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Last update: 17-Jan-2023

  • [17-Jan-2023] Reviewing demos and posters papers for the 28th annual conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2023).

  • [21-Dec-2022] I finished another pedagogical course: "Basics of University Pedagogy A, 5 ECTS" at the University of Turku, Finland.

  • [20-Dec-2022] Invited to be reviewer for the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2023) *Top conference on AI

  • [16-Dec-2022] Program committee of the 15th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS2023)

  • [31-Aug-2022] Reviewer of the journal Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (IF 7.027)

  • [30-Aug-2022] Enrolled in the course Basics of University Pedagogy, University of Turku, Finland.

  • [23-Aug-2022] Funding extension for the Digiconsumers project by the Academy of Finland! Running AI+gamification until 2024.

  • [23-Aug-2022] I'm part of a work package in the new project called: "Improving Financial Literacy and Pro-Environmental Choices Using Game-Based Pedagogy and Virtual Reality'' funded by the Nasdaq Nordic Foundation. This project is oriented to design, build and evaluate a highly interactive game-based pedagogical solution for financial and stock market literacy.

  • [08-Jun-2022] Part of the program committee of The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), and revising papers for ICWSM-2023

  • [23-Apr-2022] Part of the technical program committee of the Twelfth International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologie, AMBIENT 2022, Valencia, Spain (link)

  • [19-Apr-2022] New journal paper! Guerrero, E., Kalmi, P. Gamification Strategies: A Characterization Using Formal Argumentation Theory. SN COMPUT. SCI. 3, 291 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-022-01164-3.

  • [30-Mar-2022] Presentation of the paper: "What if gamified software is fully proactive? Towards autonomy-related design principles" in the Personalized Persuasive Technologies workshop (PPT 2022), 29 of March 2022. Slides here.

  • [10-Mar-2022] Attending the mini-course "AI Ethics and Fairness in Link-Based Recommender Systems" (material here). By Ricardo Baeza-Yates, and Carlos Castillo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

  • [3-Mar-2022] New accepted paper: "What if gamified software is fully proactive? Towards autonomy-related design principles" at in the workshop on Personalizing Persuasive Technologies (PPT 2022) (link), part of the 7th international conference on Persuasive Technology 2022 (PERSUASIVE 2022). (accepted version)

  • [23-Feb-22] Invited to be reviewer of the 14th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, EICS 2022

  • [09-Feb-22] Invited to be PC member of the second International Conference on disruptive technologies, tech ethics and artificial intelligence DiTTEt

  • [26-Jan-22] PC member of the 13th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence ISAMI'22

  • [25-Jan-22] Invited to revise papers for the IEEE Intelligent Systems journal.

  • [01-Jan-22] NEW YEAR! I hope the last COVID year.

  • [16-Dec-21] Invited to be part of the program committee of the XIV Workshop on Agents Applied to Healthcare. Part of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2022.

  • [22-Nov-21] Accepted paper in the 17th ARGDIAP conference "Reasoned Argumentation. Legal, Computational and Linguistic Perspectives", title: "Eristic dialogues in persuasive gamified systems", pre-print here. Presentation: 24 Nov., slides here.

  • [19-Nov-21] I will part of the "Service Design" at UVAASA course's teachers: topics: "information technologies" and "digital platforms" from an AI perspective.

  • [19-Nov-21] I enrolled for the pedagogical course: "Educational Philosophy and Ethics" at Oulu University.

  • [06-Oct-21] Reviewer of the 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2022).

  • [01-Oct-21] Invited to revise research contributions of the A* ranked conference: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2022 (https://chi2022.acm.org/).

  • [08-Sept-21] Proudly invited to be reviewer of another A* ranked conference: the IEEE VR2022, IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces.

  • [10-Sept-21] [01-Oct-21] Reviewer of the AAAI-22 Student Abstract Program papers. So nice to read papers submitted by Ph.D. students with high quality. The AAAI (https://aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-22/) is a A* conference on artificial intelligence.

  • [01-Sept-21] NEW POSITION AT VASA UNIVERSITY, FINLAND!

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