It has been an exciting few months with many events and activities across different projects. Below is a summary from Director Dr Lachlan Urquhart.
- Feb 2024 – Hosting a delegation of visitors from Osaka University in Japan in February. Yusuke Shikano, Konomi Higo, and Kohei Tanaka had developed a Japanese version of the Moral-IT cards and travelled to present about their work developing and evaluating the deck with companies and universities in Japan.
- April 2024 – Start of the new Responsible Natural Language Processing Centre for Doctoral Training. This will last for 8 years, and we had the online and in person launch events in May 2024, with extensive engagement and participation from the 70 external partners and many supervisors across the University . It has been a period of busy recruitment for the first cohort beginning in September 2024, hosted in the lovely new Edinburgh Futures Institute.
- Invited to attend a number of events including a workshop at the BBC in London on Responsible AI in media; a workshop on Legal Design and the European Commission’s Digital Rights Declaration in Brussels, and a Legal Design jam workshop on Internet of Things and Consumer Law in Stirling.
- Invited to talks for University of New South Wales, Allens Hub on Clever Computing Through Accountable Design: Cyberesecurity in Smart Homes; for EFI Controversies in Data Society course on Smart Home Cybersecurity; for a talk in Edinburgh Law School for early career researchers on “How do you build and deliver an academic research agenda” and another on doing interdisciplinary research for PhD students.
- Feb 2024 – Completing the Right to Repair (R2R) Cards which summarise 25 legal frameworks into a deck of 130 cards to support designing more sustainable Internet of Things devices. These will be available online in the near future. Also planning and running workshops around Scotland on the right to repair for technologies with citizens, and evaluating the cards.
- March 2024 – Launching the Annual Review from the Fixing the Future Project which summarises what has been going in this project in the last year.
- Hosting 10 talks to date in the RAD Lab – since starting in Summer 2023, the RAD Lab Talks have included:
- Rob Collins (Umeå) on the Contestation Cafe and Agonistic Design. (June 2023)
- Ayca Atabey (UoE) on Fairness by Design for EdTech and Children. (July 2023)
- Aditi Surana (UoE), Pamela Gil Salas (Umeå) and Yuxi Liu (Delft) – Prototeam Project on Generative AI in Sensing Care. (Aug 2023)
- Lachlan Urquhart (UoE) on the Fixing the Future Project. (Sept 2023)
- Nicola Osborne (UoE) on Ethics Approval Processes in the Creative Informatics Cluster. (Nov 2023)
- Jan-Philipp Muttach (University of Kassel) on Data Protection in Crisis Situations in Germany and the EU. (Dec 2023)
- Yusuke Shikano (Osaka University), Konomi Higo, and Kohei Tanaka on the Japanese Moral-IT Cards (delegation visited in person). (Feb 2024)
- Yiwei Lu (UoE) on Autonomous Cars Logic Based System. (March 2024)
- Emmelie Lotzow (Philipps-Universität Marburg) on The Relationship between Data Protection and Privacy. (April 2024)
- Conclusion of ESRC Emotional AI in Smart Cities Project (Dec 2023) and Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Governance and Regulation Node final event (April 2024).
- Workshop on Child Centred AI at ACM SIGCHI 2024.
- Workshop proposal accepted for Designing Interactive Systems 2024 on Creating Sustainable Internet of Things Futures on 2nd July in Copenhagen. Expressions of interest for joining are open until 1st June – for more information see the site https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/fixing_the_future_dis24/
