About the conference

Detailed topics

• Ethical challenges in the use of information in education and research
• Transformative and adverse impacts of AI on the information environment
• Ethical aspects of the information design of systems, services, and products
• Information creativity and resilience in the context of AI tool use
• Designing information experiences and human adaptation to the information environment
• Designing informed learning
• Information infrastructures supporting scholarly communication through AI; publication ethics and AI-assisted digital publishing
• Redesigning concepts and models of information literacy and information behaviour in the context of AI; emerging trends in information science
• AI literacy: concepts, models, and methods; social and ethical dimensions
• AI in supporting information processes in the practice of information institutions
• Innovative methods in digital services and information ecosystems
• Disinformation, information pathologies, and AI
• Functions of AI in information science: generative AI (GAI) systems, large language models (LLMs), conversational systems, deep learning, and recommender systems
• AI and data management; the impact of AI on social media
• AI and the information design of services, products, and systems
• AI in supporting the ethics and creativity of students, doctoral researchers, teachers, and scholars
• AI in supporting the ethics and creativity of information professionals and librarians
• Transdisciplinary collaboration across academic disciplines and professions in information processing and creation using AI in information science
• Metaliteracy and AI; emerging literacies, including data literacy and transformative AI literacy

Organized by the Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University Bratislava, as part of the KEGA project KEPUP 068UK-4/2025.

Objectives

Presentation of research findings; discussion of current issues in theory and practice; presentations of doctoral research projects; discussion of methodological challenges in information science; and a doctoral methodological seminar.

Content

Research papers; projects by doctoral researchers, scholars, and computer scientists; and presentations by information professionals, covering cognitive science, social informatics, media communication, and AI.

Target audience

Researchers, doctoral students, computer scientists, information and library professionals, and managers of libraries and information institutions.

Organizer

Department of Library and Information Science
of Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava
Gondova 2,
811 02 Bratislava, Slovakia
http://fphil.uniba.sk/kkiv/

Other info

The participation is free of charge.

Conference language is Slovak, Czech and English.

We can arrange for the accommodation and travel for participants, however we are not able to fund the costs of the stay of participants.

Partners

• svop.sk
• aib.sk
• itlib.cvtisr.sk