School of Computing Science

AIDA AICET 2025 "AI/ML cutting edge trends" summer school

Prof Alessandro Vinciarelli, Tanaya Guha, Mathieu Chollet, and CDT students Benjamin Gutierrez Serafin and Emily Smith took part in the AIDA AICET 2025 "AI/ML cutting edge trends" summer school. They delivered a tutorial on "Introduction to Social AI". More info on the event here https://icarus.csd.auth.gr/aida-auth-ai-cutting-edge-trends-aicet2025-summer-symposium-and-school/

PhD Thesis submission

Noora Alsakar and Melvin Abraham submitted their PhD theses!

Graduation

Habiba Farzand and Robin Bretin have both had their graduation ceremony to receive their PhD degrees, supervised by Professor Mohamed Khamis!

New research

2025 ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) Conference 8-10 July 2025

• Aye, Robot: What Happens When Robots Speak Like Real People? Mary Ellen Foster, Jane Stuart-Smith, Muneeb I. Ahmad, Julian Hough
• Lowering the Barrier: Conversational Interfaces as a Novice-Friendly Path to Data Visualisation Callum Mackinnon, Mary Ellen Foster

ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2025) 5-9 Jul 2025

• Reflecting Upon the Unintended Consequences of Personal Informatics Systems: a Systematic Review of Empirical Studies Yuhan Luo, Xinning Gui, Xianghua (Sharon) Ding, Xi Zheng, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Zhuoyang Li, Qiurong Song
• Smiles, Frowns, and Everything In Between: Understanding User Experiences with Emotion Tracking in Daily Life through Facial Expression Recognition Zhennan Yi, Xianghua (Sharon) Ding, Chenyang You, Xingchen Zhou

 

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First published: 31 July 2025