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- Best Paper Award at ACM CHI 2026 for our study on virtual workout buddies
Our CHI 2026 paper on AI agents and human peers as exercise partners received a Best Paper Award, given to the top 1% of papers at the conference. - PET lab Member Receives Gary Marsden Travel Award for MobileHCI 2026We are pleased to share that Isna Bustoni, a PhD student at the Persuasive Technology Lab, has received a Gary Marsden Travel Award to present her paper at MobileHCI 2026 …
- Report on the Digital Transformation of the Democratic Discourse intensive week
The CIVIS BIP course “Digital Transformation of the Democratic Discourse” was organised in Lausanne on the week 26-30 of January 2026. Overview of the Onsite Intensive WeekThe onsite intensive week … - SwissRN NewsSave the Date: SwissRN Annual Meeting 2025 – 05 December 2025 We’re excited to announce that the fourth SwissRN Annual Meeting will take place on 05 December 2025 at the …
- SwissRN Events NewsletterUpcoming Events Computational Reproducibility HackathonDate & Time: June 6, 2025, 09:30-17:00 Location: In person at FernUni Schweiz, Brig, SwitzerlandOrganizers: SwissRN Working Group “Computational Reproducibility”Registration Link: hereRegistration Deadline (Extended): May 31, 2025More Info: here Contact: Daniel …