Event

Narrative Generation: a case study in assistive technology

Speaker: Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen Abstract: Story-telling, (including personal narrative), is a big part of our personal and social communication. This talk will identify challenges and solutions that look at the generation of narrative for social communication. We describe a way to “automatically” generate personal stories. The stories which are mix of natural language … Narrative Generation: a case study in assistive technology

The use of regret and forgiveness

Dr Steve Marsh. Regret, the emotion arising from counterfactual reasoning about action and inaction, is a powerful tool in the arsenal of trust-reasoning and enabling technologies. One aspect of the tool, Regret Management, is the enforcement of a view of System Trust in technological approaches in order to preserve and encourage respect for concerns such … The use of regret and forgiveness

Arduino workshop

The School will hold an all day Arduino workshop on Sunday the 26th of June hosted by Dr David McKeown from UCD in Ireland. Thanks also to Ben Arent, an interaction designer based in Dublin for his help in supporting this. The Arduino workshop preceeds the Summer School on Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism that … Arduino workshop

From Recommendation to Reputation: Information Discovery Gets Personal

Speaker: Barry Smyth Affiliation: University College Dublin Biography: Prof. Barry Smyth holds the Digital Chair of Computer Science in University College Dublin.He is the Director of CLARITY These lectures will focus on how personalization techniques and recommender systems are being used in response to the information overload problem that face web users everyday. Personalization research … From Recommendation to Reputation: Information Discovery Gets Personal

Towards Pervasive Personal Data

This talk will outline an embryonic project to develop a software infrastructure supporting pervasive data, in which file data will flow automatically to the places that it is needed.

PhD Reading Party 2010

The 2010 PhD reading party trip took us to Lochearnhead on the banks of Loch Earn. Each of the twelve PhD students attending gave a talk on their current work, before taking off for a spot of mountain biking in nearby Comrie. Talks Each student gave a 15 minute talk on their work, with time … PhD Reading Party 2010