On Saturday 22nd
Sep, Alex Peng is presenting two new projects to public visitors in the
Festival of the Mind, which will be held in the Sheffield Spiegeltent. These two interdisciplinary projects (i.e.
one focuses on developing and evaluating an e-learning system to train teachers and let them provide better support to disable young people, and the other aims to develop
a mobile app to support the unmet needs of cancer survivors) are the
results of Alex’s participation in the Sheffield Crucible programme (http://www.shef.ac.uk/faculty/science/training-and-development/sheffield-crucible ), and involve other colleagues from the Department of Human
Communication Sciences, Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, Department of
Sociological Studies, and School of English.
Generative AI paper authored by Dr Kate Miltner among British Academy's 13 discussion papers on "good" digital society
The British Academy has today published thirteen discussion papers from a range of expert perspectives across the ‘SHAPE’ disciplines (Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy) to explore the question: ‘What are the possibilities of a good digital society?’ The papers explore a wide range of issues, from the environmental impacts of digitalised daily life to the possibilities of ‘good’ Generative AI in the cultural and creative industries, to examining more closely what we mean by a ‘good digital society’. Among the papers is one authored by information School Lecturer Dr Kate Miltner, with Dr Tim Highfield from the Department of Sociological Studies. Their paper focuses on "good" uses of generative AI in the cultural & creative industries. Alongside the papers is an introductory summary that provides a thematic overview of the papers and points to how we might conceptualise the principles that underpin these diverse visions of a good digital ...
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