I examine how legal regulations and social measures of trust have measurable real world impact on finance. I use these ideas to make a case for technology replacing traditional legal or social factors.

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Professor Rau is the Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School. He is also a past president of the European Finance Association, and a past editor of Financial Management. He is a founder and director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and a member of the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN). He serves on the editorial boards of several journals including the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Review, and the Quarterly Journal of Finance. His research has frequently been covered by the popular press including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist, among others. His research interests lie in the areas of corporate finance, corporate governance and market efficiency. His research, published in journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies, among others, covers topics such as the optimal form of CEO compensation, whether bribery has a positive NPV for firms, why analyst coverage helps firms, and have won several awards including the EFA Barclays Global Investor Award, the Chinese Finance Association Best Paper in Corporate Finance and the Financial Management Association "Best of the Best" Award. He won the Ig Nobel Prize in Management in 2015, a prize awarded for research that makes people laugh, and then think.

I will discuss the triaxiality theoretical model of Online Social Network from three dimensions of users (subject), communities (carrier) and the information (object), presenting an association model that integrates technologies of these three aspects, including users analysis, community discovery and information spreading analysis. Based on this theoretical model, a self-developed public opinion analysis system, named YHPOS, will be introduced to demonstrate the actual applied performances and effects of aforementioned technologies. I will also share some opinions on trends and challenges of online social network analysis technology.

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Yan Jia is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen. She serves as an executive director at Chinese Information Processing Society of China and the chair of Specialty Committee of Big Search in Cyberspace. Her research interests cover Big Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Online Social Network Analysis and Security Situation Awareness and Analysis in Cyberspace. As the principal investigator, she has undertaken more than 20 national projects, including the National Key Project of 863 Program and National Natural Science Foundation of China. She received four National Grade II Prize of Science and Technology Progress with ranking 1, 1, 2, and 3. She has published over 250 research papers with EI and SCI index in international journals and conferences proceedings, and authored/edited 5 books, as well as owning 80 patents for invention and Software Copyrights. She has hosted and co-organized more than 40 international and national conferences/summits and has being invited as keynote speakers for many academic and industrial conferences. She is the founder of the international Forum of Future Data (FFD) and IEEE International Conference of Data Science in Cyberspace (IEEE ICDSC).

This talk shall review the design of a number of games designed with the purpose of supporting motor learning, social skills, and encouraging physical activity and social interaction for various user groups emphasizing on the role of embodiment in interaction. It will also demonstrate how games can be valuable media for learning about people and I discuss the potential and limits of player modelling. The talk shall conclude with some general lessons and challenges for future work in this area.

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Prof. Panos Markopoulos is a computer scientist specializing in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. He is a professor in Design for Behaviour Change at the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He has worked on several topics including task analysis, awareness systems, ambient intelligence, and interaction design for children. His current research concerns designing interactive technologies for rehabilitation and for playful learning. He is a founding editor of the journal Child-Compute Interaction and is currently serving as chief editor of the Behaviour & Information technology journal.