Dr Elvira Perez Vallejos is involved in the latest Aardman Campaign to tackle growing mental health concerns among young people. The campaign sees the launch of a series of short films aimed at young people aged 17-24, and has been uniquely co-created with the young audience it sets out to support, ensuring it has an authentic voice and is genuinely representative of the challenges to mental wellbeing faced by the demographic. Aardman launches campaign to tackle growing mental health concerns…
Ethicomp paper accepted
We are pleased to announce that ReEnTrust team’s paper “DEVELOPING A MEASURE OF ONLINE WELLBEING AND USER TRUST” has been accepted at the International Conference on the Ethical and Social Impact of ICT. The paper can be found at the Oxford Research Archive, and its abstract can be found below. This paper describes the first stage of the ongoing development of two scales to measure online wellbeing and trust, based on the results of a series of workshops with younger…
Prof Elvira Perez Vallejos writes about Navigating through uncertainty and unawareness
On the day of Internet Safety 2020, Dr Elvira Perez Vallejos, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham writes about “Navigating through uncertainty and unawareness” for the UK eNurture Network+, a UKRI funded network that fosters new collaborations to promote children and young people’s mental health in a digital world (2018-2023). Her blog post can be found here: https://www.enurture.org.uk/blog/2020/2/5/navigating-through-uncertainty-and-unawareness
ReEnTrust Team Respond to ICO’s Consultation on Explaining AI
On 24 January, ReEnTrust team, led by Dr Philip Inglesant, provided our inputs to ICO and The Turing’s latest Consultation on Explaining AI. ReEnTrust has two interests in AI-enabled decisions: in our own research, to ensure that our own processes are trustworthy, as being compliant with GDPR, DPA compliant, as well as being transparent and responsible in our research involving people; and with respect to the topic of our research, to facilitate trust-building by users in algorithm-driven online systems. We…
ReEnTrust Team at the Ada Lovelace Day 2019
On 27 September 2019, the ReEnTrust team at the University of Nottingham took part in the Ada Lovelace Day 2019 — an international celebration of women’s achievements in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). The event aimed to encourage female and non-binary students aged 15-18 into STEM careers, to increase the profile and visibility of women in STEM, and to support those already in STEM disciplines. More details can be found at Ada Lovelace Day 2019.
ReEnTrust are recruiting 16-25 year olds for workshops in London
How does trust affect your experience of the Internet? We are running a series of 3 hour workshops to find out, and we want you to take part. If you regularly use the Internet to search for information, make bookings, or buy products, and are aged 16 to 25 years old, we invite you to come and share your views and experiences with us, as well as your suggestions for change in relation to trust when using the Internet. The…
ReEnTrust are recruiting for citizen juries!
How does trust affect your experience of the Internet? We are running a series of 3 hour workshops to find out, and we want you to take part. If you regularly use the Internet to search for information, make bookings, or buy products, and are aged either 16 to 25 years old or 65 years old or older, we invite you to come and share your views and experiences with us, as well as your suggestions for change in relation to trust…