Associate Professor @ University of Primorska, Koper, user modeling, affective computing, recommender systems

Koper, Slovenia
Joined April 2011
ACM #RecSys2027 is officially announced: August 23–27, 2027 in Hawaii. Website is up recsys.acm.org/recsys27/, logo done, and my take on it here: recommender-systems.com/news… #recsys27
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Zaživel je PARTOS, moj tribute računalniku, na katerem sem se na Srednji računalniški šoli v Ljubljani učil programirati in inženirjem Iskre Delte, ki so v skoraj nemogočih razmerah z neskončnim entuziazmom in ljubeznijo do računalništva uspeli narediti prvi slovenski osebni računalnik, čeprav tako poln konstrukcijskih napak kot Yugo. PARTOS je operacijski sistem za Iskra Delto Partner. Sestavljen je iz treh delov: - ROM, - jedro (kernel) in - operacijskegi sistema (OS). Za razliko od originalnega Partnerja, ROM deluje na vseh modelih Partnerja in vsebuje BIOS nastavitveni program, s katerimi lahko prilagodite konfiguracijo svojih naprav. Tega sicer nikoli nihče ni naredil, toda partnerjev vmesnik omogoče priključevanje različnih naprav, npr. 3.5" diskov. Jedro in OS se naložita s floppy diska ali trdega diska. Format zapisa ni več CP/M, ampak FAT12 in FAT16. Z ustreznimi napravami zna brati DOS, Atari ST in druge diskete. Pod površjem je PARTOS pravi večopravilni operacijski sistem s procesi, nitmi (threads), sistemskimi klici, dogodki, locks, upraviteljem pomnilnika in podporo za obe pomnilniški banki, sistemskimi objekti, upravljalcem prekinitev ter gonilniki naprav. S pomočjo povezovalnike xld lahko z xcc ali s SDCC za PARTOS pišete prenaslovljive programe. Na voljo je standardna C knjižnica, piše pa se okensko okolje zanj. PARTOS teče na emulatorju idp-emu z integrirano podporo za razhroščevalnik C in Z80 kode.
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Moderated the ISFMF 2026 panel on AI and the future of film, gaming, and media arts. Excellent discussion with Mark Ulano, James Mather, Laia Casanovas, and Alex Serdiuk on authorship, synthetic voices, and emotional authenticity in AI-assisted media.
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Two postdoc position in CS famnit.upr.si/en/news/2-post… Applications are centralized - want to work with me? Say so in your application. I’m interested in user modelling grounded in cognition, affect & experience — beyond surface behaviour. DL: March 31, 2026
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Because so many people mentioned this. Here is the problem(s) with Grokipedia as it stands, and also just copying Wikipedia: 1) There is no way to know if Grok has changed something subtle, or it's 100% verbatim. There is no message to that effect. Saying "Fact checked by Grok 2 days ago" is the encyclopedic equivalent of "trust me bro". Bottom of the page says "The content is adapted from Wikipedia". HOW "adapted" is it? Is it a 100% copy? 99%, 90%? What's changed and how? 2) Grokipedia ends up as a mix of copying Wikipedia and completely rewriting everything. It's like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get. 3) Grokipedia seems to leave out images. 4) Grokipedia provides zero traceability to changes. This is the huge benefit of Wikipedia. 5) How does someone change Grokipedia if they detect an error or want to add something. Yeah yeah, "that's the point" you say, it stops bad actors from getting their hands on it. Well, it also stops good actors from contributing, which, if you aren't talking about anything sociopolitical, that's a bad thing. Does Wikipedia still remain the main source of human change until Grok crawls it again? Or will Grok independently just update it as it find new references itself? 6) This could be an early issue, but should be noted: some 100% copied pages have references (see "Transistor"), whilst others do not have any references (see "Miller Effect").
Replying to @eevblog
I'm not seeing a problem unless the information is incorrect
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Computer Science is not science, and it's not about computers. Got reminded about this gem from MIT the other day
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Kicking off our #SIGIR2025 tutorial on Psychological aspects in IR and RS w Elisabeth Lex and @m_schedl
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Thank you guys. From the bottom of my heart 😘 🙌🏻 @rogerfederer @DjokerNole @andy_murray
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People often claim there are "2 types of people". For this to be true for ANY continuously varying trait, you'd need there to be a bimodal distribution - basically, two separated bumps in the data. Some people claim this is incredibly rare. But is it? We investigated: 🧵
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Corporate suicide? Synology requires self-branded drives for some consumer NAS systems, drops full functionality and support for third-party HDDs tomshardware.com/pc-componen…
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All in favor, say aye. #NewYorkerCartoons 🖋️ Sam Lau, from 2023 Sign up to get New Yorker cartoons right in your inbox: newyorker.com/newsletter/hum…
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Without a doubt, the greatest unexpected plot twist in the history of internet wars has just dropped: youtube.com/watch?v=qFe5LiAC…
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lol who did this
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Today is the day! Abstracts for Full Papers for #RecSys2025 are due today by the end of the day (AoE). #MarcoDeGemmis & I look forward to your contributions! recsys.acm.org/recsys25/call… @ACMRecSys – at Delft, Nederland
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"Text-to-Image Generation for Vocabulary Learning Using the Keyword Method" by @Nu1_Rt at ACM #IUI2025 doi.org/10.1145/3708359.3712… Co-authors: @_mkljun_, Aaron Quigley, @_klen_, @armob, Verena Biener, @luileito, Juri Yoneyama, Alice Toniolo, Angie Miguel, Hirokazu Kato & @AuVoidsky
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Best Paper Award at ACM #IUI2025🎉 'Text-to-Image Generation for Vocabulary Learning Using the Keyword Method' doi.org/10.1145/3708359.3712… co-auth: @Nu1_Rt @_mkljun_ Aaron Quigley @_klen_ @armob Verena Biener @luileito Juri Yoneyama Alice Toniolo Angie Miguel Hirokazu Kato @AuVoidsky
"Text-to-Image Generation for Vocabulary Learning Using the Keyword Method" by @Nu1_Rt at ACM #IUI2025 doi.org/10.1145/3708359.3712… Co-authors: @_mkljun_, Aaron Quigley, @_klen_, @armob, Verena Biener, @luileito, Juri Yoneyama, Alice Toniolo, Angie Miguel, Hirokazu Kato & @AuVoidsky
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Congrats to my colleagues from @hicuplab #iui2025
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Very proud of this work led by @r_ungruh in collab w/ @tudelft MS student, that just got accepted for @ACM_TORS special issue on #RecSys for Good, focused on understanding #children potential exposure to #stereotypes as a result of their interactions with recommender systems
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I attended Trump’s inauguration yesterday. Here are my thoughts:
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