This episode is a recording of my chat with Rachel where we discuss human-like avatars, the metaverse and the challenges researching in VR.

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Today’s episode focuses on the design of virtual humans and animals in virtual worlds. Associate Professor Rachel McDonnell from Trinity College Dublin explores dimensions of virtual human and animal design and how this affects user perceptions. Rachel is a leading voice in the Graphics community, researching human centered issues in virtual agent design. Rachel is a Co-PI and Research Leader in the Science Foundation Ireland ADAPT Centre for human-centered AI.

Again this episode is in two parts with Part 1 focusing on Rachel’s talk, with Part 2 focusing on the chat I had with Rachel where we discuss human-like avatars, the metaverse and the challenges researching in VR.

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Related links to Rachel's work:

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Rachel.McDonnell/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wNunWxoAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.adaptcentre.ie/

This episode is Part 2 of Interrogating Interdisciplinarity, where I have an in-depth chat Dr Kevin Doherty about his work. The chat covers the topics of interdisciplinarity in HCI, how to work in interdisciplinary teams as well as some of Kevin's other work on dark patterns and healthcare technologies.

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Kevin Doherty’s website: https://kdoherty.ie/

Today’s episode focuses on interdisciplinary in HCI research and design. Dr Kevin Doherty (University College Dublin) explores the very nature of HCI as a discipline, through focusing on his experience in designing healthcare technologies. Kevin is a leading researcher in digital healthcare, having won a number of best paper awards at ACM CHI and other leading venues. He's also served on the ACM CHI PC as part of the Health committee. He is also a member of the SFI ADAPT Centre.

This episode is in two parts with Part 1 focusing on Kevin’s talk to our live audience, with Kevin then joining me for a live Q&A exploring ways to make interdisciplinary work as well as what success means in healthcare technologies.

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Kevin Doherty’s website: https://kdoherty.ie/

This episode is one from our archives. Over the COVID pandemic we were joined by a number of leading HCI researchers. These talks mean a lot to us as they kept us thinking about HCI related issues in those difficult times. In this episode we are joined by Dr Julie Williamson, Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Julie is a leading voice within ACM SIGCHI on social virtual and extended reality (VR/XR) and immersive worlds. Here she talks about her work on using these technologies for real world impact and what the future holds for immersive technologies.

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Links:

Julie's research papers are available here https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qUtAKFQAAAAJ&hl=en

Julie's lab: Future Immersive Interaction Group http://juliericowilliamson.com/blog/

This week's episode focuses on the hot topic of conversational AI. Prof. Benjamin Cowan (University College Dublin) talks about how the design of AI enabled conversational interfaces can influence what we perceive they can do and explores how this affects what we say and do in interaction.

Welcome to the Human in the Machine podcast, a podcast about the world of human-computer interaction. Every week I'll be interviewing leading researchers in the field, finding out where they feel technology and our society is headed. If you want to hear more about how we shape society and how it will shape us, then subscribe and get us where you get your podcasts.

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