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In 2025, our researcher Lourdes Moreno (UC3M), co-PI of the HumanAI project, delivered several invited talks focused on cognitive accessibility, from designing understandable user interfaces to adapting content into Plain Language and Easy-to-Read versions, using generative AI with a human-in-the-loop approach (participation of people with cognitive impairments) in design and validation.

• In June, at the Madrid Book Fair (Ibero-American Pavilion), Lourdes Moreno took part in the session “Easy-to-Read and Cognitive Accessibility. The event included a pre-presentation on “Easy-to-Read and a Comprehensible Web. A White Paper in the Context of the New Regulation” (written by María Xesús Bello and Oscar García Muñoz, publicación from Nebrija Observatory of Spanish (ONE), with the collaboration of Fundación “la Caixa” and Fundación ONCE) and reflections on common web barriers (hard-to-use interfaces, information overload, unexpected changes, complex forms, and difficult-to-understand texts), as well as design guidelines to reduce them. [Noticia ONE] [Noticia HULAT-UC3M]

• In October, she was an invited speaker at the workshop “I Trust You, Machine” (Fundación Ramón Areces, Madrid), held within the CONfIA project. In the session on trust evaluation, she gave the talk : “How do cognitive accessibility and certain design principles help build trust in AI?” The presentation highlighted that understanding (both the interface and the content) is a key factor for genuine trust, not just “perceived” trust.