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When disaster strikes, what is at stake for the authorities is no longer a space which must be cordoned off, but an interval of time which must be occupied, intensified and put to work in the service of a manageable scenario. If this is a nuclear power plant meltdown, how far will the radioactive cloud […]

<!–EndFragment–> Thematerial from the last Gaussian Process winter school organised by Prof. NeilLawrence, which was attended by two Southampton PhD students Sheffieldin January, is of high interested for people working, or starting to work, onapplied machine learning and statistical data modelling. In general, the schoolprovided good tutorials on standard GPs and kernel design, and also […]

Victoria and I were back in Building 32 with Alex Rogers, Gopal Ramchum, Trung Dong Huynh, Nadia Pantidi and Victor Naroditskiy to brainstorm the future scenarios which disaster response teams might have to get used to in the year 2030. We got together with our laptops, threw around a bunch of ideas about urbanisation and urban decay, […]

I came across this and I thought it might be of interest. The emphasis seems to be on robotics but there are broader themes included (design of human-agent interaction, theoretical models, experimental models of human agent interaction) as well as a smart home theme that is relevant to some of the ORCHID work. Deadline is […]

You are a machinist who lives in a megacity slum. People have streamed in from the countryside to find work making footwear for America and Europe. The factories sprawl across the floodplain, where there are government tax incentives to build. When a dam collapses, the water pours out of the reservoir, demolishing buildings and killing […]

There are developed nations with robust civil societies, legitimate sources of authority and reliable infrastructure. And then there are developing nations, where there are corrupt elites, gangs in the suburbs and unpassable roads. Uncertainty is more of a condition of everyday existence in a developing nation. A disaster becomes harder to discern in this environment. […]

There’s been a major incident. A tactical commander is despatched to the incident zone and ordered to report on the situation. She sends out field agents with instructions to gather information according to pre-defined criteria known as CHALET. She wants to know about casualties (the number of dead and injured), hazards (such as unexploded bombs or high […]

Research Exchange is an outreach blog that “showcases the amazing research taking place at the University of Nottingham.”  Find the article here:  http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/researchexchange/2014/01/21/humanagent-interactions-disaster-planning-and-response/

We are excitedto have our Cicada paper submission accepted in CHI 2014. I believe the papercan be found in Southampton’s  e-prints archive but if not drop me(or any of the authors) a line and I will send it to you.  Moran, S., Pantidi, N., Rodden, T. A., Chamberlain,A., Griffiths, C., Zilli, D., Merrett, G., and Rogers, […]