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Coming up: the 5th Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society

Posted on February 4th, 2026 by Julia Janssen

We’re excited to have received so much interest in the upcoming Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society. The number of submissions shows a strong engagement with the workshop’s topics, and we’re grateful to everyone who sent in their work. This … Continue reading →

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Paper Accepted at HRI Companion 2026: Educating Future Roboticists

Posted on February 2nd, 2026 by Julia Janssen

We are pleased to share that the paper, Before Robots Learn, Students Must: Trade-offs in Educating Future Roboticists, has been accepted for presentation at the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) conference 2026. This research was made possible through funding from the Network … Continue reading →

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Nebula Updates: The Good, the Bad, and the Energy Efficient

Posted on January 30th, 2026 by Julia Janssen

With the Winter School in GenAI for Academia coming to an end, we got to explore how Nebula behaved under continuous stress from a larger number of users, and the results are more than satisfying. As an added bonus for … Continue reading →

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For over ten years, the Network Institute has been studying the digital society, in an interdisciplinary approach. The institute brings together a unique combination of scientists from informatics, social sciences and humanities.
Network Institute: The hub for interdisciplinary research on the digital society