For the Mapping LAWS project I developed an online interactive interface to explore themes related to robots in popular culture. A robotic voice reads 1800 references to robots extracted from a data-set of over 82,000 Wikipedia movie plots and visualises associated themes. I presented on this work at the Visualizing Future War Roundtable at ISA2023 in Montreal, and demonstrated Robot Dreams 2, which used generative AI to explore the apolitics of killer robots.
Skills & Tools: Python script to retrieve and process movie plots using Wikipedia’s API; Python code to generate circle packing visualisation using Plotly; Automating generation of audio files using text-to-speech engine; Detecting themes using the Empath library; HTML/CSS/Javascript to create interactive web-based interface.