International Workshop on
Digital Empathy

Monday, 31st October, 2016

in association with:
ULSTER UNIVERSITY 2016 CONVOCATION ANNUAL LECTURE

Great Hall (MD-102)

Main MD Building

Ulster University, Magee

Derry ~ LondonDerry ~ LegenDerry
Northern Ireland

**PHOTOS** (Courtesy: Nigel McDowell)

**MORE PHOTOS** (Courtesy: Rowan Morrey)

**DOCUMENTARY VIDEO** (Courtesy: Pillarpix Media)

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Partners:

Faculty of Arts Research Graduate School

UU Convocation Executive Committee

UU Convocation

[HE]Arts of STEM

Arts & Humanities Research Instutute (AHRI)

School of Creative Arts & Technologies

Institute for Research in Social Sciences

International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE)

Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI)

Psychology Research Institute

The Imagineering Quarter

Workshop Programme:

9.30am ``Workshop Introduction''
Prof. Jan Jedrzejewski, Dean, Faculty of Arts

SESSION-I: Digital care
Chair: Dr. Murat Akser, Lecturer in Cinematic Arts, Ulster University (Magee)

9.45am ``Digital mental health: using online mobile applications in suicide prevention & mental illness treatment''
Prof. Siobhan O'Neill, Professor of Mental Health Sciences, Ulster University (Coleraine)

10.00am ``ARK empathy: Access Research Knowledge for Northern Ireland''
Prof. Gillian Robinson, Director of ARK, Ulster University (Magee)

10.15am ``Dignity and deception in robot companions for older people''
Dr. Amanda Sharkey, Senior Lecturer, Sheffield University, ENGLAND

10.30am ``Chatbots that care''
Prof. Mike McTear, Professor Emeritus, Ulster University & Granada University, SPAIN

10.45am ``SenseCare: empathetic smart environments
Dr. Ray Bond, Lecturer in Computing Science, Ulster University (Jordanstown)

11.00am REFRESHMENTS BREAK

SESSION-II: Digital music accessibility & aesthetics
Chair: Dr. Adam Melvin, Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, School of Creative Arts & Technologies (Magee)

11.30am ``Humanising design: mixed methods analysis of impaired control-gesture capability''
Dr. Brendan McCloskey, Musician & Software Developer in Assistive Creative Technologies, Belfast

11.45am ``Sounding human with data: The role of embodied conceptual metaphors and aesthetics in representing & exploring data sets''
Dr. Brian Bridges, Lecturer in Creative Arts & Technology, School of Creative Arts & Technologies (Magee) &
Dr. Stephen Roddy, PostDoctoral Researcher, Centre for Future Networks & Communications, Trinity College Dublin, IRELAND

12.00noon ``Aesthetic resonance: history, present and future''
Dr. Tony Brooks, Associate Professor & Director of SensoramaLab, Aalborg University (Esbjerg), DENMARK

12.30pm PANEL-I DISCUSSION: ``How can robots care?''
Convener: Prof. Chris Nugent, Director, CSRI
Panel Members:
Tony Brooks, Amanda Sharkey, Mike McTear, Hugh McKenna, Brian Bridges, Goretti Horgan

1.00pm LUNCH

SESSION-III: Robot ethics
Chair: Dr. Kevin Curran, Reader, School of Computing & Intelligent Systems, Ulster University (Magee)

2.00pm ``Religious and ethical implications of robotics''
Dr. David Glass, Senior Lecturer, Ulster University (Jordanstown)

2.15pm ``Robots like me''
Prof. Ipke Wachsmuth, Senior Professor, CITEC, Bielefeld University, GERMANY

SESSION-IV: Digital emotions & sentiment
Chair: Prof. Paul Mc Kevitt, Head of Research Graduate School (Pro-Tem)

2.45pm ``A recommender system for media assets based on sentiment analysis''
Eleanor Mulholland, DEL-CAST Ph.D. Research Student, Ulster University (Magee)

3.00pm ``Emotional student models for game-based learning''
Dr. Karla Munoz, CEO, BijouTech, Co-Lab, Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT)

3.15pm REFRESHMENTS BREAK

SESSION-V: Story Tales & Telling
Chair: Dr. Tom Maguire, Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies, Ulster University (Magee)

3.45pm ``Promoting interspecies empathy through digital play''
Alan Hook, Lecturer in Interactive Media, Ulster University (Coleraine)

4.00pm ``Digital StoryTelling on borders''
Adrian O'Connell, Ph.D. Research Student, Ulster University (Magee)

4.15pm ``Staging digital ideas''
Dr. Tanya Dean, Lecturer in Drama, Ulster University (Magee)

4.30pm PANEL-II DISCUSSION: ``Engineering empathy for the future of life''
Convener: Dr. David Glass, Ulster University (Jordanstown)
Panel Members:
Ipke Wachsmuth, Tanya Dean, Alan Hook, Paul Moore, Karla Munoz, Adrian O'Connell

SESSION-VI: ULSTER UNIVERSITY 2016 CONVOCATION ANNUAL LECTURE
Chair: Prof. Paul Mc Kevitt, Vice-Chair, Convocation Executive Committee

5.00pm ``Robots: to protect and serve''
Professor Noel Sharkey, Sheffield University, ENGLAND
SAMHAIN INTERVENTION: `AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL'
5.50pm Q&A & VOTE-OF-THANKS, John O'Neill, Chair of Convocation Executive Committee

6.00pm REFRESHMENTS

7.00pm CLOSE & LEGENDERRY CARNIVAL PARADE

Exhibits/Software Demos:

Zones 1
Dr. Alan Dormer, PostDoctoral Researcher, Digital Media & Arts Research Centre (DMARC), University of Limerick, IRELAND &
Dr. Stephen Roddy, PostDoctoral Researcher, Centre for Future Networks & Communications, Trinity College Dublin, IRELAND

Sensum

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