HomeSense Team Nigel Gilbert is Professor and Director of the Centre - PDF document

HomeSense Team Nigel Gilbert is Professor and Director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulatjon at University of Surrey and the HomeSense PI. He read for a fjrst degree in Engineering, and obtained his doctorate on the sociology of scientjfjc knowledge from the University of Cambridge. His research and teaching interests have refmected his contjnuing interest in both sociology and computer science (and engineering more widely). His main research interests are processual theories of social phenomena, the development of computatjonal sociology and the methodology of computer simulatjon, especially agent-based modelling. Nigel Gilbert Klaus Moessner is Professor in Cognitjve Networks in the 5G Innovatjon Centre and the Co-PI of HomeSense. He has been actjvely involved in the various European Community funded research frameworks. He has also had involvement in some 20 other EU funded projects. Klaus’ research interests are around the aspects of reconfjgurability on the difgerent system levels, including reconfjguratjon management and scheduling in wireless networks as well as network supported adaptability of multjmodal user interfaces. Klaus Moessner Kristrún Gunnarsdóttjr is a Research Fellow at Centre for Research in Social Simulatjon and the HomeSense project manager. Her background covers conceptual/visual ICT designs, IT administratjon and development, philosophy and sociology. Her PhD is a study in ethnomethodology in reference to CSCW, actjvity and cognitjve theories. Most recently, she worked on three FP7-funded projects, Epinet, ICTethics and Technolife, all case-based investjgatjons into the ethical, legal and socio-economic implicatjons of new- emerging ICTs, as well as of public perceptjon and future scenario-building in innovatjon policy development and governance. Kristrún Gunnarsdóttjr 1

Jie Jiang is a Research Fellow in Computatjonal Social Science at the Centre for Research in Social Simulatjon at University of Surrey. She obtained her Bachelor and Master Degrees both in Engineering. She contjnued studying a PhD at Delfu University of Technology, researching on the problem of organisatjonal compliance through normatjve multj-agent system design and verifjcatjon. Her research interests include design and verifjcatjon of sociotechnical systems, agent-based modelling and simulatjon, data analytjcs and machine learning. Jie Jiang Ewa Luger is the Microsofu liaison to HomeSense, consultjng on ethical and consent issues. She works in the Human Experience and Design group at Microsofu Research Cambridge and holds a Fellowship at Corpus Christj College, University of Cambridge. Previously a research fellow at the Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottjngham, and her focus is upon applied ethics, and how we might design user experiences that support human agency and autonomy. Ewa Luger William Headley is Technical Project Manager at University of Surrey. He built the HomeSense sensor suite prototype. His research interests include Silicon photonics, ring resonators, optoelectronics, PLC's (planar lightwave circuits), optjcal modulators and fjlters. He is now responsible for the day-to-day management and contributjon to an EU- sponsored project which seeks to advance the commercial introductjon of future internet technologies. William Headley 2

Workshop Delegates Niells Bischofg is a tech entrepreneur working to improve the way humanity interacts with personal technology. Afuer having started businesses in the food space he came to a turning point and used his personal journey as inspiratjon for his new venture mindBot (mind-bot.com), a personal coaching chatbot to help users create a self-awareness habit. Niels is interested in personal data, artjfjcial intelligence, NLP, quantjfjed self and consciousness hacking. Niels Bischof Debbie Collins leads NatCen’s Questjonnaire Development and Testjng Hub and has over 20 years’ experience in survey research and methodology. She specialises in questjonnaire design and the use of pretestjng methods, such as cognitjve interviewing, questjonnaire appraisal, respondent debriefjng and focus groups. Debbie has worked on a range of studies including development of questjons for the 2001 Census (whilst at ONS), the Family Resources Survey, the Natjonal Travel Survey and European Social Survey. Debbie is a member of the Internatjonal Questjonnaire Evaluatjon Standards working group. She has also conducted research into factors infmuencing respondents' decisions to partjcipate in surveys. Debbie Collins Martjn Dix is the founder of both the Current Cost Concept and the Business, and more recently also Current Care. Martjn stjll takes an actjve role in the business as Managing Director, overseeing operatjons and ensuring the business strategy is dynamic enough to respond to changes in the marketplace. Martjn Dix 3

Niels van Dijk is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Law Science Technology and Society at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB). He holds a PhD degree in law by the VUB, and LLM and MA degrees in law and philosophy by the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses mainly on the challenges posed by new (digital) technologies to practjces of law, especially in the fjelds of intellectual rights, privacy and data protectjon. Further fjelds of his interest include: legal theory, philosophy of science, science and technology studies (STS) and ethnography of legal instjtutjons. Niels van Dijk Jonathan Gershuny is Professor of Economic Sociology in the Oxford Sociology Department, and a Senior Research Fellow of Nuffjeld College. He is the Director of the Centre for Time Use Research, and is a former Head of the Oxford Sociology Department. He started to study how people spend their tjme in the late 1970s. The Multjnatjonal Time Use Study, which emerged from his early work, now includes accounts of more than 800,000 days, collected from 20 countries, over the period from 1961 to 2013. Jonathan Gershuny Daniel Gómez López is Assistant Professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia), in the Department of Psychology and Educatjon, and also a researcher for Care and Preparedness in Network Society (CareNet), research group at the Internet Interdisciplinary Instjtute (IN3). He has been involved in FP7-funded projects: CUIDAR, DEMOCIT AND EFORTT. He has been Marie-Curie Postdoctoral researcher at the LSTS (Vrije Universitet Brussel) working on ethical and social aspects of ICT innovatjons for older and disabled people (VALUE-AGEING) and visitjng researcher at CSISP (Goldsmiths College, University of London). Daniel López Gómez 4

Mark Hill has over 20 years’ experience in the semiconductor, informatjon technology and communicatjon industries. He has covered a huge range of technologies, including microprocessors at the circuit level, digital hardware, sofuware, networking and communicatjons, and spent 15 years in the City delivering complex and varied IT systems. Currently COO of OpenTRV, an IoT startup designing intelligent Thermostatjc Radiator Valves (TRVs) with the aim of reducing the entjre UK's carbon emissions by 10%. Mark Hill Ike Kamphof is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Maastricht University. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Leuven. At the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in Maastricht, Ike Kamphof is involved in the MA Media Culture. Her current research focuses on two main fjelds: (tele)presence and (tele)care, and the relatjonship between aesthetjc sensibility and ethical afgect. Ike did extensive fjeldwork into sensortechnologies as used in homecare for vulnerable elderly people. She is currently projectleader of funded research into aspects of make-believe in technological innovatjons for dementja care. Ike Kamphof Naomi Klepacz is a Research Fellow at the Food, Consumer Behaviour and Health Research Centre at the University of Surrey. She holds a PhD health psychology and her research interests focus on health communicatjon and promotjon, and fall under the umbrella of applied health psychology. She is partjcularly interested in the role of visual imagery in people’s understanding of health and memory for health related informatjon. She has an interest also in health damaging behaviour and psychological interventjons used for primary preventjon, as well as the processes infmuencing the efgectjve delivery of health care and its impact on individuals, family members and caregivers. Naomi has experience of conductjng research both as part of both UK and EU funded projects, employing both qualitatjve and quantjtatjve methods. Naomi Klepacz 5