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Programme

 

The choice for parallel sessions can be indicated on the registration form.

09.15 - 09.45 hr Registration and welcome with coffee
09.45 - 10.15 hr Welcome speech and opening - Ellen Rusman (Open Universiteit) and Wolter Pieters (RU)
'Skilling up! Developing abilities with and for new digital technologies'
10.15 - 11.45 hr

Session 1 - Tech for sustainable health and wellbeing
- Pieter Rohrbach (Open Universiteit) - HYbrid treatment for PErsonality disorders (HYPE project)
- Maitta Spronken (Open Universiteit) - Smart technology use in healthcare: a healthcare professional perspective
- Martin Gevonden (VU) - Validating Wearables: Promise, Pitfalls, and Physiological Reality

10.15 - 11.45 hr Session 2 - Human-tech interaction and collaboration
- Cesco Willemse (UT) - Robots as effective social agents: the role of eye gaze and human-likeness in human-robot interaction
- Daniel Preciado Vanegas (VU) - Learning with and about social agents and robots
- Eddy van der Sman (ING) - Implicit Views of Human Behaviour in Agentic AI Systems: Insights from Practice
11.45 - 12.00 hr Coffee break
12.00 - 13.00 hr Session 3 - AI literacy and skill development 
- Mohammadreza Farrokhnia (UT) - Skilling Up in the GenAI Era: The Role of Engagement Level in Shaping Students’ AI Literacy
- Iwan Wopereis (Open Universiteit) - AI GO! Building AI Literacy in Education: A Practical Framework
13.00 - 14.00 hr Lunch - informal subtheme exchange tables
14.00 - 15.30 hr Session 4 - Considerations and effects of tech use on human behaviour & society
- Laura Huiberts (Open Universiteit) - To ban or not to ban? - Investigating the impact of strict vs. lenient secondary school smartphone bans on smartphone use, wellbeing, physical activity and sleep after school time
- Jaime Simons (UM) - Building a Solarpunk Commons: Experimenting with a Hands-On Refusal Lab
- Nafis Hasan (UvA) - On time: new technologies for time management in contemporary India
15.30 - 15.45 hr Coffee break
15.45 - 16.30 hr Interactive plenary session and discussion on tech, human factors and societal impact
16.30 - 17.30 hr Drinks and informal HiNT exchange