BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MediaFutures - ECPv6.15.13.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://mediafutures.no X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MediaFutures REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Oslo BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20221208T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20221208T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132202 CREATED:20221121T084514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221202T122321Z UID:13643-1670497200-1670500800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Heads-up Computing: Towards the next interaction paradigm with Shengdong Zhao\, an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore DESCRIPTION:Shengdong Zhao\, Associate Professor at the National University of Signapore\, will give a seminar on 8 December. \nTITLE: Heads-up Computing: Towards the next interaction paradigm   \nWHEN: 8 December\, 11:00-12:00 \nWHERE: MediaFutures & Zoom: \nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/66175341824?pwd=VU91bGJ2clovczNZY3lPTVpjT2JTZz09 \nMeeting ID: 661 7534 1824Password: N4fMaE7q \n\nABSTRACT: \nInteraction paradigms (the style of interaction between humans and computers) can significantly change the way we work and live. However\, as much as we are empowered by interaction paradigms\, we are also significantly constrained by them. Existing interaction paradigms limits our movements and activities\, which can negatively affect our overall well-being. Desktop computing\, described as “sitting at a desk\, interpreting and manipulating symbols”\, isolates human beings from interacting with other human beings and nature. Mobile computing\, although free us from the office environment\, demands constant eye-and-hand engagement\, leading to the notorious phenomenon called “smartphone zombies”. We need a new style of interaction that can better support human activities in nature and with other people as well as reducing cognitive load by blending reactive operations with appropriately designed proactive initiatives that can offer just-in-time assistance. By carefully redesigning and integrating some of the latest technologies\, including wearable computing\, sensors\, voice-based multimodal I/O\, data analysis and prediction\, and distributed networking\, etc\, the new Heads-up Computing interaction paradigm can be designed to work seamlessly with our everyday movements and activities. It allows humans to interact with information while engaging in a variety of activities; therefore\, facilitates a holistic lifestyle where essential human needs in work and life can be more seamlessly blended and fulfilled. \n \nBIO: \nShengdong Zhao is an associate professor of the Computer Science Department at the National University of Singapore (NUS). I am also a member of the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences & Engineering. My PhD degree is in computer science from the University of Toronto. My master degree is from School of Information Management & Systems\, University of California\, Berkeley. I also had a dual major in computer science and biology from the Linfield College\, Oregon\, USA. I founded the NUS-HCI Lab at the National University of Singapore in January 2009. I am passionate about developing new interface tools and applications that can simplify and enrich people’s lives (i.e.\, Draco\, won best iPad App of the year in 2016). I publish regularly in top HCI conferences and journals (ToCHI\, CHI\, UbiComp\, CSCW\, UIST\, IUI\, etc.). I am interested in connecting academy results with the industry\, and have served as a senior consultant with the Huawei Consumer Business Group. I frequently participate in program committees of top HCI conferences\, and have worked as the paper co-chair for the ACM SIGCHI 2019 and 2020 conferences. In my leisure time\, I love to read\, run\, and explore the beautiful nature.  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-heads-up-computing-towards-the-next-interaction-paradigm-with-shengdong-zhao-an-associate-professor-at-the-national-university-of-singapore/ CATEGORIES:Events,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/zhaosd_2-e1669021155686.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20221115T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20221116T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132202 CREATED:20220623T104702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230116T102820Z UID:12497-1668517200-1668614400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION: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 technologies. \nHeld on November 15-16 at Media City Bergen\, Norway\, the 2022 Annual Meeting constitutes a forum for the exchange of scientific results and industry insights within the field of responsible media technology. \nFollowing last year’s success\, the 2022 Annual Meeting is expected once again to attract\, and bring together Norwegian and international researchers\, and industry practitioners with the intent of engaging in discussions on topics related to: \n\nMedia experiences\nRecommender technology\nContent production and analysis\nContent interaction and availability \nNorwegian language technology\n\nJoin us for inspirational keynote talks\, prototype demonstrations\, presentations held by our researchers\, and industry partners\, and poster session.  \nWe are pleased to announce our keynote speakers – Birgit Gray\, Christian Sandor and Siv Juvik Tveitnes. \n \n REGISTRATION\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PROGRAM\n \n \n \n \n \n Day 1 – Tuesday Nov. 15\n \n \n \n \n \n 12.00 – Registration \n13.00 – Welcome address by Centre Director Christoph Trattner \n13.10 – Greetings from Gottfried Greve\, Vice-Rector for Innovation\, Projects and Knowledge Clusters UiB \n13.15 – Towards Trustworthy AI in Media ToolsBirgit Gray\, Innovation Manager at Deutsche Welle \n13.50 – Break \n14.05 – Responsible Personalization and Recommendation: an OverviewMehdi Elahi\, Associate Professor\, UiBResponsible Personalisation and Recommendation: an Industry PerspectiveLars Skjærven\, TV2 and Thomas Husken\, BT Popularity Bias in RecommendationAnastasiia Klimashevskaia\, PhD candidate\, MediaFutures \n \n \n \n \n \n 14.45 – Break and snacks \n15.00 – Visual Content VerificationDuc Tien Dang Nguyen\, Associate Professor\, UiB \n \n \n \n \n \n 15.15 – Fake News DetectionGhazaal Sheikhi\, Postdoctor\, MediaFutures \n \n \n \n \n \n 15.30 – Break \n15.45 – Measuring Harmful Representations in Scandinavian Language ModelsSamia Touileb\, Researcher\, MediaFutures \nWhy is SFI Innovation So Hard?Eivind Throndsen\, Academic Liaison\, Schibsted \n \n \n \n \n \n 16.15 – Poster and demo sessions \n19.00 – Dinner at Kulturhuset \n \n \n \n \n \n Day 2 – Wednesday Nov. 16\n \n \n \n \n \n 9.30 – Six Battles to Win for Future Growth in News MediaSiv Juvik Tveitnes\, EVP Schibsted News Media \n10.05 – Break \n10.20 – Understanding news experiences with innovative methodsHallvard Moe\, Professor\, UiBErik Knudsen\, Researcher\, MediaFuturesMarianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus\, PhD candidate\, MediaFutures \n \n \n \n \n \n 11.00 – Break \n11.15 – Past and Upcoming 22 Years with Augmented RealityChristian Sandor\, Professor Université Paris-Saclay \n11.50 – Break \n12.00 – Media Content Interaction & AccessibilityNjål Borch\, Researcher\, NORCEMorten Fjeld\, Professor\, UiB \n12.30 – Lunch \n13.30 – Workshop. Thinking beyond media use. How can we make sense of future media experiences?Irene Costera Meijer\, Professor\, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamJohn Magnus R. Dahl\, Postdoc\, MediaFutures \n15.00 – Workshop. Synthetic Media for the NewsroomNicholas Diakopoulos\, Associate Professor\, Northwestern University \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n KEYNOTES\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Birgit Gray\, Innovation Manager at Deutsche Welle  \nBirgit Gray specialises in future media and resulting changes for broadcasters\, content providers\, creators\, and business processes. In her role as Innovation Manager\, she explores the use and impact of emerging media technologies and tools\, innovation in news services\, future facing market developments and innovation/transformation approaches. In recent projects\, she covered topics such as Artificial Intelligence\, Blockchain\, AI-Powered Tools\, Digital Audio and Responsible AI. As a Strategic Media Consultant\, Birgit worked with European media companies and has more than a decade of work experience in London. She has an industry background in broadcasting and holds a Master’s in communication and business studies. \nAt the MediaFutures 2022 Annual Meeting\, Birgit will talk about the road Towards Trustworthy AI in Media Tools. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Birgit Gray \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more\n Media companies increasingly use AI-powered technologies in content production and analysis workflows – also as integrated components in media tools that support the work of journalists and content experts. \nIn her keynote\, Birgit first introduces the concept of Trustworthy AI and describes associated needs of media companies regarding AI services from external technology providers. Using a concrete example developed in the AI4Media project\, she shows how an AI component for DW’s Truly Media verification tool was enhanced with trustworthy AI elements related to transparency and robustness. Birgit then highlights key learnings and challenges in this process\, including the need for tailored transparency information and integration into user experiences.  \nBirgit’s talk aims to raise awareness for Trustworthy AI in media processes and practical approaches that can help to realise AI guidelines and principles. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Christian Sandor\, Professor at the Universite Paris-Saclay \nChristian Sandor is a professor at the Université Paris-Saclay and the leader of the VENISE team at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). Since the year 2000\, his foremost research interest is Augmented Reality – a technology he believes will have a profound impact on the future of mankind. \nIn 2005\, he obtained a doctorate in Computer Science from the Technische Universität München\, and have been working with leading research groups\, and institutions around the world. In 2012\, he was awarded in Samsung’s Global Research Outreach Program. In 2014\, he received a Google Faculty Award for creating an Augmented Reality X-Ray system for Google Glass. In October 2020\, he was appointed Augmented Reality Evangelist at the Guangzhou Greater Bay Area Virtual Reality Research Institute. In 2021\, Dr. Sandor was named “Associate Editor of the Year” by IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Read more about Christian here. \nDuring MediaFutures 2022 Annual Meeting\, Christian will talk about Past and Upcoming 22 years with Augmented Reality. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Christian Sandor \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more\n Augmented Reality (AR) embeds spatially-registered computer graphics into a user’s view of the real world. During the last 22 years\, AR has progressed enormously from a niche technology to a widely investigated one. \nThis keynote consists of two parts. First\, I speak about how major challenges for AR have been solved over the last 22 years. Second\, I speculate about what the next 22 years are going to bring. \nThe goal of this keynote is to present a Birdseye view of the AR domain\, including the balance of power between the major AR forces US and China. In my view\, Europe has a very big\, possibly almost impossible\, challenge ahead to catch up. I hope that my talk will contribute to laying the seeds of a major European AR initiative. \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Siv Juvik Tveitnes\, EVP Schibsted News Media \nSiv Juvik Tveitnes is the Executive Vice President for Schibsted News Media\, the leading digital media division in Scandinavia and a part of the Nordic family of digital brands\, Schibsted. News Media consists of a broad portfolio of brands such as Bergens Tidende\, Stavanger Aftenblad\, Aftonbladet\, Svenska Dagbladet\, Omni\, VG and Aftenposten. In addition\, Schibsted’s news division has several digital niche products\, with the podcast platform Podme among them. In total\, News Media’s brands have over 600 million monthly visits. In 2021\, News Media had a revenue of 790 M EUR and 2\,400 employees. \nPrevious positions for Siv Juvik Tveitnes include COO for Schibsted Media\, CEO in the regional Norwegian Schibsted-owned newspapers Bergens Tidende and Stavanger Aftenblad\, and Managing Consultant at Accenture and Bekk Consulting AS. Tveitnes holds a Master of Science\, Business Administration and Management from the University of Bath and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Bergen. \nThe title of Siv’s keynote speech: Six battles to win for future growth in news media. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Siv Juvik Tveitnes \n \n \n \n \n \n Learn more\n For the last few decades\, the media industry has faced enormous challenges. We have experienced – and are continuing to undergo – a digital transformation. The way in which people consume news and content has radically changed. Information flows are increasing exponentially\, and our business models and ways of working have changed in step with new trends. \nThrough the transformation we have seen declining revenues\, cost cutting\, reorganisations\, and concerns about the future. But two years ago\, boosted by the pandemic\, the picture turned when we achieved revenue growth for the first time in many years. And in 2021 we reached our goal of News Media as a whole becoming digitally sustainable. The same year we passed one million digital subscribers in total. \nThe time had come to shift focus from survival to growth. And to operationalise that ambition\, we defined six must-win battles for the years to come. My keynote aims to give an insight into these battles and the challenges we face going forward. \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n WORKSHOPS\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Title: Thinking beyond media use. How can we make sense of future media experiences? \nName: Irene Costera Meijer\, John Magnus R. Dahl \nDate: November 16th\, 13:30 – 15:00. \nSeparate registration required: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=13522842 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Description\n Media are no longer just the screens in the living room\, the newspaper we pick up\, or the record we put on. The media are all over our everyday world. For some time\, media have been important to the constitution of our daily environments\, as we have moved from using media to living in media. Younger people have taken the next step: Not only are they living in media\, but media have also become integrated into their bodies\, their identity and their world. Take away the smartphone from a 15-year-old\, and parents will become aware how this technology is not only an important part of their world – young people are constructing their selves and making new digital worlds through their smartphones. \nIn this workshop we aim to make sense of this development and the consequences it may have for media scholars\, media professionals and media organisations who are looking to understand the media experiences of the future. We will especially look at how teenagers use apps like Instagram\, TikTok and dating apps to live in media and create digital worlds – in their specific individuality\, but also to be social. You follow and share what matters for you on Instagram\, you perform different trends on TikTok\, and you literally put yourself out there and in touch with strangers on dating apps. \nThe workshop will include a brief introduction (by Irene Costera Meijer) and examples from fieldwork amongst teenagers in Norway (by John Magnus Dahl) before engaging participants in discussion on how to think beyond media use\, including the development of new concepts and vocabularies. \nIrene Costera Meijer is Professor of Journalism Studies and head of the Journalism Studies section at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is a world leading journalism and media scholar having recently set the agenda for the audience turn in journalism studies. Her research appeared in many journals and books\, and focuses on what news users value about journalism.  She is also a professor II at the Research group for Media Use and Audience Studies of the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at University of Bergen. \nHer research interests focus on audience studies and in particular on the impact of digitalization on changing practices of media consumption\, media experiences and news use. When doing research she often collaborates with media organisations.  This makes it easier to translate scholarly results into relevant suggestions for every day professional practices and vice versa\, understanding the fundamental dilemmas of professional practices and translating these into academic publications. Costera Meijer is also on the editorial board of the academic journals Digital Journalism and Journalism Practice. \nJohn Magnus R. Dahl is Postdoc in WP1 Understanding Media Experiences at MediaFutures. He holds a MA in Rhetoric\, Argumentation and Philosophy from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD from the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen. \nDahl is interested in the relationship between culture\, communication\, and politics in a broad sense\, as well is the development of ethnographic methods within media studies and rhetoric. He is currently working on a project of how Norwegian public broadcasters relate to\, or do not manage to relate to\, the media experiences and social and cultural needs of young people. \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Title: Synthetic Media for the Newsroom \nName: Nicholas Diakopoulos \nDate: November 16th\, from 15:00. \nSeparate registration required: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=13564988 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Description\n Ever heard of GPT-3 or DALL-E and wondered if these new AI models for generating synthetic media could be useful in the newsroom? In this workshop we’ll demystify these technologies and explore ways in which they could be productive in various newsroom tasks. Bring your laptop for a chance to try it out and brainstorm new possibilities.   \nNicholas Diakopoulos is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies and Computer Science (by courtesy) at Northwestern University where he is Director of the Computational Journalism Lab (CJL) and Director of Graduate Studies for the Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) PhD program. \nDiakopoulos’ research is in computational journalism with active research projects on (1) algorithmic accountability and transparency\, (2) automation and algorithms in news production\, and (3) social media in news contexts. He is the author of the award-winning book Automating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Media from Harvard University Press. \nFor some of his latest thinking and writing on automation and algorithms in journalism see his column in the Columbia Journalism Review. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PRESENTATIONS\n \n \n \n \n \n Responsible Personalization and Recommendation: an OverviewMehdi Elahi\, Associate Professor\, UiB \nResponsible Personalization and Recommendation: an Industry PerspectiveLars Skjærven\, TV 2 & Thomas Husken\, BT \nPopularity Bias in RecommendationAnastasiia Klimashevskaia\, PhD candidate MediaFutures \nAbstract: \nPersonalization and recommendation empower media applications to support consumers in discovering additional media content (e.g.\, news articles\, videos) and to keep them engaged. One of the grand challenges in this field is that common recommendation approaches may have a little potential for the discovery of new types of content for the consumers and they might cause the “popular” media content to become even more popular. Such a problem can ultimately lead to a number of undesired effects (e.g.\, bias in recommendation\, lack of diversity). Responsible personalization and recommendation aim to address these phenomena by employing techniques to effectively model user behaviors online and fairly calibrating the output of recommendation\, hence\, it can cover a rich spectrum of media content.In this presentation\, WP2 team will provide an overview of such a challenge and approaches to mitigate it. They will present an industry perspective towards the challenge and further discuss potential techniques to build impactful media personalization and recommendation in a responsible way. \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n Visual Content VerificationDuc Tien Dang Nguyen\, Associate Professor\, UiB \nAbstract: \nIn this talk\, Associate Professor Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen will summarise the work done within the scope of Task 3.2 under SFI MediaFutures’ WorkPackage-3. He will briefly talk about the recent scientific publications\, one of which addresses the task of deepfake media detection using AI models\, and the second presents an overview of multimedia content verification in journalism. He will briefly introduce the multimedia forensics web-repository which is under development under the scope of Task 3.2. \nThe work on deepfake media detection proposes new AI models for automatic detection of deepfakes. The research work was accepted for publication at ACM International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI)\, held in Graz\, Austria in October 2022. This work was nominated for a best paper award at the conference. The second research work on visual content verification in journalism tries to present the practices being followed in the news media industry by journalists/fact-checkers to debunk visual mis/disinformation. This research work also presents a brief technical survey of available multimedia forensics tools and technologies\, along with their limitations\, and concludes by proposing future directions to develop better multimedia forensics tools. This research study is ready to be submitted for peer review to IEEE Access Journal. \nTien will also give a brief overview of the Web-repository which is currently under-development. The repository aims to provide several resources related to multimedia forensics at one place\, including image forensics tutorials\, research publications\, forensics tools\, widely shared debunked mis/disinformation etc.At the end of the talk\, Tien will talk about other related projects\, and will present next year’s plan for the Task 3.2. \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n Fake News DetectionGhazaal Sheikhi\, Postdoc\, MediaFutures \nAbstract: \nWith the rise of concerns around misinformation threatening democracy and freedom in recent decades\, fact-checking has become an integral part of journalism. Fact-checking is an extensively burdensome procedure as it requires a sequence of rigorous tasks including identifying check-worthy claims\, monitoring related fact-checks\, collecting reliable evidence\, verifying the asserted facts\, and publishing the fact-check. Considering the volume and the speed of dissemination of misleading content in today’s digital era\, it is a demanding task for the fact-checking community with its limited resources and manpower. Automated fact-checking (AFC) technologies could evidently assist in expediting and scaling-up the process. \nIn Task 3.1\, we focus on the application and advancement of natural language processing technologies in media and social media content analysis for assisting human fact-checkers and journalists. We attack the problem from a multitude of aspects including explainable check-worthy claim detection for political discourse\, claim detection in Norwegian using pre-trained language models (in collaboration with Faktisk.no)\, named entity-based factual error correction (FEC) for biomedical information (in collaboration with the NLP Institute at the University of Stuttgart)\, and question answering-based factual error correction. In this talk\, you will hear about these studies as well as two demos\, namely TweetSearcher and ontology based FEC are also presented. \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n Measuring Harmful Representations in Scandinavian Language ModelsSamia Touileb\, Researcher\, MediaFutures \nAbstract: \nScandinavian countries are perceived as role-models when it comes to gender equality. With the advent of pre-trained language models and their widespread usage\, we investigate to what extent gender-based harmful and toxic content exists in selected Scandinavian language models. We examine nine models\, covering Danish\, Swedish\, and Norwegian\, by manually creating template-based sentences and probing the models for completion. We evaluate the completions using two methods for measuring harmful and toxic completions and provide a thorough analysis of the results. We show that Scandinavian pre-trained language models contain harmful and gender-based stereotypes with similar values across all languages. This finding goes against the general expectations related to gender equality in Scandinavian countries and shows the possible problematic outcomes of using such models in real-world settings.  \n \n \n \n \n \n Why is SFI innovation so hard?Eivind Throndsen\, Academic Liaison\, Schibsted \nAbstract: \nA look at why it is hard to generate innovation together\, thoughts on how we can overcome the difficulties\, and why SFI researchers should learn Solution Selling. \n \n \n \n \n \n Understanding news experiences with innovative methodsHallvard Moe\, Professor\, UiBErik Knudsen\, Researcher MediaFuturesMarianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus\, PhD candidate\, MediaFutures \nAbstract: \nIn this presentation we highlight some of the research and collaborations in Work Package 1 Understanding media experiences\, focusing on how to understand changing news use in a tumultuous world and in a datafied media landscape. We will present two initiatives to develop novel methods for comprehensive analysis of fundamental questions regarding news use. Researcher Erik Knudsen presents a survey experiment on news avoidance and constructive journalism\, developed in close collaboration with NRK and Schibsted as well as other MediaFutures partners\, utilizing the DIGSSCORE research facility for innovative experiment methods. PhD candidate Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus presents a framework for users to safely donate browsing and social media data to research\, and how this can feed into research on young people’s news use. WP co-leader professor Hallvard Moe will introduce the WP and the presentations. \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n Media Content Interaction & AccessibilityNjål Borch\, Researcher\, NORCEMorten Fjeld\, Professor\, UiB \nAbstract: \nIn order to provide end users with personalised experiences that they can understand\, accessibility and interactivity are crucial components. While accessibility is often understood to help users that have auditive or visual impairments\, it is equally important for cognitive loads\, social restrictions and personal preferences. \nWP4 is working on a number of technologies to improve the end user experience and providing information in better ways. In this presentation\, we will focus on the work performed in the last year\, demonstrating new and hopefully exciting new ways to think of end user experiences. Radio without sound for example. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n POSTERS & DEMOS\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Demos and PitchesPoster Titles\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Demos and Pitches session takes place in Media City Bergen\, Restaurant area from 16:15-17:00. The posters will be presented by MediaFutures (and affiliated) PhD candidates\, Postdoctoral Researchers\, Researchers and Master’s students. \nThe session will start with a 60 second pitch by each presenter\, and the audience is invited to visit the posters thereafter. \nClick the tabs for an overview. \n \n \n \n \n \n Demos\nDemo showing the effect of a Re-Ranker on a recommender system\nAnastasiia Klimashevskaia \n \nFootyVision\, an all-in-one Model for real-time football statistical analysis with player and ball localisation.\nPete Andrews \n \nGamification demo based on FootyVision\nJonathan Geffen \n  \nA Demo showcasing a tool using user browser history as a baseline to easily examine news usage over a month\nMarianne Borchevink-Brækhus \n \nA showcase of the Media Forensics Repository\, a repository presenting a diverse set of resources to assist journalists\, fact-checkers\, and the public in verifying visual user-generated content.\nSohail Ahmed Khan \n \nA showcase for a conversational food recommender system as a mobile application\nAyoub el Majjodi \n\nInteractive demo showcasing gender bias in norwegian BERT models\nSamia Touileb \n\nDemo showcasing EventGraph. A text-to-event framework that encodes events as graphs showing the relation between arguments\, triggers\, and their corresponding events.\nHoulin You \n \nLiveTweets: A framework that monitors twitter in order to find tweets relevant to an ongoing event. Developed with sports events in mind.\nGhazaal Sheiki\, Daniel Rosnes \n \nDemo showcasing recommendations based on low-lever features in the movie domain.\nDavid Olsen \n \nPosters\nA qualitative study of Instagram as a platform for civic engagement\nTiril Amalie Johansen \n \nEase-read AI for people with dyslexia\nThale Knudsen Kirkhorn\, Svenja Lys Forstner \n \nNews Podcasts\nKristina Hansen \n \nBridging the Gap of Polarized Perspectives: Changing the Thoughts of the Hard Believers in Online Communities\nJia-Hua Jeng \n \nSee or Hear? Exploring the Effect of Visual and Audio Hints and Gaze-assisted Task Feedback for Search Tasks in Augmented Reality\nYuchong Zhang \n \nThe Influence of News Recommender technology on Shaping Selective Exposure and Sharing\nKhadiga Seddik \n \nIntroduction to the Datadonor tool\nErik Knudsen \n \nNews and Collaborative Filtering\nPeter Klingenberg \n \nThe resposible Dating App\nJohn Magnus R. Dahl \n \nHow Mixed and Augmented Realities Impact Our World\nAdam Nowak \n \nMedia Analytics for Personalization and Advertisement\nFrank Rune Espeseth \n \nPersonalization and Recommendation of Upcoming Sports Events\nSebastian Cornelius Bergh \n\nComparing Visual Search between Physixal Enviournments and VR\nFloris van den Oever \n \nA Collaborative System of flying and Ground Robots with Universal Physuxal Interface (PCI)\, and the Potential Interactive Applications.\nZimming Wang \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n VENUES\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Atlantis Auditorium\, Media City Bergen\, Lars Hilles gate 30\, 5008 Bergen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The dinner will be at Kulturhuset\, Vaskerelven 8\, 5014 Bergen \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Organising committee \n\nOla Roth Johnsen\, Admin coordinator\nAnna Pacholczyk\, Communication Officer\nJohn Magnus Dahl\, Postdoctoral Fellow\nAre Tverberg\, Team Leader\, TV 2\nMorten Fjeld\, Professor\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n REGISTRATION\n \n \n \n \n \n Photo: Jan-Petter Dahl. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-annual-meeting-2/ CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/40054e51-b99e-40a2-85fc-79c9bf87dd65-min-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20221101T141500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20221101T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132203 CREATED:20221024T135452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221024T140317Z UID:13367-1667312100-1667318400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures and AI Agora Joint Seminar: The Scientific and Computational Study of Creativity with Geraint A. Wiggins\, Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel DESCRIPTION: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. \nTITLE: The Scientific and Computational Study of Creativity  \nWHEN: Tuesday 1 November\, 14:15-16:00.  \nWHERE: Store læringsrom\, læringslab 3. etasje\, Media City Bergen \n\nABSTRACT: \nCreativity remains one of the most valued and the most mysterious of human (and sometimes animal) capacities. There are two particular things that make creativity difficult to study. First\, it is extremely context-sensitive and subjective. Second\, it is not a thing\, nor a property of a thing\, but rather a property of processes. Both of these properties make creativity elusive; the combination of them produces a dynamic concept which is very hard to pin down. Colton has argued that this is in some sense the correct state of affairs\, in that creativity is an essentially contested concept. Geraint does not choose this emergency exit\, however\, and he aims to outline an alternative philosophy in this talk. \nHe presents a summary of selected works in creativity studies\, related to philosophy\, psychology\, and computational creativity. He discusses the consequences of these ideas for computational creativity studies\, and the related opportunities for the human sciences. He finishes with a set of desiderata for computationally creative systems\, in terms of both implementation and behaviour\, which themselves may form hypotheses for scientific study of human creativity. \nBIO: \nGeraint A. Wiggins studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Corpus Christi College\, Cambridge\, and holds PhDs in Artificial Intelligence and in Musical Composition\, from the University of Edinburgh. He is Professor of Computational Creativity in the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Previously\, he was Head of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. He is Associate Editor (English) of Musicae Scientiae\, the journal of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music\, a consulting editor of Music Perception and an editorial board member of the Journal of New Music Research. From 2000 to 2004\, he chaired the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour\, the UK learned society for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science\, and from 2004 to 2014\, he chaired the international Association for Computational Creativity\, of whose Journal he is now Editor-in-Chief. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is the Founding Chair of the Dilys Trust\, a charity that helps intellectually able but economically disadvantaged young people in the UK attend top class universities.Geraint has worked in artificial intelligence\, computer music\, and cognitive science since 1984. He was one of the founders of the research field of computational creativity\, which studies creative intelligence\, and was the first in the world to hold a named professorial chair in that research area. His current work relates to cognitive architectures that explicate the relationship between perception\, learning and creativity\, in sequential domains\, most notably language and music. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/the-scientific-and-computational-study-of-creativity-with-geraint-a-wiggins-professor-at-vrije-universiteit-brussel/ CATEGORIES:Events,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/geraint-768x432-1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20221101T131500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20221101T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132203 CREATED:20221024T153953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221024T154925Z UID:13383-1667308500-1667311200@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures and AI Agora Joint Seminar: Understanding Trust and Conversational Agent with Jonas Ivarsson\, Professor at the University of Gothenburg DESCRIPTION:Jonas Ivarsson\, Professor at the University of Gothenburg\, will give a seminar on 1 November\, at 13:15. \nTITLE: Understanding Trust and Conversational Agent  \nWHEN: Tuesday 1 November\, 13:15-14:00. \nWHERE: Store læringsrom\, læringslab 3. etasje\, Media City Bergen \n\nABSTRACT: \nIn recent years\, the field of natural language processing has seen substantial developments resulting in robust voice-based interactive services. The quality of the voice and interactivity are sometimes so good that the artificial cannot be differentiated from real persons. Thus\, discerning whether an interactional partner is a human or an artificial agent is no longer merely a theoretical question but also a practical problem facing people of ordinary society. Consequently\, the ‘Turing test’ has moved from the laboratory into the wild. The passage from the theoretical to the practical domain also accentuates understanding as a topic of continued inquiry. When interactions are successful\, but the artificial agent has not been identified as such\, can it also be said that the interlocutors have understood each other? In what ways do understanding figure in real-world human–computer interactions? The argument will be made that we need two parallel conceptions of understanding to address these questions. By departing from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis\, it is illustrated how parties in a conversation regularly deploy two forms of analysis (categorical and sequential) to understand their interactional partner. The interplay between these forms of analysis shapes the developing sense of interactional exchanges and is crucial for established relations. Furthermore\, outside of experimental settings\, any problems of identifying and categorizing an interactional partner raise concerns regarding trust and suspicion. When suspicion is roused\, shared understanding becomes disrupted. The address thus concludes that the proliferation of conversational systems\, fueled by artificial intelligence\, may have unintended consequences\, including its impacts on human–human interactions. \nBIO: \nJonas Ivarsson is a professor of informatics. He started in cognitive science and communication studies before moving to education. In 2013 he became a professor of education\, where his research focused on the role of various technologies in developing knowledge and competence. \nIn 2019 he moved to Informatics at the Department of Applied Information Technology at the University of Gothenburg. There\, his role is to take the lead on the emerging research on Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence—a specific approach to the interplay between humans and machines in the context of artificial intelligence. Central to this approach are questions relating to how to design AI systems to operate in the context of human users and how to design learning trajectories of humans so that they can intelligently interact with increasingly complex semi-autonomous systems. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-and-ai-agora-joint-seminar-understanding-trust-and-conversational-agent-with-jonas-ivarsson-professor-at-the-university-of-gothenburg/ CATEGORIES:Events,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/jonas-e1666625981100.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221020 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221022 DTSTAMP:20260406T132203 CREATED:20221009T101718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221009T102410Z UID:13241-1666224000-1666396799@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Hackathon DESCRIPTION:When: \nDate and time:20. October from 13:0021. October from 09:00Location: Media City Bergen \nWhat:\nWe 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. \nIf you have any ideas\, please summarize quickly and send to njbo@norceresearch.no. \nIt’s also important that we have the necessary datasets as well\, so have that in mind! \nCurrent ideas:– Automatic subtitles using Whisper. We’ve already done some work on this (both TV and podcasts)\, and will try to focus more on visualizations and end user experience. What could be products using this technology and for what content?– Football visualizations of automatically detected information. Pete creates datasets tracking and positioning players and the ball – how can we use this to make added value services that are interesting for viewers? Games? Additional information?– Compare different subtitles? Are summarized subtitles better than verbatim? Are “fancysubs” that provide information about who speaks easier to read or comprehend? We have at least one good eye tracker available for this. \nContact: Njål Borch\, WP 4 leader\, njbo@norceresearch.no \nRegister: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=13533119 \nPhoto credit: Be-novative URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/hackathon/ CATEGORIES:Events,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/1g3ARV1u4v9b9AKEIyPB7zw-e1665310575577.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20221004T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20221004T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132203 CREATED:20221001T143716Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T073231Z UID:13206-1664888400-1664892000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Media Accessibility: Current Solutions and Future Challenges with Pilar Orero\, Professor from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona DESCRIPTION:Pilar Orero\, Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain)\, will give a seminar on 4 October\, at 13:00. \nTITLE: MedIa Accessibility: Current Solutions and Future Challenges \nWHEN: Tuesday 4 October\, 13:00-14:00. There will be a lunch served at 12:30. \nWHERE: MediaFutures & Online \n Zoom Meetinghttps://uib.zoom.us/j/64942261686?pwd=eFBPb0lmM3FHN2xHK1pKNmFiMWwzQT09 \nMeeting ID: 649 4226 1686Password: MB926L47 \nABSTRACT: \n The presentation will start describing the current situation of media accessibility\, which is at an unprecedented moment for accessibility. The EU legal framework has forced national transpositions with concrete requirements. The European Accessibility Centre will open next year\, and funding for research by EC is at all times high. Accessibility has moved from being an object of study\, as a silo\, to a horizontal prerequisite in any call where humans are involved. This presentation will inform of existing funded solutions and identify possible challenges that may need funding. \nBIO: \nProfessor Pilar Orero\, PhD (UMIST\, UK) works at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) in the TransMedia Catalonia Lab. She has written and edited many books\, near 100 academic papers and almost the same number of book chapters –all on Media Accessibility. Leader and participant on numerous EU funded research projects focusing on media accessibility. She works in standardisation and participates in the UN ITU IRG-AVA – Intersector Rapporteur Group Audiovisual Media Accessibility\, ISO and ANEC. She has been working on Immersive Accessibility for the past 4 years first in a project called ImAc\, which results are now further developed in TRACTION\, MEDIAVERSE\, MILE\, and has just started to work on green accessibility in GREENSCENT. She leads the EU network LEADME on Media Accessibility. \n For more info please go to https://gent.uab.cat/pilarorero URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-media-accessibility-current-solutions-and-future-challenges-with-pilar-orero-professor-from-the-universitat-autonoma-de-barcelona/ LOCATION:MediaFutures\, Media Futures HQ\, 3rd floor\, Bergen\, 5008 CATEGORIES:Seminar,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Picture-1-e1664648179569.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220930T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220930T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132203 CREATED:20220831T073015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T131605Z UID:12926-1664528400-1664539200@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Innovation Workshop with Sofie Hvitved DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe workshop has the following goals: \n– Get an overview of different methods\, processes and definitions for innovation \n– Understanding futuredriven innovation \n– Facilitating a knowledge sharing process preferably ending in some kind of shared understanding of the term ‘innovation’ in relation to the media and media tech industry \nThe workshop will be led and facilitated by Sofie Hvidtved from Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies. She is Head of Media at the Institute and is strongly engaged in the intersection between media and technology\, where she works with the development and execution of strategy and innovation projects. More information about Sofie Hvitved (cifs.dk). \nThere are 30 places available for the workshop and we have chosen to reserve 15 places for academic and 15 for industry partners. \nWe will inform you about who has gotten a place by Friday 16th September. \nDate and time: 30. September 09:00-12:00 \nPlace: Medielabben\, Media City Bergen \nDeadline for signing up: Thursday 15th September \nSign up by filling out this form: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=13281998 URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/innovation-workshop-with-sofie-hvitved/ CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/associated_sofie-hvidtved-b_w-sort-1-400x600-1-e1661931236273.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220920T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220920T110000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132203 CREATED:20220912T073922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220914T122823Z UID:13052-1663668000-1663671600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Building Knowledge Graphs with Media Content and Application for Tackling Misinformation with Raphael Troncy\, Associate Professor at EURECOM DESCRIPTION:Raphael Troncy\, Associate Professor at EURECOM\, will give a seminar on 20 September\, at 10:00. \nTITLE: Building Knowledge Graphs with Media Content and Application for Tackling Misinformation \nWHEN: Tuesday 20 September\, 10:00-11:00WHERE: MCB Store læringsrom\, Læringslab 3rd floor.    / ZOOM: \nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/67861782423?pwd=YzhRVWkrOVp5Q1gwTmhZU3c2djBlZz09 \nMeeting ID: 678 6178 2423 \nPassword: 10ZkuVs4 \n \nABSTRACT: \nThe sheer volume of multimedia content created every day across the many disparate distribution channels keeps challenging any traditional content management system. Routine tasks such as archiving\, editing\, content organization and retrieval by multimedia creators become prohibitively costly. On the user side\, the amount of multimedia content pumped daily can be simply overwhelming and the need for shorter and more personalized content has never been more pronounced. Recommending\, enriching and summarizing content can help to capitalize on users’ engagement and generate their interactions.In this talk\, I will first present several Knowledge Graphs developed with medias being radio and TV programs broadcaster in Europe\, news items published by a news agency or even social media posts shared on Twitter or Facebook. Next\, I will present a number of tools that contribute to automatic multimedia understanding by computers\, ranging from extracting topics using common sense knowledge or language models to recognizing recurring people in images. I will show how difficult it is for computers to decompose content into meaningful segments. I will show how to extract highlights from media content\, both for narrative-focused summarization and for maximising memorability and I will conclude with our current efforts aiming at tackling misinformation.   \nBIO: \nRaphael Troncy is an Associate Professor at the Data Science Department of EURECOM. He received his PhD from Grenoble University (France) in 2004 and held research positions at INA (France)\, CNR (Italy) and CWI (The Netherlands). He published more than 250 scientific papers in various journals\, top tier conferences and associated workshops and held key organisational roles in multiple world-leading conferences. He was the General Chair of The Web Conference in 2022. He is an expert in knowledge engineering\, information extraction and recommender systems. He is the principla investigator of many national and european projects where semantic technologies and information extraction are used together to build knowledge graphs\, exploratory search engines and recommender systems. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-building-knowledge-graphs-with-medias-search-explore-recommend-and-tackle-misinformation-with-raphael-troncy-associate-professor-at-eurocom/ LOCATION:MediaFutures\, Media Futures HQ\, 3rd floor\, Bergen\, 5008 CATEGORIES:Seminar,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Screenshot-2022-09-12-at-09.37.52-e1662969028229.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220918 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220924 DTSTAMP:20260406T132203 CREATED:20220825T192745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220825T194606Z UID:12867-1663459200-1663977599@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MORS: Workshop on Multi-Objective Recommender Systems DESCRIPTION:When: \n18. – 23. September 2022 \n \nWhat:\nThe 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 recommender systems\, will take place between September 18th and 23rd (exact date to be announced). \nAssociate Professor Mehdi Elahi at the University of Bergen\, and MediaFutures Work Package 2 leader is one of the organizers of the workshop\, along with: \n\n\nHiman Abdollahpouri (Spotify\, USA) \n\n\nShaghayegh Sahebi (University at Albany\, State University of New York\, USA) \n\n\nMasoud Mansoury (University of Amsterdam\, Netherlands) \n\n\nBabak Loni (ING group\, Netherlands) \n\n\nZahra Nazari (Spotify\, USA) \n\n\nMaria Dimakopoulou (Spotify\, USA) \n\n\nThe theme of this year’s workshop is Long-term Optimization in Recommender Systems. The organizers now invite submissions of papers on the following topics: \n\n\nRecommender systems with multiple objectives \n\n\nBalancing the long-term impacts of the recommendations and the users’ short-term preferences \n\n\nReinforcement Learning for long-term optimization in recommender systems \n\n\nFeedback loops and the impact of recommendations in long term \n\n\nValue-aware recommendation (profit\, value\, purpose\, etc.) \n\n\nThe trade-off between relevance and bias in recommender systems \n\n\nRecommendation with multiple stakeholders \n\n\nConflict handling in multi-stakeholder recommendation \n\n\nFairness-aware recommender systems \n\nYou can read more about the workshop:\n\n\nhttps://sites.google.com/view/mors-2022/home\nhttps://recsys.acm.org/recsys22/mors/\n\n  \nFor updates regarding the workshop\, follow @MORS 2022 \nMore information about the 16th ACM Conference can be found here. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mors-workshop-on-multi-objective-recommender-systems/ CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/2-2020-seattle-city-e1661501680116.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220909T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220909T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132203 CREATED:20220831T121629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220908T072651Z UID:12943-1662724800-1662728400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: How Newspapers Use Audience Analytics and Metrics with Thomas Husken\, Data Analyst at Bergens Tidende DESCRIPTION:Thomas Husken\, Data Analyst at Bergens Tidende\, will give a seminar on 9 September\, at 12:00. \nTITLE: How newspapers use audience analytics and metrics \nWHEN: Friday 9 September\, 12:00-13:00WHERE: MediaFutures \n  \nIn this workshop\, Thomas Husken\, data scientist in Bergens Tidende (BT)\, will talk about the usage of news audience data\, various metrics\, and analytics inside a news organization. Thomas is part of BT data analytics department\, working on frontpage optimization\, creation and maintenance of various analytical dashboards\, and many other analytical tasks. Newsrooms around the world have become centered around dashboards\, overloaded with metrics\, and news work is growingly data-driven. Ongoing research is revealing how analytics and metrics influences journalism culture\, work routines\, news values\, news selection\, among other. However\, beyond gaining knowledge about effects on work process which are reflected in content that consumers of media get\, we need to look deeper into technical insides of audience analytics and metrics\, or infrastructures for utilization of data about audience news use. In that respect\, Thomas Husken will provide unique insights into the audience analytics and metrics in BT as one of the oldest and the largest newspapers (measured by circulation) in Norway. \nThe workshop is primarily aimed at PhD and Postodoctoral researchers\, but also at others interested in various technological aspects of media work.     \n\nProgram: \nShort introduction – Ana Milojevic (Postdoc Fellow\, MediaFutures) \nHow newspapers use analytics and metrics – Thomas Husken (Data Scientist\, BT) \nQuestions and answers \n\nRegister your interest in workshop by sending e-mail to Ana Milojevic. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-with-thomas-husken-bt-data-analyst/ LOCATION:MediaFutures\, Media Futures HQ\, 3rd floor\, Bergen\, 5008 CATEGORIES:Seminar,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/thumbnail_1601297665340-e1662105080690.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220909T101500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220909T111500 DTSTAMP:20260406T132203 CREATED:20220906T072508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220910T205715Z UID:13012-1662718500-1662722100@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Visual Computing Forum: The Future of Mobile Interaction with Prof. Morten Fjeld DESCRIPTION:TITLE: The Future of Mobile Interaction  \nWHEN: Friday 9 September\, 10:15-11:15WHERE:510N3 (Blåbær)\, 5th Floor\, Thormøhlens Gate 55\, Høyteknologisenteret \nZoom: https://uib.zoom.us/j/67048590477?pwd=WUJJckZ4ZW1FY3ZtSjBiZnRqM3gwZz09#success \nABSTRACT: \n\n\n\n\nThe 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\, such as laptops\, pads\, and smartphones\, are mobile\, their users are typically either stationary or risking their physical safety using such devices while in- motion. The health effects of today’s mobile devices are well-documented. These effects include the impact of a predominantly sedentary lifestyle on both health and well-being of many individuals. This talk will present high-risk thinking\, design\, and engineering research into the domain on mobile user interaction. \n SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:  \n\n\n\n\nMorten Fjeld is a professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Bergen (Norway) and Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). His research activities are situated in the field of Human- Computer Interaction with a focus on tangible and tabletop user computing. In 2005\, he founded the t2i Interaction Lab at Chalmers\, Sweden. He holds a dual MSc degree in applied mathematics from NTNU (Trondheim\, Norway) and ENSIMAG (Grenoble\, France)\, and a PhD from ETH (Zurich\, Switzerland). In 2002\, Morten Fjeld received the ETH Medal for his PhD titled “Designing for Tangible Interaction”. In 2011\, he was a visiting professor at NUS Singapore\, in 2016 and 2017 at Tohoku University\, Japan\, and in 2019 to 2020 at ETH Zurich. Morten Fjeld also has extensive industrial experience in the areas of fluid mechanics\, simulators\, and user interface design. \nFull bio: https://www.uib.no/personer/Morten.Fjeldt2i Lab Norway: http://t2i.not2i Lab Sweden: http://t2i.sehttps://dblp.org/pid/f/MortenFjeld.html https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=ZQhqxscAAAAJ&hl=sv&oi=ao URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/visual-computing-forum-the-future-of-mobile-interaction-with-prof-morten-fjeld/ CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/picture-23358-1625046497-e1662450208207.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220616T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220616T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132203 CREATED:20220603T195225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220610T134015Z UID:12215-1655388000-1655391600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Mind the Gaps and Normal Accidents with Dirk Hovy. Associate Professor\, Bocconi University in Milan\, Italy. DESCRIPTION:Dirk Hovy\, Associate Professor of computer science at Bocconi University in Milan\, Italy\, will give a seminar on 16 June\, at 14:00. \nTITLE: Mind the Gaps and Normal AccidentsWHEN: Thursday 16 June\, 14:00-15:00WHERE: Zoom – https://uio.zoom.us/j/61874196241?pwd=RHJFZ1FYRzArdHkvbW9salZkd20yUT09 \n  \nMeeting ID: 618 7419 6241\n\nPassword: 577113\n \nABSTRACT: \nNLP is now stable enough to be used in production systems\, and will soon become even more pervasive. However\, even today’s systems are already highly complex and unpredictable. As they become more ubiquitous\, different algorithms will interact with each other directly leading to tightly coupled systems whose capacity to cause harm we will be unable to predict. In his book Normal Accidents\, the sociologist Charles Perrow proposed a framework to analyze technologies and their risks according to their complexity and the interdependence of their components. He showed that accidents were nigh on unavoidable due to those two features. We apply Perrow’s framework to NLP to assess its potential risks. We argue that under the current paradigm\, “normal accidents” are built into the system\, and that it is only a matter of time before they emerge. Some issues in current NLP practice that aid this development are: \n– the early adoption of methods without sufficient understanding or analysis; \n– the preference for computational methods regardless of risks associated with their limitations; \n– the dangers of unexplainable methods. \nIf these issues are not addressed\, we risk a loss of reproducibility\, reputability\, and subsequently public trust in our field. However\, these factors can help us plan better for making our systems safer and more reliable. \nBIO: \nDirk Hovy is associate professor of computer science at Bocconi University in Milan\, Italy. Before that\, he was faculty and a postdoc in Copenhagen\, got a PhD from USC\, and a linguistics masters in Germany. He is interested in the interaction between language\, society\, and machine learning\, or what language can tell us about society\, and what computers can tell us about language. He has authored over 70 articles on these topics\, including 3 best paper awards. He has organized one conference and several workshops (on abusive language\, ethics in NLP\, and computational social science). Dirk recently received an ERC Starting Grant for a project on demographic factors and bias in NLP. Outside of work\, Dirk enjoys cooking\, running\, and leather-crafting. For updated information\, see https://www.dirkhovy.com URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-mind-the-gaps-and-normal-accidents-with-dirk-hovy-associate-professor-bocconi-university-in-milan-italy/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP5 Norwegian Language Technologies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/portrait_small20180221200643.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220615T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220615T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132203 CREATED:20220610T112016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220610T134101Z UID:12233-1655294400-1655298000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Augment the Vision: To Help Users Deal with Different Domain Tasks. PhD Candidate\, Chalmers University of Technology\, Sweden. DESCRIPTION:Yuchong Zhang\, PhD candidate at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden\, will give a seminar on 15 June\, at 12:00. \nTITLE: Augment the Vision: To Help Users Deal with Different Domain TasksWHEN: Wednesday 15 June\, 12:00-13:00WHERE: MediaFutures \n  \n\n \nABSTRACT: \nOne of the cutting-edge techniques—augmented reality (AR) (a variation of virtual reality (VR))\, in which virtual objects are superimposed in the real world–has been demonstrated and applied in numerous fields due to its capability of providing interactive interfaces of visualized digital content. Moreover\, AR can provide functional tools that support users undertaking domain-related tasks\, especially facilitating them in data visualization and interaction because of its ability to jointly augment the physical space and the user’s perception. How to fully use the advantages of AR technique\, especially the items which augment human vision to help users with different domain tasks’ perform is the central part of my PhD research. \nBIO: \nYuchong Zhang is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Chalmers University of Technology\, Sweden. His research interests include augmented reality\, interactive visualization and human-centred design. He received his MSc. degree from Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore in 2017. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-augment-the-vision-to-help-users-deal-with-different-domain-tasks-phd-candidate-chalmers-university-of-technology-sweden/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/IMG_3041-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220615T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220615T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132203 CREATED:20220610T115242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220610T134203Z UID:12241-1655287200-1655298000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures WP1 DIGSSCORE-Workshop DESCRIPTION:  \nWP1 DIGSSCORE-Workshop \nOpen for all MediaFutures Partners. The first part will be in English\, and the second part will be in Norwegian/Scandinavian. \nWHERE: Zoom – https://uib.zoom.us/j/65597060274?pwd=Q0huZm9EY2s4VGJCSWdMdVRwTGRkZz09  \n \nPart 1 (10:00 – 11:00) Introduction to DIGSSCORE \n10:00-10:05: Welcome \n10:05-10:45: Introduction to DIGSSCORE by Erik Knudsen: What is it and what can MediaFutures partners use it for? (20 minutes presentation and 20 minutes for questions) \n10:45-11:00 Coffee break \nPart 2 (11:00-13:00) WP1 workshop in Scandinavian (with WP1 partners) \n11:00-11:15: Introduction to Schibsted’s research interests on hard-to-reach audiences and constructive journalism (10 minutes presentation and 5 minutes for questions) \n11:15-11:30: Introduction to NRK’s research interests on constructive journalism (10 minutes presentation and 5 minutes for questions). \n11:30-11:45: Discussing and finding overlapping interests for research \n11:45-12:00 Coffee break \n12:00-12:15: Opportunities for researching constructive journalism and hard-to-reach audiences using DIGSSCORE. \n12:15-12:45: Designing the study \n12:45-13:00: Summing up and the road ahead URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-wp1-digsscore-workshop/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/digsscore-logo-m-tekst-under-hires_0.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220609T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220609T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132203 CREATED:20220513T101817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220610T134305Z UID:12108-1654767000-1654776000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Future Week. MediaFutures Workshop: Towards Responsible Media Technology & Innovation DESCRIPTION:As part of the Media City Bergen Future Week\, MediaFutures will hold workshop on June 9.  \nTITLE: Towards Responsible Media Technology & Innovation \nWHEN: Thursday 9 June\, 09:30-12:00WHERE: Media City Bergen \nREGISTRATION: https://mediacitybergen.no/future-week-22/ \nIn this workshop\, you will learn from MediaFutures’ young researchers in five work packages how new media technologies for media user engagement\, media content production\, media content interaction and accessibility\, and audience understanding are developed and advanced to the next level. No matter if you are a journalist\, a media practitioner\, a developer\, a researcher\, or a curious individual\, you will open a new horizon before you on responsible media technology and innovation.\n\nThe topics we’ll touch upon during the workshop are:\n– Understanding media experience– User Modeling\, Personalization & – Engagement– Media Content Analysis and – Production– Media Content Interaction & Accessibility– Norwegian Language Technologies\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram:\n1. Christoph Trattner (Center Director): Opening and welcome speech\n2. Mehdi Elahi (Associate Prof./WP Leader\, WP2): “Research on Responsible Recommendation”\n3. Jonathan Geffen (PhD Candidate\, WP4): “Playing the News – Newsgames 101”\n4. Ana Milojevic (Postdoc Fellow\, WP1): “Connecting Media and Users – Analytics and Metrics ”\n5. Coffee Break\n6. Sohail Ahmed Khan (PhD Candidate\, WP3): “Visual Content Verification in Era of Deepfakes”\n7. Huiling You (PhD Candidate\, WP5): “Event Extraction from News Articles”\n8. Round table discussion\n9. Wrap-up\n  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/future-week-mediafutures-workshop-towards-responsible-media-technology-innovation/ CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Screenshot-2022-05-13-at-12.11.27.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220520T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220520T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132203 CREATED:20220506T120804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220610T134409Z UID:12064-1653058800-1653062400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Wolftech & MediaFutures Joint Seminar: Human Interaction and Collaboration with Machine Learning Models. Hendrik Strobelt\, IBM Research / MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab DESCRIPTION:Hendrik Strobelt\, the Explainability Lead at the MIT-IBM Watson AI lab\, will give a seminar on 20 May\, at 15:00. \nTITLE: Human Interaction and Collaboration with Machine Learning models \nWHEN: Friday 20 May\, 15:00-16:00WHERE: Zoom: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErdeiurz0tGtGEcOjhfEQBEwTKqcblgjju  \nMeeting ID: \n\nPassword: \n \nABSTRACT: \nWith the increasing adoption of machine learning models across domains\, we have to think about the human role when interacting with these models. In the last years\, my collaborators and I have created a series of tools that utilize visualization and visual user interaction to help investigate behavior of machine learning models (for NLP and CV) and that might help creating algorithms to detect fake text. I will present a selection of these scientific tools that makes humans play and then understand. \nBIO: \nHendrik Strobelt is the Explainability Lead at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab\, Research Scientist at IBM Research\, and currently professor at University of Konstanz. His recent research is on visualization for and human collaboration with AI models to foster explainability and intuition. His work involves NLP models and generative models while he is advocating to utilize a mix of data modalities to solve real-world problems. His research is applied to tasks in machine learning\, in NLP\, in the biomedical domain\, and in chemistry. Hendrik joined IBM in 2017 after postdoctoral positions at Harvard SEAS and NYU Tandon. He received a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Konstanz in computer science (Visualization) and holds an MSc (Diplom) in computer science from TU Dresden. His work has been published at venues like IEEE VIS\, ICLR\, ACM Siggraph\, ACL\, NeurIPS\, ICCV\, PNAS\, Nature BME\, or Science Advances. He received multiple best paper/honorable mention awards at EuroVis\, BioVis\, VAST\, ACL Demo\, or NeurIPS demo. He received the Lohrmann medal from TU Dresden as the highest student honor. Hendrik has served in program committees and organization committees for IEEE VIS\, BioVis\, EuroVis. He served on organization committees for IEEE VIS\, VISxAI\, ICLR\, ICML\, NeurIPS. Hendrik is visiting researcher at MIT CSAIL. (more: https://hendrik.strobelt.com) URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/wolftech-mediafutures-joint-seminar-human-interaction-and-collaboration-with-machine-learning-models-hendrik-strobelt-ibm-research-mit-ibm-watson-ai-lab/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Wrorkshop.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220513T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220513T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132204 CREATED:20220425T114853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220610T134520Z UID:11893-1652443200-1652446800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Media entertainment experiences among youth on global platforms. Marika Lüders\, Professor at the University of Oslo DESCRIPTION:Marika Lüders\, Professor at the University of Oslo\, will give a seminar on 13 May\, at 12:00. \nTITLE: Media entertainment experiences among youth on global platformsWHEN: Friday 13 May\, 12:00-13:00WHERE: Zoom – \nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/68002953641?pwd=WGU1ZGFKUTNMZlZ0a29GaVlrWFJuUT09 \nMeeting ID: 680 0295 3641\n\nPassword: PEw18sgA\n \nABSTRACT: \nThe media and platforms taken for granted by those born since the turn of the millennium are often interpreted as causing unprecedented competition for national and legacy players in the field of media entertainment. Accordingly\, notions such as “lost generation” signal how legacy media perceive re-engagement with youth audiences as core to their future existence. In this talk I will first address how the notion of youth as a lost generation serves a strategic function in the media entertainment sector by legitimating actions. I will next report from how we study teens’ media entertainment experiences in the research project “Global Natives? Serving young audiences on global platforms”. By enquiring the media entertainment experiences of youth as constituted by content produced by legacy media and what is often termed “social media entertainment”\, we hope to advance knowledge on youth as a media generation. \nBIO: \nMarika Lüders is a Professor at the Department of Media and Communication\, University of Oslo. She has almost 20 years of experience in researching user/audience experiences\, social media\, global platforms\, and the intersections of the material and experiential levels of digital technologies. Lüders is currently the project leader of the research project “Global Natives? Serving young audiences on global platforms” (2021-2025).  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-media-entertainment-experiences-among-youth-on-global-platforms-marika-luders-professor-at-the-university-of-oslo/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/ml1200-1600-300ppi_photoby_ellen_evju_jahr.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220504T141500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220504T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132204 CREATED:20220425T120800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220705T065715Z UID:11901-1651673700-1651676400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Human-Computer Interaction lecture series: UX Research Design in Practice: Some Examples from Safety Critical Industrial Environments. Dr Duy Le\, senior research scientist at VNUHCM University of Science\, Vietnam DESCRIPTION:Dr. Duy Le\, a senior research scientist and head of the Human-Computer Interaction division of SELab\, VNUHCM University of Science\, Vietnam\, will give a seminar on May 4\, at 14:15. \nTITLE: UX Research Design in Practice: Some Examples from Safety Critical Industrial Environments \nWHEN: Wednesday 4 May\, 14:15-15:00WHERE: MediaFutures and Zoom: \nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/69626023560?pwd=cVdKWjR1VithNUo4a1g0NTQ1OGpFdz09\n\nMeeting ID: 696 2602 3560\nPassword: icrxk07s\n \nABSTRACT: \nA typical user experience (UX) research and design process is a sequence of user empathization\, problem definition\, solution ideation\, designing\, and evaluation. However\, how this sequence is executed in practice can have several variants\, heavily depending on the resources and the constraints of the environment where the UX work is performed. In this talk\, we will explore some exemplary UX research and design projects targeting manufacturing plants\, which are examples of safety critical industrial environments. The talk will highlight some particular contextual constraints in this kind of environment and then present how UX practitioners flexibly applied the typical design process to comply with the constraints while still adequately ensuring the quality of a user-centered design work. Besides that\, the talk will also demonstrate how different types of creative media such as storyboard\, paper-sketched user interfaces\, animated mockups\, and games can be flexibly used in industrial UX research and design projects. \nBIO: \nDr. Duy Le is currently a senior research scientist and head of the human-computer interaction division of SELab\, VNUHCM University of Science\, Vietnam. He is an HCI researcher with rich working experiences both in academia and industry. He obtained a PhD degree in human-computer interaction from Chalmers University of Technology\, Sweden. Prior to joining VNUHCM University of Science\, he had two years working as a research scientist in the UX research group of ABB Research Sweden where he performed several UX research projects spanning across human-robot interaction\, augmented reality (AR)\, virtual reality (VR)\, and human-automation interaction. In his current position\, Duy is leading research on intelligent interactive systems\, which aim to combine user-centered design\, artificial intelligence and cutting edge interactive technologies such as interactive surfaces\, AR\, VR\, and embodied interfaces to improve user efficacy and provide novel experiences. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-ux-research-design-in-practicesome-examples-from-safety-critical-industrial-environments-dr-duy-le-senior-research-scientist-and-head-of-the-human-computer-interaction-divisio/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/DuyLe_1-e1657004223713.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220504T111500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220504T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132204 CREATED:20220429T134009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220610T134834Z UID:11919-1651662900-1651665600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Human-Computer Interaction lecture series: Visual Attention in Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Interactions. Katarzyna Wisiecka\, PhD Candidate in Psychology and Informatics at SWPS University & Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. DESCRIPTION:Katrzyna Wisiecka\, PhD candidate in psychology and informatics at SWPS University & Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology\, will give a seminar on May 4th\, at 11:15. \nTITLE: Visual Attention in Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Interactions \nWHEN: Wednesday 4 May\, 11:15-12:00WHERE: MediaFutures and Zoom:  \nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/61410167655?pwd=WFJXbGdMVXVuYk5sTDJ2bllPZ3Yydz09\n\n\nMeeting ID: 614 1016 7655\nPassword: 9VA5L6D1\n  \nABSTRACT: \nComputer-mediated interaction has become an integral part of our daily routines. Despite decreased non-verbal communication and face-to-face contact with partners of collaboration\, people learned how to remotely work together. The consequences of decreased non-verbal signals such as gaze communication on collaboration quality in remote settings are however not fully investigated. The present PhD project intends to examine in four eye tracking experiments the role of visual attention during face-to-face and computer-mediated interaction. The project has three interrelated aims: (1) examining the relationship between interaction quality and gaze patterns in remote and face-to-face collaboration; (2) facilitating workspace awareness among collaborators by visualization of the partner’s gaze direction; (3) investigate whether gaze communication enhances physiological synchronization measured by heart rate variability (HRV) in computer-mediated collaboration. Current results suggest that remote collaboration is challenging for participants and its quality benefits from gaze visualizations during task solving. Enhancing gaze communication during remote collaboration has the potential to increase physiological synchronization between collaborators. Broadening the knowledge about physiological correlates of computer-mediated collaboration is a step to develop gaze-based solutions tailored to remote interactions. \nBIO: \nKatarzyna Wisiecka\, M.A. in clinical psychology\, current PhD candidate in psychology and informatics at SWPS University & Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. She is a member of the Eye Tracking Research Center at SWPS University. Her main research interests include social synchronization and gaze communication in computer environments. She is a scholarship holder in grants funded by the National Science Center and National Centre for Research and Development in Poland. She also takes part in numerous international projects including media accessibility and human-computer interaction such as LEAD-ME funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the EU. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/human-computer-interaction-lecture-series-visual-attention-in-face-to-face-and-computer-mediated-interactions-phd-candidate-ph-d-candidate-in-psychology-and-informatics-at-swps-university-polish-j/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP4 Media Content Interaction & Accessibility ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/kw.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220421T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220421T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132204 CREATED:20220331T190334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220424T153715Z UID:11745-1650546000-1650549600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Fairness—Are algorithms a burden or a solution? Dr. Christine Bauer\, Assistant Professor at Utrecht University DESCRIPTION:Dr. Christine Bauer\, Assistant Professor at Utrecht University\, will give a seminar on 21 April\, at 13:00. \nTITLE: Fairness—Are algorithms a burden or a solution?WHEN: Thursday 21 April\, 13:00-14:00WHERE: Zoom – \nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/66369080035?pwd=MDFzdmV6TUdCVVZlZnhsNWc1eHlMUT09  \nMeeting ID: 663 6908 0035\n\nPassword: F9fN181n\n \nABSTRACT: \nRecommender systems play an important role in everyday life. These systems assist users in choosing products to buy\, movies to watch\, or news articles to read. With their wide usage\, there is an increasing pressure that such systems are fair. Besides serving diverse groups of users\, recommenders need to represent and serve item providers in a fair manner\, too. But what is fair? In this talk\, I will present research on fairness in music recommender systems taking the artists’ perspective. What do artists consider fair? Are algorithms a burden or a solution? In particular\, I will zoom in on recent research on gender bias in music recommenders and how we can address this issue. \nBIO: \nDr. Christine Bauer is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University\, The Netherlands. She is an experienced teacher in a wide spectrum of topics in computing and information systems—ranging from algorithms to adaptive interactive systems to research methods. Her research activities center on interactive intelligent systems. Thereby\, she takes a human-centered computing approach\, where technology follows humans’ and society’s needs. Central themes in her research are context and context-adaptivity.  In the recent years\, she worked on context-aware recommender systems. Core interest in her current research activities are fairness and multi-method evaluations. Further information can be found at https://christinebauer.eu. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-fairness-are-algorithms-a-burden-or-a-solution-dr-christine-bauer-assistant-professor-at-utrecht-university/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/thumbnail_image001.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220408T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220408T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132204 CREATED:20220321T115124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220321T193423Z UID:11699-1649412000-1649419200@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:UiB AI #2 But\, why? - make AI answer! DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the second seminar in the UiB AI seminar series.  The event is open to all employees and students at UiB. Prior registration is required.  \nTITLE: UiB AI #2 But\, why?  – make AI answer! \nWHEN: Friday 8 April\, 10:00-12:00WHERE: Universitetsaulaen\, Muséplassen 3\, Bergen \nSeminar registration \nBackground: \nArtificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly involved in decision making. Decision-making can be a monotonous task that involves a lot of routine operations and the processing of vast amounts of information. Involving artificial intelligence is a possibility to spare human time and allow for it to be used in a more meaningful way\, both for society and for the individuals involved. \nDecisions by AI can mean many different things. On one hand\, machine learning is used to identify who is most likely to pass the exam\, how much your house will be appraised for\, or how likely malignant that spot is on your mammography image.  On the other hand\, automated decision-makers are built to follow a specific set of rules. When a decision affects our life\, we would like to know how and why that decision was made. Knowing why helps scientists and engineers improve the automated decision-making tools. It also helps individuals to retain their autonomy. If you do not know why\, you cannot possibly do anything to change a decision. Not knowing why makes the personal experience the same as being subjected to a roll of a dice deciding the value of your property and the quality of your life. \nTo explain means to provide information about a process that is meaningful\, useful and understandable to the person for whom it is intended. Not all AI methods `shed’ enough information for a meaningful explanation to be feasible. It is not that the why exists somewhere and the AI method would not admit to it. Machine learning algorithms produce models of correlations in the data. The data is a numerical representation of the real world. There might be a reason in the real world why two phenomena are related. A machine learning model can correctly identify that relation without having access to\, or making use of\, the reasons for it. AI methods that rely on symbolic representations by design produce `reason based’ decisions. However\, those reasons are not explanations\, just the material from which explanations are built. \nHow do we build AI that explains its decisions? There are numerous challenges to be addressed both in providing material for explanations and constructing explanations. Ultimately\, some AI approaches would always be more explanation friendly than others. One can break a walnut with a sledgehammer\, but we do not use sledgehammers for this purpose because they tend to destroy the walnut. Analogously\, an AI approach can be used for a decision-making purpose\, but its explainability should be matched with a consideration of what impact do the produced decisions have. Otherwise\, we risk breaking something we cherish. \nIn this seminar we will describe how AI – sees the world and makes decisions. We will elucidate what happens when we say the AI reasons and the AI learns. We will discuss how researchers are trying to change different AI methods to gain more explainability from AI. \nBIO: \nSamia Touileb is a researcher at MediaFutures working on Norwegian Language Technologies. Her main research interests are information extraction\, sentiment analysis\, bias and fairness in NLP\, and applications of NLP and machine learning methods to tasks within social science research. She holds a PhD in Information Science with a focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP) from the University of Bergen\, was a Postdoc at the Language Technology Group at the University of Oslo\, and has been working within research in and applications of AI and NLP for almost a decade. \nGhazaal Sheikhi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at MediaFutures. Her research interests revolve around machine learning\, natural language processing and textual content analysis. She holds a PhD in Computer engineering (Machine Learning) from Eastern Mediterranean University\, North Cyprus and a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology\, Teheran\, Iran. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/uib-ai-2-but-why-make-ai-answer/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/uib_ai_2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220317T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220317T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132204 CREATED:20220222T102109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220320T133719Z UID:11451-1647522000-1647525600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Detecting Fake News by Using Weakly Supervised Learning. Assoc. Prof. Özlem Özgöbek DESCRIPTION:Dr. Özlem Özgöbek\, Associate Professor at NTNU\, Norway will give a seminar on 17 March\, at 13:00. \nTITLE: Detecting Fake News by Using Weakly Supervised LearningWHEN: Thursday 17 March\, 13:00-14:00WHERE: Zoom – \nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/64607939290?pwd=cStOdG90YWRjSW02RmN6TjAxakQwZz09 \nMeeting ID: 646 0793 9290\n\nPassword: m9hyue9C\n \nABSTRACT: \nSpread and existence of fake news has been amplified by the advancements in internet and social media. Today\, it is one of the most important problems that affects the society. Various artificial intelligence methods have been used to address the automatic detection of fake news. However\, the complex and dynamic nature of news makes this task challenging. In this talk\, I’m going to address some of these challenges and present an ongoing work on fake news detection by using weakly supervised learning. \nBIO: \nDr. Özlem Özgöbek works as an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science at NTNU. Her research focuses on recommender systems\, privacy issues in recommender systems and disinformation detection for online news. She is a co-founder of Norwegian Big Data Symposium (NOBIDS) and actively involved in organizing INRA workshop series since 2014. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-detecting-fake-news-by-using-weakly-supervised-learning-assoc-prof-ozlem-ozgobek/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/NTNU.-dr.-Ozgobek.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220225T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220225T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132204 CREATED:20220203T142132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220306T135857Z UID:11210-1645786800-1645790400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Visual Content Verification in the News Domain. PhD Candidate Sohail Ahmed Khan DESCRIPTION:Sohail Ahmed Khan\, PhD Candidate from MediaFutures\, University of Bergen\, Norway will give a seminar on 25 February\, at 11:00. \nTITLE: Visual Content Verification in the News DomainWHEN: Friday 25 February\, 11:00-12:00WHERE: Zoom – https://uib.zoom.us/j/66009400805?pwd=MWpHZjdpK29TZTlSTVpZTXhDdkhSZz09 \nMeeting ID: 660 0940 0805\n\nPassword: qHdQfj1S\n \nABSTRACT: \nThe purpose of the talk is to get valuable comments and suggestions from the industrial partners about visual content verification in the news domain. I will talk about the research questions which I plan to answer during my PhD. This project is associated with Task 3.2 at MediaFutures’ WorkPackage-3 (Multimedia Content Analysis and Production) aiming to develop tools/prototypes for visual content verification. I will talk about visual content verification in the news domain while focusing on three research questions\, namely 1) how the journalists and news rooms verify visual user generated content they encounter online\, 2) how to effectively combat deep fake media\, and 3) how to fight mis/disinformation shared online in the form of cheap fake media? Our expectations from this project are 1) advancing the state-of-the-art in automated multimedia content verification and 2) developing prototypes based on the proposed models which can be employed for multimedia content verification by the industry partners. \nBIO: \nSohail is a PhD candidate at MediaFutures and University of Bergen. He holds an MSc in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sheffield\, UK. Prior to joining MediaFutures\, Sohail worked as a research assistant at Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI\, Abu Dhabi\, UAE. Before that\, he worked as a remote research assistant at CYENS Centre of Excellence\, Nicosia\, Cyprus. His research interests intersect deep learning\, computer vision and multimedia forensics. Sohail is currently associated with the MediaFutures’ Work Package 3\, Media Content Analysis and Production. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-visual-content-verification-in-the-news-domain/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/sohali-khan-e1639393146294.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220211T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220211T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132205 CREATED:20220101T154920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220204T084423Z UID:10587-1644580800-1644584400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: News diversity and recommendation systems: An interdisciplinary approach. Dr. Kristin Van Damme. DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kristin Van Damme\, a senior researcher from Artevelde University of Applied Sciences\, will give a seminar on 11 February at 12:00. \nTITLE: News diversity and recommendation systems: An interdisciplinary approach.WHEN: Friday 11 February\, 12:00-13:00WHERE: Zoom – https://uib.zoom.us/j/68035691403?pwd=aGtEaVlVREx3MzFVM3diQlJGU1JCZz09Meeting ID: 680 3569 1403Password: pXe8JC3C \nABSTRACT: \nConcerns about selective exposure and filter bubbles in the digital news environment have raised questions on how news recommendation systems can be more citizen-oriented so that they facilitate – rather than limit – the normative aims of journalism. In response to this question\, the NewsDNA project aimed at developing an algorithm that uses news diversity as a key driver for personalized news recommendation. To do so\, we combined insights from multiple research disciples: computer sciences (news recommendation systems); communication sciences (conceptualisations of news diversity); law (right to receive information) and computational linguistics (automated content extraction from text). As such\, we hoped to give stakeholders – such as policymakers and news producers – a realistic view on the opportunities and pitfalls of developing a citizen-oriented news recommendation system.   \nBIO: \nDr. Kristin Van Damme is senior researcher in journalism at Artevelde University of Applied Sciences (Research & Development Center Communication\, Media and Design) and project lead of the News Barometer project\, an investigation of youth’s (12-26y) relation with news and disinformation. Additionally\, she is lecturer Journalism at Communication Sciences at Ghent University. She obtained a PhD in journalism studies by studying news use in the transforming news environment. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-news-diversity-and-recommendation-systems-an-interdisciplinary-approach-dr-kristin-van-damme/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/profielfoto-rowles-Kristin-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220114T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20220114T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132205 CREATED:20220107T203514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220115T205554Z UID:10693-1642158000-1642161600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Automated Fact-checking: the scope of the problem in the state-of-the-art. Postdoc Fellow Ghazaal Sheikhi. DESCRIPTION:Ghazaal Sheikhi\, Postdoc Fellow from MediaFutures\, University of Bergen\, Norway will give a seminar on 14 January\, at 11:00. \nTITLE: Automated Fact-checking: the scope of the problem in the state-of-the-artWHEN: Friday 14 January\, 11:00-12:00WHERE: Zoom https://uib.zoom.us/j/68310482035?pwd=NHR2NXhuU1lZSjFHdEZCekNxaC9yZz09Meeting ID: 683 1048 2035Password: krFzY285 \nABSTRACT: \nFact-checking in technical terms is the process of analyzing textual content for claim veracity detection. To mitigate the time and the human burden of fact-checking and to allow for more fact-checked articles\, the use of ML and NLP to automate the fact-checking procedure has attracted notable interest in the recent decade. Automated fact-checking can be decomposed into three major sub-tasks including claim detection\, evidence retrieval/ranking\, and claim verification. Factual verification is the term used to refer to evidence retrieval and verification\, integrated into a single task. Stance detection has also been considered as a distinct component of the pipeline\, but it is basically part of the verification procedure. Another integrant of the verification sometimes addressed as a separate task is justification/explanation generation. The proposed solutions either result in end-to-end fact-checking systems or tackle certain tasks in the pipeline. This seminar covers the scope of the automated fact-checking problem in recent literature focusing on several approaches based on traditional machine learning techniques\, deep learning models\, information retrieval systems\, and knowledge graphs.   \nBIO: \nGhazaal Sheikhi is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies\, University of Bergen\, Norway. Her research interests revolve around machine learning\, natural language processing and content analysis. Ghazaal investigates (semi) automated methods and tools to support fact-checking in newsrooms. In MediaFutures\, she studies AI systems\, NLP models and\, ML methods to support fact-checking in newsrooms\, particularly aiming at enhancing claim detection\, verification\, and justification.  \nBefore\, Ghazaal was an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering\, Final International University\, North Cyprus. She holds a PhD in Computer Engineering (Machine Learning) from Eastern Mediterranean University\, North Cyprus and a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology\, Tehran\, Iran. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-automated-fact-checking-the-scope-of-the-problem-in-the-state-of-the-art-postdoc-fellow-ghazaal-sheikhi/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Ghazaal_sized.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211202T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211202T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132205 CREATED:20211123T075729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211204T190523Z UID:10112-1638446400-1638450000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Modeling News Flows: How Feedback Loops Influence Citizens' Beliefs and Shape Societies. Assoc. Prof. Damian Trilling. DESCRIPTION:Damian Trilling\, Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam\, will give a seminar on 2 December\, at 12:00. \nTITLE: Modeling News Flows: How FeedbackLoops Influence Citizens’ Beliefs and Shape SocietiesWHEN: Thursday 2 December\, 12:00-13:00WHERE: Zoom : https://uib.zoom.us/j/62205578637?pwd=azNkZ21UY3V6cE5KYTVJRGxmclZOQT09#successMeeting ID: 622 0557 8637Password: YT2sX3MZ \nABSTRACT: \nIn both public and scientific debates\, many worry that the architecture of our current (online) media environment leads to so-called “echo chambers” or “filter bubbles”. In this talk\, I will challenge these metaphors and argue that they distract us from a deeper understanding of the underlying\, reinforcing processes. First\, I will discuss the role of recommender systems and other algorithmic systems in news exposure and dissemination\, and under which circumstances the feedback loops they produce can indeed have detrimental consequences for society. Second\, I will discuss feedback loops as they occur between different outlets and domains. This results in the outline a research agenda. I will end on an optimistic note\, though\, and argue how a stronger role of communication science can help developing beneficial tools for our society. \nBIO: \nDamian Trilling is Associate Professor at the Department of Communicaton Science at the University of Amsterdam)\, where he is Co-Director of the Communication in the Digital Society Initiative and member of the program group Political Communication and Journalism. He is also one of the co-founders of the Computational Communication Science Amsterdam Lab. Next to general courses in political communication\, he teaches intensively in the area of Computational Communication Science. His research focuses on the question how news spreads in today’s media landscape and how people follow the news. In particular\, he is interested in reinforcing processes\, such as the question in how far exposure and distribution re-inforce each other\, and how the users and algorithms interact in such processes. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-modeling-news-flows-how-feedbackloops-influence-citizens-beliefs-and-shape-societies-assoc-prof-damian-trilling/ CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Damian-e1475437748392-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211126T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211126T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132206 CREATED:20211120T203649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211129T070452Z UID:10037-1637928000-1637931600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Platform provenance analysis for digital images. Assistant Prof. Cecilia Pasquini. DESCRIPTION:Cecilia Pasquini\, Assistant Professor at the University of Trento\, Italy\, will give a seminar on 26 November\, at 12:00. \nTITLE: Platform provenance analysis for digital images. \nWHEN: Friday 26 November\, 12:00-13:00\nWHERE: https://uib.zoom.us/j/61463829083?pwd=UmpxU3AwY0JFWDZITWppWkcxWlZTUT09\n \nMeeting ID: 614 6382 9083\nPassword: 65UPcP4H \n\n \nABSTRACT: \n \nThe forensic analysis of image and video data that have been shared through social networks entails significant technological challenges. In fact\, during the (possibly multiple) uploading processes\, sharing platforms typically apply on the data routine operations such as recompression and resizing\, so to reduce memory and bandwidth requirements. While this implies a degradation of the visual information that hinders\, for instance\, the possibility to identify the acquisition device\, it has been observed that the transition through different social media platforms leave distinctive patterns on the data.By characterising those patterns at both signal and metadata-level\, information on previous sharing operations can be extracted\, thus possibly enabling a backward reconstruction of the sharing path of the visual data under analysis. This talk will report recent evidences in this direction and opportunities for provenance analysis on shared digital images.\n \nBIO: \n \nCecilia Pasquini received her PhD in 2016 from the University of Trento\, Italy. From 2016 to 2020\, she has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Privacy and Security Lab with the Universität Innsbruck\, Austria\, and at the IT Security Lab at the University of Münster\, Germany. In 2013\, she was visiting PhD student at the University of Vigo\, Spain. Prior to that\, she received a BS and MS degree in Mathematics from the University of Ferrara\, Italy\, in 2010 and 2012.Her research area lies at the intersection of multimedia signal processing  and  information security\, with special focus on image and video forensics\, multimedia security\,  adversarial signal processing and machine learning. She has participated in several projects on these topics\, such as UNCHAINED (funded by DARPA)\, PREMIER (funded by MIUR)\, ITBDIF (funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)\, J-MDS\, NOTIS\, ECMSF (funded by EUREGIO).  She has been General Co-Chair of the ACM Workshop on Information Hiding & Multimedia Security 2018\, and co-organizer of the special session “Information Security meets Adversarial Examples” at IEEE WIFS 2019. She is member of the Technical Program Committee of several conferences and workshops (e.g.\, ACM IH&MMSec\, IEEE WIFS\, IEEE ICASSP\, EUSIPCO)\, serves as reviewer for many journals (e.g.\, IEEE TIFS\, IEEE TCSVT\, IEEE TIP) and as Associate Editor for the EURASIP Journal on Information Security. She is an elected member of the EURASIP BForSec Technical Area Committee. She received the Top 10% paper award (IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing 2013) and the “F. Carassa” GTTI 2015 award for the best ongoing PhD.   URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-multi-clue-reconstruction-of-sharing-chains-for-social-media-images/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/P_Cecilia_Pasquini-e1637440800612.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211125T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211125T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132206 CREATED:20210916T123151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211129T065236Z UID:9240-1637841600-1637845200@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Translating Educational Data into Meaningful Practices: Insights from the field of Learning Analytics. Mohammad Khalil. DESCRIPTION:Mohammad Khalil\, senior researcher at UiB Centre for the Science of Learning & Technology (SLATE)\, will give a seminar on 25 November\, at 12:00. \nTITLE: Translating Educational Data into Meaningful Practices: Insights from the field of Learning AnalyticsWHEN: Thursday 25 November\, 12:00-13:00WHERE: https://uib.zoom.us/j/63125529816?pwd=OTc0MStQYUczTkEzTXVRZTlBYUpyQT09Meeting ID: 631 2552 9816Password: 8U0vAVAy \nABSTRACT: \nSince the last decade\, higher education has moved online and institutions have had access to more student data than ever before. A proactive move before the recent pandemic where online and virtual learning environments had functioned as primarily digital repositories of educational resources\, employing student data to improve learning experiences and environments was disseminated in 2011\, so-called Learning Analytics. For 11 years\, the emerging of Learning Analytics has evolved into a mature research field and practice. \nIn this talk\, I will share with you some facts about the field in 4Ws\, Where it originates from? What theories have influenced the field? How does it translate students’ data into useful practices (empirical evidence)? and What concerns have been raised through such usage? \nBIO:Mohammad Khalil\, PhD\, is a senior researcher of Learning Analytics at the Centre for the Science of Learning & Technology (SLATE). His research interests focus on understanding online learning behavior based on students digital traces in virtual environments\, including self-regulation. His other research interests include privacy and ethics\, and visualizations. Khalil is the author of over 60 research papers in scholarly journals and international conferences in the area of Learning Analytics and Technology-Enhanced Learning. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-translating-educational-data-into-meaningful-practices-insights-from-the-field-of-learning-analytics-mohammad-khalil/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Mohammad-Khalil.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211111T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211111T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132206 CREATED:20210916T121604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T143626Z UID:9233-1636635600-1636639200@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:CEDAS & MediaFutures Joint Seminar: Knowledge Graph: Exploring Reasoning and Learning with Jeff Z. Pan DESCRIPTION:Please join the Center for Data Science (CEDAS\, UiB) and MediaFutures for an invited talk by Dr. Jeff Z. Pan from the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh\, about the topic of Knowledge Graphs. \nTITLE: Knowledge Graph: Exploring Reasoning and LearningWHEN: 11 November\, 13:00-14:00WHERE: https://uib.zoom.us/j/66264523995?pwd=V0RCd3l4NHNkSHpBRzlXZzl0RDEwdz09 \nAbstract: The topic of large scare knowledge representation and reasoning has been popular over the last two decades. It has gone  through a few stages in recent years\, including the Semantic Web\, Linked Data and Knowledge Graph. Different stages come with different reasoning tasks; e.g.\, the Semantic Web stage favours ontological (schema) reasoning\, while the Linked Data stage attracts data reasoning and query answering. In the Knowledge Graph stage\, it seems that learning is regarded as a key reasoning task\, at least as an approximate reasoning task. In this talk\, I will share some of my thoughts on learning and reasoning in the Knowledge Graph stage\, from the perspective of approximate reasoning\, and maybe more. \nSpeaker: Dr Jeff Z. Pan is a Reader on Knowledge Graphs at  the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh. He co-chairs the Knowledge Graphs group at the Alan Turing Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Manchester. His research focuses primarily on knowledge representation and artificial intelligence\, in particular on knowledge graph based learning and reasoning\, and knowledge based natural language understanding and generations\, as well as their applications. He was an official reviewer of the international Knowledge Graph standards RDF and SPARQL and was a key contributor of the international standard (OWL) of Knowledge Graph schemas. He led the development of the award-wining TrOWL approximate reasoner\, which is one of the top three OWL 2 DL reasoners in the sound and complete Ontology Reasoner Evaluation (ORE2014). He was the Chief Scientist of the EU Marie-Curie K-Drive project. He is the Chief Editor of the first two books on Knowledge Graph. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Web Semantics (JWS) and of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS). He is a Programme Chair of the 19th International  Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020)\, the premier international forum for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph. \nFor more info from CEDAS\, please visit: https://www.uib.no/cedas-norsk/147863/knowledge-graph-exploring-reasoning-and-learning  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/cedas-mediafutures-joint-seminar-knowledge-graph-exploring-reasoning-and-learning/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/jeffpan4-1-e1635762026954.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211028T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20211028T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T132206 CREATED:20210916T121140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220225T081307Z UID:9231-1635422400-1635426000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures Seminar: Countering rumours in online social media: A comprehensive response with the focus on ML-based approaches\, Amir Ebrahimi Fard DESCRIPTION:Amir Ebrahimi Fard\, Postdoctoral Researcher on Explainable AI at Maastricht University\, will give a talk on Thursday 28 October\, at 12:00. \n  \nTITLE: Countering rumours in online social media: A comprehensive response with the focus on ML-based approachesWHEN: Thursday 28 October 2021\, 12:00-13:00WHERE: Zoom: https://uib.zoom.us/j/62501981715?pwd=cTFaemd6d2gzWTVlamcrWW9BTC8rdz09 Meeting ID: 625 0198 1715Password: MQFY5Zm1 \nAbstract:  \nThe phenomenon of rumour spreading refers to a collective process where people participate in the transmission of unverified and relevant information to make sense of ambiguous\, dangerous\, or threatening situations. The dissemination of rumours in certain subject domains such as healthcare\, economics\, and politics on a large scale no matter with what purpose could precipitate catastrophic repercussions. Thus it is of utmost importance to respond to this growing threat urgently and meticulously. There have been serious efforts by governments\, platforms\, news organisations\, and academic institutions around the world to curb and control the dissemination of online rumours; however\, the surge of unsubstantiated claims and conspiracy theories during the COVID time showed the power of this phenomenon once more. \nInspired by epidemiology\, during this seminar\, I will discuss a comprehensive and coordinated response to counter rumour spreading in social media. Besides\, in this response\, I will emphasise the role of machine learning-based models due to their scalability and point out one specific issue with current approaches to computational rumour detection. \nBio:  \nAmir Ebrahimi Fard is a postdoctoral researcher on Explainable AI at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering at Maastricht University. He received his PhD from TU Delft on the topic of rumour detection in online social media. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar-amir-ebrahimi-fard/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Events,Seminar,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/photo_Amir-Ebrahimi-Fard-scaled-e1636031008101.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR