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WeNet paper at the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:04:35 +0000

The paper titled “Keep Sensors in Check: Disentangling Cross-Country Generalization Issues in Mobile Sensor-Based Models with Diversity Scores”, by our WeNet consortium partners at Idiap Research Institute (Alexandre Nanchen, Lakmal Meegahapola, William Droz, and Daniel Gatica-Perez), will be presented at the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES). The conference is held in…

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The human-centric digital world from an ethical angle: A look at University of Tübingen’s independent publications output

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:07:42 +0000

In parallel with WeNet, our partner University of Tübingen conducted their very own explorations on the theme of a human-centric digital future, covering internet and Artificial Intelligence in relation to diversity and discrimination issues, from their specific ethics-driven standpoint. Although the publications we look back at in this article weren’t released under the WeNet umbrella,…

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Reporting back from WeNet’s Final Event at HHAI

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 11:53:17 +0000

On June 26, WeNet organised its final event in the form of a workshop within the 2nd International Conference on Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence (HHAI 2023), in Munich, Germany: a perfect match to the project’s focus and the aim of the envisioned workshop, seeking to promote richer and deeper social interactions by enabling the Internet of…

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Symposium “Social Justice and Technological Futures”

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 15:53:20 +0000

The Symposium on “Social Justice and Technological Futures” took place on 2-3 May 2023 at the University of Tübingen. It was hosted by the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW), the RHET AI Center and the Collaborative Research Centre 923 “Threatened Orders” in cooperation with the EU-funded project WeNet – The Internet of Us. The international and…

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AI and Diversity: The role of the human factor

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 12:04:55 +0000

On 19 April 2023, the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento hosted a panel on AI and diversity, within the framework of the 15th edition of ICT Days, organised by WeNet Project in collaboration with U-Hopper and the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science and sponsored by the Trentino AI consortium. The event was attended by over 100 participants,…

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Generalization and Personalization of Mobile Sensing-Based Mood Inference Models: An Analysis of College Students in Eight Countries

Tue, 04 Apr 2023 17:13:49 +0000

The journal paper titled “Generalization and Personalization of Mobile Sensing-Based Mood Inference Models: An Analysis of College Students in Eight Countries”, a collaboration between 11 institutes of the WeNet consortium and led by Idiap Research Institute, was accepted for the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT). The paper will…

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Intelligenza Artificiale e diversità: il ruolo del fattore umano (AI and Diversity: The role of the human factor)

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 15:30:00 +0000

Il 19 aprile 2023 alle ore 17:30, presso l’Aula Kessler del Dipartimento di Sociologia e ricerca Sociale dell’Università di Trento (via Verdi 26), nell’ambito della quindicesima edizione degli ICT Days, si terrà un evento sul ruolo del fattore umano nell’AI, organizzato da WeNet Project in collaborazione con U-Hopper e con il Dipartimento di Ingegneria…

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Complex Daily Activities, Country-Level Diversity, and Smartphone Sensing: A Study in Denmark, Italy, Mongolia, Paraguay, and UK

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:48:05 +0000

The paper titled “Complex Daily Activities, Country-Level Diversity, and Smartphone Sensing: A Study in Denmark, Italy, Mongolia, Paraguay, and UK”, a collaboration between 7 institutes of the WeNet consortium and led by Idiap Research Institute, has been accepted at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). ACM CHI is the top venue…

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WeNet @HHAI 2023 (DHHAI+EHHAI)

Sun, 25 Jun 2023 22:00:00 +0000

The increase in social media and Internet users’ exposure to diversity has not come with new instruments and skills to deal with it, despite the invariable impact that diversity has on human lives. This is the main theme of the multi-faceted event that WeNet is organising within the 2nd International Conference on Hybrid Human…

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Open Call takeaways from the winners: FPT University

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 08:47:02 +0000

As the experimentation projects of our Open Call winners came to a closure, we checked back with them to expand on their background and motivations to participate, and to collect stories on their experience within the programme: what they’ve been up to and how WeNet connected with them and helped them to carry on their…

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