Invited talks at universities, for the public, and industry

Venue Title Date
Keynote at IS-EUD Symposium, Cagliari. June 2023
Invited talk at the SIAS research group and the Civic AI Lab 26th of May
Panelist on the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence in our society as part of the Philips Innovation Award May 2023
Women in Data Science, Maastricht 2023
VOGIN-IP, Amsterdam. 2023
IRlab at University of Amsterdam 2023
CUSO Doctoral Program in Computer Science 2022 winter school, "data science in the digital era”, Champery, Switzerland. Seminar: Toward Measuring Viewpoint Diversity in News Consumption Jan/Feb 2022
TAILOR/EurAI summer school on Explainable AI Keynote: Interactive and adaptive explanation interfaces for recommender systems June 2022
TU Delft summer school on Explainable AI Keynote: Interactive and adaptive explanation interfaces for recommender systems Aug/Sept 2022
INLG Panel on Ethics and Natural Language Generation 2022
AAAI-22 Explainable Agency in AI Workshop Interactive Explanation Panel Feb 2022
Panel Digital Society Conference Panel "Responsible Data Science" November 2021
CCS Amsterdam Invited talk Toward Measuring Viewpoint Diversity in News Consumption March 2021
Keynote RCIS conference Explainable AI is not yet understandable AI September 2020
Randstad Groep Knowledge Sharing Session Explanations for recommender systems June 2020
Invited talk Duisburg-Essen Toward Measuring Viewpoint Diversity in News Consumption Dec. 2020
AI.Rotterdam Meetup NLP NLG for Decision Support Systems Sept. 2019
Keynote at the FairUMAP workshop in conjunction with UMAP 2019, Larnaca Toward Measuring Viewpoint Diversity in News Consumption July 2019
Invited lecture TU Graz Diverse by Design Considering the human in recommender systems 14th of Dec. 2018
Invited lecture Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication Supporting user control for diverse item recommendations 19th of Dec. 2018
Talk at ZiF workshop on Explanation and Understanding in the Age of Algorithms Supporting user control for diverse item recommendations 6th of Nov. 2018
Invited lecture JADS, den Bosch Diverse by Design Considering the human in recommender systems 6th of March 2018
Keynote at the workshop on Surprise, Opposition, and Obstruction in Adaptive and Personalized Systems (SOAP) in conjunction with UMAP 2017, Bratislava Diverse by Design: Considering the Human in Diversity-Aware Systems. 9th of July, 2017
Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK Superhuman: Human and Artificial Intelligence in Synergy. Panel member. 26th May, 2016
Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University Communicating Complex Data to End-Users 25th May, 2016
InTouch Health, Goleta, California Adaptive Information Presentation in the SAsSY project 11th Sept. 2015
Yahoo Research, Sunnyvale, California. Human interaction with artificial advice givers 20th Aug. 2015
City Interaction Lab, London Evaluating the Visualisation of Plans in the SAsSY project 13th Feb. 2015
TechFest, Aberdeen Are You Talking to Me? What to say when you are talking to a robot 23rd Sept. 2013
SICSA IR workshop, Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) SAsSy - Scrutable Autonomous Systems 31st May 2013
Herriot-Watt University (MACS), Edinburgh Affecting people with Natural Language Generation 21st March 2011
'Rural Needs in Scotland', Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) workshop, Aberdeen Using Open Linked Data to support Multiple-use cultural archives. 16th March 2012
Accessibility Workshop associated with Edinburgh University, and Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards. Using Mobile Phones to Support Communication (Prezi) 16th Sept. 2011
University of St Andrews Computer Human Interaction Research Group Narrative Generation: a case study in assistive technology (Prezi) 19th July 2011
University of Aberdeen, Computing Science
Natural Language Generation for Utterance-Based Assistive Technology 25th May 2011
TechMeetup Aberdeen Using Sensor-Enabled Mobile Phones to Support Assistive Technology 18th May 2011
Ubiquitous User Modeling Workshop, Haifa, Israel Ubiquitous User Modeling for a Complex Communication Aid. (Extended abstract) (Prezi) 17th May 2011
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid User-centered issues in Recommender Systems, Madrid, Spain 6th Nov. 2009
Amazon, Dalmeny, Edinburgh Explanations in Recommender Systems 2008