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  • Japan-Norway Encounters  日本とノルウェーの出会い x Bergen HCI summer seminar

    Morning: Auditorium Egget, Studentsenteret Finding your way, afternoon: Nordre Allmenning 3, Nygårdsgaten 5

    On the 4th of June, MediaFutures professor Morten Fjeld as part of the HCI research group presents the HCI summer seminar with a special program for the attendees and three test-defenses of PhDs in HCI. Amongst them will be MediaFutures PhD candidate Peter Andrews (see program below). We are proud to announce that we also […]

  • Boosting User Trust to Increase the Uptake of Recommendations

    SFI MediaFutures, MCB

    We’re excited to welcome Professor Shlomo Berkovsky to MediaFutures for a special guest talk on June 6! Professor Berkovsky leads the Clinical AI and Sensing Technologies research stream at the Centre for Health Informatics, Macquarie University. His work explores the intersection of AI, health, and media technologies, including research on food recommender systems and user […]

  • fAIrgov-sluttkonferanse

    Lillesalen, Kulturhuset i Bergen Vaskerelven 8, 5014 Bergen

    Artificial intelligence is often described as the electricity of our time, and its development is accelerating. But what does this mean for the public sector, and what is needed to maintain public trust? Public Fairness Perceptions of Algorithmic Governance (fAIrgov) is a research project at NORCE that, since 2018, has been exploring Norwegian attitudes toward […]

  • AI, rights and development of Norwegian language models

    Union Scene, Drammen

    Artificial intelligence (AI) and language technology have developed rapidly in recent years. The language models used in AI services are trained on vast amounts of text, often without permission from or compensation to the rights holders. In Norway, there is broad political agreement that we need Norwegian language models. Public and private AI services should […]

  • Pint of Science x MediaFutures

    Staatsraaden bar, Bergen Bradbenken 2, Bergen, Norway

    Had Enough of Office Talk and Formal Seminars? Yeah, us too. That’s why we’re shaking things up and teaming up with Pint of Science to bring research out of the lecture halls and into your local bar! Join us for our very first Pint of Science night, right in the cosy atmosphere of Staatsraaden bar […]

  • Arendalsuka: “AI in the media: Empowering editors and safeguarding democracy”

    Arendalsuka Arendal, Norway

    MediaFutures Centre Leader Christoph Trattner, Innovation Coordinator Christopher Senf and MediaFutures Industry Partners will talk about AI in the Media: Empowering Editors and Safeguarding Democracy. Program Session 1: Introducing SFI MediaFutures (10 min.):  15:00—15:02:   “A Research Centre for Responsible MediaTechnology and Innovation”  Anne Nielsen (Head of Administration @ SFI MediaFutures)   15:02—15:10:   “MediaFutures in Action: Combating Visual Misinformation with […]

  • Book Launch: Schibsted – The Digital Transformation of a Nordic Media Giant

    Medielab, tower 3, 9. floor, Media City Bergen.

    How do you steer one of the Nordics’ largest media companies through the digital revolution while aiming to grow stronger on the other side? We invite you to a conversation with Ole J. Mjøs, author and Professor of Media Studies at the University of Bergen, who has closely studied Schibsted’s strategic choices, digital transformation, and […]

  • Towards Responsible AI for Local Journalism

    SFI MediaFutures, MCB

    We hereby invite you to a talk by Dr. Reshmi Pillai, Vrije University, Amsterdam, on responsible AI for local journalism where she presents an ongoing research project. The studies include a graph-based retrieval augmented generation for news background information, text simplification of news reports, usage of LLM personas for news feedback for journalists.  About Reshmi […]

  • CANCELLED: MediaFutures Lunch seminar with Assistant Professor Jeremy Barnes

    SFI MediaFutures, MCB

    Dear all, The upcoming seminar with Jeremy Barnes is cancelled. Unfortunately, our invited guest has fallen ill and is unable to travel to Bergen to join us. We were very much looking forward to the discussions and insights he was planning to share, and we hope to reschedule his visit at a later date. Thank you all […]

  • UiB AI #16 Trustworthy AI

    Storsalen, Nygårdsgaten 5 (første etasje)

    Over the past decade, artificial intelligence has achieved major technological breakthroughs and has become part of research, education and working life. However, for AI to gain widespread acceptance in society, it is crucial that the systems that use artificial intelligence are reliable. Today's AI systems lack scientific definitions and clear criteria for values such as […]

  • Book launch: Teen Boys and their Smartphones as Worldmaking Devices

    SFI MediaFutures, MCB

    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 […]

  • The future of mobile human-machine interaction

    Realfagbygget, Auditorium 2 (basement), Allegaten 41

    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. Although smart devices like laptops, tablets, and smartphones are mobile, users are usually either stationary or risk their physical safety by using such devices […]