2024   /   CoDesign @ 10

HUMAN-CENTRED AI:  FROM 2015-2024, AND THE NEXT DECADE

|   January to September 2024   |


CoDesign Lab initiatives in 2024 introspect upon and anticipate the contours of human-centred computing for AI and Computational Cognition, as pursued by CoDesign Lab and beyond. Several opportunities exist in 2024 for those interested to engage; watch out this space for emerging announcements, or subscribe to receive updates.


MALTA  >  TRAINING SCHOOL   /   REPRESENTATION MEDIATED MULTIMODALITY

Representation Mediated Multimodality:  
Grounded Representation, Reasoning, and Learning for Interactive Interpretation

The training school on ``Representation Mediated Multimodality'' provides a consolidated perspective on the theoretical, methodological, and applied understanding of representation mediated multimodal sensemaking at the interface of language, knowledge representation and reasoning, and visuo-auditory computing. Intended purposes -addressed in the school- encompass diverse operative needs such as explainable multimodal commonsense understanding, multimodal generation/synthesis for communication, multimodal summarisation, multimodal interpretation guided decision-support, adaptation & autonomy, and analytical visualisation.

At the heart of the thematic focus of the school are the themes of grounding and grounded meaning-making:

linguistic expressions and/or relational categorisations are called grounded when they are linked to non-linguistic, especially quantitative perceptual data, such as information coming from modalities such as vision and audition in space-time. Such perceptual data could pertain to, for instance, dynamic spatio-temporal phenomena both in an embodied as well as disembodied interaction context. Grounding is in essence a key aspect of semiotic construction, e.g., enabling high-level meaning acquisition, analogy, and has been a long-standing challenge in Artificial Intelligence and related disciplines.

The training school particularly consolidates and presents a novel and emerging view of state-of-the-art multimodal, neurosymbolic grounding primarily through a confluence of methods in Artficial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Vision, Speech and their impact on interactional and communicative acts/artefacts in everyday life and specialist professional work. Here, multimodal interpretation is to be construed in the context of diverse forms of imagery, e.g., encompassing perceptual and communicative data sources such as image, video, language, audition, text, eye-tracking, neurophysiological markers in behavioural / clinical settings.
In this backdrop, the training school particularly focusses on grounded knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning (for linguistic purposes) through the following emerging research-driven themes that are of high interest:

  • Space and Language
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Cognitive Vision
  • Vision and Language
  • Neurosymbolism
  • Narrative - Discourse
  • Computational Models of Narrative
  • Speech and Language Technologies
  • Human-Centred AI

The principal training school programme --consisting of keynotes, invited talks, and tutorials-- will categorically address questions such as:

  • Explainability and transparency in multimodal models
  • Neurosymbolism / Interaction between symbolic & sub-symbolic representations in models
  • Commonsense knowledge representation and reasoning, and its role in multimodal models
  • Complementarity / redundancy among data sources or modalities
  • Situated reasoning, e.g., for language generation, decision-making
Of particular significance to the training school are themes that benefit both public and private human-centred technological services most directly affecting EU citizens in an accessible, multilingual Europe, and have strong economic and societal impacts. The training school will focus on human-machine interaction considerations in select application areas of emerging societal significance, such as autonomous systems, cognitive robotics, multi-lingual language technologies.


   TRAINING SCHOOL   >   REPRESENTATION MEDIATED MULTIMODALITY
EU COST ACTION Multi3Generation  /  @University of Malta, Malta - Jan 30 - Feb 2 2024.  /  JOIN US!   





DAGSTUHL, GERMANY   /   Institute 2024 - Artificial and Human Intelligence

Insitute 2024 on Artificial and Human Intelligence will held during September 22 - 27 2024 at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.

Artificial and Human Intelligence:  Formal and Cognitive Foundations for Human-Centred Computing

/   Artificial Intelligence.  Cognitive Science.  Cognitive Psychology.  Visuospatial Cognition and Computation.   Human-Computer Interaction.  Cognitive Neuroscience.  Design Cognition.  Design Science.   /

Institute 2024 on Artificial and Human Intelligence brings together research methodologies and perspectives from Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Psychology & Human Development, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design Science. The institute addresses:

  • formal and computational foundations of next-generation AI and cognitive technologies with a principal emphasis on human-centred knowledge representation, semantics, commonsense reasoning, and integration of reasoning & learning. A key focus is reasoning & learning about space, action and motion in human-scale embodied multimodal interactions.
  • behavioural research in cognitive science & psychology and neuroscience aimed at investigating human intelligence from the viewpoints of embodiment, multimodal interaction, and visuospatial thinking. Special emphasis is on aspects pertaining to visual perception, high-level event perception, inattention blindness, perception of motion, and narrative-based perceptual sensemaking.
Institute 2024 has an overarching focus on Next-Generation Human-Centred AI and Cognitive Technologies; its technical programme addresses the formal & cognitive foundations for human-centred computing (for AI), and the human-centred design, development, and usability of cognitive technologies aimed at human-in-the-loop assistance & empowerment in decision-making, planning, creative-technical problem-solving, and automation. Application areas to be addressed in the institute include autonomous vehicles, cognitive robotics, social robotics, cognitive/creative design assistance technologies (e.g., architecture and built environment design, visuo-auditory narrative media design), clinical diagnostics, technology-assisted education/learning.

The institute hosts an invited faculty delivering lectures and tutorials. Participating young researchers will have the opportunity to position early-stage research and seek mentorship from institute faculty.

Keynotes  -  Lectures  -  Tutorials  -  Panel  -  Doctoral Colloquium.


   September 22 - 27 2024, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.