Plenary meeting in Brussels

Our latest plenary meeting has been held in Brussels last week (October 10-11, 2024), hosted by Université Catholique de Louvain. Over the course of two intensive days, we brought together delegates from all partners to discuss the progress and future directions of our ambitious project. We shared insights on our latest implementations and revisited our …

User-controlled Form Adaptation by Unsupervised Learning

To support context-aware adaptive user interfaces, UCLouvain and Univ. of Luxembourg joined their efforts to present Scaler, a novel web environment for designing and deploying forms in which adaptation is initiated by the system and/or the user according to a vector profile, but always under the user’s control, using two unsupervised learning methods: The paper …

How Brain Research is Influencing the Development of Artificial Intelligence

Over the last couple of decades, the relationship between neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) has borne promising approaches to increasing human’s abilities paving the way for a delightful future of human-machine collaboration. A recent research paper goes deep into neural representations utilized for human planning. Scientists were interested in the hippocampus, the part of the …

Exploring SYMBIOTIK’s Security and Privacy Assurance Platform

ENISA’s latest Threat Landscape reports reveals a rising trend in sophisticated and targeted attacks in critical sectors like energy and healthcare. Hybrid threats, which combine cyber and physical elements, are also becoming more prevalent. In response to this changing threat landscape, EU Member States, and their Operators of Essential Services (OES) are now required to meet a …

Participation in ETRA 2024

The 2024 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA) was held in Glasgow, Scotland, from June 4th to June 7th. Attendees had the opportunity to engage in discussions and attend presentations on cutting-edge research shaping the future of eye-tracking technology and its applications. Parvin Emami from University of Luxembourg presented the research paper …

Public Outreach Day in TID in collaboration with CTTC/TelecoRenta training school participants

The Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) organized an international training school  in collaboration with Teleco Renta for early-stage researchers, including PhD students and postdocs, to inform them about the latest advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, and their interplay with telecommunication systems. On May 16, the scientific research group of Telefónica Innovación …

At the IHIET-AI Conference

The 11th International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies (IHIET) is the leading global forum for the convergence of interdisciplinary expertise in areas such as healthcare, sports medicine, engineering and artificial intelligence (AI). The conference aimed to facilitate discussions, presentations and collaborations that push the boundaries of innovation and address pressing societal challenges. Andreas …

Participation in ICAART 2024

The 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICCART 2024) witnessed a pivotal moment in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI) and brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Legal Technologies and Quantum Computing. The conference took place in …

Research Innovation Week 2024

Luis Leiva (Uni Luxembourg), Diego Eloi (UCLouvain), and Jean Vanderdonckt (UCLouvain) participated in the European and Innovation Week, an event organized by the European Innovation Council in Brussels from March 18th to 21st, 2024. Among the numerous events, talks, workshops, and networking events, we attended two interesting Tech Talks by two EIC Programme Managers: Samira …

PhD defense of Arthur Sluÿters

On March 18th, 2024, Prof. Luis A. Leiva, the coordinator of the Symbiotik project, participated as external evaluator of the PhD jury of Arthur Sluÿters, PhD candidate at Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), member of the LouRIM institute, under the supervision of Prof. Jean Vanderdonckt, partner in SYMBIOTIK. After previously defending the private defense, Arthur …