CS Seminar - Situating AI: Trajectories of Work, Accountability and Care

Kenton O'Hara is coming to the University of Exeter on Wednesday 28 October, as part of the SWIOT - AI Arena. He's a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Computer Science, and the talk is titled Situating AI: Trajectories of Work, Accountability and Care.

O'Hara has more than 30 years of research and innovation experience building human-centred research agendas and multidisciplinary teams at Microsoft Research, Xerox EuroPARC, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, CSIRO and the Appliance Studio. His work sits at the intersection of computing and the social sciences, spanning human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, digital health, hybrid work futures and ubiquitous computing.

The talk draws on three of his research programmes — enterprise knowledge work, computational pathology and community healthcare in low-resource settings — to argue that AI becomes consequential through the practices, relationships, infrastructures and accountabilities into which it is introduced. From there, he calls for a human-centred AI agenda that goes beyond usability, acceptance and explanation.

It's a mid-week one, starting at 14:00 at the Streatham Campus, and it forms part of the SWIOT - AI Arena.