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To enable the development of socially beneficial autonomous systems that are both trustworthy in principle and trusted in practice by the public, government, and industry

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The TAS Research Programme

Understanding user trust after…

Investigating the cybersecurity, human factors and trust aspects of screen failures during automated driving using threat analysis.

Consent verification in autonomous…

To replace existing deterministic regulatory verification activities that Data Protection Officers rely on, with automated reasoning techniques.

Trust me? (I’m an…

Building trust and fostering the adoption of autonomous systems (AS) by capturing, documenting and explicating ‘Master Narratives’. The…

RoAD: responsible av data…

Investigating the ethical risks and legal implications related to the collection, access and use of data in autonomous…

Trustworthy light-based robotic devices…

Demonstrating wound healing in the laboratory, and defining an envelope of operation that balances risks and benefits of…

ARGOS: AI-assisted Resilience GOvernance…

Investigating the applicability of machine learning methods to support anticipatory planning for resilience, simulation-based AI techniques for policy…

Imagining robotic care: identifying…

Using LEGO Serious Play workshops to Identify the conflicts and confluences in the imaginaries of robotic and autonomous…

A participatory approach to…

Developing a novel approach to assurance through participatory methodology, to underwrite the responsible design, development, and deployment of…

COTADS: COdesigning Trustworthy Autonomous…

Designing algorithms for diabetes management during life transitions using co-design, provenance and explainable AI. This project aims to…

SA2VE: Situational Awareness and…

Understanding the effect of Situational Awareness and take-over request procedures on trust between drivers and highly autonomous vehicles.

Kaspar Explains: the impact…

Identifying how causal explanation can influence trust in an educational robotic platform, the Kaspar robot, which has been…

OPEN-TAS: An open laboratories…

Creating infrastructure for access via web/VR interfaces and telepresence robots to UK laboratories researching TAS.

Trustworthy human-swarm partnerships in…

The aim of this project is to understand the contextual factors and technical approaches underlying trustworthy human-swarm teams.

Trustworthy Human-Robot Teams

These challenges present increased opportunities for human-robot collaborative teams but questions remain relating to trust towards the robot…

Trustworthy autonomous systems to…

This project explores how trustworthy autonomous systems embedded in devices in the home can support decision-making about health…

SafeSpacesNLP

Behaviour classification NLP in a socio-technical AI setting for online harmful behaviours for children and young people  …

Chatty car

Designing an exemplar, socially responsible, anthropomorphised, natural language interface for automated vehicles.

Inclusive autonomous vehicles

The role of human risks perception and trust narratives Investigating the mechanisms that can address consumers’ concerns when…

The TAS Nodes

Functionality Node

Exploring how to monitor, test, and regulate the way that autonomous systems learn and adapt. By measuring what’s…

Resilience Node

Creating a toolbox for autonomous system designers that translates societal rules into mathematical models. This allows AS to…

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Security Node

Exploring the physical and digital security elements of autonomous systems, using world-class facilities to design and test the…

Trust Node

Exploring trust in autonomous systems through the subjective lens of Psychology and Cognitive Science in a UK research…

Governance and Regulation Node

Exploring how to make autonomous systems aware of- and respond to the changing regulations of the world they…

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Verifiability Node

Developing rigorous testing techniques to prove the trustworthiness of an autonomous system in unadopted environments and embed those…

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