Do pixels have feelings too?

Join the lecture from Professor Daniel Neyland, newly appointed academic Co-Director of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute.

In this talk, Daniel assesses the challenges of designing more ethical digital futures. Taking on the example of neural networks for emotion recognition, he explores what it would take to develop adequate sociotechnical methods to design ethics into these new technologies. He will suggest that we need these methods if we hope to achieve a more inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous future. He also extends a welcome invitation to explore collaborations with BDFI.

Together with Professor Dimitra Simeonidou, Daniel is Academic Co-Director of BDFI - a research Institute transforming digital innovation for more sustainable, inclusive and prosperous futures. Having joined the Institute earlier in 2022, Daniel brings an impressive history of sociotechnical research, with particular interests in issues of accountability, responsibility and values in science, technology and organisation.

Using ethnographic methodologies, he has studied a vast array of topics, including algorithms; security and surveillance; traffic management, airports and speeding drivers; waste; biometrics and even malaria vaccines.

The event will be followed by a networking reception, where attendees will have an opportunity to meet Daniel and other members of the academic team, and also share thanks with Professor Susan Halford, who has finished as Academic Co-Director after a remarkable four years.

Agenda:

3:45pm Arrival

4:00- 5:00pm Lecture incorporating audience Q&A

5:00 - 6:00pm Networking reception. You can also tour the BDFI HQ if requested.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Research Hub, 65-71 Avon Street, Bristol, United Kingdom