Dr. Nick Ballou: „A Practical Guide to Collaborating with the Tech Industry on Contentious Topics - As Learned Through Failure "
Studying digital technologies can feel like fighting with one hand tied behind one’s back, given the asymmetry in data access for researchers compared to platform owners (e.g., Meta, Microsoft, Nintendo). For some research questions, collaboration may therefore be necessary, but it poses various ethical and logistical challenges, including how we convince universally risk-averse companies to participate in research that could threaten commercial interests. Building on my experience collaborating with major video games companies, I will provide examples of how collaboration can go wrong and lead to untrustworthy or uninteresting research, and a demystifying practical guide for how to establish collaborations in practice while maintaining the highest possible degree of transparency.
Prof. Dr. Johanna Wardenaar-Wigman: „A transdiagnostic and individual approach to the development of psychosis in the context of risk and resilience"
In this presentation, I will discuss the development of psychosis, focusing on findings from the Mapping Individual Routes of Risk and Resilience (MIRORR) study. Using a transdiagnostic, individual approach and data from a three-month diary study, we examined how risk and resilience factors interact with psychopathological experiences in daily life and how this reflects risk for psychosis.
Prof. Dr. Rosa Lavelle-Hill: „From Algorithms to Explanation: Using Explainable AI to Understand Human Behaviour"
Digital data and artificial intelligence are shaping our world more than ever before. But how can these powerful tools be leveraged to generate meaningful insights for psychological and social science research? In this talk, Rosa Lavelle-Hill will introduce two key approaches for moving from algorithms to explanation: interpretable machine learning models and explainable AI (XAI) methods. She will then illustrate these approaches with examples from her own research, with a particular focus on applications that promote social good.
