My Research Interests broadly include:
- Multidisciplinary research at the intersection of Computer Science, Technology Law and Computer Ethics.
- Examining Legal, Design & Ethics led approaches to regulating emerging technologies, particularly the Internet of Things at different scales (from smart homes to cities).
- Data Protection, Information Security & Cybercrime.
- Science & Technology Studies and Surveillance Studies.
Projects (for full lists of recent activities see here, here and here):
Funded Work:
- 2019– ‘Emotional AI in Commerce, Civic Life and Security In Japan and the UK’, Jan 2019-Jan 2020 (Co-I,£50,000– ESRC-AHRC UK-Japan SSH Connections) – exploring governance of affective computing in different contexts of everyday life.
- 2018 ‘Defence Against the Dark Artefacts’ (DADA) on technical, sociological & legal requirements for effective smart home cybersecurity with U. Cambridge, Imperial College London, U. Nottingham & industry partners ARM, BT, Cisco, Digital Catapult, Internet Society, GCHQ, Crossword Cybersecurity, Petras IoT hub – July 2018 – Jun 2020, (Researcher Co-I, £1,010,000 – EPSRC TIPS 2.0) # EP/R03351X/1;
- 2018 – ‘The Memory Machine’ on designing memory preserving IoT for dementia sufferers, Feb ’18 – Feb ‘19, (Co-I £90,000 – Horizon/EPSRC). This project involves artists, interaction designers, developers, psychologists, dementia specialists co-designing.
- 2018 – ‘Towards Moral-IT and Legal-IT by Design’ on developing card-based tools for building ethical IT systems (July 2017 – Present, (PI, £16,000 – Horizon/EPSRC).
- 2018 – ‘Ethics of Internet of Things in Research’ on managing risks of using IoT used in research with card based tools, Jan ‘18 – Aug ’18, (Co-I, £8,000 – UoN Digital Research Grant);
- 2017 – ‘About Algorithms & Beyond’ for a range of mini projects exploring aspects of algorithms and IoT Aug ‘17- March ’18, (Co-I, £30,000 – UoN Research Priority Area Grant);
- 2015 – ‘Information Privacy by Design Cards’ on developing data protection by design cards, Oct ‘15- Dec 16, (Co-I Horizon AGILE Project with Partner Microsoft Research) & led to separate partner US National Science Foundation project ‘EAGER: Privacy Compliance by Design’, Oct ’15 – Dec ’16, ($175,000 USD)
- 2015 – ‘Games & Human Values’ on using games as a medium of critique for wider societal concerns, Aug – Oct ‘15 ( £1500 – EPSRC Grant EP/L011891/1)
- Regulating the Domestic Internet of Things/ Smart Home esp. data protection by design perspectives:
- Many invited talks (see here), but main outputs include:
- Journal Paper – Building Accountability into the Internet of Things: The Databox Model.
- Journal Paper – Demonstrably Doing accountability by Design.
- Journal Paper – New Directions in Information Technology Law: Learning from Human Computer Interaction
- Book Chapter – White Noise from the White Goods? Conceptual & Empirical Perspectives on Ambient Domestic Computing
- Journal – Realising the Right to Data Portability for the Domestic Internet of Things
- Journal Paper – Towards User-Centric Regulation
- Working Paper – A Legal Turn in Human-Computer Interaction? Towards ‘Regulation by Design’ for the Internet of Things
- Conference Paper – Playing the Legal Card
- Robotics and Law:
- Regulating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Domestic Drones): presented internationally at conferences in Ljubljana, Braga, London (x2), Edinburgh; interviewed for New Scientist and Wired; published early discussion on the topic in Computers and Law.
- ETHICOMP 2018 paper with D Reedman Flint and N Leesakul on Responsible Robotics in the Home.
- Supervising 3 month PhD Student project ‘ Responsible Robotics’.
- Cybercrime & Cybersecurity for Industrial Systems & Supply Chains:
- DADA EPSRC project on smart homes and cybersecurity.
- Journal Paper with D McAuley, Avoiding the Internet of Industrial Things, published in Computer Law and Security Review, 2018.
- Presenting a paper at TILTing Perspectives 2017 with D McAuley on Security and Cyber-Physical Systems.
- 2017 Working Paper with D McAuley on Cybersecurity-Implications of the Industrial Internet of Things
- Chapter in L Edwards forthcoming book Internet Law and Policy called Cybercrime and Information Security Threats and Regulatory Responses.
- Visiting researcher at the Centre for Business Information Ethics at Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan with Prof A Adams working on privacy and security aspects of smart metering
- Presented work on smart meters at Scottish Privacy Forum 2014
- Smart Cities:
- Wrote two articles (one focused on designing interactions, another on regulation) on Adaptive Architecture with N Jäger and H Schnädelbach. The regulation focused paper won the Taylor and Francis Prize at BILETA 2018.
- Participated in ICT and the City Stream at ETHICOMP 2017 with paper, Ethical Dimensions of User Centric Regulation
- Helped run the international conference, Smart Cities: Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities at the University of Strathclyde in March 2015, Glasgow.
- Guest edited a special collection on Smart Cities for Computers and Law
- Published an article in it with E Luger “Smart Cities: Creative Compliance and Rise of Designers as Regulators”
- Surveillance Studies
- Attended Inaugural CRISP Doctoral School, Stirling University, 2013.
- Presented papers at Surveillance Studies Network Conferences in 2014, 2016 & 2018.
- 2018 on Governing Affective Computing (with A McStay) and Smart Homes, Smart Policing (with D Miranda).
- 2016 on Regulating Ambient Domestic Computing: Lesson from HCI.
- 2014 with Prof Lilian Edwards at on Privacy in Public Spaces.
- Participated in Data PSST! ESRC Seminar Series on Veillance in 2015-16.
- Intellectual Property
- IP Law and Artcodes – as part of CREATe funded work for Nottingham
- Freedom of Speech
- Chapter “Regulation of Privacy and Freedom of the Press from 2004-2017: From Campbell to Fake News” in L Edwards book, based on research conducted whilst a Research Assistant at University of Strathclyde
- Games and Human Values: Ran a workshop on Interdisciplinary Reflections on Games and Human Values Workshop at ACM CHI Play in October 2015.
