The European Union Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act was adopted in 2024 to protect public interests from AI-related harms. We aimed to determine whether the AI Act captures the most relevant stakeholders’ values for a high-risk AI Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) for cardiovascular disease. Ethics …

Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly used for collaborative learning in education. To navigate these virtual learning environments, people use avatars. Understanding how people perceive avatars, and treat them humanly, is crucial for designing inclusive virtual learning environments. This study examines …

Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie en CLICKNL hebben tweemaal de Open Call Innovatielabs uitgeschreven, in 2021 en 2022. Deze call stond open voor innovatieve en experimentele projecten om de huidige uitdagingen in de culturele en creatieve sector aan te pakken en de veerkracht van de sector te vergroten. …

Two modern trends in insurance are data-intensive underwriting and behavior-based insurance. Data-intensive underwriting means that insurers analyze more data for estimating the claim cost of a consumer and for determining the premium based on that estimation. Insurers also offer behavior-based insurance. …

Machine learning models use high dimensional feature spaces to map their inputs to the corresponding class labels. However, these features often do not have a one-to-one correspondence with physical concepts understandable by humans, which hinders the ability to provide a meaningful explanation for the …

There are many good reasons to use synthetic data instead of real data for research purposes. These reasons may range from the business sensitiveness of real data to increased cost of collecting real data in accordance with GDPR requirements. In this paper, we elaborate upon the potentials of the Large …

De digitalisering van de gezondheidszorg is door de pandemie en de snelle ontwikkeling van talige AI waarschijnlijk behoorlijk versneld. De geestelijke gezondheidszorg staat wereldwijd onder toenemende druk door enerzijds een groeiende vraag naar therapieën en anderzijds een tekort aan zorgverleners. …

Humanlike virtual influencers (HVIs) mimic human influencers (HIs), but how do consumers perceive them, and how does this affect persuasion knowledge? This experiment examines how consumers differentiate HVIs from HIs based on two mental states – intentions and emotions– and how differences in mind perception …

In this study, we argue that organizers of live music have increasingly been confronted with uncertainty and risk in the pre-pandemic era and that the pandemic has clearly put them under further pressure. At the same time, live music venues and festivals have proven to be largely resilient to the extreme …

Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and augmented/virtual reality come with many ethical and societal questions. In order to develop applications based on these technologies responsibly, businesses, governments and knowledge institutions are increasingly working together, and sometimes …