Events
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Future Week. MediaFutures Workshop: Towards Responsible Media Technology & Innovation
As part of the Media City Bergen Future Week, MediaFutures will hold workshop on June 9. TITLE: Towards Responsible Media Technology & Innovation WHEN: Thursday 9 June, 09:30-12:00WHERE: Media City Bergen REGISTRATION: https://mediacitybergen.no/future-week-22/ In this workshop, you will learn from MediaFutures' young researchers in five work packages how new media technologies for media user engagement, media […]
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MediaFutures WP1 DIGSSCORE-Workshop
WP1 DIGSSCORE-Workshop Open for all MediaFutures Partners. The first part will be in English, and the second part will be in Norwegian/Scandinavian. WHERE: Zoom - https://uib.zoom.us/j/65597060274?pwd=Q0huZm9EY2s4VGJCSWdMdVRwTGRkZz09 Part 1 (10:00 - 11:00) Introduction to DIGSSCORE 10:00-10:05: Welcome 10:05-10:45: Introduction to DIGSSCORE by Erik Knudsen: What is it and what can MediaFutures partners use it for? […]
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MediaFutures Seminar: Augment the Vision: To Help Users Deal with Different Domain Tasks. PhD Candidate, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
Yuchong Zhang, PhD candidate at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, will give a seminar on 15 June, at 12:00. TITLE: Augment the Vision: To Help Users Deal with Different Domain TasksWHEN: Wednesday 15 June, 12:00-13:00WHERE: MediaFutures ABSTRACT: One of the cutting-edge techniques—augmented reality (AR) (a variation of virtual reality (VR)), in which virtual objects […]
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MediaFutures Seminar: Mind the Gaps and Normal Accidents with Dirk Hovy. Associate Professor, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.
Dirk Hovy, Associate Professor of computer science at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, will give a seminar on 16 June, at 14:00. TITLE: Mind the Gaps and Normal AccidentsWHEN: Thursday 16 June, 14:00-15:00WHERE: Zoom - https://uio.zoom.us/j/61874196241?pwd=RHJFZ1FYRzArdHkvbW9salZkd20yUT09 Meeting ID: 618 7419 6241 Password: 577113 ABSTRACT: NLP is now stable enough to be used in production systems, and […]
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FeaturedVisual Computing Forum: The Future of Mobile Interaction with Prof. Morten Fjeld
TITLE: The Future of Mobile Interaction WHEN: Friday 9 September, 10:15-11:15WHERE:510N3 (Blåbær), 5th Floor, Thormøhlens Gate 55, Høyteknologisenteret Zoom: https://uib.zoom.us/j/67048590477?pwd=WUJJckZ4ZW1FY3ZtSjBiZnRqM3gwZz09#success ABSTRACT: The use of computerized devices is now ubiquitous in many societies. Our daily lives are shaped by perpetually changing interactive devices and applications, from touch-based smartwatches and tablets to large digital displays. Yet while smart devices, […]
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FeaturedMORS: Workshop on Multi-Objective Recommender Systems
When: 18. - 23. September 2022 What: The 2nd workshop on Multi-Objective Recommender Systems (MORS) will be held in Seattle, USA in conjunction with the 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. The workshop, with the aim of the gathering researchers and industry experts to discuss the significance and complications of incorporating multiple objectives into the […]
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Innovation Workshop with Sofie Hvitved
We are pleased to invite you to a half-day innovation workshop on 30. September, 2022, at Media City Bergen. The workshop is targeted towards academics and industry personnel involved in various levels at MediaFutures. The workshop has the following goals: - Get an overview of different methods, processes and definitions for innovation - Understanding futuredriven […]
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FeaturedHackathon
When: Date and time:20. October from 13:0021. October from 09:00Location: Media City Bergen What: We are arranging a hackathon in Bergen the 20-21st October. We will have one and a half days (and an evening with pizza & coding), and we'll try to create some new and interesting experiments or demonstrations. If you have any […]
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FeaturedMediaFutures and AI Agora Joint Seminar: Understanding Trust and Conversational Agent with Jonas Ivarsson, Professor at the University of Gothenburg
Jonas Ivarsson, Professor at the University of Gothenburg, will give a seminar on 1 November, at 13:15. TITLE: Understanding Trust and Conversational Agent WHEN: Tuesday 1 November, 13:15-14:00. WHERE: Store læringsrom, læringslab 3. etasje, Media City Bergen ABSTRACT: In recent years, the field of natural language processing has seen substantial developments resulting in robust voice-based interactive […]
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FeaturedMediaFutures and AI Agora Joint Seminar: The Scientific and Computational Study of Creativity with Geraint A. Wiggins, Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Geraint A. Wiggins, Professor of Computational Creativity in the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, will give a seminar on 1 November, at 14:15. TITLE: The Scientific and Computational Study of Creativity WHEN: Tuesday 1 November, 14:15-16:00. WHERE: Store læringsrom, læringslab 3. etasje, Media City Bergen ABSTRACT: Creativity remains one of the most valued […]
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FeaturedMediaFutures Annual Meeting
MediaFutures is a centre for research-based innovation at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen. The centre operates under the Norwegian Research Council’s Research-based Innovation (SFI) scheme, and its main goal is to generate innovation and value creation for the Norwegian news media and media technology industry through long-term research on responsible media […]
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FeaturedMediaFutures Seminar: Heads-up Computing: Towards the next interaction paradigm with Shengdong Zhao, an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore
Shengdong Zhao, Associate Professor at the National University of Signapore, will give a seminar on 8 December. TITLE: Heads-up Computing: Towards the next interaction paradigm WHEN: 8 December, 11:00-12:00 WHERE: MediaFutures & Zoom: https://uib.zoom.us/j/66175341824?pwd=VU91bGJ2clovczNZY3lPTVpjT2JTZz09 Meeting ID: 661 7534 1824Password: N4fMaE7q ABSTRACT: Interaction paradigms (the style of interaction between humans and computers) can significantly change […]