The public PhD defence of Kushal Soni will take place on October 18 at 15:00 in auditorium D.0.05. The title of the dissertation is: A Software Framework for Easily Generating Blockchain-Based Applications for the Exchange of Resources between Different Parties.  

Our poster 'Populating CSV Files from Unstructured Text with LLMs for KG Generation with RML' by Jan Maushagen, Sara Sepehri, Audrey Sanctorum, Tamara Vanhaecke, and Olga De Troyer and Christophe Debruyne received the Best Poster Award at SEMANTiCS 2024.

We are going to present a keynote on "As We May Interact: Challenges and Opportunities for Next Generation Human-Information Interaction" at HUMAN '24 in September 2024.

Our publication "Individualization in Serious Games: A Systematic Review of the Literature on the Aspects of the Players to Adapt to" by Pejman Sajjadi, Ahmed Ewais, and Olga De Troyer received the Best Paper of 2023 Award of the Elsevier Entertainment Computing journal. 

Are you interested in a Marie Sklodowska Curie PostDoc position in the domain of Dynamic Data Physicalisation, Interactive Paper and Augmented Reality or Personal Cross-Media Information Management?

We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate to work in our research project on 'Real-Time Cross-Media Data Exploration and Analysis for Next-Generation Knowledge Workers'! Application deadline: open until filled   Details about the vacancy

A new Strategic Research Programme Growth Funding project (SRP 92) on Real-Time Cross-Media Data Exploration and Analysis for Next Generation Knowledge Workers has recently been granted.

The public PhD defence of Renny Lindberg is going to take place on July 8 at 15:00 in auditorium D.0.08.  The defence can also be followed through a live stream using this link. The title of the thesis is: Design Recommendations for Social Engagement Platforms: Towards Enhanced Technology Adoption by Elderly People and Long-Term Engagement.  

Our research on the eSPACE end-user authoring tool for cross-device and Internet of Things applications has been featured in VUB Today. The eSPACE solution is also applied in our research on the Internet of Things and Smart Environments.

On August 20 (2021) Jan Maushaugen publicly defended his PhD on Mobile Playful Learning Environments. A news article appeared on VUB Today, in Het Nieuwsblad, Het Belang van Limburg, Bruzz, Het Laatste Niews, and different other newssites.