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TCSN Newsletter –Issue Four– June 2020: ADDRESSING TRUST IN ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS

How to deal with misinformation? The Blockchain technology and the Peer-to-Peer communication are allied to address the challenge of
information verification in social media under the implementation of a decentralized  architecture of the EUNOMIA project.

EUNOMIA’s team latest publication on Cutter Business Technology Journal is trying to provide answers on how technology can be used to support our research for trustful information. Can we trust a stranger? So many posts, who can we trust?

CONSERT (Computer Networks & Services Research Laboratory) of the University of West Attica, and ATHENA (Agile Technologies for High-performance Electromagnetic Novel Applications) of Georgia Institute of Technology, signed an MoA in May 2020.

March/April issue of IEEE IT Pro magazine is dedicated to the fight against Digital Deception: Cyber Fraud and Online Misinformation. At a time where the role of internet in our lives has been upgraded, the fight against misinformation and fraud is becoming more important. The new issue, co-edited by CONSERT’s lab director Prof. Patrikakis comes to address this issue. You can read the issue here.

On the occasion of the first birthday of the Lab in April 2020, we are releasing, through the App Store, our first application. Τhis app can be used for people not familiar with the use of technology, for sending a distress signal to a familiar person without the need of using their phone, during common difficult situations.

The new issue of IEEE IT Professional Magazine for Jan/Feb 2020 is available, co-edited by San Murugesan and Charalampos Patrikakis, on envisioning our Future World. Interesting articles by experts, on our ICT empowered future are included, and among them one on future professions, written by the editors.

New Technologies are claimed to be a very significant educational tool. The educational process becomes more pleasant and accessible for the students using them. In recent years, a very innovative and perpetually emerging technology,known as “Augmented Reality”, has made its steps vivid in the educational domain. This particular article is based on a case study of a group of Primary School students in Greece, aiming at creating an Augmented Reality book, enriched with an English digital story.

Recognizing the importance of the corresponding potential benefits to teaching and learning, this special issue of IT Professional is seeking submissions on the way information and communication technologies (ICT) can be used for supporting the next generation of education, and how education on emerging ICT can be offered in a connected, multicultural, and multi-dimensional world.

On Wed, 15 January 2020, 12:00 – 14:30 EET, at the premises of the University of West Attica (CONSERT main lab  – Room ZB109/Buildng Z), Dr. Simon Winberg, University of Cape Town, South Africa, visiting UniWA under ERASMUS+ICM will present α “Workshop on Radar and Computer Vision Fusion for Failsafe Design in UAVs”. Participation is free, but due to limited availability of seats, registration is required. Click here to reserve your seat.

On Feb 21 (14:30), at the Museum of Acropolis, the director of CONSERT will give a presentation titled “Reversing the roles: Animating cultural heritage objects, and humans as sensors”, on  two ideas for serving the needs of a fully interactive and participatory visitor’s experience, and in particular a) the use of smart assistants (chatbots) enabled by Machine Learning algorithms, and b) the use of crowdsensing to protect cultural heritage sites.