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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.

At the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, within the Centre for Social Informatics, we participated in a two-year European project 'Platforms, Experts, Tools: Specialised Cyber-Activists Network' (sCAN), with the main purpose to gather valuable experiences and expertise, tools and methodology concerning cyber hate, as well as to develop comprehensive practices of hatred identification, reporting and action against hate speech online.

In line with the “new normality”, also the COOP4HEALTHCARE team (Interreg SI-AT project) had to adapt it’s final activities. The final event of the project, of which the research team of the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Informatics is part of, took place in the digital realm, with the use of collaborative online technologies.

Sakari Taipale, PhD, member of Centre for Social Informatics, published an article Exploring heterogeneous ICT use among older adults: The warm experts’ perspective” in Sage New Media & Society journal.

When comparing social science phenomena through a time perspective, absolute and relative difference are the two typical presentation formats used to communicate interpretations to the audience, while time distance is the least frequently used of such formats. The article of Dr. Katja Prevodnik and Prof. Dr. Vasja Vehovar addresses the issue of basic comparative measures and argues that the chosen presentation format is extremely important because the various formats suggest different substantive interpretations.

In December 2019, the fieldwork in a large-scale intervention study at the Health Centre Trebnje was successfully completed. The intervention is part of the applied project “Understanding and analysis of users' needs for the development of e-services for integrated social and health care in the aging society”.