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Designing Interaction Freedom via Active Inference (DIFAI) is an ERC Advanced Grant awarded via EPSRC funding to Prof Rod Murray-Smith at University of Glasgow https://difai-project.org/
Please join the workshop Active Inference and Computational Interaction s3cix.computationalinteraction.org/workshops/wo... at the 10th Summer School and Symposium on Computational Interaction (S³CIX), University of Glasgow. @rodmurraysmith.bsky.social @jhnhw.bsky.social
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10th Summer School and Symposium on Computational Interaction (S³CIX), University of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Please join the Workshop on Biomechanical RL as a Methodological Direction for Computational Interaction s3cix.computationalinteraction.org/workshops/wo... Florian Fischer, with @oulasvirta.bsky.social @rodmurraysmith.bsky.social & others
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10th Summer School and Symposium on Computational Interaction (S³CIX), University of Glasgow, Scotland.
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This will be presented at @chi.acm.org on Monday 13th April at 4:30pm, In Barcelona. Come along if you are at CHI! programs.sigchi.org/chi/2026/pro...
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ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)@acmtochi.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew in #TOCHI: Active Inference and #HCI by @rodmurraysmith.bsky.social , @rodmurraysmith.bsky.social , and @ssteinresearch.bsky.social reviews how Active Inference can be applied to model the HCI loop for both research & design. Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Project: difai-project.org
We are happy to announce the latest DIFAI publication: M. Klar, S. Stein, F. Paterson, J. H. Williamson, H. Gollee, R. Murray-Smith, Intermittent Active Inference, Entropy, 28(3), 269, 2026. doi.org/10.3390/e280... @markusklarhci.bsky.social @jhnhw.bsky.social @ssteinresearch.bsky.social
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A great opportunity for students, and a new, expanded format with an academic Symposium in parallel. Come and join us in Glasgow in June! @idaglasgow.bsky.social @uofgcompsci.bsky.social
S³CIX Summer School and Symposium on Computational Interaction@s3cix.bsky.social · 8mo agoCall for participation: 10th Summer School & Symposium on Computational Interaction (S³CIX), University of Glasgow, Scotland. June 16-20, 2026. Summer School expanded to include Symposium. Call for Workshops (14th Feb) & Student Attendence (14th March). s3cix.computationalinteraction.org
Our paper "Active Inference and Human–Computer Interaction" has been accepted in @acmtochi.bsky.social dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... @jhnhw.bsky.social @ssteinresearch.bsky.social @rodmurraysmith.bsky.social y.social
Active Inference and Human–Computer Interaction | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Active Inference is a closed-loop computational theoretical basis for understanding behaviour, based on agents with internal probabilistic generative models that encode their beliefs about how hidden ...
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2 year postdoc position on the DIFAI Project. difai-project.org Deadline 17th Sept. The ideal candidate will be someone with a strong background in HCI theory, strong development skills, able to prototype new interactive systems with ML & sensors. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOF599/r...
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Apply for a fully-funded PhD developing “mediating mechanisms” as a way to link machine learning to human-computer interaction in tightly-coupled control loops. All nationalities can apply. Supervised by @jhnhw.bsky.social in the DIFAI Project. Deadline 31st August. t.co/7Ckua9dCyO
Internships are available for existing Ph.D. students on the DIFAI project in Glasgow, to work on HCI and Active Inference. (Deadline 31st July 2025) difai-project.org/index.html#v...
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Ph.D. studentship available at @GlasgowCS with Aegean Airlines. Model-based shared autonomy via active inference, Supervised by @ssteinresearch and @MurraySmithRod Application deadline, 30th June 2025. Fully funded PhD studentship (fees + stipend). difai-project.org/aegeanphd.html
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Apply for a fully-funded PhD developing “mediating mechanisms” as a way to link machine learning to human-computer interaction in tightly-coupled control loops. All nationalities can apply. Supervised by @jhnhw.bsky.social in difai-project.org ERC project. Deadline 7th April 2025.
PhD in Computing Science - Optimal mechanism design and active inference for advanced human-computer interfaces to machine learning at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD in Computing Science - Optimal mechanism design and active inference for advanced human-computer interfaces to machine learning at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com
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These posts are highly relevant for academics working in Active inference research. @activeinference.bsky.social
Roderick Murray-Smith@rodmurraysmith.bsky.social · 2y agoThese two posts are closing on the 17th February. Good opportunities for people working in Computational Interaction, ML in Physics, Active Inference!
We review Active Inference and how it could be applied to model the human-computer interaction loop. Active Inference and Human-Computer Interaction arxiv.org/abs/2412.14741 with @rodmurraysmith.bsky.social @jhnhw.bsky.social @ssteinresearch.bsky.social in the DIFAI ERC project, difai-project.org
Active Inference and Human--Computer Interaction
Active Inference is a closed-loop computational theoretical basis for understanding behaviour, based on agents with internal probabilistic generative models that encode their beliefs about how hidden ...
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Ph.D. studentship available at @idaglasgow.bsky.social with Aegean Airlines. Model-based shared autonomy via active inference, Supervised by @ssteinresearch.bsky.social and @rodmurraysmith.bsky.social. Deadline, 31st January 2025. Fully funded (fees + stipend). difai-project.org/aegeanphd.html
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Marco Aversa presented 'Is One GPU Enough? Pushing Image Generation at Higher-Resolutions with Foundation Models' at @neuripsconf.bsky.social, jointly led with Athanasios Tragakis, with Chaitanya Kaul, @dfaccio.bsky.social & myself. Demos, paper and code: thanos-db.github.io/Pixelsmith/ QuantIC
A Ph.D. studentship with @jhnhw.bsky.social & @rodmurraysmith.bsky.social at @uofglasgow.bsky.social in the ERC DIFAI project will look at developing “mediating mechanisms” as a way to link machine learning to HCI in tightly-coupled control loops. Deadline 14th Jan. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
PhD in Computing Science - Optimal mechanism design and active inference for advanced human-computer interfaces to machine learning at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD in Computing Science - Optimal mechanism design and active inference for advanced human-computer interfaces to machine learning at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com
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ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction is looking for outreach editors, i.e., junior researchers who wants to rethink and implement how the journal engages online with readers and authors. Deadline for applications is Dec 11. Call at www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... or ask me for more info.
Kasper Hornbæk on LinkedIn: Dear HCI community (please share, forward) We are seeking two Outreach…
Dear HCI community (please share, forward) We are seeking two Outreach Editors for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). The Outreach Editor…
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