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Overview

Rob Procter is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and has contributed significantly to research at the intersection of computer science and social sciences. Their work spans various subfields including artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, health informatics, communication, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their research interests are reflected in publication topics such as:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

Rob Procter's publication record includes frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Procedia Computer Science
  • PLoS ONE
  • IEEE Security & Privacy
  • Data & Policy

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Procter include:

  • "Trust in the smart home: Findings from a nationally representative survey in the UK" (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • "Holding AI to Account: Challenges for the Delivery of Trustworthy AI in Healthcare" (2022, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction)
  • "Assessing physical access to healthy food across United Kingdom: A systematic review of measures and findings" (2021, Obesity Science & Practice)
  • "Global evidence on the rapid adoption of telemedicine in primary care during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review protocol" (2022, Systematic Reviews)
  • "Evaluating the generalisability of neural rumour verification models" (2022, Information Processing & Management)

Collaborations with co-authors are frequent, with notable recurring partnerships including:

  • Maria Liakata
  • Miguel Arana-Catania
  • Yulan He
  • Arkaitz Zubiaga
  • Elena Kochkina

The breadth of Procter's work encompasses fundamental topics in artificial intelligence and its application to societal challenges, including healthcare and misinformation. Their engagement with advanced AI techniques and ethical issues contributes to multidisciplinary discourse bridging technical and social perspectives.

Best Publications

  • Beyond Adoption: A New Framework for Theorizing and Evaluating Nonadoption, Abandonment, and Challenges to the Scale-Up, Spread, and Sustainability of Health and Care Technologies

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Joseph Wherton;Chrysanthi Papoutsi;Jennifer Lynch

  • The impact of eHealth on the quality and safety of health care: a systematic overview.

    Ashly D. Black;Josip Car;Claudia Pagliari;Chantelle Anandan

  • Detection and Resolution of Rumours in Social Media: A Survey

    Arkaitz Zubiaga;Ahmet Aker;Kalina Bontcheva;Maria Liakata

  • Analysing how people orient to and spread rumours in social media by looking at conversational threads

    Arkaitz Zubiaga;Maria Liakata;Rob Procter;Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi

  • What matters to older people with assisted living needs? A phenomenological analysis of the use and non-use of telehealth and telecare

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Joe Wherton;Paul Sugarhood;Sue Hinder

  • Reading the riots on Twitter: methodological innovation for the analysis of big data

    Robert N. Procter;Farida Vis;Alex Voss

  • SemEval-2017 Task 8: RumourEval: Determining rumour veracity and support for rumours

    Leon Derczynski;Kalina Bontcheva;Maria Liakata;Rob Procter

  • Making a Case in Medical Work: Implications forthe Electronic Medical Record

    Mark Hartswood;Rob Procter;Mark Rouncefield;Roger Slack

  • Adoption and use of Web 2.0 in scholarly communications

    Rob Procter;Robin Williams;James Stewart;Meik Poschen

  • Tweeting the terror: modelling the social media reaction to the Woolwich terrorist attack

    Pete Burnap;Matthew L. Williams;Luke Sloan;Omer Rana

  • Exploiting Context for Rumour Detection in Social Media

    Arkaitz Zubiaga;Maria Liakata;Maria Liakata;Rob Procter;Rob Procter

  • Analysing the role of complexity in explaining the fortunes of technology programmes: Empirical application of the NASSS framework

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Joe Wherton;Chrysanthi Papoutsi;Jenni Lynch

  • Reading the riots: what were the police doing on Twitter?

    Rob Procter;Jeremy Crump;Susanne Karstedt;Alex Voss

  • Configuring User-designer Relations Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Alex Voss;Mark Hartswood;Rob Procter;Mark Rouncefield

  • What is quality in assisted living technology? : the ARCHIE framework for effective telehealth and telecare services

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Rob Procter;Joe Wherton;Paul Sugarhood

  • Expertise and Innovation: Information Technology Strategies in the Financial Services Sector

    Robin Fincham;Rob Procter;James Fleck

  • Collaboration and Trust in Healthcare Innovation: The eDiaMoND Case Study

    Marina Jirotka;Rob Procter;Mark Hartswood;Roger Slack

  • Co-realisation: towards a principled synthesis of ethnomethodology and participatory design

    Mark Hartswood;Rob Procter;Roger Slack;Alex Voß

  • Supporting Systematic Reviews Using Text Mining

    Sophia Ananiadou;Brian Rea;Naoaki Okazaki;Rob Procter

  • Learning Reporting Dynamics during Breaking News for Rumour Detection in Social Media.

    Arkaitz Zubiaga;Maria Liakata;Rob Procter

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Rouncefield
Mark Rouncefield Lancaster University
Maria Liakata
Maria Liakata Queen Mary University of London
Arkaitz Zubiaga
Arkaitz Zubiaga Queen Mary University of London
Gill Harvey
Gill Harvey University of Adelaide
Trisha Greenhalgh
Trisha Greenhalgh University of Oxford
Kalina Bontcheva
Kalina Bontcheva University of Sheffield
David De Roure
David De Roure University of Oxford
Alistair Sutcliffe
Alistair Sutcliffe University of Manchester
Carole Goble
Carole Goble University of Manchester
Omer F. Rana
Omer F. Rana Cardiff University

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