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Emotions in Human-Agent Interactions
Wed, Dec 05, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 04:40 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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ISE 650 SEMINAR - DANIEL J. EPSTEIN DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING"Emotions in Human-Agent Interactions"Dr. Jonathan GratchInstitute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern CaliforniaDecember 5, 2007 (Wednesday) 3:30~4:40 pm at KAP158.The last decade has seen an explosion of interest in the role emotion plays in human cognition and social interaction. Recent findings in psychology and neuroscience have emphasized emotion's distinct and complementary role in human cognition when contrasted with the rational conceptions of human thought such as decision theory, game theory and logic. Rather than viewing emotion as a distortion of such rational systems, contemporary research emphasizes emotion's functional role and has worked out a number of the mechanisms through which emotion helps an organism adapt to its physical and social environment. Within computer science, there is growing interest in exploiting these findings to expand classical rational models of intelligent behavior. In this talk, I will review current findings on the intrapersonal and interpersonal function of emotion and its potential role in enhancing human-computer interaction. I will then discuss our attempts to model these functions within the context of live-like interactive characters that can engage in socio-emotional interactions with human users for training and education. -------------------------Dr. Jonathan Gratch (http://www.ict.usc.edu/~gratch) is the Associate Director for Virtual Humans Research at ICT and a research associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois in Urban-Champaign in 1995 with a focus on machine learning, planning and cognitive science. His research addresses the creation of virtual humans (artificially intelligent agents embodied in a human-like graphical body) and cognitive modeling. He studies the relationship between cognition and emotion, the cognitive processes underlying emotional responses, and the influence of emotion on decision making and physical behavior. He has worked on a number of applications of virtual agents, including considerable experience in the research and development of automated and semi-automated agents in training. Dr. Gratch is the Vice President of the HUMAINE Association for Emotion and Human-Computer Interaction, a member of the editorial board of the journal Emotion Review, and the author of over 100 technical articles.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 158
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Human Factors Engineering and Patient Safety
Mon, Dec 17, 2007 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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DANIEL J. EPSTEIN DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR"Human Factors Engineering and Patient Safety"Dr. Pascale CarayonProctor & Gamble Bascom Professor in Total Quality, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-MadisonABSTRACT: In 1999, the Institute of Medicine issued a report on "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System" that identifies medical errors as a major problem: between 48,000 and 99,000 people die every year in the US from medical errors. Most of the medical errors involve medication, such as wrong medication, wrong dose or wrong patient. The 2004 report by the IOM on "Medication Errors" highlights the contributions of the healthcare work system to medication errors, and emphasizes various technologies as solutions for preventing or mitigating medication errors. In this presentation, research on medication safety in the inpatient care setting will be presented; emphasis will be on the human factors contributions to medication safety, such as design and implementation of medication administration technologies (e.g., bar coding medication administration, smart infusion pump technology).MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2007, 10:00 - 11:00 AM, ANDRUS GERONTOLOGY BLDG (GER) 309
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Technology and Society
Tue, Dec 18, 2007 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series - 2nd Annual George Bekey Keynote Lecture"Technology and Society"Dr. Raj ReddyMozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon UniversityABSTRACT: This talk will present several examples of how Technology, in particular Information Technology, can contribute to a wide range of human activities.
In particular we will discuss societal applications of Robotics, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Computer Vision, Human Computer Interaction, Language Understanding Systems, and Artificial Intelligence.------------------------BIO: Dr. Raj Reddy is the Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His current research interests include Million Book Digital Library Project; Fiber To The Village Project; and Learning by Doing. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Reddy was awarded the Legion of Honor by President Mitterand in 1984, the ACM Turing Award in 1994, the Honda Prize in 2005 and Vannevar Bush Award in 2006. He served as co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee(PITAC) from 1999 to 2001Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
