The role of AI and tech in participatory & collaborative research methods by NCRM

Lightening talk 1 Genovefa Kefalidou

NCRM — 2025-01-15 12:47:22 UTC

AI experience and usability in academia

Lightening talk 2 Aanya Niaz

NCRM — 2025-01-15 12:50:06 UTC

AI and the global majority: Human inclusion gap

Lightening talk 3 Skye Zhao

NCRM — 2025-01-15 12:51:22 UTC

The digitalisation of writing using GenAI: Supporting inclusivity and diversity

Agency?

2025-01-15 14:14:23 UTC

Genovefa called AI "an agent" - that makes me wonder whether and to what extent AI 'has agency' and how to define that...

AI for public good

emmawincup — 2025-01-15 14:32:53 UTC

Not specifically on participatory and collaborative research but this recent programme of work may be of wider interest to colleagues.

Better images of AI

2025-01-15 14:45:32 UTC

A little cheeky :) but some work around using better images of AI in our work that move away from white robots and blue brains that better capture what AI is https://betterimagesofai.org/

Environmental impact of genAI particularly

2025-01-15 14:59:07 UTC

Just to throw this in there as well around the huge environmental impact. Microsoft recently bought a nuclear power station in the US to ensure access to energy moving forward https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/26/1104516/three-mile-island-microsoft/

AI-as-participant

ddu4 — 2025-01-15 15:02:37 UTC

I'm pitching some participatory research that has an AI participant and would welcome some discussion. There's a bit of literature emerging, e.g.

Gibson, A. F., & Beattie, A. (2024). More or less than human? Evaluating the role of AI-as-participant in online qualitative research. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 21(2), 175–199. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2024.2311427