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The Network Institute is glad to invite all of you to the research symposium “Public Responses to the language of science communication: uptake, acceptance, resistance”. This event is part of Anaïs Augé’s (UCLouvain, Belgium) NI sponsored research visit, in collaboration … Continue reading
The Network Institute and Connected World invite you all to an engaging and timely event as we explore the impact and consequences of the 2024 U.S. elections. In this Connected World session, titled “The US Elections 2024: The Aftermath”, we … Continue reading
Mechanisms of a Virtual Reality Respiratory Biofeedback Intervention: a Proof-of-Concept Randomized Controlled Trial Researchers: Elke Vlemincx & Gabriela Cortez Vazquez, Health Science VUApplication development and support: Marco Otte, Network Institute VU Mental health problems, such as anxiety, depression, and stress, … Continue reading
We are pleased to announce that our visitor, David Tena Cucala, will be delivering a talk titled Expressive Power of Monotonic Graph Neural Networks. When and where – Date: October 7th – Time: 12:00 – Location: NU-3B19 David Tena Cucala’s … Continue reading
As researchers, the primary means of communication to our scientific peers is via scientific publications. The Network Institute facilitates our researchers in this, either via direct funding, or by providing experimental equipment, organizing match-making events, etc. Click here if you are … Continue reading
The Network Institute invites its members and all VU students and staff to apply for the ECHO Academy Programme (https://echoeurope.eu/how-to-apply). The deadline is Sunday 22nd October. Starting in November 2024, ECHO kicks off its Academy in Amsterdam at Nxt Museum, … Continue reading
We would like to invite you to the upcoming Research Lunch organized by the Network Institute. Constanza Gajardo will present her research on Integrating AI in Local Newsrooms: Towards a global comparative approach to strategies, challenges, and insights. Constanza Gajardo … Continue reading
When: 1st October 3:30-5:30pm The NIAA funds 10-15 research positions which undertake projects leading to a proposal or published paper in one year. These projects aim to give valuable and paid research experience for master students. They are always multidisciplinary, often … Continue reading
Code for humanity is a humanitarian initiative, powered by the Network Institute, led by Lara Baseggio and Radu Nicolae, with the assistance of Ivano Malavolta and Marco Otte. Our primary mission is to support humanitarian software projects in their development … Continue reading
The Network Institute is proud to announce six new Academy Assistant Projects for the 2024-2025 academic year. Each project is led by two researchers from different disciplines who can hire two Student Assistants (usually master’s students) to work on the … Continue reading
Greetings everyone! This is Lara Baseggio and Radu Nicolae joining the Networking Institute as technology developers for the following year. We are excited to embark in this journey and be part of the multidisciplinary research hub, hosted here, at the … Continue reading
Dear members of the Network Institute, You are invited to the annual, traditional, shiny, fun, and completely unmissable Network Institute end-of-the-academic-year event, taking place: *** Tuesday July 11th, 15.00 hrs, NU building – Room 3B05 *** The highlight of the … Continue reading
How to improve diversity and inclusion policies by reading the body? The Connected World conference “Embodied Experiences” invites participants to use Corpoliteracy, as proposed by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, as a tool to explore the intersections of identity and body … Continue reading
When we see someone smile from ear to ear, most of us can’t help but smile along. Emotions are infectious, and under some circumstances this can be problematic. Think about stampedes, riots, bullying or depression. A computer model of how … Continue reading
21 Network Institute members included in Stanford’s list of the world’s top-cited scientists! The annual study performed by Stanford University aims to identify the world’s top 2 percent of scientists in their field. Scientists from across the globe were classified … Continue reading
Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you for the first monthly VU’s Network Institute Research Lunch on Thursday October 20th from 12h-13.30 in room 5A47 of the NU Building. The research team of the Network Institute would like to foster more professional and colloquial interactions … Continue reading
The workshop on Digital Nomads – Living in a Society of Digital Employees will discuss how society, employers and employees may deal with the new way of working in the digital society, and how to contribute from a scientific perspective. … Continue reading
SURF and the Network Institute will co-host XR ON TOUR event. The Network Institute will have VR-demos ready at the venue location and in its Game Cella’ Lab where you can take a look at the XR-facilities the Network Institute … Continue reading
Last week was the launch event of the Use-Me Art and Science project. The project challenges the VU community to think critically about the recursive relationship between technology and society. For example, what are the opportunities and threats that technology … Continue reading
VU Amsterdam and UTwente jointly launched an internal call for proposals. The aim is to stimulate the link between education and research and to give a boost to our collaboration. Applications can be submitted up until March 15. Read more … Continue reading
Cyber Security research and education in the Global South, for example in Indonesia, has many (research) challenges. The legal, political and technological landscape in Indonesia is different from the European. Design of Cyber Security education in Indonesia, raises many questions, … Continue reading
In the beginning of October the Network Institute Tech Labs will finally open its doors at its new location in the NU-building. At our new location we are proud to present two brand new lab spaces and a workspace for … Continue reading
Stress is a widely known phenomenon in all societies. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, stress and anxiety issues are becoming more severe for a wide number of people. At the same time, relaxing becomes more challenging, because of working … Continue reading
Last week Ivano Malavolta was appointed by the Board of Deans as the new director of the Network Institute, thus succeeding Ivar Vermeulen (Communications department, VU). Ivano is Assistant Professor at the S2 (Software and Sustainability) research group. He will strive to … Continue reading
In the treatment of people with intellectual disabilities, remedial educationalists are involved. To organize care what the person feels comfortable with, a relationship of trust is essential. By using mentalization-based skills persons with intellectual disabilities’ information processing can be supported, … Continue reading
Credibility of Deepfakes Deepfakes, i.e. videos merging images and audios from different sources, blending them so as to generate a fully plausible clip, initially generated attention for their entertainment purposes: finally, it was possible for anyone to appear superimposed on … Continue reading
The VU Network Institute has recently been asked by the VU Department of Human Movement Sciences for help with the development of two VR based tests to measure “visual dependency” in relation to motion sickness susceptibility. Motion sickness is gaining … Continue reading
Since about a year the Tech Labs are in possession of the HTC Vive Pro Eye virtual reality headsets. These top-level VR headsets have integrated eye tracking that offers all sorts of new possibilities for research. Already we’ve created several … Continue reading
The Network Institute is featured in a recent blog on DBpedia! It explains our Academy Assistants program and shows a couple of examples that fit in the Linked Data area of research. “Network Institute Academy Assistant (NIAA) Through a variety … Continue reading
At the end of 2019 the Network Institute’s Tech Labs started collaborating with Giulia Ranzini (Communication Science). The experiment was carried out thanks to the Idea Generator grant. Our goal was to understand which of the (few) elements on dating … Continue reading
Successful VR symposium hosted by Network Institute “Let’s get virtual!” showed the fascinating diversity if VR research at the VU Virtual Reality (in VR) is an exciting new medium that provides a compelling new user experience. Unlike other existing media, … Continue reading
Virtual Reality research at the Fieldlab Rotterdam The Fieldlab Burglary Free Neighbourhood uses smart sensors to detect suspicious sounds and movements. In the Rotterdam Fieldlab we’re experimenting with sensors and subsequent measures to determine their effectiveness in sensing and preventing … Continue reading
The Network Institute’s VR group invites to to join our morning symposium on VR in research and education at the VU. We have an interesting list of speakers introducing you to their take and use on Virtual Reality in academia. … Continue reading
The last decade has seen both an increase in the diffusion of online dating and an uptick in the number of inter-ethnic marriages. Could users’ participation on online dating contribute to the formation of more heterogeneous couples ? The awarded … Continue reading
Burglaries are a continuous threat to our safety and society. Increasingly we are trying to understand how the typical burglar thinks and works to try to prevent this type of criminal behavior. What is needed to deter a burglar from … Continue reading
Political scientist Mariken van der Velden and communications scientist Kasper Welbers have each been awarded a prestigious Veni grant in recognition of their work, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced. A Veni grant is worth up to 250,000 … Continue reading
Hybrid Intelligence: augmenting human intellect Professor of Computer Science Frank van Harmelen (member of the Network Institute) leads a team of scientists from six Dutch universities with the aim of combining human and artificial intelligence. The goal is to enrich, … Continue reading
Dear members of the Network Institute, You are invited to the annual, traditional, original, nutritional, but above all unmissable Network Institute end-of-the-academic-year event, taking place: *** Tuesday July 2nd, 15.00 hrs, Tuinzaal (W&N) *** We have a very interesting program … Continue reading
We are pleased to inform you about the upcoming VR meetings with three special hosts in the field of VR: Unfortunately cancelled – April 25th from 15:00 – 16:00, with Tara Donker Currently, her main focus of research is investigating … Continue reading
Faviola Dadis, PhD candidate within the Department of Clinical Neuropsychology at the VU, is working in collaboration with prof dr. Erik Scherder and dr. Tilo Hartmann on her VR game “Koji’s Quest,” which aims to change the way people approach … Continue reading
As of March 1, 2019 the MediaLab (11th floor Main Building) with 8 cubicles is open for research again. After a few months closure the cubicles have new computers installed with Windows 10 and are ready for use. The MediaLab … Continue reading
Professor Charlotte Teunissen and her team at the NeuroChemistry group at the VUmc, received a grant from the Weston Brain Institute to further develop a biomarker helping in the detection of a large number of neurodegenerative diseases (such as Alzheimer’s … Continue reading
We are pleased to announce that the results of last year’s Network Institute Academy Assistant program are now available online. The proceedings consist of research reports of the individual projects which were collected in these proceedings after having undergone a … Continue reading
Last November (2018) the first year students of Artificial Intelligence had their annual Field Trip. During these two intensive days they learn to translate a societal problem into a technological solution and build an actual proto-type to show how it … Continue reading
On December 14, 2018 the University of Twente organised a short conference on the use of XR-technology by anyone working at legal organisations like the Justice department, police, probation offices, criminology and law researchers, etc. The goal was to exchange … Continue reading
The Babbeltruc app (see here for more) made by Computer Science VU and the Tech Labs of the Network Institute, won the Best Demo at this year’s Benelux AI Conference!
The Network Institute hosts the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, 27-30 May 2018. It is a wonderful opportunity and a great pleasure for the Network Institute to be able host the 10th ACM conference on Web Science, WebSci’18, at … Continue reading
Marleen Huysman, Marlous Agterberg, Bart van den Hooff, Hans Berends, Philipp Tuertscher (all FEWEB) and Maarten de Laat (Open University-Welten Institute) receive a grant from NWO for their research project ‘New Ways of Working and Human Capital Development’. The grant … Continue reading
Do you think Web Science can be useful for Regreening in Africa? If you want to know, visit W4RA.org, if you have good ideas, you can join the W4RA community, worldwide. A new course on ICT4D, “ICT for Development” for … Continue reading