Programme (Public Version)
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(With additional details to the presentations, like affiliation of authors, duration information, and a link to the paper the presentation bases on. There is also a link to the draft proceedings.)
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- Opening
- Keynote Friday Steven Furnell
- 1st Session Friday [ 1A 1B 1C ]
- Poster Session [ P ]
- 2nd Session Friday [ 2A 2B 2C ]
- Workshops Friday [ WS-1 WS-2 ]
- Conference Dinner
- Keynote Saturday Haithem Afli
- 1st Session Saturday [ 3A 3B 3C ]
- 2nd Session Saturday [ 4A 4B ]
- 3rd Session Saturday [ 5A 5B ]
- Closing Workshop Saturday
- Social Events Sunday
Day 1 – Friday
16. October 2026
Mayor of the City of Galway, Councillor Helen Ogbu
Dr Eoin Cullina, Head of Research, Galway and Mayo Campuses, ATU
Dr Gabriela Gliga, Conference Chair, ATU
Aware or Ignorant : In AI We Trust ?
AI is now part of daily life, but like many technologies it was adopted before its risks were fully understood. This talk looks at where our trust in AI may be misplaced, and at how AI has caused cybersecurity problems, through attackers' intent and by accident.
Moderator : Udo Bleimann
Room : Chapel
1A Business I : Technology Adoption, Work & Organisations
Chair : Ingo Stengel
Room : Chapel
Beyond Implementation: Employee Appropriation of Generative AI at Work
Eva McMorrow
Digital Supply Chain Innovation and Sustainability Performance in a Multi-Tier Food Supply Chain: Adoption, Diffusion and Uneven Outcomes
Johanne Harrold, Vicky O'Rourke, Aurora Dimache, Mara Sintejudeanu and George Onofrei
Technostress and the Psychological Impacts of Adopting Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Service Automation (RAISA): Evidence from the Irish Hotel Sector
Neeta Israni
Understanding IT Acceptance in the Voluntary Sector: A Quantitative Study
Simone Dogu
1B Mobility I : Cycling & Active Travel
Chair : Jochen Eckart
Room : 148
Visual Perception and Biomechanical Behavior in Urban Cycling: A Pilot Study in Germany
Martin Bejarano
Towards automated Bicycle Infrastructure Quality Assessment using Stereo Camera Imaging and Rider Dynamics
Felix Taubitz, Jiayao Qiu, Markus Stöckner and Christian Holldorb
From Crowdsourced Cycling Safety Data to Planning Decisions: A Framework for Structured Municipal Data Collection and Prioritisation
Catharina Lutz and Jochen Eckart
On-Demand Mobility Services in Rural Areas: Simulation Studies using Agent-Based Modelling
Alireza Salehi Tirabadi and Jan Riel
1C Data-Driven Analysis in Health & Environment
Chair : Muslim Jameel Syed
Room : 104
Data-driven analysis of marine heatwave impacts on coastal phytoplankton biodiversity using integrated observational datasets and
Garry Lohan and Felix Sproll
Interpretable and Deployable Time-To-Event Machine Learning on Kidney Transplant Registry Data
Lukas Klein, Gunter Grieser, Henrik Stahl and Antje Jahn-Eimermacher
Confound-Aware Gaze Feature Engineering for ASD Screening via Eye Tracking
Shreyansh Singh, Muslim Jameel Syed and Pratheepan Yagarajah
Modeling Single Nucleotide Polymorphism-(SNP)-Analysis Workflow to Explore Artificial-Intelligence-(AI)-driven Decision Support Opportunities in Medical Genomic Analysis
Johanna Pethke, Thomas Krause, Michael Kramer and Matthias Hemmje
Coffee shop, Wellpark campus
(during the Lunch Break)
2A Robotics & Intelligent Computing
Chair : Robert Loew
Room : 148
Designing a Multi-Agent System for Complex B2B Sales Processes: A Design Science Approach to AI-Assisted Tender Specification Processing in the Process Industry
Jan Buchholz, Johannes Lauer, Christoph Siegel and Carsten H. Hahn
Leveraging Construction Lasers as Digital Reference Infrastructure for Mobile Construction Robots
Leon Pfenning, Till Weist, Samanvitha Vadhoolas and Sven Rogalski
Event-Driven Orchestration for Reproducible AI Diagnostics
Thomas Krause, Philippe Tamla, Haitem Afli and Matthias Hemmje
Beyond Average Effects: Predicting Individual Benefit in Stroke Thrombectomy
Vahid Farmani, Helge Kniep, Mate E. Maros, Olga Lyashevska, Fiona Malone, Jens Fiehler and Liam Morris
Cascade versus End-to-End Speech Translation for Tonal African Languages: Error Analysis and Corpus Domain Effects
Philippe Tamla, Alex Nelson Ryan Abena, Ruth Stephie Darelle Bilogui Tiguena, Rooney Chuwa Foin, Weber Fotsing Kengne, Gladys Kouakam and Haithem Afli
2B Business II : AI, Society & Digital Innovation
Chair : Dhanushi Rodrigo
Room : Chapel
Decision-Making with Purpose: Sustainability Orientation and Digital Innovation in SMEs
Niamh Harkin, Bryan Coyne, Garry Lohan, Valerie McTaggart and George Onofrei
Identifying and Managing Paradoxical Tensions in the Integration of Lean Management Practices and Industry 4.0 Technologies
Fariha Qamar
AI in Social Enterprises: Tracing Trends, Themes, and Gaps
Faisal Rasool, Vicky Orourke, Isobel Cunningham and Michael Margey
Narrating Risk: How AI Risk Platform Vendors Shape What Supply Chains Know About Risk
Chethaka Gamage, Dhanushi Rodrigo, Amaya Vega, Gabriela Gliga and George Onofrei
2C Education I : AI in Teaching, Learning & Assessment
Chair : Sabine Breitsameter
Room : 104
Students' Perceptions of Empathy in AI and Human Responses to Academic Stress
Aisha Abdirisak
From Writing to Supervising: A Process Study of LLM-Assisted Academic Paper Creation
Jessica Weigel and Andreas Müller
Examining the role of AI in learning analytics
Cormac Quigley and Etain Kiely
From Simulation to Shared Immersion: Exploring Lecturer-Led Virtual Reality in Accounting Education
Geraldine Gorman and Iris Kerssebeeck
Teaching With AI Without Assessing AI: A Sandboxed Learning Approach to Assessment Design
Mary McCormack
WS-1 Workshop 1
Chair : Claire Louise Travers
Room : 148
OSCAR Session: Defending your Doctoral Work
Practical tips and resources for PhD students preparing for the viva and a first revise-and-resubmit. Hear from recent successful candidates, workshop a response to reviewers, and discuss the use of AI. Take-home resources provided.Claire Louise Travers
WS-2 Workshop 2
Chair : Oliver Herrmann
Room : 104
Learning Together Apart: Reflections on Virtual Teaching
An interactive workshop on how virtual learning shapes communication, collaboration, participation and social presence, with small-group activities and ideas for online, hybrid and campus teaching.Oliver Herrmann
Venue : Gaslight Brasserie, Hardiman Hotel
(Eyre Square, Galway, H91 NFD2)
Live Irish Music
A brief welcome from Dr Orla Flynn – President of ATU
Day 2 – Saturday
17. October 2026
What Are We Actually Measuring? Evaluating Large Language Models Across Language, Culture and Context
As language models grow more capable, evaluation becomes a question of what exactly we are measuring. This keynote shows how model behaviour changes with language, culture, prompts and evaluators, and argues that broader claims need broader measurement, with evidence that reflects variation, uncertainty and context.
Moderator : Ingo Stengel
Room : Chapel
3A Business III : Digital Transformation, Sustainability & Public Sector
Chair : Roger Sweetman
Room : Chapel
Digital Product Passport-Enabled Circular Supply Chain Implementation Framework: A Case Study of Fashion Supply Chain
Richard Asante
Integrating Circular Economy Practices into Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the Industry 4.0 Era: An Empirical Inquiry in the Food Industry
Tomas Kenny
Reconfiguring bureaucratic reasoning: Generative AI and epistemic agency in public administration
Thomas Absmayr
Beyond Digital Maturity: Assessing Digital Transformation Outcomes through a Firm-Level Triple Bottom Line Interaction Profile
Farhan Ahmad, Roger Sweetman and Amaya Vega
3B Education II : Student Experience in the GenAI Era
Chair : Therese Montgomery
Room : 148
Executive Functioning, Augmented Reality and Engineering Neurodiverse students Learning Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
David O'Mahony
A student-informed empirical contribution to the development of GenAI guidance in higher education
Marie Finnegan
Cyber Resilience and IT Governance for 3rd level institutions: Moving Towards a decentralised open source stack to achieve digital sovereignty
Ronan Walsh
Harnessing virtual exchange to promote critical engagement with AI among students.
Una Carthy
Ensuring students still know ‘real stuff’ in the wake of Gen AI: Evaluating critical thinking and counteracting misinformation through the process-based assessment of Undergraduate Research
Therese Montgomery
3C AI Ethics, Governance & Security
Chair : George Onofrei
Room : 104
Analysis of EU AI Act in context of GDPR
Veronika Cysko
Evaluating Gender Bias in Large Language Models
Michael Döll, Markus Döhring and Andreas Müller
Towards a GenAI-Supported Instantiation Workflow For Trustworthiness Modelling in AI-Based Big Data Analysis
Sebastian Bruchhaus, Alexander Kreibich, Marco Xaver Bornschlegl and Matthias Hemmje
Project A.I.²: Navigating Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity
Fiona Malone
Leveraging 5G for Humanitarian Response and Sustainable Development: Lessons from Ireland to Small Island Developing States
Claire Travers, Thomas Dowling, Graham Heaslip, George Onofrei and Karol Dempsey
4A Mobility II : Urban Transport & Smart Infrastructure
Chair : Amaya Vega
Room : Chapel
An Explainable Urban Traffic Sensor Cleaning Pipeline Using Temporal and Contextual Validation
Mohammad Etesami
Data-based climate resilience assessment of public transport networks: A GIS-based framework for identifying vulnerable bus and tram route sections
Nikolas Preibusch, Hidaya Namakula and Alexander Graf
Tactical urbanism for mobility hubs? DIY mapping with mobilityHubTools
James Reynolds, Brian McCann, Noreen Armstrong, Sarbast Moslem, Agnieszka Stefaniec, Brian Caulfield and Amaya Vega
4B Arts & Creative Practice
Chair : Patrick Tobin
Room : 148
Reimag(in)ing the Relic Digital Heritage, Creative Practice and Sheela na Gig.
Michael Moore and Gary Dempsey
Room Without A View: Photography, An Empathetic Frame?
Ailbhe Greaney
Animation Students' Perspectives on AI, Ethics, and Creative Labour
Cróna O'Donoghue, Jade Gray and Hugo Whelan
Perception and Acceptance of AI-Generated Advertising – An Empirical Analysis of Key Factors among Consumers
Sara Baghal, Stefanie Faßbender and Melissa Gruber
5A Business IV : Social Enterprise, Ecosystems & Sustainability
Chair : Leigh Moran
Room : Chapel
Blockchain in the supply chains: How do misfits relate to its affordance actualisation
Md Rokonuzzaman, Trevor Clohessy, Graham Heaslip and Sandy Schumann
AI-Enabled Intermediation in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Systematic Literature Review of Coordination and Resource Access
Serena Filippelli
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Governance for Sustainability
Leigh Moran, Gabriela Gliga, Vicky O'Rourke and Majella Giblin
5B AI Architectures & Technologies
Chair : Haithem Afli
Room : 148
Evaluation of Software Architecture Patterns for a Qualifications-Based Learning Model Platform
Simon Wetzel, Pascal Bourguignon and Matthias Hemmje
Beyond Functional Correctness: A Four-Level Evaluation Framework for Agentic Software Engineering
Leon Michael Riedel and Andreas Müller
A Zero-Shot Benchmark for African Language Speech Translation and Recognition
Philippe Tamla, Ruth Stephie Darelle Bilogui Tiguena, Weber Fotsing Kengne, Rooney Chuwa Foin, Alex Nelson Ryan Abena, Gladys Kouakam and Haithem Afli
Audio Preprocessing Strategies for Low-Resource African Language Speech Translation
Philippe Tamla, Weber Fotsing Kengne, Ruth Stephie Darelle Bilogui Tiguena, Alex Nelson Ryan Abena, Rooney Chuwa Foin, Gladys Kouakam and Haithem Afli
»Advantages and Disadvantages of Artificial Intelligence«
An open brainstorming session putting the conference theme in context across all tracks. Two parallel working groups. All delegates welcome.
Workshop Documents
Moderator : Prof. Dr. Udo Bleimann, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
Room : Chapel and Room 148
Day 3 – Sunday
18. October 2026
1. Business, Society and Digital Innovation
Digital transformation in business and public services, sustainable and circular business models, the digital-green transition, environmental costs and challenges of AI maintenance, AI and societal change, surveillance capitalism, algorithmic bias and discrimination.
2. Education, Digital Learning and AI
AI in teaching and learning, digital pedagogy, academic integrity in the age of AI, erosion of critical thinking, inequitable access to digital learning.
3. Cybersecurity, Privacy and Digital Trust
Cyber threats and resilience, data privacy, IT governance, GDPR compliance, cybergames, ethics and trust in digital systems, surveillance and loss of autonomy.
4. Robotics, Automation and Intelligent Systems
Industrial robotics, human-robot interaction, autonomous systems, AI/ML engineering, workforce automation and job displacement.
5. AI in Health, Bioscience and Medical Technologies
Artificial intelligence in clinical decision-making, bioinformatics, genomics, eHealth systems, precision medicine, privacy concerns in health data, ethical issues in genomic AI applications.
6. Smart Mobility and Connected Systems
Smart transport, connected infrastructure, electric mobility, mobility planning, mobility policy, environmental footprint of smart infrastructure, hacking and safety concerns.
7. Creative Practice in a Digital Age: Arts, Design and Culture
AI-generated and AI-assisted creative work, interactive media, cultural heritage and digitalisation, copyright conflicts, cultural homogenisation, ethical concerns in deepfakes and generative media.
Full Paper Presentation : 15 minutes and Q & A 5 minutes
Ext. Abstracts Presentation : 10 minutes and Q & A 5 minutes
The details of the presentations and workshops will be posted here shortly before the conference.