William Jones is a Research Associate Professor Emeritus in the Information School at the University of Washington. He continues to work on the challenges of “Keeping Found Things Found” both as a research topic and in his own life.

Currently he has been working on the relationships between information, knowledge and successful aging. William has published in the areas of personal information management (PIM), human-computer interaction, information retrieval (search), and human cognition/memory. He wrote the book Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management and, more recently, the three-part series, on the The Future of Personal Information. He is lead editor on a book scheduled for publication in 2025 by Cambridge Press.

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction

1:16 - Keeping found things found

3:44 - Storing information

5:20 - Using folders

8:44 - New ways of searching

13:38 - Embodied information and search

16:20 - Value of memorization

20:20 - Personal AI assistants

30:20 - Language and thought

35:30 - Thriving in Time

42:44 - Aging gracefully

55:16 - Contract between generations

1:02:44 - What to look forward to

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Åsa Unander-Scharin is a professor of music performance at Luleå university of technology. Her works is with the study of the intersection between opera, dance, music, interactive technology and robotics.

Her artistic work started in 1998 when she created the first choreography for an industrial robot, with many acclaimed works to follow. She has choreographed the Nobel Banquette and two dance films Elevation and Artificial Body Voices produced by the Swedish Television. Her most recent works include two experimental operas Callas:Medea for the Croatian National Opera and The Tale of the Great Computing Machine commissioned by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction

1:02 - History of Opera

4:02 - Current technics in Opera

6:02 - Evolution in the arts

8:16 - Creating new works

12:12 - TheTale of the Great Computing Machine

17:06 - Machines in performative arts

26:04 - Anthropomorphism

29:02 - AI art

39:09 - The artistic experience

40:45 - Choreography

43:35 - The modern experience

48:47 - New operas

53:00 - Artists and Robots

1:01:02 - Robot performers

1:07:56 - Artistic freedom

1:10:48 - Humanoid robots

1:13:18 - Robots enjoying art

1:15:00 - Future works

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mario Romero is an Associate Professor in Visualisation at the Department of Computational Science and Technology at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH. He is the national technical manager and local node coordinator of the Swedish Research Council National Research Infrastructure in Visualisation InfraVis. He is also a technical co-founder of BrailleTouch, a smartphone keyboard for blind users, and Anymaker, a tablet application for sketching in 3D.

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction

1:52 - Visualisation & AI

7:46 - Visualising complex systems

14:28 - Understanding & recognition

17:50 - Understanding in LLMs

25:48 - Respecting AI models

32:20 - Humanoid robots

36:20 - Visualising AI models

46:30 - Real cost of AI

50:36 - Educating about AI

56:15 - Transduction

1:00:20 - Science & pseudo science

1:04:58 - Multimodality

1:10:18 - Humans & AI

1:27:25 - Brailletouch

1:42:46 - Quality of life

1:47:46 - Accessibility

1:51:00 - Risk assessment

2:00:50 - AI in medicin

2:03:08 - Human influence

2:07:46 - AGI

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.