I have presented at major international and national conferences as well as public engagement events on wiki user experience, behaviour change and alignment in human-computer dialogue. A list of presentations are below

Public Engagement

• Edinburgh Skeptics- Skeptics in the Pub. Talking to Siri (2013).
• University of Birmingham Ideas Lab "what it means to be...." podcast series with Dr Yan Wong. What it means to be sustainable (2013).
• University of Birmingham Predictor Podcast. Human-Computer Interaction (2013).
• Cafe Scientifique. Persuasive Technology (2012), Birmingham. YouTube Summary and British Science Association Blogpost on the event.
• YouTube video describing my lexical alignment research (2012).
• Computer Anxiety: Anyone for Red Herring?. Edinburgh University Science Society Public Seminars (2010), Edinburgh.

Invited Talks

• Lexical alignment in human-computer dialogue: audience design or priming?. Invited talk at Trinity College Dublin, School of Computer Science Speech Communication Lab Seminar (2015).
• Lexical alignment in human-computer dialogue: audience design or priming? . Invited talk at UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC), (2015).
• Investigating the effects of interlocutor design on lexical alignment in human-computer dialogue . Invited talk at University of Edinburgh Department of Psychology's Psycholinguistics Seminar (2014).
• Lexical alignment in human-computer dialogue: Mediated or unmediated? . Invited talk at Queen Mary, University of London Cognitive Science Group (2014).
• How human-human dialogue research can lead us to understand speech behaviours in human-computer dialogue: The case of lexical alignment. Invited talk at University of St Andrews, SACHI Group (2014).
• Is alignment in human-computer dialogue as mediated as we think? Evidence from syntactic and lexical alignment. . Invited talk at University of Birmingham Language & Cognition Seminar (2014).
• Is audience design as influential in human-computer dialogue as we think? The curious case of syntactic and lexical alignment. Invited talk at University of Sussex Chat Lab (2013).
• Designing to change behaviour: Where we are and where we need to be. Invited talk at ADMIER Project Energy Event (2012).
• Technological behaviour change and energy consumption reduction. Invited talk at ADMIER Project Challenge Day (2012).
• Taking on the Teenagers- Behaviour Change Technologies for teenage energy consumption reduction. Invited Talk at Birmingham University HCI Research day (2011).
• How wiki site characteristics impact editing anxiety and usability. Invited talk at Edinburgh University E-Learning Event (2011).
• Causal effects of wikisite design on anxiety and usability. Invited talk at School of Computer Science, University of Dundee (2010).

Conference & Seminar Talks

• Syntactic alignment is unmediated by beliefs about conversational partners: Evidence from human-computer dialogue. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference (2013), Harrogate.
• the impact of voice anthropomorphism on syntactic alignment in human-computer dialogue. Paper Presented at BCS HCI 2012, Birmingham.
• Does interlocutor voice impact syntactic alignment in human computer dialogue?. Paper Presented at British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Annual Conference (2012), Glasgow.
• Causal effects of wiki site characteristics on editing anxiety and usability. Paper presented at ELearning 2.0, Brunel University (2011).
• Now you see it, now you don't- the effect of wiki flexibility on anxiety during wiki editing. Paper presented at the 4th Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference (IHCI 2010), Dublin.
• The effect of editing identity on anxiety during wiki editing. Paper to be presented at the Cyberpsychology and Computing Psychology Conference (CyComP), Bolton.
• Exploring the effects of experience on wiki anxiety and usability- an online study. Paper presented at the 23rd BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction (HCI 2009), Cambridge.
• Exploring the relationship between anxiety and usability evaluation- An online study of Internet and wiki anxiety. Paper presented at IADIS International Conference; Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2008 (IADIS;IHCI 2008). Amsterdam, The Netherlands.