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WeNet research work wins IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 09:39:45 +0000

The paper titled Generalization and Personalization of Mobile Sensing-Based Mood Inference Models: An Analysis of College Students in Eight Countries, which was published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), won the IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award. IMWUT assigns every year a Distinguished Paper Award to 3-4% of all papers published by the…

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The end of WeNet, the beginning of the Internet of Us

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 10:33:29 +0000

The run of the WeNet project – which saw the fruitful collaboration of a multidisciplinary consortium hailing from several European countries, and beyond, working together for four and a half years – has come to a conclusion, but we’d like to leave you with a few facts and figures on what has been achieved, now…

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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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Talk on Equitable AI at Museum Exhibition in Lausanne

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:49:23 +0000

Prof. Daniel Gatica-Perez, head of the Social Computing Group at Idiap and WeNet consortium partner, gave an invited talk entitled “Equitable AI? For Whom? Why?” on May 23, 2023 at the Musée de la Main in Lausanne, Switzerland, as part of the exhibition Artificial Intelligence: Our Reflections on the Machine. The exhibition is a collaboration…

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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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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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