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Co-organised and chaired Panel on Emotional AI in Cities at CPDP 2021On Thursday 28 January, Dr Lachlan Urquhart (Lecturer in Technology Law at Edinburgh Law School) will moderate a panel discussion at this year's Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference. The panel of speakers will include Dr Lena Podoletz, research fellow in Emotional AI and Smart Cities.
CPDP is an annual three-day conference devoted to privacy and data protection. The 14th edition of CPDP will be held on 27-29 January 2021. It offers a forum where different voices are heard and where positions are compared debated, approached or differentiated. Although the event would usually take place in Brussels, CPDP2021 will of course be hosted online.
Dr Urquhart's contribution as moderator at this major European event is linked to his work on the research team of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project entitled 'Emotional AI in Cities: Cross Cultural Lessons from UK and Japan on Designing for An Ethical Life'. This project explores biometric and online technologies that sense, learn and interact with emotions, moods, attention and intentions. It also examines the societal implications of these technologies in cities both in the UK and Japan.
Fellow Co-I and colleague, Dr Hiroshi Miyashita from Chuo University is resposible for organising the CPDP2021 panel, which also include speakers Hiroshi Miyashita (Chuo University), Lena Podoletz (University of Edinburgh), Konstantina Vemou (EDPS), Kentaro Ryu (ZMP) and Paul Breitbarth (Trustarc).
They will compare the emergence of emotional AI technologies in Japanese and UK/EU contexts. Unpacking the philosophical, social, ethical, cultural, legal and design questions surrounding tracking of affect, emotion and intention in settings such as homes, workplaces and public spaces. Speakers will reflect on how machine-readable emotions will impact fundamental rights and citizen interests, particularly in relation to information privacy, data protection and human relationships with synthetic personalities. The panel will consider some implications of data protection in the case of facial recognition and autonomous robot car in public spaces and smart cities.
Speakers will then reflect on how machine-readable emotions will impact fundamental rights and citizen interests, particularly in relation to information privacy, data protection and human relationships with synthetic personalities. The panel will consider some implications of data protection in the case of facial recognition and autonomous robot car in public spaces and smart cities.
| Period | 28 Jan 2021 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Brussels, BelgiumShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |