Seminar Archive

Venue: Room 234 (CSD Common Room), Meston Building

Venue: Room 311, Meston Building

Venue: Room 311, Meston Building

Royal Society of Chemistry Sustainable Energy Award 2017 http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/SustainableEnergyAward/2017-Winner.asp

Abstract: This talk shows how two different logic-based approaches can be used to (1) detect conflicts in the treatment of multiple chronic conditions, and (2) modelling cancer and tumour growth. (1) We developed an automated approach focusing on the composition of (static or behavioural) design models via constraint solvers. This approach is...

Abstract: Digital technologies are now used across the human lifespan. In this seminar, I'll discuss my HCI research that explores the current roles of digital technologies across transitional human life events (becoming an adult, becoming a parent, breaking up, retiring, end of life ), and the ways in which digital technologies could be designed...

Abstract: In this talk I will argue that human interaction cannot be studied properly using the standard experimental methods that have been successful in other areas of the cognitive sciences. Of the many problems with these methods, I will focus on two important ones: (a) the trade-off between experimental control and ecological validity, and (b) profound...

Abstract: Recently, AI has produced impressive advances mostly by following a "standard model" based on data-driven exploration of large solution spaces and optimisation toward a well-defined objective function. Arguably, this process model has little in common with human intelligence, where objectives are often vaguely defined and conflicting, satisficing behaviour is often...

Abstract: This talk revolves around the concept of deliberation and whether and how it can be automatically manifested in discourse. One of the key points of the talk is the operationalization of this rather abstract notion, which orignates from political science and assumes that participants in a multilog, i.e. a...

Abstract: An observer's perception of a visual scene influences the language they use to describe it--- which objects they choose to mention and how they characterize the relationships between them. In this talk, I will discuss some experiments on the relationship between visual perception and reference. Using a corpus of descriptions...