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Frauke Zeller, University of Edinburgh
Frauke Zeller is a Professor and Chair in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and Co-Director of the Institute for Design Informatics. Frauke has extensive experience in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) studies, combining her backgrounds in the humanities, social sciences and HRI. She is also the co-creator of hitchBOT, Canada’s first hitchhiking robot. From her media and communication studies background, Frauke brings methodological expertise in big data analytics, predictive analytics, sentiment analysis, natural language processing and user studies. Frauke has been awarded a range of major research grants, among them a Marie Curie Fellowship (2011-2013), one of the most prestigious grants in Europe, and more recently a SSHRC Insight Development Grant as well as international grants. Frauke is also the director of the FCAD Audience Lab and the CCK, Centre for Communicating Knowledge.
Featured Project
Tracking Digital-born journalism organizations
This project aims to track the development of English-language organizations launched in Canada since 2000. It seeks to ask what journalism capacities are being created, repaired or transformed at a time when Canada’s liberal and largely commercial media system is showing signs of market failure. The database is organized by journalism organization, rather than by the individual outlets owned by one body.