The Social and Cognitive Informatics Laboratory (SCILA), established in November 2019, is the successor of the Laboratory for Internet Studies. SCILA’s interdisciplinary team seeks to investigate and model interaction of individual humans and groups with information, knowledge, respective technologies and with other humans using these technologies. The research strongly relies both on the knowledge from social, behavioral and cognitive sciences and on the cutting-edge approaches from computer science, including machine learning and computational linguistics.
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At HSE University – Saint Petersburg, the international AI School-Conference, ISSCAI 2024, took place. It was organized by the School of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science in collaboration with the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics, with support from VK and other partners. The week-long intensive program attracted talented students, postgraduates, and developers from across the country—from Moscow to Yekaterinburg—as well as from Kazakhstan and Egypt. Leading experts from Russia, the UAE, and India delivered courses on key trends in artificial intelligence, ranging from computer vision to music signal processing.
July 17
As part of the International AI School-Conference, a poster competition was held.
July 12
The School of Interdisciplinary Research in Cognitive and Social Sciences (IRCSS) will be held from 25-27 September 2024 in Saint Petersburg.
July 11
From June 26 to 30, 2024, the X International Conference on Cognitive Science was held at Pyatigorsk State University.
July 01
The 74th annual conference of the International Communication Association took place in Australia, where projects from the Social and Cognitive Informatics Lab of HSE University were presented.
June 28
Intern-researcher Anastasia Zhitkova from the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics participated in the program.
June 20
Elena Artemenko participated in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
June 12
On May 15-16, 2024, the IX International Scientific and Practical Conference in memory of M. Kondratyev "Social Psychology: Issues of Theory and Practice" was held in Moscow.
May 21
The Summer School, organized by the Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics and the Department of Informatics at HSE University in St. Petersburg, will take place from July 1 to July 7, 2024.
May 21
On May 14th, the second methodological online seminar on diary studies with regular measurements in psychology was held at the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics.
May 15