The BOX 2.0 / Fiona Smith (GB), photo: Fiona Smith

The BOX 2.0

Fiona Smith (GB)

The potential benefits of utilising AI technology in healthcare are vast but there are important practical, technological, ethical, and legal implications that need to be addressed in order to safeguard patients. The BOX 2.0 exhibition invites the audience to experience the patient journey through an alternative hand surgery clinic where The BOX 2.0 makes the treatment plans.

“The BOX 2.0 Will See You Now”: An Interactive Artwork Exploring the Use of AI in Medical Diagnostics

The BOX 2.0 is a two-meter black glossy cube whose surface is pierced by the impressions of the hands that were used to train its AI model. Putting a spotlight on the data that is used to build AI models, this installation takes visitors on an interactive journey through an alternative hand surgery clinic.

Acting as patients, their hands will be scanned, and then through a dynamic display, The BOX 2.0 will communicate to them what it has decided their treatment is going to be. Visitors are encouraged to touch “The BOX 2.0*’s walls and examine the diversity of hand types it contains and see if their hand “fits”.

Bio

  • Photo: Fiona Smith

    Fiona Niamh Coulter Smith

    GB

    Artist, medical doctor and AI researcher, Fiona Smith employs innovative multimedia formats, such as body painting and interactive installations, to engage the public in discussions about complex medical and ethical issues. After foundation training and plastic surgery-themed core surgical training, Fiona joined the University of Edinburgh as a PhD student in the Centre for Doctoral Training for Biomedical AI. She is investigating AI applications for plastic surgery and tutors in “Case Studies in AI Ethics”.

Credits

The project was made possible with the generous help of Bianka Hofmann, Miriam Walsh, Mark Kobine, Peter Bentley, Malcolm Cruickshank, Paul Charlton, Hans Meine, Matthias Günther, Rieke Alpers, Anna Rörich, Valentin Kraft, Susanne Diekmann, Roxanne Wong and Nicola Osborne.

The BOX 2.0 is based on The BOX, the outcome of the Creator Residency ‘STEAM Imaging V – Holding the ‘Digital’ in Medicine to Account,’ hosted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS (DE), in collaboration with the Institute for Design Informatics (UK), the International Fraunhofer Talent School Bremen and the School Center Walle (DE), supported by Ars Electronica (AT).