Speakers

Social Justice in Farming 

Sebastian Prost is a Lecturer at the Centre for HCI Design at City St George’s, University of London. They are an interdisciplinary design researcher at the intersection of food and technology, working with local food networks and agroecological farmers critiquing and co-designing technology within ecological limits. They are interested in questions of sustainability, social justice, more-than-human relations, and community-based participatory design.

Digital Informatics and Design Interventions

Dr. Susan Lechelt is a Lecturer in Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Her work is in the domains of human-computer interaction and interaction design and is concerned with understanding and augmenting people’s perceptions and uses of data-driven technologies. She designs interventions, tools and prototypes to promote discussion and reflection about the role of new technologies in our lives. Currently, her research focuses on how to empower diverse audiences to reflect upon the environmental impact of technology. 

Clinical Epidemiology and Oral Health

Dr. Hooman Samani is a creative roboticist specialising in creative interdisciplinary AI-driven Social Service Robotics, based in London, United Kingdom. He is a Reader in Creative Robotics, Course Leader of Creative Robotics (BSc), and co-lead of the Creative Robotics Research Hub at the University of the Arts London, Creative Computing Institute. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Anthropology, Robotics and Medicine

Dr. De Togni is an anthropologist of science, technology, and medicine, conducting research, teaching, and engagement on responsible, ethical, and sustainable research and innovation in AI and robotics for healthcare and social care. She specialises in East Asian studies and draws on cross-cultural comparative ethnographic fieldwork and international interdisciplinary collaborations in her projects. To date, Dr. De Togni’s work has examined technologies including diagnostic algorithms, robot-assisted surgery, mental health bots, social robots, and physically assistive robotic devices.