Cyrus Clarke, co-founder of What The Block. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-the-block-making-blockchain-more-human-tickets-46611033857 |
| Description | Speed, Chris. Designing things with Spending Power, Invited talk: Mathematics for Industry: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, University of Manchester. Sep 8 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chris Speed presented work at: Mathematics for Industry: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Conference 2018 8 September 2018 Venue: Alan Turing Building, School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 The School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester are excited to be hosting a one day workshop on blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The workshop will feature invited talks from academics and those in industry, in addition to contributed talks and a poster session. The aim of the workshop is to strengthen the ties and bridge the gap between academics and industry, and also enthusiasts, and to provide an opportunity to share research and developments in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The workshop theme will be "Mathematics for Industry", with a focus on the growing area of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The format will be a one-day workshop with parallel sessions, with a lunch break and a reception in the evening. The conference is open to students, academics, and those working in industry. We have limited financial support available for PhD students. This covers the cost of the conference fee and includes an extra £100 to cover transportation/subsistence costs. Given the availability of funding, this will be competitive and the selection process will be conducted by the organising committee. Priority will be given to PhD students presenting talks or posters. In addition, the best student poster will be awarded a prize! Call for Papers The programme will consist of invited and contributed talks throughout the day, in addition to a poster session in the afternoon. Unfortunately, the number of contributed talks is limited and so we may invite the authors of some submitted abstracts to present a poster instead. The workshop is open to topics including, but not limited to: * Academic research on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies * Industrial applications of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies * Applications of Fintech in academia and industry * The economics of Blockchain technology * Financial analysis and risk management with Cryptocurrencies For further details about the conference and submission instructions, see our website: https://blockchain-mcr.github.io/ Important dates: * Submission of Abstracts: 28th May 2018 to 27th July 2018 * Notification of acceptance: by 10th August 2018 * Registration: from 28th May 2018 * Workshop: 8th September 2018 Organising Committee: * Dr. Stephen Chan (American University of Sharjah) * Dr. Jeffrey Chu (University of Manchester) * Dr. Saralees Nadarajah (University of Manchester) * Dr. Athanasios Pantelous (Monash University) * Dr. Shou Hsing Shih (American University of Sharjah) * Ms. Yuanyuan Zhang (University of Manchester) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.datascience.manchester.ac.uk/events-1/events/mathematics-for-industry-blockchain-and-cryp... |
| Description | Speed, Chris. Innovation in the age of Artificial Intelligence: an executive's guide. Invited talk, Edinburgh Business School. 4th October. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Innovation in the age of Artificial Intelligence: an executive's guide Fran Cardells, strategy director at Salesforce, will discuss how the world's most innovative companies use data to transform user experiences through improving experimentation, creativity and product/market fit. Calendar Thursday 4 October 2018 Clock 18:30-20:00 Navigate LT1B Microphone Fran Cardells; Strategy Director; Salesforce Microphone Professor Chris Speed; Chair in Design Informatics; University of Edinburgh College of Art Overview This session will comprise presentations by Fran Cardells, business innovation executive at Salesforce who will be followed by Professor Chris Speed, who will speak on 'More than Human Machines'. Drawing on examples from the world's most innovative companies, Fran looks at how value creation is supercharged with data to boost experimentation, automate creativity, accelerate product/market fit, re-imagine business models and transform user experiences Chris will then ask what happens when we give physical things wallets containing digital currencies. How can this alter power relationships and shift social dynamics? Chris will explore these questions by highlighting the use of smart contracts in design, from a coffee machine that lets you vote for your coffee bean and pays those who clean it, to a hairdryer that trades on the energy market to offer the best price for drying your hair. As objects are connected to the Internet, forming the 'Internet of Things', Chris asks what happens when technologies are given their own spending power, and what this implies for humans. About Salesforce Salesforce is a leading provider of customer relationship management (CRM) products which utilise the tools of the fourth Industrial Revolution - robotics, AI, the Internet of Things, and more. Speaker profiles Fran Cardells is a business innovation executive working at the intersection of smart business models, deep technologies and data intelligence. Based in London, Fran works for some of the most innovative companies: previously Google; now Salesforce as Strategy Director, leading intelligence applications. Fran is an advisor to Corporate Ventures. Fran began his career as a scientist, researching both in academia and industry (HP Labs), focusing on data analysis with emerging computational architectures. Fran holds a Master's degree from HEC Paris, France, has obtained a PhD in computer science, is a recipient of a Marie Curie Fellowship, and has pursued advanced business education at Harvard University, USA. Fran's cause is overcoming inequality with education and is committed to helping younger generations find their passion, prepare for the workplace of the future, and develop creativity skills to succeed in a digital world. Professor Chris Speed is Chair of Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh where his research focuses upon the Network Society, Digital Art and Technology, and The Internet of Things. Chris has sustained a critical enquiry into how network technology can engage with the fields of art, design and social experience through a variety of international digital art exhibitions, funded research projects, books journals and conferences. This event is being co-hosted by the Edinburgh Futures Institute, a cross-disciplinary initiative designed to address some of society's most pressing concerns. Coffee and registration from 18:00. The event will be followed by a networking drinks reception |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/event/innovation-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-an-execu... |
| Description | Speed, Chris. Invited talk at EUROCITIES 2018 conference study tour, Edinburgh, 30th November |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk during EUROCITIES 2018 tour of research centres Creative competitive cities - building our future together EUROCITIES 2018 Edinburgh on 28-30 November will take place at a critical time for Europe, against the backdrop of the UK's decision to leave the European Union, and a year ahead of the European elections. In a turbulent world of unprecedented change and uncertainty cities are even more vital for Europe's future, being the drivers of inclusive and sustainable growth, jobs and innovation. At this decisive moment in Europe's history, EUROCITIES 2018 Edinburgh will bring together participants from across Europe, from different levels of governance and amongst citizens, to discuss our future focusing on two interconnected strands: Citizenship and democracy While national governments continue to debate and make decisions on future national and institutional ties, cities will continue to reach out and build key bilateral and multilateral connections on a European and global scale. Ahead of the European Parliament elections in 2019, EUROCITIES 2018 Edinburgh will be an opportunity for cities from across Europe to reinforce our position that EU institutions and member states must work with us, to empower citizens to engage with and understand the importance of the European project for all. Within the EUROCITIES 'Cities4Europe - Europe for citizens' campaign, we will be collecting, analysing and drawing up recommendations for active democratic citizens' participation in all levels of government, and which we will also take forward to the European Commission and the European Parliament in our mayors' summit 2019. Edinburgh 2018 will provide us with the occasion to discuss and validate this evidence of cities' engagement with citizens. Culture - a smart investment for our future Cities need creativity, collaboration and international connections to unlock solutions to urban challenges and to enrich the quality of life of their citizens and secure their future inclusion and prosperity. Creativity and social innovation can help stimulate new solutions to address the challenges cities face, such as unemployment, climate change, political alienation. During EUROCITIES 2018 Edinburgh we will explore how culture can build stronger ties between communities, bringing people together to learn from each other, broaden horizons and build relationships, opening up new ways of communication and understanding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.eurocities.eu/eurocities/calendar/events_list/EUROCITIES-2018-Edinburgh-WSPO-ATDSC6 |
| Description | Speed, Chris. Participation in Scottish Government Workshop on Tech Trend Scenarios, 3rd December, 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Strategic Insights Unit of the Scottish Government is pursuing a programme of work centred around the impact of technology in Scotland. The programme focuses on how Scotland can better exploit the opportunities and mitigate the risks associated with technological change in the mid-term future. The Unit has commissioned Frost and Sullivan to work with them in building a set of scenarios around potential technological trends, which will be used to help test a range of policy responses across Scottish Government. Scenarios are a tool for dealing with uncertainty and are used to develop policies and strategies that are robust, resilient, flexible and innovative. The aim of developing scenarios is to: ·Create a common understanding, language and vision to use when developing policies that are resilient to a range of possible technological change scenarios; and ·Gain insights into opportunities and threats in these different scenarios, with external expert advice and challenge. This report sets out the process that has been undertaken to date for identifying the main technological trends and drivers of change, and the results of the initial impact and uncertainty assessment. This is the first step in the process of developing fully fledged scenarios. The aim of this step was to assess whether the trend has an impact on Scotland and how uncertain the development of the trend is over the designated 2025-2035timeframe. The current draft report Is not complete. The tech trends summaries are very short summaries. See pages 13-31. This will be amended over time to include more detailed narrative points. See pages 33-38 as example. The 'scoring' of impact vz uncertainty is based on clear criteria ; but the judgments are broadly qualitative in nature. The critical uncertainties on slide 41 are those trends identified as high impact and highly uncertain. These critically uncertain trends we use as the basis of the scenarios. Where we are in the process We have gone through the process of mapping all the trends against impact /uncertainty; and have been through one review process. We are currently drafting scenarios to be used in a workshop process with stakeholders on Monday 3rd December. After this we will finalise scenarios; and we will also finalise the Tech Trends report. Workshop Details are: Mon Dec 3rd 2-5pm Conference rooms 4 and 5, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Speed, Chris. The Robots are Here! Panel member, Festival of Politics, Scottish Parliament, Oct 11-13th 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Robots Are Coming! Date: Saturday 13 October Time: 11.15 to 12.45 Cost: £6.00/£4.00 Chairs: Jackie Baillie MSP Participants: Professor Chris Speed, Victoria Turk, Aaron Fernandez, Louise Smith Tags: economic development, Economy, ethics, future, robotics, technology In partnership with Scotland's Futures Forum Increased automation of jobs, industry and public services is perceived by many as a short-cut to a utopian post-capitalist future. Join chair Jackie Baillie MSP and panellists Professor Chris Speed, Chair of Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh; Victoria Turk, Senior Editor, Wired UK; Aaron Fernandez, Communic18; and Louise Smith, Head of Digitisation, Personal and Business Banking, RBS, to discuss whether technology liberates us from work or drives down wages and entrenches inequality |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://festivalofpolitics.scot/events/the-robots-are-coming/ |
| Description | Speed, Cooke, Turner, Oosthuizen, Alcala: BitBaritsta Demonstration at FinTech Scotland conference, Dynamic Earth, 27 & 28 September 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of Design Informatics prototypes - BitBarista and Kash cups at launch of Fintech Scotland conference. Competition between participants to understand the possibilities of blockchain and cryptocurrencies outside of the Fintech focus. Audience was influential business people and demonstrated Edinburgh University's pioneering research in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.fintech2017.co.uk/ |
| Description | Speed: Chairing of Conference: Research Through Design, National Museum of Scotland, 22-24/03/17 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Speed: Chairing of Conference: Research Through Design, National Museum of Scotland, 22-24/03/17 The third edition of the conference was chaired by Chris Speed and Ian Lambert and was held at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, UK, 22-24 March 2017. The museum context provided an exciting venue for exploring new and emerging disciplines of making, and a unique opportunity for RTD conference exhibits to be juxtaposed with curated NMS artefacts and collections, challenging contemporary and future notions of value and expertise. Through the theme 'New Disciplines of Making - Shared Knowledge in Doing', the 2017 chairs continued a discussion and debate exploring how the artefacts and processes of practice-based research can become tangible outcomes. The conference programme explored ideas around the nature of knowledge 'in doing', and how we 'unpick' tacit forms of knowledge arising from processes that are often intuitive and impulsive, and sometimes recognised only on reflection - when the process has ended. 33 out of 233 submissions were included in the final programme, after being peer-reviewed by members of the Programme Committee and reviewers in the growing RTD community. The RTD 2017 incorporated a number of Provocations alongside presentations and discussions of exhibited work. Invited speakers at RTD included Prof. Elisa Giaccardi of TU Delft, and Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves of Studio Swine. As the conference was hosted by NMS, there was rich opportunity to hold two panel discussions that brought museum curators into conversation with design researchers and practitioners about relationships between artefacts, research, and museum spaces. A new addition to the format for RTD 2017 was a day of workshops, which created the opportunity for researcher-practitioners to be 'hands-on' in making and experimenting and new materials, engaging multiple areas of exploration including printmaking, sandcasting and mapping. More information on the workshops is here. Outputs from experimental making at each workshop were presented back to delegates during the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.researchthroughdesign.org/news/rtd-2017-new-disciplines-of-making-shared-knowledge-in-do... |
| Description | Talk - GeoAid - Exploring Smart Contracting for Humanitarian Aid Distribution |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at RGS-IBG 2017 exploring Smart Contracting for Aid Distribution, 30 August. RGS IBG is a prestigious conference and demonstrated Edinburgh's pioneering research to an international audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Tallyn: Demonstration, BitBarista - Instantiation of Distributed Autonomous System, in Power 2.0: New Digital Geographies at RGS-IBG 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tallyn: Demonstration, BitBarista - Instantiation of Distributed Autonomous System, in Power 2.0: New Digital Geographies at RGS-IBG 2017. RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2017. The 2017 Annual International Conference, held at the Royal Geographical Society in London, from Wednesday 30 August to Friday 1 September 2017. Discussion and demonstration of the BitBarista prototype which makes supply chains transparent to consumers and demonstrates the potential of autonomous economic agents. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Tallyn: Invited talk, "Bitbarista: Bitcoin powered coffee machine" at the Scottish Blockchain MeetUp 25/5/17 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ella Tallyn is a UX designer and research associate in the Design Informatics team at Edinburgh University. Ella's talk explored data transactions and smart contracts and how these might manifest in developing IoT technologies. Ella demonstrated the BitBarista coffee machine, a Bitcoin powered coffee machine that explores perceptions of value transactions. The audience was made up of industry professionals and the interested general public and helped to introduce the audience to novel and innovative techniques in designing with data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.meetup.com/Scottish-Blockchain-Meetup/events/239690439/ |
| Description | Tangible Tools for Understanding Distributed Systems (DRS workshop in Ireland) |
| 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 | A workshop at the Design Research Society conference in Limerick, Ireland which mainly engaged academic audiences and design practitioners. This workshop explored the implications of evolving distributed ledgers' and autonomous systems' technologies which introduce the principle that products and services may soon be owned and managed collectively and not governed by one person or authority, thus allowing us to rethink traditional concepts of trust, ownership and power. This workshop will support participants' critical understanding of these new forms of distributed systems while exploring what tangible tools may support design researchers in understanding complex technologies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Tesco Bank: Data Pipe Dreams, Edinburgh Art Festival, Assembly Rooms, George Street. August 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Data Pipe Dreams: Glimpses of a Near Future - Exhibition 2 August 2018 - 25 August 2018 11am - 6pm Design Informatics Pavilion, Outside Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street, EH2 2LR What are the dreams of a data-driven future? What if your hairdryer could buy energy at 2am and sell it to people drying their hair on a Friday night? What if you could see how sharing your YouTube comments could affect your employability? What if the Blockchain could spark thousands of micro acts of kindness to transform Edinburgh for the better? You can experience all of this and more at the Design Informatics Pavilion, which showcases prototypes and interactive installations by Design Informatics researchers, Masters students and partners at Tesco Bank. The Pavilion's exhibits investigate the possibilities of designing with data, and how this can enrich or challenge our personal, economic and social lives. Come and have a play and explore what are now data pipe dreams, but not for long This event is part our Summer at ECA programme during the 2018 Edinburgh Art Festival. https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/event/data-pipe-dreams-glimpses-near-future https://www.designinformatics.org/event/data-pipe-dreams/ https://www.scotsman.com/future-scotland/tech/deedit-app-asks-edinburgh-festival-goers-to-help-out-in-the-city-1-4777781 https://www.insider.co.uk/news/deedit-edinburgh-tesco-social-bite-13020408 https://flic.kr/s/aHskCBdipP |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.designinformatics.org/event/data-pipe-dreams/ |
| Description | Think Piece on the theme of Scotland2050 for Scottish Government |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 2050 Think Pieces for Scottish Government We asked planning stakeholders to provide think piece contributions on Scotland 2050 to stimulate discussion and debate during the early engagement period and to help stakeholders to think about priorities for NPF4. Martin Valenti - Environmentally Responsible Economic Growth Emma Ritch - Gender Inclusive Places Fiona Garven - Community Development Russell Jones - Healthy Places Steven Tolson - A Plan to Grow More Food Diana Findley - Places for Older People Aedan Smith - Scotland's Environment Dr Ruth Lightbody - Community Engagement Anna Beswick and Joseph Hagg - Adaptive Places Jim Valentine - Our Cities Diarmid Hearns - Nature on a National Scale Stephanie Conesa - Our Renewable Energy Vincent Goodstadt - Scotland 2050: Lessons from Our Spatial Planning Heritage John Lauder - Our Active Travel Networks Professor Chris Speed - Our Arts and Cultural Environment Rona Gibb - Our Active Travel Networks Calum Macleod - A Thriving Rural Scotland Tim German - Our Energy Systems Deryck Irving - Future Green Networks Liam Fowley MSYP - Report on #WhatsYourTake Angus Hardie - Empowered Communities Susie Fitton - Places for Disabled People Grant Carson - Building a More Accessible World for us all Jim Birrell - Future Chief Planning Officers Sally Thomas - Our Future Homes Phil Prentice - Town Centres of The Future Riddell Graham - Our Tourist Industry Elaine Fotheringham - Our Flood Risk Management Tammy Swift-Adams - Enjoying The Fruits of Collaboration Dr Matthew Lane - Self and Custom Build Andy Milne - Rebalancing and Regenerating Planning for People and Places Professor Iain Docherty - An Accessible Scotland Anne Johnstone - Our Vacant and Derelict Land Jo O'Hara - Forestry and Woodland Andy Kerr - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.transformingplanning.scot/media/1265/tp-our-arts-and-cultural-enviroment-v2.pdf |
| Description | Value Constellations for Gaming. Invited talk: Continue Conference, The British Gaming Institute, Edinburgh Business School. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk for the Continue Conference, The British Gaming Institute, Edinburgh Business School. Reported on new economies for gaming, using BitBarista and the work on crypto currencies as case studie |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://thebgi.uk/2018/08/27/continue-edinburgh-report/ |
| Description | Visit to The Old Vicarage Care Home, Grange-over-Sands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Initial engagement with potential collaboration partner. Our research goals and system were presented to said potential partner with a discussion leading to interest in beginning a deployment trial. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | focus groups |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We conducted a series of focus groups (4 in total) with 13 older adults to understand attitudes to personalisation. Insights gleaned from this will form the basis of a forthcoming publication. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |