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Research team of the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Informatics (UL FSS CSI) has launched a new basic research project The implications of proxy internet use (PIU) for the internet skills of older adults. The project launched on 1st September 2020 and will last for three years. The project is funded by the Slovenian Research Agency.

We invite you to the "Web Survey Day 2020", which will take place on Wednesday, September 30, 2020, 9.00 -12.30, via the ZOOM platform. The event is organized by the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Center for Social Informatics (CSI) and is intended for professional public online surveys’ users and 1KA users.

The Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) is organizing 9th Web Survey Day (WSD) on 30 September 2020. The event is intended for professional public of online surveys’ users and 1KA users.

Vasja Vehovar, PhD, member of the Centre for Social Informatics, published an article together with Blaž Povž, Darja Fišer, PhD, Nikola Ljubešić, PhD, Ajda Šulc, Dejan Jontes, PhD. The article was published in Teorija in praksa and deals with the socially unacceptable discourse on Facebook news portals.

The fourth bilateral meeting was organized in virtual form on July 1, 2020. The meeting was attended by members of the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) and the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research (SNI), Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.

Dr. Darja Grošelj and dr. Andraž Petrovčič, members of the Centre for Social Informatics, FDV UL, published an article entitled Going online on behalf of someone else: Characteristics of Internet users who act as proxy users in co-authorship with dr. Bianca C. Reisdorf from University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

Due to the growing number of users, the installation of 1KA online survey tool changed its operation conditions on the www.1ka.si domain. ArnesAAI users still have unlimited access, also basic functionalities are free of charge, but from 1.7.2020 the advanced functionalities are payable.

Sakari Taipale, PhD, from University of Jyväskylä and memeber of centre for Social Informatics, published an article in Information & Management journal. The authors of the article “Robot acceptance model for care (RAM-care): A principled approach to the intention to use care robots«propose »a model that adds a principled approach to the intention to use care robots.

Sakari Taipale, PhD, member of Centre for Social Informatics, published an article »Care Workers’ Readiness for Robotization: Identifying Psychological and Socio-Demographic Determinants« in International Journal of Social Robotics. Authors of the article identified “psychological and socio-demographic determinants associated with readiness for robotization among professional Finnish care-workers.

In November 2019, the Smart Living Forum 2019 took place in Villach, Austria. In May 2020, the proceedings of the event have been published, including the results of two intervention studies by members of Center for Social Informatics.