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August 11, 2024

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Humane AI Net Co-Hosts Doctoral Consortium at HHAI 2024 Conference, Supporting the Next Generation of Interdisciplinary AI Researchers

Humane AI Net proudly co-organized the 2024 Doctoral Consortium as part of the Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence Conference and #HHAISummerSchool, bringing together 11 PhD students engaged in diverse interdisciplinary research across machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), human-computer interaction (HCI), and psychology.

The event featured invaluable mentorship from renowned experts, including Wendy Mackay and Paul Lukowicz from Humane AI Net, alongside Steve Brewster and Stefan Schlobach. Wendy Mackay and Steve Brewster delivered impactful talks, offering guidance on scoping and navigating the PhD journey for success.

The consortium was organized and moderated by Passant Elagroudy (Humane AI Net), Michiel van der Meer, and Harko Verhagen, providing a supportive environment for PhD students to exchange ideas and build connections within the field.

For more details, visit the Doctoral Consortium page: https://lnkd.in/dN8jTnAD and the HHAI Summer School program: https://lnkd.in/e_t2TKkn.

Humane AI Net Co-Hosts Doctoral Consortium at HHAI 2024 Conference, Supporting the Next Generation of Interdisciplinary AI Researchers

Public talks by Paul Lukowicz Humane AI Net coordinator

Our PI Paul Lukowicz gave several talks in the last couple of weeks in leading AI-venues disseminating and reflecting on the research done with the network. For example, he gave a talk in an event about “Legal Protection Debt in the ML Pipeline” organized by FARI – AI for the Common Good Institute about how to curate data in the age of AI. He also gave a keynote in the AISafety & SafeRL workshop in the 32th conference: IJCAI International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization 2023. It targets the need to rethink the safety of AI systems beyond mere adherence to formal specs & and regulations, especially when it comes to interactions on societal levels.

Our PI Paul Lukowicz gave several talks in the last couple of weeks in leading AI-venues disseminating and reflecting on the research done with the network.

DFKI Researchers Win Big with 20-Year Impact and Best Paper Awards in AI and Wearable Technology

Congratulations to the Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) and its collaborators for winning two prestigious awards, highlighting groundbreaking contributions to AI and wearable technology.

🎉 20-Year Impact Award
Principal Investigator Paul Lukowicz, alongside co-authors Helene Brashear, PhD, Thad Starner, and Holger Junker, received the 20-Year Impact Award for their seminal paper, “Using Multiple Sensors for Mobile Sign Language Recognition.” This pioneering work set a strong foundation for sign language recognition using multi-sensor technology, establishing frameworks that continue to influence mobile and AI-assisted accessibility.

🎉 Best Paper Award
The DFKI and RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau team, including Lala Ray, Dr. Bo Zhou, Sungho Suh, and Paul Lukowicz, won the Best Paper Award for their innovative research titled “Selecting the Motion Ground Truth for Loose-fitting Wearables: Benchmarking Optical MoCap Methods.” This paper addresses a key challenge in wearable technology, offering a robust benchmarking approach for motion tracking in loose-fitting wearables, which promises to enhance accuracy and usability in real-world applications.

Kudos to all the winners for their outstanding work in advancing AI and wearable tech research!

Winning streak of Humane AI talents in the top tier conference UbiComp/ISWC 2023.

Closing the Symposium on Interaction with Technologies for Human Augmentation

THANKS to the amazing organization of Florian Müller, @Nađa Terzimehić, Sophia Sakel , Julian Rasch and Albrecht Schmidt , we have the closing of the “Symposium on Interaction with Technologies for Human Augmentation” #augmentsymp23 .. Good bye everyone AND looking forward to meet in future events 🥳🥳

If you missed the event, you can see the recording from here:
https://lnkd.in/ddCpdT7E

We had talks from:
Albrecht Schmidt professor at LMU Munich , Paul Lukowicz professor at DFKI,
@heidiki koiki professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Elisabeth André professor at Augsburg university,
Shinichi Furuya senior researcher at Sony,
@asa ito associate professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Max Mühlhäuser professor at TU Darmstadt
Hans Gellersen professor at Lancaster university
Jun Rekimoto professor at the University of Tokyo

Albrecht Schmidt professor at LMU Munich taking a selfie with all attendees.

Humane AI Net Co-Hosts Doctoral Consortium at HHAI 2024 Conference, Supporting the Next Generation of Interdisciplinary AI Researchers

Public talks by Paul Lukowicz Humane AI Net coordinator

DFKI Researchers Win Big with 20-Year Impact and Best Paper Awards in AI and Wearable Technology

Closing the Symposium on Interaction with Technologies for Human Augmentation

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