Designing Interaction Freedom via Active Inference (DIFAI) is an ERC Advanced Grant, awarded via EPSRC funding, to Prof Rod Murray-Smith, at Univ. of Glasgow.
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36 month Postdoc position on DIFAI project (difai-project.org/) , lnkd.in/e9VCB4UF
Knowledge of active inference, probabilistic modelling and advanced machine learning techniques, & ability to develop novel theory and build and evaluate working interactive prototypes.
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This will be presented at
@acm_chi ACM SIG CHI'26 on Monday 13th April at 4:30pm, In Barcelona. Come along if you are at CHI!
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New from #TOCHI: Active Inference and Human-Computer Interaction by @MurraySmithRod , @jhnhw , and @ssteinresearch . A review of how Active Inference could support #HCI research and design by modeling the interaction loop itself. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37628…
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Teaching Computational Interaction,
at the 10th Summer School and Symposium on Computational Interaction (S³CIX), University of Glasgow.
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Active Inference and Computational Interaction
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at the 10th Summer School and Symposium on Computational Interaction (S³CIX), University of Glasgow.
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Please join the Workshop on Theory in Computational Interaction at s3cix.computationalinteracti… @ 10th Summer School & 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
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Florian Fischer, with @pokristensson @oulasvirta @MurraySmithRod & others
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Prof Gustav Markkula (Univ Leeds @markkula) will present a keynote at the 10th Summer School & Symposium on Computational Interaction (S³CIX): Interaction in movement. Computational modelling of human road user behaviour,
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Registration still available
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The S3CIX Symposium and Summer School has some exciting Keynote Speakers:
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Gustav Markkula, Kasper Hornbæk, Katja Hofmann, Mohamed Chetouani!
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Prof Mohamed Chetouani will present a kenote at the 10th Summer School & Symposium on Computational Interaction (S³CIX):
Machine Learning for Human–Robot Interaction: Vision-Language Grounding, Personalization, and Failure Awareness
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Registration available.
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Prof Kasper Hornbæk (Copenhagen @khornbaek) will present a keynote at the 10th Summer School and Symposium on Computational Interaction (S³CIX):
The theory crisis in human-computer interaction
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Registration for the S3CIX Symposium and Summer School on Computational Interaction is now open: s3cix.computationalinteracti…
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Dr Katja Hofmann (Microsoft, @katjahofmann) will present a keynote at the 10th Summer School and Symposium on Computational Interaction (S³CIX):
Generative AI for Connection and Creativity,
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Just a reminder to students to get their applications in for the summer school. After the 14th March it will be a 'first-come-first served' process!
Call for participation: 10th Summer School & Symposium on Computational Interaction (S³CIX), University of Glasgow, Scotland. June 16-20, 2026. Summer School expanded to include Symposium. Reminder of Call for Student Attendence (14th March).
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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. mdpi.com/1099-4300/28/3/269
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Although we focus on intermittent planning, intermittency can be applied to other cognitive processes performed by an agent, such as sensing, inference, or acting . Combinations of different types of intermittency may be suitable for different environments, tasks, or agent.
Feel free to check out the open source code (Python with JAX) here: github.com/mkl4r/iaif
