KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Keynote Title:
The role of HCI in Trusted AI

Bio:
The increasing deployment of AI systems that are hard to inspect, particularly large-scale statistical models, presents a critical challenge to user trust. While AI performance is rapidly advancing, the opacity of decision-making processes often leads to skepticism, misuse, and a lack of accountability—a core concern in the development of Trusted AI. This talk discusses how Human-Computer Interaction(HCI) can help to address  this trust deficit, arguing that
well-designed interaction patterns are needed to increase transparency and as such trust in complex systems. The talk will discuss several examples from AI systems deployed in domains associated with high risk, such as medicine, production and automated driving.

Antonio Krüger is the CEO and Scientific Director of Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI), as well as the Scientific Director of the Cognitive Assistants research department at DFKI. Antonio has been a professor of computer science
and head of the Ubiquitous Media Technology Lab at Saarland University since 2009 and his research combines methods from human-computer-interaction and artificial intelligence.

Professor Pattie Maes
MIT Media Lab

Keynote Title:
Designing AI Interaction for Human Flourishing

Bio:
Pattie Maes is the Germeshausen Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab where she does research at the intersection of Human Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence. She is also an affiliated faculty member at MIT’s center for Neuro-Biological Engineering. Maes pioneered the concept of Software Agents in the 90s and remains focused on the question of how computer systems and digital devices might augment people and assist them with issues such as memory, learning, decision making, health and wellbeing.

Maes is the editor of four books, has published over 500 peer-reviewed articles, and is an editorial board member and reviewer for numerous professional journals and conferences. She is the recipient of several awards: Netguru selected her for “Hidden Heroes: the people who shaped technology (2022), Time Magazine has included several of her designs in its annual list of inventions of the year; The American Association for Artificial Intelligence gave her the “classic paper 2012” prize, awarded to the most influential AI paper of the year, Fast Company named her one of 50 most influential designers (2011); Newsweek picked her as one of the “100 Americans to watch for” (2000); TIME Digital selected her as a member of the “Cyber Elite,” the top 50 technological pioneers of the high-tech world; the World Economic Forum honored her with the title “Global Leader for Tomorrow”; Ars Electronica awarded her the 1995 World Wide Web category prize; and in 2025 she was recognized with the “Lifetime Achievement Award in Human Computer Interaction” by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She also received honorary doctorates from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and Open Universiteit, Netherlands, and has given several TED talks.