Category: Live Talks

We are happy to announce the fourth seminar of the Engineering Live Talk series. Live talks are bimonthly webinars given by a member of the IFIP WG 2.7/13.4 or by an invited expert. Group members will participate in the online meetings, while the live stream on YouTube will be publicly available. This month, the talk will be given by Fabio Paternò. The talk explores the challenges of human control in a world of IoT and AI, focusing on innovative ways to empower users to manage automation in their daily lives without programming skills. The talk will be given on the 30th of November, 15:00 CET.The link to attend is the following: https://www.youtube.com/live/VwiD81lunWs Humanations: A new understanding of human/automation interaction How people interact with digital technologies is currently caught between the…

The IFIP WG 2.7/13.4 is happy to announce the third seminar of the Engineering Live Talk series. Live talks are bimonthly webinars given by a group member or by an invited expert. Group members will participate in the online meetings, while the live stream on YouTube will be publicly available. This month, the talk will be given by the WG chair, Davide Spano. The talk is about the research effort carried out in his group to support end-users and novice programmers in creating XR environments, in particular for defining their interactive behaviour. The talk will be given on the 28th of September, 15:30 CET.The link to attend is the following: https://youtube.com/live/mXDPX8CSEGQ?feature=share Easing XR Development for Novices and End Users This talk discusses a rule-based approach for enabling end-users and novice…

We are happy to announce a new Live Talk in the UI-Engineering Live Talks series. Live talks are bimonthly webinars given by a group member or by an invited expert. Group members will participate in the online meetings, while the live stream on YouTube will be publicly available. For the second episode of the series, prof. Jürgen Ziegler will introduce us to the issues of designing and engineering conversational recommender systems. The talk will be given on the 20th of July, 15:30 CET.The link to attend is the following: https://www.youtube.com/live/VnVRr9ef8wk?feature=share Design and engineering issues in conversational recommender systems Conversational interaction techniques have gained significant traction in recent years, mainly due to the advances in language technologies. In line with these developments, conversational recommender systems (CRS) have also been gaining increasing…

We are glad to announce the launch of a new activity of the IFIP WG 2.7/13.4: the UI-Engineering Live Talks. The group will organize a bimonthly webinar given by a group member or by an invited expert. Group members will participate in the online meetings, while the live stream on YouTube will be publicly available. Our group member Célia Martinie will give the inaugural talk on the 26th of May at 14:00 CET. The link to attend is the following: https://www.youtube.com/live/WKkEGSON1AM Considering modelling techniques in HCI engineering education Teaching HCI requires to take into account the field’s diverse perspectives (e.g. interaction design, human factors, software development…), as well as its constant state of change (e.g. new contexts, new devices, new programming languages…). Teaching HCI engineering particularly focuses on preparing students…