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  • 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 […]

  • Innovasjonsuken OPP – 2025

    Bergen

    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. […]

  • 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 […]

  • Human-AI Interaction for video Content: Designing and Engineering Multimodal Conversational Agents

    Jusbygget, Auditorium 3

    Our PhD Candidate Peter Andrews will defend his thesis on September 29th at the University of Bergen. Trial lecture starts at 09:15 and the defense at 10.30. We want to encourage you to attend his trial lecture and defense, and learn more about HCI. Title: Human-AI Interaction for video Content: Designing and Engineering Multimodal Conversational […]

  • Research Ethics Day at the UiB 2025

    Storsalen, Nygårdsgaten 5, University of Bergen, 5015 Bergen

    It is fundamental for a knowledge-based society that the research underpinning policy is trustworthy. It is thus crucial that research is conducted to the highest ethical standards. To increase awareness of the importance of research ethics at the University of Bergen, we have established an annual research ethics day. This year’s conference has the main […]

  • Disinformation and Trust in Science in the U.S. and Beyond

    Årstadveien 17

    2025 has been a year of unprecedented cuts to global development aid, significant political tensions, and increased attacks on science and academia. What are the implications of these developments for health globally, health research, and trust in science in general? The Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS) has invited Professor Ezekiel […]

  • The 28th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing

    Bergen

    CSCW is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. Bringing together top researchers and practitioners, CSCW explores the technical, social, material, and theoretical challenges of designing technology to support collaborative work and life activities. The 28th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work […]

  • Talks by Google Deepmind researcher

    UiB Bergen , Norway

    SFI MediaFutures hosts two talks with Google Deepmind researcher Nitesh Goyal, invited and introduced by work package 4 co-leader professor Morten Fjeld. Tesh (Nitesh) Goyal leads research at the intersection of AI and Safety at Google Deepmind. His work at Google has led to the launch of ML based tools like SynthID to enable AI […]

  • Recommender Systems and Nudges for Healthier Food Choice

    Auditorium 2 Jussbygget

    We are pleased to invite you to the trial lecture and public defence of Ayoub el Majjodi, PhD candidate at SFI MediaFutures. Date: 23 OctoberVenue: Auditorium 2 Jussbygget, UiB Time: 9:15 PhD Thesis:Recommender Systems and Nudges for Healthier Food Choices Thesis Summary: Recommender systems are widely used to address the challenge of information overload by presenting users with […]

  • Beyond Accuracy: Exploring Fairness and Generative AI in (News) Recommender Systems

    SFI MediaFutures, MCB

    We want to invite to a lunch seminar with Thomas E. Kolb, PhD candidate from TU Wien (Austria) and member of the CDL-RecSys. Thomas is visiting MediaFutures for two months (until November 14) as part of an Erasmus traineeship. His research focuses on news recommender systems, particularly on fairness and bias over time. Friday, 24th […]