Trustworthy AI in Media Lab
TAIMLab News
21.05.2025
Prof. Nava Tintarev gave a talk on Diversity and Inclusion in Data Science at the Pint of Science Festival in Maastricht (19-21st of May 2025).
01.05.2025
We have two papers accepted by our PhD students, one at SIGIR 2025: “RecGaze: The First Eye Tracking and User Interaction Dataset for Carousel Interfaces” by Jingwei Kang and one at NAACL 2025: “kNN For Whisper And Its Effect On Bias And Speaker Adaptation” by Maya Nachesa (check our publications).
07.04.2025
We organized the Cross-lab media event April 7, 2025 between four ICAI/ELSA labs, Trustworthy AI in Media (TAIM), AI & Media, AI, Media and Democracy (AIMD), and Responsible Media (REM), along with academic researchers, industry professionals, and media representatives. In an era where artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the media landscape, the need for collaboration, critical reflection, and responsible innovation has never been greater. That spirit of collective inquiry defined the DeepDive event “Media and AI: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives,” held on April 7, 2025, at Hogeschool Utrecht, where a total of 61 participants attended the event.
01.03.2025
Prof. Nava Tintarev is joining IPN board as of 2026.
19.11.2024
Assoc. Prof. Annika Richterich and Prof. Sally Wyatt published an article on “Feminist automation: Can bots have feminist politics?” in the New Media and Society Journal, check it for understanding the potential of chatbots to reflect activist concerns.
19.11.2024
Prof. Nava Tintarev will give a Key Note on “Explainable AI and the interaction between decision-makers and advice-giving systems” and will participate in the panel discussions on “Successfully collaborating towards responsible AI innovation” at the AI4Oversight Symposium, held at Leiden University. Moreover, our PhD student, Aashutosh Ganesh will give a tutorial on “Explainable AI in practice”. Registrations are still open (https://www.aanmelder.nl/ai4oversightsymposium/subscribe).
18.10.2024
Paper accepted at IntRS’24@RecSys: Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems, October 18, 2024, Bari (Italy): Bridging the Transparency Gap: Exploring Multi-Stakeholder Preferences for Targeted Advertisement Explanations, by Dina Zilbershtein, Francesco Barile, Daan Odijk, Nava Tintarev.
6.09.2024
Prof. Nava Tintarev will talk about the role of AI at the PAS festival (Title: Trust Me, I’m an AI. Reflecting on When to Correct It and When to Let it Correct You – Friday 6 September 2024, 20.00-20.30 hr – Language: ENGLISH – Location: Statenzaal C 1.302, Law Faculty, Bouillonstraat 3 (you can take the other entrance: Lenculenstraat 26, which is closer to the Statenzaal)
26.07.2024
Co-organizer workshop on norms in recommender Systems: NORMalize, join us on October 18th in Bari, Italy.
15.07.2024
Paper accepted at ECAI 2024, AEQUITAS Workshop “Does spatio-temporal information benefit the video summarization task?“, by Aashutosh Ganesh, Mirela Popa, Daan Odijk, and Nava Tintarev. Code available at: https://github.com/AashGan/TemporalPerturbSum
02.07.2024
We organized a lab meeting in Maastricht, during which each PhD student presented their roadmap towards a successful PhD trajectory, along with their main challenges. We also discussed our approach towards approaching SDGs and the main research lines, with a focus on SDG 10.2 and 16.7.
28.05.2024
Prof. Nava Tintarev gave a talk at CWI, about the AI’s Impact on Society, Media and Democracy, May 27-28th!
11.04.2024
Assist. Prof. Mirela Popa co-chaired the Applications in AI track at ICTOPEN2024.
11.04.2024
Prof. Nava Tintarev gave a keynote at the “Machine Learning, Explain Yourself” workshop (10-12th of April).
25.03.2024
Paper accepted at SIGIR 2024 “Estimating the Hessian Matrix of Ranking Objectives for Stochastic Learning to Rank with Gradient Boosted Trees” by Jingwei Kang, Maarten de Rijke, and Harrie Oosterhuis.
05.02.2024
Paper accepted in AI Magazine: “Measuring the Benefit of Increased Transparency and Control in News Recommendation” by Nava Tintarev, Bart Knijnenburg and Martijn Willemsen.