ChatGPT is currently at the forefront of much debate about the impact of AI in education. We are therefore running a workshop next Wednesday 8 Feb at 3 – 4.30pm in Logie 613 to test ChatGPT’s capabilities and discuss its implications for teaching and assessment. The first part of the… Read More »Workshop: ChatGPT, teaching and assessment
This summer has been a busy one in the Arts Digital Lab, with eight students working in the Lab as Research Assistants, as Summer Scholars or on their own research. In this rapid-fire series of five-minute talks, students will reflect on the projects they’ve been working on. Coming from a… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Student Reflections, Summer 2023
Professor Paul Millar is the winner of the Royal Society of New Zealand’s 2022 Pou Aronui Award, for distinguished service to humanities-aronui over a sustained period of time. We’re thrilled to acknowledge Paul’s achievement and very pleased to see the work he has done at UC, particularly with the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes… Read More »Paul Millar – Royal Society Pou Aronui Award 2022
Join us on Wednesday 5th October at 11am in Logie 401 to explore new technologies for generating images from short text prompts. We’ll learn a little bit about how they work, and then Geoff and Katya will briefly talk about how this technology relates to their areas of research. We’re… Read More »Digital Humanities Research Network: Text-to-image generation
Recorded sessions from the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Conference, DHA2021 Ka Renarena Te Taukaea | Creating Communities, are now available to view on YouTube: See the full playlist here.
DHA2021: Ka Renarena Te Taukaea | Creating Communities, the biennial conference of the Australasian Association of Digital Humanities (aaDH), begins on Monday 22nd, hosted by the University of Canterbury. Professor Paul Millar, President of aaDH, says that the conference theme is a response to the extreme events our region has been experiencing—including… Read More »Distinguished All-Women Panel on Indigenous Data Sovereignty to open Australasian Digital Humanities Conference
Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Conference Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of CanterburyAotearoa New Zealand22-25 November, 2021 The fifth biennial DHA conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) will be held in November 2021 and will be virtual / on-line only. This will be the first… Read More »DHA2021 Ka Renarena Te Taukaea | Creating Communities
Seminar cancelled Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, this seminar has had to be cancelled. The pluses and minuses of corpus analysis for studying interviews Donald Matheson, Media and Communication/Arts Digital Lab Corpus analysis is a useful digital humanities tool for studying discourse, particularly when used in combination with… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: The pluses and minuses of corpus analysis for studying interviews
Research Assistant Reflections Semester One, 2021 A total of 17 Research Assistants have worked in the Arts Digital Lab this semester on a variety of projects. In this rapid-fire series of three-minute talks, our current Research Assistants will each reflect on the projects they’ve been working on. Coming from a… Read More »Arts Digital Lab Seminar: Research Assistant Reflections, Semester One, 2021
When it comes to dancing, pulling a sled, climbing stairs or doing tricks, “Spot” is definitely a good dog. It can navigate the built environment and perform a range of tasks, clearly demonstrating its flexibility as a software and hardware platform for commercial use. Viral videos of Boston Dynamics’ robotic… Read More »Is ‘Spot’ a good dog? Why we’re right to worry about unleashing robot quadrupeds
