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:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250604T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250604T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214655 CREATED:20250530T083115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T084718Z UID:20998-1749031200-1749056400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Japan-Norway Encounters  日本とノルウェーの出会い x Bergen HCI summer seminar DESCRIPTION:On the 4th of June\, MediaFutures professor Morten Fjeld as part of the HCI research group presents the HCI summer seminar with a special program for the attendees and three test-defenses of PhDs in HCI. Amongst them will be MediaFutures PhD candidate Peter Andrews (see program below). \nWe are proud to announce that we also got visiting researchers from the Tohoku University in Japan holding a presentation\, as well as members of the UiB HCI research group presenting their work. \nHuman-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a subject with implications for research and development (R&D) in areas such as education\, health\, engineering\, architecture\, and media. While innovation is key in advancing HCI itself\, innovation is also needed to advance research and industry in these areas.  \nDuring this event you will be able to see selected results of the UiB HCI infrastructure project. Presentations will show cutting-edge research demonstrations including conversational agents (Peter)\, motion capture (Miroslav)\, gaze tracking (Yuki)\, AR/VR technology (Paulina\, Floris)\, and digital biomarkers (Vegard).  Some of these projects are partially supported by the UiB digital accessibility initiative. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Program\n Check out the Program below by clicking on the date. \n \n \n \n \n \n Wednesday June 4th\n Locations: \n9.45-13.00 – Auditorium Egget Studentsenteret\, Finding your way\, Room layout \n13.00- 17.00 – Nordre Allmenning 3 Nygårdsgaten 5\, Conference center \n\n\n\nTime\nWednesday June 4th\n\n\n9:00\nPicking up at Terminus entrance\n\n\n9:15\nQuick guidance at the Museum Garden\n\n\n9:45\nWelcome and opening remarks of HCI summer seminar / Announcements\n\n\n10:00\n\nPhD defense rehearsal talk:Human-AI Interaction for Video Content: Designing and Engineering Multimodal Conversational Agents \nPeter Andrews\, PhD candidate\, UiB\, Bergen \nAbstract: This thesis unifies the second screening experience with Computer Vision (CV) and Deep Learning (DL)\, thereby building an interactive video framework following the From Video to Data → From Data to Narrative → From Narrative to Interaction paradigm. The result is a Multimodal Conversational Agent (MCA) that can hyper-contextualize video content. This video framework encompasses three research questions:1) How can recent advances in computer vision and artificial intelligence facilitate interaction with video content?2) How can interactive video increase subjective understanding of the content?3) How do young adults perceive the user experience of interactive video for news broadcasts? \nAnswering these questions gives a better grasp of what is needed to build an end-to-end interactive video framework with AI. At the same time\, empirical research can show how the capabilities of the framework can improve user experience and comprehension. \nTo address these questions\, I develop prototypes for interactive video in sports (football) and politics. I approached the video framework in a modular manner with four in-house design prototypes – FootyVision\, the Automated Commentary System (ACS)\, AiCommentator\, and AiModerator. Collectively\, these four prototypes demonstrate how CV- and NLP-based event detection and LLM-powered MCAs can synchronize and facilitate real-time interaction with video content. I tested prototypes in lab-based mixed method studies and found that interactive video with MCA can enhance engagement\, immersion\, and subjective understanding. However\, a Human-AI Interaction (HAI) trade-off between automation and user control occurs. While a high degree of automation can tightly synchronize the experience\, it comes at the cost of user control. The affordances of MCA include multimodal feedback and remediation. Multimodal feedback supports subjective understanding\, which aligns with the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML). Remediation involves repurposing traditional roles in innovative ways. MCAs achieve this by transforming sports commentators and political moderators into remediated personas\, thus leading to increased engagement. Moreover\, MCAs can also push the user into a more objective viewing state\, highlighting a trade-off between objectivity and emotional involvement. Finally\, trust is paramount for high-stakes environments where transparency is crucial. \nTest opponent: Shlomo Berkovksy\, Macquarie U.\, Australia \n\n\n\n11:00\n\nKeynote: Synthetic versus Real Media: From the age of signal processing to the battle between AI models \nProf. Giulia Boato\, University of Trento\, Italy \nAbstract: Over the last few decades\, the realism of synthetic media has increased dramatically. The multimedia research community has developed techniques to distinguish real and fake media\, initially focusing on images and\, more recently\, videos. Early methods relied heavily on signal processing and artefact detection. However\, in recent years\, AI-generated media has become so hyper-realistic that it is perceived as “more real than real.” This has sparked the AI-versus-AI battle towards new defensive models. \nBio: Giulia Boato is a Full Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science\, University of Trento\, Italy. Since 2012\, she has pioneered research at the intersection of signal processing\, physiological signal analysis\, and\, more recently\, advanced deep learning methods to distinguish between virtual and real humans. Her work also addresses various forms of digital media manipulation\, with a recent focus on deepfake detection and forensic analysis in open-world scenarios such as social media. She has authored over 140 publications in international journals. Her research spans image and signal processing\, multimedia data protection\, and digital forensics. She is an elected member of both the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (MMSP TC) and the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS TC). \n\n\n\n12:00\nLunch\, Cafe Smauet\n\n\n\n13:00 \n(40 mins) \n\n\nShort presentation: Tohoku University ICD lab \nProf. Yoshifumi Kitamura (10 min): on the ICD Lab \nAssist. Prof. Miao Cheng (5 min): Understanding emotion from bodily movements: database and cultural influence \nManato Abe\, PhD student (5 min): Force Sensor Data Feedback Method for Industrial Robot-Arm Operation \nRyo Ooka\, PhD student (5 min): Robotics-Enabled Spatial Information Experiences: Novel Presentation with Interactive Displays and Comfortable Furniture \nHongyue Xu\, Master student (5 min): From Vision to Emotion: The Future of Human Health in the Age of AI \nYuhui Wang\, Master student (5 min): Toward Practical VR: Designing Human-Centered Systems for Training and Well-being \nAkira Murakami\, Master student (5 min): Robotic Partitioning System for Adaptive Workspaces \n\n\n\n\n13:50 \n(50 mins) \n\n\nShort presentation: UiB HCI group \nProf. Morten Fjeld (5 min): From interactive tabletops to in-motion UIs \nProf. Frode Guribye (5 min): Research topic tbd \nAssoc. Prof. Miroslav Bachinski (5 min): Simulating Users for Human-Computer Interaction \nYong Ma\, Postdoc (5 min): Emotion-aware voice UIs \nPavel Okopnyi\, Postdoc (5 min): Design Automation \nYuki Onishi\, Postdoc (5 min): Production control room optimization with eye tracking technology \nPaulina Becerril Palma\, PhD student (5 min): Accessible Mixed Reality \nMahya Jahanshahikhabisi\, PhD student (5 min): A Digital Approach to Dementia Research: Integrating Digital Tools\, AI\, and Personalized Interventions in Dementia Management \nVegard Bolstad\, Master student (5 min): Drawn to Mind: Instrumenting fine motor hand movement for cognitive assessment and identification of digital biomarkers for dementia \nAndreas Tjeldflaat\, Bachelor student (5 min): Tangible Privacy and Privacy Perception \n\n\n\n14:40\nCoffee break\n\n\n15:00\n\nPhD defense rehearsal talk: AR for Maritime Collaboration: Using Augmented Reality to Facilitate Team Decision-Making\, Team Situation Awareness\, and Communication in Maritime Operations \nFloris Hendrikus Johannes van den Oever\, PhD candidate\, UiB\, Bergen \nAbstract: High-quality collaboration is crucial for safe and efficient maritime operations. Collaboration is a factor in maritime operations\, such as ship navigation\, port construction\, and maintenance of offshore units. A challenge for collaboration is that crewmembers have to share their different perspectives and information. Augmented reality (AR) has the potential to improve maritime collaboration through facilitating team decision-making\, team situation awareness (TSA)\, and communication. This PhD project investigated the potential of AR in facilitating collaboration within maritime operations. It comprised three core studies: a systematic literature review\, a laboratory study using virtual reality (VR)\, and a field study employing AR. The literature review examined current AR applications across various maritime operations\, including ship navigation\, construction\, and maintenance. The laboratory and field studies focused on the use of AR for collaborative ship navigation\, emphasizing three key constructs of collaboration: team decision-making\, TSA\, and communication\, along with user experience\, and the advantages and disadvantages of AR. Findings indicate that AR can aid communication by simplifying information gathering\, displaying the same information to multiple crewmembers\, displaying complementary information to different crewmembers\, and providing visual tools like point of interest highlighting and crosshairs. \nTest opponent: Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura\, Tohoku\, Japan \n\n\n\n15:40\n\nPhD defense rehearsal talk:Nature–Machine Entanglement: Interacting with Biologically-Informed Flying Robots \nZiming Wang\, PhD candidate\, Chalmers/Luxembourg/Stanford \nAbstract: Nature and humanity have engaged in continuous\, evolving interactions throughout history and across technological epochs. I hypothesize that integrating natural characteristics into robot design can enrich HCI by leveraging our deep-rooted familiarity and affinity with the natural world. To explore this\, I conducted investigations focusing on close-range interactions with flying robots across various proxemic conditions\, employing a mixed-methods approach. \nTest opponent: Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura\, Tohoku\, Japan \n\n\n\n17:00\nClosing remarks\n\n\n19:00\nInformal discussion and food/drinks\, Amundsen Bar\, Terminus\n\n\n\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n Thursday June 5th\n \n\n\nThursdayJune 5th\n\nVenue\n\n\n10:00\nPicking up at Terminus entrance\n\n\n\n10:15 \nGuided tour or MediaFutures office/research facility\n\nMediaFutures\, Media City Bergen \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Friday June 6th\n \n\n\n12.25\nPick up 12:25 in the atrium of Media City Bergen\n\nMediaFutures\, Media City Bergen \n\n\n\n12:30-13:30 \nGuest lecture: Boosting User Trust to Increase the Uptake of Recommendations\, Shlomo Berkovksy\, Macquarie U.\, Australia\nMediaFutures\, Media City Bergen URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/bergen-hci-summer-seminar-2025-visit-from-tohoku-university/ LOCATION:Morning: Auditorium Egget\, Studentsenteret Finding your way\, afternoon: Nordre Allmenning 3\, Nygårdsgaten 5 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/screenshot_2023-09-23_at_21.15.03.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250603T091500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250603T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20250324T070120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250521T090812Z UID:20568-1748942100-1748962800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Phd Defense of Sohail Ahmed Khan DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, June 3rd\, PhD candidate Sohail Ahmed Khan will defend his PhD thesis “Computational Visual Content Verification”. The trial lecture starts at 09.15\, and the defense starts at 10.30. \nIn his dissertation\, Sohail Khan explores how newsrooms verify visual user-generated content (UGC) and examines growing challenges related to manipulated media content such as deepfakes and cheapfakes. The dissertation analyses current verification practices in journalism\, maps existing tools and workflows\, and uncovers a clear gap between technological advances and newsroom practices. \nThrough the thesis\, Sohail contributes both a critical review of the current verification landscape and new AI-based methods for detecting deepfakes and cheapfakes. The research also emphasises the need for closer collaboration between researchers and journalists\, and highlights initiatives to build a research community around these challenges\, including through international media verification competitions. \nOpponents: \n\nProfessor Giulia Boato\, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science\, University of Trento\nAssociate Professor Nhien-An Le-Khac\, School of Computer Science\, University College Dublin\n\nChair of the committee: Professor Bjørnar Tessem \nChair of the defense: Professor Knut Helland \n  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/sohail-phd-defense/ LOCATION:Ulrike Pihls Hus\, Ulrikes aula\, Professor Keysers gate 1\, Bergen\, Norway CATEGORIES:Events,WP3 Media Content Production & Analysis ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/sohailphddefense.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250519T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250519T160000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20250506T080622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250506T080622Z UID:20902-1747652400-1747670400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Trust and trustworthiness: The Rhetorical History of Trust in the Nordics DESCRIPTION:With talks by some of the best national and international researchers in trust and trustworthiness\, this seminar explores trust as a historical\, societal\, and rhetorical phenomenon. \nWhat is trust and trustworthiness in a rhetorical perspective? Can we talk about cultures of trust? What is a culture of trust? How does trust develop historically\, and how do digital cultures influence trust and trustworthiness? Furthermore\, how may we theoretically account for rhetorical trust and methodologically explore it? \nThis open and free seminar explores such questions. The seminar is organized by the research project “Trustworthiness: The Rhetorical History of Trust in the Nordics”. \nThe project examines why the Nordics are consistently among the world’s most trusting countries and explores how this trust is used to explain the stability\, prosperity\, and even happiness of the citizens in the Nordic countries. \nToday\, however\, a wide range of factors threaten to overturn Nordic people’s propensity to trust each other\, including an increasingly fragmented media landscape\, as well as a more conflictual political atmosphere. \nThe renowned speakers in this open and free seminar addressees such issues of trust and trustworthiness. \nProgram\n11.00-11.05: Welcome \n11.05-11.25: The working group on Trustworthiness in the Nordic Countries: “Rhetorical trust” \n11:25-12.25: Ute Frevert (Max Planck Institute): “Rhetorics and Politics of Trust in Modern Societies – A Historian’s Perspective” \nThe talk asks why modern societies care about trusting relations? What do they need trust for? What kind of work does trust do? Is trust synonymous with calculativeness\, or does it go beyond an instrumental attitude? How do political systems – democratic and non-democratic handle trust? \n12.25-13.00: Lunch \n13.00-14.00: Helge Skirbekk (Oslo Met): “The historical development of Trust in Norway” \nNorway is still characterised by high levels of trust\, both in general and in public institutions. Why is this so\, and why did it become so? In what is referred to as the Nordic model\, there are several things that distinguish Norway from other Western countries. Among these are the high degree of labour organisation\, the relatively small income differences\, and the large extent of the public sector and the high level of taxes. But the high levels of trust cannot be understood without examining the relatively peaceful historical interactions between elites and population. Belonging to networks built on civic engagement can strengthen norms of mutual trust. I will investigate the emergence of unions and lay organisations\, and their interplay with political elites in order to find an answer to this question. \n14.00-14.45: Dag Wollebæk (Institute of Social Research): “Trust as sacred rhetoric” \nIn Norway\, trust has become a foundational element of the national self-image. In public discourse\, trust is often framed not merely as a strength\, but as a sacred value: a non-negotiable\, inviolable resource that must be protected at all costs. Drawing on the concept of sacred rhetoric (Marietta\, 2008)\, I argue that the way we talk about trust affects political debate and institutional accountability in profound ways. Sacred rhetoric shifts public argumentation from the weighing of evidence and compromise to the invocation of moral absolutes\, the discouragement of criticism\, and the protection of power. While this rhetoric may encourage compliance and cooperation\, it undermines deliberation and weakens critical vigilance. In this keynote\, I examine how the rhetorical sacralization of trust affects democratic discourse in Norway. I argue that desacralizing the rhetoric of trust and shifting the focus from preserving trust to deserving trust would be desirable — to cultivate a political culture where institutions are not shielded by sacred narratives\, but held accountable through reasoned scrutiny. \n14.45-15.00 Break \n15.00-15.30: Esther Oluffa Pedersen (Roskilde University): The Digital Society and Trust \nIncreasing digitalization raises the question how digital technologies influence relations of trust. This calls for an empirical and conceptual approach. Conceptually I argue that trust evolves between humans but is anchored within the individuals encountering each other with either trust or distrust. Affective and epistemic attitudes of trust or distrust are influenced by the individual’s prior experiences (e.g. betrayals of trust) and future goals (e.g. goals’ dependency on collaboration). Besides interpersonal relations trust also unfolds in institutional trust\, trust in oneself and trust in technology. Thriving interpersonal and institutional trust are characterized by mutual assessments of trustworthiness and thus by reciprocity. Trust in technology is different as the non-agential technology does not reciprocate. Many argue that we do not trust but simply rely on technology. It is\, however\, an empirical fact that the other trust relations are influenced by digital technologies. I will exemplify this with the case of the Danish tax authorities’ fully automated property assessments. The property assessments were digitalized with the explicit ambition to recreate trust in the system of property taxation. Besides exceeding the budget\, and as until now not completely implemented\, the system has also been sending erroneous assessments out to the citizens. \n15.30-16.00: Panel with presenters: How to study trust rhetorically and historically. \nWould you to attend the seminar? Please send an email to: Olivia.Akerholm@student.uib.no URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/trust-and-trustworthiness-the-rhetorical-history-of-trust-in-the-nordics/ LOCATION:University of Bergen\, Lauritz Meltzers hus (SV-bygget)\, Room: Vesletinget (Floor 2) CATEGORIES:Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/5621681458_cfc43b0191_o_1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250509T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250509T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20250505T074036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250505T074129Z UID:20888-1746788400-1746799200@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MIX Innovation Day 2025 DESCRIPTION:Teklab from the Infomedia department in UiB invites to its yearly MIX Innovation Days. Happening in Media City Bergen on Friday May 9th at 11 o’clock\, the final year students in media and interaction design (MIX) will pitch their design prototypes and value propositions at a lively event with co-students\, university colleagues and industry partners. \nThe MIX Innovation Day has been held for several years\, and is a vibrant arena where bachelor and master students in MIX present their design solutions and prototypes. A jury evaluates the prototypes and hands out the MVP Award – the Minimum Viable Proptotype Award. \nAt the MIX Innovation Day 2025 you can learn more about seventeen different designs created to tackle real-world challenges across a range of industries\, including computer games\, apps and  web sites for partners as diverse as the Media Cluster Norway\, Bergen Bysykkel and Parkinsonforbundet. \nSIGN UP HERE\nProgram\nThe event takes place in the Atrium at Media City Bergen\, Lars Hilles gate 30\, next to the Bergen Light Rail station Nygård. \n11:00 – 11.05. Welcome. \nOur master of ceremony Joao Ribeiro will introduce the event. \n11.05 – 12:00: Bachelor webdesign projects. \nThe five bachelor projects will be presented in a series of pitches with comments from the jury. Read all about the projects below. \n12:00 – 13:30: Master safari and lunch. \nThe twelve master projects will be presented simultaneously at a “safari” where the audience walk from stand to stand and talk with the students and discuss the projects’ merits. Read all about the projects below. \nYou will also be able to enjoy your free lunch during this session. \n13:30 – 13.40. Launch of “Håndbok i innovasjon for studenter”. \nTekLab recently published the free online book “Håndbok i innovasjon for studenter” and today it will be officially launched. The TekLab project has spent several years writing it\, and a large numer of students and teachers have been involved in the project. \n13.40 – 14:00: Awards ceremony. \nThe jury will announce the winners of the MVP Award for the bachelor and master projects. \nThe MVP Award\nA jury of professional designers will evaluate the projects and give the students valuable  feedback. The jury will hand out the MVP award to the project that has the best chance of becoming a real product in the media industry\, hence the name “minimum viable product” (MVP). There are separate prizes for the bachelor and master programs. The prize has been awarded for several years in a row\, and you can read about the winners from 2024 and the winner from 2023. \nThe jury is: \n\nPrecilia Isaksen is a UX consultant at Bouvet. She was named Designer of the Week by UX Norway in 2024. Precilia is a former MIX student and has previously worked at TV 2.\nSofija Ivanova is a service designer at Youwell\, a patient and health technology company. She is a board member of IxDA Bergen and has worked at several design agencies.\nIselin Kornli holds an MSc in innovation and entrepreneurship and has spent the past nine years leading innovation projects\, coaching cross-functional teams\, and helping to establish innovation environments in several major companies.\n\nWe are really grateful that Precilia\, Sofija and Iselin will join us as jury members. \nOrganization\nThe event is organized by The department of information science and media studies at UiB in collaboration with Agenda Vestlandet. Agenda Vestlandet was established by Sparebanken Vest to drive the green transition in Vestlandet\, and it supports research\, innovation\, and dialogue around regional challenges and opportunities. \nThe event is prepared and managed by MIX master students Anine Glenne Arnesen and Julie Teilstad Østby  in collaboration with Joao Ribeiro\, lead open innovation manager at GALP and a teacher at UiB\, and professor Lars Nyre. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mix-innovation-day-2025/ LOCATION:Media City Bergen\, Atrium CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Skjermbilde_5-5-2025_93957_teklab.uib_.no_.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250404T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250404T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20250321T152847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T133219Z UID:20549-1743775200-1743778800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Mid-term evaluation of PhD candidate Khadiga Seddik DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 4th\, PhD candidate Khadiga Seddik will have her mid-term evaluation. \nMain supervisor: Erik Knudsen \nCo-Supervisor: Damian Trilling\, Alain Starke (Step-in) \nExternal Evaluator: Sole Pera \n\nTitle: The Influence of News Recommender technology on Shaping Selective Exposure and Sharing. \nAbstract:  \nDespite the benefits the news recommenders provide\, overly personalized news recommendations and too much exposure to like-minded news can pose a threat to democracy by leading to filter bubble\, echo-chambers\, and political polarization. These negative consequences are not given\, but they could depend on conditions and factors under which news recommenders amplify or reduce selective exposure. Many studies argue that news recommenders can be programmed to promote factors that reduce selective exposure because they are programmed by human beings\, and they are dependent on the decisions surrounding the implementation and design of the technology. However\, programming recommender systems to shape selective exposure is not a straightforward task\, as we don’t know which factors the recommenders should be designed to promote\, as well as how the recommenders should promote them. In this research project I investigate the heavily debated consequences of news recommender technologies\, selective exposure and selective of like-minded news. The aim is to shift the scholarly attention from uncovering whether the current recommenders amplify or reduce selective exposure to understanding the conditions under which recommender systems do so\, given that they are designed for that purpose. By doing so\, we shift the responsibility for the democratic implications of recommenders from the technology itself to the decisions surrounding the implementation and design. \nThe project is a part of a larger project\, the NEWSREC project (https://www.newsrec.ai). The main objective of NEWSREC project is to study\, understand\, and assess the precise conditions under which algorithmic news recommenders have positive or negative effects on the democratic role of the news media by focusing on both the input side and the output side of news recommenders. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mid-term-evaluation-of-phd-candidate-khadiga-seddik/ LOCATION:SFI MediaFutures\, MCB CATEGORIES:Events,WP1 Understanding Media Experiences,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/khadiga.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250404T104500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250404T130000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20250210T133947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T073320Z UID:20232-1743763500-1743771600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Talks on Responsible Recommender Systems DESCRIPTION:April 4\, MediaFutures sets the stage for a joined event featuring a series of talks\, including contributions from Sole Pera (TU Delft) and the PhD candidates Lukas Wegmeth and Tobias Vente (University of Siegen). \n\n10:45 – 11:45 | Sole Pera on “Into the AI-Known: How Search and Recommender Systems Shape Children’s Online Experiences & the Path to Safer Information Access”\n12:00 – 13:00 | Lukas Wegmeth & Tobias Vente\, “Green Recommender Systems – Minimizing Carbon Footprint for Sustainable Personalization”\n\nSole Pera\, Associate Professor @ Delft University of Technology \nTime: 10:45 – 11:45 \nTitle: “Into the AI-Known: How Search and Recommender Systems Shape Children’s Online Experiences & the Path to Safer Information Access” \nAbstract: In the AI era\, search and recommendation systems increasingly shape how children perceive the world and interact with digital media. However\,  these systems are seldom designed with young users in mind\, leading to exposure to content that is misleading\, inappropriate\, or simply not aligned with their needs. While AI has the potential to improve online information access\, ensuring safe\, effective\, and age-appropriate digital experiences remains a challenge. In this talk\, we will explore how mainstream search and recommendation algorithms influence what children encounter online. Along the way\, we review current research\, discuss the challenges and opportunities in building safer digital environments\, and consider the ethical implications of designing AI-driven information access systems that prioritize children’s rights and well-being. \nDr. Maria Soledad Pera is an Associate Professor at the Web Information Systems group of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering\, Mathematics and Computer Science (EWI)\, Delft University of Technology. Sole’s main area of expertise is in Information Retrieval with emphasis on non-traditional population. \nLukas Wegmeth & Tobias Vente\, PhD candidates at University of Siegen \nTime: 12:00 – 13:00 \nTitle: “Green Recommender Systems – Minimizing Carbon Footprint for Sustainable Personalization” \nAbstract: Did you know one recommender systems research paper emits ~3\,300 kgCO₂e — the same as one person flying from New York to Melbourne? This talk unveils the urgent need for Green Recommender Systems and delivers actionable guidelines to achieve them. We quantify the carbon footprint of training and inference\, comparing deep learning and traditional algorithms. The goal? High-performance recommender systems that don’t cost the Earth. Discover how to minimize the carbon footprint while maintaining performance through energy-aware design\, efficient hardware\, and transparent reporting. This is a call to action: by rethinking how we design and measure recommenders\, we can pioneer sustainable AI that benefits both users and the planet. \nLukas Wegmeth is a Ph.D. Student of the Intelligent Systems Group at the University of Siegen. Before joining the ISG he completed his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Medical Computer Science at the University of Siegen. During his time as a graduate student\, Lukas set his focus on the topic of Machine Learning and collaborated with different chairs of the University of Siegen to work on and release scientific research papers in the field. Lukas is currently analysing recommender systems from an energy efficiency context\, measuring amongst other power consumptions. \nTobias is a joint Ph.D. candidate at the ISG – Intelligent Systems Group (University of Siegen) in Siegen\, Germany and the ADReM – Adrem Data Lab (University of Antwerp) in Antwerp\, Belgium\, working on model selection and automation in recommender systems. Generally\, his research interests revolve around Recommender Systems\, specifically applying ideas from AutoML (Automated Machine Learning) to information retrieval and recommender systems. \nTo follow the talks online\, follow us on zoom: \nhttps://uib.zoom.us/j/65989683261?pwd=DCf1f1O3qFTMoltYavbf9e4h0m8qTy.1 URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/responsible-recommender-systems/ LOCATION:SFI MediaFutures\, MCB CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-76-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250404T091500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250404T101500 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20250321T154003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T123002Z UID:20553-1743758100-1743761700@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Mid-term evaluation of PhD candidate Jia-Hua Jeng DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 4\, PhD candidate Jia-Hua Jeng will have his mid-term evaluation. \nMain supervisor: Christoph Trattner \nCo-Supervisors: Erik Knudsen\, Alain Starke \nExternal Evaluator: Sole Pera URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mid-term-evaluation-of-phd-candidate-jia-hua-jeng/ LOCATION:SFI MediaFutures\, MCB CATEGORIES:Events,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/jeng.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250403T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250403T163000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20250321T152101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T133519Z UID:20540-1743694200-1743697800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Mid-term evaluation of PhD candidate Bilal Mahmood DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, April 3rd\, PhD candidate Bilal Mahmood will have his mid-term evaluation. \nMain supervisor: Mehdi Elahi \nCo-Supervisor: Samia Touileb \nExternal Evaluator: Sole Pera URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mid-term-evaluation-of-phd-candidate-bilal-mahmood/ LOCATION:SFI MediaFutures\, MCB CATEGORIES:Events,WP2 User Modeling, Personalisation & Engagement ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/bilal.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250321T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250321T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20250127T164617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T120307Z UID:20142-1742558400-1742563800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:The Language of Coordination: From Humans to AI Agents DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to welcome Luca Maria Aiello\, Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen\, to the MediaFutures seminar series. \nAs global challenges like climate change\, pandemics\, and mass migration become increasingly urgent\, the need for mass coordination has never been greater. In his presentation\, “The Language of Coordination: From Humans to AI Agents\,” Professor Aiello will delve into the fascinating intersection of social science\, language\, and technology\, exploring how natural language can drive large-scale coordination in the public sphere. Drawing on his cutting-edge research\, he will demonstrate how insights from psychology and linguistics can be harnessed to understand and predict collective behavior\, and how these insights can be applied to artificial intelligence to create persuasive social agents capable of influencing public discourse on social media platforms. \nAbstract:\nA defining task for humankind is to achieve mass coordination to tackle global challenges such as climate change\, pandemics\, and mass migrations. Social science research has identified psycho-linguistic aspects of social interactions that can trigger spontaneous coordination when used strategically in the public debate. We created Natural Language Processing tools that can capture these social dimensions from conversations\, and found that they can explain and predict outcome of consensus and coordination. Furthermore\, we show that these dimensions can be used to prompt AI agents powered by Large Language Models to make them behave as persuasive social agents that could be seamlessly integrated in the public discourse of social media platforms. \nProfessor Aiello’s work is at the forefront of an emerging field that combines computational social science\, network science\, and artificial intelligence. By analyzing vast amounts of digital data\, he seeks to quantify human well-being and build systems that can improve it—whether in the context of health\, urban living\, or digital interactions. In his talk\, he will explore the psycho-linguistic aspects of human interaction and how they can be translated into actionable insights for both human and AI-driven coordination. \nProfessor Aiello will be visiting Bergen and the MediaFutures research center from March 19th to 22nd\, with his presentation scheduled for Friday\, March 21st. We encourage you to join us for this insightful seminar\, either in person or via the Zoom livestream. \n\nAbout Luca Maria Aiello \nLuca Maria Aiello is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen\, Denmark\, where he conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of computational social science\, digital health\, network science\, and urban informatics. His work leverages large-scale digital data to explore and quantify key aspects of human life\, with a particular focus on how language and communication shape our collective behaviors and well-being. \nHis research interests span multiple fields\, including the role of language in coordinating social actions\, the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to study social dynamics\, and the development of AI systems that can influence and improve social interactions. Through his research\, Professor Aiello aims to better understand how people interact\, how these interactions can be optimized to address pressing global issues\, and how AI can be used to augment\, rather than replace\, human communication. \nA recognized leader in his field\, Professor Aiello has contributed to numerous influential studies on the role of language in social media and digital interactions. One of his notable contributions includes a study published in Nature on the language of persuasion in social media\, which explores how certain linguistic features can be used to influence public opinion and behavior. \nCurrently\, his research focuses on using NLP techniques to quantify social and psychological experiences\, with applications ranging from improving public health to enhancing urban living environments. Through his work\, Professor Aiello continues to push the boundaries of what is possible at the intersection of social science and technology. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/responsible-ai-driven-media-tech/ LOCATION:SFI MediaFutures\, MCB CATEGORIES:Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-77-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250313T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250313T100000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20250217T095453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250217T095453Z UID:20375-1741856400-1741860000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Announcement of the 2025 Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, 13 March\, the 2025 Holberg Prize and Nils Klim Prize will be announced at the University Aula in Bergen. \nAt the event\, the Rector of the University of Bergen\, Margareth Hagen\, will present welcoming remarks. The Chair of the Holberg Prize Board\, Professor Jørgen Sejersted\, will announce the recipients of the Holberg Prize and the Nils Klim Prize. We will also hear the citations from the Academic Committees\, before the Holberg Prize Academic Director\, Professor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen\, will lead a conversation between experts on the Laureates and their scholarly work. \nThere will be a musical performance\, and a light breakfast will be served. \nWe ask that those who wish to attend the event in person to register. \nThe livestream requires no registration. \nDoors open 8:40 \nAbout the Prizes\nThe Holberg Prize is awarded annually to a scholar who has made outstanding contributions to research in the humanities\, social sciences\, law or theology. The recipient must have had a decisive influence on international research. The Prize is worth NOK 6\,000\,000. \nThe Nils Klim Prize is awarded annually in the above fields\, to a young researcher. The candidate must be a citizen of a Nordic country or be formally affiliated with a Nordic research institution. Also\, the candidate must be under 35 years of age at the nomination deadline. The Prize is worth NOK 500\,000. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/announcement-of-the-2025-holberg-prize-and-nils-klim-prize/ LOCATION:University Aula\, UiB CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/prisutdeling-senneset.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250307T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250307T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20250228T102003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250228T105718Z UID:20410-1741339800-1741359600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:AI anno 2030: In the Public Interest? DESCRIPTION:UiB AI is collaborating with NORA on a CuttingEdgeAI seminar in the University Aula in Bergen. The idea behind the seminar is to bring together some of the foremost AI researchers in Norway to discuss where we stand in terms of research\, which areas Norway has the opportunity to make its mark on and what might happen on the AI front in the future. Where will the research front be in different branches of artificial intelligence in five years’ time? And does AI represent the public interest\, for example when it comes to democracy\, labour\, welfare\, the environment and culture? The seminar is mostly in Norwegian. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe seminar will be streamed\, and the recording will be available through a link. \nProgram:\n09:00 Arrival and light refreshments09:30 Welcome by Pro-Rector Pinar Heggernes\, Pro-Rector at UiB and Chair of the UiB AI Steering Group \nPart 1: Where is the research front in various branches of artificial intelligence headed?\n09:40 AI research in Norway in 2025: Anne Kjersti Fahlvik\, Director of Innovation in Business and the Public Sector\, Research Council of Norway \n10:00 Arnoldo Frigessi\, Professor and Director of the Center of Excellence (SFF) Integreat\, UiO10:15 Jill Walker Rettberg\, Professor and Deputy Director of the Center of Excellence for Digital Narratives\, UiB \n10:30 Coffee break \n11:00 Robert Jenssen\, Professor and Director of the Center for Research-based Innovation (SFI) Visual Intelligence\, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway11:15 Panel discussion with Anne Kjersti\, Arnoldo\, Jill\, and Robert\, moderated by Pinar Heggernes\, Pro-Rector\, UiB \n11:45 Lunch \nPart 2: Where does Norway have particular strengths in AI research?\n12:30 AI at NAV – What are we doing\, and what are we wondering about?Jon Vegard Sparre\, AI Lead at NAV \n12:45 Heri Ramampiaro\, Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science\, NTNU13:00 Marija Slavkovik\, Professor and Head of the Department of Information Science and Media Studies\, UiB \n13:15 Coffee break \n13:45 AI and regulation: From Norwegian marketing to research qualityMalcolm Langford\, Professor at the Department of Public and International Law\, UiO \n14:00 Panel discussion with Jon Vegard\, Heri\, Marija\, and Malcolm\, moderated by Klas Pettersen\, CEO of NORA \n14:30 Food and networking15:00 Farewell \nModerator for the day: Dag Stenvoll\, Coordinator for UiB AI URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/ai-anno-2030-in-the-public-interest/ LOCATION:Universitetsaulaen\, Muséplassen 3 CATEGORIES:Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/cuttingedgeai_banner_uib.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250306T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250306T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20250217T103809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250217T103809Z UID:20380-1741262400-1741280400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Opphavsrett for journalister – Hva du må vite om bruk og deling av innhold? DESCRIPTION:Hva kan du bruke fritt\, og hva krever tillatelse? Hva gjelder for lenking\, embedding og bruk av innhold fra sosiale medier? Hvordan påvirker kunstig intelligens opphavsretten? \nBli med på en hands-on workshop med advokat Jon Wessel-Aas\, en av Norges fremste eksperter på medierett. Her får du konkrete svar på de viktigste spørsmålene om opphavsrett – skreddersydd for journalister. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/opphavsrett-for-journalister-hva-du-ma-vite-om-bruk-og-deling-av-innhold/ LOCATION:Media City Bergen\, Medielaben i 9. etasje\, tårn 3 CATEGORIES:Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/image700.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250227T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250227T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20250210T124535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T092137Z UID:20228-1740675600-1740686400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:AI & Media: The Transformative Impact of AI in the Media Industry DESCRIPTION:Our Innovation Coordinator\, Christopher Senf\, and PhD candidate\, Peter Andrews\, have been invited to speak at Oslo AI’s next event at Google’s office on Misinformation and Disinformation in the Age of AI. They will introduce the Center and present a live demo of the AI Moderator. \nTopic: AI & Media: The Transformative Impact of AI in the Media Industry \nSpeakers:\nChristian Schüssler Oslo Kreativ AI\nIgor Pipkin\, PhD DN Media Group\nChristopher Senf\, PhD (SFI MediaFutures\,UiB) and Peter Andrews\, PhD candidate (SFI MediaFutures\, UiB) \nChristian Schüssler\, Founder of Reimagine AS and organizer of Oslo Kreativ AI (kreativai.no) \n\n“The Future of Visual Storytelling”\nJoin film director and founder of Reimagine and Oslo Kreativ AI\, Christian Schüssler\, on an inspiring journey into the next era of media\, creativity and storytelling. We explore how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the creative process\, empowering artists\, and unlocking a new realms of visual expression and narrative possibilities.\n\nIgor Pipkin\, PhD\, Head of Data & Insights at DN Media Group (dngroup.com) \n(more to come) \nJoin us for an insightful event featuring three expert talks on the revolutionary impact of AI in the media industry\, from streamlining content creation to transforming audience engagement. Discover how cutting-edge AI technologies are reshaping the future of media and entertainment. \n~~~~~~~~~~ \nAgenda (preliminary):\n17:00-17:30 – Arrive at Google office for food\, soft drinks and networking\n17:30-17:40 – Welcome and introduction by the Oslo.AI team\n17:40-19:40 – Presentations with Q&A\n19:40-20:00 – Wrap-up and short mingling \n~~~~~~~~~~ \nThis event is organized by Oslo.AI\, the largest community for AI enthusiasts and professionals in Norway with 3500 members. Oslo AI was founded with the goal of spreading knowledge on how artificial intelligence can be applied to contribute to creating a better society. Oslo AI strives to create an active and engaged AI community\, the main focus being quarterly AI events with a specific theme. Their mission is to be the meeting place for people interested in how applied AI shapes business\, technology\, and society. \nThis in-person event is made possible by the Oslo AI team and their sponsors: Google\, Inmeta & Microsoft. \nRegister for a free ticket here: https://lnkd.in/d_kZQieK URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/ai-media-the-transformative-impact-of-ai-in-the-media-industry/ LOCATION:Google\, Bryggegata 6\, Oslo\, 0254 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/oslo-ai-event.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250204T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250205T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20250106T120003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250106T120753Z UID:20017-1738656000-1738774800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Lerchendalkonferansen 2025 DESCRIPTION:The Lerchendal conference serves as an important meeting place for approximately 200 leaders and talents from politics\, business\, and academia. It is a platform where Norway’s key decision-makers and innovators come together to discuss\, share\, and shape the future. \nThe conference is the perfect arena for those who want to shape the future\, broaden their perspective\, and gain new knowledge. \nMediaFutures centre leader Christoph Trattner will hold a presentation on Day 1 of the conference. He will focus on our research on misinformation\, addressing its broader meaning on democracy\, the economy\, and other societal areas. \n—————————————————————————————————————————————————- \nDesinformasjon og falske nyheter – hvordan det kan true sikkerhet og demokrati\n\n\nInnlegget holdes på engelsk \n\n\nChristoph Trattner\, Professor\, Director MediaFutures: Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology and Innovation\, Universitetet i Bergen\n—————————————————————————————————————————————————-\nThis Year’s Theme: Geopolitics and the Technological Race\nHow does the global power struggle impact technology\, business\, and value creation? \nThe conference is a collaboration between the Research Council of Norway\, Tekna\, NTNU\, and SINTEF. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/lerchendalkonferansen-2025/ LOCATION:Scandic Nidelven\, TRONDHEIM CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Skjermbilde_6-1-2025_13033_www.tekna_.no_.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250107T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20250107T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20241014T073456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250106T091732Z UID:19469-1736236800-1736269200@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference DESCRIPTION:Deep learning is an emerging subfield in machine learning that has in recent years achieved state-of-the-art performance in image classification\, object detection\, segmentation\, time series prediction and speech recognition to name a few. This conference will gather researchers both on a national and international level to exchange ideas\, encourage collaborations and present cutting-edge research. \nKeynote topic: A technical talk on recommender systems\, focusing on how this technology is often used to enhance misinformation and create echo chambers\, and what can be done to combat this. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/northern-lights-deep-learning-conference/ LOCATION:Tromsø CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/nldl-25.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241216T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241216T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20241017T073651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241017T075138Z UID:19502-1734364800-1734368400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Rethinking Trust: Unveiling the Dynamics of Trust and Distrust DESCRIPTION:Title: Rethinking Trust: Unveiling the Dynamics of Trust and Distrust  \nResearch on trust is highly interdisciplinary and has produced an impressive body of knowledge about its forms\, causes and consequences. However\, existing research agendas have notable biases\, two of which are the focus of this presentation: first\, research privileges trust while marginalising distrust\, resulting in an incomplete and flawed understanding; second\, it engages in sweeping generalisations\, overlooking distinctions between trust in people\, institutions and machines. This presentation proposes ways to conceptualise trust and distrust as complementary phenomena and explores the specific dynamics that govern trust relationships with humans\, institutions and machines.  \nBio:  \nChristian Lahusen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Siegen\, Germany.  In his work Lahusen has paid special attention to the relation between state authorities and citizens\, focusing on both the attitudinal and the behavioural levels. He has been studying political and civic engagement\, in later years with a strong focus on solidarity and trust. His work documents the importance of citizens’ empowerment\, but also the situational and contextual conditions that hamper it. His recurrent involvement in large-scale interdisciplinary research projects has led to a number of co-authored publications. He has published extensively in the fields of political sociology\, contentious politics and societal integration and has led several national and international research projects in these areas. Lahusen was the coordinator of the Horizon 2020 project Enlightened trust: An examination of trust and distrust in governance – conditions\, effects and remedies.  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/rethinking-trust-unveiling-the-dynamics-of-trust-and-distrust/ LOCATION:U.Phil Auditorium CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/ahusen.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241212T111500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241212T120000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20241122T103944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241205T102245Z UID:19849-1734002100-1734004800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Bias in Hate Speech Detection: Challenges and Solutions DESCRIPTION:SFI MediaFutures invites to a seminar on bias in hate speech detection hold by Debora Nozza\, on 12 of December in our office in Bergen. \nAbstract: \nOnline hate speech is on the rise\, often leading to offline harm. While NLP methods\, including LLMs\, offer tools for detection\, fine-tuning these models can introduce severe unintended bias—performing inconsistently across comments involving specific identity terms (e.g.\, gay\, Muslim\, woman). This talk explores the risks of deploying off-the-shelf classifiers\, methods for measuring and mitigating bias\, and the ongoing challenge of balancing effective hate speech detection with fairness in online spaces. \nBio: \nDebora Nozza is an Assistant Professor in Computing Sciences at Bocconi University. Her research interests mainly focus on Natural Language Processing\, specifically on the detection and counter-acting of hate speech and algorithmic bias on Social Media data in multilingual context. She was recently awarded a €1.5m ERC Starting Grant project 2023 for research on personalized and subjective approaches to Natural Language Processing. \nThe event is free of charge. \nIf you want to join online\, please open the following link: https://uib.zoom.us/j/64083511296?pwd=nlZO5sMahv5bTnfmMZAleVou1zR02v.1 URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/bias-in-hate-speech-detection-challenges-and-solutions/ LOCATION:SFI MediaFutures\, MCB CATEGORIES:Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-72.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241210T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241210T120000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20241014T081244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T104332Z UID:19487-1733828400-1733832000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:The Human Quotient for Better AI Systems DESCRIPTION:Ujwal Gadiraju is a tenured Assistant professor in the Software Technology Department of the faculty of Electrical Engineering\, Mathematics\, and Computer Science at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He co-directs the TU Delft “Design@Scale” AI Lab and is a member of the program management team of the TU Delft AI Labs. \nHe is the Vice-Chair of CHI Netherlands\, representing the human-computer interaction community of academics and industry practitioners in the Netherlands\, and has served as an ACM Distinguished Speaker. Ujwal leads a research line on Human-Centered AI and Crowd Computing\, actively collaborating with experts in healthcare\, finance\, and education and working with a variety of industry partners and NGOs to tackle important societal problems. \nBefore joining the WIS group\, Ujwal worked at the L3S Research Center as a Postdoctoral researcher between 2017-2020. He received a PhD degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science with a summa cum laude recognition from the Leibniz University of Hannover\, Germany\, in 2017\, an MSc. Computer Science degree from TU Delft\, the Netherlands\, in 2012\, and a B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering degree from VIT University\, India in 2010. \nHis research interests lie at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)\, Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, and Information Retrieval (IR). Ujwal has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in these fields. His work has been recognized with several honors\, including 10 paper awards at top-tier HCI and AI conferences. His current research focuses on creating novel methods\, interfaces\, systems\, and tools to overcome existing challenges on the path toward building more effective and inclusive AI systems and facilitating appropriate reliance of humans on such systems. For more information\, see https://ujwalgadiraju.com. \nTalk abstract: \nThe unprecedented rise in the adoption of artificial intelligence techniques and automation in many contexts is concomitant with the shortcomings of such technology concerning robustness\, interpretability\, usability\, trustworthiness\, and explainability. Crowd computing offers a viable means to leverage human intelligence at scale for data creation\, enrichment\, and interpretation\, demonstrating a great potential to improve the performance of AI systems and improve the appropriate adoption of AI systems in general. How can we build AI systems that can augment human capabilities across different tasks and improve human experiences in various contexts? What can we do to facilitate appropriate trust and reliance of people on AI systems? By drawing from a series of recent empirical studies\, this talk will highlight the intriguing and pertinent role of human input in propelling better AI technology in the quickly evolving age of generative models. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/ujwal-gadiraju/ LOCATION:MediaFutures\, Media Futures HQ\, 3rd floor\, Bergen\, 5008 CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/ujwal-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241205T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241205T124500 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20241120T104421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241204T145837Z UID:19837-1733392800-1733402700@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Workshop: From Research to Academic Startup DESCRIPTION:Curious about how to bring your research to life outside academia? This workshop provides a chance to explore just that. Through inspiring talks of start-up founders\, hands-on activities\, and networking\, you’ll get a taste of what it takes to turn research into a startup venture. \nHighlights include: \n– An introduction to VIS’ brand-new entrepreneurship program for researchers\, TILT\, tailored to provide researchers and graduate students with entrepreneurial skills\, expert advisory services and access to capital and networks. Recruitment of pilot participants in progress! \n– Inspirational stories from innovators who’ve made the transition to startup founders \n– Case work to start building an entrepreneurial mindset \nProgram Outline \n\n10:00 – 10:15: Coffee and mingling\n10:15 – 11:00: Introducing VIS & TILT & ADA incubator\n11:00 – 11:50: Small Group Activity – Designing a Start-Up Plan\n12:00 – 12:45: Inspirational Talks:\n\nLuqman Wadood\, Founder and CEO of UngDebatt (Bergen)\nJonathan Geffen\, Co-Founder and CTO of the gaming start-up Cross Hatch (Berlin)\nHåvard Tveit\, Co-founder and CEO Everviz (Bergen)\nGaute Kokkvoll\, Head of Product at Factiverse (Bergen)\n\n\n\nSign up and mark your calendar for December 5th and join us to see how your research might create impact beyond the university! \nRegister here: Registration for “From Research to Academic Startup” Workshop 05.12 10:00-12:45 \nNB! Registration deadline 02.12.2024 \nAudience: Open to all\, with a special focus on PhD students\, post-docs\, and researchers at UiB Infomedia & SFI MediaFutures interested in exploring the path from academia to entrepreneurship. \nLanguage: English URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/from-research-to-academic-startup/ LOCATION:SFI MediaFutures\, MCB CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/DALL·E-2024-11-25-11.55.30-A-black-and-white-illustration-for-a-workshop-about-turning-research-into-startups-focusing-on-innovation-and-entrepreneurship.-The-image-features-a-.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241129T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241129T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20241017T082018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T102255Z UID:19510-1732874400-1732892400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:UiB AI #12: Aligning AI with Human Values. Challenges and Solutions DESCRIPTION:The event aims to bring together experts\, researchers\, and industry professionals to explore\, discuss\, and advance our understanding of the challenges and solutions related to aligning artificial intelligence systems with human values and goals. \nThe objectives and expected outcomes of this seminar are as follows:\n– Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges associated with AI alignment\, including biases\, interpretability\, and value misalignment.\n– The workshop will facilitate interactive discussions to develop concrete solutions and strategies for addressing AI alignment challenges.\n– Participants will have the opportunity to network with leading experts and build connections that can lead to ongoing collaborations and partnerships \nThis event is a collaboration between Universitetsfondet and UiB AI. \nProgramme: \n09:00-09:30: Registration and coffee \n09:30-09:40: Introduction by moderator Samia Touileb\, Department of Information Science and Media Studies at University of Bergen \n09:40-10:15: How can we prevent LLMs from behaving badly? Jan Broersen\, Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies\, Utrecht University \n10:15-10:50: Value aware AI. Nardine Osman\, Tenured Scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA)\, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) (presentation by Zoom) \n10:50-11:05: Coffee break \n11:05-11:40: AI alignment of LLMs: a simple case study on detecting deceptive designs. Davide Liga\, Post. Doc. at the Faculty of Science\, Technology and Medicine\, Université de Luxembourg \n11:40-12:15: Human Interactions and their Implications for Ethical and Responsible Robotics and AI. Dr. Emily C. Collins\, Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow at the Department of Computer Science\, The University of Manchester. \n12:15-12:45: Lunch (included) \n12:45-13:20: Towards a Critical Political Economy of Generative AI. Vinit Ravishankar\, Independent researcher with a PhD in multilingual language technology \n13:20-13:55: Enabling Responsible AI with Humans. Nadin Kokciyan\, Director of the Human-Centered AI Lab (CHAI Lab) at the University of Edinburgh \n13:55-1410: Coffee break \n14:10-14:45: News in AI age: alignment with editorial values and ethics. Anastasiia Klimashevskaia\, PhD candidate\, MediaFutures: Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation \n14:45-15:20: Machine ethics and alignment. Marija Slavkovik\, Professor at Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen \n15:20-15:40: Wrap up and discussions URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/uib-ai-12-aligning-ai-with-human-values-challenges-and-solutions/ LOCATION:Storsalen\, Nygårdsgaten 5\, first floor CATEGORIES:Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/ai.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241125T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241127T160000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20240425T101410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T132403Z UID:18078-1732525200-1732723200@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:NIKT 2024 DESCRIPTION:University of Bergen will arrange Norwegian Conference for ICT Research and Education (NIKT) from 25.-27. November 2024 in Bergen. NIKT is an important national meeting place for researchers\, teachers\, masters and PhD students in information and communication technology\, computer science\, information science and information systems. A conference for ICT-researchers in Norway bringing together people from the following fields: \n\n\nNIK – Norwegian Informatics Conference \n\n\nNOKOBIT – Norwegian Conference for Organizations’ Use of IT \n\n\nNISK – Norwegian Information Security Conference \n\n\nUDIT – Norwegian Conference for Education and Didactics in IT subjects \n\n\nThe conference is hosted by Department of Information Science and Media Studies at Faculty of Social Science\, University of Bergen and funded by SFI MediaFutures and SLATE. \nThe academic content of the conference will consist of a number of peer reviewed articles that present new research\, supplemented by the contributions of four invited speakers on current topics in ICT research\, innovation and education. In addition\, held in conjunction with the conference\, there will be a meeting of the national ICT fagråd as well as a number of thematic workshops and lightning-talk poster presentations. \nOne of the three keynote speakers will be Björn Þór Jónsson\, Associate Professor\, CRESS\, at the Department of Computer Science in Reykjavik University. \nBjörn Þór is working within the broad field of Multimedia Analytics\, applying Multi-Dimensional Analysis concepts and techniques to multimedia. A strong focus is on interactive learning at scale\, resulting in the Exquisitor prototype\, which can interact with a collection of 100M images in real-time on a standard laptop. Over the last decade\, his research has focused primarily on the performance of very large scale content based multimedia retrieval. This research has led to the traditional international publications and graduate degrees\, but also to two patent applications and a start-up company\, Videntifier Technologies. He has taught classes on the database design and implementation\, the architecture and performance of database systems\, the architecture and performance of SSDs\, big data management\, and on advanced database systems\, such as multimedia systems\, stream query processing and database client caching. \nThe second keynote speaker is Per Thorsheim. \nWith close to 30 years of experience in information security\, he is a passionate and knowledgeable leader in this area. His core competencies include operational security management\, policy development and implementation\, hardening and security patch management\, defence in depth\, risk analysis\, awareness training\, and incident handling. He also has a strong interest and expertise in passwords and password research\, having founded and organized the first and only conference dedicated to passwords and digital authentication: #PasswordsCon. Per is a frequent speaker\, writer & media commentator on security-related topics\, and is currently holding the CISA and CRISC credentials from ISACA.\n\nThere will be 2 more keynote speakers in the conference.\n\nImportant deadlines:\n1 September: Abstract submission \n8 September: Full paper submission \n11 October: Notification of acceptance \n25 October: Camera ready paper \n1 November: Registration URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/nikt-2024/ LOCATION:Nygårdsgaten 5\, Nordre Allmenning 3 at Læringsarenaen CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-17.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241114T094500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241115T151500 DTSTAMP:20260405T214656 CREATED:20231124T145938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T150912Z UID:16960-1731577500-1731683700@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Annual Meeting 2024 DESCRIPTION:MediaFutures is a centre for research-based innovation with the goal to develop responsible media technology\, leveraging AI technology\, for the media sector. \nThe centre is a consortium of the most important media players in Norway. The University of Bergen is the host of the centre. User partners include NRK and TV 2\, the two main TV broadcasters in Norway\, Schibsted\, including Bergens Tidende (BT)\, and Amedia\, the two largest news media houses in Scandinavia/Norway\, as well as the world-renowned Norwegian media tech companies Vizrt and Faktisk.no. The centre collaborates with renowned national research institutions including the University of Oslo\, the University of Stavanger and NORCE\, and works together with high-profile international research institutions. \nThis years Media Futures Annual Meeting will be held at November 14-15 at Scandic Ørnen\, Bergen in Norway. The 2024 Annual Meeting constitutes a forum for the exchange of scientific results and industry insights within the field of responsible media technology. \nThis year’s focus topic are Trust and Usability of Generative AI . \nFollowing last year’s success\, the 2024 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 different topics. \nJoin us for inspirational keynote talks\, prototype demonstrations\, presentations held by our researchers\, and industry partners\, and poster session. \n \n REGISTRATION CLOSED\n \n \n \n \n \n KEYNOTE SPEAKERS\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vanessa Murdock\n Sr Manager Applied Science - Amazon Web Services \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Keynote Speech\n Title:  Responsible AI in the Generative Era \nAbstract:  Responsible AI (RAI) seeks basic guarantees of fairness\, safety\, privacy\, robustness\, controllability\, explainability\, transparency\, and governance for traditional ML systems and generative AI systems. With recent legislation\, including the EU AI Act\, RAI has become a central focus of the AI/ML product development cycle. This talk provides an overview of the current practices for measuring and mitigating RAI dimensions in generative systems\, and recent research in AWS AI/ML. \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Vanessa Murdock leads a research group in AWS AI/ML\, whose focus is Responsible AI (fairness\, safety\, privacy\, robustness\, and veracity).  In addition to doing fundamental research in RAI topics\, her team builds tools for assessing aspects of responsible AI\, used in AWS Services such as Bedrock\, Rekognition and Transcribe.  Prior to joining AWS\, she led a science team in Alexa Shopping focused on recommender systems\, search and HCI. Her team provided the machine learning that backed Amazon’s Choice\, and Alexa Shopping List\, in addition to contributing content moderation for the generative AI system Rufus. She was previously at Microsoft\, working on location inference and notifications at Bing and Cortana. Prior to Microsoft\, Murdock led the Geographic Context and Experience Group at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona\, which centered on geographic information retrieval and user-generated content. She has been awarded 20 patents\, resulting in a Master Inventor Award from Yahoo! (2012). She received the OAA Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Young Alum from the University of Massachusetts in 2014. She is currently serving as the Chair of the ACM SIGIR Executive Committee.  Murdock received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval\, advised by Bruce Croft. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes\n Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of AI - Dataminr \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Keynote Speech\n Title: Responsible AI in Critical Real-Time Applications \nAbstract: Dataminr’s AI Platform discovers the earliest signals of events\, risks\, and threats from billions of multi-modal inputs from over one million public data sources. It uses Predictive AI for detecting events\, Generative AI for describing them\, and ReGenerative AI for generating live briefs that continuously update as events unfold. The events discovered by the platform help first responders quickly respond to emergencies\, they help corporate security teams respond to risks (including Cyber risks)\, and they help news organizations discover breaking events so they can provide fast and accurate coverage. Building and deploying a large-scale AI platform like Dataminr’s is fraught with research and technical challenges. This includes tackling the hardest problem in AI (determining the real-time value of information)\, which requires combining a multitude of AI approaches. In this talk\, I will briefly describe the main use cases of the work which I do\, but I will focus specifically on Responsible AI: in the domains we work\, the alerts we send out save lives\, which implies the need for many levels of decision-making that can be impacted by AI. I will describe a framework on the deployment of responsible AI that is based on the types of decisions in which AI is involved\, and the types of factors that need to be considered in deploying AI in critical applications. \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Alex Jaimes is the Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of AI at Dataminr. His work centers on blending qualitative and quantitative approaches to understand user behavior and drive product innovation. \nWith over 15 years of global experience\, Alex has contributed to research with real-world impact at companies such as Yahoo\, KAIST\, Telefónica\, IDIAP-EPFL\, Fuji Xerox\, IBM\, Siemens\, and AT&T Bell Labs. Previously\, he served as Head of R&D at DigitalOcean\, CTO at AiCure\, and Director of Research and Video Products at Yahoo\, where he led teams of scientists and engineers across New York City\, Sunnyvale\, Bangalore\, and Barcelona. \nHe has also been a visiting professor at KAIST. A prolific author\, Alex has published extensively in top conferences like KDD\, WWW\, RecSys\, CVPR\, and ACM Multimedia\, and is a regular speaker at international academic and industry events. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University. \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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Day 1 \n\n\n\nOPENING SESSION\n\n\n09:45\nRegistration & Coffee & Event Information\n\n\n10:15\nPoster & Demo Exhibition Vol. 1\n\n\n12:00\nLunch \n\n\nKEYNOTES SESSION\n\n\n13:00\nWelcome Address: Siri Gloppen (UiB)\, Christian Birkeland (TV2)\, Christoph Trattner (MediaFutures)\n\n\n13:15\nFirst Keynote Speech: Vanessa Murdock (Amazon Web Services): "Responsible AI in the Generative Era"\n\n\n13:45\nModerated QA with Alain D. Starke (University of Amsterdam)\n\n\n14:00\nCoffee Break \n\n\n14:15\nSecond Keynote Speech: Alex Jaimes (Dataminr): "Responsible AI in Critical Real-Time Applications"\n\n\n14:45\nModerated QA with Mehdi Elahi (MediaFutures)\n\n\n15:00\nCoffee break & Group Picture\n\n\n TACKLING MIS- & DISINFORMATION SESSION\n\n\n15:15\nPresentation: Project Reynir Results: Christoph Trattner & Helge O. Svela\n\n\n15:45\nPanel: Kayleen Devlin\, (BBC Verify)\, Helge O. Svela (Media Cluster Norway)\, Vinay J. Setty (Factiverse\, UiS)\, Sergej Stoppel (Wolftech)\, Morten Langfeldt Dahlback (Faktisk.no)\, Moderation: Bjørnar Tessem (MediaFutures)\n\n\nFINAL SESSION\n\n\n16:30\nInteractive Poster & Demo Pitches Vol. 2\n\n\n18:00\nPoster & Demo Award\n\n\n19:30\nConference Dinner (Scandic Ørnen)\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Day 2 \n\n\n\nOPENING SESSION\n\n\n09:45\nRegistration & Coffee & Event Information\n\n\nINSIGHTS & INNOVATION SESSION \n\n\n10:15\nBook Teaser: John Magnus R. Dahl (MediaFutures): "Making a World with the Smartphone"\, Moderation: Peder Haugfos\n\n\n10:45\nCoffee Break\n\n\n11:00\nPresentation by Sanja Šćepanović (Nokia Bell Labs\, Cambridge): "Responsible AI: Innovating from Design to Deployment"\, Moderation: Morten Fjeld (MediaFutures)\n\n\n12:00\nLunch \n\n\nAI & NEWS SESSION\n\n\n13:00\nPresentation by Kayleen Devlin (BBC Verify): "BBC Verify: tackling falsehoods in an age of uncertainty"\, Moderation: Christopher Senf (MediaFutures)\n\n\n13:45\nCoffee Break\n\n\n14:00\nPresentation by Lubos Steskal & Chris Ronald Hermansen (TV2): "Real Journalist\, Virtual Avatar: What We Learned from Peeking into Pandora's Box with KI-Kjetil"\, Moderation: Samia Touileb (MediaFutures)\n\n\n14:30\nPresentation by Damian Trilling (University of Amsterdam): "Responsible Recommender Systems for News" Moderator: Erik Knudsen (MediaFutures)\n\n\n15:15\nEnd. \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The program is tentative and subject to change. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SPEAKERS\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kayleen Devlin\n Senior Journalist at BBC Verify \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Kayleen Devlin is a senior journalist at BBC Verify. She has extensive experience of working on open-source investigations and covering disinformation from the Ukraine and Israel Gaza wars. As well as this\, she has also covered topics ranging from climate denial around COP26 and election related disinformation in the Philippines and the US midterm and presidential elections. \n \n \n \n \n \n BBC Verify: tackling falsehoods in an age of uncertainty\n In a year filled with global conflicts and elections\, communicating credible information in a timely manner has never felt more important. BBC Verify senior journalist\, Kayleen Devlin\, joins us to discuss some of the approaches her team takes when it comes to tackling misleading posts online. What are some of the main themes that have cropped up this year? And how much has generative AI disrupted the landscape? \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sanja Šćepanović\n Senior Research Scientist\, Nokia Bell Labs \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Sanja is an applied mathematician with MSc in cybersecurity and cryptography and a PhD in data science. Almuna of Internation Space University and ex of ICEYE\, she has a keen interest in space technology and research (e.g.\, AI for Earth Observation). \nHer professional experiences include government institutions\, two startups\, CERN\, and Bell Labs. During her doctoral studies with EIT Digital\, she has also taken business\, innovation and entrepreneurship courses\, working on startup ideas in some of them. \nHer example research projects include public and population health studies using social networks\, human dynamics using mobile phone data\, and urban vitality using satellite data. \n \n \n \n \n \n Responsible AI: Innovating from Design to Deployment\n Abstract: This talk presents the work of the Responsible AI (RAI) team at Nokia Bell Labs\, Cambridge. It covers the six RAI pillars and solutions for designing\, deploying\, and monitoring responsible AI systems. Discover AI Design\, a collaborative approach for holistic AI system design\, and ExploreGen\, which helps foresee and manage potential uses and risks of AI technology. See how NLPGuard prevents over-reliance on protected attributes when monitoring a toxicity classifier. Finally\, gain insights into how AI incidents are portrayed in the news media. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Damian Trilling\n Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Damian Trilling is a full professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and holds the Chair for Journalism Studies. \nDamian Trilling\, with a background in social sciences and a role in a humanities department\, integrates multiple perspectives\, especially in computational methods. His research focuses on how citizens engage with news and current affairs amid today’s media landscape\, examining the roles of journalists\, news media\, social platforms\, and technology. \nInitially using surveys\, Trilling now leverages digital trace data\, such as browser history donations\, to study news consumption and sharing across formats\, including high- and low-quality news and misinformation. He has also contributed insights on shareworthy news and large-scale sharing on platforms like Facebook. \nTrilling investigates feedback loops in media—how popular content reinforces itself\, the effects of personalization\, and audience metrics on news production. He also critiques the “filter bubble” concept\, preferring a nuanced view on personalized news flows. \nA proponent of computational communication\, Trilling co-founded *Computational Communication Research*\, and co-authored a book on computational analysis. His interests include machine learning\, event identification across media\, and experimental tools for recommender systems and data donation. \n \n \n \n \n \n Responsible recommender systems for news\n News organizations increasingly use recommender systems on their websites\, and also for streaming platforms that offer content regarding news and current affairs\, recommender systems are essential. From a user perspective\, such systems can help surfacing relevant content; and from a commercial perspective\, they can lead to higher click-through rates and revenues. At the same time\, there are growing concerns that too much emphasis on clicks may be detrimental to delivering a responsible journalistic product. In this talk\, I show recent developments that allow to leverage recommendation techniques to achieve desirable outcomes such as broadening users’ horizon without sacrificing user satisfaction. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Siri Gloppen\n Dean of SV-faculty at UiB \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Siri Gloppen is a Professor of Political Science and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences. She directs LawTransform\, the CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation\, and heads the Bergen School of Global Studies. Her work focuses on the intersections of law\, politics\, and social change\, and she is actively involved in global development and policy research initiatives. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Christian Birkeland\n Chief Digital Officer at TV2 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Birkeland holds a Master of Science in Engineering from NTNU in Trondheim and has a background as CEO of RiksTV. \nChristian Birkeland is part of the executive management team at TV 2 and the chairman of the steering board in SFI MediaFutures. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Christoph Trattner\n Director\, SFI MediaFutures \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Christoph Trattner is currently appointed as Lead Professor (1404) by the University Board of the University of Bergen (UiB). At UiB\, he serves as the Founder and Center Director of the Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation\, known as SFI MediaFutures\, which has secured funding and in-kind contributions totaling approximately 300 million NOK. \nAdditionally\, he is the Founder and Leader of the DARS research group\, Norway’s largest research group specializing in Recommender Systems. He holds a PhD (with distinction)\, MSc (with distinction)\, and BSc in Computer Science and Telematics from Graz University of Technology in Austria and is an ACM Senior Member.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Helge O. Svela\n CEO at Media Cluster Norway \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Svela is an award winning investigative journalist and editor. As a journalist in Bergens Tidende\, Svela won a Skup-diploma for the fact checking initiative faktasjekk.no. Svela held various leadership positions over 11 years in Bergens Tidende\, og was in charge of the newspaper’s coverage of the 2011 terrorist attack. Svela has also led various innovation initiatives in Bergen Tidende\, among them New digital formats\, which won a silver medal in the 2022 INMA Awards for innovation in newsroom. He started as the CEO of Media Cluster Norway in September 2022. Media Cluster Norway is a media and media tech cluster with around 90 member companies. Svela chairs the ITPC working group on Provenance Best Practices and Implementation.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chris Ronald Hermansen \n Project Manager for editorial AI at TV 2 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Chris Ronald Hermansen is the project manager for editorial AI at TV 2. Over the past 15 years\, he has worked as a journalist\, news editor\, and project manager in various media companies. In recent years\, he served as the editorial manager for TV 2’s news department in Bergen. Hermansen holds a law degree. \nLubos Steskal is a data scientist and AI developer at TV 2’s editorial AI team\, and he is also the industry lead of the Media Futures language technology work package. Combining academic and industry experience\, he has worked extensively with natural language processing and machine learning across various sectors. His background includes positions at the University of Bergen\, Sbanken\, and several startups\, bringing a unique perspective to the intersection of AI\, journalism and media. \n \n \n \n \n \n Real Journalist\, Virtual Avatar: What We Learned from Peeking into Pandora's Box with KI-Kjetil\n ‘KI-Kjetil’\, the first AI avatar of a news personality in Norwegian media\, serves as an interactive chatbot focusing on U.S. presidential election coverage. Based on journalist and news anchor Kjetil H. Dale\, this talk presents the journey of developing and deploying KI-Kjetil\, from evaluating editorial questions and challenges through technical implementation and towards operational monitoring. We explore the editorial rationale behind creating an AI clone of a news anchor\, discuss our project objectives\, and evaluate their outcomes. The presentation opens a discussion about the broader implications of AI avatars in journalism\, examining their impact on public trust and the ethical dimensions of deploying AI-powered representations of real journalists. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n John Magnus R. Dahl\n Postdoctoral Researcher in SFI MediaFutures \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n John 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. Dahl 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 Making a world with the smartphone\n In this talk\, postdoc John Magnus R. Dahl presents insights from his forthcoming book\, the first book from MediaFutures – In The Palm of Their Hands: Teenage Boys and their Smartphones as Worldmaking Devices (expected spring 2025). \nBased on an ethnographic fieldwork where Dahl observed six teen boys online and offline over 18 months\, this books seeks to answer how the smartphone impacts the life of young people. The central argument is that the smartphone gives teenagers agency – agency to find out who they want to be\, to connect with the people and communities that matter to them and to the wider world. This is why the smartphone is conceptualised as a worldmaking device. \nIn addition\, Dahl has found that the smartphone use is fundamentally gendered – used to enact masculinities\, different ways of being a man – and that it is used differently by those who are “different” – ethnic minorities and queer people. For them\, worldmaking through the smartphone is even more important. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sergej Stoppel\n Chief Innovation Officer at Wolftech \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Sergej  is the Chief Innovation Officer at Wolftech\, where he leads a culture of innovation across interdisciplinary teams\, transforming industry standards for a platform serving over 20\,000 global professionals. With a PhD in Computer Science and recipient of the Eurovis Best Dissertation Award\, Sergej combines research-driven strategic planning with a passion for customer-centric solutions. He is a recognized AI expert and thought leader\, regularly speaking at key industry events and driving sustainable growth through strategic partnerships and groundbreaking AI solutions for media professionals. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Morten Langfeldt Dahlback\n Head of Innovation and Technology at Faktisk.no \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Morten Langfeldt Dahlback leads the technology and development efforts at Faktisk.no. He also heads the EU project NORDIS\, a Nordic collaboration aimed at countering misinformation and disinformation. Dahlback holds a PhD in philosophy and has previously worked as a commentator for Adresseavisen and as an analyst for The Economist Intelligence Unit. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vinay Setty\n Associate Professor at Universitet i Stavanger \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bio\n Vinay Setty is the founder and CTO of Factiverse and an associate professor at University of Stavanger. Setty’s research area broadly encompasses NLP\, information retrieval and deep neural networks for language technologies. He specializes in fact-checking\, question answering\, and conversational search. He has published in several top-tier conferences within the area of information retrieval and web mining such as SIGIR\, The Web Conf\, WSDM\, CIKM etc. \n Furthermore\, he also won the 2020 SR Bank Innovation prize in Norway for commercializing neural network technology for fake news detection. Setty’s startup Factiverse has also won digital trust challenge and NORA AI startup award and has secured a US Patent on deep neural networks for false claim detection. Setty has a PhD in Computer Science from University of Oslo and a postdoc from Max-Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n EXHIBITION AND DEMO PITCHES\n \n \n \n \n \n Demos \n\n\n\nName\nTitle\n\n\nKhadiga Seddik \nBeyond Political Personalization: Enhancing News Recommendation with Headline Style Customization Using ChatGPT\n\n\nBilal Mahmood\nLarge Language Models as Editors Picking Related News Articles\n\n\nSnorre Alvsvåg\nSequential Recommender systems in action in the Video Domain: A TV 2 Demonstration\n\n\nFazle Rabbi & Svenja Forstner \nAi Conflict Analysis Tool\n\n\nPete Andrews \nAI Co-Moderator: Enhancing Broadcasted Political Debates\n\n\nHuiling You & Svenja Forstner\nEvent Extractor Model\n\n\n\n \nPoster \n\n\n\nName\nTitle\n\n\nJeng Jia-Hua\nNegativity Sells? Using an LLM to Affectively Reframe News Articles in a Recommender System\n\n\nSindre Berg Sæter\nMetadata Analysis of Images and Videos\n\n\nAdane N. Tarekegn\nCSAI: New Cluster Validation Index based on Stability Analysis\n\n\nBeatrix Chik Wu\nNews Report Adaptation for Synthetic Voice Presentation\n\n\nSohail Khan\nCLIPing the deception: Adapting Vision-Language Models for Universal Deepfake Detection\n\n\nJørgen Eknes-Riple\nEmotional Reframing Recommended News Articles\n\n\nBjørn Kjartansson Mørch\nAnalysis of Popularity Bias Effect in Media Recommendation\n\n\nTord Berget Monclair\nPersonalised News Recommendation in the Sports Domain\n\n\nSnorre Åldstedt\nInvestigating and Measuring Bias in Generative Language Models\n\n\nPeter Røysland Aarnes\nNumPert: When Numbers Shift\, does Prediction Hold?\n\n\nMartin Salterød Sjåvik\nSubtler biases in LLMs\n\n\nMarianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus\nNews experience: understanding the resonance between content\, practices & situatedness in everyday life\n\n\nTobias Jovall Wessel\nEmpowering Real-Time Media Research With NewsCatcher API\n\n\nBilal Mahmood\nCan Large Language Models Support Editors Pick Related News Articles?\n\n\nAyoub El Majjodi\nAdvancing Visual Food Attractiveness Predictions for Healthy Food Recommender Systems\n\n\nThorstein Lium Fougner\nEnhancing Enterprise streaming platforms with contextual post-filtering\n\n\nGloria Anne Babile Kasangu\nPicture this: How Image Filters affect trust in online news\n\n\nIngunn Statle Nævdal\nPersonalised news summarisation\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n LOCATION\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nBoth days of the Annual Meeting will take place at the Conference Centre at Scandic Ørnen. \nScandic Ørnen is located in Lars Hilles Gate 18\, right next to the main bus terminal.The closest public transport stop is “Bergen Busstasjon”\, the main bus terminal. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n https://maps.app.goo.gl/oHBxMur84ReqdFVx7 URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/annual-meeting-2024/ LOCATION:Scandic Ørnen\, Bergen CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-49-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241031T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20241031T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214657 CREATED:20241024T111949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T094413Z UID:19603-1730383200-1730386800@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Pixar Animations Studios from film to streaming: What are the lessons? DESCRIPTION:The Media Cluster in Bergen welcomes you to the lecture “Studios from film to streaming: What are the lessons?” by Pixar’s Bill Wise on October 31st at 14:00. \nJoin Bill Wise\, a veteran of Pixar Animation Studios\, as he shares his wealth of experience from almost three decades of storytelling\, visual effects\, and technical leadership. Having contributed to iconic films like Toy Story\, The Incredibles\, and WALL-E\, and recently leading projects for Pixar/Disney+\, Bill provides a behind-the-scenes look at Pixar’s evolution from blockbuster films to streaming platforms. \nIn this insightful session\, Bill will explore the challenges and innovations Pixar faced as it transitioned into the world of streaming. He’ll discuss the impact of this shift on production pipelines\, storytelling techniques\, and the creative process\, offering lessons learned from his time as a Supervising Technical Director and Visual Effects Supervisor. Bill’s journey includes working on Oscar-winning films like For the Birds and Brave\, and he will offer key takeaways from his recent projects for Disney+\, including his work on visualizing and producing content for this new era. \nWhether you’re a fan of Pixar or interested in the future of animation and streaming\, this session promises a fascinating look at how one of the world’s most beloved studios adapted to the changing media landscape URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/my-pixar-journey-40-years-of-arts-science-film/ LOCATION:Media Lab\, 9th floor\, tower 3\, Media City Bergen CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/463967036_1282817286390282_3028238296015749159_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240925T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240927T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214657 CREATED:20240611T075131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240823T130416Z UID:18937-1727251200-1727456400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Future Week 2024 DESCRIPTION:Future Week is an annual conference on media technology and editorial innovation. The conference focuses on the intersection of new technology and journalism. \nWith around 300 participants\, Future Week is an informal\, boutique conference where editorial teams meet product developers and media technologists. We feature engaging speakers from newsrooms and media technology companies\, both from Norway and from our international network. \nKey topics for 2024:Generative AINewsroom innovationProduct developmentDisinformationVisual storytellingProduct management \nSpeakers: \n\nSiv Juvik Tveitnes (Schibsted)\nAndy Parsons (Adobe) \nRyan Broderick (Garbage Day)\nRaquel Vazquez Llorente (Witness)\nPete Mathias (Alumni Ventures)\nBo Bergstedt (TV 2 Denmark)\nKjersti Løken Stavrum (Tinius Trust)\nMarkus Aarstad (Flighty)\nJan Stian Vold (Schibsted)\nHåkon Espeland (Muybridge)\nPål Nedregotten (NRK)\nChristian Birkeland (TV 2)\nAdde Granberg (SVT)\nDaniel Vestergaard (DR)\nTessa Sproule (CBC)\nMarkus Rask Jensen (Amedia)\nDavid Thompson (DPP)\n\nMore speakers to be announced!  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Day 1: September 25\, 2024\n 09:00 – WelcomeHost Chris Black\, Global Head of Brand & Communications at Vizrt \n  \n09:05 – The Future of Schibsted MediaSiv Juvik Tveitnes\, CEO of Schibsted MediaSiv Juvik Tveitnes is the CEO of the brand new Schibsted Media\, arguably one of the most influential news media companies in Europe. Where does she aim to take Schibsted Media in the coming years\, and how will the new Schibsted Media grow? Tveitnes will share her vision of how Schibsted Media will develop\, her thoughts on the profitability of news media\, and what the future holds for the news media ecosystem. Join us for the future of Schibsted Media! \n  \n09:40 – Capturing Magic by Turning Cameras into SoftwareHåkon Espeland\, CEO at MuybridgeJoin us for this session where Håkon Espeland gives us an insight into how Muybridge is turning cameras into software. We will explore how their technology can revolutionize media production\, storytelling\, and viewer engagement. Don’t miss this deep dive into how turning cameras into software will influence broadcast\, sports\, and digital communication in the next era of imaging. \n  \n10:00 – What an Editor Learned from Moving to the Product Department and Back AgainJan Stian Vold\, Managing Editor and Product DeveloperJan Stian Vold is the managing editor who became a product developer\, before going back to the newsroom as an editor again. What did he learn from working in these two different worlds? What are the best aspects of how editorial teams work\, versus how product teams work? What are the key differences\, and what can the two learn from each other? Last but not least: What do both cultures need to change to improve? \n  \n10:20 – Coffee Break \n  \n10:50 – Future Beat: The Next Innovation FrontierPete Mathias\, Venture Capitalist \nGenerative AI is not merely a continuation of existing technology\, it is a wholly new technological paradigm. What does that mean\, and where will generative AI take us? Pete Mathias has substantial venture capital and startup experience\, and will share what venture capitalists look for when they assess this technology and attempt to think about the future for media tech globally. \n  \n11:25 – How to Make a Product that People LoveMarkus Aarstad\, Founder of FlightyHow do you make a product that both users and Apple love? Markus Aarstad made Flighty\, an app that lets you track your flight seamlessly\, suggesting options if there are delays. The app has been showcased at Apple’s own product launch\, won Apple’s Design Awards and was a finalist for app of the year. It is also a smash hit among users of course. Markus Aarstad will get into the nuts and bolts of developing a successful product and share his best advice on how to make a product that people love. \n  \n11:45 – Lunch Break \n  \n12:45 – C2PA Content Credentials: the Global Movement Toward Transparency and TrustAndy Parsons\, Sr. Director\, Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe \nAs media producers and consumers\, we are living in unprecedented times. Incredible generative tools are fueling an ecosystem of distrust and confusion. Since 2021\, the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) has been working to develop a technology standard for verifiable\, trustworthy content provenance\, called Content Credentials. Now\, to bring the standard into widespread use\, it will be the work of content creators\, news organizations\, publishers\, tool makers\, and hardware manufacturers to come together and deploy Content Credentials. This talk will trace the journey to date and the path forward\, focusing on practical considerations and painting a picture of a future in which authentic content stands out. \n  \n13:20 – Navigating the Future: Top Five Media Industry TrendsDavid Thomson\, DPP \nIn its Demand vs Supply reports\, the DPP engages with media and entertainment businesses to identify key industry needs and analyses how well these demands are being met by vendors. David Thomson will be fresh from producing the fourth report in the series at IBC 2024 and will discuss what he sees as the five biggest media industry trends. \n  \n13:45 – Coffee Break \n  \n14:15 – How sensor data enables both breaking news and investigative reportingWith Ketil Moland Olsen and friends  \n  \n14:45 – CTO Panel: What Are the CTOs Looking For?Daniel Vestergaard (DR)\, Pål Nedregotten (NRK)\, Adde Granberg (SVT)\, Christian Birkeland (TV 2)\, hosted by Hilde Sandvik \nJoin us for the first-ever summit of Chief Technology Officers from Nordic broadcasters at Future Week. They will share their needs\, frustrations\, and predictions when it comes to media technology. In this session\, you will hear the CTOs from NRK\, TV 2\, SVT\, and DR discuss the big topics of our time. Is it better to build in-house than to buy off the shelf? Will AI really make everything easier? What is the biggest challenge short-term\, and what demands are they anticipating in the near future? And which broadcast technology are they most excited about\, right now? \n  \n15:30 – End of Day 1 \n \n \n \n \n \n Day 2: September 26\, 2024\n 09:00 – WelcomeHost Chris Black\, Global Head of Brand & Communications at Vizrt \n  \n09:05 – TBA \n  \n09:40 – Driving Innovation the Amedia WayMarkus Rask Jensen\, Director of News at Amedia \nHow do you innovate and serve 109 different newsrooms\, some with as few as two employees? In this session\, you will learn about Amedia’s unique way of product development\, both when it comes to developing for end-users and for tools to be used in the newsroom. Markus Rask Jensen will tell us about Amedia’s data strategy\, how they use hyperlocal data and how they make a range of new AI tools available for a very diverse set of newsrooms. \n  \n10:00 – Anne Jacobsen Memorial Award Presentation \n  \n10:10 – Coffee Break \n  \n10:40 – Interview with AJM Award WinnerKjersti Løken Stavrum and award winner \n  \n11:05 – The AI Frontier: Dreams and Dangers AheadBo Bergstedt\, Enterprise Architect (AI) at TV2 DenmarkIt’s been two hectic years since OpenAI began releasing generative AI products to the public\, sparking an AI arms race. The consequences vary depending on who you ask: Some fear the impact of increasingly powerful models\, while others see it as an opportunity for humanity to reset and restart. Join Bo Bergstedt as he explores the progress made since the concept of «machines that think» entered the mainstream\, and examines how we are steadily advancing toward both the dreams and fears surrounding this transformative technology. What will the rapid development of AI mean for the media industry\, and what should you do to prepare for what is guaranteed to be a most interesting future? \n  \n11:40 – Lunch Break \n  \n12:40 – The Web Has Turned to Crap. Now What?Ryan Broderick\, Author of Garbage DayThe web is broken and has been for quite some time. What used to be a fun playground\, a common conversation and a place of inspiration is increasingly turning into… well… crap? How did we get here? And what now? To answer these questions\, welcome Ryan Broderick\, a guy who self-identifies as «extremely online». He has been exploring the quirks\, turns and major shifts of the web over the last few years through his award-winning newsletter Garbage Day. What’s going to happen next? And should there not be a better internet than what we are stuck with now? \n  \n13:10 – How C2PA Will Reshape Our NewsroomsTessa Sproule\, Director of Metadata and Information Management at CBC/Radio-CanadaC2PA is more than content credentials and can fundamentally change how newsrooms work. Tessa Sproule shares how CBC/Radio-Canada uses the implementation of C2PA as a springboard for rethinking and restructuring their entire newsroom and journalistic processes. The challenge is formidable: how does one prepare a whole newsroom for a boom in transparency\, both in terms of workflow and best practices? You will learn how C2PA can be an important enabler for better journalistic processes. \n  \n13:40 – How we built the world of Alan WalkerKristian Berg\, Creative Director at Apparat \nKristian will talk about the creation of World of Walker and how they built a worldwide fan community through various untraditional formats. \n  \n14:00 – Coffee Break \n  \n14:30 – The Disinformation Election: Truth and lies in the presidential campaignPanel: Hilmar Mjelde (HVL)\, Maria Amelie (Factiverse)\, TBA\, Hosted by Vivi Stenberg \n  \n15:00 – TBA  \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Andy Parsons\nSenior Director\, Content Authenticity Initiative @ AdobeAndy Parsons is the Senior Director of Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative\, leading the development of software and standards for digital provenance. With a background in software engineering\, product design\, and business strategy\, Andy empowers creative professionals through innovative technology. He is known for his hands-on leadership and expertise in emerging technologies. \nRaquel Vazquez Llorente\nHead of Law & Policy\, Technology Threats & Opportunities @ WITNESSRaquel is a lawyer at WITNESS\, focusing on audiovisual media in conflict and human rights crises. She leads a team studying AI and deepfakes’ impact on media trust and tackles regulatory challenges. Previously\, she helped build eyeWitness\, a tool for authenticating audiovisual evidence. Admitted to the Madrid Bar\, she holds degrees from LSE and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid \n \nBo Bergstedt\nEnterprise Architect (AI) @ TV2 DenmarkBo Bergstedt\, the Enterprise Architect (AI) at TV 2 Denmark\, has a career focused on media product development. Formerly a Technology Strategist\, he identifies technological trends and their impact on TV 2. Since 2018\, Bo has led projects using Generative AI to create videos\, images\, and voices\, and develops internal guidelines for its use. His expertise also covers blockchain\, gamification\, streaming\, and the Metaverse\, driving innovation at TV 2. \nSiv Juvik Tveitnes\nKonsernsjef @ Schibsted Media.Siv Juvik Tveitnes is the EVP of News Media and former COO of Schibsted Media. She chairs the boards of Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet. Her previous roles include CEO of Bergens Tidende and Stavanger Aftenblad\, and positions at Media Norge\, Bergens Tidende AS\, and Bekk Consulting AS. She holds a master’s in Business Administration from the University of Bath and a bachelor’s in Social Sciences from the University of Bergen \nHåkon Espeland\nCo-Founder & CEO @ MuybridgeHåkon Espeland is the Co-founder and CEO at Muybridge\, a deep-tech company re-inventing the camera by turning them into software\, on a mission to reimagine the future of storytelling. Håkon holds an M.Sc. in Cybernetics from NTNU\, specialized in real-time embedded systems\, and has\, together with several of the Muybridge team members\, created leading mission-critical systems within broadcasting \nMarkus Årstad\nFounding Designer @ FlightyMarkus Aarstad is the designer of Flighty\, a renowned flight tracking app for iOS. He is the only Norwegian to have won the prestigious Apple Design Award\, and the Flighty app has also been a finalist for App of the Year. He is deeply engaged in the intersection of technology and human behavior. \nKjersti Løken Stavrum\nCEO @ Tinius Trust.Kjersti Løken Stavrum is the jury leader for the Anne Jacobsen Memorial Prize. She has a background as a journalist and editor. Løken Stavrum is the CEO of Tinius Trust – the controlling owner of Schibsted ASA\, has been the chairman of Norwegian PEN\, and led the Freedom of Expression Commission in Norway. She has previously been the secretary general of the Norwegian Press Association\, has an education in political science\, and has a master’s degree in management.  \nRyan Broderick\nAuthor of the Webby-Award winning newsletter @ Garbage DayRyan Broderick is the author of the award-winning tech newsletter Garbage Day. Ryan has spent far too much time online\, and is desperate for ways to turn that obsession into something useful. \nJan Stian Vold\nDevelopment Editor @ BT.Jan Stian Vold (47) is the Development Editor at Bergens Tidende. He has worked at BT his entire career\, in various roles. For the past three years\, he has focused on editorial product development. \nPete Mathias\nVenture Capitalist @ Alumni VenturesPete Mathias is a Partner at Alumni Ventures\, a leading venture fund. He has extensive international investing experience across the U.S.\, EU\, and China\, and was previously a Senior Director at Bertelsmann’s $1.5B+ venture arm. Pete began his venture career at 406 Ventures and was a founder in the Harvard Innovation Lab. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford (Distinction)\, Dartmouth College (MBA and A.B. magna cum laude)\, and Harvard University (MPA). \n  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/future-week-2024/ LOCATION:Media City Bergen\, Atrium CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/future-week-24-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240920T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240920T120000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214657 CREATED:20240911T092545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T075209Z UID:19300-1726830000-1726833600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:MediaFutures seminar DESCRIPTION:Title: Facing disinformation in social media with focus on its social impact \nThe integration of social media into our daily lives has been both transformative and essential\, offering numerous advantages in how we communicate\, share information\, and engage with the world. However\, alongside these benefits comes a growing concern: the widespread dissemination of misinformation. This challenge not only distorts public perception but can also significantly influence critical societal events\, such as elections and public health crises. In this talk\, we will present research from the UGRITAIlab at the University of Granada\, specifically in the field of fake news detection and analysis. Our research spans several key areas\, with a particular emphasis on the social impact of misinformation. Central to this work is our DESINFOSCAN Framework\, which includes a social impact module and a credibility analysis module. \nThe social impact module focuses on analyzing the influence of misinformation by utilizing advanced topic detection and argumentation techniques to examine social media discussions. Meanwhile\, the credibility module uses word embeddings to identify credible individuals and those whose contributions are valuable to the discourse on specific topics across social networks. By addressing these issues\, we aim to offer insights into how misinformation can be mitigated and how trustworthiness in social media interactions can be enhanced. \nThe seminar is digital only. The zoom link can be found below. \nSPEAKER: José A. Díaz-García \nJ. Ángel Díaz-García\, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science and AI at the University of Granada (UGR). He graduated as a Computer Engineer in 2016\, receiving an award for outstanding academic performance. Subsequently\, he ventured into the professional field as an SQL analyst at Asexor\, gaining professional experience in the private sector. In 2017\, he completed the qualifying master’s degree in Computer Engineering. During this period\, José Ángel began to specialize in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, leading him to pursue the master’s degree in Data Science at UGR\, thereby consolidating his knowledge in AI. During this time\, he made his first scientific contributions at international conferences as part of a research initiation scholarship for master’s students. After completing this second master’s degree\, he participated as a data scientist in international projects at the Universities of Oviedo and Granada. In 2019\, he was awarded an FPU scholarship from the Ministry\, marking the beginning of his doctoral studies in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP)\, which culminated in the defense of his thesis on October 27\, 2023\, with honors in international doctorate and CUM LAUDE. Throughout his research career\, he has contributed to 4 publications (JCRD Q1\, Q2) in the field of NLP and participated in 15 international and 4 national conferences. He has also collaborated on 6 projects\, including NOFACEPS\, of which he is the principal investigator\, and two international projects\, such as COPKIT\, where he contributed with a significant unsupervised sentiment analysis method. José Ángel has completed research stays at the University of Lisbon with Professor Joao Paulo Carvalho and at Imperial College London\, where he worked at the Data Science Institute with J. Amador Diaz-Lopez. As a result of the collaboration with Imperial College\, a contribution was made to an international conference in the field of misinformation in networks. Additionally\, the organization of a special session at a conference was initiated\, and currently\, this relationship continues with two publications under review. \nFinally\, it is worth highlighting the management and leadership skills demonstrated by José Ángel\, which led to the acquisition of a research project at UGR\, where he is the principal investigator\, and which concluded with the publication of the NOFACE credibility analysis system in the journal Expert Systems With Applications (JCR Q1). He was also part of the organizing committee of the FQAS 2023 international conference and the program committee of the COMS2 international conference in India. He has organized special sessions at 3 international conferences\, outreach workshops\, and given interviews on radio and in the press. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/mediafutures-seminar/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Seminar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-41-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240920T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240920T143000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214657 CREATED:20240805T104934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240816T075226Z UID:19119-1726822800-1726842600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:UiB Innovation Festival: From research to change DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the UiB Innovation Festival that will take place on September 20th from 9 to 14:30 at Nygårdsgaten 5. The festival is your opportunity to engage with the broad spectrum of innovation emerging from our university\, discuss how to balance the open science with protecting intellectual property\, and reflect on how UiB can contribute to Vestland’s green transition. The event is a part of the InnovasjonsukenOPP and will be a meeting place for people from academia\, businesses and public sector in the region. \nOne of the program’s highlights is the session on responsible research and innovation by Dr. Anne Blanchard\, Researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities\, Faculty of Humanities: \n“Was Oppenheimer a responsible scientist or not? Was he responsible for the impacts of his research on nuclear fission? In this session\, I will focus on responsible research and innovation (RRI). What does it mean\, to do research in a responsible way (without going as far as playing with weapons of mass destruction)? What do we need to pay attention to\, in our everyday research practices? Everyone welcome!” \n\n\n\n\nRegistration to UiB Innovation Festival 2024 for employees and students\nRegistration to UiB Innovation Festival 2024 for participants outside UiB\n\nWe look forward to welcoming you to a day filled with inspiration\, learning\, and networking. \nProgramme: \n09:00 – 09:30 Festival opening and keynote speech \n“Building social impact at scale: experiments in arts\, humanities and social science commercialisation at the University of Cambridge” \nDr Emma Salgård Cunha\, Senior Associate Commercialisation Director\, Cambridge Enterprise\, University of Cambridge \n09:30 – 10:15 Innovation relay: 8 pitches on different types of innovation at UiB \n10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break and stands \n10:45 – 11:15 Parallel sessions\, first round: \nSession 1 – How to balance publishing and protecting intellectual property (IPR)? \nSession 2 – Student Innovation: resources and tools for success \nSession 3 – Effective use of AI: crash course in prompt writing \n11:15 – 12:15 Lunch and exhibitions \n12:15 – 12:45 Parallel sessions\, second round: \nSession 1 – Do you work at UiB and have an innovative idea? Learn how to proceed and what resources are available to you \nSession 2 – Mini-design sprint – innovation tool for quickly creating and testing new solutions \nSession 3 – Responsible innovation – what is it and how to do it? \n12:45 – 13:15 Coffee break and stands \n13:15 – 13:55 Panel discussion: Innovation for green transition and UiB’s role in the region \n13:55 – 14:30 Award Ceremony for UiB Idé 2024 with project presentations \nAmong the stands\, in addition to inspiring innovation projects\, you can have one-on-one consultations to: \n\nExplore what patents filed in the world have cited your publications\nQuickly scan your research project for innovation potential\nSee how to improve your visibility online\n\nMost of the day will be in English\, whilst the panel discussion and the UiB Ide Award will be in Norwegian. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/uib-innovation-festival-from-research-to-change/ LOCATION:Nygårdsgaten 5\, Nordre Allmenning 3 at Læringsarenaen CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Instagram-post-om-UiB-Innovasjonsfesitval-2024.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240916T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240917T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214657 CREATED:20240714T142259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240909T150318Z UID:19040-1726473600-1726592400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Training workshop in Oslo: Accessibility in Digital Learning Resources DESCRIPTION:Join our 2-Day training workshop on Accessibility in Digital Learning Resources! Are you passionate about making digital learning more interactive and accessible? Our upcoming workshop in Oslo\, Norway\, on Monday\, September 16th\, and Tuesday\, September 17th\, is the perfect opportunity for you! \nFocus Areas:– Tools for enhancing interactivity and accessibility in linear media experiences.– Balancing AI personalization with privacy in accessible media. \nInteractive Learning:– Learn practical skills and hands-on techniques to apply WCAG/WAD in real-life scenarios.– Engage in group work facilitated by leading experts and researchers. \nWho Should Attend:– COST LEAD-ME Network Members: Most participants will be from our network\, but new members are welcome!– PhD Students and Researchers: Especially those from psychology\, computer science\, and related fields.– Accessibility Experts and Practitioners: Gain insights from experienced professionals in the field. \nWhy Attend?– Hands-On Experience: Move beyond theory and gain practical knowledge you can apply immediately.– Expert Guidance: Work directly with top facilitators who are leaders in accessibility and interactivity. \nThe attendance will be restricted to 40 students in total (in-person and online). We can support up to 15 students traveling to Oslo\, Norway (MSc\, PhD students\, and young researchers eligible for COST funding); this is funded by the LEAD-ME COST Action CA19142. The School also acceptsapplications from candidates with their own financial sources. All participants must fill out an application form\, which includes a short CV and motivation letter. The Scientific Committee will classify students according to COST rules\, including balancing career stage\, gender\, and countriesof work. \nApplication Deadline: August 20 \n \n CLOSED FOR APPLICATIONS\n \n \n \n \n \n \nAll costs will be reimbursed after the event according to COST Reimbursement Rules. \nReimbursement: \nStudents will have to sign the attendance for each day of the School\, according to the COST regulations. Eligible trainees will be reimbursed by the LEAD-ME CA19142 COST Project. To be reimbursed\, students should submit travel tickets reimbursement claims and carry out theirobligations which will be specified by the COST rules. \nThis seminar is organised and sponsored by SFI MediaFutures\, LEAD-ME\, Schibsted\, NORCE and TV2 School. \nVenues:Day 1\, 16th Sept\, will take place at Egmont in Nydalsveien 12A (stop: Nydalen):Day 2\, 17th Sept\, will take place at Schibsted in Akersgata 55 (stop: Stortinget or Oslo S):Early-bird gathering\, 15th Sept: For those who arrive on Sunday evening\, we suggest meeting up ata place offering both food and/or drinks. This place will be announced later. \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 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Training workshop day-by-day: \nDay 1 will focus on navigation and perception\, including an introduction session\, followed by user demonstrations. Four users will demonstrate how they navigate and perceive digital learning resources\, representing different age groups. There will be smaller groups of five to seven PhDstudents at each demonstration “station”\, based on using participants from Digjobb.no. After lunch\,following WCAG principles\, the focus will be on how to navigate and perceive a digital learning resource. Participants will work in a break-out group (10-14). There will be focus on eye-gazenavigation\, one-button\, two-button\, braille\, deaf. Complementary PhD-specializations will work together in each break-out group. Participants will learn how to interpret WCAG/WAD in relation to eye-gaze navigation\, one-button\, two-button\, braille\, deaf. There will be one facilitator per break-out group. \nDay 2 will focus on understanding. It will start with making WCAG principle understandable\, in relation to content and to accessibility challenges such as dyslexia\, symbol users\, cognitive challenges. Thereafter\, four users will demonstrate how they use learning resources\, representingdifferent age groups. Again\, there will be five to seven PhD students on each demonstration “station” Using the Digjobb.no as partner. After lunch\, there will be navigation break-out group 1 (10-14) How to interpret WCAG/WAD in relation to dyslexia\, symbol users\, cognitive challenges. DifferentPhD-specializations in every group. There will be none navigation break-out group 2 (10-14 persons). How to interpret WCAG/WAD in relation to dyslexia\, symbol users\, cognitive challenges. There will be different PhD-specializations in every group. \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Day 1\, 16. SepDay 2\, 17. Sep\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Day 1\, 16. Sep 09.00–09.30 Introduction 09.30–10.15 Experts 10.30–11.30 User-café 11.30–12.30 Lunch 12.30–13.30 Navigat: how to 13.45–15.00 Navigat: how to cont. 15.00–16.00 Pitching with experts 16.00–17.00 Roof-top drinks if sunny 19.00–22.00 Social eve (venue tbd) \n \n \n \n \n \n 09.00–09.30 Introduction09.30–10.15 Experts10.30–11.30 User-café11.30–12.30 Lunch12.30–13.30 Navigat: break-out13.45–15.00 Navigat: break-out cont.15.00–16.00 Pitching with jury16.00–17.00 Wrap-up and mingling \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More info on the experts\, accomodation and program can be found in the pdf ADLM_Brochure_final_web URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/training-workshop-in-oslo-accessibility-in-digital-learning-resources/ LOCATION:oslo CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-291-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240916T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240917T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214657 CREATED:20240527T114126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240627T162429Z UID:18775-1726473600-1726592400@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Personalisation Day DESCRIPTION:We invite all researchers and practitioners in the Nordics to the second Nordic Personalisation day in Wallenberg Conference Center\, Gothenburg. We aim on two days full of talks and discussions on ethics\, responsibility in personalisation and recommender systems. There will also be plenty of time to meet peers both from industry and research and exchange ideas during the conference during coffee breaks\, lunch and after-workshop drinks.  \nThe event starts after lunch on the 16th and ends on the 17th at lunch time.  We know there are many innovative academic and industrial labs and hope this workshop can be a step toward creating a Nordic community on this highly relevant topic. \nAdmittance is free of charge\, but registration is required. Please follow the link below to find out more. \nThe event is funded by Meltzer\, SFI MediaFutures and Swedish funding agencies.  URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/personalisation-day/ LOCATION:Wallenberg Conference Center\, Gothenburg\, Sweden CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-27-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240906T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240906T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214657 CREATED:20240903T073822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240903T073822Z UID:19248-1725613200-1725645600@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Europe’s Digital Agenda: Is the AI Act the Final Act? In Search of Common Principles DESCRIPTION:Over the past five years the European Union legislature has passed a flurry of ambitious directives and regulations dealing with various aspects of Europe’s digital economy: the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive (2019)\, the Open Data Directive (2019)\, the Data Governance Act (2022)\, the Digital Services Act (2022)\, the Digital Market Act (2022)\, the Data Act (2023) and the AI Act (2024). \nWhile these legal instruments touch upon different legal domains\, ranging from intellectual property law\, freedom of government information and data protection to media regulation\, competition law\, and consumer protection\, there is considerable overlap – and increasing confusion about their reach and scope\, the new governance structures they establish\, and their underlying policies. \nIt introduces a ban on high-risk AI technologies\, establishes far reaching transparency measures\, demands human oversight\, prohibits misleading uses of AI\, creates new supervisory authorities\, and enhances protection of human creators against being “trained” by LLM’s. \nThis international conference – the first of its kind – searches for common principles and doctrines in Europe’s Digital Agenda\, and queries what will be the EU’s next step – if any – in its regulatory adventure in the digital field. It will also compare Europe’s Digital Agenda to developments in the United States and look at the impact of the new European rules on enterprises in the ICT sector in Europe\, particularly start-ups. \nProgramme\n8.30-9.00       Registration and coffee \n9.00-9.15       Opening (Dean Karl Harlad Søvig) \n9.15-9.45       Introduction: Martin Husovec\, LSE Law School \nSession 1       Fostering the European Data Economy\n9.45-10.05      Heather Broomfield\, University of Oslo\, Are We There Yet? The Legal Evolution of Public Sector Data Sharing \n10.05-10.25    Lucie Antoine\, LMU University\, Munich\, The Data Act: Fair access to data and new possibilities for data-driven innovation – or everything more difficult than before? \n10.25-10.40    COFFEE BREAK \n10.40-11.00    Bernt Hugenholtz\, University of Amsterdam\, Text and Data Mining in the DSM-directive \n11.00-11.45    Panel discussion and Q&A \n11.45-12.45    LUNCH BREAK \nSession 2        Platform regulation\n12.45-13.05    Torger Kielland\, University of Bergen\, Article 17 CDSM: Platform liability for copyrighted content – too much or not enough? \n13.05-13.25    Benjamin Raue\, University of Trier\, The Digital Services Act: Liability exemptions in exchange for diligence obligations and public oversight \n13.25-13.45   Alexander Iken\, European Commission\, Digital Markets Act \n13.45-14.30    Panel discussion and Q&A \n14.30-14.45    COFFEE BREAK \nSession 3        Regulating AI\n14.45-15.05    Alexander Peukert\, Goethe University Frankfurt\, The Meta-Regulation of AI through the AI Act \n15.05- 15.25   Thomas Vinje\, University of Bergen\, AI and competition law \n15.25-16.00    Pamela Samuelson\, UC Berkeley\, An American Perspective on AI Regulation \n16.00-17.00    Panel discussion and Q&A \n17.00              Ending \n  \nOrganizing committee\nProfessor Torger Kielland\, University of Bergen \nEmeritus Professor Bernt Hugenholtz\, University of Amsterdam \nAssistant Professor Thomas Vinje\, University of Bergen \nAssociate Professor Liliia Oprysk\, University of Bergen URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/europes-digital-agenda-is-the-ai-act-the-final-act-in-search-of-common-principles/ LOCATION:Bergen Global\, Jekteviksbakken 31\, 5006 Bergen AND Zoom CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/ai_conferanse.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240903T123000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20240903T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T214657 CREATED:20240826T092927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240826T092927Z UID:19206-1725366600-1725372000@mediafutures.no SUMMARY:Advancing Image and Video Understanding Beyond Traditional Paradigms: Vocabulary-Free Classification and Zero-Shot Temporal Localization DESCRIPTION:The Department of Information Science and Media Studies and the I2S research group welcomes you to this seminar with Paolo Rota of University of Trento. \nThe rapid evolution of vision-language models is transforming the landscape of image and video understanding\, going beyond traditional classification and localization paradigms. We will explore two recent methodologies that challenge the conventional reliance on predefined vocabularies and training data. The first part of the talk introduces the concept of Vocabulary-Free Image Classification (VIC)\, a novel approach that assigns classes to images without the constraints of a fixed vocabulary. We will delve into the challenges of operating within an unconstrained semantic space containing millions of concepts and present Category Search from External Databases (CaSED)\, a training-free method that leverages external vision-language databases for efficient and accurate classification. In the second part\, we will shift focus to Test-Time Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization (ZS-TAL)\, which tackles the problem of identifying and locating unseen actions in untrimmed videos without the need for annotated training data. We will introduce the Test-Time adaptation for Temporal Action Localization (T3AL) approach\, which adapts a pre-trained Vision and Language Model (VLM) to perform action localization in a self-supervised manner\, significantly improving generalization across diverse video domains. Finally we will show how LLMs can be used as a sort of orchestrator to solve research problems autonomously\, through visual programming. \nPaolo is an assistant professor at the Center for Mind and Brain (CIMeC) at the University of Trento. He received his Ph.D. from the same university and has worked as a postdoctoral Marie Curie fellow at TU Wien and as a postdoc at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa. He also worked as an ML researcher at the ProM Facility in Rovereto. He has been an assistant professor at the University of Trento since 2019 and started his tenure track in 2022. His research interests are focused on image and video classification using Vision and Language. URL:https://mediafutures.no/event/advancing-image-and-video-understanding-beyond-traditional-paradigms-vocabulary-free-classification-and-zero-shot-temporal-localization/ LOCATION:Ulrike Pihls hus\, Seminarrom 2B CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://mediafutures.no/wp-content/uploads/Frame-36.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR