Miss Anna Vartapetiance
Research Student, DE
Qualifications: BSc (Hons), MSc (Distinction), MBCS
Email: a.vartapetiance@surrey.ac.uk
Phone: Work: 01483 68 6056
Room no: 18 BB 02
Further information
Publications
- Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2012) “Quite Simple Approaches for Authorship Attribution, Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection and Sexual Predator Identification”. Proceedings of the 4th PAN workshop at CLEF2012 on Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse, 16-20 September 2012, Rome, Italy.
- Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2012) “Deception Detection for the Tangled Web”. Special Issue of ACM SIGCAS Computer and Society. Submitted
- Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2012) “’I don't know where he's not’: Does Deception Research yet offer a basis for Deception Detectives?”. Proceeding of EACL 2012 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Deception Detection. 23-27 April, Avignon, France, pp. 5-15.
- Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2012) “Deception detection for the Tangled Web”. [PowerPoint Slide]. IFIP Social Accountability and Computing Workshop on “ICT Critical Infrastructures and Social Accountability: Methods, Tools and Techniques”, Middlesex University.
- Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2012) “Deception detection for the Tangled Web”. [PowerPoint slide]. 2nd Annual University of Surrey Postgraduate Research Conference, University of Surrey.
- Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2012). “Web Deception Detangelment”, Proceedings of 9th Annual Computing Department PhD Conference (CompConf2012). 21 March, University of Surrey, UK.
- Gillam, L. and Vartapetiance, A. (2011) “Cyber Law, Cyber Ethics and Online Gambling”. In Dudley, A., Braman, J. and Vincenti, G. (eds.) Investigation Cyber Law and Cyber Ethics: Issues, Impacts and Practices. USA: IGI Global, pp. 78-99.
- Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2011) “Web Deception Detanglement”. Proceedings of the Twelfth ETHICOMP International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communication Technology (Ethicomp2011). 16-18 September, Sheffield, UK, pp. 445-454.
- Vartapetiance, A. (2010) “Virtual Worlds for Real Learning”. [PowerPoint Slides]. Presented at Educating for Real World Symposium at The Surrey Centre for Excellence in Professional Training and Education (SCEPTrE), University of Surrey.
- Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2010) “DNA Dataveillance: Protecting the innocent?”. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 8(3), pp. 270-288.
- Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2009) “Machine Ethics for Gambling in Metaverse: an EthiCasino”. Journal of Virtual Worlds Reseach, 2(3), pp 3-23.
- Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2009) “Machine Ethics for Metaverse Gambling: No stake in a$24mmarket?”. Proceedings of the first IEEE International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-Games'09), 23-24 March, Coventry, UK, pp. 209-212
- Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2008) “Machine Ethics and Online Gambling: building the ‘EthiCasino’”. [PowerPoint Slides]. Presented at National Learning in Immersive Worlds Workshop, Coventry University.
- Editorial reviewer for "Emerging Ethical Issues of Life in Virtual Worlds", Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC.
- Gillam, L. and Vartapetiance, A. (2008) “A Database for Fighting Crimes that haven't been Committed yet”. Proceedings of the Tenth ETHICOMP International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communication Technology (Ethicomp2008), 24-26 September, Mantua, Italy.
Teaching
October 2010 – Present
Department of Computing, University to Surrey
Title: Teaching Assistant for Master Module in Ethics, Law and Professionalism
October 2008 – January 2009
Department of Computing, University to Surrey
Title: Teaching Assistant for Master Module in Ethics, Law and Professionalism
Conducted Workshops for University of Surrey:
Series of workshop related to use of Second Life for training anaesthetics in University of Surrey
- 20 July 2011: Simulation of Operating Theatre for Anaesthetics in Second Life
- 13 May 2011: Living Second Life as a Professional
- 12 April 2011: Learning a bit more: how to use animations, huds, badges in Second Life
- 29 March 2011: Introduction to Second life for medical use
Series of workshops related to use of Second Life for University of Surrey student and staff
- 29 May 2008, "Hands on Second Life", for Department of Computing students
- 12 June 2008, "3D Virtual Worlds as Learning Environments", for University of Surrey stuff and lecturers, as member of "e-Learning Practitioners Network"
- 11 July 2008, "Second Life Community of Interest", for University of Surrey stuff and lecturers, as member of SCEPTrE
- 4 November and 2 December 2008 - "Using Second Life to data collection", as part of "Teaching with New Technologies" scheme, managed by Tereza Capelos
- 27 January 2009, "Living and Earning in Second Life" for Students of University of Surrey, as member of "Colab Cafe, student enterprise"
Affiliations
Member of British Computer Society (MBCS)
Member of International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Special Interest Group 9.2.2 Framework on Ethics of Computing (SIG 9.2.2)

