The value of structural features for cross-language prominent content analysis
Speaker: Asta Zelenkauskaite
Professor of Communication at Drexel University
Critical AI & Crisis Interrogatives (CRAI-CIS) Seminar
Monthly dialogues and critical perspectives on artificial intelligence, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), participatory design, and crisis-related research for societal impact.
Upcoming seminars
About the Seminars
The CRAI-CIS* Seminars engage emerging work across critical AI, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), participatory design, and crisis-related research. The seminars seek to invoke dialogues on how computational, human-centred, and social sciences perspectives can offer new insights and methods for inclusive approaches and critical inquiry with societal impact.
Each event features invited speakers who share distinct perspectives, ongoing research, methods, and challenges for future work in a 45 minute talk, followed by Q&A and space for mingling and networking. The talks will be recorded for open access in the future.
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In 2022, the seminars will be hosted monthly on Wednesdays. The sessions are hosted as hybrid events. Tea/coffee and cookies will be offered.
- In-person: Aalto Computer Science building (Konemiehentie 2)
- Online: Zoom link.
The CRAI-CIS seminar is supported by the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT)
*CRAI-CIS stands for CRitical AI and Crisis Interrogatives. The CRAI-CIS Research Group is led by Prof. Nitin Sawhney in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University. The CRAI-CIS seminars are hosted by Ana Paula Gonzalez Torres, Antti Rannisto, and Uttishta Varanasi.
Past events
Using AI bias to mitigate poverty
Speaker: Georgina Curto
Assistant Research Professor
Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, University of Notre Dame.
Searching for Structure in Unfalsifiable Claims (external link)
Speaker: Serge Belongie
Professor
University of Copenhagen
From Thought to Prompt: Cognitive Design Challenges in Human-LLM Interactions
Speaker: Hari Subramonyam
Research Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Education and Computer Science, Stanford University
Life and Tech at the Edge: Refiguring Possible Futures
Speaker: Sarah Pink
Professor of Design and Emerging Technologies
Director, Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University
Theory-driven HCI
Speaker: Michel Beaudouin-Lafon
Professor of Computer Science, Classe Exceptionnelle, Université Paris-Saclay
Applying Generative Theory to Human-Computer Partnerships
Speaker: Wendy Mackay
Research Director, Classe Exceptionnelle, Inria
Demystifying Trust and Reliance on AI
Speaker: Arathi Sethumadhavan
Former Director of User Research, AI, Ethics and Society at Microsoft
Towards Privacy-Preserving Natural Language Processing
Speaker: Ivan Habernal
Department of Computer Science
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Machine Habitus: Toward a Sociology of Algorithms
Speaker: Massimo Airoldi
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Milan
Toward an affirmative biopolitics: Reimagining biodata with feeling and fabulation
Speaker: Noura Howell, PhD
Assistant Professor
Georgia Tech
Responsible AI: from principles to practice
Speaker: Virginia Dignum
Wallenberg Chair, Professor Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Program Director WASP-HS
Umeå University – Department of Computing Science
Imagining communities with “intelligent” machines
Speaker: Katja Valaskivi
Associate Professor
Religion and the Digital World
University of Helsinki
Crisis (Mis)information Management: Theoretical and Practical Insights from the Perspective of Strategic Communication
Speaker: Yan Jin, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Georgia, USA
How to make the most of machines?
Speaker: Minna Ruckenstein, University of Helsinki
Power dynamics and emotions in building data technologies
Speaker: Marta Choroszewicz, DSocSci, Docent in sociology, University of Eastern Finland
Designing future AI, or accommodating to what we think is inevitable?
Speaker: Dr., Docent Johanna Ylipulli
Fall 2021: Critical AI & Crisis Interrogatives (CRAI-CIS) Seminar
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