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Prof Andrew Howes

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Prof Andrew Howes

Professor of Human-Centred Computing

Location: Innovation Centre Phase 1 B1b

My research focus is on human-AI collaboration and in how the next generation of artificial intelligence technologies can be engineered so as to work with people. I want to understand how building machines to support collaborative human decision making can contribute to progress on real-world human decision making problems.

My work has previously contributed to the idea that human behaviour can  be predicted with computer models that assume people will behave optimally given limits on the mind's processing capacitites. In contrast, the commonly held view that people are 'irrational' has now been shown to be false in many decision settings. Instead people appear to do the best that they can with the knowledge and processing capacities that are available. It follows that adopting a view of humans as bounded optimal provides a firm scientific basis for artificial intelligence systems that  infer human preferences from behaviour.