Last Sunday was the Tiree Ultramarathon: 35 miles around the island, 14 beaches and a couple of (small) hills.  It is a yearly ritual and the beginning of the academic year for many, so feels a good p...

Learn to design UX for AI and with AI through an HCI lens, using AI as "appropriate intelligence" to support faster concepts, accessibility, and reflection.

It was only a matter of time - Channel 4 and France 24 report that the first autonomous drones have been used in Ukraine. The world has entered a new age of warfare and it will be hard to draw back.

This final post recaps what we’ve learnt about the runaway nature of the AI industry, how it undermines free markets, and how we can make a difference. The core question is not what can AI do, but wha...

What does accuracy mean in practice? Is 99.98% good enough? Facial recognition is being rolled out at pace; how do we balance the risks and benefits, especially for a technology that is often biased...

Researchers say results mark a really ‘profound change in technology that will reshape medicine’

It all seems too big, requiring national and international responses. But we can make a difference using appropriately chosen small AI (including none). Plus, this good use of AI is good for business...

Networks pervade almost every computer system we use; indeed they are deeply enmeshed in the fabric of society. In some cases, such as making a video call, we are directly aware that we are using a ne...

Runaway growth of AI is not painless – opportunity costs of investment and human costs of lost jobs. Gains may be transitory – buy-now-pay-later tech risk tying users into spiralling costs.

The very nature of digital technology and AI breaks free markets leading to runaway inequality, even with the best intentions of industry … but some tech companies further exploit these effects.

Why do big applications such as MS Word and Gmail get new errors in heavily used parts that used to work? Two have been annoying me lately: Gmail's disappearing send button and Word's phantom changes....

Doomsayers worry about the point when AI becomes sentient, outgrowing its creators. The real danger is more insidious: the massive financial and human impacts of AI seem almost obscene.

The obvious impact of AI is in the things it does directly. Some technologies also change the very nature of society, affecting even those who do not use them. Cars are an obvious example. AI is su...

AI can be used for good or ill, but the AI industry seems out of control. Digital tech and AI undermine the assumptions of market economics, driving massive inequality. What drives this and what can w...

The BBC warns this Charter Review is the moment to make clear choices to back the organisation and support all that it delivers for the UK

How can AI truly serve the community? A dialogue on the potential of HCI in designing smart public services, placing human ethics at the heart of digital transformation and public sector innovation.

AI can be used for tremendous good, not least in medicine, as well as frivolous and dangerous uses, such as exploitative online pornography. However, it also has large scale structural impacts on the...

AI can be used for tremendous good, not least in medicine, as well as frivolous and dangerous uses, such as exploitative online pornography. However, it also has large scale structural impacts on the...

This microsite presents the results of a value for money exercise based on an analysis of public domain data from the UK REF 2021 Research Assessment Exercise.  Note this analysis focuses solely on Un...

Sent the manuscript of AI for Human-Computer Interaction to the publisher. It explores the rich human side of AI including how AI can help in user experience design and how effective interfaces can he...

A new edition of Stats of HCI in prep for 2026 including new chapters on Empirical and Simulation Methods, Big Data and AI.

As humans we constantly act and speak so that implicitly or explicitly we make our intentions more understandable by others. This talk explores a number of ways in which this can also be possible in o...

Data that has been anonymised and aggregated it is often regarded as safe and outside privacy laws, but as todays news shows this is not the case, it can still violate personal data sovereignty.

In some ways AI is just another technology we still need to understand users and their contexts, and match the appropriate technology with user needs even if that sometimes means not using technology ...

The ACM Digital Library sometimes presents fake DOIs, and it’s spreading broken links across the web.

Twelve years ago, I walked one thousand miles around the entire periphery of Wales. One might imagine unspoilt coastline and mediaeval castles, but the coast is also the historic industrial heart of t...

Finished 2025 Tiree Ultramarathon and the toughest weather yet, 50mph (80kph) winds at some points of the day and wind flung hail that stung every bit of exposed flesh.  However the spirit of the day,...

The challenge The first day was clearly going to be the biggest personal challenge, a marathon length run over the mountain pass between Brecon and Merthyr.  I hadn't realised how anxious about it I h...

Help Alan Dix raise money to support Cancer Research UK

Help Alan Dix raise money to support Cancer Research UK

Help Alan Dix raise money to support Cancer Research UK

Help Alan Dix raise money to support Cancer Research UK

Help Alan Dix raise money to support Cancer Research UK

Help Alan Dix raise money to support Cancer Research UK

The issue of what happened at Glastonbury is obscuring the outrage about real bombs and actual death, and I think that is deliberate, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Help Alan Dix raise money to support Cancer Research UK

Digital technology seems to lead inexorably towards the concentration of power into a tiny number of vast corporations. As physical manufacture is increasingly digital and AI-based, will the same hap...

An authoritative and accessible one-stop resource, the first edition of An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence presented one of the first comprehensive examinations of AI. Designed to provide an u...

Today is my last day at Cardiff Met. I won't be idle; "Introduction to AI" is due out in June and other books in the way, but it is a change of pace and focus. To mark my retirement and turning 65 ...