Events – CyCAT

Events

CyCAT holds monthly seminars in this topic and that one. Our seminars are held online where viewers can ask questions. Most of our past seminars can be watched here.

Dr Styliani Kleanthous took part in a panel discussion at the Second International Workshop of the ACM-SIGCHI Mediterranean Committee

Dr. Styliani Kleanthous, Research group co-leader of the fAIre research group, CYENS CoE and Senior Researcher at CyCAT, OUC, took part in a panel discussion on Mediterranean values through HCI research, at the Second International Workshop of the ACM-SIGCHI Mediterranean Committee (MedCHI), at the ACM womENcourage 2024, Madrid, Spain. (https://hintlab.polimi.it/workshop-medchi2024-womencourage/)

27 June 2024 12:00 am (GMT+2)

Madrid, Spain

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23rd annual ACM Conference Interaction Design and Children (IDC2024)

Maria Kasinidou, a PhD candidate at the Open University of Cyprus and researcher associate at the Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT), participated in the 23rd annual ACM Conference Interaction Design and Children (IDC2024) Conference, held on June 17-20, 2024, in Delft, Netherlands. During the conference, Maria presented her Work in Progress paper entitled "AI is a robot that knows many things": Cypriot children's perception of AI" through a lightning talk and a poster... Read More

17 June 2024 12:00 am (GMT+2)

Delft, Netherland

4 Days

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Seminar of the 𝗣𝗜 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 series organised by our UniTrento – IECS Doctoral School

Associate Professor Jahna Otterbacher, Coordinator of the CyCAT | Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT) at the Open University of Cyprus, will be giving a talk at the first seminar of the 𝗣𝗜 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 series organised by UniTrento - IECS Doctoral School. 📅 April 4th at 1:30 pm (GMT+2), room Garda, Polo Ferrari 1 🎤 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗔(𝗻)𝗜 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰... Read More

4 April 2024 1:30 pm (GMT+2)

Online

Speakers:

Prof. Jahna Otterbacher

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The 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – UMAP 2023

Dr Styliani Kleanthous co-leader of the research group “fAIre - Fairness and Ethics in AI- Human Interaction” at the CYENS Centre of Excellence and Senior Research Associate at CyCAT, is serving as General Chair of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization - UMAP 2023. The conference will be held from June 27th – 29th at the St. Raphael Resort and Marina in Limassol, Cyprus. ACM UMAP – User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization – is... Read More

27 June 2023 9:00 am (EEST)

Limassol, Cyprus

3 Days

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Fairness, explainability and in‑between: understanding the impact of different explanation methods on non‑expert users perceptions of fairness toward an algorithmic system: A seminar by Prof. Trsvi Kuflik

In the context of an Erasmus+ International Mobility Programme, Dr. Tsvi Kuflik, Professor of Information Systems at the University of Haifa, visited the Open University of Cyprus (OUC) for a weekly series of seminars. On the 19th of June 2023, in collaboration with the Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT), the OUC hosted his hybrid open seminar entitled “Fairness, explainability and in‑between: understanding the impact of different explanation methods on non‑expert users... Read More

19 June 2023 5:00 pm (GMT)

Online

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THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEB AND SOCIAL MEDIA – ICWSM 2023

Associate Professor Jahna Otterbacher, Coordinator of the CyCAT | Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT) at the Open University of Cyprus, is serving as General Chair of the 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media - ICWSM-2023. The conference will be held from June 5th – 8th at the St. Raphael Resort and Marina in Limassol, Cyprus. The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) is a forum for researchers from multiple disciplines to... Read More

5 June 2023 9:00 am (EEST)

Limassol, Cyprus

4 Days

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A conversation with Prof. Nello Cristianini

The Shortcut - how machines became intelligent without thinking in a human way A conversation with Prof. Nello Cristianini By reading the media, it might seem as if Artificial Intelligence was born in November 2022, with ChatGPT. Instead, the current form of this technology is the result of decisions that we have made many years ago, and understanding those can help us make sense of it, and of what we should expect from it. To what extent can we say that AI understands the... Read More

9 June 2023 5:00 am (EEST)

Online

Speakers:

Prof. Nello Cristianini

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DataScientia workshop meeting

Styliani Kleanthous (CYENS-fAIre), Jahna Otterbacher (OUC & CYENS-fAIre) and Maria Kasinidou (PhD student, OUC) attended the DataScientia workshop meeting hosted by Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia at the University of Trento, Italy (17/04-19/04/2023). The meeting aimed to present the Mission of DataScientia as well to explore opportunities for collaboration among the participants. Prof Otterbacher and Dr Kleanthous presented the course "AI in Everyday Life" which is a joint effort between... Read More

17 April 2023 12:00 am (GMT)

University of Trento

“Promoting AI literacy for the public” – Student Competition at SIGCSE TS 2023

Ms Maria Kasinidou, PhD candidate at the Open University of Cyprus and researcher at the Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency, participated in the Student Competition of the 54th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education is organized by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE). SIGCSE TS 2023 was held from March 15 - 18, 2023, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ms Kasinidou presented her work entitled “Promoting AI Literacy for the Public”... Read More

16 March 2023 12:00 am (GMT)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Meeting at the University of Trento

Stella Kleanthous (CYENS-fAIre), Jahna Otterbacher (CyCAT & CYENS-fAIre), Maria Kasinidou (OUC PhD Candidate & CyCAT) and Kyriakos Kyriakou (OUC PhD Candidate & CYENS-fAIre) from Open University of Cyprus and CYENS, and Mayukh Bagchi, (UniTn PhD candidate), Xiaolei Diao (UniTn PhD candidate), Hadi M Y Khalilia (UniTn PhD candidate), Ali Hamza (UniTn MSc student & UniTn research assistant), Simone Bocca (UniTn PhD candidate), Matteo Busso (UniTn PhD candidate) and Pavel... Read More

28 November 2022 12:00 am (GMT)

University of Trento

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