KMi is a diverse and multidisciplinary R&D lab that has been at the forefront of innovation since 1995, conducting research in computing technologies for social and environmental good. Our research spans Semantic Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Media, Social Data Science, Scholarly Data, Blockchain, Citizen Science, Collective Intelligence, Smart Cities, and others.
Upcoming Seminar
Are we there yet? Automating visual understanding (and research in AI)
This event will take place on Tuesday 03 September 2024
Professor Stefan Rüger - The Open University
This is my valedictory lecture marking my retirement from the post of Professor of Knowledge Media: Some say that one of the tricks for a long and auspicious career is to gain the ability to...
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People
My research focuses on the socio-technical factors influencing the design and uptake of Collective Intelligence infrastructures. These are online environments which seek to improve collective...
I am actively engaged in enhancing conversational agents within scientific knowledge domains, particularly focusing on the advancement of AidaBot, the Open University's conversational agent based on...
Testimonials
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Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, Italy
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Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM: Graduate School & Research Center, France
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Pascal Hitzler, Kansas State University, USA
Publications
Brown, V., Larasati, R., Third, A. and Farrell, T. (2024) A Qualitative Study on Cultural Hegemony and the Impacts of AI, AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, San Jose, CA, USA
Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E., Alani, H. and Fernandez, M. (2024) Enhancing Hate Speech Annotations with Background Semantics, 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) – Including 13th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Naja, I., Divin, N., Coward, S., Campbell, S., Benatti, F. and Antonini, A. (2024) Conversational Media for Inclusive Access to Mental Health Interventions for Schoolchildren, 35th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '24), Poznań, Poland
