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[AUDITORY] Workshop on Designing AI for Home Wellbeing, Surrey, UK, 11-12 July 2022 [EoI by 27 May]
Dear List, (Apologies for cross-posting)
We are organizing a 2-day workshop on Designing AI for Home Wellbeing, including a "World Café" discussion workshop and a Seminar Day, to define and explore this new and emerging field. We thought this might be of interest to people on this list interested in relating sound to home wellbeing. Please forward to any colleagues who may be interested to join us!
Best wishes, Mark
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Two-day Workshop on Designing AI for Home Wellbeing
University of Surrey, UK, 11-12 July 2022
* Day 1 (Mon 11 July) - World Café
* Day 2 (Tue 12 July) - Seminar Day
Important Dates
27 May: Deadline for Expressions of Interest (World Café)
3 Jun: Notification of acceptance (World Café)
20 Jun: Deadline for Registration (Seminar Day)
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"Designing AI for Home Wellbeing" has potential to radically change the way we think about and use AI by supporting user experiences that actively foster home wellbeing, such as social connection and security.
This two-day workshop is designed to shape the future of this emerging field, through a full day face-to-face "World Café" on Monday 11 July 2022, followed by an in-person Seminar Day on Tuesday 12 July 2022.
Contributions to the Workshop will inform a final report on "Designing AI for Home Wellbeing", exploring how the field can be actively and collaboratively supported across disciplines and with stakeholders.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
To participate in the World Café, please submit an Expression of Interest (EoI) by ** 27 May 2022 **.
Successful applicants will be notified by 3 June 2022.
Reasonable travel and subsistence costs will be covered for accepted World Café participants.
To participate in the Seminar Day, please register by ** 20 June 2022 ***
EOI & REGISTRATION LINKS
Expression of Interest (EoI) for World Café (Mon 11 July)
https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/designing-ai-for-home-wellbeing-world-cafe/
Deadline for EoI: 27 May 2022
Registration for Seminar Day (Tue 12 July):
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/274290569477
Deadline for registration: 20 June 2022
FURTHER INFORMATION
"Designing AI for Home Wellbeing" is a new AI methodology, which is expected to significantly advance the field towards new AI technologies for the home that put people at the heart of AI to enable human flourishing through this space. This emerging field answers a gap in AI scholarship where new AI technologies are generally driven by technologically capability or ethical governance and those that consider wellbeing appear to look at healthcare optimisation more generally. Additionally, there is a tendency to seek end-user feedback towards the end of new AI technology development rather than tailoring this to specific user needs from the beginning.
The development of "Designing AI for Home Wellbeing" is timely with the upcoming launch of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI (https://www.surrey.ac.uk/artificial-intelligence/ai-institute-recruitment/our-vision) that aims to be the national centre of excellence in people-centred AI research, innovation and training, as well as research emerging from the "AI for Sound" project (https://ai4s.surrey.ac.uk/) that is starting to show a gap in user-centred design frameworks for developing AI.
The World Café (Day 1) will bring together national and international AI experts in a structured conversational process, sharing knowledge through a series of table-based discussions on key questions, to identify how AI applications for the home can be designed from an end-user perspective. More Information on the "World Café" format can be found here:
http://theworldcafe.com/key-concepts-resources/world-cafe-method/
The World Café event is supported by the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Surrey.
The Seminar Day (Day 2) will include invited presentations from several AI experts, to highlight the importance of designing AI technologies focused on wellbeing in the home. Scheduled speakers include: Dr Girmaw Abebe Tadesse (IBM Research Africa), Dr Andrew Rogoyski (Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI), Dr Mohan Sridharan (University of Birmingham), Dr Manos Panaousis (University of Greenwich), Dr Enrico Costanza (UCL Interaction Centre), Dr Ivan Kiskin (Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI), Prof Bridgette Wessel (University of Glasgow), Paul Doyle (Bush & Company), Dr Silvio Carta (University of Hertfordshire). The Seminar Day is supported by the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI at the University of Surrey.
For more information, please contact: Dr Emily Corrigan-Kavanagh (e.corrigandoyle@xxxxxxxxxxxx).
Dr Emily Corrigan-Kavanagh
Prof Mark D Plumbley
University of Surrey
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Prof Mark D Plumbley
EPSRC Fellow in AI for Sound
Professor of Signal Processing
Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing
University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
Email: m.plumbley@xxxxxxxxxxxx