Workshop Organisers

Our team of organizers represent experts in online harms, personal safety, psychology, design, methodology, misinformation, responsible software engineering, pro-social computing, social engineering, and enterprise design thinking, from both academic and industrybackgrounds. Each organizer brings unique expertise, experience, and vision to the workshop. Our team has extensive workshop organizational experience in user experience, responsible software engineering, design, applied psychology, ethics, and knowledge modeling.

Min Zhang (workshop lead) is a Lecturer at the Open University and the Centre for Protecting Women Online. Her work focuses on the future of responsible technology in preventing gendered online harm, personal safety, and the collective power of community, and how to design safe, positive, and inclusive online spaces to not only combat online harm, but also promote online positivity, such as positive masculinity. She serves as the program committee for several ACM conferences, workshops, and IFIP WG 13.11/12.14.

Arosha Bandara is a Professor of Software Engineering at The Open University whose research and teaching focus on software engineering for adaptive systems. He has a particular interest in techniques for building responsible, adaptive security and privacy mechanisms for software-intensive socio-technical systems. His work has been applied in diverse domains, including healthcare and policing. He is a member of the steering group for the OU’s Centre for Policing Research and Learning.

Gordon Rugg is a specialist in methods for handling knowledge that people find difficult or impossible to put into words. He has a multidisciplinary background, including a PhD in Psychology, and postdoctoral work in knowledge acquisition for AI and for requirements engineering. His interests include cross-cultural re- search and User-Centered Design. He has experience in running knowledge elicitation and systematic idea generation workshops by using multiple approaches, such as card sorting, upward laddering, and think-aloud. He is a co-author of the books The Knowledge Modelling Handbook and The Unwritten Rules of PhD Research.

Irum Rauf is a Lecturer at The Open University, UK. She is also involved in research on Responsible Software Engineering at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and society, par- ticularly on creating technology that can empower people and com- munities. She investigates the unintended societal consequences of technology and explores approaches to mitigate its negative ef- fects on users and society. She is interested in transdisciplinary research and has worked in multi-disciplinary, multi-generational, and multi-national teams.

Dilrukshi Gamage is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) in Sri Lanka. She is exploring AI-generated content harms from the Global South, particularly South Asia. She has extensive experience in organizing CHI workshops, especially relating to building tools for credibility indicators and Feminist voices of ecological issues. She serves on the Asian CHI steering committee and also SIGCHI Colombo in promoting HCI in the Asian Context.

Bashar Nuseibeh is Professor of Computing at the Open University, where he leads the Software Engineering and Design Group. His research interests include requirements engineering, adaptive security and privacy, and psychosocial factors in software design. Bashar has chaired and organised many international conferences, including co-chairing the first international workshop on responsible software engineering. He is currently UKRI’s Research Pillar Chair for Responsible AI – the UK’s flagship research programme in the area.

Wanling Cai is a postdoctoral researcher at Trinity College Dublin and a researcher at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, Ireland. She is also an incoming Assistant Professor at University College Dublin. Her research lies at the intersection of HCI and AI, investigating the issues surround- ing the use of interactive technologies (e.g., recommender systems, conversational AI, generative AI, and wearables) in everyday life and healthcare contexts. She has served on the program and or- ganization committees of several ACM conferences, such as IUI, RecSys, UMAP, and MUM.

Silvia Podesta is an advisory innovation designer and Business Technology Leader at IBM. With a strong grounding in user-centered design and a track record in digital strategy, product development, and customer experience, she helps clients to bridge design, technology, and governance to implement responsible and strategically impactful AI. She has authored a book on digital design strategy and co-authored a paper on trustworthy AI design for process transformation in a media and journalism use case.

Sarah Robinson is an Applied Psychologist, working at the School of Applied Social Studies, UCC, and at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. She has an in- terest in responsible design and engineering, community-based research, creative methods, and children. She has co-organized workshops for DIS and other venues.

This work is supported by the Centre for Protecting Women Online, at The Open University, UK.