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Friday 26 April 2024 09:00 - 15:40

Friday, April 26th from 9:00 to 15:40 at Swiss Digital Center in Sierre (room Foyer / théâtre)

Welcome to the 9th AI Valais/Wallis Workshop on Human-AI Teaming!

The 9th edition of the AI Valais/Wallis Workshop will focus on the challenges, opportunities and trends at the interface between AI systems and their end-users. The goal of the event is to attract both academics and practitioners to discuss timely and strategic themes as well as collaboration opportunities in the area of Human-AI interaction.

Topics of interest include:

  • Assistive AI technologies.
  • Human-robot interaction.
  • Dialogue systems.
  • Interpretability and explainability strategies.
  • Improving AI usability and trust.
  • New methodologies for measuring and assessing Human-AI interaction/performance.
  • Knowledge augmentation.
  • Applications and case studies.


Program :

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM Registration & Coffee

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Session 1 - AI in Biomedicine (Explainability & Expert-AI Interaction)

  • Oskar Wysocki (Idiap), Assessing the communication gap between AI models and healthcare professionals: explainability, utility and trust in AI-driven clinical decision-making. 
  • Jakub Mlynář, Adrien Depeursinge & Benjamin Nanchen (HESSO), From explanation to familiarization: Lessons learned in two video-ethnographic studies of human–AI interaction
  • Federico Spagnolo (HESSO) MSXPLAIN: Instance-level quantitative saliency in multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation. 
  • André Freitas & Magdalena Wysocka (Idiap), Teaming with LLM expert agents to support biomedical discovery. 

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM Coffee break

11:20 AM - 12:30 PM Session 2 - Human-AI Interaction in Robotics

  • Emmanuel Senft (Idiap), End-user programming for human-robot collaboration. 
  • Sylvain Calinon (Idiap), Learning manipulation skills from few demonstrations.
  • Victor Hugo Contreras Ordonez (HESSO), Explanation of DL Models via Logic Rules Enhanced by Embeddings Analysis.
  • Alessandro Fornaroli - Generative AI Literacy: 12 Defining Competencies

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch break, Networking & Poster session

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM Session 3 - Human-AI Teaming & Societal Impact

  • Laura Vásquez-Rodríguez & Lonneke van der Plas (Idiap): Navigating Skills Detection and Bias in AI-Enhanced Human Resources Systems. 
  • Sandrine Tornay (Idiap): Assistive Technology for Sign Language Learning. 
  • Zhan Liu (HESSO) AI-Driven Gender Equality in Media: Transforming Narratives and Challenging Biases.

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM Panel: Human-AI Teaming (Strategic Challenges & Opportunities)

3:30 PM - 3:40 PM Concluding Remarks


Useful information

Workshop will take place at La Salle du Théâtre, Foyer

Lunch break will take place at Espace Mérope, Technopôle 10


Inscription : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/877200509337?aff=oddtdtcreator


Organisers:

  • Gianluca Rizzo
  • Emmanuel Senft
  • Oskar Wysocki
  • Andre Freitas