[Fellows-Southampton] Reminder & dial in information: FTP talk on Nov 22: Mike Wald on AI and Inclusion

Fri Nov 15 10:02:05 GMT 2019

Dear all

Following on from the email below, if you are unable to attend this event and would like to participate remotely, the details are below.

Jack Good Meeting Room: https://turing-uk.zoom.us/j/7123773140<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fturing-uk.zoom.us%2Fj%2F7123773140&data=01%7C01%7C%7C40e554e3781a449adb4208d769b2de97%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=HYB9V2Si2nq39RldBVBv3BNiqqHTEJpf4kGW6rahhTI%3D&reserved=0>

Regards
Sam

Samantha Collins
Administrator
Web Science Institute
Building 32, Room 3053
University of Southampton, Highfield Campus
Southampton SO17 1BJ
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 3826
Web: www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi<http://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi>

My working days are:
Tuesday and Wednesday 0930-4pm
Thursday and Friday 0930-2pm
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Dear all,
On Fri 22 Nov at 11:30 in Jack Good, Mike Wald from Southampton will present and discuss his work on a new AI and Inclusion Challenge -
This seminar will introduce a new AI and Inclusion Challenge that will help the Turing Institute fulfil its mission to change the world for the better and we will discuss how this new Challenge synergises with existing Turing Challenges.
To support the Institute's statement that 'promoting and embedding equality, diversity and inclusion is integral to achieving our mission' https://www.turing.ac.uk/about-us/equality-diversity-and-inclusion<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.turing.ac.uk%2Fabout-us%2Fequality-diversity-and-inclusion&data=01%7C01%7C%7C40e554e3781a449adb4208d769b2de97%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=lyJQ49vl%2FeZls2pjt9hMjfeel6ZaPV2oCPMyuQkVgss%3D&reserved=0> the research question addressed by this proposed new Challenge is 'how can AI overcome barriers to inclusion'
Of the nine protected characteristics identified by the Equality Act 2010, AI would appear to have the greatest potential to help overcome barriers to inclusion for disabled people in terms of practical strategies for digital accessibility and assistive technology support. Examples of how innovative uses of AI can support those with disabilities include:
* image and video description, independent navigation (vision);
* captioning for words sounds and emotions, sign language translation, adaptive hearing aids (hearing);
* symbol generation communication and translation, speech synthesis (communication);
* text summarization and simplification (cognition);
* smart monitoring and support (care);
* web accessibility checking and correction (all)
Disabled people need to be involved in the design of Assistive or Augmentative Intelligence for 'edge cases/outliers' and as Disability is not a single homogeneous characteristic, algorithms need to work for all disabilities in the multitude of different settings and situations in which people find themselves and this also applies to ethical and fairness issues related to data gathering and algorithms affecting protected characteristics.

If you'd like to come and are not Turing-affiliated, please let Aida CC'd know.

Best, Adrian
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Adrian Weller
http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/adrian<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmlg.eng.cam.ac.uk%2Fadrian&data=01%7C01%7C%7C40e554e3781a449adb4208d769b2de97%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=GgBaYECFPo7p5PeB9v0x8dX7VgbvhWstbZ45E2cWd9g%3D&reserved=0>
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Kind Regards
Nichola
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Mrs Nichola Need
WSI Administrator
Web Science Institute (WSI)
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (FEPS)
University of Southampton
B32, Room 3053, Highfield Campus
Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Tel: +44 (0) 23 80593255
Fax: +44 (0) 23 80592783
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Please note that I only work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdays, 0900- 1630 and Thursdays 0900-1400.

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