#CFP WORKSHOP CALL FOR PAPERS: CHATBOTS FOR SOCIAL GOOD – EXTENDED DEADLINE MAY.27 Chatbots have substantial potential for social good – e.g. in health and wellbeing, education, and community building. But this potential is not yet realized. #chatbots sites.google.com/view/chatbotsf…

Fagseminar om chatbots, 3. juni i Oslo. Med engasjerende presentasjoner om chatbots i kundeservice og utdanning, fra bl.a. boost.ai, SINTEF og Cicero Consulting. Se program og meld deg på her chatbotsforloyalty.wordpress.com/lunsj-seminar-…

Are you doing research on #chatbots? Then, consider submitting your work to #Conversations2019, which will take place in Amsterdam. Deadline is August 25. More details: conversations2019.wordpress.com

Next Monday (Nov 23) I will be giving a keynote talk at #Conversations2020 based on our book chapter on conversational interfaces. This year is a virtual event. Free registration is still open: conversations2020.wordpress.com

Our new paper in Human Communication Research on how people understand and experience friendship with human like machines such as the social chatbot @MyReplika, is out. Asbjørn Følstad SINTEF HCI group

"The polls were wrong... we are obsessed with predicting opinions rather than listening to them" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Unge innovatører fra Akademia - spennende fagseminar på Institutt for Informatikk, UiO. 30. november, 14:00. sintef.no/en/events/unge…

Interesting from Filippo Menczer: "Misinformation on social media: Can technology save us?" theconversation.com/misinformation… Reveal Project Asbjørn Følstad

Det har vært snakk om falske nyheter en stund. Og nå altså falske nyheter om falske nyheter :-) theguardian.com/technology/201… Petter Bae Brandtzaeg

Redaktørene sa nei til å slippe til pseudonyme i Dagsavisens nyttårs-enquete, men her er nå mitt nyttårsønske:

Fantastisk. Leser også Washington Posts egen oppfølging washingtonpost.com/world/national… - og diskusjonstråden under. Doremus Schafer Petter Bae Brandtzaeg

White House press secretary attacks media for accurately reporting inauguration crowds cnn.it/2j9rggp

"Zooniverse: Humans, Machines, & Penguins" by Grant Miller will be presented @ our Human-Machines Workshop: Register! humane2020.eu/workshop/

@ksclouden HUMANE Nice observation. BTW, on machne dependency in Wikipedia - journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

SoTalk om delingsøkonomi - Sentralen, Oslo, 5. april - socentral.ticketco.no/sotalk_delings… @LeneJBP Asbjørn Følstad @SentralenOslo

Submit your papers to #SocInfo17 socinfo2017.oii.ox.ac.uk Deadline: End of May. Conference: 13-15 September, Oxford.

Our paper on Understanding Human-Machine Networks is finally out! dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?i… Collaborators Oxford Internet Institute SINTEF IT Innovation Centre Athens Technology Center (ATC)

Contribute to a workshop on chatbot research and design? Submit a paper to conversations2017.wordpress.com. Thessaloniki, Greece, Nov 22.

Chatbots and the new world of HCI. Upcoming feature article in ACM Interactions by Asbjørn Følstad and Petter Bae Brandtzaeg - dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?i…

Our deadline on the workshop on chatbots in Thessalonki in Nov is extended to 1st of October. conversations2017.wordpress.com/important-date… #chatbots #cfp #bots