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Overview

Paul Luff is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Computer Science, with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence. Their work spans several interconnected subfields, including Safety Research, Language and Linguistics, Social Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their research topics cover diverse aspects of artificial intelligence and human interaction, including ethics and social impacts of AI, language, discourse and communication strategies, neuroethics and biomedical innovations, social robot interaction and human-robot interaction (HRI), speech and dialogue systems, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), and the application of AI in healthcare and education.

Paul Luff has published in various academic venues, with multiple contributions to Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). Other venues include Artificial Intelligence, AI & Society, Computer Law & Security Review, and Discourse Processes.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Paul Luff include the following:

  • Fair navigation planning: A resource for characterizing and designing fairness in mobile robots, 2020, Artificial Intelligence
  • Recipient design in human-robot interaction: the emergent assessment of a robot's competence, 2023, AI & Society
  • Building Trust in Human-Machine Partnerships, 2020, Computer Law & Security Review
  • Embodied Action, Projection, and Institutional Action: The Exchange of Tools and Implements During Surgical Procedures, 2020, Discourse Processes
  • PlanVerb: Domain-Independent Verbalization and Summary of Task Plans, 2022, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Frequent co-authors include Christian Heath, Gerard Canal, Andrew Coles, Senka Krivić, and Martim Brandão. Collaboration with these researchers reflects an interdisciplinary approach across domains related to AI, social interaction, and language.

Best Publications

  • Collaboration and controlCrisis management and multimedia technology in London Underground Line Control Rooms

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff

  • Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design

    Paul Luff;Jonathan Hindmarsh;Christian Heath

  • Technology in Action: Index

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff

  • Mobility in collaboration

    Paul Luff;Christian Heath

  • Collaborative activity and technological design: task coordination in London underground control rooms

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff

  • Disembodied conduct: communication through video in a multi-media office environment

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff

  • Workplace Studies: List of contributors

    Paul Luff;Jon Hindmarsh;Christian Heath

  • Technology and social interaction: the emergence of 'workplace studies'.

    Christian Heath;Hubert Knoblauch;Paul Luff

  • Documents and professional practice: “bad” organisational reasons for “good” clinical records

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff

  • Configuring Awareness

    Christian Heath;Marcus Sanchez Svensson;Jon Hindmarsh;Paul Luff

  • Media space and communicative asymmetries: preliminary observations of video-mediated interaction

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff

  • One is not enough: multiple views in a media space

    William W. Gaver;Abigail Sellen;Christian Heath;Paul Luff

  • Tasks-in-interaction: paper and screen based documentation in collaborative activity

    Paul Luff;Christian Heath;David Greatbatch

  • Unpacking collaboration: the interactional organisation of trading in a city dealing room

    Christian Heath;Christian Heath;Marina Jirotka;Marina Jirotka;Paul Luff;Paul Luff;Jon Hindmarsh;Jon Hindmarsh

  • Fractured ecologies: creating environments for collaboration

    Paul Luff;Christian Heath;Hideaki Kuzuoka;Jon Hindmarsh

  • Technology and medical practice

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff;Marcus Sanchez Svensson

  • Crafting participation: designing ecologies, configuring experience

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff;Dirk Vom Lehn;Jon Hindmarsh

  • How do desk-top computers affect the doctor-patient interaction

    David Greatbatch;Christian Heath;Peter Campion;Paul Luff

  • Cognition and communication at work: Convergent activities: Line control and passenger information on the London Underground

    Christian Heath;Paul Luff

  • Interpersonal communication and human-computer interaction: an examination of the use of computers in medical consultations

    David Greatbatch;Paul Luff;Christian Heath;Peter Campion

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Heath
Christian Heath King's College London
Nigel Gilbert
Nigel Gilbert University of Surrey
Srikant Sarangi
Srikant Sarangi Aalborg University

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