Hi everyone, Due to unforeseen circumstances the study dates have changed. The study will now take place between the W/C 13th October and 12th December. This also means the length of the study is now 8 weeks. The rest of the study including the games remain the same. We are still looking for participants if you are interested, and please share with your friends as well as anyone who may be interested. ...
Hello once more, I have submitted a paper, about this research project to the Doctoral Consortium track at the British Computing Society’s HCI 2025 (Human-Computer Interaction) Conference, hosted in Wales this November. I am proud to say it has been accepted, I will be presenting it at the conference, and will be published as part of the conference proceedings after, available online. I will update with a link to the paper when it is available. ...
Hello again, I am currently working on getting the University lab that the research will be conducted in set up, and the games installed. The tests that will be used for this study are in their final refinement stages and recruitment for the study will begin shortly.
Hello there, I have recently conducted some additional research unrelated to my PhD in a college engagement session hosted by the department, with my fellow researcher Christianna Petrichou. She is also completing her PhD research at the University, focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Morality and human perceptions of AI. We hosted a session where students could participate in board games both independently and with a Wizard-of-Oz style authority facilitating the game. The students would each play Monopoly, Cluedo in French to present an additional level of challenge they had to figure out how to play as a group, and the social deduction game Werewolf hosted by a telepresence robot, the students believed that the robot was independently running the game for them, when in reality it was run by a third party taking cues from myself and what they could see through the camera. ...
Hello everyone, this project has received ethical approval from the University under ethics code: SCIENCE 01176. If you have any questions or concerns please contact me at: sbarrett6@lancashire.ac.uk or my Director for Studies Prof. Janet Read at JCRead@lancashire.ac.uk. If you feel your concerns are not dealt with appropriately please contact OfficerForEthics@lancashire.ac.uk.