1. Several researchers and supervisors associated with the project have since secured other sources of funding on human-centric related initiatives such as:
The VOICES project, an ERC funded project (101097003) led by Jane Ohlmeyer with computer sciences; Knowledge Technologies for Democracy (HEU project 101094302) led by Jennifer Edmond with Computer Sciences; From Cinematic Realism to Extended Reality: Reformulating Screen Studies at the Precipice of Hyper-reality’ project led by Jennifer O’Meara, (Irish Research Council); The HARNESS project (Harnessing AI and Data-Intensive Technologies) an HEU MCSA Doctoral Training network (101169409) led by David Lewis, Computer Science, involving TCD Law.
2. The 6 fellows appointed published 28 research peer reviewed outputs between them. Of the 28 publications, 18 were collaborative; 9 involved supervisors as co-authors. The collective works have received a total of 98 citations to date and Springer Nature reports that Nicola Palladino’s book The Content Governance Dilemma - Digital Constitutionalism, Social Media and the Search for a Global Standard has been accessed 12,000 times to date.
3.To develop stronger partnerships between the Computer Sciences, Arts & Humanities and industry, developing the discourse of human-centred technology, creating pathways for internships and secondments, the programme:
- Engaged with up to 100 organisations, with 6 partners secured for informal secondments and as enterprise mentors.
- Delivered the Human+ Tech Talks discussion series involving fellows and their supervisors and enterprise mentors, available on youtube and on soundcloud.
- Developed a Future Lab format.
- Delivered 1 coauthored white paper on ‘considerations of identity in the metaverse’ arising from the Future Lab with enterprise partners and supervisors (
https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-162(öffnet in neuem Fenster)).
- 1 PhD student was funded on a project arising from a fellowship-supervisor collaboration with an industry partner.
- 1 fellow secured Irish research funding for a follow-on project related to their secondment, while their secondment partner also sought EU funding in parallel.
- 1 fellow secured Irish funding for a follow-on project with their supervisors.
- 1 fellow competitively secured access to medical devices to gather data for their project.
- The project partnered with DARIAH to host the DARIAH Innovation Forum in 2022, with the public keynote by Michela Magas, innovation advisor to the European Commission.
- The Human+ project was referenced in the Finnish Impact Foundation’s 2024 report on ‘the state of industry academia collaboration in the social sciences, humanities and arts Perspectives from the Nordics and beyond’.
- Piloted a research enterprise ‘secondment’ model to inform future fellowship programmes – noting that the term ‘secondment’ can be problematic for some organisations to facilitate on legal grounds.
- Generated insights from secondment partnerships pioneering culture change in socio cultural human-centric technology design in areas ranging from a focus on emotions at the human-chatbot-interface to working with a robotic start-up focusing on implementing their disinfectant robot; uncovering knowledge surrounding how people mediate the space around their bodies (i.e. their personal space) in the context of social virtual environments; brain imaging and immersive virtual reality; intelligent tutoring systems; corporate AI risk management frameworks and the day to day ethical/responsible AI practices; immersive media, cognition, and digital behaviour; identity in the metaverse.
3. Fellows were provided with training and opportunities to present and communicate their research to general audiences, including via a series of blogs and web profiles:
https://humanplus.ie/category/blog/(öffnet in neuem Fenster). On average each fellow delivered 9.7 communication and public engagement activities.
