TAS '23 programme

ECR Day (for PhD students and those who identify as Early Career Researchers)

Ahead of the main programme we will be running an optional event for Early Career Researchers (ECR). This will be open to all PhD students and those who identify as ECRs who are attending the symposium. It will provide an opportunity for relaxed engagement and networking.

Please indicate that you wish to attend this session when you register. All are welcome, but we have a limited space in the room so sign up is necessary.

Registration

Register and collect your badges for TAS '23. Refreshments on arrival.

Welcome

Welcome to TAS '23 from the symposium chairs, Kate Devlin and Joel Fischer.

Session 1: Plenary: Prof. Sharon Strover

Chaired by Kate Devlin & Joel Fischer

1. Charting a Path toward Ethical AI keynote_1 Getting beyond simple binaries of good AI and bad AI means developing a more nuanced understanding of how large scale technologies become integrated into broad social processes. Designing AI for good purposes is only the beginning of a path toward a working, ethical framework for a society penetrated with data gathering and algorithmic routines. The agenda for scholarly researchers needs to consider how we can prepare people for a datafied life.

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   Dr. Strover is the Philip G. Warner Regents Professor in Communication, former Chair of the Radio-TV-Film Department at the University of Texas, and now Professor in the School of Journalism and Media where she teaches communication technology and policy courses and directs the Technology and Information Policy Institute. Read more...

Session 2a (twin track): Robotics and robot encounters

Chaired by Liz Dowthwaite

1. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Trustworthy swarms Paper James Wilson, Pete Winter, Greg Chance, Suet Lee, Emma Milner, Shane Windsor, John Downer, Kerstin Eder, Jonathan Ives and Sabine Hauert
2. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   "What’s that robot doing here?": Perceptions of incidental encounters with autonomous quadruped robots Paper Elliott Hauser, Yao-Cheng Chan, Geethika Hemkumar, Daksh Dua, Parth Chonkar, Efren Mendoza Enriquez, Tiffany Kao, Shikhar Gupta, Huihai Wang, Justin Hart, Reuth Mirsky, Joydeep Biswas, Junfeng Jiao and Peter Stone
3. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   "There is a bit of grace missing": Understanding non-use of mobile robotic telepresence in a global technology company Paper Andriana Boudouraki, Stuart Reeves, Joel Fischer and Sean Rintel
4. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Resilient strategies for socially compliant autonomous assistive dressing robots Paper Katie Parnell, Siobhan Merriman, Sinem Getir Yaman, Katherine Plant and Radu Calinescu

Session 2b (twin track): Health and wellbeing in Autonomous Systems

Chaired by Peter McKenna

1. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Challenges in explaining brain tumor detection Paper Benedicte Legastelois, Amy Rafferty, Paul Brennan, Hana Chockler, Ajitha Rajan and Vaishak Belle
2. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Socio-technical resilience for community healthcare Paper Amel Bennaceur, Avelie Stuart, Blaine A. Price, Arosha Bandara, Mark Levine, Linda Clare, Jessica Cohen, Ciaran Mccormick, Vikram Mehta, Mohamed Bennasar, Daniel Gooch, Carlos Gavidia Calderon, Anastasia Kordoni and Bashar Nuseibeh
3. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Stay stress-free with complete confidence: Trustworthiness of autonomous stress detection systems for smart devices Paper Héctor Menéndez and Gema Bello Orgaz
4. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Regulating AI/ML-enabled medical devices Paper Phoebe Li, Robin Williams, Stephen Gilbert and Stuart Anderson

Session 3: Posters

Posters are presented in the James Watt Lounge during the last hour of the lunch break.

Session 4: Questions of ethics in Autonomous Systems

Chaired by Gisela Reyes Cruz

1. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Ethics in conversation: Building an ethics assurance case for autonomous voice agents in healthcare Paper Marten Kaas, Zoe Porter, Ernest Lim, Aisling Higham, Sarah Khavandi and Ibrahim Habli
2. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   RE-centric recommendations for the development of trustworthy(er) Autonomous Systems Paper Krishna Ronanki, Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel, Christian Berger and Jennifer Horkoff
3. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Ethics of trust/worthiness in Autonomous Systems: A scoping review Paper Helen Smith, Arianna Manzini, Mari-Rose Kennedy and Jonathan Ives
4. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Ethics and safety of human-machine teaming Paper Zena Assaad and Christine Boshuijzen van Burken

Session 5: Five provocations for a more creative TAS

Chaired by Joe Deville

Paper presented by Steve Benford, with responses from Kate Devlin, Marion Oswald, Gopal Ramchurn, and Luca Vigano.

1. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Five provocations for a more creative TAS Paper authors: Steve Benford, Adrian Hazzard, Craig Vear, Helena Webb, Alan Chamberlain, Chris Greenhalgh, Richard Ramchurn and Joe Marshall

National Robotarium reception

ECR Awards presentation.

(Optional) Symposium dinner

Dinner at the Surgeon’s Quarter (central Edinburgh)

Session 6: Autonomous systems on land and sea

Chaired by Burak Yuksek

1. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Anticipating accidents through reasoned simulation Craig Innes, Andrew Ireland, Yuhui Lin and Subramanian Ramamoorthy
2. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   The well-being of autonomous vehicle users under uncertain situations Mohammad Naiseh and Paurav Shukla
3. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Safety engineering, role responsibility and lessons from the Uber ATG Tempe accident Philippa Ryan Conmy, John McDermid, Ibrahim Habli and Zoe Porter
4. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Intersectional analysis of the challenges and opportunities of equitable remote operation in the UK maritime sector An Cai, Caitlin Bentley, Efpraxia Zamani, Mohammad Naiseh and Laura Sbaffi
5. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Ten regulatory principles to scaffold the design, manufacture, and use of trustworthy Autonomous Systems, illustrated in a maritime context Rachel Horne, Caroline Law-Walsh, Zena Assaad and Keith Joiner

Session 7: Plenary: Prof. Gina Neff

Chaired by Gopal Ramchurn & Helena Webb

Gina Neff is the Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge. Her books include Venture Labor (MIT Press 2012), Self-Tracking (MIT Press 2016) and Human-Centered Data Science (MIT Press 2022). Read more...

Session 8: Posters

Posters are presented in the James Watt Lounge during the last hour of the lunch break.

Session 9: How can we trust in and engage with Autonomous Systems?

Chaired by Katie Parnell

1. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   An exploration of how trust online relates to psychological and subjective wellbeing Liz Dowthwaite, Elvira Perez Vallejos, Virginia Portillo, Menisha Patel, Jun Zhao and Helen Creswick'
2. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   The social impact of decision-making algorithms: Reviewing the influence of agency, responsibility and accountability on trust and blame Dan Heaton, Jeremie Clos, Elena Nichele and Joel Fischer
3. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Perceived trustworthiness of natural language generators Beatriz Cabrero-Daniel and Andrea Sanagustín Cabrero
4. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Designing for trust: A human-centered methodology for identifying metrics of operational trust in mission autonomy Sarah Rigsbee, Alexis Basantis, Bryan Camacho and Cara LaPointe
5. View paper in the ACM Digital Library
   Recommender systems, autonomy and user engagement Joshua Krook and Jan Blockx

Session 10: Responsibility in TAS

Chaired by Joel Fischer

Panel discussion exploring what it means to be responsible in Autonomous Systems, and the place of responsible research and innovation in the TAS programme. The panel includes Samuel Baker, Shoaib Ehsan, Elvira Perez Vallejos, Alex Beach, and Shannon Vallor.

Session 11: Best paper/poster award

Chaired by Jeremie Clos & Katie Parnell

Concluding comments

Proceedings end with concluding comments from Kate Devlin, Joel Fischer and Gopal Ramchurn.