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Congratulations to Greta Warren on her PhD “User-centred counterfactual explanations for explainable AI”! Greta’s PhD was co-supervised by Mark Keane and Ruth Byrne; its external examiner was Dr Tim Miller, Queensland, Australia. Greta’s PhD was formally conferred at a ceremony … Continue reading →

Members of the lab gave several talks at the International Thinking Conference in Milan in June 2024. Xinyue Dai gave a talk at the conference titled  “A controllability bias in causal explanation” co-authored with Mark Keane, Laurence Shalloo, Elodie Ruelle … Continue reading →

Ruth Byrne gave a keynote talk at the Causal Cognition in Humans and Machines meeting in Oxford, UK in January 2024.

Ruth Byrne gave a keynote talk at the 20th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems in Lisbon, Portugal in July 2024.

Xinyue Dai presented a poster about her PhD experiments on whether AI recommendations affect risky choices at the annual conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology in Portugal in September 2023, see https://escop2023.org/

Ruth Byrne gave an invited talk at the workshop on “Counterfactuals in Minds and Machines” at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Hawaii, July 23rd – 29th 2023, details here. Her talk was on “How people reason with counterfactual … Continue reading →

Eoin Delaney gave a talk and poster with Mark Keane at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Hawaii, July 23rd – 29th 2023, details here The title of their work was “Counterfactual explanations for misclassified images”.

Ruth Byrne was a keynote speaker at the 31st International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR’23, in Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, July 17th – 20th 2023, details here. Her talk was on “How people reason with counterfactual explanations for … Continue reading →

Ruth Byrne and Mark Keane both gave talks at the meeting in honour of Phil Johnson-Laird on the 40th anniversary of the publication of his 1983 Mental Models book, at UCL in London, 19th-20th July 2023. details here. Mark’s talk, … Continue reading →

Lenart Celar’s thesis experiments have been published in Memory & Cognition this year: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-023-01407-5