Our 29th Annual Conference was held at the historic Hotel Slon in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It was hosted by Dusica Boben and her team at Center za Psihodiagnosticna Sredstva D.O.O. 40 delegates and five speakers attended.
Speakers included:
Dr Jure Zabkar: Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Practice; The AI Lab at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, has a long track of research and applications in the clinical area, from prof. Bratko’s qualitative model of the heart (KARDIO) model to recent research into Dyslexia. The talk focused on the ongoing student project aiming to detect the first signs of dyslexia among elementary school children.
Mag. David Gosar: Promises and Challenges of Big Data in Clinical Psychology: Tackling or Hope the Complexity of Mental Health using Machine Learning and Networks: Using supervised machine learning algorithms, researchers are currently using large datasets with known predictors and outcomes to learn complex rules by which patient outcomes can best predicted. But there are significant challenges for AI.
Dr Maja Zupancic: Personality from Childhood through Emerging Adulthood: State-of-the-Art, Implications and Future Research Projects. Dr Zupancic focused on the trait approach and provided an insight into a common five-factor taxonomy of traits over the pre-adult years, which is based on an integration of developmental (i.e. temperament) and personality psychology tradition.
Dr Zvezdan Pirtosek: Consciousness in Humans and Beyond: what is it and can we measure it? Recent work of the University of Milan group based on Tononi’s integration information theory offers an interesting and promising way to assess and measure consciousness in humans and beyond.
Dr Rachel Tribe: Refugees and Psychology: The accelerating Change: Dr Tribe looked at some of the major differences between an immigrant and a refugee and some of the implications that this may have for psychological practice including psychometric testing.
Dragos Iliescu outlined The ITC Guidelines for the Large-Scale Assessment of Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Populations.
In addition, the conference discussed possible new member applications; relations with external bodies such as EFPA, ITC and the ISO; a possible full day session for members on AI and robotics in testing.
