Centre Director Christoph Trattner appointed as a Distinguished Speaker of the ACM

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) appointed MediaFutures Centre Director Prof. Dr. Christoph Trattner as a Distinguished Speaker for three years.

Trattner is an active and frequently invited speaker. He has given over 50 talks at leading conferences and institutions in the field, such as ACM RecSys, The Web Conference or The Alain Turing Institute.

More information about his talks can be found here. 

Distinguished Speaker of the ACM engages with emerging professionals, students and, in some cases, the public on topics in computing through the appointment of leading researchers.

ACM Speakers represent a broad range of companies, universities and colleges and it is an excellent opportunity for different institutions, events and corporations to deepens their knowledge on the broad range of topics covering Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence and many more.  

We wish him good luck in his future endeavours! 

RecSys 2021 – “Serving Each User”: Supporting Different Eating Goals Through a Multi-List Recommender Interface 

Our Centre Director, Prof Christoph Trattner, Assoc. Prof. II Alain Starke and master student Edis Asotic submitted a paper to the flagship conference on Recommender Systems, which has been accepted for publication in the RecSys 2021 proceedings and for oral presentation. This year the review process was especially challenging with 267 paper submissions and only 49 accepted, which is an acceptance rate of 18.4%. 

The conference will be held as a hybrid event, partly in Amsterdam and the conference will have an inclusive registration pricing policy where prices will vary per country acknowledging international inequities. 

Netflix Algorithm Confuses – Christoph Trattner sharing his expertise

MediaFutures Centre Director Christoph Trattner was interviewed for an article by “Dagbladet” published 08-06/21. 

The theme of the article is recommender systems. In particular, the algorithms used by Netflix to determine which movies their users are likely to enjoy. These algorithms have caused confusion among Netflix users, as today's most popular shows and movies are not being recommended to them. 

As a researcher with over 100 scientific articles published in top venues about his work within the fields of “Behavioral Data Analytics” and “Recommender Systems”, Professor Christoph Trattner has been interviewed to comment on these algorithms. 

“The algorithms search for people who are interested in the same thing as you. They then find movies that are popular within this group, but that you have not seen before, says Trattner to Dagbladet.” 

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2 open positions: Postdoc and PhD

MediaFutures is looking for a Postdoc in Recommender Systems and a PhD candidate in Computational Social Science. Apply by 5 July and 15 August, respectively.

SAVE THE DATE: 29-30 September 2021 – MediaFutures Annual Meeting

Publications

Khanh-Duy Le, Tanh Quang Tran, Karol Chlasta, Krzysztof Krejtz, Morten Fjeld, and Andreas Kunz. VXSlate: Exploring Combination of Head Movements and Mobile Touch for Large Virtual Display Interaction. 
 

MediaFutures will go on holidays in July 🙂 

We would like to wish you a great summer holiday at MediaFutures and looking forward continuing to share news, research and innovation in the media industry from August!