Upcoming events

Beyond the Prototype: Building the Roadmap to Impact—a full‑day final workshop on Wednesday 11 February 2026 bringing together clinicians, researchers, and industry to accelerate the translation of anAI‑enabled, wearable, multi‑parameter monitoring platform for chronic disease management, with an initial focus on heart failure.

With sincere thanks to our invited keynote speakers—Marco Ceccarelli, Giuseppe Zuccalà, Jo Davies, Christopher George, Andrea Tales—and to our industry contributors AEbiosystem and Everybotics for supporting the showcase and demo stands.

This is a collaboration‑driven day focused on what it takes to move beyond technical feasibility and into delivery:manufacturability, clinical pathway fit, ethics/feasibility readiness, and the roadmap to trials and adoption.

click here for the full details: https://csevents.swansea.ac.uk/calendar_event/beyond-the-prototype-building-the-roadmap-to-impact/

Social robots are coming to appear in our daily lives. Yet, it is not as easy as one might imagine. We developed a human-like social robot, Robovie, and studied the way to make it serve for people in public space, such as a shopping mall. On the technical side, we developed a human-tracking sensor network, which enables us to robustly identify locations of pedestrians. Given that the robot was able to understand pedestrian behaviors, we studied various human-robot interaction in the real-world. We faced with many of difficulties. For instance, the robot failed to initiate interaction with a person, and it failed to coordinate with environments, like causing a congestion around it. Toward these problems, we have modeled various human interaction. Such models enabled the robot to better serve for individuals, and also enabled it to understand people’s crowd behavior, like congestion around the robot; however, it invited another new problem, robot abuse. I plan to talk about a couple of studies in this line, and some of successful services provided by the social robot in the shopping mall, hoping to provide an insight about what the social robots in public space in a near future will be.

Please join us (EHP, GENCAS, and CoDAH) on 25/03 at 1pm for a talk from Avey Nelson, who will be presenting their work on queer digital neoliberalism. Avey is an Assistant Professor at the University of Sussex, specialising in rhetoric and composition, science and technology studies, and the digital humanities.

In addition, Ninian Frenguelli (Research Officer in CSSP) and I will be giving reciprocal talks at Sussex in a panel event (“Trans Politics and the Digital”) on 09/03 at 4pm organised by the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence and the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab that you are welcome to join.