Conference theme: 'Skilling up! Developing abilities with and for new digital technologies'
Trends and Human Factors in New Technologies (HiNT) conference
The landscape of digital technologies is rapidly changing. Over the past decades, interactive, networked, and mobile technologies have transformed how we work, learn, and communicate. Today, these developments are increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, immersive technologies such as Virtual and Augmented Reality, ambient technologies and wearables and their growing integration with the physical world, for example through AI-powered social robots.
These new technologies offer powerful new ways to support and expand human abilities. They can help people learn, train, and develop skills in new and engaging ways. At the same time, using them effectively and responsibly requires new skills, knowledge, and forms of digital literacy. To fully benefit from these technologies - and to avoid unwanted societal effects - users need to know how to work with them. The 'Skilling Up!' National HiNT Sector Plan & Trends Conference focuses on this two-way relationship. It explores both the skills needed to work with emerging technologies such as AI, immersive media, and robotics, and the ways in which these technologies can themselves support skill development through new approaches to education and training.
For whom?
The conference is relevant for master's students Educational Sciences at the Open Universiteit of the Netherlands as well as for university lecturers and PhDs appointed within or associated with the sectorplan Human factors in New Technologies (HiNT). Master students of the Open Universiteit are often professionals working in various educational and training organizations. Moreover, the conference is open to other societal partners and interested parties, such as businesses, governmental and public service organizations, with an interest in upskilling with and for new digital technologies. This will allow participants to connect research with current societal challenges, discussions and practical examples.
Registration
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