[SORSE] About trust in conversational interfaces and maintainability of research software

Session

Talks

Nov 10, 2020, 10:00 AM

Virtual (Zoom)

1. Goodbot, Badbot? Engineering trust into conversational interfaces

Dave Horsfall

11/10/20, 10:00 AM

As more people interact with bots driven by Artificial Intelligence, it is important to understand how to create relationships based on trust. The [FinTrust Project][1] at Newcastle University is looking at the role of machine learning in banking, particularly in the context of automated chatbots and how the presence of socio-emotional features impacts the intention to use. Researchers from...

2. Learnings from developing and maintaining a research software that has been used more than 3 million times in the last 3 years

Abhishek Dutta (University of Oxford)

11/10/20, 10:30 AM

Manually annotated images and videos are a fundamental part of many research projects and industrial applications. However, manual image annotation tools are often designed to address one specific use case and lack the flexibility to be reused across different projects. Furthermore, these tools often have complex installation and setup procedure which presents a barrier to non-technical users....