Horizon: Trusted Data-Driven Products
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Nottingham
Department Name: Horizon Digital Economy Research
Abstract
The Horizon institute is a multidisciplinary centre of excellence for Digital Economy (DE) research. The core mission of Horizon has been to balance the opportunities arising from the capture, analysis and use of personal data with an awareness and understanding of human and social values. The focus on personal data in a wide range of contexts has required the development of a broad set of multidisciplinary competencies allowing us to build links from foundational algorithms and system to issues of society and policy. We follow a user-centred approach, undertaking research in the wild based on principles of open innovation.
Horizon now encompasses over 50 researchers, spanning Computing, Engineering, Law, Psychology, Social Sciences, Business and the Humanities. It has grown a diverse network of over 200 external partners who are involved in ongoing collaborative research and impact with Horizon, ranging from major international corporations to SMEs, from a wide variety of sectors, alongside government and civil society groups. We have also established a CDT in the third wave of funding that will eventually deliver 150 PhDs. Our critical mass of researchers, partners, students and funding has already led to over 800 peer-reviewed publications, composed of: 277 journal articles, 51 books and book chapters, and 424 conference papers, in a total of 15 different disciplines.
Over the years Horizon's focus has evolved from an emphasis on the collection and understanding of personal data to consider the user-centred design and development of data-driven products. This proposal builds on our established interdisciplinary competencies to deliver research and impact to ensure that future data-driven products can be both co-created and trusted by consumers.
Core to our current vision is the idea that future products will be hybrids of both the digital and the physical. Physical products are increasingly augmented with digital capabilities, from data footprints that capture their provenance to software that enables them to adapt their behaviour. Conversely, digital products are ultimately physically experienced by people in some real-world context and increasingly adapt to both. This real-world context is social; hence the data is social and often implicates groups, not just individuals. We foresee that this blending of physical and digital will drive the merging of traditional goods, services and experiences into new forms of product. We also foresee that - just as today's social media services are co-created by consumers who provide content and data - so will be these new data-driven products. At the same time, we are also witnessing a crisis of trust concerning the commercial use of personal data that threatens to undermine this vision of data-driven products. Hence, it is vitally important to build trust with consumers and operate within an increasingly complex regulatory environment from the earliest stages of innovating future products.
Our user-centred approach involves external partners and the public in "research-in-the-wild", grounding our fundamental research in real world challenges. Our delivery programme combines a bottom-up approach in which researchers are given the opportunity (and provided with the skills) to follow new impact opportunities in collaboration with partners as they arise (our Agile programme), with a top-down approach that strategically coordinates how these activities are targeted at wider communities (our Campaigns programme, with successive focus on Consumables, Co-production and Welfare), and reflective processes that allow us to draw out broader conclusions for the widest possible impact (our Cross-Cutting programme).
Throughout we aim to continue to develop the capacity in our researchers, the wider DE research community and more broadly within society, to engage in responsible innovation using personal data within the Digital Economy.
Horizon now encompasses over 50 researchers, spanning Computing, Engineering, Law, Psychology, Social Sciences, Business and the Humanities. It has grown a diverse network of over 200 external partners who are involved in ongoing collaborative research and impact with Horizon, ranging from major international corporations to SMEs, from a wide variety of sectors, alongside government and civil society groups. We have also established a CDT in the third wave of funding that will eventually deliver 150 PhDs. Our critical mass of researchers, partners, students and funding has already led to over 800 peer-reviewed publications, composed of: 277 journal articles, 51 books and book chapters, and 424 conference papers, in a total of 15 different disciplines.
Over the years Horizon's focus has evolved from an emphasis on the collection and understanding of personal data to consider the user-centred design and development of data-driven products. This proposal builds on our established interdisciplinary competencies to deliver research and impact to ensure that future data-driven products can be both co-created and trusted by consumers.
Core to our current vision is the idea that future products will be hybrids of both the digital and the physical. Physical products are increasingly augmented with digital capabilities, from data footprints that capture their provenance to software that enables them to adapt their behaviour. Conversely, digital products are ultimately physically experienced by people in some real-world context and increasingly adapt to both. This real-world context is social; hence the data is social and often implicates groups, not just individuals. We foresee that this blending of physical and digital will drive the merging of traditional goods, services and experiences into new forms of product. We also foresee that - just as today's social media services are co-created by consumers who provide content and data - so will be these new data-driven products. At the same time, we are also witnessing a crisis of trust concerning the commercial use of personal data that threatens to undermine this vision of data-driven products. Hence, it is vitally important to build trust with consumers and operate within an increasingly complex regulatory environment from the earliest stages of innovating future products.
Our user-centred approach involves external partners and the public in "research-in-the-wild", grounding our fundamental research in real world challenges. Our delivery programme combines a bottom-up approach in which researchers are given the opportunity (and provided with the skills) to follow new impact opportunities in collaboration with partners as they arise (our Agile programme), with a top-down approach that strategically coordinates how these activities are targeted at wider communities (our Campaigns programme, with successive focus on Consumables, Co-production and Welfare), and reflective processes that allow us to draw out broader conclusions for the widest possible impact (our Cross-Cutting programme).
Throughout we aim to continue to develop the capacity in our researchers, the wider DE research community and more broadly within society, to engage in responsible innovation using personal data within the Digital Economy.
Planned Impact
This primary focus of our proposal is on delivering impact across the maturing Digital Economy, currently entering a crisis of trust in commercial personal data use. We target business, third sector organisations and public bodies from a diverse range of sectors including creative industries, retail, consumer goods, finance, energy, transportation and healthcare, as well as the ICT companies who are delivering the enabling technologies. These will benefit in multiple ways, including:
- Understanding how to better interpret complex and ambiguous human social data, in an increasingly regulated environment;
- Understanding how to embed such interpretations into personally meaningfully products that meet wider objectives of fulfilment, wellbeing and sustainability;
- Knowing how to do this responsibly and legally so as to build trust with consumers, customers and citizens;
- Being able to envision and demonstrate future data-driven products that blend the physical and digital that will drive the merging of traditional goods, services and experiences into new forms of product;
- Learning about the opportunities and challenges raised by such products through public deployments and field trials;
- Expanding the capabilities of the staff through exposure to new concepts, technologies and methods emerging from DE research;
- Gaining access to talented young people (especially CDT students) through internships and Agile projects with the potential to recruit them downstream;
- Entering a neutral environment in which they can engage with other partners at different points along the value chain for future data-driven products enabling cross- sectoral learning.
A distinctive focus of this iteration of Horizon is delivering policy impact. The government increasingly needs to provide leadership in the regulation of the digital. A crucial feature of this is the development of policies and a regulatory framework that ensure that products can be trusted in their use of personal data; prevent online harms; and secure the infrastructure to prevent it becoming a springboard for cyberattacks. Horizon will engage government departments and agencies (e.g. DCMS, DHSC, ICO, NCSC) and work closely with policy makers to tightly integrate understandings of technology and policy in a fast moving domain with a diverse set of stakeholders including platform providers, companies delivering digital products, regulators, civil interest and consumer groups. As part of this work we will provide policy makers with:
- creative tools to directly engage diverse stakeholders in co-creating future policy environments
- policy toolkits for stakeholders subject to these policies to help design products that are demonstrably compliant with these environments
- insights into the practical challenges and opportunities around realising the Secure by Design framework of IoT security currently being developed by DCMS .
Our proposal will ultimately have societal impact through the new kinds of products that will be developed, which deliver greater value to consumers and directly promote consumer welfare, including mental health. Consumers stand to benefit in every aspect of their lives - work, home and play through:
- products that are personalised to their needs;
- products which provide accountable provenance;
- products designed for social use and that can be trusted;
- being recognised as the co-creators of these products;
- methods and tools that directly engage them in their design.
Our proposal sets out a wide-ranging programme of impact activities to deliver these benefits, including Agile translational projects, a strategically coordinated Campaign to maximize impact among clusters of partners; and supporting programmes to develop individuals and the wider Digital Economy community.
- Understanding how to better interpret complex and ambiguous human social data, in an increasingly regulated environment;
- Understanding how to embed such interpretations into personally meaningfully products that meet wider objectives of fulfilment, wellbeing and sustainability;
- Knowing how to do this responsibly and legally so as to build trust with consumers, customers and citizens;
- Being able to envision and demonstrate future data-driven products that blend the physical and digital that will drive the merging of traditional goods, services and experiences into new forms of product;
- Learning about the opportunities and challenges raised by such products through public deployments and field trials;
- Expanding the capabilities of the staff through exposure to new concepts, technologies and methods emerging from DE research;
- Gaining access to talented young people (especially CDT students) through internships and Agile projects with the potential to recruit them downstream;
- Entering a neutral environment in which they can engage with other partners at different points along the value chain for future data-driven products enabling cross- sectoral learning.
A distinctive focus of this iteration of Horizon is delivering policy impact. The government increasingly needs to provide leadership in the regulation of the digital. A crucial feature of this is the development of policies and a regulatory framework that ensure that products can be trusted in their use of personal data; prevent online harms; and secure the infrastructure to prevent it becoming a springboard for cyberattacks. Horizon will engage government departments and agencies (e.g. DCMS, DHSC, ICO, NCSC) and work closely with policy makers to tightly integrate understandings of technology and policy in a fast moving domain with a diverse set of stakeholders including platform providers, companies delivering digital products, regulators, civil interest and consumer groups. As part of this work we will provide policy makers with:
- creative tools to directly engage diverse stakeholders in co-creating future policy environments
- policy toolkits for stakeholders subject to these policies to help design products that are demonstrably compliant with these environments
- insights into the practical challenges and opportunities around realising the Secure by Design framework of IoT security currently being developed by DCMS .
Our proposal will ultimately have societal impact through the new kinds of products that will be developed, which deliver greater value to consumers and directly promote consumer welfare, including mental health. Consumers stand to benefit in every aspect of their lives - work, home and play through:
- products that are personalised to their needs;
- products which provide accountable provenance;
- products designed for social use and that can be trusted;
- being recognised as the co-creators of these products;
- methods and tools that directly engage them in their design.
Our proposal sets out a wide-ranging programme of impact activities to deliver these benefits, including Agile translational projects, a strategically coordinated Campaign to maximize impact among clusters of partners; and supporting programmes to develop individuals and the wider Digital Economy community.
Organisations
- University of Nottingham (Lead Research Organisation)
- National Nuclear Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Oxfam GB (Collaboration)
- Government of the UK (Collaboration)
- Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN (Collaboration)
- National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS) (Collaboration)
- Alan Turing Institute (Collaboration)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Collaboration)
- AlbinoMosquito (Collaboration)
- Ofgem Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Collaboration)
- KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Unilever (Netherlands) (Collaboration)
- Beko PLC R&D Centre (Collaboration)
- Culham Science Centre (Collaboration)
- Horizon Digital Economy Research (Collaboration)
- INNOVATE UK (Collaboration)
- PepsiCo (Collaboration)
- Harare Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Live Cinema UK (Collaboration)
- Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) (Collaboration)
- British Antarctic Survey (Collaboration)
- Experian (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- B3 Media (Project Partner)
- Infosys (Project Partner)
- Ordnance Survey (Project Partner)
- ARM (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL (Project Partner)
- Broadway (Project Partner)
- Jacobs Douwe Egberts UK Production Ltd (Project Partner)
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Project Partner)
- Internet Society (Project Partner)
- East Midlands Special Operations Unit (Project Partner)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (Project Partner)
- eNurture Network (Project Partner)
- Unilever (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- BlueSkeye AI LTD (Project Partner)
- Galinsky Works LTD (Project Partner)
- 5Rights (Project Partner)
- XenZone (Project Partner)
- Nottingham Lakeside Arts (Project Partner)
- Live Cinema Ltd (Project Partner)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- British Games Institute (BGI) (Project Partner)
- OLIO Exchange Ltd. (Project Partner)
- Financial Conduct Authority (Project Partner)
- Capital One Bank Plc (Project Partner)
- NIHR MindTech MedTech Co-operative (Project Partner)
- City Arts Nottingham Ltd (Project Partner)
- Process Systems Enterprise (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Project Partner)
- Digital Catapult (Project Partner)
- PepsiCo (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Integrated Transport Planning (Project Partner)
- Nottingham Contemporary (Project Partner)
- MOZES (Meadows Ozone Energy Services) (Project Partner)
- University of Cambridge (Project Partner)
- Kino Industries Ltd (Project Partner)
- NCC Engagement and Consultation (Project Partner)
- Hot Knife Media (Project Partner)
- Ipsos (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Benford S
(2023)
Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS
Benford S
(2022)
Sensitive Pictures
Benford S
(2022)
Sensitive Pictures: Emotional Interpretation in the Museum
Berumen G
(2022)
Data as a Resource for Designing Digitally Enhanced Consumer Packaged Goods
in Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
Boudouraki A
(2023)
Emerging Telepresence Technologies for Hybrid Meetings: an Interactive Workshop
Title | AIM project - Before We Disappear |
Description | An interactive film that uses face recognition technology to assess the mood of the audience and change the narrative to show what they respond 'Before we Disappear' has been created by Dr Richard Ramchurn who is Director of Albino Mosquito Productions and researcher at the University of Nottingham's School of Computer Science, as part of Horizon's Cop Production project 'Adaptive Interactive Movies'. This film builds on Richard's award-winning work on brain controlled cinema and is his second film exploring this theme. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | Before We Disappear official launch event held at the Broadway Cinema in Nottingham 24 Feb 2023 Before We Disappear was shown to the creative audience attending a LEADD:NG workshop An interview with the lead actress features on Horizons website as a partner case study: https://www.horizon.ac.uk/my-experiences-of-working-with-horizons-aim-project/ Before We Disappear was screed during an album launch event for an earlier brain controlled film created by Richard Ramchurn during his PhD studies at Horizon CDT. The MOMENT (supported by Horizons Media Campaign) was presented at Nottingham Contemporary on the 20th May 2023 to launch the LP soundtrack album release - funded by UoN and the LEADD:NG project. This event was an opportunity to showcase findings and outputs from Horizons Consumer Campaign project 'Adaptive Interactive Movies' - one being the creation of the film 'Before we Disappear' at the Cobot Maker Space. Link to event at Nottingham Contemporary (Horizon partner): https://nottinghamcontemporary.org/whats-on/albino-mosquito-the-moment-brain-controlled-film-screening-with-live-score/ |
URL | https://youtu.be/5C4rUrnhnPY |
Title | Adaptive Podcasts |
Description | An adaptive podcast which could integrate user data from IoT devices to create a personalised podcast in real time |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | work in progress |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/project/adaptive-podcasts/ |
Title | Animation video capturing the work of the Uncovering Consumer Consensus project |
Description | An animated video in collaboration with DECYS project - produced by Science Animated which provides an overview of the research and findings from Horizon's Round 1 Agile project: Uncovering Consumer Consensus |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | This video has been released widely via Sci Anim You Tube and Horizon social media channels. It supports raising awareness to methods for active capture of uncertainty and leeway in consumer preferences-to identify areas of hidden consensus and inform decisions about product design and market segmentation, while giving consumers' back active choice in the product design process. . |
URL | https://youtu.be/lSBI6atLdIo |
Title | Defence Against Dark Artefact: The Game |
Description | A board game designed to help developers and users of smart home technologies reflect on cybersecurity threats and management strategies. |
Type Of Art | Artwork |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | As part of the game development process, the research team has run a series of focus groups, where participants reported enhanced awareness and engagement with cybersecurity issues involved in IoT products. |
Title | Defence Against the Dark Artefacts Game |
Description | This was a serious board game created to critically reflect on issues arising from smart home cybersecurity and regulation. It was co-designed in an iterative methodology with 9 focus groups involving academic researchers and game designers. It has been printed as a physical artefact (after being digitally created during the Covid 19 pandemic). |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | Lessons learned about the process of developing a serious game, and is frequently mentioned in academic talks, so has awareness raising for the project around the world (e.g. recently in the talk I gave to UNSW on cybersecurity and design). |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/new-board-game-highlighting-findings-from-smart-home-security-research/ |
Title | Grow your own story |
Description | This is an interactive story telling assistant which has been built by the 'Storytelling - Grow Your Own Adventure' project (sitting with Horizon's Co Production Campaign) and supports parents and children to engage in rich, pesonalised and open ended storytelling activities. In addition to creating the interactive story telling assistant, content/stories to support testing the app was produced in collaboration with project partners. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | unknown to date |
URL | https://experience.horizon.ac.uk/ |
Title | It's All Connected |
Description | A board game to introduce the concept of, provoke thought around and raise awareness of technology repair. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Impact | Engagement with a wide range of users ranging from school students to a diverse set of adults across different locations in the U.K., exposing them to the concept of repair of technology, choices to be made here, their impact on the environment etc. |
Title | Jenny: Stroke rehab with a smart mirror, negative scenario |
Description | An example negaitve scenario for using a smart mirror for stroke rehabilitation |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | Used in TAS for Health workshops |
URL | https://www.tas.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Stroke-negative.mp4 |
Title | Jenny: Stroke rehab with a smart mirror, positive scenario |
Description | Example of a positive scenario using a smart mirror to monitor stroke rehabilitation. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | Used in workshops in the TAS for Health project |
URL | https://www.tas.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Stroke-positive.mp4 |
Title | New Forms of Public Value at the Edge: Designing for HDI and Trust in Media IoT Futures (eValuatE) |
Description | We worked with the BBC R&D on research to investigate the infrastructure of the internet from a public service point of view and the implications for audiences, as their personal data is collected, stored and analysed to create personalised recommendations and support targeted advertising. Our research project 'New Forms of Public Value at the Edge' involved the design of a Personal Data Store (PDS). This short video gives an overview of the PDS and provides stakeholders feedback |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | unknown |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QNxEXGwTnU |
Title | ReEnTrust: Algorithms and Us |
Description | The ReEnTrust project was a follow up to the UnBias project and Horizon underpinning research (CaSMa) - a collaboration between the Human Centred Computing group at the University of Oxford, the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, and HORIZON Digital Economy Research at the University of Nottingham. It focused on rebuilding and enhancing trust in algorithms. This video is part of the projects dissemination of results, unpacking some of the mystery in the algorithms encountered in every day life. |
Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Impact | The video has been widely shared to support raising awareness and a greater understanding of 'algorithms' |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBuMsw5E_E0 |
Title | The Future Machine |
Description | The Future Machine is an interactive artwork developed by artist Rachel Jacobs supporting activity within a wider project 'When the Future Comes' - a series of entangled artist interventions, devices and collaborations, developed over time through the emerging relations between these artists, places, ecologies, populations and communities. The project responds to our changing climate, weather and environment, as well as the social and cultural impacts of these increasingly uncertain times in each of the 5 places where the artists interventions are situated. |
Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Impact | The Future Machine has informed a number of uncertain moments within 4 different locations across the country. Horizon has supported events taking place in Nottingham and these have reported within the engagement activities section on this platform. One such event involved children from Year 6 at Mellers Primary School finally met the Future Machine in Christ Church Gardens. In their classroom they made light boxes with different words for the weather, using the words that the Future Machine uses to turn the live weather data it collects from the sensors at the back of the Future Machine into music. They also used their own words to describe the weather. The musicians Alex and Dave came to Nottingham (from London) to celebrate the blossoms and meet the school children, showing the children how the weather data controls the music. We talked about how the weather also effects when the trees blossom each year. The children made their own sounds and movement to represent the breeze that shook the pink and white blossoms petals from the trees, echoing the snow that had fallen the week before. Alex, Dave and the Future Machine played along. The children then split into groups to devise their messages for the future. Each of the 62 children took turns to meet Future Machine, turn the handle, receive a printed story about the world as it is now, and speak to the future. Later more people came to meet under the trees, that were covered in the light boxes the school children made last year with birds on them, along with the weather words these light boxes lit up the blossoms as the sun went down. Alex and Dave played the sounds of the weather, and traditional celebration songs from Alex's country - Burkina Faso - as we waited for sundown. The people who were there stood under the trees with hand generators that they turned to power the lights in the boxes and light up the tree. Future Machine played along, with the sounds of the weather, and witnessed the moment. People left messages for the future and listened to the messages from the past, including some of the messages left by the children earlier in the day. 60 children and 4 teachers met under the blossom trees 25 people attended the evening activity in person 75 messages for the future were recorded on the Future Machine 130 views on Facebo |
URL | https://www.whenthefuturecomes.net/nottingham-hub/ |
Description | This Next Stage DE centre shifts our focus from the collection and understanding of personal data to exploring how personal data can be used to co-create with users all manner of products for the digital economy that become more personalised and adaptive, and so deliver greater value to consumers and producers. Since Horizon was set up, we have seen a growing awareness of the economic importance of data and its link to future products, but also a growing crisis of trust in data handling. The challenge we now face is to ensure that data-driven products can be trusted by consumers. To deliver our vision we cluster key projects into three successive campaigns each representing a different starting point for approaching future hybrid products: Co-production, Consumer Products and Welfare. The focus of the Co-Production campaign was on engaging consumers in the making and distribution of hybrid products. The creative and cultural industries provided a natural starting point as they are relatively advanced in their thinking about co-production and offer a safe and accessible testbed for engaging consumers in creative explorations. Our projects have explored novel ways in which consumers might co-create stories, film, festival content, and podcasts, from directly producing content to indirectly shaping experiences through their personal data. Our research has led to mechanisms to enable hybrid participation, group engagement and to give users greater control over trust in personalisation by processing user's personal data locally. The Consumer Products campaign, which is underway, is investigating the creative design of digitally enhanced consumer products, exploring how technologies such as virtual and augmented reality can enhance the consumer experience. Much of the current IoT focus is on embedding intelligence into products, hence we must look instead at the technology innovations needed in the digital ecosystems surrounding this class of product and how the product identity and digital footprint can be conveyed using very low cost adaptations. This form of hybridity offers new opportunities to add value to products, to suggest new experience propositions to consumers, and to drive responsible consumption in a circular economy. Our final Welfare campaign will focus on enabling industry to create data-driven products that deliver positive impacts. |
Exploitation Route | A key part of our work to date has focused on supporting the Creative Industries in delivering impact into the digital economy. This became of paramount importance as the pandemic hit, resulting in catastrophic impact to our cultural fabric, local economies, and those who work in creative industries. In recognition of the continuing challenges for this sector our first campaign focused Co-Production, working with creative partners from broadcasting, film, theatre, festivals and storytelling to engage consumers in the making and distribution of hybrid experiences. We have also been working with independent artists who have created interactive installations and unique devices requiring the engagement of the general public and the use of their personal data, to address global challenges such as reducing carbon emissions and environmental change. In the Consumer Products campaign we are collaborating with industry partners to investigate the creative design of digitally enhanced consumer products, exploring how technologies such as virtual/augmented reality and domestic robots can enhance the consumer experience. Finally, our Welfare campaign will build on our growing collaboration with NIHR-funded MindTech and the BRC to establish a portfolio of projects explicitly aimed at establishing technology, methodologies and toolkits that actively promote personalised digital health and a consumer welfare agenda. |
Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Communities and Social Services/Policy Creative Economy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/ |
Description | Economic Impact - while consumers are the ultimate beneficiaries, our design understandings around technologies and trust will be of use primarily to those seeking to innovate future hybrid products. Our three campaigns target impact at the food and consumer goods, creative and media, and health and wellbeing sectors as well as the IoT technology sector that underpins these. Creative and media: we support a creative pipeline in partnership with artists and designers, which have created tourable products such as Home:Zero (at Lakeside theatre, Strelley Library and Mansfield Museum), Richard Ramchurn's 'Before We Disappear' interactive film and hybrid festival events (Voxjam, University of Nottingham Diversity Festiva, and exhibition with the National Holocaust Centre and Museum), alongside platforms such as Bubbles and the 'Experience authoring and playback tool'. Food and consumer goods: We have established relationships with major FMCG companies who will be able to exploit our results from the Consumer Products campaign. Health and wellbeing: Horizon and our partner MindTech are part of the £22M NIHR-funded Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre that supports the translation of healthcare research into prototype products that are ready for clinical trials as well as licencing deals. Policy impact is a key focus for this iteration of Horizon and will arise from direct interaction with policy makers, including briefings in response to UK, EU, and international calls for evidence. Government and regulators need to establish a regulatory framework that ensures that products can trusted in their use of personal data; prevent online harms; and secure the infrastructure to prevent it becoming a springboard for cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. Horizon directly engages policymakers to make direct policy input in these areas (e.g. Submission to UK Government call for evidence - The right to privacy: digital data, DCMS Response To Call Connected Tech Smart Or Sinister, Submission to DCMS consultation - Audience protection standards on Video-on-Demand Services). Importantly, we also provide them with the creative tools they require to directly engage diverse stakeholders (IoT platform providers, companies delivering products on top of these, third sector organisations, regulators and also consumer groups) in (i) co-creating future policy environments and (ii) designing products that are demonstrably compliant with these environments. Social impact will arise from new kinds of products that deliver greater value to consumers. Consumers stand to benefit in every aspect of their lives - work, home and play. Our research emphasises products that directly promote consumer welfare, including mental health. Consumers will benefit from all manner of products that are personalised to their needs, provide accountable provenance, are designed for social use and can be trusted. They will also benefit from being recognised as the co-creators of these products and from methods and tools that directly engage them in their design. Each of our three campaigns includes significant public facing activity: staging events at festivals and touring cultural works to directly engage tens of thousands of people in the co-production campaign; releasing products in the Consumables Campaign; and participating in design workshops and feasibility studies in the Welfare Campaign. |
First Year Of Impact | 2021 |
Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | AIM Co-Production project leading on Developing Interactive Cinematic Content Workshop & SCREENING: Before We Disapper |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/developing-interactive-cinematic-content-workshop-tickets-47006507629... |
Description | Advance Research Practice - Horizon CDT training session YR1 |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Students found the session useful. It included a practical approach to Responsible Innovation, making use of a tool we developed as part of the hoRRIzon1 Agile Project (the RRI Prompts and Practice Cards), and in that session to reflect in the research methodology CDT students believed should be more appropriate to their PhD project, and hence to be included in their final project proposal. |
URL | https://rdmc.nottingham.ac.uk/handle/internal/9564 |
Description | Dr Ansgar Koene invited to The All Party Parliamentary Group on Data Analytics in collaboration with RoboTIPS |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Dr Ansgar Koene invited to join an Ethics Committee at MOSIP |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
URL | https://www.mosip.io/ |
Description | Dr Ansgar Koene invited to present to the IE Big Data & AI Club, Spain |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
URL | https://ieconnects.ie.edu/iebigdata/blog/ |
Description | Dr Koene invited to contribute towards UK Government funded AI R&D project |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/understanding-the-uk-artificial-intelligence-commercialisation |
Description | Dr Koene invited to participate in a Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum Workshop |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/the-digital-regulation-cooperation-forum |
Description | Dr Koene presented 'AI ethics and regulation for a trustworthy AI icosystem' to the Institute of Engineering and Technology IET (Feedback: Ansgar Koene was a superb speaker. His presentation was very well structured and very interesting. Following every word from beginning to end was easy. I work now in Financial Markets with interest in regulation. All of the content was relevant to the challenges faced by regulators and regulated firms in Financial Services. An excellent presentation from a very knowledgeable expert. I learnt a lot from this lecture, and took away plenty of sources of further research. |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
URL | https://events.theiet.org/events/ai-ethics-and-regulation-for-a-trustworthy-ai-ecosystem/ |
Description | Horizon CDT and AI DTC training on RRI module |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | This is the second year researchers from Horizon DER, UoN (Virginia Portillo, Liz Dowthwaite, Helena Webb and Peter Craigon) have fully run the RRI training module (apart from providing other training sessions to that CDT), and the fist year students from the AI DTC were invited to join this training too. Group activities with physical RRI tools (e.g., decks of Responsible Innovation Prompts and Practice Cards) spark interesting and engaging discussions. |
Description | Horizon CDT training YR1- Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) module |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | I am part of a working group focused on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Skills. I am part of the TAS Skills Committee, and the TAS Skills Lab. |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | The skills programme One of the TAS Hub's central objectives is to develop the next generation of highly skilled TAS researchers, engineers, and designers by: - Connecting and training transdisciplinary doctoral researchers - Accelerating the transfer of cutting-edge research to industry - Enabling rapid upskilling and reskilling within key industries. The Skills Programme aims to achieve this through four key activities: the Doctoral Training Network (DTN), student internships, staff fellowships, and the Syllabus Lab. |
URL | https://www.tas.ac.uk/ |
Description | Informed Public Policy and Planning in Western Australia |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
Impact | The framework directly supports stakeholder-specific improvement of quality-of-life through guiding environmental management. A key challenge of environmental management is the complexity of leveraging limited resources to deliver maximum utility for stakeholders. Traditional methods employ economics-driven measures, i.e. seek to optimise the state of the environment in respect to a monetary valuation of its properties (e.g. clean water, various species, etc.). The framework developed here uses novel ways to capture information directly from local stakeholders directly affected by the management of a the given catchment. These data, which are often complex and uncertain (e.g. discord between stakeholder groups) are integrated with environmental data to provide managers with a a clear and transparent, i.e. explainable-to-stakeholders set of recommendations on which management actions are expected to deliver the maximum increase in stakeholder quality of life, for the level of investment/resource available. |
URL | https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au/images/documents/conservation-management/wetlands/recovery_catchments/Lak... |
Description | Neelima Sailaja (Transitional Assistant Professor) Horizon CDT Training YR1: Advanced Research Practice - Panel Discussion |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | ORBIT RRI training workshop to TAS Hub |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
URL | https://www.tas.ac.uk/responsible-research-and-innovation/ |
Description | Organised visit/tour to The University of Nottingham and Cobot Maker Space |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
URL | https://cobotmakerspace.org/news/upcoming-visit/ |
Description | Pepi Barnard - panel member |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
URL | https://twitter.com/HorizonCDT/status/1517486181616865280 |
Description | Professor McAuley invite to The Royal Society Working Group to develop Online Information Environment Report |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
URL | https://royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/online-information-environment/the-online-informati... |
Description | RRI Workshop by hoRRIzon Agile round 2 project to TAS Hub academics and researchers |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | RRI activity at Foundation Future Leaders Annual meeting (Foundation for Science and Technology) at the University of Nottingham |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Response to Draft Online Safety Bill (Joint Committee) - ICO call for Evidence |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/159977483/Draft_Online_Safety_Bill_a_call_for_evidence_from_t... |
Description | Submission to Justice and Home Affairs Committee - New Technologies and the application of the law |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1272/new-technologies-and-the-application-of-the-law/ |
Description | Submission to UK Government call for evidence - The right to privacy: digital data |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/7466129 |
Description | hoRRIzon RRI card session delivered at Coronavirus Discourses Project PIP contributions and celebration evaluation event |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
URL | https://c19comms.wp.horizon.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Coronavirus-Discourses-Evaluation-Event... |
Description | hoRRIzon project- RRI case studies |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Description | Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants (Before we disappear) |
Amount | £14,489 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ACPG-00461078 |
Organisation | Arts Council England |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2021 |
End | 11/2022 |
Description | Coronavirus Discourses: Linguistic Evidence For Effective Public Health Messaging |
Amount | £365,126 (GBP) |
Funding ID | AH/V015125/1 |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 07/2022 |
Description | EPSRC - PETRAS Opportunities Fund - New forms of Public Value at the Edge: Designing for HDI and Trust in Media IoT Futures |
Amount | £75,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Nottingham |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2020 |
End | 05/2021 |
Description | Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT |
Amount | £1,006,120 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/W024780/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2022 |
End | 09/2024 |
Description | Flexible Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration Fund |
Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University of Nottingham |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2022 |
End | 01/2023 |
Description | RAKE: Responsible Innovation Advantage in Knowledge Exchange (RAI UK Impact Accelerator)- Researcher Co-I |
Amount | £185,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2023 |
End | 04/2025 |
Description | UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub |
Amount | £13,569,722 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V00784X/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2020 |
End | 08/2024 |
Title | Equality Diversity and Inclusion Cards - Guide |
Description | Guidance to help people use the EDI cards |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Greater use and dissemination of EDI cards - ongoing |
URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/edi/university-initiatives/edi-cards.aspx |
Title | Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Cards |
Description | A card based tool to help engagement with issues of EDI in research and beyond |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | More than 200 sets distributed and used across disciplines - work in progress |
URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/edi/university-initiatives/edi-cards.aspx |
Title | Ethics in Research Cards |
Description | A card based tool to enable researchers to engage more fully with the ethics of their work |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Sets of cards distributed - work in progress |
Title | Moral-IT Cards |
Description | 'The Moral-IT Deck is a set of physical cards that pose questions to teams of designers about the technology they are creating. Drawing together human computer interaction, computer ethics and design perspectives, the cards present questions and concepts in four suits (ethical, legal, privacy and security). These raise awareness of ethics in design by questioning the values and practices being embedded into their systems. They are used with the Moral-IT Impact Assessment Board, which provides a streamlined process for a team to collaboratively discuss and map out emerging risks, likelihood of occurrence, appropriate safeguards and challenges of addressing these. This process results in a plan for the team that will support them in building a more ethical system.' |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23299460.2021.1880112 see URL below for detail on notable impacts listed there |
URL | https://lachlansresearch.com/the-moral-it-legal-it-decks/ |
Title | RRI prompt and practice cards |
Description | These printable cards highlight 18 different aspects of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) that may be relevant to researchers and innovators. Cards can be used to reflect on a project and plan RRI activities or facilitate a discussion about priorities for RRI in a research or application area. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Updated version (3.1 June 2023): https://rdmc.nottingham.ac.uk/handle/internal/10519. In addition to the cards being introduced to Horizon and Trustworthy Autonomous Systems hub research project teams, they have been used at: Trustworthy Autonomous Hub 2023 Symposium and the RAI UK UoN-Wide Network introduction event (Sept 2023), Horizon CDT Industry Day (Oct 2023) and TeenTech Conference in London (July 2023) and copies sent out to colleagues at BT, Digital Catapult, IBM and ORBIT. Decks of the cards have also been taken and used with colleagues in USA (Austin and John Hopkins University) in advancing networking and collaboration with TAS Hub and RAI UK activities. 15.9.2022 Turing Knowledge Cafe at the Cobot Maker Space, Nottingham 15.9.2022 RRI training session ECR Engineering, University of Nottingham 20.9.2022 Horizon Open All Senses project workshop 28.9.2022 MRC-AMHDM Digital Youth Huddle 5.10.22 Coronavirus Discourses project at end of project event with public engagement panel 6.10.22 workshop at TAS Hub Pump Priming Round 2 kick off meeting 25.10.2022 Horizon CDT 1st year cohort workshop 3.11.2022 TAS Skills Day 8.11.2022 TAS Kick Off Horizons Agile Round 1 project - MIDAS reported engaging with the cards in the formative phases of their research using them to shape the nature of research questions and process (MIDAS end of project report). 11.11.2022 Cards used by the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham in a lab session involving academics, researchers and students on 11th November 2022 16.11.2022 Horizon consumables campaign workshop - overview of RRI and support options as part of initial plenary session 5.12.2022 MRC AMHDM workshop 6.12.2022 Animal Computer Interaction workshop Jan 2024 : Ivona Spill, Assistant Director Research Funding and Contracts, University of Oxford: I am currently developing an internal training on RRI for staff at Oxford University and I wonder whether the fantastic RRI cards that you have developed could be used during such training and recommended as a useful resource? Jan 2024: TAS Hub forwarded a request from Jagmohan Chauhan an assistant professor at IntellEcT Systems Lab, Univ of Southampton who was sourcing an RRI expert to advise on how to best manage RRI (in respect of a new project they had submitted a funding application for). Horizon hoRRIzon team member, Virginia Portillo met Jagmohan online providing ideas and suggestions to support the funding proposal. Jan 2024:Through a networking opportunity, Dr Suchith Anand Senior Adviser to Governments and International Organisations | Scientist | AI Ethics | AI Governance | Policy | Consultant in Data and AI Ethics | Global Citizen | SDG Volunteer and Advocate met Virginia Portillo which resulted in providing a set of the cards and materials to support a CDT data training programme (run in Feb 2024). This presented another opportunity for a colleague of Dr Anands (Kathryn Bailey) to use the cards for a Data Ethics in Education campaign being organised. There is a potential opportunity through this connection to collaborate with a project - Ceibal - which is based in Uruguay. Some quotes obtained when taking the cards out to use include: "Before this exercise, I was not aware of this concept. Now I have realized this useful resource for my future projects." "The experiential aspect of putting theory to action was incredibly helpful." "The questions and actions on the cards supported me in understanding about foresight and planning for (un)intended consequences. Discussion using the cards helped me to better understand how to differentiate between ethics and RRI, as well as where the overlaps exist." "Most importantly the cards helped me to identify unintended consequences, which I am now able to apply mitigations to protect against." |
URL | https://experience.horizon.ac.uk/2022/09/30/rri-prompt-practice-cards/ |
Title | hoRRIzon project - RRI action plan |
Description | We engaged with two research projects (from Horizon and the TAS Hub) and co-created with them an RRI action plan embedding the principles of RRI and addressing each project specifics needs. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Supported RRI practice to two research teams within the digital economy sector. |
Description | Adaptive Podcasts |
Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Investigating the socio-technical implications of leveraging audience personal data for podcasting. |
Collaborator Contribution | Access to the cutting edge concept of adapting podcasts to audience personal data. |
Impact | Work in Progress. A formative research session was run as part of the Ethical Dilemma Cafe (MozFest 2022), Manchester, United Kingdom where around 20 interviews were conducted. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Alan Turin Institute- hoRRIzon project partner |
Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Knowledge exchange, involvement of multidisciplinary colleagues |
Collaborator Contribution | Knowledge exchange, involvement of multidisciplinary colleagues |
Impact | A multidisciplinary Advisory Group (AG) set up by this project has supported our work mapping digital economy researchers' attitudes towards RRI and provided guidance for RRI implementation and evaluation to new work introduced by Horizon. AG sessions included discussion about: barriers/facilitators to current RRI/RI practice; gaps in current approaches to RRI/RI; applications and possible issues for RRI practice in relation to trustworthyICT systems across contacts and applications of trust and the opportunities and challenges of RRI and Policy. Potential RRI and institutional governance focused paper. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | AlbinoMosquito Productions - AiM project partner |
Organisation | AlbinoMosquito |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Our AiM Co-Production Campaign project has involved working with AlbinoMosquito Productions to investigate the processes involved in the creation of adaptive movies that collect and use audiences real-time personal data, while being considerate of the privacy and ethical implications of the scenario |
Collaborator Contribution | Run by husband and wife team Dr Richard Ramchurn and Rachel Ramchurn, AlbinoMosquito are based in Nottingham and work throughout the UK and internationally. Richard's experience as an artist and film director, both writing and producing films with technology that allows audiences to portray films by control from the brain, has provided invaluable insight and knowledge to support this 18 month project |
Impact | AiM is a multidisciplinary project involving computer scientists, students from the Nottingham University Business School and Cultures, Languages & Area Studies. A prototype produced in WP5 will be designed for exhibition in the wild, suitable for both in-person and online creative XR festivals, with which AlbinoMosquito have established connections. The national and international touring of previous interactive film research project work generated considerable international press engagement, which reached audiences of over 3 million. The prototype design developed during WP5 will be open source so that it is possible for other filmmakers to utilise and adapt the system to suit their own practice. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | BBC (Technical Advisory Team) |
Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | The Adaptive Podcasts project is working with Ian Forrester to build upon BBC R&Ds cutting edge podcasting techology |
Collaborator Contribution | see above |
Impact | n/a |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | BBC R&D - New Forms and MIDAS projects partner |
Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
Department | BBC Research & Development |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | knowledge exchange, development of new tech, promotion |
Collaborator Contribution | knowledge and insights |
Impact | New tech (PDS), evaluation/stakeholder feedback video, academic publications: https://www.horizon.ac.uk/the-bbcs-new-personalised-data-service/ |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Beko Plc - FAILSAFE |
Organisation | Beko PLC R&D Centre |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | The FAILSAFE project is defined through a co-creation process during the Horizon Consumables Campaign. The research team will look into what failures are possible in a robotic dishwasher loading/unloading scenario to inform the industry on design directions. |
Collaborator Contribution | Beko has contributed to the co-creation and plays an active role throughout the FAILSAFE Horizon project. |
Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration with sociology, responsible AI, robotics. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) |
Organisation | National Center for Scientific Research (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS) |
Country | France |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Our collaboration with CNRS started in the scope of Open All Senses Horizon project and extended to TAS-ART, where we build a wearable toolkit for generating haptic sensations for robotic experiences. We focus on how telepresence robots can be augmented through wearable technologies. |
Collaborator Contribution | CNRS has shared some of their wearable kits with us and researchers commit to attending monthly meetings. |
Impact | Zhou, F., Price, D., Pacchierotti, C. & Kucukyilmaz, A. (2023, July). Somabotics Toolkit for Rapid Prototyping Human-Robot Interaction Experiences using Wearable Haptics. In IEEE World Haptics Conference (Work-in-Progress paper). Collaboration between engineering and computer science. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Collaboration with Jiahong Chen on Uncovering Consumer Consensus (FMCGs) project |
Organisation | University of Sheffield |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We worked closely on developing and implementing a comprehensive programme of both qualitative and quantitative empirical research to address the research questions of the project. The majority of experimental design, data collection, and analysis relating to work packages 1 and 2 were led by team members from Horizon. |
Collaborator Contribution | With a background in law and ethics, Jiahong provided expert input throughout the project in relation to ethical and RRI considerations. Key short-term inputs related to ethical development and implementation of the research programme (e.g., advising on study sampling and data handling practices, and writing ethics proposals). Longer-term inputs related to RRI considerations around the broader adoption and use of the proposed data capture method. This involved leading a third work package, focused on identifying, evaluating, and ultimately mitigating potential ethical risks. Jiahong also led submission of a reflective article to the Journal of Responsible Technology. |
Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration, involving researchers with a background in Computer Science, Psychology, Linguistics, Marketing, and Law. Several outputs from this collaboration are listed under the Horizon: Trusted Data-Driven Products award. Early outcomes include engagement with industry partners in three focus group/workshop sessions, and presentation of preliminary findings at the Association for Business Communication conference (2021). Several further publications arising from this research are either submitted or planned. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Collaboration with Remote Applications in Challenging Environments (RACE) |
Organisation | Culham Science Centre |
Department | Remote Applications in Challenging Environments (RACE) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We have presented and visited the facilities at RACE in April 2022. This has successfully led to a direct research collaboration. We currently have a PhD student that was sponsored and co-supervised by RACE. The world leading robotic facility will be a fantastic testbed for the PhD student to test and apply their work in real life settings. |
Collaborator Contribution | The recent collaboration between with RACE has had a significant impact. Through the facility visit, the we gained valuable insights into the practical challenges that are faced in the field of nuclear robotics and teleoperation. The hands-on experience allowed for a deeper understanding of the challenges and provided a platform for exchanging information and ideas. This knowledge transfer was not only inspiring, but it also resulted in a mutual exchange of the latest research and advancements in the field. The benefits of this collaboration are two-fold. Firstly, it has allowed for a deeper understanding of the real-world challenges faced in nuclear robotics and teleoperation. This has opened up new avenues for research and development, leading to the potential for new solutions and innovations. Secondly, the knowledge transfer has facilitated cross-disciplinary collaboration, leading to a more comprehensive and well-rounded approach to tackling these challenges. Overall, this collaboration has demonstrated the importance of hands-on experiences, knowledge transfer, and cross-disciplinary collaboration in advancing the field of nuclear robotics and teleoperation. |
Impact | Joint PhD student working together. The student will also be doing an internship at RACE. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Collaboration with the Lakeside Arts Museum - Robot Deployment for an exhibition |
Organisation | University of Nottingham |
Department | University of Nottingham Museum |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have provided the telepresence platform and expertise to deploy a robot inside the museum. |
Collaborator Contribution | They are a museum interested in deploying new technologies to help augment their exhibitions |
Impact | Connected with Horizon Funded work and the open all senses project, we have explored a collaboration with the Lakeside Arts, where we have been successfully running a pilot study deploying one of our Telepresence robots in their exhibition to act as an autonomous tour guide. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Cross University Collaborations with the University of Lincoln and the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems and the The interactive technologies lab (intlab) |
Organisation | University of Lincoln |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This collaboration has led to the co-creation of joint funding applications. We also share knowledge and expertise and often co-host speakers for research talks. |
Collaborator Contribution | This collaboration has led to the co-creation of joint funding applications. We also share knowledge and expertise and often co-host speakers for research talks. |
Impact | This multidisciplinary collaborations led to the co-creation of joint funding applications. We also share knowledge and expertise and often co-host speakers for research talks. We have also recently submitted a joint scientific paper which is currently under review. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Domesticating Electric Vehicle Charging (DEVeC) project partner |
Organisation | Government of the UK |
Department | Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | access to academics and multidisciplinary researchers |
Collaborator Contribution | insight and knowledge contributions to support shaping project activity |
Impact | project in progress |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Harare Institute of Technology collaboration with Everything in Moderation Project |
Organisation | Harare Institute of Technology |
Country | Zimbabwe |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Team members from the Horizon Everything in Moderation project have been awarded funding from an internal UoN GCRF call to run a sister project. This sister project explores similar themes to Everything in Moderation, focusing on the Zimbabwean context. Research and development (R&D) is key to the economic and social development of ODA recipient nations. We propose a project that facilitates R&D in Zimbabwe and builds capacity through knowledge exchange. The project extends a current research study that focuses on a topic of global relevance. End-to-End Encryption (E2E) is a system of communication in which only those sending and receiving messages can see their content. Within this system, a message is encrypted when it is sent and is decrypted only when it is received by the recipient. Examples of apps that use E2E are WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram. These apps are growing in use in the Global North but in some cases are already extremely popular in the Global South. For instance, WhatsApp is by far the most used app in Zimbabwe, accounting for 44% of mobile app use. It is popular due to its affordability and accessibility, and is often used to facilitate economic participation and civic engagement. Research shows that this pervasiveness of WhatsApp across Zimbabwe benefits users through opportunities for one-to-one and one-to-many communications, but that problematic behaviours also occur such as the spread of misleading information and inflammatory content. Such behaviours can be hard for online platforms and regulators to address due to the private nature of communications on the app. As E2E-enabled platforms grow in use across the globe, it is necessary for research to investigate dilemmas faced by Internet platforms and policy makers. How can the spread of fake news and inflammatory content be moderated in private digital spaces? What is an appropriate balance between privacy and security? These dilemmas are being investigated by the current Horizon project Everything in Moderation (EiM). We will extend this work by running Trends and Challenges for the moderation of end-to-end encrypted communication in Zimbabwe as a companion project to EiM. In this companion project we partner with experts at the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT). We will support our collaborating colleagues at HIT to conduct interviews with a broad cross-section of stakeholders to identify the different challenges and potential solutions surrounding the moderation of E2E-enabled platforms specific to the Zimbabwean context. Analysis will advance the research programme at HIT and benefit EiM by deepening and enriching our project findings. Complementary knowledge exchange activities will further the relationship between the two universities, establishing new research networks and building towards a future funding bid for a larger-scale project. |
Collaborator Contribution | The team at Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) will be lead by CoI Calvin Mugauri. The team will conduct a series of interviews in Zimbabwe and collaborate with UoN to analyse and write up the results. |
Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary project that will lead to knowledge exchange between HIT and UoN, also academic dissemination and professional development. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Human Robot Teams Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Agile Project Collaboration |
Organisation | HORIZON Digital Economy Research |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I have joined this ongoing project as soon as I started my role at Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute in September 2021. I have supported the team with data collection and analysis as well as contributing to scientific publications and presentations. |
Collaborator Contribution | this cross institution project had clear deliverables, and the partners focused on a specific work packages in the bigger project. |
Impact | We are currently analysing the results from some of the experiments conducted. These will lead directly into scientific publications and datasets |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Human Robot Teams Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Agile Project Collaboration |
Organisation | King's College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I have joined this ongoing project as soon as I started my role at Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute in September 2021. I have supported the team with data collection and analysis as well as contributing to scientific publications and presentations. |
Collaborator Contribution | this cross institution project had clear deliverables, and the partners focused on a specific work packages in the bigger project. |
Impact | We are currently analysing the results from some of the experiments conducted. These will lead directly into scientific publications and datasets |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Human Robot Teams Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Agile Project Collaboration |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I have joined this ongoing project as soon as I started my role at Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute in September 2021. I have supported the team with data collection and analysis as well as contributing to scientific publications and presentations. |
Collaborator Contribution | this cross institution project had clear deliverables, and the partners focused on a specific work packages in the bigger project. |
Impact | We are currently analysing the results from some of the experiments conducted. These will lead directly into scientific publications and datasets |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Knowledge Transfer Partnership |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Co-investigator on KTP due to start in May. No contributions yet. |
Collaborator Contribution | No contributions yet. |
Impact | No contributions yet. |
Start Year | 2024 |
Description | Lakeside Arts - Storytelling: Grow your own Adventure project partner |
Organisation | University of Nottingham |
Department | Lakeside Arts |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | To explore new novel ways to encourage more diverse and user centred storytelling to create unique experiences. Knowledge exchange, tech development, consideration of RRI, access to academics and researchers |
Collaborator Contribution | input towards shaping project, insights into audience experience |
Impact | Designs and interaction strategies for audio and conversation based storytelling assistants A prototype of a digital storytelling assistant Business model for the DSA Academic publications |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Live Cinema - Horizon Co-Production project partner |
Organisation | Live Cinema UK |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | knowledge exchange, promotion of events |
Collaborator Contribution | knowledge exchange, connections with events, promotion of events |
Impact | New tech platform to support VOxjam online festivals (during and after Covid 19), UpBeat Festival 2021 plus one other (in progress). Academic papers in progress |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Ofgem - Domesticating Electric Vehicle Charging (DEVeC) project partner |
Organisation | Ofgem Office of Gas and Electricity Markets |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | access to academics and multidisciplinary researchers |
Collaborator Contribution | knowledge exchange and insights on current status of markets |
Impact | project in progress |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Oxfam - Horizon Co-Production project Future Festivals Partner |
Organisation | Oxfam GB |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | access to academics and multidisciplinary researchers, knowledge exchange, promotion of events |
Collaborator Contribution | knowledge exchange and insights regarding festival audiences/experience, promotion of events |
Impact | New tech platform to support VOxjam online festivals (during and after Covid 19), UpBeat Festival 2021 plus one other (in progress). Academic papers in progress |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Partnership with the National Nuclear Laboratory |
Organisation | Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We have established an early stage collaboration with NNL to support the PhD program at the Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training. The explored topics will be in the area of Human Robot Interaction, Teleoperation and Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. |
Collaborator Contribution | The industrial partner (NNL) will be involved in shaping the studentship topic, will host the student for placement, and will feed with real world research gaps and challenges that need to be explored. The partner may also co-fund the studentship. |
Impact | This is an early stage partnership that may lead to many outcomes. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Partnership with the National Nuclear Laboratory |
Organisation | National Nuclear Laboratory |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We have established an early stage collaboration with NNL to support the PhD program at the Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training. The explored topics will be in the area of Human Robot Interaction, Teleoperation and Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. |
Collaborator Contribution | The industrial partner (NNL) will be involved in shaping the studentship topic, will host the student for placement, and will feed with real world research gaps and challenges that need to be explored. The partner may also co-fund the studentship. |
Impact | This is an early stage partnership that may lead to many outcomes. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Partnership with the The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult |
Organisation | Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Co-creation of joint funding proposals for securing external funding |
Collaborator Contribution | offered support for internally funded project. |
Impact | At this stage, we are collaborating on ongoing research and co-writing funding proposals. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Pepsico - Towards empowering consumers to co-design FMCGs at scale by identifying hidden consensus project partner |
Organisation | PepsiCo |
Department | PepsiCo, UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | knowledge exchange, access to academic/researchers, focus groups |
Collaborator Contribution | knowledge exchange, industry/consumer insights, participation in focus groups |
Impact | academic publications video animation |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Rachel Jacobs has been working with climate Scientist John King (British Antarctic Survey) |
Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Rachel has been working with John to develop the 'future quests', discussing how poetry, scientific data and storytelling can support people to conceptualise climate change. This has resulted in the development of the 'News From the Planet' section of the website and mobile phone app. This work is moving to a new phase, exploring how the 'future quests' can act more as reflective prompts to help people consider the future in new ways, rather than informative 'news'. This has developed as a result of the successful prompts created by artist/writer Wallace Heim for the water interventions in Cumbria that appeared to have a transformative effect on the participants feelings about the future and sense of connection with the place and the environment. https://www.whenthefuturecomes.net/category/news-from-the-planet/ |
Collaborator Contribution | see above description of collaboration |
Impact | development of a 'News from the planet' section on the website: https://www.whenthefuturecomes.net/category/news-from-the-planet/ and a mobile phone app |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Streaming workshop with Live Cinema |
Organisation | Live Cinema UK |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Facilated a Live streaming workshop based on The MOMENT Live Score Performance. This was attended by artists working with Live Cinema and was part of the LIVE CINEMA III: THE REOPENING. There was an accompanying Live Score Performance and panel discussion. |
Collaborator Contribution | Live Cinema included us in their programme and brought together a diverse group of artists. |
Impact | Live Score Performance Live Streaming Workshop |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | TNO- The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Reserach |
Organisation | Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) |
Country | Netherlands |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Knowledge exchange, involvement of multidisciplinary colleagues. |
Collaborator Contribution | Knowledge exchange, involvement of multidisciplinary colleagues. |
Impact | A multidisciplinary Advisory Group (AG) set up by this project has supported our work mapping digital economy researchers' attitudes towards RRI and provided guidance for RRI implementation and evaluation to new work introduced by Horizon. AG sessions included discussion about: barriers/facilitators to current RRI/RI practice; gaps in current approaches to RRI/RI; applications and possible issues for RRI practice in relation to trustworthyICT systems across contacts and applications of trust and the opportunities and challenges of RRI and Policy. Potential RRI and institutional governance focused paper. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Unilever - Robots Mediating Interaction and Towards empowering consumers to co-design FMCGs at scale by identifying hidden consensus project partners |
Organisation | Unilever |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | knowledge exchange, access to academic/researchers, use/provision of space (Cobot Maker Space) |
Collaborator Contribution | knowledge exchange, industry insights in relation to the area of robotics, participation in focus groups |
Impact | TBC - project in progress |
Start Year | 2021 |
Title | Bubbles Version 1 (closed source) |
Description | A tool for delivering hybrid experiences of festivals. This first version remains closed source, but our follow up will be fully open source. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Impact | Several new partnerships forming as a result of demos of the software, and several new outputs coming as a result of these, including a new partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company, A Local Circus Company, and The Nottingham Equality and Diversity Festival. |
Title | CSJBot Alice Robot Control System |
Description | A Robot Operating System stack for controlling a CSJBot Alice humanoid robot, including a Wizard of Oz graphical user interface. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | This software has been used to support projects within the Horizon project, as well as for growing the technical capacity of the Cobot Maker Space at the University of Nottingham. |
URL | https://github.com/Cobot-Maker-Space/csjbot-alice-ros-control |
Title | DECSYS major feature update (Prolific integration) |
Description | DECSYS - 'Discrete and Ellipse-based response Capture SYStem' - enables creation and administration of digital surveys that elicit both conventional and interval-valued responses (using an ellipse-based response format). This output relates to a substantial feature update to the software, permitting integration with the 'Prolific' online sampling service (cf. Palan & Schitter, 2018). This includes automatic direction of study participants from Prolific to DECSYS study sub-surveys (i.e., randomised condition allocation), recording of participants' pseudonymous Prolific IDs, as well as auto-redirection to Prolific with survey completion code for confirmation. This greatly facilitates online sampling at scale for interval-valued surveys, including for representative samples (using the Prolific automatic sample stratification tool). DECSYS incorporates a range of features, and is designed to maximise versatility for experimenters and usability for participants. Surveys can be conducted either locally or online, and results easily exported. The key component of DECSYS is that it provides a vehicle for efficient digital capture of interval-valued survey responses using an ellipse-based response mode. DECSYS takes advantage of the recent proliferation of touch-screen devices to do so in a fast, cohesive and intuitive manner. The ellipse response mode allows respondents to quickly and easily provide interval-valued responses, so as to indicate uncertainty, vagueness, or inherent range in their responses. |
Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | At least two research studies have been conducted using this new feature. This permitted recruitment of stratified samples online, substantially improving sample representativeness in both cases. |
URL | https://www.lucidresearch.org/decsys.html |
Title | Experience authoring and playback tool. |
Description | A set of tools for scripting and playing interactive storytelling sessions using synthesized voice. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | The software has been demoed in two workshops with the public. |
Title | Kitchen sensor kit and dashboard |
Description | A set of web dashboards that monitor and display data from (bluetooth connected) sensors installed in a kitchen. One displays realtime sensor data and another displays comparative longitudinal data against prior tasks. A cleaning sponge instrumented with sensors in the handle to track cleaning activity and a tap-based flow monitor for tracking water usage. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | The dashboards have been used aid to studies with groups of students and staff. The dashboard designs and data analysis (from data collected from the sensors) will be presented to industry stakeholders in an upcoming workshop. |
Title | Memory Machine III |
Description | The Memory Machine versions III is the operating software for the Memory Machine III digital artefact. It provides functionality for collating and organising digital memories, and facilitates the sharing of the such memories. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | The software was primarily used for facilitating research studies using the Memory Machine III prototype. |
URL | https://github.com/horizon-institute/mema |
Title | PriPA |
Description | Performs analytics on personal data in a privacy-preserving manner. Reads content from a list of whitelisted websites, and provides you with statistics regarding the read content. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Public Involvement Panel (PIP) consulted throughout |
URL | https://github.com/horizon-institute/PriPA |
Title | The Memory Machine v2.0 |
Description | The Memory Machine project aims to contextualise personal memories (pictures, videos, music, 3D content) into timelines to create personalised digital souvenirs, digital repositories for the end-of-life, engaging tools for personal reflection, history education, reminiscence interventions for dementia care, and tools for accessing cultural heritage. The Memory Machine application, as a digital platform, provides the tools to allow creation and curation of memories that enable meaningful artefacts to be brought to life with rich emotional value. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | A series of workshops with different user groups were held using the application as a discussion point. |
URL | https://github.com/horizon-institute/the-memory-machine |
Description | "Dive into RRI" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I run a hands-on activity at the Horizon DER Away day in November 2023, linked to a Horizon research outcome: Responsible Innovation Prompts and Practice Cards (RI Cards) https://experience.horizon.ac.uk/. The activity sparked reflection with the audience and positive feedback was provided about the value of the RI Cards to raise awareness about RRI and facilitate its embedded practice. Members of the Horizon Advisory Board from Microsoft, EPSRC, and the BBC R&D Research Lead complemented us on our RRI-high level tool (the RI Cards) and took physical decks of the RI Cards to be used with their team within their institutions. Moreover, the BBC used the RI Cards to inspire the development of a bespoke RI tool for the BBC to be used within the AI media sector as part of the BBC R&D RI society project (https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/responsible-innovation-society) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/dive-into-rri-and-beyond-horrizon-3-0-legacy-and-impact-project/ |
Description | "Why am I interested in Responsible Innovation? From human cells to digital citizens" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A blog describing my interest in Responsible Innovation and motivation as a member of the Responsible Digital Futures group, at CS, University of Nottingham. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.responsible-digital-futures.org/2023/02/23/why-am-i-interested-in-responsible-innovation... |
Description | "hoRRIzon 2: Responsible Research and Innovation for trusted products" - First Advisory Group meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Introduction of the first draft of the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Prompts and Practice cards. Tool designed for the hoRRIzon1 and follow-up project hoRRIzon2 team, as a tool to aid reflection on a project and plan RRI activities. Cards were welcomed by the AG members and useful discussion and feedback fed into the development of the first physical version of the cards (Version 2.1, August 2022). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | 'Scaremongering' or 'selfish'? Exploring the reception of public health messaging during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation at the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Conference, Belfast 2023 delivered by Emma McClaughlin. The audience were interested in our approach and findings and approached with further questions following the usual Q&A session. Feedback was posted on the Discourses of Dementia blog at Lancaster University following the conference: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-discourses-of-dementia/2022/09/22/what-matters-in-applied-linguistics-and-who-determines-what-matters/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | 4th International Symposium on Applied Linguistics Research. Approaches to researching the reception of public health messaging: Lessons from the Coronavirus pandemic. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | McClaughlin, E. (2023, 4-5 November). Approaches to researching the reception of public health messaging: Lessons from the Coronavirus pandemic. 4th International Symposium on Applied Linguistics Research, Prince Sultan University Saudi Arabia. [Invited speaker]. Feedback from the Dean, College of Humanities and Science: 'On behalf of the Applied Linguistics Research Lab (ALLAB) at the College of Humanities and Sciences, Prince Sultan University, I extend sincere thanks and appreciation for your kind participation in the 4th International Symposium on Applied Linguistics Research (ALR2023), which was organized by ALLAB on Saturday and Sunday, November 4-5, 2023. Your talk entitled "Approaches to Researching the Reception of Public Health Messaging: Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic" was extremely informative, enlightening, and inspiring, and was thus very well-received by the audience. Indeed, the speech constituted a valuable addition to the symposium. I thank you once more for your distinctive contribution to the ALR2023 success and look forward to further collaboration in the near future.' Report of the event published in language teaching summarises the talk: doi:10.1017/S0261444823000460 'Next was a talk by Dr. Emma McClaughlin (University of Nottingham, UK), where insights from a study of UK Coronavirus messaging were discussed, underlining the value of responsible research approaches to practitioners communicating health threats to the public.' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | A University of Nottingham Press Release : Web video audience and interaction brings UPBEAT Festival to life |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This University of Nottingham Press Release covers research conducted within Horizon's Co-production Campaign project Future Festivals to support the development of a new web platform to host immersive events. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/web-video-audience-and-interaction-brings-upbeat-festival-to-life |
Description | A University of Nottingham Press Release announcing the launch of the Cobot Maker Space |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Cobot Maker Space has been developed with a combination of Smart Products Beacon and EPSRC funding and will be integral to delivering the research programmes of its partners - the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute and the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub. This Press Release announced the official opening of this new facility for human-robot interaction research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/cobot-maker-space-launched-to-explore-the-future-of-robots-and-ind... |
Description | A University of Nottingham Press Release: New research to boost digital revolution and keep people safe online |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A University of Nottingham Press Release announcing Horizon's third round of EPSRC funding 'Trusted Data Driven Products' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/new-research-to-boost-digital-revolution-and-keep-people-safe-onli... |
Description | A University of Nottingham Press Release: Parks count on new technology to monitor footfall |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This University of Nottingham Press Release delivered information about new technology being trialled at parks across the UK - developed during the WiseParks project. This technology has been taken further and has been further investigated - focusing on indoor environments - piloted within Hallward Library at the University of Nottingham as part of the SoDis project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/parks-count-on-new-technology-to-monitor-footfall |
Description | A University of Nottingham Press Release: Virtual Oxjam creates immersive festival fun |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A University of Nottingham Press Release covering the MRL and Horizon research and development of a hybrid virtual Oxjam experience |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/virtual-oxjam-creates-immersive-festival-fun |
Description | A blog post - The BBC's new personalised data service |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | We have been working with the BBC R&D on research to investigate the infrastructure of the internet from a public service point of view and the implications for audiences, as their personal data is collected, stored and analysed to create personalised recommendations and support targeted advertising. Our research project 'New Forms of Public Value at the Edge' involved the design of a Personal Data Store (PDS) referenced in this article, in which Ian Forrester and Hannes Ricklef, BBC R&D, talk about personalisation, user privacy and handling of data. The article also mentions earlier our earlier research - Databox and Living Room of the Future. Find out more about the Personal Data Store and listen to our stakeholders feedback in this short video. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/the-bbcs-new-personalised-data-service/ |
Description | AAAL 2022 Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A talk titled: Public health messaging for at risk populations: a UK-based case study. I presented work from the Coronavirus Discourses project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Abigail Fowler - MIDAS presentation at SIGCHI 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Abigail Fowler presented findings from the Horizon (Agile Round 1) project, MIDAS at SigCHI June 2022 " an exploration of account sharing practices on media platforms" . Abi networked with the sponsors (Nokia) and networked with representatives form YouTube and Sky |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://programs.sigchi.org/imx/2022/program/content/83802 |
Description | Adaptive Interactive Movies Final blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Final blog post to share progress |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/adaptive-interactive-movies-final-blog/ |
Description | Adaptive Interactive Movies Notts TV coverage |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Notts TV coverage of Before We Disappear - the interactive film produced during Horizon's Co Production campaign project 'Adaptive Interactive Movies' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G245XO2jZK0 |
Description | Adaptive Interactive Movies mid blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This mid project blog describes project progress and activities thus far |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/adaptive-interactive-movies-aim-half-way-point/ |
Description | Adaptive Interactive Movies video produced by University of Nottingham External Relations |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The production of this video supported a UoN Press Release about the screening of Before We Disappear- a film produced during Horizon's Adaptive Interactive Movies Co-Production Campaign project 'Adaptive Interactive Movies' and the research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4abNp5FLyTE |
Description | Adaptive Interactives Movie partner case study |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A collaborative piece to highlight the working relationship between the Horizon AIM project team and industry partner BlueSkeye AI |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/adaptive-interactive-movies-partnership-working-a-case-study/ |
Description | Adaptive Podcasts Introduction Blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An introduction to Adaptive Podcasts - an Agile Round 2 project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/an-introduction-to-adaptive-podcasts/ |
Description | Adaptive Podcasts attended MozFest as part of Future Mundane |
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 | As part of the Future Mundane project, around 20 interviews were conducted with participants who experienced the caravan's adaptive movie. As part of this interview, a set of formative research questions around adaptive podcasts were included in the sessions to help initiate the project's design. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Adaptive Podcasts mid blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A mid project blog describing activity and progress |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/halfway-point-adaptive-podcasts/ |
Description | Adaptive Podcasts visit British Science Festival as part of Future Mundane |
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 | A showing of the Edge of Reality experience was done for the general public. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://britishsciencefestival.org/event/edge-of-reality/ |
Description | Advances in Privacy-Preserving Analysis of Online Communication Data for Health Message Designers: Coronavirus Discourses in the UK (July 2022) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., Knight, D., McClaughlin, E., Clos, J., McAuley, D., Barnard, P., & Lang, A. Advances in Privacy-Preserving Analysis of Online Communication Data for Health Message Designers: Coronavirus Discourses in the UK. Presented at the 20th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET 2022). Online from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. 15th July 2022. The presentation was delivered by Elena Nichele, who received positive feedback after the presentation. One message said: "I'm really interested in seeing the results you referred to around what type of messages provoke what type of responses. On the ground, I construct health messaging and would really like to use what you've learned in your research and apply it in my messaging." Another attendee wrote: "I am very excited to hear what the Notts team is doing". Several attendees asked for the project website, as they were interested in reading outputs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Advances in Privacy-Preserving Analysis of Online Communication Data for Health Message Designers: Coronavirus Discourses in the UK. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., Knight, D., McClaughlin, E., Clos, J., McAuley, D., Barnard, P., & Lang, A. Advances in Privacy-Preserving Analysis of Online Communication Data for Health Message Designers: Coronavirus Discourses in the UK. Presented at the 20th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET 2022). Online from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. 15th July 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.polyu.edu.hk/engl/event/COMET2022/index/ |
Description | Advisory Group Meeting- "hoRRIzon/2" project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Second project meeting with our project Advisory Group. Five members of the AG with expertise in responsible innovation, computer science, law and social science attended the meeting as most of the project team members. Stakeholder engagement and co-creation is a key element of our project, so discussion and feedback provided were valuable to the project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Advisory Group for Everything in Moderation? Horizon Agile project |
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 | Advisory Group meeting for the Everything in Moderation? Project. Initial meeting involved three AG members and generated much discussion both during and afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Anna Maria Piskopani blog - Exploring the Impact of ChatGPT and generative AI in Higher Education |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research Fellow, Anna Maria Piskopani, along with Anna Chatzimichali worked together to write a blog for the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain entitled "exploring the impact of ChatGPT and generative AI in Higher Education" - published 25 Sept 2023 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.philosophy-of-education.org/exploring-the-impact-of-chatgpt-and-generative-ai-in-higher-... |
Description | Anna Maria interviewed by Vima |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Horizon's research lawyers, Anna-Maria Piskopani was approached for interview by a greek journalist who works for Vima. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Vima The questions were related to online safety bill and other moderation laws as EU DSA: What is the legal framework of moderation in EE, UK and USA? What are the positive and negative elements in new/ proposed regulatory framework of moderation in respect of human rights protection and democracy? What are the risks of social media communications especially during elections? Can an international moderation regulation be achieved? What do i think about the penal laws for those that spread false information especially in the pandemic framework? |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.tovima.gr/print/politics/mporoume-na-leme-lfoti-theloume-lfsta-social-media/ |
Description | Anna-Maria Piskopani & Helena Webb: Presentation at STS Conference Graz |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A. Piskopani A. /Webb H. The growing vulnerability paradigm. Use of telepresence robots for assisting older people with dementia risk. STS Conference Graz 2022 (May 2022): https://stsconf.tugraz.at/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/STSConfGraz_Preliminary_Program_220322-1-1.pdf |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.tugraz.at/tu-graz/services/news-stories/tu-graz-events/eventdetails/article/sts-conferen... |
Description | Anna-Maria Piskopani presentation at Gikki Conference, Iceland |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Piskopani A., Upload consciousness. Is the metaverse the new paradise? Gikki Conference. Iceland (July 2022). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | http://www.gikii.org/gikii-iceland-program/ |
Description | Applied Linguistics for Hearing Aid Research and Development (Sonova) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Talk delivered to Sonova: Applied Linguistics for Hearing Aid Research and Development. Discussion centred on on how the approach can contribute to ameliorate hearing impairment and health care. Focus on 3 main applications: assessment of hearing loss; health literacy, hearing loss and hearing aids use; and collecting and managing customer feedback in a transparent and privacy preserving manner, and facilitating processing optimisation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Article in The Conversation - Adaptive Interactive Movies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | An article in The Conversation, authored by Richard Ramchurn - covering research conducted during the Horizon Co-Production Campaign project 'Adaptive Interactive Movies' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://theconversation.com/interactive-cinema-how-films-could-alter-plotlines-in-real-time-by-respo... |
Description | Attended CHI 2021 Online Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems series of academic conferences is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of human-computer interaction and is one of the top-ranked conferences in computer science. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://chi2021.acm.org/ |
Description | Attended Royal Academy London event names "How can the National Science and Technology Council and the Office for Science and Technology Strategy direct S&T priorities?" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | In June 2021, the Prime Minister announced the creation of a new National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), to "provide strategic direction on the use of science and technology as the tools to tackle great societal challenges, level up across the country and boost prosperity around the world." He also announced the creation of a new Office for Science and Technology Strategy (OSTS), to be based in the Cabinet Office, which would "drive forward the strategy of Whitehall's science and technology priorities from the centre". The OSTS would be headed up by a National Technology Adviser, and Sir Patrick Vallance was appointed as the first person in that role. In this event, we discussed the setting up of the NSTC and OSTS, and their emerging priorities. We also discussed how these bodies will work with other structures within the UK's science, technology and innovation ecosystem, including UKRI and the Government Office for Science, and how they will engage with UK industry. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.foundation.org.uk/Events/2022/How-can-the-National-Science-and-Technology-Counci |
Description | Attended a debate on "How can schools and colleges prepare young people for a technological life and help tackle the technical skills gap?" |
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 | Attending this debate at the Royal Society was aimed at exploring and discussing the challenges and opportunities of preparing the next generation for a technological life and bridging the technical skills gap. The debate focused on the contributions of schools and FE colleges to post-16 technical education and how the right skills can be taught pre-16 to enable post-16 technical education to be a success. It also aimed to examine whether the role of Further Education is fully understood in discussions about post-16 and post-18 technical education. One of the main outcomes of the debate was the recognition of the need for a more coherent and integrated approach to technical education, involving schools, colleges, and employers. The importance of developing practical, hands-on skills and knowledge was emphasised, as well as the need for greater collaboration between education providers and industry. The debate also highlighted the importance of providing students with a broad-based education that includes not only technical skills but also other skills, such as critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving. It was recognised that technical skills alone are not enough to prepare young people for the rapidly changing world of work. The impact of attending the debate was an increased awareness of the challenges and opportunities of preparing the next generation for a technological life and the importance of bridging the technical skills gap. It provided insights into the different perspectives and approaches to technical education and highlighted the need for a more integrated and collaborative approach. The debate also provided an opportunity to network with other professionals in the field and to exchange ideas and experiences. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.foundation.org.uk/Events/2023/How-can-education-help-tackle-the-technical-skills |
Description | Attended and presented at the Workshop on Trust and Reliance in AI-Human Teams at CHI 2022 - "Towards Understanding Trust and Reassurance in Human-Robot Teams: A User Study with a UV-C Disinfection Robot" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | As humans increasingly interact (and even collaborate) with AI systems during decision-making, creative exercises, and other tasks, appropriate trust and reliance are necessary to ensure proper usage and adoption of these systems. Specifically, people should understand when to trust or rely on an algorithm's outputs and when to override them. While significant research focus has aimed to measure and promote trust in human-AI interaction, the field lacks synthesized definitions and understanding of results across contexts. Indeed, conceptualizing trust and reliance, and identifying the best ways to measure these constructs and effectively shapethem in human-AI interactions remains a challenge.This workshop aims to establish building appropriate trust and reliance on (imperfect) AI systems as a vital, yet under-explored research problem. The workshop will provide a venue for exploring three broad aspects related to human-AI trust: How do we clarify definitions and frameworks relevant to human-AI trust and reliance (e.g., what does trust mean in different contexts)? How do we measure trust and reliance? How do we shape trust and reliance? As these problems and solutions involving humans and AI are interdisciplinary in nature, we invite participants with expertise in HCI, AI, ML, psychology, and social science, or other relevant fields to foster closer communications and collaboration between multiple communities. The workshop will be hybrid. Participants can choose to come to New Orleans or participant online. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://chi-trait.github.io/#/schedule |
Description | Attended and presented our latest Late Breaking Works Paper at the largest HCI conference CHI 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | ABSTRACT The use of human operator managed robotics, especially for safety critical work, includes a shift from physically demanding to mentally challenging work, and new techniques for Human-Robot Interaction are being developed to make teleoperation easier and more accurate. This study evaluates the impact of combining two teleoperation support features (i) scaling the velocity mapping of leader-follower arms (motion scaling), and (ii) haptic-feedback guided shared control (haptic guidance). We used purposely difficult peg-in-the-hole tasks requiring high precision insertion and manipulation, and obstacle avoidance, and evaluated the impact of using individual and combined support features on a) task performance and b) operator workload. As expected, long distance tasks led to higher mental workload and lower performance than short distance tasks. Our results showed that motion scaling and haptic guidance impact workload and improve performance during more difficult tasks, and we discussed this in contrast to participants preference for using different teleoperation features. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2022/program/content/73080 |
Description | Attended public sector enterprise ICT Conference (2021) |
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 UK's most important gathering of today's Public Sector ICT, Technology and Govtech decision makers across all areas of UK Government and Public Sector organisations, the event immersed you within a highly tailored and dynamically structured conference space, it allowed the opportunity for discussions with industry-leading experts, discover ground-breaking case studies and increase our understanding of the latest security research and product development. The event connected like-minded individuals from a range of government departments and disciplines. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://whitehallmedia.co.uk/pseictnov2021/ |
Description | Attended the event organised by the Foundation for Science and Technology discussing "Rebuilding the UK Electricity Grid" |
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 | Reaching Net Zero emissions requires a huge increase in electricity. As we move to electric vehicles, heat pumps for domestic heating, and power generation from renewable sources, what are the implications for the UK electricity grid and the way it is structured? In this event, we explored how the grid needs to change and adapt to meet a decarbonising society. Speakers Nick Winser CBE FREng Chairman, Energy Systems Catapult Dr Cathy McClay OBE Trading and Optimisation Director, Sembcorp Energy UK Professor Keith Bell Scottish Power Professor of Smart Grids, University of Strathclyde |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.foundation.org.uk/Events/2022/Rebuilding-the-UK-Electricity-Grid |
Description | Attended the event organised by the Foundation for Science and Technology discussing the present and future of "UK-China Research Collaboration" |
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 | A discussion event on how the UK should collaborate with China on R&D About this event How can, and how should, the UK collaborate with China on R&D? Can research collaboration contribute to wider diplomacy between the two countries, or to tackling global issues such as climate change? When might we not want to collaborate with China on R&D, and how do we make those decisions? At this Foundation for Science and Technology event, we will discuss these issues as we explore UK-China R&D collaboration. Speakers: His Excellency Zheng Zeguang, Ambassador of China to the United Kingdom Rt Hon Sir Oliver Letwin FRSA, Author of "China vs America: A Warning" Vivienne Stern MBE, Director, Universities UK International Professor Christopher Smith, Executive Chair of AHRC and UKRI International Champion Chaired by Rt Hon Lord Willetts FRS |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.foundation.org.uk/Events/2022/UK-China-research-collaboration |
Description | Attended the prestigious Love Business East Midlands Conference focused on connecting local Nottingham businesses as well as the research and innovation sectors. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This conference was a fantastic opportunity for Outreach and Knowledge exchange. We took many of our exhibits and research projects out in "the wild" and the local business and wider community hat the chance to interact and connect with both robots and technologies that we brought as well as with our network of researchers. This conference started with a business event in the East Midlands and has grown to a movement which engages people who Love Business and pulls together all the organisations who can help businesses of any size. Love Business News is a powerful B2B marketing and publicity platform which can get your brand in front of thousands of senior business leaders, executives and decision-makers across the region. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.lovebusinesseastmidlands.com/ |
Description | BAAL 2023 executive committee symposium: The power of partnerships: collaboration for social impact in applied linguistics. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | McClaughlin, E. (2023, 23-25 August). The power of partnerships: collaboration for social impact in applied linguistics. BAAL Executive Committee symposium, British Association for Applied Linguistics Conference. University of York, UK. [Invited speaker]. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | BCI Thursdays Next Generations: BCI-fi Part 2 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | For many years, we and others have published papers noting that brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are becoming more prominent. This is apparent in many ways, including academic and medical publications, BCI-related commercial activity, popular media attention, and activities like BCI-themed conferences, classes, hackathons, and professional organizations such as the BCI Society. However, BCIs have also been getting attention since before the invention of BCIs through BCI-fi, which means BCI-related science fiction (Allison, 2009). This growing subcategory of science fiction merits further study. In addition to academic curiosity, science fiction influences public perceptions of science and its role in society. We often speak with laypeople whose views about BCIs are based on BCI-fi - often without realizing it. Thus, studying how BCI-fi affects, and is affected by, real-world BCI activities could help us understand and influence BCI directions and applications. Efforts like these could also help improve both the quality, quantity, and diversity of BCI-fi. In this two-part event, we will have prominent speakers within the BCI-fi community to discuss their contributions to BCI-fi, their favorite examples of BCI-fi including movies, books, and podcasts, and next steps to develop, foster, or publicize "good" BCI-fi. We will be joined by Dr. Brendan Allison (UCSD), Andy Weir (author of The Martian), Dr. Eric Leuthardt (Washington University in St. Louis), Stephen Hou (host of Neurratives podcast), Dr. Richard Ramchurn (University of Nottingham), Dr. Jane Huggins (University of Michigan) and Dr. Robert Hampson (Wake Forest University). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://bcisociety.org/event/bci-thursdays-next-generations-bci-fi-part-2/ |
Description | Beeston Folk Festival - Hybrid Festival event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | We held an event at Beeston Resource Centre as part of the Beeston Folk Festival. Public and musicians were in attendance. The audience in the Resource Centre ere able to see a live demonstration of the virtual world (Bubbles) working on a big screen in the room with the live audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Before We Disappear Actor Feedback case study |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Adaptive Interactive Movie project worked with Jessica M Milford - an artist on the production of Before We Disappear - a film supporting this research project which is due for release in February 2023 (launch at the Broadway Cinema). We asked Jessica to feedback on her experiences of working with us on this research project and produced a Case Study for Horizons website. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/my-experiences-of-working-with-horizons-aim-project/ |
Description | Before We Disappear ITV Central News coverage |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | ITV Central News coverage of 'Before We Disappear', an interactive film produced during Horizon's 'Adaptive Interactive Movies' Co-Production Campaign project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://youtu.be/mCnumsXKvKY |
Description | Before We Disappear film launch |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Before We Disappear is an interactive film created by filmmaker Richard Ramchurn, Principal Investigator overseeing Horizon's Co-Production Campaign project 'Adaptive Interactive Movies'. The film is set in the year 2042 - the UK having become a tropical region with floods, fires, storms and civil unrest all the norm. Before We Disappear stars actress/writer Jessica M Milford. Jessica talked to us about being involved in the research project and her visit to the Cobot Maker Space - a vibrant robotics lab at the University of Nottingham - where the film was created. Broadway Cinema in Nottingham will be screening 'Before We Disappear' as part of a two day workshop being organised by Live Experimental and Digital Diversification programme (LEADD:NG) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/adaptive-interactive-movies-before-we-disappear-screening-at-broadway-cine... |
Description | Borders in coronavirus discourses: feedback on UK public health messages from readers of online news presentation (March 2022) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | McClaughlin, E., Adolphs, S., Knight, D., Nichele, E., Barnard, P., Clos, J., Lang, A., & McAuley, D. Borders in coronavirus discourses: feedback on UK public health messages from readers of online news. Presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference. Pittsburgh, USA. 22nd March 2022. Interest has been shown by a few attendees who asked questions both in the Q&A session and after the talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Borders in coronavirus discourses: feedback on UK public health messages from readers of online news. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | McClaughlin, E., Adolphs, S., Knight, D., Nichele, E., Barnard, P., Clos, J., Lang, A., & McAuley, D. Borders in coronavirus discourses: feedback on UK public health messages from readers of online news. Presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference. Pittsburgh, USA. 22nd March 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.aaal.org/events/2022-aaal-conference |
Description | Borders in coronavirus: feedback on UK public health messages from readers of online news |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I present importance of understanding the reception of public health messages for the management of the next phase of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK and beyond. Our research supported public health partners in addressing key challenges that the coronavirus pandemic presents in terms of understanding the flow and impact of public health messages in public and private communications. Our external partners were Public Health England, Public Health Wales, and NHS education for Scotland. We also worked with a public involvement panel who acted as consultants and reviewers for the project. We used a corpus linguistic approach to analyse 772,700 words across 10,393 comments posted by readers across a set of 50 news articles containing references to geopolitical borders published by The Guardian online. Specifically, we examined the language of reader comments surrounding five public health campaigns or measures. These campaigns were highlighted in keywords and collocation analyses. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | C19Comms Twitter account |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | C19Comms Twitter account, which has over 60 followers actively engaging with the content posted. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://t.co/B8QXT2OFx6 |
Description | C19Comms website |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | C19Comms Coronavirus Discourses project website, which has been asked about by several conference attendees (at the different events, where team members presented) as a source of further information about the project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://c19comms.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ |
Description | CHIWork2024 Late Breaking Works and Demo Chair |
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 | Duties included: Call for Papers: Drafting and circulating a call for papers (CFP) to attract relevant submissions Committee Coordination: Forming and coordinating a program committee Submission Management: Overseeing the paper submission process Review Process: Managing the peer review process Decision Making: Making final decisions on paper acceptances based on reviewers' recommendations. Feedback: Providing authors with feedback and the decision regarding their submissions Session Planning: Organising accepted papers into sessions Communications: Serving as a point of contact for authors regarding their submissions Conference Support: Assisting in the overall planning of the conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://chiwork.org/ |
Description | Co-founded a non-registered charitable organisation (2019) with the following focus: To advance the education of children and young people, predominately those aged between 9 and 19, in the subjects of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) and other similar subjects of educational merit. In 2021 the charity became a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Our charity goal is to bring researchers and industry practitioners from a STEM background to run educational workshops and activities as part of a Sunday Club to inspire young people in the community towards a career in STEM related fields, and allow them an initial contact with people who are active in these fields. We have run a 6 months pilot project with a cohort of over 15 young individuals. We have attended and inspired young people in other events. The outreach activity of the charity has now resumed and we are currently planning for a similar cohort in 2022. We will work in collaboration with the cobotmakerspace and build a portofolio for research outreach. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2022 |
URL | http://inspirefoundation.org.uk/ |
Description | Cobot Maker Space outreach event at Nottingham Broadway Cinema as part of the Nottingham Robot Week (in collaboration with Makers of Imaginary Worlds and Inspire Foundation Nottingham) |
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 | Meet a selection of robots and explore the future of collaborative robotics with the Cobot Maker Space. Researchers and specialists from the Cobot Maker Space will be available to introduce you to the robots, answer your questions and talk about the future of human and robot collaboration. Based at the University of Nottingham, the Cobot Maker Space facilitates the exploration, research and design of human-robot interaction. We offer a welcoming environment to create innovative technology in a space to connect and collaborate with an interdisciplinary group of researchers. The Cobot Maker Space was founded by the Smart Products Beacon at the University of Nottingham. Find out more at cobotmakerspace.org/. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://broadway.org.uk/whats-on/cobot-maker-space-meet-robots |
Description | Collision - Soma Design Workshop organised in the Cobot Maker Space in collaboration with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
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 | Using soma design principles, we have explored collision in a wide range of contexts. This was a methodology to study the design of future Human Robot Interaction. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Connected Kitchen blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An introduction blog to Horizon's first round Agile project Connected Kitchen: The importance of the kitchen is undeniable. We use our kitchens to store, prepare, clean, cook and entertain. Therefore, the way we perceive and behave in this area - be it commercial or family orientated - has a big impact on our own personal wellbeing, health and safety, and that of others. Our Connected Kitchen project will use multi-sensor systems to track and model the behaviour of people in commercial kitchen environments, in particular attitudes relating to hygiene cleaning. We are in the process of applying for Ethics approval to carry out the first phase of our work, which involves a participant survey conducted before and after they undertake a kitchen cleaning task.............. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/connected-kitchen/ |
Description | Connected Kitchen final blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A final blog post to disseminate findings and learnings from the project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/connected-kitchen-closing-blog/ |
Description | Connected Kitchen mid blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A mid point blog about Horizon's first round Agile project Connected Kitchen: The Connected Kitchen project explores manual cleaning tasks within kitchen environments with a specific focus on: How sensor data can be used to help people understand their current cleaning behaviours and encourage more effect cleaning How sensor data can be used for remote auditing of cleaning operation The development of hybrid cleaning products which interact with the connected kitchen Led by Thomas Lodge and Pepita Barnard the Connected Kitchen team recently completed their first user studies which included a cleaning task and a pre and post task questionnaire. The task included cleaning a chopping board and plate 'fouled' with a UV marker. The participants were also fitted with accelerometers to monitor their arm movements during the cleaning tasks. Following the task participants were showed UV images of the items so they could understand the effectiveness of their cleaning...... |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/connected-kitchen-mid-point/ |
Description | Connecting Human Ai Interaction Researchers - CHAIR workshop |
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 | Horizon Researchers Anna Maria Piskopani and Helena Webb supported this workshop which was funded by the UoN Faculty of Arts (Collaborative Research and KE Seed Corn Award) and led by the School of Humanities: The aim of the CHAIR workshop is to contribute to network building and create an infrastructure to kick-start new partnerships and research collaborations between the different disciplines working on the field of Human/AI Interaction e.g. Computer Science, Law, Philosophy, Psychology, Engineering, Neuroscience, Sociology, Anthropology etc. This workshop combines perspectives from different research areas focusing on Human/AI Interaction and more particularly in the areas of emotion and empathy, security, vulnerability, trust and responsibility relating to AI systems. We are interested in abroad range of questions related to Human/AI interaction such as the following: · What emotions are generated when using non-invasive or invasive AI applications e.g Brain Computer Interfaces and how should these be regulated? · What challenges do we face in our attempt to widen the use of AI systems by the wider public whilst at the same time minimising the lack of transparency involved in several areas e.g. machine learning, data mining etc.? · How can we increase user confidence that the use of AI systems will be safe from external physical/cyber threats or that it will not render users vulnerable to algorithmic bias? · How can we improve legal and regulatory frameworks to increase trust and avoid harms in the use of AI systems and who is responsible for alleviating these harms? · How can we facilitate knowledge exchange across disciplinary boundaries to bring about a paradigm change in scientific discovery and research methods in this area? KEYNOTE SPEAKERS • Dr Anna Chatzimichali, University of Bath • Professor Praminda Chaleb-Solly, Professor of Embodied Intelligence, University of Nottingham ORGANISERS · Lydia Farina, (Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham) · Anna-Maria Piskopanni, (Research Fellow, Horizon, University of Nottingham) · Helena Webb, (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Nottingham) FUNDINGThe workshop has received funding from the Faculty of Arts at UoN through the receipt of the Corn Seed Collaborative Award. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting-human-ai-interaction-researchers-2023-tickets-603549070517 |
Description | Consultancy meetings for postgraduate researchers - EFRESH |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The EFRESH project concerns best practices to protect researcher safety during the study of potentially hostile online communities. As part of this project, team member Helena Webb has been talking to PhD students at different institutions (and their supervisors) to provide advice on safeguarding during the conduct of their studies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024 |
Description | Coronavirus Discourses Advisory Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An Advisory Group was selected at the beginning of the project and has continued to input to the design of studies and activity. Group members reported increased recognition of points raised during meetings and contributed towards plans future activity. Some members showed an interest in joining other PIP groups/new projects. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/project/coronavirus-discourses-linguistic-evidence-for-effective-public-he... |
Description | Coronavirus Discourses final blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The blog provided an overview of the project and included information on findings |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/coronavirus-discourses-evaluation-event-and-final-blog/ |
Description | Coronavirus Discourses: linguistic evidence for effective public health messaging |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A project website was created to support raising awareness and dissemination activity. Other outputs (Reports) form this project have been published on the website to make them freely available to a wide audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://c19comms.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ |
Description | Corpus linguistics optimised management of community feedback -- Patient Information Forum maternity survey demo |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Corpus linguistics optimised management of community feedback. Presentation demonstrating the value of a corpus-assisted discourse analytical approach to analysis of open text responses to a survey on maternity healthcare experiences for Patient Information Forum (PIF), the UK membership organisation and network for people working in health information and support. PIF also run the only UK-wide quality mark for health information - the PIF TICK. Presenters Emma McClaughlin, Sara Vilar-Lluch, Svenja Adolphs The slides have subsequently been presented by the Director of PIF (Sophie Randall) at PIF training and events. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Department for Transport Away Day visit to the Cobot Maker Space, UoN |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The Department for Transport held their annual away day at the University of Nottingham. As part of this they visited the Cobot Maker Space where they met researchers and academics for a series of demos and discussions. This prompted a lot of discussion, particularly around robotics, automation, and how they apply to transport. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Derek McAuley presentation at Gikki, Iceland |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Ron's Gone Wrong (and so will lots of other robots), Lachlan Urquhart, Lilian Edwards, and Derek McAuley. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | http://www.gikii.org/gikii-iceland-program/ |
Description | Design School Crit panel (HoRRIzon 2.0) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | UAL and LCC are collaborating with IsITethical? to run a design challenge. Teams of MA students in Design participate in teams. They learn about ethical issues in AI through a series of workshops and then design an artefact/tool to support ethics in AI. They present their initial ideas in a design crit (this ran on Feb 24th 2023) to a panel of experts who provide feedback and comments. Helena Webb was invited to participate as a panel member and gave comments stemming from a Responsible Research and Innovation perspective. The teams' final designs will be judged by the panel and presented in an exhibition (either online or physical). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.isitethical.org/collaboration-unit |
Description | Design of Data Diaglogues in media recommenders blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A blog post providing updates on the Design of Data Dialogues in Media Recommenders project: Media recommender systems have been one of the flagbearers for the turn towards using personal data to enhance media experiences. From collaborative filtering and content-based recommenders, to demographic, knowledge based, context aware and social recommenders - the variety is diverse. While this shift towards data-centred recommendations are often seen in a positive light, it also introduces a number of social and technical challenges around the use of personal data, which warrant attention.......................... |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/design-of-data-dialogues-in-media-recommenders/ |
Description | Designing for human data interaction in data-driven media experiences |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A poster presentation was delivered at ACM CHI 2021 ( online ) based on a late-breaking work paper that was accepted at the conference. The talk was followed by questions that helped increase interest in the concept of a PDS to support future data driven media experiences. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3411763.3451808 |
Description | Dialogue with Dr Jan Graffius, expert on reliquaries at Stonyhurst Museum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Dialogue with Dr Jan Graffius, expert on reliquaries at Stonyhurst Museum. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Doctoral Consortium Chair at CHIWORK 2023 |
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 | CHIWORK 2023 was the annual symposium which aims to grow our understanding of how HCI will support work in the future. Advances in computing technology are rapidly changing the way we work. Human-computer interaction (HCI) is a critical aspect of this ongoing change, as a way to support workers in successfully navigating fast-paced changes in working environments, which might include novel computing devices, interacting with AI agents, and the new roles for people in work environments where automation is increasing. I have co-hosted the doctoral consortium at this event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://chiwork.org/ |
Description | Dr Ansgar Koene participation in IEEE webinar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Ansgar Koene was invited to participate in an On-Demand Webinar entitled: how to design a digital world where children can thrive: "Our expert panel discusses how the new IEEE Standard for an Age-Appropriate Digital Services Framework Based on the 5Rights Principles for Children (IEEE 2089â„¢-2021) will equip organizations with the tools to put young people's best interests at the heart of the design of digital products and services. By following the practical steps outlined in this new framework, designers can ensure that children are catered for in the digital world" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://engagestandards.ieee.org/Childrens-2089-webinar.html?utm_source=email&utm_medium=eblast&utm_... |
Description | Dr Ansgar Koene speaker at European Standardisation Organisations (CEN and CENELEC) and Joint Centre of the European Commission Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Dr Koene was approached by the Joint Research Centre at the European Commission on the recommendation of Dr Edward Addy to give a short plenary talk at a workshop on "Data requirements for inclusive, no-biased trustworthy artificial intelligence. The event was organised by the European Standardisation Organisations (CEN and CENELEC) and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) and tookplace as an online event, on the 8th and 9th of June 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.cencenelec.eu/media/CEN-CENELEC/Events/Events/2022/20220608_PSIS/psis_ai_brochure.pdf |
Description | Dr Ansgar invite to moderate a breakout session at the UNICEF Global Forum on AI for Children |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Ansgar Koene participated as a panellist in a breakout session entitled "Ensure inclusion of and for children" during the UNICEF Global Forum on AI for Children on the 1st December |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.unicef.org/globalinsight/featured-projects/ai-children |
Description | Dr Koene chair - panel session: IEEE SCCI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Dr Koene was invited to participate in the IIEEE SSCI 2021 symposium - an event to : To provide academia and industry with an overview of the current ethical AI landscape to discuss and debate how to establish sustainably trustworthy and responsible research and innovation. Discussion themes include (but are not limited to): The impact of emerging global legislation on data and AI ethics on conducting AI research and innovation. Responsibility and Accountability in the AI decision making Algorithm bias in machine learning Can Industry Self-regulation Deliver 'Ethical AI'? Sustainable and Responsible AI Citizen involvement in conceptualisation of AI products and services to build trust. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://attend.ieee.org/ssci-2021/panel-session-using-ai-to-establish-sustainably-trustworthy-and-re... |
Description | Dr Koene presented at a Facial Recognition Technology: Challenges for International Collaboration & Governance' workshop run by the Utrecht University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Dr Ansgar Koene presented 'Developments for AI Governance through Regulation and Standards: Globally Coordinated Deliberative Approaches vs. Reactive Policy Making in the session Global policies on FR technology and related international collaboration session on 17th November. The event was online live stream: https://livestream.acsaudiovisual.com/uu20211117 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://livestream.acsaudiovisual.com/uu20211117 |
Description | EDI cards session National Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Research network summer school |
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 | Workshop using the EDI cards as part of a summer school |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | EDI cards workshop for Innovation Launchpad Network plus |
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 | EDI cards session as part of the Researchers in Residence induction programme |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | EFRESH project discussed at research group meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | EFRESH project member Helena Webb presented the aims and planned activities of the project at a meeting of the Human Rights in the Digital Age group at the University of Nottingham. This fostered useful discussion about the project's aims and potential outputs, expressions of interest to participate, and requests for further information. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | EFRESH update blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | To maximise promotion of Horizons research, projects are required to produce 3 blogs throughout project lifecycles. This blog provides updates relating to the EFRESH project which is exploring research conducted with online communities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/an-update-on-efresh/ |
Description | Effective, Responsible and Safe Research on Online Communities - EFRESH introduction blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | To maximise promotion of Horizons research, projects are required to produce 3 blogs throughout project lifecycles. This is the introduction blog for EFRESH - one of Horizons third round Agile projects. The blog covers why the project is necessary, its aims, underpinning research along with details on the project timeframe and interdisciplinary team. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/effective-responsible-and-safe-research-on-online-communities-efresh-an-in... |
Description | Empowering Consumers by identifying hidden consensus - blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An introduction blog to Horizons Round 1 Agile project FMCG: Modern manufacturing methods make it ever more feasible to personalise products - but how precisely do consumers know what they want? Of course, this varies - but in practice people will usually leave some uncertainty, or 'leeway', around their ideal product [Lin18], [Wan13], [Wri75]. Viewed conventionally, this can be a problem (i.e., noisy preference data), but this project aims to take advantage of the opportunities that it brings. Individual-level product personalisation can be uneconomical [Ahe19], [Tse98], however it may be possible to use the uncertainty and flexibility in consumer preferences to locate shared, or at least overlapping, areas of preference (e.g., within 'consumer-archetypes'). This approach could represent a customisation 'sweet-spot' - leading to data-driven semi-personalised goods with scope for much wider use................. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/empowering-consumers-by-identifying-hidden-consensus/ |
Description | Empowering Consumers by identifying hidden consensus final blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A final blog post to disseminate the projects learnings |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/finishing-up-empowering-consumers-by-identifying-hidden-consensus-comes-to... |
Description | Establishing an EDI Framework for the TAS Network |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The aim of this group was to establish principles that promote EDI across the TAS network and put this into a strategic document, in the context of it involving lots of universities and partners with their own local EDI policies. Three meetings were organised by Ben Coomber - Research Development Manager at Horizon Digital Economy Research and chaired by Professor Sarah Sharples, commencing with a kick-off session to define terms of reference for the EDI working group and plan activities (31 March 2021), a 2 h workshop to collect ideas for the TAS EDI Framework (8 April 2021), and then a third meeting to review the framework (11 May 2021). An EDI Framework was established and is available on the TAS Hub website and derived impact involved the recruitment of a co-Chair for the EDI team going forward - Genovefa Kefalidou (University of Leicester) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.tas.ac.uk/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/ |
Description | Ethical Hackathon' 21 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | An 'ethical hackathon' is a novel event developed by the Human Centred Computing group at the University of Oxford. It takes a twist on the traditional hackathon format by challenging groups of participants to identify ways to embed ethical considerations into the processes of technical design and development. The event took place on the 20th and 21st of October 2021, involved postgraduate students at Horizon CDT University of Nottingham, and was facilitated by Dr Liz Dowthwaite and Dr Helena Webb (Horizon Institute, UoN) who gave an introduction about algorithmic controversies and a summary of the key work within UnBias, ReEnTrust and TASHub within Horizon and, divided the students in 4 groups and invited them to discuss issues connected to algorithmic discrimination, bias and governance. After activities were completed, students were asked to work in their groups and set a design challenge to work on. The following day the teams presented their designs in front a panel of judges. The judges: Dr Virginia Portillo (Horizon, UoN), Dr James Sprinks (Earthwatch Europe) and Dr Laurence Brooks (DMU) gave feedback on the presentations and prizes were awarded. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Everything in Moderation introduction blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An introduction to Everything in Moderation - an Agile Round 2 project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/everything-in-moderation/ |
Description | Everything in Moderation presentation to project Advisory Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Everything in Moderation presented trends and challenges for online communities from public forms to end-to-end encrypted communication to the project Advisory Group on 27th October. A copy of the presentation can be found at: https://www.horizon.ac.uk/project/everything-in-moderation/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/project/everything-in-moderation/ |
Description | Expecting the Future Presentation at 4S conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented the paper 'Expecting the Future: Emerging Narratives on Automated Facial and Emotion Recognition Technologies.' with D. Miranda. at the leading Science and Technology Studies event the 4S Conference 2021 Toronto, Canada/Online. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/activities/4s-2021 |
Description | Exploring the impact of ChatGPT and Generative AI in Higher Education. Philosophy of Education. Society of Great Britain blogpost |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Blogpost about the hot topic of the impact of Generative AI in high education. The blog was reposted on the Horizon Twitter Account and got 200 views and public's reactions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.philosophy-of-education.org/exploring-the-impact-of-chatgpt-and-generative-ai-in-higher-... |
Description | Expressive personalisation of consumer products through Dance introduction blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | To maximise promotion of Horizons research, projects are required to produce 3 blogs throughout project lifecycles. This is the introduction blog for the Expressive personalisation of consumer products through dance - one of Horizons Consumer Campaign projects. The blog covers why the project is necessary and its aims along with details on the project timeframe and interdisciplinary team. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/expressive-personalisation-of-consumer-products-through-dance-an-introduct... |
Description | External engagement with the Co-operative Group. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Talk given to the Co-operative Group as part of Flexible Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration Fund. The talk was attended by heads of department within the organisation, including Community and Shared Value Team, Analytics and BI, Food Policy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | FAILSAFE introduction blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | To maximise promotion of Horizons research, projects are required to produce 3 blogs throughout project lifecycles. This is the introduction blog for the FAILSAFE - one of Horizons Consumer Campaign projects. The blog covers the projects aims and details on the project timeframe and interdisciplinary team. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/an-introduction-to-failsafe/ |
Description | Failsafe Coverage in Robot Talk Podcast |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Ayse Kucukyilmaz is Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, PI on Horizon's Consumer Products Campaign project FAILSAFE and founding member of the CHART research group. Her research focus is human-centered robotics, where she specialises in haptic shared and traded control for physical human-robot interaction. In this latest edition of Robot Talk, Ayse explains adjustable autonomy and talks about collaboration and failure in robots, highlighting the research being carried out as part of FAILSAFE - a project in partnership with BEKO - which is addressing what does failure actually mean? (at 23:00 in). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://robohub.org/robot-talk-episode-63-ayse-kucukyilmaz/ |
Description | Festival of Ideas 28 April 2021, Digital Economy panel member |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Took part in a panel answering questions from attendees at the Festival of Ideas about the nature and significance of DE research, raising awareness among a wide range of people. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.swansea.ac.uk/media/Festival-Day-3.jpg |
Description | Foundation for Science and Technology Future Leaders Visiting CobotMakerSpace |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | In January 2024, the University of Nottingham was honoured to host a prestigious group from the Foundation for Science and Technology Future Leaders. The visit was organised to showcase the university's cutting-edge research and facilities, focusing on our innovative laboratory, the CobotMakerSpace. This event served as an exceptional platform for outreach and knowledge exchange, fostering connections between the next generation of science and technology leaders, industry, and our research community in Nottingham. Participants Foundation for Science and Technology Future Leaders: A group of distinguished young leaders identified for their potential and interest in shaping the future of science and technology. Researchers and Academics from the University of Nottingham. University Senior Leaders and Policy Influencers: Key figures providing strategic insights into the future of science, technology, and education. Main Activities Networking Event: A carefully curated session that allowed for meaningful interactions between the visiting leaders, Nottingham researchers, and policymakers. This facilitated the exchange of ideas, experiences, and potential collaborations in an informal setting. Talks and Presentations: University Senior Leaders: Shared visions for the future of research and innovation at the University of Nottingham. Leaders in Policy: Offered valuable perspectives on the role of science and technology in shaping societal advancements and policymaking. Tours and Demonstrations: CobotMakerSpace Tour: Visitors were treated to an in-depth tour of the CobotMakerSpace, highlighting the lab's commitment to collaborative robotics and its applications in various fields. Project Demonstrations: Live demonstrations of ongoing projects within the CobotMakerSpace, illustrating the practical impact of collaborative robotics in research and industry. Highlights and Achievements Enhanced Visibility: The event significantly boosted the visibility of the CobotMakerSpace and its research initiatives among future leaders and policymakers. Knowledge Exchange: Facilitated a rich exchange of knowledge and perspectives, bridging the gap between academia, policy, and future leadership in science and technology. Networking Success: Fostered new connections and potential collaborations, with tangible interest from several attendees in pursuing joint projects or further engagements with the University of Nottingham and the CobotMakerSpace. Feedback and Future Prospects Feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive, with many expressing appreciation for the opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research and thought leaders in a dynamic and interactive setting. The success of this event has laid the groundwork for future collaborations and has established the CobotMakerSpace as a key player in the field of collaborative robotics, both nationally and internationally. Moving forward, plans are in place to capitalise on the momentum generated by this visit, exploring potential research collaborations, funding opportunities, and further events to continue the dialogue between future leaders, researchers, and policymakers in the realm of science and technology. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.foundation.org.uk/Future-Leaders |
Description | Foundation for Science and Technology and the Royal Society event on (Delivering the AI Strategy - the use of new AI technologies in industry and the public sector) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | In September 2021, the UK Government published the National AI Strategy. Part of this Strategy is to support the transition to an AI-enabled economy. In this event, we looked at how AI technologies are being deployed now in the public and private sectors, and expectations for the coming years. Speakers Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng Regius Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton Lord Clement-Jones CBE House of Lords Professor Geraint Rees FMedSci Pro-Vice-Provost, AI, University College London Professor Tom Rodden Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.foundation.org.uk/Events/2022/Delivering-the-AI-Strategy-%E2%80%93-the-use-of-new-AI-tec |
Description | Future Festivals - Bubbles blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | "The arrival of the Omicron Variant (still sounds like the name of a modern jazz combo to me) and subsequent restrictions have got us thinking once again about the nature of performing online. Carolan took part in online folk club sessions in Zoom (Post 79) and contributed a pre-recorded video set to the online Nottstopping festival (Post 78) during previous lockdowns. There's little doubt that live streaming and conferencing technologies kept many musicians going during those dark times, and perhaps even brought some unanticipated advantages such as the clubs being open to people who could not normally attend in person (those who are living far away or otherwise find them inaccessible) and fuelling new kinds of creativity such as making videos. Those interested in a more detailed account of the benefits, drawbacks, and general impacts of taking folk clubs on line might like to read our paper "Producing Liveness: The Trials of Moving Folk Clubs Online During the Global Pandemic" that appeared at the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference last year. However, while digital platforms may provide a valuable safety net for musical communities who are struggling to play together in extreme circumstances, no one can seriously claim that the experience of a Zoom concert is the same as being at a 'real gig', let alone a busy festival, either for musicians or the audiences to come to watch them. Enter Bubbles. Bubbles is an attempt to create a new kind of platform for online music festivals as part of the Future Festivals project in the Horizon Digital Economy Research Centre at the University of Nottingham. Bubbles explores the idea of staging festivals in online virtual environments, shared 3D worlds in which performers and audiences can gather together. The aim is to create a rich online festival environment in which virtual performances can take place alongside other festival experiences. The Bubbles software has been developed by Paul Tennent and Edgar Bodiaj at Nottingham and they and the wider research team are working with partners including the online festival site Stream Park and the company Live Cinema to test it out in partnership with various festivals. The first of these was Oxjam Beeston, the longstanding annual local grassroots music festival that raises funds or Oxfam and that has been a regular feature of Carolan's life over the years (Post 29, Post 70). Back in September we made our first attempt to stage a day of Oxjam performances in Bubbles as part of the wider festival, delivering one of the festival stages as a hybrid venue that could be attended by both online and physical performers and audiences........" continue reading: via https://www.horizon.ac.uk/103-bubbles/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/103-bubbles/ |
Description | Future Festivals blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Introduction blog to Horizon's Co-Production Campaign project Future Festivals: I don't know if you noticed, but 2020/21 has been a bit of a rough time for festivals. No gathering in public spaces, no public performances, no sitting around on the grass with a glass of something cold discussing the latest band or the latest comedy performance. For many, the loss of such an integral part of our summers really hurt. Of course, nothing drives innovation like adversity - countless bands, performers and festivals turned to the internet to reach their audiences - the online festival arrived all of a sudden, with everybody doing the best they could with the tools available. Going online was an imperfect solution - leading to a substantially reduced social experience for many people, and many more simply didn't attend. However, audiences were distributed and expanded, local bands and clubs saw their audiences spread across the globe, and people could suddenly access content they never could have before - all thanks to the shift online. Horizon researchers were part of this response: delivering the "Voxjam" festivals online in August and November of 2020. Taking a step back and learning from our experiences, we now seek to consider what is the future of festivals? Taking them online was not exclusively an exercise in making them worse - there were many benefits around access, diversity, flexibility and more. In this project we question how to take and keep the best aspects of online festivals as we stand on the brink of a return to normal physical festivals. How can online festivals stay relevant when competing with real physical events, and how can we take the best of that digital experience and bring it into the physical world?............ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/future-festivals-exploring-online-and-hybrid-festival-opportunities/ |
Description | Future Festivals hosted UPBEAT Festival of Culture, Learning and Wellbeing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Future Festivals project commenced with supporting Inspire Music and Stream Park to deliver UPBEAT Festival of Culture, Learning and wellbeing on the 22nd July. UPBEAT, formed an interactive 'digital park' and included local artists, community groups, schools and some of Nottingham's well-known arts organisations, including Nottingham Playhouse, Inspire Youth Arts, Inspire Libraries, Community Recording Studio and both the University of Nottingham and Trent University. In a step up from many online festivals, there were more opportunities for interaction - both with a video audience wall, so audiences and performers could see who's watching (assuming they wanted to share), and in chat at global, local and group levels. Being involved in Upbeat will helped us understand how groups consumed online festival experiences together and contributed towards informing the design of our platform (Bubbles) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/web-video-audience-and-interaction-brings-upbeat-festival-to-life/ |
Description | Future Festivals hybrid event - VoxJam |
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 | The Future Festivals project supported a hybrid festival organised by Oxjam to test a new platform. This followed the Future Festivals team having conducted testing of iterations of the platform at 2 Voxjam events in 2020 (one of which was promoted by David Tennant). This event involved the team supporting in person and online audiences and performers from other physical venues around the country. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/project/future-festivals/ |
Description | Guest lecture - Collaboration and Communication Technology module (Uinversity of Nottingham) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | I presented a talk to undergraduate class of computer science students about telepresence robots in museums and healthcare settings. I presented the RRI prompt cards to the group. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | HOME:Zero inspiring children as drivers for change tour at Mansfield Museum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | HOME:Zero in attendance at Mansfield Library as part of the Festival of Science and Curiosity - data gathering was part of this event |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/children-and-families/event/5753/home-zero.html?Action=Cookie |
Description | HOME:Zero mid blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This is a blog post to share progress of this Agile Round 2 project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/homezero-mid-point/ |
Description | HOME:Zero tour to Strelley Library |
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 | HOME:Zero inspiring children as drivers for change exhibit and data collection at Strelley Library in August |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Half time: Empowering Consumers by Identifying Hidden Consensus blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A mid point blog about Horizons first round Agile project FMCG 'Uncovering Consumer Consensus': It has been a busy few months for the Horizon 'Uncovering Consumer Consensus' project, with progress on multiple fronts, but lots still to do! Early in the project we began constructive discussion and engagement with another research team in Horizon, focusing on responsible research and innovation (RRI) practices in research - including a preliminary session using the 'Moral-IT' ideation card deck (Urquhart & Craigon, 2021). Following this, Work Package 1 'Giving decision makers what they need' quickly got up to speed. Ethics approval was obtained for qualitative studies involving both: Focus groups - with decision makers working in Research & Development at one of our large FMCG-sector industry partners, A wider survey study - designed to cast the net wider and engage decision makers across a broader range of companies and societal roles........... |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/half-time-empowering-consumers-by-identifying-hidden-consensus/ |
Description | Half-way through hoRRIzon: Responsible Research and Innovation for trusted products |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This blog summarises the research work the "hoRRIzon" Agile project has been doing during the first half of this project at the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, UoN. The research team has been engaging with a wide range of stakeholders including research participants, project partners and Advisory Group members. The activities of the project have begun to demonstrate the complexity and importance of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) which will prove invaluable in setting the groundwork for future work around RRI/RI both for Horizon DER and beyond. Moving into the second half of the project these activities will continue to generate vital insights into the practice and facilitation of RRI. In addition to a greater understanding of RRI, these insights will be combined to lay the foundations for a proposed improved approach to Responsible Innovation for Horizon DER. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/half-way-through-horrizon-responsible-research-and-innovation-for-trusted-... |
Description | Health Inequalities and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Populations: Insights from the Coronavirus Discourses Project (September 2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | McClaughlin, E., Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., Barnard, P., Clos, J., Knight, D., McAuley, D., & Lang, A. Health Inequalities and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Populations: Insights from the Coronavirus Discourses Project. Presented at the Public Health Wales Research and Evaluation Conference 2021. Online. 23rd September 2021. The presented poster was awarded the "Best use of innovative methods Prize". |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Helena Webb - Horizon Transitional Assistant Professor introduction blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A key feature of Horizon is our Transitional Assistant Professor fellowship scheme which recruits highly talented research fellows into the academic career track, and provides the time and space initially to allow a greater focus on developing their research portfolio and leadership skills. This blog by Helena Webb introduces her latest research: As a socio-technical researcher I work on projects that combine elements of computer science and the social sciences. I focus on bringing in the human experience and perspective into our understanding of technology and enjoy highlighting how these human factors can positively shape technological development. Joining Horizon as a Transitional Assistant Professor allows me space to develop my research portfolio and I am excited to be bringing this approach into a new research collaboration, called "Artificial Intelligence Decision Support for Kidney Transplantation (AID-KT)"...................... |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/helena-updates-us-on-her-latest-research/ |
Description | Home Zero blog post |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | unknown |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/homezero-inspiring-children-as-drivers-for-change-mid-point/ |
Description | Horia Maior - Transitional Assistant Professor blog post |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A blog post about Horia's invite to become one of the Foundation for Science and Technology's 2002 Future Leaders |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://taps.wp.horizon.ac.uk/congratulations-to-horia-maior/ |
Description | Horia Maior blog post Foundation for Science and Technology update |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | In this blog post Horia provides details of the opportunities the Foundation of Future Leaders programme has offered and how this has been of benefit towards furthering his academic career |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/the-foundation-for-science-and-technology-call-for-foundation-future-leade... |
Description | Horizon Agile (round 1) project hoRRIzon Advisory Group meetings |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Stakeholder engagement and co-creation are key to guide responsible research, design, and innovation. The hoRRIzon project established an Advisory Group (AG) with nine national and international experts in the field. To date there have been two meetings resulting in productive discussions. The first meeting in July 2021 focused on facilitators and barriers of RRI and possible gaps in current approaches to RRI. The second meeting, held in October, addressed 'Critically Assessing RRI for Trustworthy ICT systems'. The next AG meeting will take place in January 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/half-way-through-horrizon-responsible-research-and-innovation-for-trusted-... |
Description | Horizon Agile Round 2 project Everything in Moderation: Anna-Maria Piskopani presentation at Cyberspace Conference, Brno, Czech Republic |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Piskopani A./ Gervassis N., Words behind walls, Content moderation issues in the context of E2E encrypted applications. Cyberspace Conference (November 2022). Brno. Czech Republic. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=C78C2138A5553CF4!3541&ithint=file%2cdocx&authkey=!ABA01FE0... |
Description | Horizon away day and advisory board meeting overview video |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An overview video from Horizon's away day and advisory board meeting held on 30th November |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://youtu.be/z-kJuyK9Y8U |
Description | Horizon staff and colleagues attend Love Business EXPO |
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 | Horizon staff who make up the Cobot Maker Space (CMS) Operations Team organised exhibiting the state of the art facility at Love Business EXPO which took place at Holywell Park Conference Centre on the 15th February. The invite came following previous attendance at a University of Nottingham Power of Partnerships event during which an attendee had spoken with CMS reps. They were joined by Horizon Transitional Assistant Professors Helena Webb and Horia Maior, RAI UK Transitional Assistant Professors Gisela Reyes Cruz and Damian Eke, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow Emily Crowe and Computer Science Student Krishika Khemani to talk about some of robotic and AI research being carried out at the University of Nottingham. Also in attendance were colleagues from the University of Nottingham Business Network, Careers and Employability, Nottingham University Business School and University of Nottingham Innovation Park. Visitors to the CMS stand enjoyed meeting the robots and trying out 'Driving by the Seat of Your Pants', a game using a pressure sensing mat - whilst seated their movements controlled a virtual robot in a graphical display presented on a screen in front of them. Watch this short video to find out more about 'Driving by the Seat of Your Pants'. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://cobotmakerspace.org/events/love-business-expo/ |
Description | Hosted University of Third Age visit at the Cobot Maker Space (Lab visit plus talk) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The lab visit activity at Cobot Maker Space aimed to provide the University of Third Age cohorts with an immersive experience into the world of robotics and assistive technologies. During the visit, the attendees were introduced to the laboratory's cutting-edge technologies, including a range of robots, sensors, and assistive devices. As part of the lab visit, I gave a guest talk on the topic of "Using Brain and Physiological data in Human-Computer and Human-Robot Interaction". The talk focused on the various ways that researchers are using data from the brain and other physiological signals to improve human-robot interactions and make them more effective and user-friendly. The intended purpose of the lab visit and the guest talk was to introduce the University of Third Age cohorts to the latest developments in robotics and assistive technologies, and to provide them with an opportunity to interact with and learn from experts in the field. The visit aimed to inspire and educate the attendees about the potential applications of these technologies in their daily lives and the broader community. The lab visit and the guest talk were successful in achieving their intended purposes. The attendees were highly engaged and enthusiastic, and many expressed interest in learning more about robotics and assistive technologies. The visit provided them with a unique opportunity to experience the latest developments in the field firsthand, and to interact with experts in the field. Overall, the lab visit and guest talk had a positive impact on the attendees, as it exposed them to new ideas and technologies that they may not have been aware of before. It also served as a valuable networking opportunity for both the attendees and the researchers, and led to future collaborations and stakeholder partnerships in the field of robotics and assistive technologies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.u3a.org.uk/ |
Description | Human Data Interaction in Data-Driven Media Experiences : An Exploration of Data Sensitive Responses to the Socio-Technical Challenges of Personal Data Leverage |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A talk was given at ACM IMX 2021 ( Online ) based on a paper that was accepted at the conference. The talk was followed by questions that helped increase interest in the concept of a PDS to support future data driven media experiences. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3452918.3458797 |
Description | Human-Data Interaction Through Design: An explorative step from theory to practice using Design as a vehicle Workshop |
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 | A workshop was conducted at ACM CHI 2021 that opened up the principles of Human Data Interaction to the CHI community to encourage critique and dialogue about the strengths, weaknesses, value and opportunities of incorporating HDI into the design and evaluation of technology. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Hybrid Relics - introduction blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | To maximise promotion of Horizons research, projects are required to produce 3 blogs throughout project lifecycles. This is the introduction blog for Hybrid Relics - one of Horizons third round Agile projects. The blog covers why the project is necessary, its aims, and details about timeframes and the interdisciplinary team. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/introducing-hybrid-relics/ |
Description | Hybrid Relics - mid blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | To maximise promotion of Horizons research, projects are required to produce 3 blogs throughout project lifecycles. This is the mid blog for Hybrid Relics - one of Horizons third round Agile projects. The blog post covers activities and progress of the project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/hybrid-relics-project-visits-the-university-of-oxford-ai-artefacts-collect... |
Description | Hybrid Relics blog - Unravelling Layers of Meaning: Relics in Contemporary Discourse |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This blog written by Emma McClaughlin, Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics and a member of the Horizon Hybrid Relics project team, describes her activities exploring the term 'relic' using corpus analysis. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/unravelling-layers-of-meaning-relics-in-contemporary-discourse/ |
Description | In December 2021 I was named one of the The Foundation Future Leaders 2022 - by the Foundation for Science and Technology |
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 | The Foundation Future Leaders programme brings together a cohort of around 30 mid-career professionals over the course of a year, with approximately 10 representatives each from the research community, industry, and the civil service and wider public sector. Over a 12-month period, the group meet and discuss with senior figures from government, parliament, universities, large industry, SMEs, research charities and others. Just as importantly, Future Leaders present their own expertise, develop skills and make future contacts. The programme includes external visits and the development of an annual conference for a wider group of mid-career future leaders in science, technology, research and innovation. I see opportunity provided by the Foundation of Future Leaders program as a platform to generate ongoing, open dialog with a group of people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, including government, industry, and academia. I will make use of meetings, drop in sessions and conference time offered through the Foundation of Future Leaders program to lead pin-point discussions that will address both social and technical challenges in the design, regulation and operation of trustworthy and socially beneficial autonomous systems which are designed as such in principle and trusted in practice by individuals, society and government. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.foundation.org.uk/Future-Leaders/Foundation-Future-Leaders-2022 |
Description | Interactive virtual workshop/tutorial session at Fuzz-IEEE 2021 |
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 | This was a two-hour virtual workshop/tutorial session at the Fuzz-IEEE 2021 annual conference-titled 'Capture and Handling of Uncertainty at Source - Using Intervals in AI and Why it Matters'. This covered the added-value of capturing 'uncertainty-aware' data, as well as demonstration and discussion around efficient interval-valued data capture and cutting-edge modelling and statistical analysis techniques. This included a live survey study designed to demonstrate the DECSYS software and solicit views on various aspects of Artificial Intelligence, with reporting of preliminary results being used to illustrate how capture of uncertainty in responses can provide better insights. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://attend.ieee.org/fuzzieee-2021/tutorials/#UICHU |
Description | Interview for press release about journal publication |
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 | I was interviewed by the University of Nottingham Faculty of Science media relations manager, to provide details on a recent paper (Ellerby, Wagner & Broomell, 2021) for a university press release. This was subsequently picked up and reported on by a couple of other online news websites. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/understanding-uncertainty-with-a-new-take-on-questionnaires |
Description | Invited Keynote on 'Articulating uncertainty-at-source' at SiRAcon22 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited Keynote on 'Articulating uncertainty-at-source' at SiRAcon22 (Society of Information Risk Analysts Conference 2022), Virtual, May 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.societyinforisk.org |
Description | Invited Presentation: Anna-Maria Piskopani |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | C. Lilian Mitrou/ Anna- Maria Piskopani, "Metaverse: legal and ethical issues" in 3rd Joint ERCIM - JST Workshop. Humans and Interactions in Intelligent and XR environments (20-21 October 2022). Inria Rocquencourt. Versailles. France. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.ercim.eu/events/3rd-joint-ercim-jst-workshop |
Description | Invited lecture on 'Regulating for Human Centered AI' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture on 'Regulating for Human Centered AI' at the '2021 Bilgi University IT Law International Summer School on Artificial Intelligence'. Istanbul, Turkey / Online. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://aipractice.bilgi.edu.tr/en/ |
Description | Keynote at 7th International Visual Informatics Conference 2021 |
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 "Combining digital layers and physical materials to create personalised gifting experiences" to the Visual Informatics international community sparking interest in this new topic. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://ivic2021.uniten.edu.my/Prof_Boriana_keynote.html |
Description | Knowledge Cafe 2: How assistive robots can and should use your data |
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 | A second Knowledge Cafe was held in the Cobot Maker Space at the University of Nottingham - organised in collaboration with the UKRI EMERGENCE Network and funded by the 2021 Turning Network Awards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/knowledge-cafe-discuss-how-assistive-robots-can-and-should-use-your-data/ |
Description | Knowledge Cafe: How assistive robots can and should use your data |
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 | A Knowledge Cafe was held in the Cobot Maker Space at the University of Nottingham on the 30th June, organised in collaboration with the UKRI EMERGENCE network and funded by the Turning Network Development awards: https://www.turing.ac.uk/work-turing/turing-network-development-awards-call |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Knowledge Café about data protection and health care |
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 organised the Knowledge Café. Why do you want my data? in the Cobot Maker Space (June and September 2022). Postgraduate and undergraduate students, academic staff, and the general public exchange ideas and opinions about the adaptation of robotics in healthcare and its social, legal, and ethical implications. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://cobotmakerspace.org/events/knowledge-cafe/ |
Description | Knowledge Exchange: Presentation from ISOC Fellow |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Mid-Career fellow from our project partner presented to the Everything in Moderation project as a knowledge exchange activity |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Legal and ethical issues raised by the metaverse. 3d Joint Workshop ERCIM JTC (October 2022). Versailles. France |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Discussion with colleagues from Universities in EU and Japan about the ethical and legal issues raised by metaverse. Networking and opportunities for collaboration |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.ercim.eu/events/3rd-joint-ercim-jst-workshop |
Description | Live workshop - Coronavirus Discourses: linguistic evidence for effective public health messaging |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Knowledge-exchange workshop: Pandemic and Beyond - Public Health, Communication and Healthcare Presentation delivered at the Public Health, Communication and Healthcare Knowledge Exchange workshop held by the Pandemic and Beyond project at Exeter University (bringing together 72 Covid-19 AHRC projects under the same umbrella). We presented an overview of the Coronavirus Discourses project during the workshop which was an opportunity to connect with other AHRC Covid-19 research teams working in adjacent areas. The workshop facilitated knowledge exchange and collaboration between teams, leading to strengthened communication and impact strategies that will benefit individual project teams as well as ultimately boosting the profile of Arts and Humanities research, and its vital role in Covid-19 response and recovery. This workshop brought together projects from two subgroups - Media, Communication and Public Health Messaging, and Healthcare and Managing Covid-19. Projects within the first group had strong connections in a focus on public health messaging, journalism, and the media, and were connected by an interest in how information and misinformation about the pandemic is spread. There was also a strong interest in communication in the second group, especially between healthcare services and those who use them. Projects in this group have strong links in a focus on design, and on examining issues impacting healthcare professionals and the NHS. Information about the projects in the group can be found below. In this workshop, we had the opportunity to present our project and hear about other related projects; think about and share strategies for effective ways of engaging with different communities and stakeholders to effect change and create impact; think about and share strategies for effective, innovative and creative ways of communicating research; informally connect and network with other researchers; and feedback and provide input into the ongoing work of the Pandemic and Beyond team. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | MIDAS at Mid-Term blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A mid point progress blog about Horizon's first round Agile project: MIDAS Existing systems for managing user identities are service oriented: identities are limited to a single service and often assumed to refer uniquely to a single person - a naive assumption which is contrary to real-world practice. Therefore people have to manipulate services to manage multiple identities for a single person between and within different services, select which identities to use to publish information, and collaboratively manage identities on behalf of others within a group. MIDAS aims to better understand the socio-technical complexities from the perspectives of different stakeholders and translate these into recommendations and design patterns, that contribute to alleviating concerns in this landscape................... |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/midas-at-mid-term/ |
Description | MIDAS final blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A final blog post to disseminate learnings from the project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/midas-final-blog/ |
Description | MIDAS focus groups |
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 | MIDAS, a Horizon Agile (round 1) project held a series of engagement focus groups to gather the understandings of the general public around sharing practices of accounts and profiles |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | MIDAS focus groups round 2 |
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 | Horizon's Agile (round 1) project MIDAS held a second series of focus groups to elicit user feedback around design decisions made to alleviate user concerns around sharing of accounts and profiles |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | MIDAS poster presentation at CHI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A poster was presented at CHI |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Make Your Own Robot Public Engagment event |
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 | 14 members of the public attended a LEGO robot building workshop hosted at Mansfield Museum and run under the umbrella of the Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity event. The event was intended to engage primarily younger audiences in the field of robotics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://nottsfosac.co.uk/2023-festival/ |
Description | MeMa 2.0 blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An update on progress in the Horizon MeMa 2.0 project: Following from the last MeMa 2.0 blog update, the team have been working to deploy a working MeMa system into the homes of participants. This involved the development of a mobile application which can be used with Android tablets. After the development stage, work began to create an instruction manual. This explains how to interact with the interface and highlights key features such as how to add, create, and view memories. In addition to providing technical help, the manual provides space for participants to note any reflections they have when using their MeMa and provides further information on tasks for upcoming workshops they will participate in............... |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/an-exploration-of-mema-2-0/ |
Description | MeMa 3.0 and WISEParks public engagement event |
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 | Horizon researchers Dominic Price and Pepi Barnard were invited to attend the Newham Citizen Science Festival at the University of East London on Saturday 17th February to demonstrate MeMa and WISEboxes - both are prototypes which were developed during the Memory Machine and WiseParks projects. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/29359-2/ |
Description | MeMa 3.0 blog posts prototype reveal and paper annoucement |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The MeMa 3.0 Team continue to meet to discuss funding opportunities to progress and advance work in this area with no official funding. New parties with an interest in this area have also joined the team to support development of a prototype, analyse and contribute towards writing papers. Two blogs have also been produced in 2023 in order to keep momentum going and promote the continued activity: https://www.horizon.ac.uk/mema-3-0-prototype-reveal/ and https://www.horizon.ac.uk/mema-3-0-paper-its-not-just-for-the-past-but-its-for-the-here-and-now/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/mema-3-0-prototype-reveal/ |
Description | Meet the Cobots Event at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham |
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 | Around 30 members of the public, mostly families with school age children, attended a 'Meet the Cobots' event organised by Nottingham's Broadway Arts cinema. Members of the University of Nottingham's Cobot Maker Space attended with a number of robots/cobots to demonstrate their use and engage with the public. The purpose of the event was to allow members of the public to interact with robots in a way that they usually wouldn't be able to in everyday life. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Memory Machine 2.0 - article in Horizon Impact Brochure |
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 | The Horizon Digital Economy Research impact highlights brochure was published and widely disseminated in 2021 which supported increased awareness and continued interest in the research activity being carried out in the MeMa II project - with partners still wishing to remain involved in work going forward. The MeMa II article is on pages 11 & 12 of the Impact Highlights brochure, which can be accessed via: https://www.horizon.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Horizon-Impact-Brochure.pdf |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Memory Machine 3.0 All hands demo workshop |
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 | MeMa 3.0 is the third iteration of the Memory Machine project investigating reminiscence and sharing to facilitate social connectiveness supported through digital technology and media. The pandemic heightened the use of digital technology due to the separation of those isolated at home, or in care and hospital settings. Horizon's Memory Machine is a prototype device, informed by previous design and testing with potential users impacted by memory loss. This iteration will deploy a custom built physical repository for digital memories in settings accessible to multiple users experiencing cognitive decline, along with care workers and family members, while preserving data protection and privacy of personal content. This workshop involved members of the study team along with 2 study participants to trial software version 3.0 and discuss physical design requirements. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Memory Machine 3.0 blog post |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A blog post entitled The Memory Machine visits care homes |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/the-memory-machine-mema-3-0-visits-care-homes/ |
Description | Mid blog Storytelling Grow Your Own Adventure |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | unknown |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/storytelling-grow-your-own-adventure-halfway-point/ |
Description | Midlands Innovation webinar for EDI cards |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Online webinar to provide information about the EDI cards and provide case studies of use |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Minimal Intervention Distributed Account System blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An introduction to Horizons Round 1 Agile project MIDAS: In the social 'messiness' of the real-world, digital identities are not often neatly siloed within individual services and accounts. Instead they often intersect with each other, mirroring offline social interactions. When we consider the example of digital media platforms, it is not uncommon for users to share their accounts, especially paid-for premium ones - such as Spotify Premium - with their friends, family or acquaintances. Also prevalent is the use of multiple accounts by a single user and shared profiles, wherein a subset of the account is rendered to other parties who might need support, for example children's or carer-patient profiles....................... |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/minimal-intervention-distributed-account-system-midas/ |
Description | Mirror Mirror on the Wall - blog post |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Blog post about the TAS for Health project and the benefits gained from taking a multi-disciplinary approach |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.tas.ac.uk/tas-for-health-project-blog/ |
Description | Net Zero: Towards sustainable public engagement via responsible recommender systems - An introduction blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An introduction to Net Zero Recommender Systems - an Agile Round 2 project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/towards-sustainable-public-engagement-via-responsible-recommender-systems-... |
Description | Networking tour - USA - Pepi Barnard |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Pepi Barnard, Derek McAuley and Joel Fisher embarked on a tour of USA March 2022, to network and promote the work of both Horizon and the TAS Hub. Visits to San Francisco and Stanford University in Palo Alto, California - School of Medicine's Centre for Biomedical Ethics, the Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the School of Computer Science - Institute for Human-centred AI (HAI). The Moral-IT cards, which were designed at Horizon, were used and were reported to have proved useful in eliciting views and generating discussions. The Moral-IT card sorting exercise generated views about how the Moral-IT cards may be further developed to suit the topic of trustworthy intelligent and autonomous systems. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/research-visit-to-america/ |
Description | Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity: "Doing Responsible Research- What for? What do citizens (YOU) want?" V Portillo on behalf of hoRRIzon 2 project. |
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 | Poster presentation (drop-in session) linked to HomeZero project installation, at Mansfield Museum. Aimed to engage and facilitate discussion with the public, mainly adults, about responsible innovation (RI), to get feedback about the questions researchers & innovators should consider when doing research responsibly, and to explore whether citizens feel the can/could contribute shaping research carried out at Universities in the UK. The poster displayed a tool developed as part of the hoRRIzon1 project: the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Prompts and Practice Cards (http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.7243) designed to reflect and aid discussion about priorities for RRI. Physical decks of RRI Prompts and Practice Cards were also available and sticky notes were provided to encourage citizens to provide feedback from the cards about their content and/or relevance to them and their community. Although people (12 adults) were receptive, adults were busy with their children's activities so discussions surrounding RI were challenging. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://nottsfosac.co.uk |
Description | Notts TV interview |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Following a University of Nottingham Press Release promoting RAI UK funding for 'Responsible Innovation Advantage in Knowledge Exchange (RAKE), Notts TV interviewed Horizon Research Fellow, Virginial Portillo about the project. You can watch the coverage here (starting at 13:43). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/virginia-portillo-talks-ai-to-notts-tv/ |
Description | Online Article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An article based on a conversation about our research. bothe collaborators and the publisher want to continue to follow the research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.cognitivesensations.com/our-work/conversations-on-cognition-and-control |
Description | Open All Senses initial blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | unknown |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/open-all-senses-at-half-way-point/ |
Description | Organised and ran an international day long workshop on 'Human Data Interaction Through Design: An Exploratory from Theory to Practice Using Design as a Vehicle' at 'ACM SIGCHI Conference 2021'. Yokohama, Japan/Online. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop with experts to define agenda for HDI research in HCI - involved industry, academia and beyond. Resulted in a Manifesto for action and community building follow on work. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | http://designresearch.works/chi2021-hdi-workshop/ |
Description | PPI meeting with Different Strokes group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
Results and Impact | 2 sessions with the members of the Different Strokes group in Southampton, to discuss project ideas for the TAS for Health project, and to engage them with potential research questions and methods. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | PPI meeting with Univerity of Nottingham MS PPI Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Attended 2 meetings of the UoN MS PPI group to discuss the TAS for Health project and talk through ideas for research questions and methods. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Participation in "Living with AI" podcast |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Podcast "Living with AI". Participation in panel discussion. Season 3, Episode 2 on Generative AI. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://lwaip.buzzsprout.com/1447474/12954427-generative-ai-featuring-deep-dhillon-of-xyonix |
Description | Participation in Heart-Met Assistive Robotics competition at ICRA 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The RoboNotts assitive robotics competition team from the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, competed in and won the Heart-Met assistive robotics competition. The competition was held at and supported by the IEEE sponsored ICRA 2023 conference. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://metricsproject.eu/healthcare/assistive-robot-challenge-icra-2023/ |
Description | Participation in the Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity Real Science in Schools Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Around 100 pupils from primary schools from across the country attended a symposium as part of the Nottingham Festical of Science and Curiosity. 3 members of the research organisation visited, along with a humanoid service robot, to interact with the pupils and engage them with the research that they had been conducting in their schools. The robot was also part of a prize-giving session at the symposium. The feedback from the teachers at the event was positive with one mentioning that 'she had never seen one chold who normally has difficulty communicating, so animated before'. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://nottsfosac.co.uk/event/real-science-in-schools-symposium/ |
Description | Participation in the RUSI conference on Autonomous Systems |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation and Q&A at online RUSI conference on autonomous systems. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://rusi.org/ |
Description | Pepi Barnard, Research Associate presentation at AAAL2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Pepi attended the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference (AAAL2022) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania whilst on a networking tour of USA promoting the work of both Horizon and the TAS Hub. She presented a paper on March 21st for the Coronavirus Discourses project (C19COMMS). The paper, titled "Public Health Messaging for At-risk Populations: a UK-based case study", was very well received and her talk generated a great deal of discussion and interest from other researchers, including interest to collaborate in the future. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.aaal.org/events/2022-aaal-conference |
Description | Personalisation of Health Information presentation at Patient Information Forum member webinar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Personalisation of Health Information: Using AI to personalise the language used in health information contexts to meet the needs and preferences of different audiences Talk delivered to attendees of Patient Information Forum's (PIF) Personalisation of Health Information (Patient Information Forum) member webinar: AI in Health information. Over 100 of PIF's member organisations attended. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Policy Connect Stakeholder engagement workshop |
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 | Dr Ansgar Koene was invited to attend a closed stakeholder engagement workshop in October chaired by Eve Lugg, Policy Manager for Data at Policy Connect: https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/ The roundtable will discuss the recently launched consultation on post-brexit reforms to the UK's data protection regime, with a specific focus on responsible innovation. "Following the recent publication of the consultation on reforms to create an ambitious, pro-growth and innovation-friendly data protection regime that underpins the trustworthy use of data, we are hosting a roundtable to discuss this in relation to responsible innovation. Considering the UK's need to introduce agile and adaptable data protection laws that maintain high data protection standards without creating unnecessary barriers to responsible data use, we think that responsible innovation needs to be central to the conversation. Given the above, we would like to invite you to the roundtable to partake in what will be a fascinating discussion. " |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/ |
Description | Poster presentation at CHI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A poster was presented at CHI (Project: MIDAS). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Postgraduate training workshop - EFRESH project presented and discussed as an example of RRI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Helena Webb and Liz Dowthwaite ran a Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) 'ethical hackathon' session for postgraduate students at the Horizon CDT, University of Nottingham. As part of this two-day session they presented the aims and methods of the EFRESH project and used it to illustrate how RRI principles can be incorporated into research practice. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Presentation in a Conference. STS Conference (May 2022). Graz Vienna |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of the The growing vulnerability paradigm. Use of telepresence robots for assisting older people with dementia risk. It sparked questions and discussion afterwards of the necessity and risks of new technologies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.tugraz.at/en/tu-graz/services/news-stories/tu-graz-events/eventdetails/article/sts-confe... |
Description | Presentation in the Gikki Conference 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of the talk with the title. Upload consciousness. Will the metaverse will be our fictional meta-death/paradise? It sparked discussions about the neuro rights |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.gikii.org/gikii-iceland-program/ |
Description | Presentation reported in Public Discourses of Dementia Blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Write-up by audience member in attendance at Emma McClaughlin's conference presentation at the British Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Belfast 2022. Published by Lancaster University, Discourses of Dementia blog |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-discourses-of-dementia/2022/09/22/what-matters-in-applied-linguistics-... |
Description | Presentation to Ocado about the Cobot Maker space and Wizard of Oz methodology + studies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | A talk presented to Ocado on their request. They wanted to learn about Wizard of Oz and about the Cobot Maker Space. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Presentation to Roche Pharmaceuticals by Dr Ansgar Koene |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Dr Koene was invited to run a 1 hour session about Mis- and Dis-information as part of an internal event that Roche Pharmaceuticals is doing. The invite was to cover his work with Ernst Young, however Roche also asked about his connection with the University of Nottingham, so it was an opportunity to talk about relevant work at Horizon - UnBias, Re-Entrust, CasMa projects |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Presentation to the Cyberspace Conference 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of the paper Words behind walls. Content moderation issues in the context to End to End Encryption. Cyberspace 2022. Brno. November 2022 with N. Gervassis. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Presentation to the Gikki Conference 2023. Utrecht 7-8 September 2023. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of the paper The Oppenheimer movie and AI regulation. Gikki Conference 2023. Utrecht 7-8 September 2023. It sparkl a debate about the new AI regulation and its risks. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.gikii.org/tag/programme/ |
Description | Presented at Festival of Science and Curiosity our work on Brain and Physiological sensors used to track cognitive activity. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | We successfully participated in a science fair targeting a young audience of 4-14 years as part of our outreach initiative. This was organised in collaboration with the Festival of Science and Curiosity. The event attracted children and young teenagers, along with their educators and parents. Our primary goal was to introduce the young attendees to brain and physiological sensors and explain their role in tracking cognitive informatics. We demystified the science behind using brain and physiological sensors, demonstrating how they track cognitive processes and how this technology can be applied in everyday life. The presentation aimed to spark curiosity and interest in neuroscience, biotechnology and computer science among the attendees. We provided simple, interactive demonstrations using non-invasive, child-friendly sensors to illustrate how movement, emotion, and concentration levels can be tracked. These activities were particularly well-received, engaging the children directly with the technology. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://nottsfosac.co.uk/event/sensing-the-brain-at-wollaton-hall/ |
Description | PriPA: a tool for privacy-preserving analytics of linguistic data |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Clos, J., Adolphs, S., McClaughlin, E., Barnard, P., Nichele, E., Knight, D., & McAuley, D. PriPA: a tool for privacy-preserving analytics of linguistic data. Presented at: Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies 2022. Marseille, France. 24th June 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://legal2022.mobileds.de/ |
Description | PriPA: a tool for privacy-preserving analytics of linguistic data presentation (June 2022) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Clos, J., Adolphs, S. McClaughlin, E., Barnard, P., Nichele, E., Knight, D., & McAuley, D. (2022). PriPA: a tool for privacy-preserving analytics of linguistic data. Presented at: Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies 2022. Marseille, France. 24th June 2022. Proceedings available online shortly. A few attendees asked questions about the presentation after the talk |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Project discussion in research group meeting - EFRESH |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | EFRESH project member Peter Craigon presented the aims and activities of the study at a meeting of the Institute of Science and Society at the University of Nottingham. This provided for some discussion of the project's aims and expected outputs as well as being a call for participants (as the university staff can be project participants). It directly led to expressed interest in the study from further groups at the University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Public Health Wales Research & Evaluation Conference presentation: Developing effective communications to promote vaccination: insights from COVID-19 message production and reception. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Vilar-Lluch, S., McClaughlin, E., Knight, D., Adolphs, S., Barnard, P., Clos, J., McAuley, D., Nichele, E., Lang, A. (2023, 7 December). Developing effective communications to promote vaccination: insights from COVID-19 message production and reception. Public Health Wales Research & Evaluation Conference. Cardiff, UK. 33 audience members present. Presentation delivered by Sara Vilar-Lluch, interactive session ran by Sara Vilar-Lluch and Emma McClaughlin. Requests for further information about developing and delivering messaging for public vaccine campaigns. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Public Involvement Panel: Communicating Research with the Public (18th November 2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public Involvement Panel: Communicating Research with the Public (18th November 2021). 14 people (PIP members and researchers) attended the meeting. They demonstrated interest in the work by getting actively involved in the discussion and asking for further information to computer scientists about the tool. Some of the PIP members also agreed to test the tool. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Public Involvement Panel: Privacy Preserving Corpus Linguistic Analysis for COVID-19 (9th June 22) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public Involvement Panel: Privacy Preserving Corpus Linguistic Analysis for COVID-19 (9th June 22). 14 people (PIP members and researchers) attended the meeting. They demonstrated interest in the work by asking about the recent conference presentations delivered at the American Association of Applied Linguistics. They also commented that the tool about to be designed was useful. One PIP member wrote: "This discussion has been very engaging and I have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the policy making process! :)" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Public Involvement Panel: Privacy-preserving technologies (27th January 2022) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public Involvement Panel: Privacy-preserving technologies (27th January 2022). 14 people (PIP members and researchers) attended the meeting. PIP members showed interest and engagement in the work through their comments and direct involvement in the activities proposed during the meeting. This included a Jamboard activity about effective messages they said they especially enjoyed and appreciated. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Public Involvement Panel: Public Health Messaging (27th July 2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public Involvement Panel: Public Health Messaging (27th July 2021). PIP members discussed how they interpreted and how clear they found different health messages. They showed their interest by actively participating in the discussion and responding to further information requests (completing a task). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Public Involvement Panel:1st C19Comms (8th June 2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public Involvement Panel:1st C19Comms PIP meeting (8th June 2021). 14 people (PIP members and researchers) attended the meeting. The discussion was defined enjoyable by several of the PIP members. This motivated them to take part in the following meetings. One of the PIP members wrote "very interesting and pleased to meet you all" at the conclusion of the meeting. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Public Involvement Panel:2nd C19Comms PIP meeting (29th June 2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Public Involvement Panel: 2nd C19Comms PIP meeting (29th June 2021). 17 people attended the meeting (PIP members and researchers) and declared interest in being involved in the project further. One participant said that "The June report was really good as a feedback mechanism [...] I really, really liked it [...]. PIP members were interested in seeing our output and results. One PIP member wrote they had enjoyed the discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Public engagement Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity- hoRRIzon2 and HomeZero |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Drop-in session in Mansfield Museum. Tweet sent to promote the Responsible Innovation poster (hoRRIzon2) and the HomeZero project installation : drop-in session for families during February 2023 school holidays. It had 935 views, 2 retweets and 7 likes. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://twitter.com/vportillorri/status/1626536933621915649?s=46&t=MxWdD5bodeOWEc-6QVrLqw |
Description | Public health messaging for at-risk populations: a UK-based case study presentation (March 2022) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Barnard, P., Adolphs, S., Knight, D., McClaughlin, E., Nichele, E., Lang, A., Clos, J., McAuley D. Public health messaging for at-risk populations: a UK-based case study. Presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference. Pittsburgh, USA. 21st March 2022. Interest has been shown by a few attendees who asked questions both in the Q&A session and after the talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Public health messaging for at-risk populations: a UK-based case study. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Barnard, P., Adolphs, S., Knight, D., McClaughlin, E., Nichele, E., Lang, A., Clos, J., & McAuley, D. Public health messaging for at-risk populations: a UK-based case study. Presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference. Pittsburgh, USA. 21st March 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.aaal.org/events/2022-aaal-conference |
Description | RAI UK UoN-Wide Network Panel and Network event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Horizon Transitional Assistant Professor, Helena Webb was invited to participate in a panel session followed by networking lunch to discuss "What is Responsible AI?". The event was chaired by Dr Aislinn Gomez Bergin, RAI UK. Dr Oliver Butler is an Assistant Professor in Law. He convenes the Law and Technology Discussion Group at the School of Law. The group seeks external speakers to present on the new challenges presented by emerging technology for existing approaches to law, regulation and governance. It is deliberately wide and interdisciplinary in its membership and theme, to draw together researchers across law and the wider University. Dr Helena Webb is a socio-technical researcher and Transitional Assistant Professor based in the School of Computer Science. Her research interests lie in exploring the day-to-day lived experience of technology and bringing insights from granular-level qualitative analysis into understandings of innovation. She draws on Responsible Research and Innovation as a set of good practices that benefits the research process. She leads a RAI UK International Partnership project, a UKRI TAS Hub project on the police use of mobile phone data, and a UoN Horizon Digital Economy project on responsible research into online communities. She is also a co-lead of CHAIR, a UoN initiative that brings together researchers across the university with an interest in human-AI interaction. CHAIR will be running events throughout the rest of the academic year, including a summer symposium. Dr Damian Okaibedi Eke is a Transitional Assistant Professor at the school of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK. He is representing the UKRI research programme on Responsible AI, UK (RAI-UK). His research interests cover critical philosophical issues at the intersection of Emerging Technologies, Data and Society including but not limited to Responsible AI, Responsible Innovation, ICT4D, Responsible Data Governance and Neuroethics. Dr Kyle Harrington is an Assistant Professor in Human Factors Engineering, and the Chair of the "Human Rights in the Digital Age Network" here at UoN. Kyle has an interdisciplinary background in Artificial Intelligence, Psychology and Philosophy and experience in both automotive and healthcare research. Kyle's research projects have recently focused on cognitive screening and rehabilitation technologies and assistive robotics. He also teaches advanced methods in Human Factors and Human Computer Interaction. Kyle has an interest in the broader, societal, political and ideological implications of technology adoption. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | RRI ethical hackathon (Liz Dowthwaite and Helena Webb) (HoRRIzon 2.0) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Liz Dowthwaite and Helena Webb ran a two day ethical hackathon for new CDT students in Horizon at the University of Nottingham. Students discussed ethical and responsibility issues arising from social media and then worked on a challenge to design their own responsible social media platform. Students worked in groups and presented their ideas, with the best team winning a prize. This formed part of the students' RRI module, which HoRRIzon team members co design and contribute to. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | RRI into practice! Launching and using the Horizon RRI Prompts and Practice cards |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Blog describing the development of a new tool by the hoRRIzon Agile project to aid articulating Responsible Innovation into practice. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/rri-into-practice-launching-and-using-the-horizon-rri-prompts-and-practice... |
Description | Rachel Jacobs blog: Reflections in the Mirror Space |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Rachel Jacobs is a former CDT and Research Associate working with Horizon on projects, including Invisible : https://invisible.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ and the Future Machine: https://www.horizon.ac.uk/project/the-future-machine/. This blog describes research continuing after previous underpinning research involving 'mirror space' as part of the TAS Hub artist in residency programme. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.i-am-ai.net/reflections-in-the-mirror-space/ |
Description | Relics: Dialogue with UNESCO representative |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Dialogue with UNESCO representative on developing understanding of the connection between Heritage and Wellbeing. Outcome / planned next steps: Topics discussed are being developed with more partners as part of funding bid for stage II of the project - see https://unesco.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Mental-Health-and-Wellbeing-Report.pdf |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://unesco.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Mental-Health-and-Wellbeing-Report.pdf |
Description | Relics: Dialogue with representative of Ceredigion Museum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dialogue with Ceredigion Museum Date: 5th Feb 2024 Organisations and individuals involved: Ceredigion Museum Description: Discussions around project, wellbeing and technology. Meeting re space and partnering, look at collection. Outcome / planned next steps: Secured a commitment from Ceredigion to be a partner in following projects. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Relics: Dialogue with representative of Nottingham Alabasters Project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dialogue with representative of Nottingham Alabasters Project, Joanna Martin Date: 27th November 2023 Organisations and individuals involved: Emma McClaughlin, Alan Chamberlain, Joanna Martin Description: Discussion about the parallels between the work being done of the Nottingham Alabasters Project and Relics. Number of people reached: 1 Outcome / planned next steps: Joanna follow-up: 'I'd love to continue the conversation. I have had another email from Ron Inglis at Nottingham Museums and Galleries about some of his ambitions for further work on the alabasters, beyond KE, which will require lots of team work across the Faculty and beyond. I am going to apply for another IAA grant, and as part of that I wonder whether I could involve you two in a workshop / idea sharing event to develop some of the ideas we were talking about?' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Relics: Workshop with Welsh Martyrs |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Workshop with Welsh Martyrs Catholic priests on the nature of (digital) relics Organisations and individuals involved: Description: Discussed project. Feedback very supportive. Number of people reached: Outcome / planned next steps: Day to design, day to make and engage. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Relics: Workshop with stakeholders from the Bate Collection, Oxford |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Workshop held with stakeholders from the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, Music Museum in Oxford. January 2024 Organisations and individuals involved: seven attendees in total including project team members at UoN (Dr Alan Chamberlain (PI), Dr Glenn McGarry, Dr Richard Ramchurn and Dr Oliver Butler. External attendees were: Prof Dave De Roure (Head of Digital Scholarship - Uni Oxford), Dr Emanuela Vai (Keeper of the Bate Collection, Faculty of Music - Uni Oxford), Dr Andrew Cusworth (Bodleian Library - Uni of Oxford). Description: Aims: to prioritise and focus on areas of research and plan future events and develop and co-design an approach to enable us to connect and engage with a wide range of people who could take part in our research at a future event. Explored artefacts from the museum, disseminated project aims, networking, discussed how identities and the self are embodied in artefacts. Alan presented a framework that formed the basis of a practical way to start to look at the notion of hybridity (digital/physical) and how we might use generative AI tools to re-imagine and reframe a range of different understandings about the collection. Number of external people involved/reached: 3 Outcome / planned next steps: Paper in preparation ( 'ReFraming Relics: Hybrid Experimental Digital Humanities Approaches to AI and Archives'). Produced a Miro board which maps out ideas based around the framework presented. Helped to identify a key aim for future work: to go beyond the material nature of the artefact and use generative AI tools to re-frame and use the Bate Collection as a catalyst to prompt people to add their own generated images and text to the collection based on their reflections on the personal meaning that things have in the world. This generated material is a representation in its own right and will helps us to understand the hybrid nature of these relationships between digital and physical objects. Generated content will become part of the collection. Planning second workshop with scholars asking people to reflect on the themes discussed during this visit. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Research talk to the Foundation for Science and Technology Future Leaders |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The research talk was focused on the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Human Robot Interaction (HRI), Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) and more generally Responsible Research and Innovation. Its purpose was to inform and educate a diverse audience including policymakers, industry practitioners, and researchers about the latest developments and advancements in these areas. The presentation was targeted towards the future leaders from the Foundation for Science and Technology and aimed to create awareness and generate interest in these topics. I have also showcased some of the work done in the Cobot Maker Space, as well as Horizon Research Institute. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Response to a media enquiry about content moderation in social media and regulation |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | It sparks a discussion about content moderation and new regulation (EU Digital Services and UK Online Safety Act) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.tovima.gr/print/politics/mporoume-na-leme-lfoti-theloume-lfsta-social-media/ |
Description | Responsibility Re-Imagined |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Members of Horizons research team (Virginia Portillo and Anna Maria Piskopani) and Horizon partners (Rachel Jacobs, MoIW and Richard Ramchurn) contributed in this workshop 'Responsible Innovation & Sustainability in the Digital Arts in an age of AI' The workshop brought together artists and academics working in the domains of IoT and robotics as a way to explore issues which relate to Responsible Innovation, Design, Trust, Privacy and Security -in the context of the Digital Arts and Environmental Sustainability, with a view to examining and unpacking these issues and informing and expanding traditional notions of these research areas. The workshop was multidisciplinary and brought together the TAS RRI Project and PETRAS EXIoT projects. Also invited were members from the STAHR Collective; a growing cross-institutional multidisciplinary group. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.stahrc.org/reimagine |
Description | Richard Ramchurn PI on AiM - presentation at BCI Society |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Richard Ramchurn, PI on Horizons Co-Production Campaign AiM project invited to present at the 2022 BCI Society (BCI Thursdays Next Generations: BCI-fi Part 2): |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://bcisociety.org/event/bci-thursdays-next-generations-bci-fi-part-2/ |
Description | Robots Mediating Interaction - halfway point |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A mid point progress blog about Horizon's first round Agile project Robots mediation Interaction: Our project is looking at the role of cobots in mediating interaction. Cobots are distinct from robots in that they are designed as 'collaborative' and exist alongside those working with them, as opposed to being 'caged off' for safety. We are exploring in a limited way, how service robots are used in mediating interactions between people, how 'trustworthy' people find those interactions and how they collaborate, to achieve a complicated task. The Cobot Maker Space at the University of Nottingham is providing an ideal testing environment for us to both develop and deliver a Wizard of Oz (WoZ) platform - which will benefit other users of the space wanting to do research with service robots. Members of our team have contributed to earlier research related to WoZ............. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/robots-mediating-interaction-halfway-point/ |
Description | Robots Mediating Interaction blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Introduction blog to Horizon's first round Agile project Robots Mediating Interaction: Horizon's Agile project 'Robots Mediating Interaction' will develop our understanding of three key things: How people perceive collaborative robots ('cobots') - how they think about /of them as artefacts, agents etc. How the capabilities of cobots present advantages and disadvantages for collaborative activities with/around them, and how they compare with other technologies with similar 'capabilities' e.g., remote teleoperators. How people 'discipline' or fit and adapt their interactions with/around cobots to manage collaborative activities. We will explore these questions with one of the service robots in the Cobot Maker Space. This robot's capabilities include mobility, face recognition, text-to-speech, head and arm movement and the potential to carry objects in a basic way from one place to another.................. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/understanding-interaction-and-perception-in-mediated-work-with-cobots/ |
Description | Robots Mediating Interaction final blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A blog about the projects extension and upcoming activities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/robots-mediating-interaction-extension/ |
Description | Roma Patel invited to deliver a LEADD:NG workshop - HOME:Zero inspiring children |
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 | Roma was approached by the LEADD:NG project to deliver a workshop entitled Making immersive experiences for children and families. Research from the HOME:Zero project will feature as part of this event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/leaddng-33695240091 |
Description | School Visit (Ashgate Primary School, Derby) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Researchers from the Cobot Maker Space at the University of Nottingham were invited by Ashgate Primary School in Derby to take some robots to the school and talk to 3 classes of year 1 pupils. The pupils had just begun studying a topic on robotics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Second Advisory Group Meeting- Everything in Moderation project |
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 | The focus of the session was to discuss the legal and regulatory ecosystem of online communications in the context of E2E encrypted applications. Attendees included two members of the AG from the legal and cybersecurity sector, a member from the ICO (Everything in Moderation project external partner) and six members of the research team. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Series of engagement workshops with older adults, families and assisted users as part of the Memory Machine 2.0 project |
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 | A series of (online) workshops held with 3 categories of users to address the MeMa 2.0 app. Workshops addresses memories and welling, usability and hardware, privacy and security and reminiscence and gifting. A manual was designed to support users testing the MeMa 2.0 app |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://services.wp.horizon.ac.uk/2021/09/23/mema-2-0-call-for-participants/ |
Description | SoDIS blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An update on Horizon's SoDis project: SoDis is about visualising measures of busyness to support people's decisions about the places and spaces they visit. With that in mind, it became far too quiet with the restrictions in place for us to undertake our Human Counting Study in the Computer Science building as planned. As students returned to campus, we gained approval to run our study in UK-based university buildings by staff and students, subject to approval from building managers. We made enquiries of available WiFi data and found the busiest buildings. It will come as no surprise that they were all on University Park. First we approached Portland Building's managers as they have the most number of visitors on any given day. The nature of the traffic through Portland's many doorways was explained to us. There were many visitors, entering and exiting from several doors. People's movements into and out of the building were multi-directional and fast-moving. It was apparent that Portland required more SoDis researchers to undertake our counting study than were available............... |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/sodis-update/ |
Description | SoDis project focus groups |
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 | The focus groups consisted of UoN staff, students and visitors who spent some time on the campus, and those who hadn't been on campus for some months. The aim of the focus groups are to explore what people understand by and how they respond to various visualisations of busyness. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/sodis-update/ |
Description | Special Interest Group at CHI 2022 - SIG: Moving from Brain-Computer Interfaces to Personal Cognitive Informatics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Consumer neurotechnology is arriving en masse, even while algorithms for user state estimation are being actively defned and developed. Indeed, many consumable wearables are now available that try to estimate cognitive changes from wrist data or body movement. But does this data help people? It's a critical time to ask how users could be informed by wearable neurotechnology, in a way that would be relevant to their needs and serve their personal well-being. The aim of this SIG is to bring together the key HCI communities needed to address this: personal informatics, digital health and wellbeing, neuroergonomics, and neuroethics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/pubs/chi22-sig-cpi.pdf |
Description | Stakeholder Ethical Design Workshop for Open All Senses project |
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 | Robots and sensors were demonstrated in the Cobot Maker Space, University of Nottingham. Designers were in attendance as stakeholders with academic researchers. RRI Exrercise was undertaken with facilitation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Storytelling- Grow Your Own Adventure workshop (phase 1) |
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 run two workshops with parents of children under 10 years to explore their views and personal experiences about their current storytelling practice and also shared short clips of a conversational agent prototype that has been developed by our team. At the end of the session participants were invited to fill in a survey. Discussions form these sessions provided insightful feedback and made us reflect upon and question opportunities and challenges or our technology. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Study shows trust is still at heart of NHS Covid app reluctance |
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 | Press release about a paper published in JMIR - Public Adoption of and Trust in the NHS COVID-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: Quantitative Online Survey Study |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/study-shows-trust-is-still-at-heart-of-nhs-covid-app-reluctance |
Description | TAS Showcase- RRI and EDI Panel co-chaired by Dr Virginia Portillo and Dr Helena Webb, University of Nottingham |
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 | Panel discussion with a range of different panellists, including postdoctoral and early career researchers and a member from industry. Discussion focussed on examples of RRI and EDI into practice within their respective projects, followed by time for questions from the panel or audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://tas.ac.uk/tas-showcase-2024-programme/ |
Description | TAS for Health talk at TAS/RUSI conference "Trusting Machines?" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Participation in Day 3 of the conference, TAS Defence and security and healthcare workshops. Presented the TAS for Health project and took part in panel discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.tas.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/RUSIreport-final.pdf |
Description | Talk "Responsibility in emerging technologies: Methodology and findings". |Dr. A-?.Piskopani, Dr. V. Portillo, Dr. P. Craigon |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | We were invited to give a talk about RRI and the cards in the Fourth series of seminars organised by National Institute of Social Sciences by researchers of the P. Baltas and D.Kondyli. We had 25 participants. During the talk we discussed about the RRI and differences between Europe and UK. We presented the work of developing RI cards and how these processes work as a brainstorming activity for proposals as well as for identifying and addressing RRI issues as legal and ethical in projects. The talk sparked a vivid discussion. The researchers in the National Centre of Social Research reported increased interest of our work and requested further information and possible collaboration |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | The Future Machine - When This Tree Blossomed |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The Future Machine appeared and we lit up the tree with light boxes made by children from Miss Bird's class at Mellers Primary School in Nottingham who have been watching as the trees blossom, doing activities to celebrate the Spring and will be leaving messages for the future, on the Future Machine. Due to Covid-19 restrictions there was a limit on how many people could meet together this year so the gathering was small, the weather had turned from a heatwave to freezing with snowy conditions in the days before. We broadcast live from the gardens (see the short clip above) and a film of the moment will be available soon. Several members of the public witnessed the event in the gardens. One woman sat on the bench under the blossom tree to smoke a cigarette and talked with us, she said it nearly made her cry when she found out what we were doing and that we had worked with the local school children. https://www.whenthefuturecomes.net/nottingham-hub/ 6 people attended the activity in person 5 messages for the future were recorded on the Future Machine 3 members of the public engaged with the activity informally Online Audience: 257 unique page views for this event on the project website 48 views of the video on Vimeo 53 views on Facebook 63 views on Instagram |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | The Future Machine - When We Met By The River |
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 | Seven people came to a get-together at the School Hall in Backbarrow, by the River Leven, witnessed by the Future Machine. Each person had been invited to spend time with a watery place, that they had an affinity with, to consider these waters, this place and the environmental future. Each person told the story of their time with the water, we then walked down to the green bridge over the Leven, led by the Future Machine and spent time by the river. The get-together ended with food, conversation and each person talking to the future by leaving a message with the Future Machine. https://www.whenthefuturecomes.net/cumbria-hub/ 7 people attended the event in person 3 more Guardians of the Future Machine took part in activities leading up to the event 7 messages for the future were recorded on the Future Machine |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | The Future Machine - When We Visited Cannington, Somerset |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Preparing for when the Future Machine and the Tree Charter Bell appears in Cannington, the artists Caroline and Rachel took a walk from Cannington to Kilve meeting people from the village including the headteacher from Cannington Primary School, the Church Warden and lead bell ringer and Lead Councillor at the Parish Council. They took readings from a tree that the collaborating artist Caroline Locke planted as a child to make a hand bell that vibrates at the same frequency as the tree - that will be rang when they return to plant new trees in the village and do a procession with the Future Machine around the village, due to take place in January 2022. As they explored they documented what they encountered along the way, including a visit to Cannington Primary School where they met 12 children (two from each class) to talk to them about the project. 3 people attended meetings with the artists Online: 21 unique page views for this activity on the project website 27 people engaged with documentation of this activity on Facebook |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | The Future Machine - When the Autumn Leaves Fell in Finsbury Park, London |
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 | A procession around the park took place as the leaves fell, to celebrate the Autumn. Led by the Future Machine with readings and conversations by Esi Eshun, tree poems by Jo Roach and conversations about the park by Park Ranger Ricard Zanoli and Weeds and Seeds by May DeGrace. Stopping at seven trees in the park to represent the seven sisters myth and the story of the name of Seven Sisters Road that runs alongside the park. The day ended with a music performance with the musicians that have created the sounds of the Future Machine that respond live to the weather. Led by musicians Alexandre Yemaoua Dayo, David Kemp, Miles NCube, Terese and the Future Machine. Approximately 100 people attended the activity in person although many more watched the procession as it went past in the park. 30 messages for the future were recorded on the Future Machine. Online Audience: 37 unique page views for this event on the project website 53 views of the video on Vimeo 48 views on Facebook 48 views on Instagram |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | The Future Machine - when the Future Comes blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A blog post about The Future Machine - when the future comes event at Finsbury park in London and video: |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/the-future-machine-when-the-future-comes/ |
Description | The real EV tipping point: artificial intelligence in domestic EV charging blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An introduction blog about Horizon's first round Agile project: Smart Domestic EV Charging project: As the 26th global Climate Change Conference (COP26) commenced this week and following recent petrol shortages and soaring increase in energy prices, the imperative shift towards more sustainable fuels and patterns of consumption is evermore glaring. However, the low uptake of available smart technologies is evident of distrust in the energy sector in the UK, as well as the difficulties of achieving technology adoption in domestic life. Horizon's Agile project 'Domesticating Electric Vehicle Charging (DEVeC)' will develop our understanding of the roles and implications of autonomy and smart technologies in residential electric vehicle charging. Over the next year, this project brings together a multi-disciplinary, multi-partner team to examine this, putting ordinary citizens central to our research through a methodology - design fictions with family interviews - that aims to get beyond the limitations of current consumer research....................... |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/the-real-ev-tipping-point-artificial-intelligence-in-domestic-ev-charging/ |
Description | Towards sustainable public engagement via responsible recommender systems - An introduction |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | unknown |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/towards-sustainable-public-engagement-via-responsible-recommender-systems-... |
Description | Transitional Assistant Professors, Consumer Products and Co Production Campaign projects and Agile projects presentations |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Horizon Campaign and Agile projects along with Transitional Assistant Professors - Horia Maior, Helena Webb, Neelima Sailaja and Yordan Raykov presented the 'Horizon TAP' programme at the Horizon Advisory Board Away Day on 28 November. The presentation by TAPs was delivered in the form of a panel session with each TAP talking about their research interest, their background, their aspirations and the benefits of being on the Horizon TAP programme. Feedback on the TAP session was very positive and delivery of information in this format will be considered when organising future knowledge exchange events |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | UKHSA Conference presentation. Supporting pandemic preparedness through effective public health messaging: lessons from the Coronavirus pandemic. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Adolphs, S., McClaughlin, E., Vilar-Lluch, S., Knight, D., Clos, J., Nichele, E., McAuley, D., Barnard, P., Lang, A. (2023, 15-16 November). Supporting pandemic preparedness through effective public health messaging: lessons from the Coronavirus pandemic. UK Health Security Agency Conference 2023. Presentation delivered by Svenja Adolphs. More than 500 people present. 20 copies of the Coronavirus Discourses final report issued to audience members with a professional interest in public health communciation. Requests for future collaboration received following the conference. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | UKRI TAS Hub ECR Networking Event - Royal Academy of Engineering, UKRI, TAS Hub |
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 | On 23 Feb 2022, the TAS Programme Early-Career Researchers met in person at Prince Philip House, London for our first networking session. It was an opportunity to celebrate the research being done across the TAS Hub, Nodes and broader networks. The programme included an in-person speed-networking session and a hybrid world-cafe session exploring AS applications. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.tas.ac.uk/ecr-networking-event-research-poster-gallery-2/tas-ecr-networking-event-galler... |
Description | Undergraduate student competition (Everything in Moderation sister project with Harare Institute of Technology) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | As part of the GCRF-funded Trends and Challenges: moderation of E2E encrypted communication in Zimbabwe project (a sister project to the Horizon-funded Everything in Moderation project) we organised a student competition with our collaborators at the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT). Undergraduate students at HIT studying computer science and cyber security were invited to take part in teams of 4. In the first phase, the teams submitted a short concept note to highlight how they would address one of the challenges for online moderation posed by end to end encrypted communication. Members of the project team judged these concept notes and then invited 6 teams to make a short video to explain their proposed solution further. The videos were then judged and prizes given to the three best ones. The videos were posted online and also featured on a Horizon blog post. The blog post was then disseminated across Horizon's networks and across HIT in Zimbabwe. The links to the winning videos are: 1st place = Binary Scientists Video https://youtu.be/NTAbZiVWN5M 2nd place = Trailblazers Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x4gOAbPorg 3rd place = Digital Avengers Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OZaFH5omsk |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/impact/videos/online-moderation-zimbabwe-challenge/ |
Description | University of Nottingham Press Release: Study shows trust is still at heart of NHS Covid app reluctance |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A University of Nottingham Press Release about Horizon and TAS Hub research addressing issues surrounding trust and the reluctance to download and use the NHS covid app, particularly among BAME communities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/study-shows-trust-is-still-at-heart-of-nhs-covid-app-reluctance |
Description | Unpacking the Recurrent Value of Digitally Augmented FMCGs introduction blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | To maximise promotion of Horizons research, projects are required to produce 3 blogs throughout project lifecycles. This is the introduction blog for the Unpacking the Recurrent Value of Digitally Augmented FMCGs - one of Horizons Consumer Campaign projects. The blog covers why the project is necessary, its aims, underpinning research along with details on the project timeframe and interdisciplinary team. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/unpacking-the-recurrent-value-of-digitally-augmented-fmcgs/ |
Description | Video Production: New Forms of Public Value at the Edge: Designing for HDI and Trust in Media IoT Futures (eValuatE) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A video entitled 'New Forms of Public Value at the Edge: Designing for HDI and Trust in Media IoT Futures (eValuatE) was produced by the Horizon 'New Forms of Public Value at the Edge' project which partnered with BBC R&D, funded by PETRAS network: https://www.horizon.ac.uk/project/new-forms-of-public-value-at-the-edge-designing-for-hdi-and-trust-in-media-iot-futures/. The video provides stakeholder feedback to a PDS designed as part of this project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://youtu.be/6XksFVAOgWA |
Description | Video presentation 'Producing Liveness: The Trials of Moving Folk Clubs Online During the Global Pandemic - Future Festivals Project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Video presentation by Steve Benford - the learning in relation to benefits, drawbacks, and general impacts of taking folk clubs on line |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://youtu.be/dsbCCc5XwH8 |
Description | Video presentation by the FMCG Agile project at the Association for Business Communication (ABC) Annual Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Horizon Research Fellow Elena Nichele presented 'The Value of Capturing and Communicating Consumer Flexibility and Uncertainty In Data Drive Decision Making - Gaining Industry Perspectives' on behalf of Horizons Agile (ROund 1) project: 'Towards empowering consumers to co-design FMCGs at scale by identifying hidden consensus' at the ABC Annual Conference on 22nd October 2021 (virtual conference) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://youtu.be/o7vgZ6Fl8pk |
Description | Video-recorded presentation (November 2021) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Released a video-recorded presentation on the Horizon YouTube to update about the most recent updates after the first focus group with the industry partners on the Horizon project Uncovering Consumer Consensus. The video was viewed 12 times. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://youtu.be/odnyPvaGqAA |
Description | Video-recorded presentation - Community-focused approaches: linguistic evidence for effective public health messaging during the Covid-19 pandemic. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Delivery of the presentation: Community-focused approaches: linguistic evidence for effective public health messaging during the Covid-19 pandemic. Dissemination of findings from the Coronavirus Discourse project at a dedicated research and development conference for public health professionals on the topic of 'where next for public health research?' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://healthandcareresearchwales.org/about/events/public-health-wales-research-and-evaluation-conf... |
Description | Voice modification in the creative sector and the risks to human rights |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of a talk with the title Voice modification in the creative sector and risks to human rights organised by ISCA special interest group. Security and privacy in speech communication series of webinars have as a goal to understand another perspective and discuss on particular aspects of SPSC in its inter-disciplinary setting. The lecture sparked discussion and question afterwards regarding the complex issues of protecting various people's rights while using voice modification and replication devices. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.spsc-sig.org/webinar |
Description | Voxjam Online Festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Online event streamed on FB from the Mixed Reality Lab using novel software to bring the event together. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | What do Voice Interface Experts Think About Design Guidelines? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A blog written about Krishika H Khemani, a Horizon intern on her research related to Voice User Interfaces, conversational AI and the conversation design across the board, under the supervision of Stuart Reeves (Transitional Assistant Professor) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://medium.com/voice-interfaces-and-hci/what-do-voice-interface-experts-think-about-design-guide... |
Description | WiSeParks & SoDis - for Horizon CDT |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | I presented a talk about WiseParks and SoDis research projects to the CDT PhD students. then there was Q&A session after the talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Widening Participation Family Discovery Day at University of Nottingham |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Organised by the Widening Participation team at University of Nottingham. The Family Discovery Day invited school children and their familes from four schools from across the region to attend a morning of activities organised by research groups from the university. A team from the Cobot Maker Space attended the event along with several robots to demonstrate and engage the participants with. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | WiseParks blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A blog written by James Pinchin, providing updates on the WiseParks project: I was recently approached by a journalist who is writing an article on the impact of covid-19 on park life, after having come across the WISEParks project. During the WISEParks project we developed a small device called a 'WISEBox' which can count the number of WiFi enabled devices passing within about 30m of the box. Working with Nottingham City Council (NCC) we deployed these boxes around two large parks in Nottingham. Known as 'destination parks' both of these parks are the sort of place you'd make an effort to visit. You might go for a walk, a run, a swim, use the playground or hire a boat. Regardless of your reason for visiting the park, NCC were interested in using visitor counts to provide evidence for the effect of expensive park improvements, plan new concessions or simply plan maintenance.................. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/wiseparks-blog-update/ |
Description | Working with Trouble and Failure Workshop (sharing findings from I-CUBE project, UoN) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Speech interface experts sharing studies and findings. We presented some initial findings from our study. Demonstrations of new interfaces. There were two events. One online (16th and 17th June 2022) FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER IN-PERSON WORKSHOP ON 5TH sEPTEMBER 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://sites.google.com/view/wtfworkshop2022/overview?authuser=0 |
Description | Workshop - Robots Mediating Interaction HRI 2023 |
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 | A workshop at the HRI 2023 conference in Sweden - "Being in on the Action" in Mobile Robotic Telepresence: Rethinking Presence in Hybrid Participation" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2023/schedule/ |
Description | Workshop - The Future Machine |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | A workshop was held in Christchurch Gardens, Nottingham with 60 children from Mellers Primary School in April 2021. Rachel also worked with a teacher at Mellers Primary School to run activities in her class to prepare for an intervention at Christchurch Gardens with 38 children in April 2021. 30 light boxes were created by Mellers Primary School and used in the intervention at Christchurch Gardens. Rachel also held a session at Cannington Primary School, Somerset meeting the headteacher and 2 children from every class, gifting them instructions for drawing and writing messages for the future, future quests were printed by the Future Machine and postcards with images of the Future Machine in July 2021 and 30 messages for the future sent by post to the Future Machine to be recorded onto the machine. Rachel arranged a meeting with a teacher from Stroud Green Primary School, London to set up workshops for November 21 and is meeting with a teacher from the Lakes School, Cumbria to discuss working with her towards activities with the school next year |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Workshop - Towards Consumer Consensus (FMCG) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professionals, working at one of our industry partners (a leading company in the FMCG sector), participated in a focus group, organised by the 'Towards Consumer Consensus' project to gain industry perspectives on capture and communication of consumer preference uncertainty. A video was produced post Focus Group 1 and can be found on YouTube: https://youtu.be/odnyPvaGqAA. Following this workshop two further workshops were organised - one in 2021 and in 2022 expanding further on insights gained from first activity and covering practical issues including potential ethic risks and barriers to adoption. Results were also reported back to the audience from previous work. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/project/towards-empowering-consumers-to-co-design-fmcgs-at-scale-by-identi... |
Description | Workshop on Ethical and Legal Issues in Human Language Technologies and Multilingual De-Identification of Sensitive Data In Language Resources within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop at conference to discuss Ethical and Legal Issues in Human Language Technologies and Multilingual De-Identification of Sensitive Data In Language Resources. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://aclanthology.org/2022.legal-1.13 |
Description | Workshop on health scenarios for TAS All Hands workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presented an online workshop on creating scenarios to do with Health care technologies in the home ath the TAS All Hands meeting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | hoRRIzon 2.0 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An introduction to hoRRIzon 2.0 - an Agile Round 2 project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/horrizon-2-0-an-introduction/ |
Description | hoRRIzon 3.0 I Legacy and Impact project blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Project blog focused on describing activities conducted as part of the the hoRRIzon project to support practice and training on RRI. In particular, it describes an interactive activity run at the Horizon Away Day ("all hands" programme event including the Horizon DER Institute Advisory Board). Positive feedback was about the value of the Horizon Responsible Innovation Prompts and Practice cards (RI Cards) was provided by all members of the Horizon Advisoy Board and academics and researchers that attended the event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/dive-into-rri-and-beyond-horrizon-3-0-legacy-and-impact-project/ |
Description | hoRRIzon 3.0 Storytelling Workshops Blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | To maximise promotion of Horizons research, projects are required to produce 3 blogs throughout project lifecycles. This is a blog to promote Storytelling workshops - an activity organised by the hoRRIzon 3.0 team to further support the training of the next generation of designers and researchers in the practices of RRI -what this means to different people and how researchers can carry out research in a responsible way, with digital and digital/physical technologies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/horrizon-3-0-storytelling-and-responsible-innovation-workshops/ |
Description | hoRRIzon 3.0 mid project blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Project blog with update of research and impact related project activities: open access to physical and electronic versions of Responsible Innovation Prompts and Practice cards (RI Cards) and Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) cards (Cardographer app), project workshops, etc. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/horrizon-3-0-mid-point/ |
Description | hoRRIzon blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A introduction blog to Horizons Round 1 Agile project: hoRRIzon: Technology is developing with overwhelming speed. Innovation in the technology sector is the source of great benefits to humanity but conversely also great harm. Through enabling technology developers and researchers to identify, understand and produce, not only what is possible but what is needed and wanted by society, technological innovation can promote social goods such as freedom, wellbeing and fairness whilst minimising harms both intentional and unintentional. With technology embedded in every single aspect of our everyday life and the digital economy becoming omnipresent, helping innovators to identify and follow a societally desirable course is vital. Does this require other forms of innovation? A time to for innovators to take a different perspective(s) on their products? A time for more reflexivity? A time for slow innovation or slow computing? These are some examples of questions than may help steer this societally desirable course. Definitely this is an opportunity to re-think anticipation, inclusion, reflexivity and responsiveness in this area of rapid growth................ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/move-fast-and-break-things-or-is-it-time-for-more-reflective-approaches-to... |
Description | hoRRIzon final blog post |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A final blog to disseminate learnings from the project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/horrizon-responsible-research-and-innovation-institutions-and-policy/ |
Description | introduction blog Storytelling Grow Your Own Adventure |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | unknown |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.horizon.ac.uk/storytelling-grow-your-own-adventure/ |
Description | invited panellist on 'Trustworthy AI by Design' at the 'Centre for Internet Governance Research Annual Conference' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited panellist on 'Trustworthy AI by Design' at the 'Centre for Internet Governance Research Annual Conference'. University of Sussex, England/Online |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |