STS4Cities Seminar Living with machines: AI, robots and IoT in everyday life

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  • Date and time: Tuesday 26 March 2019, 12.30pm to 4pm
  • Location: University of Sheffield (ICOSS)
  • Audience: Open to STS4C Members
  • Admission: Free admission, booking required

Event details

HThe first STS4C mobile seminars in the ‘More than Human?’ series will be held on Tuesday 26th March at ICOSS, University of Sheffield. The event will be in two parts: a network meeting from 12:30-14:00 (with lunch from 12:00) followed by the seminar from 14:00-16:00. The network meeting will provide an opportunity to update each other and discuss community building activities and future events.
 
Seminar: ‘Living with machines: AI, robots and IoT in everyday life’
 
This seminar will bring together scholars from a range of disciplines who work in the broad field of science and technology studies (STS). It will consider how humans are using, interacting with and coproducing a series of powerful digital and automated technologies (artificial intelligence, robotics and the Internet of Things) in a range of settings at home, work and in everyday life. How are they changing social practices, reconfiguring personal relations and identities, and enabling new forms of power and control? What issues does this raise for society?
 
 
The deadline is the 15th March at the very latest, so I can organise catering etc. I will hold places for STS4C members until then, but after this date I would like to open the seminar part of the meeting to other people with an interest in the topic.

Dr Philip Garnett, Dr Murray Goulden, Dr Stevie deSaille

Dr Philip Garnett (York Management School, University of York) “AI and the Technology of Organisational Surveillance”
Dr Murray Goulden (ISS, University of Nottingham) “Smart Homes, Platform Families, and the Reformatting of Domestic Life”
Dr Stevie deSaille (iHuman, University of Sheffield) “Robots in a Human Future”

Contact

Sarah Shrive-Morrison