February 10, 2021
Online event
The University of Surrey’s strategic research theme Technology and Society – welcomes you to the first of its series 9 events in the series – Keywords in Technology and Society- on 10th February at 2 pm. This first event – titled Interfaces – brings together three speakers from three diverse areas of the social, physical and biological sciences – to think about societal consequences of emerging technologies. The event includes:
- Prof Adrian Hilton, Director of CVSSP and AI@Surrey – who will speak about personalised media and AI enabled storytelling experiences;
- Professor David Frohlich – Director of the Digital World Research Centre who will speak about changing sociotechnical interfaces by design – drawing upon intersections of his work with dementia care
- Dr Nicola Carey and Dr Nicola Ayers who will speak about developing an innovative healthcare system for palliative care in Ethiopia: co-design and user testing of a mobile phone based remote monitoring system (E-PC)
The event will be chaired by Dr Itziar Castello of Surrey Business School
As Theme Champion of this strategic theme, I also welcome you to look at the wider series of events in Keywords in Technology and Society – and please do join us for the kick-off event – Interfaces on 10th February. You will need to sign-up, though attendance is free – and sign-up is available on this link:
Interfaces Tickets, Wed 10 Feb 2021 at 14:00 | Eventbrite.
