LOCAL ORGANIZATION

Open University of Cyprus

Information Retrieval, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence

Jahna Otterbacher holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA is an Assistant Professor at the Open University of Cyprus (OUC), Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences. Jahna also coordinates the Cyprus Center for Algorithmic Transparency (CyCAT) at the OUC. In addition, Jahna holds a concurrent appointment as team leader of the Transparency in Algorithms Group at RISE (Research centre on Interactive media, Smart systems and Emerging technologies), in Nicosia, Cyprus. Jahna’s research has been published in journals such as the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ACM TOIT) and Knowledge and Information Systems, as well as in top-tier international conferences such as the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP). She has served as a contributor to the Harvard Business Review, where she writes about the social implications of Big Data practices and analytics.

Paper by Jahna:

Competent Men and Warm Women: Gender Stereotypes and Backlash in Image Search Results

Styliani Kleanthous, Senior Researcher

Open University of Cyprus

Human Computer Interaction

Styliani Kleanthous holds a Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, UK. She is a senior researcher at CyCAT and the Transparency in Algorithms group at RISE LTD. Styliani’s main research interests and expertise are concentrated in the area of User and Community Modelling, Personalization and Adaptive Systems. She specializes in exploiting psychological and social theories for modelling user preferences, for designing intelligent interaction and adaptive user support. She has published over 30 papers in journals and scientific conferences, co-organised a number of international workshops and has given numerous presentations. Since 2004 she has been involved in different UK and EU-funded research projects for establishing requirements, modelling users and providing adaptive support for collaboration, learning, medical data analysis and identifying innovation networks.

Paper by Styliani:

Adaptive notifications to support knowledge sharing in close-knit virtual communities