Jamy Li
jamy li

Dr Jamy Li

Associate Professor

  J.Li3@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Dr Jamy Li is an Associate Professor in the Applied Informatics group at Edinburgh Napier University’s School of Computing, Engineering & The Built Environment. His main research area is the design and evaluation of socially interactive robots and related AI systems such as drones, voice assistants and automated vehicles. He received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford in Communication Research in 2016. After that, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente from 2016 to 2020 and as an Assistant Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University from 2020 to 2024. Jamy has been involved in two European Commission Horizon 2020 research projects on robots for autistic children and for hospitals and was awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant for a project to develop robots for loneliness mitigation. His current research interest is creating interaction design prototypes for robots and AI systems that help special populations, particularly older adults and individuals with cognitive impairment.

Jamy is on the Program Committee of several related conferences, such as Program Co-Chair for IEEE ICHMS 2024 and Associate Editor of ICRA 2024 and 2025. He has published in Computers in Human Behavior, IJHCS, IJSR and several human-technology interaction conferences. He was also employed as a User Experience Designer for various companies, including DIRECTV (now AT&T), from 2008-2012.

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Media Format Matters: User Engagement with Audio, Text and Video Tweets

Journal Article
Li, J., & Ensafjoo, M. (online)
Media Format Matters: User Engagement with Audio, Text and Video Tweets. Journal of Radio & Audio Media, https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2024.2303482
A dataset of shortform audio-only tweets with video and text controls is used to analyze whether a tweet’s media format and topic influence user engagement with the tweet. Aud...

It’s Not UAV, It’s Me: Demographic and Self-Other Effects in Public Acceptance of a Socially Assistive Aerial Manipulation System for Fatigue Management

Journal Article
Li, J., & Ensafjoo, M. (2024)
It’s Not UAV, It’s Me: Demographic and Self-Other Effects in Public Acceptance of a Socially Assistive Aerial Manipulation System for Fatigue Management. International Journal of Social Robotics, 16, 227-243. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-01072-3
Modern developments in speech-enabled drones and aerial manipulation systems (AMS) enable drones to have social interactions with people, which is important for therapeutic ap...

Weakness exploitation: Predicting socially communicative devices as a successor to internet-based graphical user interfaces

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Li, J., & Chignell, M. (2023)
Weakness exploitation: Predicting socially communicative devices as a successor to internet-based graphical user interfaces. Explorations in Media Ecology, 22(1), 49–74. https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00150_1
Existing theories of technology transitions cannot predict what new technological paradigm will supplant the currently leading, internet-enabled graphical user interface parad...

The Evolution of HCI and Human Factors: Integrating Human and Artificial Intelligence

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Chignell, M., Wang, L., Zare, A., & Li, J. (2023)
The Evolution of HCI and Human Factors: Integrating Human and Artificial Intelligence. ACM transactions on computer-human interaction, 30(2), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3557891
We review HCI history from both the perspective of its 1980s split with human factors and its nature as a discipline. We then revisit human augmentation as an alternative to u...

Fleets on the streets: How number, affiliation and purpose of shared-lane automated vehicle convoys influence public perception and blame

Journal Article
Gilbert, T. K., Qu, N. Z., Ju, W., & Li, J. (2023)
Fleets on the streets: How number, affiliation and purpose of shared-lane automated vehicle convoys influence public perception and blame. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 93, 294-308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2023.01.013
Automated vehicles (AVs) may have broad uses in society, but some applications may be more acceptable than others. Determining contexts in which AVs can acceptably operate is ...

Design of a Social Media Voice Assistant for Older Adults

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., Qu, N. Z., & Penaranda Valdivia, K. (2022, December)
Design of a Social Media Voice Assistant for Older Adults. Presented at International Conference on Social Robotics 2022, Florence, Italy
Older adults can increase their social cohesion and belongingness by accessing social media content. Voice is a particularly suitable modality for older adults. While general ...

Does Media Format Matter? Investigating the Toxicity, Sentiment and Topic of Audio Versus Text Social Media Messages

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., & Penaranda Valdivia, K. (2022, December)
Does Media Format Matter? Investigating the Toxicity, Sentiment and Topic of Audio Versus Text Social Media Messages. Presented at 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Christchurch, New Zealand
Audio messaging and voice-based interactions are growing in popularity. Lexical features of a manually-curated dataset of real-world audio tweets, as well as text and video/im...

Dealing with Problematic Asymmetries in Caregiving Relationships: A Role for Social Robots?

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zijie Qu, N., Henderson, K., Li, J., & Chignell, M. (2022, October)
Dealing with Problematic Asymmetries in Caregiving Relationships: A Role for Social Robots?. Presented at HFES 66th International Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA
How can a third party (person or social robot) mitigate the negative aspects of the asymmetrical dyadic relationships associated with caregiving of the elderly? We start by ex...

Public Opinion About the Benefit, Risk, and Acceptance of Aerial Manipulation Systems

Journal Article
Li, J., & Janabi-Sharifi, F. (2022)
Public Opinion About the Benefit, Risk, and Acceptance of Aerial Manipulation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 52(5), 1069-1085. https://doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2022.3164775
Aerial manipulation systems are an emerging subclass of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or “drones”) that use a mobile arm to manipulate their environment. Public opinion is an...

FMEA-AI: AI fairness impact assessment using failure mode and effects analysis

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Li, J., & Chignell, M. (2022)
FMEA-AI: AI fairness impact assessment using failure mode and effects analysis. AI and Ethics, 2(4), 837-850. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00145-9
Recently, there has been a growing demand to address failures in the fairness of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Current techniques for improving fairness in AI systems ...