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SUMMARY:Book launch: Teen Boys and their Smartphones as Worldmaking Devices
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the launch of Dr. John Magnus R. Dahl’s book : Teen Boys and their Smartphones as Worldmaking Devices. 5th of September we invite to an event in which our previous Postdoctoral researcher Dahl presents how he spent two years on ethnographic fieldwork\, following six teenage boys on- and offline to find out how they use their smartphones to create a world for themselves and their peers. \nHe asked himself: What is it like to be a young man in the age of the smartphone? \nHe concludes\, among other things\, that the smartphone is a crucial tool for creating the kinds of social relationships the boys consider important\, and thus a way to increase freedom and agency in their own lives. Furthermore\, he shows that this is especially significant for minority boys: queer boys and boys with immigrant backgrounds use their phones differently than straight\, white boys. \nJohn Magnus R. Dahl \nThe launch will take the form of a book conversation between Dahl and Professor Kristine Jørgensen\, project leader of Understanding Masculinity in Gaming\, followed by an opportunity for questions. The conversation will be held in English. and light refreshments will be served. \nThe book is published by Palgrave Macmillan and is based on the research Dahl conducted as a postdoctoral fellow at MediaFutures (UiB) from 2021 to 2024. He is now employed as Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen. \nThe e-book is available here\, and a longer article about the book’s findings can be read here (in Norwegian).
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/book-launch-teen-boys-and-their-smartphones-as-worldmaking-devices/
LOCATION:SFI MediaFutures\, MCB
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SUMMARY:Innovasjonsuken OPP - 2025
DESCRIPTION:This is Vestlands innovation festival and platform for networking and sharing knowledge. OPP celebrates each year entrepreneurship together with several local partners to highlight their work on innovation. In short\, OPP is gathering events from local innovative companies during these two weeks to focus on how innovation can look like in the region of Vestlandet. \nWe want to feature some of these events which are relevant for MediaFutures followers and supports: \nDemo Day Vestlandet\nWednesday 17.09 kl. 12:00 – 18:00 \nThormøhlensgate 51 \nDemo Day Vestlandet annually connects good ideas with capital. Here\, selected startup companies from Vestlandet get the opportunity to pitch their ideas in front of a packed audience of investors. A whole day is filled with presentations and exciting meetings. Demo Day Vestlandet is a unique meeting place for you who are an early-stage investor. Every year\, 150 investors and funds gather for a party day in Bergen in connection with the OPP Innovation Week. We invite the most exciting\, and investor-ready\, companies in the west (Rogaland\, Vestland and Møre og Romsdal) to a day filled with exciting meetings\, presentations and entertainment. Here you get insight into what is happening in the early-stage investor environment and which ideas and companies are worth investing in. You also get the opportunity to meet other investors to expand your network and connections. \nUiB Innovation Day: 200 years of research and innovation\nFriday 19.09 kl. 09:00 – 15:00 \nLæringsarena\, UiB\, Nygårdsgaten 5 \nOn September 19\, the University of Bergen is pleased to invite you to UiB Innovation Day\, a meeting place for researchers\, students and partners from the business and public sectors in the region. The day will focus on research and innovation at all UiB faculties\, where we will showcase some of the most exciting projects being developed at UiB with the goal of strengthening collaboration between research and the society around us. The Innovation Day will also mark 200 years of research and innovation in Bergen\, including an anniversary exhibition on the occasion of the University Museum of Bergen’s 200th anniversary. \nPopOPP\nFriday 19.09 kl. 16:30 – Saturday 20.09 kl. 00:00 \nMarineholmen \nOn Friday\, September 19\, students and young adults with drive and ideas will gather for a festival experience a little out of the ordinary. It’s about progress. About creating. About connecting to something bigger. What can you expect? Scenes. Flavors. Atmospheres. People you haven’t met before. Questions you haven’t asked yet. And hopefully a lot of answers.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/innovasjonsuken-opp-2025/
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SUMMARY:The future of mobile human-machine interaction
DESCRIPTION:The use of portable devices is now ubiquitous in our society. Our daily lives are shaped by ever-evolving interactive devices and applications from touch-based smartwatches and tablets to large digital screens. \nAlthough smart devices like laptops\, tablets\, and smartphones are mobile\, users are usually either stationary or risk their physical safety by using such devices while moving. The health consequences of today’s mobile devices are well documented. These include\, among other things\, how a predominantly sedentary lifestyle affects health and well-being. \nThis lecture will present innovative thinking\, design\, and engineering in the field of mobile human-computer interaction (HCI). At the end\, there will be time for questions from the audience. \n\nDate: Tuesday\, September 16\, 2025\nLocation: Realfagbygget\, Auditorium 2 (basement)\, Allegaten 41\nTime: The lecture starts at 16:30 Light refreshments will be served outside the auditorium from 16:00\n\nThe meeting is open to everyone and will be in Norwegian. \nAbout the Speaker  \nMorten Fjeld is a professor in human-computer interaction (HCI) at the University of Bergen and Chalmers University of Technology. He researches interactive systems with a focus on tangible and mobile interaction. Fjeld holds a double master’s degree in applied mathematics from NTNU and ENSIMAG Grenoble\, as well as a PhD from ETH Zurich\, where he also received the ETH medal in 2002. He has been a visiting professor in Singapore\, Japan\, and Switzerland\, and has extensive industry experience in fluid mechanics\, simulators\, and user interfaces.
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/the-future-of-mobile-human-machine-interaction/
LOCATION:Realfagbygget\, Auditorium 2 (basement)\, Allegaten 41
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SUMMARY:Human-AI Interaction for video Content: Designing and Engineering Multimodal Conversational Agents
DESCRIPTION:Our PhD Candidate Peter Andrews will defend his thesis on September 29th at the University of Bergen. \nTrial lecture starts at 09:15 and the defense at 10.30. \nWe want to encourage you to attend his trial lecture and defense\, and learn more about HCI. \nTitle: \nHuman-AI Interaction for video Content: Designing and Engineering Multimodal Conversational Agents \nAbstract: \n\nAs young adults increasingly shift away from conventional news sources\, interactive and AI-driven media present a new frontier for their engagement in news consumption. Young adults often prefer more interactive video content on streaming platforms\, challenging the traditional model of passive video consumption.  Second screening\, interacting with a second device while watching a primary display\, has emerged to satisfy the need for interaction and support with additional content and context. However\, second screening can hinder comprehension\, revealing the need to synchronize the experience. \n\n\nThis thesis unifies the second screening experience with Computer Vision (CV) and Deep Learning (DL)\, thereby building an interactive video framework following the \textit{From Video to Data} $\to$ \textit{From Data to Narrative} $\to$ \textit{From Narrative to Interaction} paradigm. The result is a Multimodal Conversational Agent (MCA) that can hyper-contextualize video content. This video framework encompasses three research questions: 1)  How can recent advances in computer vision and artificial intelligence facilitate interaction with video content? 2) How can interactive video increase subjective understanding of the content? 3) How do young adults perceive the user experience of interactive video for news broadcasts? Answering these questions gives a better grasp of what is needed to build an end-to-end interactive video framework with AI. At the same time\, empirical research can show how the capabilities of the framework can improve user experience and comprehension. \n\n\nTo address these questions\, I develop prototypes for interactive video in sports (football) and politics. I approached the video framework in a modular manner with four in-house design prototypes – FootyVision\, the Automated Commentary System (ACS)\, AiCommentator\, and AiModerator. Collectively\, these four prototypes demonstrate how CV- and NLP-based event detection and LLM-powered MCAs can synchronize and facilitate real-time interaction with video content. I tested prototypes in lab-based mixed method studies and found that interactive video with MCA can enhance engagement\, immersion\, and subjective understanding. However\, a Human-AI Interaction (HAI) trade-off between automation and user control occurs. While a high degree of automation can tightly synchronize the experience\, it comes at the cost of user control. The affordances of MCA include multimodal feedback and remediation. Multimodal feedback supports subjective understanding\, which aligns with the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML). Remediation involves repurposing traditional roles in innovative ways. MCAs achieve this by transforming sports commentators and political moderators into remediated personas\, thus leading to increased engagement. Moreover\, MCAs can also push the user into a more objective viewing state\, highlighting a trade-off between objectivity and emotional involvement. Finally\, trust is paramount for high-stakes environments where transparency is crucial. \n\n\nOverall\, my research challenges traditional linear media by integrating CV\, DL\, and NLP into an interactive framework that facilitates on-demand information augmented by the information space. However\, future systems must address key concerns regarding the aforementioned trade-offs and the management of cognitive load. I recommend variable autonomy and transparency to give the user control over the experience\, reinforcing both trust and understanding through Human-Centered AI (HCAI). By synthesizing these findings in human-AI interaction (HAI) and multimedia learning frameworks\, my work provides valuable insights for researchers\, developers\, and broadcasters looking to engage the next generation of news consumers through interactive video. \n\nOpponents:\n\nDr. (Research Director\, DR2) Petra Isenberg \, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique\, Université Paris-Saclay\nProf Huamin Qu\, Department of Computer Science and Engineering\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\n\nHead of committee\nProf Miroslav Bachinski \nModerator of the defense\nProf Bjørnar Tessem
URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/phd-defense/
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