HUMAINT is an interdisciplinary project led by Emilia Gómez within the JRC's Centre for Advanced Studies aiming to understand the impact of machine intelligence on human behaviour, with a focus on cognitive capabilities and decision making.

The project involves a community of experts in cognitive science, machine learning, human-computer interaction and economy. The kick-off workshop, held on March 5-6 at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, had the mission to:

1. Build an interdisciplinary roadmap on human vs machine intelligence, potential algorithm’s impact on human cognitive capabilities and decision making, and evaluation and regulation needs. It would include: Short state of the art and pointers to main literature. Identify future research challenges to be addressed in the next future. Discuss and reach a consensus on practical way to address these challenges.
2. Build a community of researchers for the HUMAINT project to collaborate with.
3. Explore research synergies and expression of interests for collaboration between JRC and external researchers.

In addition to the leadership of the project by Emilia Gómez, several members of DTIC took part in the kick-off workshop: Carlos Castillo (Social Computing and Web Mining), Gustavo Deco (Computational Neuroscience), Miguel Ángel González Ballester (Medical Technologies), Perfecto Herrera (Music Information Retrieval and Cognition), Anders Jonsson (Artificial Intelligence), Sergi Jordà (Human-Computer Interaction), Rubén Moreno (Computational Neuroscience), Xavier Serra (Sound and Music Computing), as well as former alumni (Joan Serrà, Associate Researcher at Telefònica; Fabien Girardin, co-CEO BBVA Data & Analytics; Fabien Gouyon, Principal Scientist at Pandora)

Other ways to keep up-to-date of its progress and contribute:

• Join the community web page, where HUMAINT will maintain a  workshop webpage  and publish some relevant news to the project. If you create an ECAS password and login, you can also comment and contribute to the community page.
• HUMAINT has created a public Mendeley  library to gather all scientific references and press contributions that are being collecting as a result of the workshops run by the project. It is linked from the web page in the "links" section.