10th Nov 2022 | 2:30PM - 4PM [HKT] / 6:30AM - 8AM [UTC] | Session #1: | Keynote Speaker: Prof Alessandro Di Nuovo Paper Presentations |
11th Nov 2022 | 2:30PM - 4PM [HKT] / 6:30AM - 8AM [UTC] | Session #2: | Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stevienna de Saille Paper Presentation |
12th Nov 2022 | 2:30PM - 4PM [HKT] / 6:30AM - 8AM [UTC] | Session #3: | Session #3: Keynote Speaker: Manuel Graña Romay Paper Presentation |
Track Lead: Dr Lyuba Alboul
Session #1: Keynote Speaker: Prof Alessandro Di Nuovo
Alessandro Di Nuovo is Professor of Machine Intelligence at Sheffield Hallam University. He received the Laurea (MSc Eng) and the PhD in Informatics Engineering from the University of Catania, Italy, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. At Present, Prof. Di Nuovo is the leader of Technological and Digital Innovation for promoting independent lives at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre. He is also the leader of the Smart Interactive Technologies research laboratory of the Department of Computing. He is a member of the Executive Group of Sheffield Robotics, an internationally recognized initiative of two Sheffield Universities to support innovative and responsible research in robotics.
Prof. Di Nuovo has a track-record of externally funded interdisciplinary research and innovation in AI and robotics; he has led several large collaborative research projects funded by the European Union, UK Research Councils, charities, and large industries. He has published over 120 articles in computational intelligence and its application to cognitive modelling, human-robot interaction, computer-aided assessment of intellectual disabilities, and embedded computer systems.
Currently, Prof. Di Nuovo is editor-in-chief (topics AI in Robotics; Human Robot/Machine Interaction) of the International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (SAGE). He is also serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine.
Paper Presentations
- Marcus Wigan, Greg Adamson, Priya Rani, Nick Dyson and Fabian Horton, Chatbots and explainable artificial intelligence
- Jordan Schoenherr, Social Categories in Cyberspace: Frequency Effects and Trust in Media
Session #2: Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stevienna de Saille
Dr. Stevienna de Saille, Sociologist in science and technology studies, Institute for the Study of the Human (iHuman) and Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield.
Dr. Stevienna de Saille is a science and technology studies scholar in the Institute for the Study of the Human (iHuman), Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, where she leads the Human Futures research theme. Her research takes a critical and systemic approach to investigating the social impact of emerging technologies, with a focus on developing broad transdisciplinary collaborations between social scientists and engineers and improving equitable outcomes through Responsible Innovation. Her most recent project, Imagining Robotic Care, was funded by the UKRI-Trustworthy Autonomous Systems network as a pump-priming project investigating the sociotechnical imaginaries of robot-assisted social care held by a diversity of stakeholders and publics in the UK health-social care ecosystem.
Dr. de Saille is also a co-founder of the Fourth Quadrant Research Network, a collaboration between economists and STS, innovation and development scholars, whose first book, ‘Responsibility Beyond Growth: A case for responsible stagnation’, recently won the Freeman Award for collective contribution to STS from the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST). As a keen side interest, she is also a certified facilitator in Lego Serious Play, which she uses for teaching and research.
Paper Presentation
- Martin Zorrilla, Ali Akgunduz and Ketra Schmitt, Can strategic resilience coexist with lean approaches? A case study of the aviation industry
- Nickolas Dodd, Haowen Fan, Parth Khopkar, Francis Mendoza, Edgard Musafiri Mimo, Yatiraj Shetty, Riley Tallman and Katina Michael, Facial Emotion Recognition and the Future of Work
- Christian Herzog, Is Algorithmic Personalized Pricing Unjust?
Session #3: Keynote Speaker: Manuel Graña Romay
Title: Challenges for the immersion of robotics in daily life
Manuel Graña Romay received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU), Donostia, Spain, in 1982 and 1989, respectively. His current position is a Full Professor (Catedrático de Universidad) with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Department of the Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU) since 1998, where he acted as head of department in the period 2005-2007. He is the head of the Computational Intelligence Group (Grupo de Inteligencia Computational), which has been recognized as excellent research group by the Basque Government with continuous specific funding since 2005, last grant for the period 2022 – 2024. The research group has carried out over 30 national funded research projects, three European Commission funded projects, and a few private company research contracts. The research works in the group spread over a great variety of topics, including applications of artificial intelligence and computational intelligence to linked multicomponent robotic systems, reinforcement learning, medical image in the neurosciences, multimodal human computer interaction, remote sensing image processing, content based image retrieval, lattice computing, semantic modeling, data processing, classification, and data mining. He has been advisor for over 40 PhD Thesis, editor of more than 20 books of proceedings and collections of works on monographic topics, editor of more than 15 special issues in journals, and co-author of more than 250 journal papers (JCR indexed journals). He is associated editor of Neurocomputing, Information Fusion, Computational Intelligence and Neurosciences, Frontiers in Big Data, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Sensors, Applied Sciences.
Lead Speaker: Dr. Alboul Lyuba
Title: Sharing spaces with robots
Dr Lyuba Alboul is a Senior Research Fellow at the Industry and Innovation Research Institute, and a lecturer at the Department of Engineering and Mathematics, Sheffield Hallam University, England. Lyuba has been conducting research on the interface of various scientific domains.
She has been awarded over 15 research grants (both personal and as a member of consortia) from local and international funding bodies in various countries, including Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Bulgaria, and the UK. Among those are EPSRC, EU, MoD, STW/ NWO (Analogue of EPSRC in the Netherlands), and CNR (Analogue of EPSRC in Italy) on subjects in Mathematics, Computing, 3D modelling, Robotics and AI.
Lyuba’s current research interests involve the interplay of discrete and continuous representation of reality, perception, and interaction with real and virtual worlds, by both humans and machines.