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Vacancy for two research assistants
We have a vacancy for two research assistants (2 days a week), for a project on generating layman summaries for open access scientific literature. See this page for more information. Apply before October 17, 2025.
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SIKS course ‘AI & Human Behaviour’
In this two-day course, we will investigate key components of AI-based behaviour support systems. Key to such technologies is understanding why people do what they do (by learning about their motivations, habits, capabilities and needs), so that the offered support is timely and targeted at a pivotal mechanism. AI-related technologies can contribute to deepening this…
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PhD defense of Erik van Haeringen
On June 19, our colleague, Erik van Haeringen, will defend his PhD thesis “Mixed feelings: Simulating Emotion Contagion in Groups”. VU Auditorium 13:45
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Paper Chaohui and Michel accepted and presented @HHAI2025
Towards Chatbots That Know Their Users: A Comparative Study of Memory Systems and Benchmark Dataset Chatbot applications based on large language models (LLMs) are increasingly popular. However, to develop conversational AI applications that collaboratively work alongside humans according to the Hybrid Intelligence paradigm, we need chatbots that remember earlier interactions and take the insights from…
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HHAI Workshop on Designing a research agenda for responsible AI-supported behaviour change (Pisa, Italy)
On June 10th we organized a workshop at the HHAI conference. During this workshop we’ve worked, together with a group of international experts in the field of AI and Behaviour, on the research agenda for the coming years. More information can be found here https://hhai-conference.org/2025/workshops-tutorials/
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Lize Alberts started as Assistant Professor
Lize Alberts started as assistant professor in the AI & Behaviour group. She obtained her D.Phil. in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, working in human-centred AI and behavioural design ethics. During her doctoral studies, Lize worked as a student researcher at Google, focusing on dialogue agent alignment and evaluation, and was research assistant…
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