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Kickoff of the Project “Laymen Summaries of Scientific Information”
On October 29, 2025, the project “Laymen Summaries of Scientific Information” officially kicked off. This initiative addresses the growing demand for accessible scientific knowledge, particularly among non-academic audiences such as educators, healthcare professionals, and policymakers. While open access has made scientific publications more widely available, many non-scientific users struggle to understand and apply the complex…
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New publication on online browsing behaviour
The paper “Browsing behavior exposes identities on the Web” by Marcos Oliveira and colleagues has been published in Nature Scientific Reports, 15, 36066 (2025). The study shows that people’s web browsing habits act as behavioral fingerprints: just the four most visited websites are enough to uniquely identify 95% of individuals. These fingerprints are stable enough…
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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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