The first WeNet Podcast “An interdisciplinary discussion of ethics and data sciences for personalization technology” is part of this year’s Future Tech Week’s calendar (21-25 September).
In the podcast, originally published on WeNet’s official YouTube channel, ethics researcher Laura Schelenz …
[email protected] seminar with Ahmed Hamdy, American University in Cairo (Egypt), and University of Tübingen, Germany – Recorded on 27 August 2020
WeNet project aspires to develop a social media tool to foster community social relations, particularly among student populations. Diversity …
Giulia D’Ettole, Thomas Bjørner and Amalia De Götzen from Aalborg University participated and obtained the best paper award at the HCI International 2020 in the thematic area: Design, User Experience and Usability. The study presented in this paper was …
The European Commission’s Innovation Radar‘s analysis of EU-funded projects under Horizon 2020, identified WeNet partners Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, U-Hopper Srl and University of Trento as “Key Innovators” for their work on the diversity-aware social platform innovation topic, …
WeNet partner Idiap Research Institute is organizing an AI Super Hackathon on August 22-30, 2020, in the framework of the 9th edition of the International Create Challenge.
During 9 days of intense development, participants will have the opportunity to …
Machine generated personalization is increasingly used in online systems. Personalization is intended to provide users with relevant content, products, and solutions that address their respective needs and preferences. However, users are becoming increasingly vulnerable to online manipulation due to algorithmic …
Laura Schelenz, Avi Segal, and Kobi Gal will present their research on “Best practices for Transparency in Machine Generated Personalization” at the ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization in July 2020. Their interdisciplinary research at the intersection …
Kobi Gal from WeNet’s partner Ben-Gurion University (Israel) recently contributed to a paper on “Interpretable Models for Understanding Immersive Simulations”. The paper describes methods for comparative evaluation of the interpretability of models of high dimensional time series data inferred by …
A team of researchers in Switzerland, co-led by Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez (Idiap Research Institute and one of the WeNet partners), is investigating how Swiss residents are developing strategies to adapt to and cope with the nationwide lockdown situation …
The WeNet project aspires to develop a social media tool to foster community social relations, particularly among student populations. Diversity is an integral part of WeNet conceptually and practically. Considering the diverse needs and preferences of users, and connecting users …
