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Upcoming: International Symposium on Human–AI Workflows, An online symposium taking place on June 1st, from 11:15 to 17:00 CET. The symposium brings together scholars, artists, practitioners and media professionals to present emerging research on Human–AI workflows and their implications for creativity, labour and education. Through a series of interdisciplinary panels, the event aims to critically engage with the changing relations between human and machine agency across contemporary cultural and creative practices. The symposium programme includes: 𝐏𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐋 𝐀: Creativity, Art and New Workflows chaired by Szilvia Ruszev 𝐏𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐋 𝐁: Industry, Labour and Distributed Agencies chaired by Claudio Celis Bueno 𝐏𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐋 𝐂: Authorship, Resistance and Learning chaired by Bertran Salvador Mata and Frederic Guerrero-Solé After the panels, the Symposium will open a collective discussion. The symposium will conclude with a collective discussion with the aim of building a community and establishing a network of research around the topic. Registration is free and open to all: https://lnkd.in/dZyGuC9x Further details about the individual panels and speakers will be shared in the coming days here: https://lnkd.in/egb4c4kX

Are you a teacher, interested in the responsible use of #genAI tools for your work, + are ready to go and try it? Researchers and educators from offer an online, free workshop series 30 minutes weekly during the month of starting June, starting June 3: https://lnkd.in/eCTuZyUw This timely workshop series is hosted by Eileen Kennedy (UCL Knowledge Lab) and Viktoria Pammer-Schindler (Intelligent Systems @ SPSC, TUGraz , Know Center) featuring Diana Laurillard, Tim Neumann UCL Knowledge Lab and Mia Bangerl and Alina Kopkow Know Center #aied #edtech

UCL Knowledge Lab PhD students Yihan Dong, Nikolas Kunesch, Wenyun Deng and Zoe Wei are finalists in the ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference Research and Design competition. Their design concept Balanced! is a board game designed to support children's critical reflection across Individuals, Society, and Environment. You can read more about their design process and the board game in the link below. https://lnkd.in/e5nmUdcm

Allison Littlejohn, Francisco Durán del Fierro, and Eileen Kennedy from the UCL Knowledge Lab along with Louise Chisholm who is based in UCL Advanced Research Computing recently had a paper published in the Journal of Workplace learning. The article is based on their research funded by UKRI/ EPSRC. This study examined cultural and social issues that influence the work of professionals using open, digital data. The growth in open data is significantly changing how some professionals work, engendering changes in professional practice, knowledge and identity. While it is recognised that the integration of open data offers benefits, the new associations of humans with data and digital technologies generate a range of cultural and social barriers related to identity, agency, practice and knowledge. These changes intensify the need for forms of workplace learning that open opportunities for professionals not only to learn new skills and knowledge but also to negotiate how they adapt to changes they face. Read the article here: Littlejohn, Allison; Durán del Fierro, Francisco; Kennedy, Eileen; Chisholm, Louise; (2026) Professional work in an era of FAIR data sharing: vulnerabilities, negotiations and sacrifice. Journal of Workplace Learning https://lnkd.in/e9jb3ef6

Does technology offer new opportunities to support urban children's nature connectedness? If you teach Year 5&6 in the UK please consider participating in this UCL collaborative project UCL Knowledge Lab

Dr Alison Croasdale, (ReMAP Research in Media Arts and Play) is happy to announce two publications, one representing the cumulation of 10 years of student-focused, classroom-based research (Creative freedoms: longitudinality and game-based research with teenagers), and one signalling the start of a new phase of research in collaboration with classroom practitioners in South America (SACAR LA VOZ - INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN’S VIDEO GAME DESIGN). Both of these publications sit within not only ReMAP's research focus on 'amplify[ing] marginal voices, and forg[ing] genuine co-creations with the communities,' but also in her personal research focus of working with vulnerable or under-represented voices in education. cc: Alison C. https://lnkd.in/efpnEhCR

Kate Gilchrist reflects on the launch at UCL Knowledge Lab in March for her book 'Fantasies of Singledom: Living in the Cultural Imaginary of Single Femininity' in this new blogpost on the ReMAP blog: https://lnkd.in/gZ7-XwBZ

[ 📣 Call for papers] Special Issue in International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction on Agency in Child-AI Interaction This special issue explores how we can study, design, and use AI systems in ways that move beyond “keeping humans in the loop” and towards “putting humans in the lead”. We invite submissions that examine what agency means in child-AI interaction, how AI systems alter children’s and young people’s experiences of informed decision-making, action, control, and participation, and whether that agency is genuine or merely perceived. We are open for submissions at: https://lnkd.in/dp5KqNep The call for papers will stay open for 6 months, until 27 October 2026. Submissions made before 27 July 2026 will get a chance to resubmit again even if rejected on first submission. cc: Vidminas Vizgirda