Publications

• Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, A. (2012), “I don't know where he's not”: Does Deception Research yet offer a basis for Deception Detectives?". EACL 2012 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Deception Detection. Accepted
• Gillam, L. and Vartapetiance, A. (2011), “Cyber Law, Cyber Ethics and Online Gambling”. In Investigating Cyber Law and Cyber Ethics: Issues, Impacts and Practices, IGI Global.
• Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2011), “Web Deception Detanglement”. Proceedings of the Twelfth ETHICOMP International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communication Technology. 16- 18 September, Sheffield.
• Vartapetiance, A. (2010), “Virtual Worlds for Real Learning”, Presented in Educating for Real World Symposium. The Surrey Centre for Excellence in Professional Training and Education (SCEPTrE), University of Surrey.
• Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2010), “DNA Dataveillance: Protecting the innocent?”, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 8(3).
• Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2009), “Machine Ethics for Gambling in Metaverse: an EthiCasino”, Journal of Virtual Worlds Reseach, 2(3). ISSN: 1941-8477.
• Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2009), “Machine Ethics for Metaverse Gambling: No stake in a $24m market?”, VS-Games'09: The first IEEE International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications.
• Vartapetiance, A. and Gillam, L. (2008), “Machine Ethics and Online Gambling: building the ‘EthiCasino’”, presented at National Learning in Immersive Worlds Workshop, Coventry University.
• Editorial reviewer for “Emerging Ethical Issues of Life in Virtual Worlds”, Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC.
• Gillam, L. and Vartapetiance, A. (2008), “A Database for Fighting Crimes that haven't been Committed yet”. Proceedings of the Tenth ETHICOMP International Conference on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Information and Communication Technology.

Teaching

October 2010 – January 2012
    Department of Computing, University to Surrey
    Title: Teaching Assistant for Master Module in Ethics, Law and Professionalism

October 2008 – January 2009
    Department of Computing, University to Surrey
    Title: Teaching Assistant for Master Module in Ethics, Law and Professionalism

Conducted Workshops for University of Surrey: 
Series of workshop related to use of Second Life for training anaesthetics in University of Surrey

• 20 July 2011: Simulation of Operating Theatre for Anaesthetics in Second Life
• 13 May 2011: Living Second Life as a Professional
• 12 April 2011: Learning a bit more: how to use animations, huds, badges in Second Life
• 29 March 2011: Introduction to Second life for medical use

Series of workshops related to use of Second Life for University of Surrey student and staff

• 29 May 2008, "Hands on Second Life", for Department of Computing students
• 12 June 2008, "3D Virtual Worlds as Learning Environments", for University of Surrey stuff and lecturers, as member of "e-Learning Practitioners Network"
• 11 July 2008, "Second Life Community of Interest", for University of Surrey stuff and lecturers, as member of SCEPTrE
• 4 November and 2 December 2008 - "Using Second Life to data collection", as part of "Teaching with New Technologies" scheme, managed by Tereza Capelos
• 27 January 2009, "Living and Earning in Second Life" for Students of University of Surrey, as member of "Colab Cafe, student enterprise"

Departmental Duties

• PhD Representative for Department of Computing (July 2010 - Present)

Current Duties

• Panel Coordinator of 10^th International Human Choice and Computers Conference (HCC10) organized by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 9 on the Relationship between ICT and society which will be held in Amsterdam, Netherland at 27-28 September 2012.
• Organising Committee of 9^th Annual Computing Department PhD Conference (CompConf2012) held in Wates House, University of Surrey, UK at 21 March 2012  

Affiliations

• Member of British Computer Society (MBCS)

• Member of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL)

• Member of International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) Special Interest Group 9.2.2 Framework on Ethics of Computing (SIG 9.2.2)