HEARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
TripleDotMakers with Evelina Children’s Heart Organisation (ECHO) Teens & Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering researchers (2023)
Can AI “see” a patient as a person rather than data?
Heartificial Intelligence investigates the role that technology and community play in the healthcare journey of patients. This interactive installation emerged from a collaboration between TripleDotMakers, Evelina Children's Heart Organisation Teens (ECHO) - a group of nine young people who have congenital heart conditions and their siblings - and researchers whose work explores themes of trust, bias and data in AI. Through a series of online and in person workshops, the group discussed the possibilities and limitations of AI research while capturing the process through film and photography.
In the resulting installation, visitors' body’s rhythms become data inputs for a generative AI. Visitors can place their fingers on a sensor and watch as a series of hearts drawn by the ECHO Teens pulse in sync with their own heartbeat. An accompanying audio piece captures the groups recorded discussions, as they explore whether AI will replace the human relationship with doctors and nurses, or whether AI is simply a tool to support professionals.
Take a look behind the scenes of Heartificial Intelligence ⟶
CREDITS
Commissioned by: Science Gallery London
Supported by: Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering, King’s College London and Evelina Children's Heart Organisation (ECHO)
TripleDotMakers: Annie Woodson, Jim Dawson, Izzy Pye
ECHO Teens: Ethan Alston, Mary Anis, Courtney Devine-Content, Brianna Kilgannon, Elizabeth Kirsop, Elise McCarvill, Jash Patel, Karan Singh Panesar, Alfie Warner
Researchers: Cristobal Rodero, Tareen Dawood, Tiarna Lee, School of Biomedical and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London
Coordinators: Alice Taylor-Gee, Bella Spencer, Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering, King’s College London
TRIPLEDOTMAKERS are a moving image and sound studio working across the music industry, museums, galleries, theatres and other cultural and commercial organisations. Their work often uses participatory practice, engaging local communities in the creation, curation and installation of the work. They make interactive art works, documentary film, animations and projection mapped installations, continually mixing up our skills to find new ways of engaging audiences with the places and people they work with. Past work includes documentaries, animations and installations for English National Ballet; Imperial War Museum; National Trust; Adidas; Manchester International Festival; BBC; National Theatre Wales; National Football Museum; Royal Exchange Theatre; HOME theatre and the Whitworth Art Gallery. Website
ECHO TEENS is a group of young people (12-25) who have a congenital heart condition and their siblings. Find out more about Evelina Children's Heart Organisation and the support they provide.
TAREEN DAWOOD is a PhD student exploring how to improve Trust in AI decision making for cardiology. Here, Trust is defined by the level of confidence in a decision.
TIARNA LEE is a PhD student investigating sex and race biases in algorithms that are used to segment cardiac MRI images.
DR CRISTOBAL RODERO is a research associate working to create simulations of the heart, from clinical data, to create a ‘digital twin’ of patients' organs. The digital twin acts as a mathematical framework that can be used to model the impact of specific clinical interventions, without putting the patient at risk.