Next Colloquium: Validation of a Video-based AI-powered Motion Capture Application for Assessing Motor Performance: A Study Protocol
Date: Thursday 3 December, 11:00-12:00, Zoom
Speaker: Clara Zöller, Institute of Sports and Sports Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Outline:
- Motor Performance: Concepts and Assessment Methods
- AI-Based Motion Capture for Motor Performance Assessment
- Validation Study: Design and Methodology
- Future Perspectives and Potential Applications
CfP AI4SC @ AAAI 2027, 3rd Bridge on Artificial Intelligence for Scholarly Communication Call for Papers and Participation
📢 Call for Papers and Participation in the Third Bridge on Artificial Intelligence for Scholarly Communication, co-located with the 41st Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
📍 16-17 February 2027 | Montréal, Canada
Keywords: AI-assisted science | AI-assisted review | Neurosymbolic AI | Scholarly knowledge organization | Scholarly knowledge graphs | Scientific alignment | Machine actionable science | AI-driven and automated scientific research | Human-AI collaboration and research infrastructure | Interdisciplinary applications and impact of AI in science | Scientific alignment and research integrity
📆 Submission deadline: 3 December 2026, end of the day AoE
📆 Extended deadline for lightning talks abstracts (only): 14 January 2027, end of the day AoE
🌐 Website
🤖 BRIDGE INTRO 🤖
The two-day bridge program aims to discuss the potential that AI has to offer scholarly researchers, including opportunities for AI research assistants, comprehensive literature analysis, and the automated extraction and organization of scholarly knowledge. In addition, we also acknowledge the challenges and difficulties associated with AI for scholarly research, including a lack of AI literacy, publication overload, diminishing peer review, and pressing issues regarding knowledge sharing.
📜 SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES 📜
The bridge welcomes multiple types of submissions:
A. Regular research papers which will be published as proceedings.
- Long papers: between 10 and 15 pages (excl. references and appendix).
- Short papers: between 5 and 9 pages (excl. references and appendix).
- Poster/demo papers: below 5 pages (excl. references, no appendix allowed).
B. Non-proceedings submissions to be presented during the bridge.
- Proposed talks: up to 10 pages (excl. references, no appendix allowed).
- Lightning talks abstracts: up to 1 page (excl. references, no appendix allowed).
We especially encourage researchers to submit their contributions as tutorials including live demonstrations, interactive exercises, or guided practice.
DiTraRe coordinator Ania at the Leibniz Postdoc Network General Assembly 2026
On 2-3 November in Berlin at the Leibniz Association Headquarters, the General Assembly of the Leibniz Postdoc Network (LPN) Assembly took place. Our coordinator, Ania Jacyszyn, participated and presented poster describing her personal story as a postdoc: Lost (and Found?) in the Milky Way: Navigating My Chaotic Orbit in Research. The event brought many new connections and discussions about the current situation of postdocs in the Leibniz Association and outside.
Check out LPN on LinkedIn and Mastodon.
If you're a postdoc at one of the Leibniz institutes, join the mailing list.
Recent: November Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Digitalisation of Research with Yahn Costa Hackspacher
Our recent Colloquium edition with Yahn Costa Hackspacher (FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure) who talked about "Measuring Ethereum’s Energy Consumption for EU Reporting: A Smart Estimation Method Built Computer by Computer" is now available online! Check out the recording and presentation.
IBT Retreat in Bad Herrenalb
IBT held its annual retreat in Bad Herrenalb. The main focus was planning and coordinating our research projects for the year ahead. The days also left room for team activities: a walk in the woods, a city rally and many discussions about science and beyond.
The retreat was a good chance to learn about the range of research across IBT, exchange ideas and strengthen collaboration between groups.
IBT at BMT 2026 in Augsburg
IBT took part in BMT 2026, the annual conference of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering (VDE DGBMT), held over three days in Augsburg. Two of our former students presented their work in the track “Digital Health, Multimodal Data Analysis and Methods of AI”.
Michele Terren presented “Heterogeneity and Intercellular Coupling Prevent Sinus Arrest in a Rabbit Sinoatrial Node Model”. His study uses computer simulation to show how differences between cells and the electrical coupling between them help the sinus node keep its rhythm. Helena Gießler presented results from her internship project, “Electroporation-Mediated Membrane Permeability as a Driver of Cardioversion: A Computational Study”. She won third place in the conference’s student competition. Congratulations to Helena, and thanks to both of them for representing IBT so well.
Successful Sci-K workshop at this year's ISWC
6th edition of the International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge: Representation, Discovery and Assessment (Sci-K) was held this week at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in Bari, Italy. Sci-K took us on a fascinating adventure through high quality research and great presentations, a very inspiring keynote, an interactive session, and a concluding open discussion!
🔑 We thank once again our keynote speaker Silvio Peroni for reminding us why open science is so important, what's its current status and future forecasts, and what can we do to keep the infrastructures sustainable. It was a pleasure Silvio! 💐
🏆 We congratulate the winners of our OpenAIRE Graph award: Christoph Stade and Dexter Williams for their paper "Retraction without Traction: Towards Handling Post-publication Invalidation in Open Science Infrastructure"! Read the paper here: CEUR-WS Vol. 4291 paper 14.
👏 Thank you to all our amazing speakers for your great presentations!
💐 We would like to thank our wonderful Program Committee members for creating this event with us and making sure that the accepted submissions are high quality!
👀 Important online spaces to check out:
➡️ Sci-K website
➡️ Sci-K proceedings [CEUR-WS Vol. 4291]
➡️ Sci-K Zenodo community [presentations, in progress]
➡️ Sci-K in nanopublications
Upcoming: January Colloquium with Gabriele Gramelsberger
Make sure to save the date for our upcoming Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Digitalisation of Research with Gabriele Gramelsberger, RWTH Aachen, on 14 January at 11:00!