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Official inauguration of the UNESCO Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, in the presence of AUP President Sonya Stephens, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education Stefania Giannini and U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO Jean Elizabeth Manes, October 24, 2024
Invited speaker: AI competencies for human rights protection: Empowering (digital) citizens - UNESCO's Digital Learning Week 2024, 2-5 September 2024
Paris Panelist: Nations United? Global AI Governance Initiatives at AI Governance Global 2024 conference, organised by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. 4-5 June 2024, Brussels
Panelist: Tackling bias and championing inclusion at Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Futures Conference, organised by Expertise France and the Agence française de développement (AFD). Paris, March 26, 2024
Panelist: AI for Good: Fantasy or Reality? at the conference on Artificial intelligence, Regulation and Human Rights, organised by the Agence française de développement (AFD). Paris, January 30, 2024
Invited speaker: The discrete and lucrative charm of attention technologies, 15ème colloque infoclio.ch 2023, Recherches sur l’attention et sciences historiques, November 10 2023 (Video)
Talk: TEDxLaPosteBSCC Matière(s), talk on L'Attention à l'heure du digiital et le mode du travail. Paris, 1.4.2019
Lecture: Digital tightrope: Use and abuse of perceptual technologies - Scientific meeting on Perceptual technologies: from laboratory to real life at the Laboratorio di Azione, Percezione e Cognizione, San Raffaele 1.6.2017
Interview: Le design de l'attention (digitalsocietyforum) 26.11.2015
Panelist: Privacy in Computer Science Education – Computer, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) Conference 2015
Panelist: Privacy-by-design to Privacy-by-Operation - Cyber Security and Privacy Innovation Forum, Brussels 28-29 April 2015
Lecture: Privacy Motivation – Privacy Training Workshop 9-10 March 2015, Ulm University, Germany
On BBC-World The Forum: about interruptions - 12.1.2015
Collection of links to privacy material and information about the course on privacy by design. Last updated 2014.
Organiser and chair International Seminar Series: Communication in the era of attention scarcity, Paris, 15 sept.-02 dec. 2014
Panelist on Privacy-by-design Issues: Requirements for training material - Cyber Security & Privacy Forum 2014, Athens: 21-22 May 2014
Seminar: Attention automatisée et design d’interface : Eyes tracking, GoogleGlass et Quantified Self – Le design de l’attention: Création et Automatisation - Institut de recherche et d’innovation Centre Pompidou and Biennale internationale de design de Saint-Etienne 24 March 2014
Seminar on "The role of human attention in human computer interaction" at the Institut Universitaire de Psychologie - Paris Descartes - Laboratoire Adaptation Travail Individu. February 4th 2014
Invited speaker at the Colloque international L’économie de l’attention au carrefour des disciplines (October 2013)
AUP's Principal Scientist for the PRIPARE project (PReparing Industry to Privacy-by-design by supporting its Application in REsearch) launched October 1st 2013.
Speaker at Oxford Internet Institute: Eleventh Chinese Internet Research Conference (June 2013)
Co-organisers of the Workshop on Creativity and Attention in the age of the We b(May 2013)
Workshop chair for ACM Webscience 2013
Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
Director of AUP-Lang collaboration: summary of activities February 2012, Summary of activities November .2011
Division of Arts and Sciences: Resources for faculty (access restricted)
Co-organiser Narrative Matters - May 29th to June 1st 2012 - CfP (pdf)
1st International Symposium on Innovation and Sustainability in Education InSuEdu 1 October 2012 - CfP(pdf)
Invited speaker at the Symposium on Computerized scaffolding of Self-Regulated Learning: Interdisciplinary Advances - University of Amsterdam November 25th 2011
Lecture Series at the University of Tampere, 21-23 November 2011
Co-organiser of Digi4School workshop at Mobility Shifts - October 10-16 2011 - CfP (pdf)
WebScience Montpellier Meetup Friday May 13th, 2011 at LIRMM
Swarms Go Dutch@AUP / A Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Physiology, and Art. On May 12, 13, and 14 2011 in G44. See a Quartz TV interview about the workshop
Invited panelist at Social Media Week: Education and Privacy Panel
Press conference with the French chapter of the Internet Society (February 7 2011 - 18h00 - gran salon)
AUP - New School partnership (December 2010)
Human Computer Interaction course - April 1st 2008 - Guest lecture (open to AUP community) by Professor Lex Wertheim Helmholtz Research Institute - Utrecht University- Department of Psychology: Human Factors in Moving Environments
Attention Management in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, Innsbruck - Sunday September 16, Workshop at UBICOMP 2007 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Workshop on Contextualized Attention Metadata: personalized access to digital resources CAMA 2007 June 23, 2007 - Part of the ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 17-23, 2007 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Interactivist Summer Institute 2007 - May 26-29, 2007 Paris France
Upstart puzzles by Dennis Shasha NYU - Tuesday November 7th 2006 at 17h30 in Combes C14
Journée de recherche de l’AIM (Association Information et Management) « Innovation et Systèmes d’Information » October 6 2006 - program (pdf)
Open Position: Research Assistant
« Les difficultés d’apprentissage en mathématiques : un phénomène trop connu ? Inconnu ? Mal connu ? Pour de nouvelles investigations. » Prof. Claire Meljac PhD - Unit of Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents, hospital Sainte-Anne, Paris -Wednesday September 27 at 18.30h Combes building, C-13 (posted September 2006
The Emergence of Representation and Consciousness: Natural and Artificial- Mark Bickhard - Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA- Tuesday, September 26 -15:45h - Grand Salon (posted September 2006)
Technology and social change: and alumni-students event on Monday April 3rd at AUP - program (pdf) (posted March 2006)
Open Position: Research Assistant (posted November 2005)
Position opening in Computer Science (posted March 2005)
Special issue of the journal Computers in Human Behaviour on Attention Aware Systems (posted October 2004)
Guest lecture on "The State-of-the-Art in Speech Dialogues and In-Car Systems" by Dr Mary Zajicek, Leader of The Speech Project. School of Technology, Oxford Brookes University - Moday 28.2 12h10 - G4 (posted February 2005)
Course on Virtual Communities and Intelligent Agents (posted October 2004)
Special issue of the journal Computers in Human Behaviour on Attention Aware Systems (posted October 2004)
Mellon Seminar on Future Technologies for Teaching and Learning, 29 April 2004, 18:15 - 21:00 The American University of Paris FR (posted 25 March 2004)
HCI 2004 Workshop on Designing for attention, 7 September 2004, Leeds UK (posted 12 April 2004)
Digital Interaction Workshop 2005, 13 - 14 September 2004 (posted 5 June 2004)
Digital Interaction Workshop 2003

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