Search results
Filter
Filetype
Your search for "SASH92 – Social AI through the Looking Glass" yielded 48047 hits
We are looking for an assistant professor in artistic research and AI
New collaboration between Lund University and Volvo Cars
Published 4 February 2022 Mats Moberg, Senior Vice President Research & Development at Volvo Cars and Annika Olsson, Dean at the Faculty of Engineering. (Photo: Kennet Ruona) The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University and Volvo Cars have signed an agreement to strengthen existing research collaborations and identify new areas for mutual benefit and development – and in this way contribute to so
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-between-lund-university-and-volvo-cars - 2025-08-01
Become your own conductor
By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 5 April 2023 Malmö Live's concert hall will function as an experimental environment in the collaboration initiative, says coordinator Jesper Larsson. Photo: Kennet Ruona Make yourself comfortable at home on the sofa and immerse yourself in a symphony orchestra’s magical take on Beethoven´s Fifth Symphony as if you we
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/become-your-own-conductor - 2025-08-01
ERC grant for research on separating cells using ultrasound
Published 6 September 2022 Per Augustsson, Associate Professor at the department of Biomedical Engineering at Lund University, has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for his work on how liquids and cells behave in a sound field. A total of 55 researchers from around Europe will each receive EUR 150,000 from the European Research Council to investigate the commercial potential of their rese
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-grant-research-separating-cells-using-ultrasound - 2025-08-01
Attentive adults increase children’s ability to empathise
Published 15 May 2018 Elia Psouni For human beings to function socially, they need to be able to perceive, understand, and talk about others’ mental states, such as beliefs, desires and intentions. There is no consensus among researchers as to when children develop this ability. Previous research indicates that it emerges around the age of four, but research at Lund University in Sweden shows that
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/attentive-adults-increase-childrens-ability-empathise - 2025-08-01
AI could improve mental health care
Published 16 February 2023 Photo: Mostphotos/Yuri Arcurs Patients are often asked to rate their feelings using a rating scale, when talking to psychologists or doctors about their mental health. This is currently how depression and anxiety are diagnosed. However, a new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that allowing patients to describe their experience using their own words - is potentia
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ai-could-improve-mental-health-care - 2025-08-01
Digital maps of tomorrow improve how we find our way
By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 29 March 2022 Finding your way and navigating around cities is not always easy. New digital maps that have a better overview can help you move more smoothly from point A to point B. Many of us have digital maps at our fingertips in our smartphones, but these maps are not adapted to guide us when walking or finding our
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/digital-maps-tomorrow-improve-how-we-find-our-way - 2025-08-01
AI to help combat future pandemics
Published 28 October 2021 Yana Litins'ka, Jonas Björk and Malin Inghammar.(Photo: Åsa Hansdotter) Researchers at Lund University want to use AI methods, population registers, mobile data and novel data sources to develop and evaluate applications that can be used to detect and combat pandemics in the future. A large collaborative project is funded by Vinnova, Sweden’s innovation agency. During the
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ai-help-combat-future-pandemics - 2025-08-01
WATCH: Our water pipes crawl with millions of bacteria
Published 16 December 2015 Our drinking water contains millions of "good" bacteria. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have discovered that our drinking water is to a large extent purified by millions of “good bacteria” found in water pipes and purification plants. So far, the knowledge about them has been practically non-existent, but this new research is about to change that. Watch video
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-our-water-pipes-crawl-millions-bacteria - 2025-08-01
Designer babies and intelligent robots: how new life is challenging humankind
Published 2 June 2017 IT IS HIGH TIME that we start thinking about how we define life, according to a group of Lund University researchers. An army of intelligent robots is growing in front of us, but also opportunities to alter people’s DNA, create super babies and, perhaps, to encounter life in space.“Human beings have always dreamed of playing God. With the help of new technology, we are able t
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/designer-babies-and-intelligent-robots-how-new-life-challenging-humankind - 2025-08-01
Aggressively patriarchal worldview attracted Swedish women to IS
Published 2 November 2022 Contrary to popular belief, Swedish women who have joined IS were not simply passively manipulated by men. A new study from Lund University suggests that it was a strict religious culture, which opposes gender equality, and modern gender roles and norms, that attracted Swedish women to join the Islamic State. On the internet, Swedish IS women propagate Sharia law, gender
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/aggressively-patriarchal-worldview-attracted-swedish-women - 2025-08-01
UN Climate Report: How vulnerable are we and how can we adapt?
Published 25 February 2022 Boy cycling to school through smog in Indonesia (Photo: Aulia Erlangga) How vulnerable is humanity in the face of climate change? And how have people around the world already been impacted? These are some of the questions to be answered on 28 February by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Two researchers from Lund University participated in the final rep
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/un-climate-report-how-vulnerable-are-we-and-how-can-we-adapt - 2025-08-01
Researchers: Time for a new approach to ageing
By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 25 July 2023 Senior citizens playing boule. Photo: Yvonne Åsell/SvD/SCANPIX. We usually associate ageing with a shrinking life span, sickness and death. The difficulty of imagining ourselves as old means that we go to great lengths to avoid planning for later life. Yet researchers argue that we have everything to gain
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-time-new-approach-ageing - 2025-08-01
AI, human rights, and digital welfare: Miranda Kajtazi takes the lead
By carla [dot] bohme [at] ics [dot] lu [dot] se (Carla Böhme) - published 12 September 2023 The Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies. Photo: Kennet Ruona Associate professor at the Department of Informatics, Miranda Kajtazi, is currently involved in a mix of internal and external grants. At the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Miranda Kajtazi is leading an Advanced Study Group on "Hum
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/ai-human-rights-and-digital-welfare-miranda-kajtazi-takes-lead - 2025-08-02
Lund University launches largest-ever global recruitment drive for researchers
By sanna [dot] trygg [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Sanna Trygg) - published 11 June 2025 “This investment strengthens Lund University’s position as a leading research university, both nationally and internationally,” says Erik Renström Vice-Chancellor of Lund University. The search is on for 25 researchers from around the world in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment dr
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-launches-largest-ever-global-recruitment-drive-researchers - 2025-08-01
Four researchers from Lund University receive ERC Starting Grant
Published 5 September 2024 Sociologist Lisa Flower, biologist Øystein Opedal, economic historian Ingrid van Dijk and linguist Karolin Obert have received the prestigious grant from the EU. Their research focuses on video links in court cases, plant adaptation to pollinators, health inequalities over time, and language change in hunter-gatherer societies as they move around. The ERC Starting Grant
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-researchers-lund-university-receive-erc-starting-grant - 2025-08-01
Is the end of the world nigh?
By sanna [dot] trygg [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Sanna Trygg) - published 8 January 2025 The four horsemen from the Book of Revelation. Byline: Viktor Vasnetsov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Apocalyptic beliefs are as old as humankind itself. So, why are we drawn to stories about the finite nature of everything? A group of researchers is trying to get to grips with the issue. “In
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/end-world-nigh - 2025-08-01
National initiative for academic collaborations with China
Published 7 June 2018 Tommy Shih The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, STINT, now makes a national, major effort to promote Swedish higher education, research and innovation in China as well as to become an academic knowledge hub in relation to China. Tommy Shih, associate professor at Lund University School of Economics and Management, has been app
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/national-initiative-academic-collaborations-china - 2025-08-01
These celebrities cause 10,000 times more carbon emissions from flying than the average person
Published 23 October 2019 Photo: Mostphotos The jet-setting habits of Bill Gates and Paris Hilton mean that they produce an astonishing 10,000 times more carbon emissions from flying than the average person. This was the conclusion of my research mining their social media accounts (tweets, Instagram and Facebook posts) as well as those of a number of other celebrities for clues as to where they we