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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Larisa Mararitsa and Elina Tsigeman participated in it as experts.
April 16
The leading research fellow of SCILA successfully competed for a professorship position at the Department of Informatics of the St. Petersburg School of Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science.
April 02
During the joint seminar of the Social and Cognitive Informatics Laboratory (SKILA) and the Natural Language Laboratory (NLL) at HSE University on March 19, 2024, Anna Pushkareva (Boldyreva) spoke. She is a leading analyst at the IT company PARMA Technologies Group, a lecturer at MIPT, and a consultant at IEMIT RANEPA.
March 19
The Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics is recruiting students and postgraduates of HSE to participate in research projects for a period of 7 to 9 months.
February 12
On 1st and 2nd February 2024 the team from the "Mirror Labs" project of the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics at HSE presented their project at the Winter Psychological School of SPbSU.
February 08
On December 18, 2023, at the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics within the framework of the "Mirror Laboratory," a discussion on the methodology of diary studies "Experience Sampling Method (ESM)" took place.
December 18, 2023
The research conducted by the HSE University and the V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University was presented at the II All-Russian Scientific Conference 'Digitalization of Society: Transformation of Everyday Practices and Research Perspectives'.
December 12, 2023
The second article, developed within the QTM project "Enhancing the Methodology of Automatic Text Analysis Based on Topic Modeling," on the topic "Random Forests with Parametric Entropy-Based Information Gains for Classification and Regression Problems," will be published.
December 05, 2023
The research has been published on the PsyArXiv website. This work is a result of collaboration between researchers from Russia, Germany, China, and the United Kingdom, including Elina Tsigeman, Victoria Zemlyak, Maxim Likhanov, Kostas A. Papadogeorgiou, and Yulia Kovas.
November 30, 2023
On November 28, 2023, the results of the Russian Science Foundation competition were announced: the application submitted by the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics received support for the year 2024.
November 28, 2023