Thur 17 Oct

SIGNATURE PROJECT TEAM WORKSHOPS

9.00AM

Building K17 | Basement Level

AUSTRALIAN AD OBSERVATORY
Project co-leaders: Prof Christine Parker, Assoc Prof Nicholas Carah, Prof Mark Andrejevic, Prof Daniel Angus & Prof Jean Burgess

Ainsworth, J17 | Room G02

THE AUSTRALIAN SEARCH EXPERIENCE 2.0
Project co-leaders: Prof Mark Sanderson & Prof Axel Bruns

Ainsworth, J17 | Room 101

LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN ADM: AUSTRALIA IN THE ASIA PACIFIC
Project co-leaders: Prof Haiqing Yu, Prof Heather Horst, & Prof Deborah Lupton

11.00AM

Morning Tea

11.15AM

Building K17 | Basement Level

GENERATIVE AUTHENTICITY
Project co-leaders: Prof Jean Burgess, Prof Christopher Leckie, Prof Anthony McCosker & Assoc Prof Michael Richardson

Ainsworth, J17 | Room G02

EVALUATING AUTOMATED CULTURAL CURATING AND RANKING SYSTEMS WITH SYNTHETIC DATA
Project co-leaders: Prof Mark Andrejevic, Assoc Prof Jeffrey Chan, Dr Kylie Pappalardo & Assoc Prof James Meese

Ainsworth, J17 | Room 101

ADM, ECOSYSTEMS AND MULTISPECIES RELATIONSHIPS
Project co-leaders: Prof Christine Parker, Prof Deborah Lupton, Assoc Prof Michael Richardson, Prof Sarah Pink & Prof Yolande Strengers

1.15PM

Lunch

1.45PM

Ainsworth, J17 | Room 101

GENAISIM: SIMULATION IN THE LOOP FOR MULTI-STAKEHOLDER INTERACTIONS WITH GENERATIVE AGENTS
Project co-leaders: Prof Flora Salim, Dr Hao Xue, Prof Kimberlee Weatherall, Prof Sarah Pink, Prof Daniel Angus, & Assoc Prof Jeffrey Chan

2.00PM

Building K17 | Basement Level

CRITICAL CAPABILITIES FOR INCLUSIVE AI
Project co-leaders: Prof Anthony McCosker, Prof Julian Thomas, & Prof Kath Albury

Ainsworth, J17 | Room G02

THE REGULATORY PROJECT
Project co-leaders: Prof Kimberlee Weatherall, Prof Christine Parker, Dr Jake Goldenfein & Assoc Prof Michael Richardson

4.00PM

Day concludes

4.00PM

UNSW Distinguished Lecture Series Event

Law Theatre G04, Law Building (campus map ref. F8)

AI SMARTGLASSES & SMARTPHONES TO BRIDGE HEARING AND DHH COMMUNITIES

AI advances in speech recognition and in sign language recognition are enabling new interfaces that can reduce communication barriers. At Georgia Tech in 2013, we used Google Glass to show live transcription to help people who are hard of hearing better follow spoken conversations. However, the use of Glass often distracted from the conversation. Since then, we have run many experiments to determine the best practices for creating practical smartglasses that can be used unobtrusively for captioning while in group conversation.

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