Kassie Headon
Academic and research departments
Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence (PAI), School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering.About
My research project
How can playful, immersive experiences about potential social futures with AI technologies help people improve critical AI literacy and engage with ethical and societal issues?My research explores how to make Artificial Intelligence more tangible and accessible, with the aim of empowering people to critically engage with its societal and ethical implications. By designing immersive, story-driven experiences, such as games set in plausible near-future worlds, I will give participants playful experiences that enable people to reflect on how AI might shape their lives, question whose interests it serves, and imagine alternative, more inclusive technological futures.
Supervisors
My research explores how to make Artificial Intelligence more tangible and accessible, with the aim of empowering people to critically engage with its societal and ethical implications. By designing immersive, story-driven experiences, such as games set in plausible near-future worlds, I will give participants playful experiences that enable people to reflect on how AI might shape their lives, question whose interests it serves, and imagine alternative, more inclusive technological futures.
Sustainable development goals
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Publications
The Living Archive of Learning Disability History is being developed by an inclusive team of researchers both with and without learning disabilities. We argue the archive is important in making publicly visible the lives of people with learning disabilities. Yet - drawing on thinking that came out of our collaborative workshops - we also identify alternative imperatives, that you might want to have control over how you share your personal memories and stories, with whom, when you share them and for how long. We show how we are responding to these different ideas in the design of the Living Archive in order to create pathways between two traditions that have emerged through self-advocacy: 'speaking out in public' and 'being person-centred'. We outline our research on consent processes to ensure that our archive builds capacity for as many people as possible to consent while also offering a legally compliant 'Best Interests' process in line with the requirements of the Mental Capacity Act, England and Wales (2005). We argue that deploying and actively navigating between the different political logics of 'speaking out in public' and 'being person-centred' offers a way forward for ongoing debates concerning community engagement in archives, museums and heritage.