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Claudia Roda

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Claudia Roda

Professor, Program Director, MSc in Human Rights and Data Science

  • Department: Computer Science, Math and Environmental Science
  • Complementary Department(s): Communication, Media and Culture
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Claudia Roda is Professor of Computer Science, Director of theĚý,Ěýand the co-founder of the Technology and Cognition Lab and the Working Group on Human Rights and Digital Technology at The American University of Paris.ĚýShe holds theĚýUNESCO Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Human RightsĚýwith Prof. Perry, and serves on the Research Advisory Board of theĚý.

Professor Roda’s research, which has been widely published and sponsored by several organizations including the European Commission and the Andrew Mellon Foundation, focuses on the impact of digital technology on human behaviour and social structure. Professor Roda has explored theoretical and applied models for attention computing and her current research evolves from her earlier work on the design, implementation, and validation of multi-agent systems supporting cognitive and social processes for learning and collaboration.

After a bachelor degree in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, she obtained a Master and PhDĚýin EngineeringĚýfrom the University of LondonĚý(Queen Mary and Westfield College), where she also worked at the first EU-sponsored research project on multi-agent systems. She continued her research in this field as a Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD in the Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies. In 1997 she joined the AUP where she teaches courses in programming languages, human-computer interaction, and human rights and digital technology. She was Director of the Division of Arts and Science from 2008 to 2011, Director of the collaboration between The American University of Paris and The New School (NY, USA) from 2010 to 2013, and Dean from 2015 to 2018.

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Education/Degrees

  • BS, UniversitĂ  di Pisa, Italy
  • MS, PhD, University of London, UK

News

  • Invited speaker:ĚýAI competencies for human rights protection: Empowering (digital) citizensĚý-Ěý, 2-5 September 2024 Paris
  • Panelist: Nations United? , organized by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. 4-5 June 2024, Brussels
  • Panelist: Tackling bias and championing inclusion at , organized by Expertise France and the Agence française de dĂ©veloppement (AFD). Paris, March 26, 2024
  • Panelist: AI for Good: Fantasy or Reality? at the conference on , organized by the Agence française de dĂ©veloppement (AFD). Paris, January 30, 2024 ()

Publications

Books

Human-Rights-in-Digital-Technology.jpgDoyle, W., Roda C. (2019).Ěý. Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Human-Rights-in-Digital-Technology.jpgPerry, S., Roda C. (2017). Human Rights and Digital Technology: Digital Tightrope. Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Human attention in a digital environment coverRoda C. (2011). Human Attention in Digital Environments. Cambridge University Press

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Attention aware systems coverRoda C. and Thomas J. (2006). Special issue on Attention Aware Systems. Computers in Human Behavior. Volume 22, Issue 4

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2024
  • Roda, C., Kung, A., Tsormpatzoudi, P., , IAPP News, April 3 2024 (online).
  • Roda, C., , IAPP News, July 3 2024 (online).
2023
  • Roda, C., Stone, R., Kung, A. (forthcoming) Standardization for high impact technologies: why citizens should care in Ljubiša Bojić, Jörg Matthes, Damian Trilling, Simona Ĺ˝ikić (editors) Emerging Technologies & Society: A Multidisciplinary Outlook.
2021
  • Roda, C., Perry S. (2021). , Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 13, Issue 3, November 2021, Pages 690–702
2020
  • Roda, C. “Are We at the Helm?” Contemporary French & Francophone Studies. Anne-Marie Picard and Roger CĂ©lestin (Ed.) Special Issue The Google Era? /L’ère Google? forthcoming (2020). 2019
2019
  • Roda, C. “Are We at the Helm?” Contemporary French & Francophone Studies. Anne-Marie Picard and Roger CĂ©lestin (Eds.) Special Issue The Google Era? /L’ère Google? 23 (4): 425–30.
2015
  • Perry, S., Roda C. (2015). Valuing Privacy through Privacy by Design. In proceedings Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2015
2014
  • Roda C. (2014). Économiser l’attention dans l’interaction homme-machine. In Yves Citton (Ed) "L'Ă©conomie de l'attention : Nouvel horizon du capitalisme?" La DĂ©couverte, Paris p. 179 -
  • Perry, S., Roda, C. Teaching Privacy by Design to Non-Technical Audiences. Cyber Security and Privacy (CSP) Forum 2014. Springer CCIS series, forthcoming
  • Roda, C., Perry, S. (2014) . Environmental Science and Policy 37(2014) 204-214 -
  • Roda C., Orozco F. (2014) Privacy and unintended consequences of online narrative Narrative Matters: Narrative Knowing / RĂ©cit et savoir; 23 to 27 June 2014 - University Paris Diderot, France
  • Roda C. (2014) What’s mine in my images? A tour of the use and misuse of photographic images online “Image not Available”: Networked Visuality and Its Limits, International conference; 10 May 2014 Paris
2013
  • Perry S., Roda C. (2013) Conceptualizing and Contextualizing the Changing Nature of Internet Usage in China. China and the New Internet World: The Eleventh Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC11) - Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, 15th June 2013
  • Roda C., Stojanov G., Kianfar D. (2013) Effects of Task Switching on Creativity Tests. Proceedings AAAI Spring Symposium 2013: Creativity and (Early) Cognitive Development. Stanford University, Stanford, California []
  • Lee H., Young T., Roda C. (2013) E-Books Usability: Reading Time and Comprehension (Abstract). The Tablet Symposium: Examining New Media Objects - University of Sussex, 10th April 2013 []
2012
  • Molenaar I., Roda C., van Boxtel C., Sleegers P. (2012) . Computers & Education 59 (2012) 515–523
2011
  • Roda, C. Ed.(2011), . Cambridge University Press. 30th best seller academic book on the – Baker & Taylor. 6th best seller in Computer Science in the
  • Molenaar, I., Roda C. (2011) Attention management for dynamic and adaptive scaffolding (re-print of 2008 article) in Itiel E. Dror editor - - Benjamins. pp. 51–96
2010
  • Roda, C. (2010). New Ideas in Psychology, Volume 28, Issue 3, December 2010, Pages 354-364 Elsevier []
  • Mann, S., Muller, L., Davis, J., Roda C., Young, A. (2010) inroads - SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 41, Number 4, January 2010, pp.144-155 []
2008
  • Molenaar, I., Roda C. (2008) 16(2) - Technology & Cognition series, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 225–271 []
  • Roda, C., & Nabeth, T. (2008). . In A. Bounfour (Ed.), Organisational capital: Modelling, measuring, contextualising: Routledge - advanced research series in management, pp. 214-233
2007
  • Roda, C., & Nabeth, T. (2007) . Proceedings Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (). 17-20 September 2007, Crete, Greece
  • Roda, C. and M. Zajicek. in AMUCE 2007 Workshop; Ubicomp 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. 2007. Innsbruck, Austria.
  • Damien Clauzel, Claudia Roda, Laurent Ach, and Benoit Morel (2007) . Proceedings IVA2007 7th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (Poster section). 17th - 19th September 2007, Paris France, pp. 369-370
  • Laukkanen, J., Roda, C., & Molenaar, I. (2007) . Proceedings of the Workshop on Contextualized Attention Metadata: personalized access to digital resources CAMA 2007 at the ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 17-23, 2007 – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Roda, C. (2007). Supporting attention with dynamic user models (). Proceedings Interactivist Summer Institute 2007, Paris, May 26-29, 2007
2006
  • Roda, C., & Nabeth, T. (2006) . Proceedings JournĂ©e de recherche de l’AIM (Association Information et Management) « Innovation et Systèmes d’Information » October 6 2006
  • Roda, C., Stojanov, G., & Clauzel, D. (2006).. Proceedings AAAI 2006 Fall Symposium on Interaction and Emergent Phenomena in Societies of Agents, Arlington, Virginia, pp. 52-59.
  • Roda, C., & Nabeth, T. (2006). . Proceedings First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning , 1-4 October 2006, Crete, Greece. pp. 685 - 690. Springer LNCS 4227.
  • Clauzel, D., Roda, C., & Stojanov, G. (2006). . Proceedings of the HCI 2006 workshop on computer assisted recording, pre-processing, and analysis of user interaction data. London, UK. 12.9.2006, pp.43-54.
  • Nabeth, T., C. Roda (2006). Les espaces sociaux virtuels: approches, pratiques Ă©mergentes et perspectives. Invited chapter in the book Capital ImmatĂ©riel, Connaissance et Performance, Ahmed Bounfour Editor, L'Harmattan. pp. 225-265
  • Roda, C., & Thomas, J. (2006). . Computers in Human Behavior, 22(4) p.557-587, Elsevier.
  • Roda, C. and J. Thomas (2006) . Special Issue of the journal Computers in Human Beaviour, 22(4) p. 555-556, Elsevier.
2005
  • Roda, C., Nabeth, T. (2005) IADIS International Conference CELDA (Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age) Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 148 - 155.
  • Nabeth, T., Razmerita, L., Angehrn, A., & Roda, C. (2005), Computer Science and Information Systems, COMSIS Publisher, Volume 2 Issue 2 (December 2005), pp. 99 - 114.
  • Nabeth, T., Angehrn , A., Mittal P.K., Roda, C. (2005) Proceedings IADIS International Conference CELDA (Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age), Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 391 - 394
  • Roda, C., & Thomas, J. (2005). . In C. Ghaoui (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of HCI. (pp. 38-44). IDEA Group.
  • Roda, C., Borel, A. M., Gentchev E., Thomas, J. (2005) . OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives, v. 21, no. 4, pp. 264 - 284
  • Gentchev, E., Roda, C. (2005). International Scientific Congress on Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and Marine Industry. MEEMI, 2005, Varna Bulgaria.
  • Thomas, J., & Roda, C. (2005). . In C. Ghaoui (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of HCI, (pp. 686-691). IDEA Group.
2004
  • Roda, C. (2004). . Proceedings IADIS International Conference CELDA (Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age), Lisbon, Portugal. 366-372
  • Razmerita, L., Angehrn, A., Nabeth, T., & Roda, C. (2004).. Proceedings IADIS International Conference CELDA (Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age), Lisbon, Portugal. 373-38.
  • Roda, C., & Thomas, J. (2004). . Proceedings HCI2004 Designing for Life - 18th British HCI group Annual Conference, Leeds, UK. Vol. 2 249-250
2003
  • C. Roda, J. Thomas (2003) ""; Proceedings International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies 2003; pp.399 - 402, Computer Science Press, Trinity College Dublin Ireland.
  • C. Roda, A. Angehrn, T. Nabeth, L. Razmerita (2003) "" Interacting with Computers 15(1), 2003, pp. 57-89, Elsevier.
  • T. Nabeth, A. Angehrn, C. Roda (2003) "Systèmes d'Information et Management, 2(8), 2003.
2002
  • T. Nabeth, A. Angehrn, C. Roda (2002) ; Proceedings: E-2002 e-Business and e-Work Annual Conference, Prague; Prague, Czech Republic 2000
  • T. Nabeth, and C. Roda (2002); Institute for Prospective Technological Studies Report; Special issue on Identity & Privacy September 2002
  • P. Damaskopoulos, C. Roda, K. Nicolopoulou (2002) "" Proc. 5 th World Congress on Intellectual Capital – January 16 – 18, 2002 – Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
2001
  • C. Roda, A. Angehrn, T. Nabeth (2001) "" Proc. 7th International Netties Conference, September 2001, Fribourg, Switzerland, pp. 931 - 938.
  • A. Angehrn, T. Nabeth, L. Razmerita, C. Roda (2001) Presentation of the Proc. IHM-HCI 2001 Conference, September 2001, Lille France, pp. 256 - 260.
  • A. Angehrn, T. Nabeth, L. Razmerita, C. Roda (2001) "" Proc. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2001), August 2001, Madison USA, pp.225-226.
  • C. Roda "" (2001) 4th Workshop on effective training and education in HCI", April 2001, Edinburgh
2000 and earlier
  • C.Roda "" in Proc. 4th World Multiconference on Systemic, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2000) and 6th International Conference of Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS 2000) - Special session on Cooperative and Distant learning. July 2000, Orlando Florida Vol.1 pp.505-509
  • C. Roda "" in The Knowledge Engineering Review 14(2), pp.181-185 Cambridge University Press 1999
  • T. Wittig Editor "Archon, an architecture for multi-agent systems" Ellis Horwood Series in Artificial Intelligence 1992. (Contributor)
  • C. Roda, N.Jennings, E.H. Mamdani. "" (postscipt) Proc. AAAI Workshop on Cooperation Among Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems, Anaheim, CA, July 1991.
  • C. Roda et. Al."The Cooperation Framework of ESPRIT Project ARCHON", Proc. Fourth RACE TMN Conference, Dublin, Ireland, November 1990. pp. 144-153
  • C. Roda, N. Jennings, E.H. Mamdani, "A Cooperation Framework for Industrial Process Control", in Cooperating Knowledge Based Systems 1990, S.M. Deen Editor. Springer Verlag Publ, London 1991.pp. 95-109
  • F. Mariani, C. Roda, G. Valeriani, "Integrazione di Basi di Conoscenza e di Dati in Ambito Fianziario" (Knowledge Base and Data Base Integration in a Financial System), Sistemi & Impresa, Este Publ, Milano, N.312, May 1990. pp. 562-566.
  • F. Mariani, F. Pianesi, C. Roda, G. Valeriani, "CR.E.S. Credit Granting Expert System: un Sistema Esperto per la Consulenza Al Credito" (CR.E.S. Credit Granting Expert System: an Expert System Adviser for Credit Granting), Proc Third National Congress on Logic Programming, Italy,.1988.
  • C. Roda, "Scienze dell' Informazione e scuola dell'obbligo" (Computer Science in Primary Schools), Insieme, Italy, N.5/6, 1984
  • C. Roda, "Inserimento dell' Informatica nella Scuola" (Using Computer Science in Primary Schools), Part 1: Insieme N.1/2, Part 2: "Insieme" N.3/4, Italy, 1984
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Conferences & Lectures

  • Panelist: Nations United? Global AI Governance Initiatives at conference, organized by the . 4-5 June 2024, Brussels
  • Panelist: Tackling bias and championing inclusion at , organized by and the (AFD). Paris, March 26, 2024
  • Panelist: AIĚýfor Good: Fantasy or Reality? at the conference on , organized by the (AFD). Paris, January 30, 2024 ()
  • Invited speaker: The discrete and lucrative charm of attention technologies, 15ème colloque 2023, November 10 2023 ()
  • TEDxLaPosteBSCC Matière(s), talk onĚýAttention, numĂ©rique, et dĂ©matĂ©rialisation. 1.4.2019
  • Roda Claudia, Natalie Heisler, and Nicole Santiago. “Submission to the UN Human Rights Business and Human Rights in Technology Project (B-Tech). Comments on Draft Scoping Paper for Consultation on Applying the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to Digital Technologies,” 2019.
  • Roda Claudia, Susan Perry, Nicole Santiago, and Annika Johnson. Submission to the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council. Comments on New and Emerging Digital Technologies and Human Rights. October 2019
  • Closing lecture: Digital tightrope: Use and abuse of perceptual technologies - Scientific meeting onĚýĚýat theĚý, San Raffaele 1.6.2017
  • Panelist:ĚýL’attention humaine face au numĂ©riqueĚý– Digital Society Forum, Orange; July 1 2015
  • Seminar:ĚýA roadmap of attention studiesĚý- Invited seminar at:ĚýĚý- Institut des sciences de la communication du CNRS, Paris France May 11 2015
  • Panelist:ĚýPrivacy-by-design to Privacy-by-OperationĚý-Ěý, Brussels 28-29 April 2015
  • Seminar:ĚýĚý- Institut de recherche et d’innovation Centre Pompidou and Biennale internationale de design de Saint-Etienne 24 March 2015
  • Lecture:ĚýPrivacy MotivationĚý–ĚýĚý9-10 March 2015, Ulm University, Germany
  • Interview:ĚýĚý()Ěý26.11.2015
  • OnĚý: aboutĚýinterruptionsĚý- Jan 2015
  • Panelist:ĚýPrivacy in Computer Science EducationĚý–ĚýĚý()
  • Privacy-by-design Issues: Supply Chain, Multiple Jurisdictions, Training (PRIPARE ) Requirements for training materialĚý-Ěý, (CSP FORUM) ATHENS: 21-22 May 2014
  • The role of attention in human computer interactionĚý– Invited seminar at theĚýĚýInstitut de Psychologie Henri PiĂ©ron - UniversitĂ© Paris Descartes, February 4th 2014
  • L’attention dans l’interaction homme-machine : de quelle attention parlonsnous, au juste ?ĚýĚý– colloque international (International Symposium on The attention economy at the crossroads of disciplines) UniversitĂ© Stendhal-Grenoble 3-4 octobre 2013
  • Online rights: analysing user expectations across bordersĚýat theĚý. Centre Pompidou, Paris, April 30 2013
  • Ěý–ĚýAttentive ComputingĚý– June 2012
  • Ěý- General Comment onĚýthe Rights of the Child and the Business Sector. With S. Perry and K. Carlson, August 2012
  • :ĚýEducation and PrivacyĚý– February 10th 2011
  • Attention based scaffolding in technology enhanced learning environmentsĚýSymposium on Computerized scaffolding of Self-Regulated Learning: Interdisciplinary Advances - University of Amsterdam (UvA) November 25th 2011
  • Cognitive science informing the design of attention aware social systemsĚý(with Thierry Nabeth) Workshop on “Management and Governance of Online Communities” 27 May 2010, Paris Organized by Pierre-Jean Benghozi Orange’s Chair Innovation and regulation in digital services of the Ecole Polytechnique, and TĂ©lĂ©com ParisTech
  • Ěýin connection with a feature on “Smartphones: Changing the way we communicate” - December 23rd 2008
  • Attentive Agents for Collaborative learningĚý- Cost B27 meeting 2006, Skopje Macedonia. April 2006
  • Learning and AttentionĚýat ICT 2006, Helsinki Finland - Networking session on "Learning and Cognition in Human and Machines". November 2006
  • Regular reviewer forĚýĚý(since 2004).

Affiliations

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Awards, Fellowships and Grants

AUP Awards

  • 2007 - Board of Trustee Award for Outstanding Research and Publications
  • 2021 – Provost Award for Innovation in Interdisciplinary Study
  • 2023 – Graduate Student Government Association Award for Excellent Faculty

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Grants

  • Project collaborator:Ěý; supported by the Academy of Finland with a grant of €781K - 2015-2018 ()
  • Partner leader: project “: PReparing Industry to Privacy-by-design by supporting its Application in Research” CSA-SA FP7, €1.1M 2013-2015 () ()
  • Principal Investigator: “Interacting with ebook readers in academic environments” Amical Small Grant – “Transformative Improvement” objective. €1500 Sept-Dec 2012 ()
  • Principal Investigator (with Stefania de Kennessey, Dean Eugene Lang College, The New School, NY) for theĚýĚýsupported by a grant of $700K by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2010 – 2012 ()
  • Project participant: “XPERO” supported by a grant of €1.5M by the European Community FP6 Information Society Technology (IST) Programme, contract No. 29427. 2006-2009 () ()
  • Partner leader: project “AtGentive: Attentive Agents for Collaborative Learners”, supported by a grant of €1.6M by the European Community FP6 Information Society Technology (IST) Programme, Contract No. 27529. 2005-2007 () ()
  • Principal Investigator: “Cultural conditioning and multi-cultural experience as mediators in the perception of digital media” sponsored by the AUP-lab 2006-2007 ()
  • Principal Investigator: Mellon Faculty Pedagogical Seminar grant for the organization of a seminar on Future Technologies for Teaching and Learning Spring 2004
  • Project participant: INSEAD – Center for Advanced Learning Technology (CALT)- XEROX projectĚý: Knowledge Management Intelligent Conversational Agents. 2000-2002 ()
  • Leader work-package on multi-agent communication: ESPRIT projectĚýĚý(Distributed Artificial Intelligence applied to Process Control Systems) P-2256. 1989 - 1991 ()