Talks by Joe Strickland and Max L. Wilson

Joe and Max will give talks during this week's digital lab meeting.

Joe Strickland - Digital Theatre and Audience Behaviour

Using case studies of 6 different digital theatre productions, this talk will look at how audience behaviour data was utilised in order to design, create, and deliver various different forms of digital theatre, and how the productions could be improved in the future by including further audience behaviour data measures.

Max L. Wilson - Brain Data as Personal Data

I'm going to talk briefly about the developing argument I'm using for upcoming grant proposals/papers, about setting an agenda for brain data as personal data; that systems might be making judgements about more than our physical actions. Some people are concerned with increasing non-sedentary cognitive activity (like people wanting to get more physically active), and busy people are often concerned with optimising their work effort to reach their goals. Further, however, as some of these things are perhaps otherwise not outwardly observable, I'm arguging that it is a concerning type of personal data to protect - workers in production lines already voice concerns over being measured for productivity, or physical activity. And during lockdown there is concern on both sides with being able to manage worker effort. The topic has touch points with: trust in autonomous systems, cars juding that you are feeling sleepy, and whether systems can recognise people its seen before based on their data, and similarities to e.g. upset over facial recognition and privacy. Probably would be more accurately described as Cognitive Data as Personal Data.