Keynote speakers
Four plenaries across three days, on repair, situated machine learning, longevity and consent.
Prof. Ingrid Halvorsen
Uppsala University
Repair as a design material
Halvorsen studies what happens to interactive products after they ship: how people mend, adapt and resell them. Her group runs the Nordic Repair Observatory, a five-year field study of 400 households.
Wednesday 15 April, 09:15
Dr. Kwame Osei
University of Ghana
Situated machine learning in clinics
Osei builds diagnostic support tools for district hospitals in West Africa and writes on why accuracy benchmarks travel badly between deployment contexts.
Wednesday 15 April, 16:00
Prof. Mariko Sato
Keio University
Tools that age well
Sato works on long-lived software: interfaces that remain legible to their users after a decade of change. She previously led the interaction group at the National Institute of Informatics.
Thursday 16 April, 09:15
Dr. Elena Ruiz
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Consent at the edge of the sensor
Ruiz researches ambient sensing in shared homes and care settings, and co-authored the EU guidance on passive data collection in domestic environments.
Thursday 16 April, 15:30