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Seminar: Why is it so hard to use technology the way we want to?
Last Wednesday, Dr. Douglas A. Parry presented at our seminar series Artificial Intelligence, Human Behaviour, and Societal Challenges to share his recent research on digital behaviour, agency, and goals. Many of us feel that technology makes it harder to focus or switch off, but studies of its effects on attention have found small and inconsistent…
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BNAIC paper presentation by Ilke Asal
On Thursday October 22, Ilke Asal presented her paper “Exploring Mental Model Representations for Personalizing LLM-Powered Physical Activity Conversations: A Proof-of-Concept Study“. It was accepted as full paper at BNAIC 2026, the Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The paper evaluates an idea to personalize chatbot conversations. The system tailors conversations based on simplified representations of…
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Demo at BNAIC 2026
Geoffrey Frankhuizen, Githa Wijbenga and Michel Klein participated in the 38th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2026) in Maastricht to demonstrate the system that resulted from the project “Making Science Understandable: A Multi-Agent Pipeline for Layman Summaries of Scientific Articles“. The demonstration on Wednesday October 21 attracted a lot of attention and sparkled quite some…
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Network Institute Research Visit: Isadora Vitória do Rêgo Xavier
We welcomed Isadora Xavier to our group for a research visit, supported by the Network Institute. During her stay, she worked with us on our joint project with Dr. Diego Pinheiro (University of Pernambuco, Brazil) and the Civil Police of Pernambuco (Brazil), exploring the limits of AI in detecting money laundering. “I’m Isadora, and I…
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Symeon Andriotis started as PhD Student
I recently joined the AI and Behaviour group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as an external PhD candidate. I completed an MSc in Geographical Information Science at Lund University, where my dissertation examined political violence in Athens through spatial analysis and machine learning approaches. My broader academic background also includes criminal psychology and political studies, while…
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Network Institute Academic Assistant best paper award
Jagoda Hanuszewicz, Clara Fayyad and Charlotte Gerritsen won the Best Paper Award for their paper ‘Virtual Reality and Serious Gaming for reducing Household Food Waste’ at the 2026 FOODSIM Conference. This paper was the result of their Network Institute Academic Assistant project.
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