Miscellaneous Activities

FWF 1000 Ideas Grant Awarded: Reimagining AI for Ethical Persuasion

We are proud to announce that Dr. Kevin M. Blasiak has been awarded a highly competitive research grant under the 1000 Ideas Programme of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), leading pioneering work at CTSi//circle.responsibleComputing.

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The Center for Technology & Society (CTS) becomes the Center for Technology-driven Social Innovation (CTSi)

As part of the performance agreement for the 2025–2027 period, the former Center for Technology & Society (CTS) is sharpening its thematic focus on Social Innovation.

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Workshop Recap: Shifting the Conversation on the Malicious Use of AI at ECSCW 2025

At the 2025 European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) in Newcastle, UK, Kevin M. Blasiak (TU Wien, CTSi, circle.responsibleComputing) & Daniel E. Levenson (Swansea University) hosted the workshop Shifting the Conversation on the Malicious Use of AI: A Value Sensitive Approach for Stakeholder Consensus

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René Röpke as Game Competition and Exhibition Chair for GALA 2025

René Röpke has been appointed Game Competition and Exhibition Chair for the Games and Learning Alliance Conference 2025 (GALA), alongside Kristina Risley from the University of Southampton, UK. The international conference will take place this year in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and gathers leading voices from academia, industry, and education in the field of serious and game-based learning.

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