Department of Informatics – DDIS

Congratulations to our colleague Lucien Heitz on publishing two new publications! The first publication is a journal article published in the distinguished Digital Journalism journal. Written as a collaboration between computer science and communication science scholars, the article studies the effects of diverse news recommender systems in the context of democracy. “Benefits of Diverse News […]

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2021 was a year of resilience: we continued to live through the pandemic, but we were able to be very successful, despite all the challenges posed by long-lasting remote/hybrid work. We published our research in several top conferences and journals, we acquired new research funding, we attended online scientific events, one of our colleagues obtained […]

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In April, the 30th edition of the Web Conference took place virtually. Prof. Bernstein attended the conference together with Bibek Paudel, a former DDIS colleague and postdoctoral researcher at Stanford. At the conference, Bibek presented their paper ‘Random Walks with Erasure: Diversifying Personalized Recommendations on Social and Information Networks’, where they focused on political content […]

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It is safe to say 2020 was a surprise to everyone. Among many big events, the global pandemic has influenced us all. In academia, attention was diverted to online teaching and experiments from home to keep courses and research running. Despite all challenges thrown our way, DDIS has continued its activities. In fact, it was […]

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In the context of the Berlin Science Week 2020, Prof. Abraham Bernstein took part in a panel discussion on Mobile Health Applications. Among other topics, they discussed the benefits and possible risks of digital health applications. Prof. Bernstein mentioned the recent COVID app as a perfect example. For more details, the talk can be found […]

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Abraham Bernstein was elected to the University Council of the University of Lucerne. The University Council is the University of Lucerne’s strategic management body. For the next four years, Prof. Bernstein will function in the council in an advisory capacity. More information can be found here.

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The Swiss National Science Foundation’s National Research Programme 77 on the Digital Transformation, led by Abraham Bernstein, was successfully launched in a virtual kick-off meeting with more than 200 attendees. In this program, the risks and opportunities of digitalization will be researched. For more information, see the program’s website.

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During 24th to the 26th of March 2020, the Human Robot Interaction 2020 was supposed to take place in Cambridge, UK. Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was canceled and paper presentations happened online. Our colleague Suzanne Tolmeijer and her coauthors got their paper accepted called ‘Taxonomy of Trust-Relevant Failures and Mitigation Strategies‘. The presentation […]

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The Web Conference, the leading scientific forum on the web and related technologies, ran from April 20th to April 24th. Initially planned to be held in Taiwan, the conference moved to an online setting due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this unusual setting, DDIS presented a study on differentially-private stream processing for the semantic web. […]

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Last weekend, from April 3 to April 5, Versus Virus an online-hackathon took place to address challenges imposed on Switzerland and its inhabitants by the ongoing crisis caused by Covid-19. Over the course of 48 hours, more than 4600 people contributed to solutions in 263 teams. Among the participants were also two members of DDIS, […]

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