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Citizen trust in autonomous vehicles: the interactive role of regulatory focus on alleviating scepticism

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Paurav Shukla

Professor of Marketing
Research interests
  • Luxury consumption
  • Brand management 
  • Consumer behaviour and self-identity 
Connect with Paurav

Email: P.V.Shukla@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Uta Kohl

Professor of Law & Technology
Research interests
  • Platform economy
  • Internet jurisdiction in public and private international law
  • Freedom of expression, privacy and data protection law
Connect with Uta

Email: U.Kohl@soton.ac.uk

Dr Nicholas Kelley

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Social Psychology
Research interests
  • Social and Affective Neuroscience
  • The Self
  • Self-Regulation
Connect with Nicholas

Email: N.J.Kelley@soton.ac.uk

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Counter-Terrorism and 'Digital Human Trafficking'

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Democracy and AI: Fostering Knowledge Exchange for Social Change

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Democratic simulation for citizen participation

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Joerg Fliege

Professor of Operational Research
Research interests
  • Nonlinear Optimization
  • Discrete Optimization
  • Operational Research
Connect with Joerg

Email: J.Fliege@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Vanissa Wanick FHEA

Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design
Research interests
  • Games for Social Impact and Wellbeing
  • Human Behaviour and Interaction Design 
  • Participatory and Co-Design Methods 
Connect with Vanissa

Email: V.Wanick@soton.ac.uk

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Digital innovation and online health to support blood donation programmes in the Ghana Health Service

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DISCERN-AI: Developing an Intervention to Support Critical Evaluation of Real and Non-Authentic Images.

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Tina Seabrooke

Lecturer B
Research interests
  • Episodic memory
  • Associative learning
Connect with Tina

Email: T.Seabrooke@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Philip Higham

Research interests
  • Enhancing student learning in educational settings
  • Protecting social media users from fake news
  • Understanding the interplay of controlled and automatic influences of retrieval practice
Connect with Philip

Email: higham@soton.ac.uk

Dr Jennifer Williams

Lecturer
Research interests
  • Responsible and trustworthy audio processing applied to a variety of domains and use-cases;
  • Audio AI safety in terms of usability, privacy, and security;
  • Ethical issues of trust for audio AI (deepfake detection, voice-related rights, and speaker a…
Connect with Jennifer

Email: J.Williams@soton.ac.uk

Dr Eike Schneiders

Lecturer in Computer Science
Research interests
  • Human-Computer and Robot Interaction
  • Human-AI Interaction focusing on generative AI and its impact on society
  • Multidisciplinary research in collaboration with, artists, medical professionals, and lawyers
Connect with Eike

Email: Eike.Schneiders@soton.ac.uk

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Enhancing the effectiveness of virtual communication: Synthesizing co-presence

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Lead researchers

Dr Christoph Tremmel

Research Fellow in Wellbeing Technology
Research interests
  • Brain-Computer-Interfaces
  • Electroencephalography
  • Biomedical Engineering
Connect with Christoph

Email: Christoph.Tremmel@southampton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Nathan Huneke MBChB MRes PhD MRCPsych

NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer
Research interests
  • Experimental medicine
  • Neuroimaging
  • Placebo and nocebo effects
Connect with Nathan

Email: N.Huneke@soton.ac.uk

Professor m.c. Schraefel phd, cscs, ceng, fbcs

Professor
Connect with m.c.

Email: mc@ecs.soton.ac.uk

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Fawley Waterside Social Innovation Roadmap

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Gender, Safety & Mobility: Advocating for change through Arts and Web Science