Reconfiguring Communication through Technology

This session explores how communication becomes distributed across humans and technologies. Engaging with spoken, signed, and written modalities, and with practices such as video-based signing, AR glasses, and AI translation, it considers how technological mediation reshapes communicative relations and possibilities for access.

A sign language translator will be translating the talks.

10:30 Welcome by LINCS HoR Marion Winters
10:35 Welcome by Annelies Kusters (event organiser)
10:40 Presentation by Annelies Kusters: Signing and technology: chaining in distributed practice
10:55 Keynote Presentation by Richard Bowden (University of Surrey): Translating between Sign and spoken language using AI
11:25 Break - 15 minutes
11:40 Presentation by Mathini Sellathurai: Hearing glasses
11:55 Presentation by Robert Adam and Sujit Sahasrabudhe: Cross-signing
12:10 Discussion - led by Marion Winters
12:30 Tour in Robotarium