Dovetailed
Contact: Vaiva Kalnikaitė, Dovetailed <vaiva@dovetailed.io>
2021 suggestion: Barometer of Public Emotions
Feedback:
Your suggestion is definitely an area where we are happy to have projects. Two examples from previous years are:
We had this project in 2010:
Party Line Detection
New online ‘social media’ products become political tools almost as soon as they are released. But not all politicians realise that online content is more dangerous than traditional party newsletters, because it can be analysed automatically. Your task is to apply the Twitter API to analyse whether UK politicians are showing independent thought when they use Twitter, or are simply following the party line. Are they addressing the same issues as others in their party, perhaps simply reusing material from press releases? Or are they adopting ideas from the opposition agenda? Your system should provide voters with a clear summary and trend analysis, perhaps using visualisations of the kind that are shown on TV on election nights.
We had this project in 2016:
2020 project: Ethical Surgery Assistant
Additional contact in 2019 - Francine Ganter Restrepo <francine@dovetailed.io>
Idea for 2020:
Auntie Iris (AI)
Client: Vaiva Kalnikaitė, Dovetailed
Morality and ethics are concepts created by people. However, people are not always inclined to behave in ethical ways. Much of the debate around the fast development of AIs has focussed on ensuring that machine learning systems are designed ethically and make decisions that do not result in harm to any. These debates assume that people are the authority on ethics and morality. In an ironic twist, your task is to build an AI that functions as an ethical consultant or agony aunt to its end users. Much like an interaction with an agony aunt, the system should take on a conversational dynamic, with the user asking a question for which the AI has a witty and philosophical response to.
AI agony aunt
2016
earlier
Something related to touch/tangible interaction?
Or location-specific, related to the recent chalking project in Mill Road?
