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Explainable AI: The human centricity challenge

 (05/06/20)

Check out the recent talk on Human-centric AI challenges and opportunities by Sabrina Kirrane, which was presented as part of the AI & Policy track of the 2020 Applied Machine Learning Days Conference. In the talk Sabrina argues that applications that are able to understand constraints (in the form of goals, preferences, norms and usage restrictions), together with trust and transparency mechanisms, will give citizens more control over how their data is utilised, and will foster trustworthiness in the respective systems.

Applied ML Days Track Info: AI Policy | Youtube Video of the Talk

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Call for Paper: Human-centricity in a Sustainable Digital Economy | HICSS54

 (03/25/20)

We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to the "Human-centricity in a Sustainable Digital Economy” Minitrack of HICSS54, co-organised by Soheil Human and Gustaf Neumann from the Institute of Information Systems and New Media, WU Wien. [more...]

RESPECTeD Project: Really Enforceable Solution to Protect End-users Consent & Tracking Decisions

 (12/04/19)

We are delighted to inform you that the Institute of Information Systems and New Media (WU Wien) in collaboration with the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab, the Institute of Information Systems and Society (WU Wien), and NOYB – European Center for Digital Rights (noyb.eu) starts the interdisciplinary research project RESPECTeD. Soheil Human and Ben Wagner are the project leads representing WU Wien and Max Schrems is the project lead from the NOYB-side. The project is funded by the NetIdee programme of Internet Privatstiftung Austria (IPA). [more...]

Research

The emphasis of our Institute lies in constructing and analyzing infrastructures for software-based Information Systems. Our research focuses on two major areas:

• New Media, in particular Computational Media, Active Media, Polymorphic Media, and
• Information Systems, in particular highly flexible Systems and Application Engineering.

Within these two areas we cover:

• Software engineering techniques, with the goal to create highly flexible software systems,
• Scalable Infrastructures, to support flexible Security and Workflow Management,
• Scalable Community Frameworks, to build large scale, socially enriched Web Based Systems in the
• Application areas of E-Learning and Information Retrieval

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Teaching

Our Institute provides courses in Information Systems for the Study Programs of Information Systems (Bachelor & Master Program) as well as for the Business Administration Programs of the University.

The long term objective of our academic program is to enable graduates to actively design and implement organizational information systems by means of new media. Our lectures encompass the subject areas new media and electronic commerce, object-oriented design of application systems, and object-oriented Internet applications. The deepening and practical application of the skills developed in the lectures is supported through proseminars and the Seminar in New Media.

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