We are excited to inform that a research paper Mitigating Popularity Bias in Recommendation: Potential and Limits of Calibration Approaches by Anastasiia Klimashevskaia1, Mehdi Elahi, Dietmar Jannach, Christoph Trattner and Lars Skjæerven, has been accepted for oral presentation and inclusion in the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (Bias 2022).
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Winter Holiday 2022
This week is Winter Holiday in western Norway and for us at MediaFutures. There will be reduced activity at the centre as our team takes this opportunity to go skiing in the snowy mountains. Photo credit: Christoph Trattner
Vice-Rector for Innovation, Gottfried Greve pays an official visit to MediaFutures
On February 18th, MediaFutures received a visit from Gottfried Greve, the Vice- Rector for Innovation. Greve was accompanied among others by the University of Bergen’s Rector Margareth Hagen and the Deputy Director General Benedicte Løseth.
Meet the Team. Interview with PhD Candidate Huiling You
In Meet the Team series we introduce our audience to the brilliant people working at MediaFutures. Get to know us better by discovering who we are and what we do.
This week we are interviewing Huiling You, PhD candidate, associated with Work Package 5 – Norwegian Language Technologies.
MediaFutures’ latest publication
Congratulations to MediaFutures’/DARS research group for their publication “Developing and Evaluating a University Recommender System” in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.
Assoc. Prof. Fazle Rabbi appointed as new co-leader in Work Package 3
On February 2, Assoc. Prof. Fazle Rabbi took over as co-leader in Work Package 3, along with Prof. Bjørnar Tessem. Rabbi succeeded Prof. Andreas Andreas L Opdahl, who vacated the position, but remains the work package’s task leader.
Meet the Team. Interview with Research Assistant Kata Urban
In Meet the Team series we introduce our audience to the brilliant people working at MediaFutures. Get to know us better by discovering who we are and what we do.
This week we are interviewing Kata Urban, MediaFutures’ Research Assistant.
Trattner et al. – “Responsible media technology and AI: challenges and research directions”
MediaFutures’ latest publication “Responsible media technology and Al: challenges and research directions” appeared in Springer Nature’s AI & Ethics in December 2021.
The passing of Anne Jacobsen, the CEO of Media City Bergen and Media Innovation Norway
It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we inform you about the passing of Anne Jacobsen, the CEO of Media City Bergen and the Media Innovation Norway. Anne passed away unexpectedly on Friday, January 28th.
Meet the Team. Interview with PhD Candidate Pete Andrews
In Meet the Team series we introduce our audience to the brilliant people working at MediaFutures. Get to know us better by discovering who we are and what we do.
This week we are interviewing Pete Andrews, PhD candidate in Work Package 4 – Media Content Interaction & Accessibility.