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Shauna Concannon

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Personalised Films for Public Engagement with Open Data

Our paper, Brooke Leave Home: Designing a Personalized Film to Support Public Engagement with Open Data was published at CHI 2020. The conference was cancelled because of COVID-19, with authors,…

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Searching for the facts in a global pandemic

In times of great uncertainty, such as global pandemics, the appetite for reliable and trustworthy information increases. We look to official authorities and our peers for guidance. However, as has…

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Image of children with an adult walking through the woods — ECODE WITH INVISIBLE DUST

Over the past few months I’ve had the pleasure of working on the ECOde project with Invisible Dust in collaboration with Scarborough Library’s Code Club. Working with an excellent group…

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BREASTFEEDING IN PUBLIC: ANALYTICS AND POLITICS

This project explored women’s experiences of breastfeeding in public, based on the user generated content from the mobile app FeedFinder. FeedFinder is an app for breastfeeding parents, that enables them…

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Designing Personalised Films to Support Public Engagement with Open Data

Finding ways to support public engagement with data requires us to make use of accessible and engaging formats. In the Perspective Media projects, we explored how film could be used…

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Fact checking Hackathon

On 10-12 January 2020, we held a fact checking hackathon for people to work collectively on the challenge of automated fact checking. We kicked off with a few talks from…

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Taking a Stance: Experimenting with Disagreement in Dialogue

My PhD addressed how people manage disagreements in conversation and how the different ways of offering up an idea can lead to it being expanded on or dismissed. Combining corpus…

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WHATFUTURES: Substantive Dialogues Distributed Across Continents

While working at OpenLab I have been involved in the WhatFutures project with the International Federation for the Red Cross (IFRC), exploring how large-scale conversational data generated via a large-scale…

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Eisenstein Explorations

Together with Davy Smith and Nicole Karakin, we have been developing potential concepts for an Eisenstein Mobile App on behalf of the KinoKlassika foundation. https://vimeo.com/172646506 This has been an exploration…

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Interactive video installation at York Mediale — Cutting Room at York Mediale

The exhibition of “The Cutting Room Presents: What is Love?” was featured as part of York Mediale 2018. I was an assistant producer for the installation at Holy Trinity Church…

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Open Data About Care Experienced Young People

As part of my work on data-driven storytelling I have been working with the charity Inspired Youth and a group of care experienced young people. Part of this has been…

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Digital Citizens Connected Communities

Together with Nikolai Glad and Alexander Wilson I organised a workshop for the Digital Citizens Connected Communities Digital Economy Network Summer School held at Newcastle University in July 2016. The…

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Linguistic Feature of Medical Incident Reporting

As part of the EPSCR CHI+MED project, I worked with NHS incident report data to gather insights on how individuals report error within a medical context. By understanding the situations…

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Automatically Extracting Patient Opinions from Twitter

To investigate the potential for identifying patient opinions from general social media data, without requiring mention of official accounts; and to investigate the differences in polarity and topic of opinion…

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Inferring Cultural Preference of Arts Audiences Through Twitter Data

Does how we tweet convey our aesthetic preferences and artistic interests? The Barbican were interested in how they could better understand their audiences using data from Twitter. In particular, we…

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Plant Hack

Myself and four other PhD students from QMUL, Pollie Barden, Katja Knecht, Sophie McDonald (from the Media Art and Technology PhD programme) and Dmitrijs Milajevs (from the Theory Group), teamed…

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BBC World Service Audio Archive: Computer generated Metadata

I completed a 5 month academic internship with BBC R&D as part of my studies on the EPSRC funded Media & Arts Technology PhD programme at Queen Mary University of…

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Hacked Human Orchestra

Working together with MzTEK, Guerilla Science and Kobakant the Hacked Human Orchestra project was born. We produced a series of wearable musical designs for workshops in London and at UK…

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