UCL Knowledge Lab Seminar, 10 July 2024, with Professors Carey Jewitt and Sara Price
Digital touch is embedded in many technologies, from wearable devices and gaming hardware to tactile robots and future technologies. What would it be like if we could hug or touch digitally across distance? How might this shape our sense of connection? How might we establish trust or protect our privacy and safety?
Offering a rich account of digital touch, the book introduces the key issues and debates, as well as the design and ethical challenges raised by digital touch. It shows how touch — how we touch, as well as what, whom and when we touch — is being profoundly reshaped by our use of technologies.
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10/29/2024
Nicola Osborne explores why there are some great reasons to get creative with AI – as long as we ask the right questions of it. AI makes deepfakes, writes bizarre articles, creates unsettlingly stylised Harry Potter images, and apparently thinks eggs can melt – so how could it possibly be our next great co-creator?
Whilst tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney are divisive, and there are various AI-related lawsuits in the courts, that's only part of the story. AI and machine learning can enable some incredible creative work – from new music to imagined worlds.
Nicola Osborne (they/them/she/her) is Manager of the Institute for Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
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10/28/2024
During the launch, Eileen and Diana explore some of the questions the book covers, including: how would you prioritise the design quality issues for moving some teaching and learning online? What do you consider to be the most important new knowledge you developed during the pandemic about teaching with technology?
The book reports on research in two ESRC research centres, the Centre for Global Higher Education, hosted by the University of Oxford's Department of Education and IOE, and the RELIEF Centre at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity.
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1/22/2024
In this event, Dr Jamie Hakim (Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London) reflects on the major findings of the ESRC funded project, ‘Digital Intimacies: how queer men use their smartphones to negotiate their cultures of intimacy’.
Drawing on 43 interviews with queer men, the project team found that their interviewees used the different features of their smartphones in ways that made them feel in control of the parts of their intimate lives that made them feel most vulnerable.
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7/18/2023
In this talk, Mike explores how AI can support innovative pedagogy. He discusses the potential for future research into generative AI for education based on a new science of learning with AI – by including an understanding of the cognitive and social processes of learning with AI, exploring future roles for AI in education, and developing generative AI systems that have long term memory, set explicit goals and explain their reasoning.
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5/24/2023