TAS and Disabled Young People End of Project conference

The TAS and DYP team celebrated the end of project with a one day conference on the 26th April held at the University of Sheffield.

cat on a robotic vacuum cleaner
cat on a robotic vacuum cleaner

Trustworthy Autonomous Systems and Disabled Young People: End of Project conference

The TAS and DYP team celebrated the end of project with a one day conference on the 26th April held at the University of Sheffield. The team were joined by Professor Geert Van Hove from the University of Ghent; whose work has been engaged with co-production methods for over thirty years.

Geert Van Hove at the University of Sheffield
Geert Van Hove at the University of Sheffield

This day was an opportunity to listen to lessons learnt from Professor Van Hove - who has worked with various communities using participatory methods for 25 years - and also a chance to share some the key findings of the TAS and Disabled Young People project.

This work led by CoPI Dr Lauren White and CoI Dan Goodley, brought together students of Greenacre school who worked as researchers with social science and robotic researchers from the Universities of York and Sheffield. Findings are being shared through a number of outputs. These include an animation:

An animation capturing key findings of the TAS and DYP project

The use of infographics to summarise our findings:

TAS and DYP infographic
TAS and DYP infographic

And a revised user-friendly website that details the research enterprise from beginning to end

Image taken from the TAS and DYP project
Robot reading books

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