I like to bring people together and make them discuss. I wish we could have more agoras and fewer SPAMs (Stiff Pompous Academic Meetings). Over the past years, together with some colleagues, we’ve started off some annual events which attempt to reflect the agora spirit, and which collectively cover pretty much all my main areas of investigation.

The series of workshops on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA) has been running annually for a number of years, and it is now the longest standing forum on Argument and Computation.

The workshops on Personalisation for eHealth have been a recurring event, the first edition was held in 2005 with the User Modelling conference in Edinburgh. The second edition was held again with User Modelling, in 2007 in Corfu. The third event was a special track of the 21st IEEE Conference on Computer Based Medical Systems, in Finland in 2008. The fourth edition was a workshop with AIME 2009 in Verona. The latest edition was held with the e-Health 2010 conference in Casablanca, Morocco.

Together with Judith Masthoff, I organised themed workshops around the core area of Persuasive Technology. The first one was held with the AISB convention in 2008, and the second one in April 2009, again with the AISB convention. In 2010 we focussed on user modelling and motivational systems, with an event in conjunction with UMAP 2010, Hawaii.

I am one of the founders of the journal Argument and Computation, and was co-editor in chief from 2010-2015, and since then I am on the Editorial Board.

I sit on the editorial board of the journal ISCT Transactions on e-health

Other things I’ve been involved with in the past are here.