[eas_cs_seminars] 14th November 2017

[Luca Rossi]

Hi all,

Dr. Hatice Gunes (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~hg410/) will give a talk titled
"Analysing Affect and Personality for Creating Intelligent User Interfaces"
on the 14th of November *from 2pm to 3pm in MB404A*

Please see the abstract of the talk and bio of the speaker below. I'm
including the math staff mailing list as well as this talk may be of
interest for a broader audience than cs.

Best,
Luca

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*Abstract*: Computing that is sensitive to affective and social phenomena
aims to equip devices, interfaces and robots with the means to interpret,
understand, and respond to human nonverbal behaviour, personality, affect,
moods and intentions, similarly to how humans rely on their senses to
assess each other's affective and social behaviour. Designing intelligent
systems and interfaces with socio-emotional skills is a challenging task.
Progress in industry and developments in academia provide us a positive
outlook, however, the capabilities of the current intelligent user
interfaces are still limited. This talk will focus on sensing and
computationally analysing affect and personality, and will present an
overview of the recent works we have conducted in these areas.

*Bio*: Dr Hatice Gunes (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~hg410/ ) is a University
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Computer Science
and Technology, University of Cambridge. Her research expertise is in the
areas of affective computing and social signal processing that lie at the
crossroad of multimodal interaction, computer vision, signal processing,
and machine learning fields applied to computer/robot mediated human-human
interactions and human-robot interactions. She has published over 100
papers in these areas and received a number of awards for Outstanding Paper
(IEEE FG’11, Best Demo (IEEE ACII’09), and Best Student Paper (VisHCI’06).
Her recent work has been focusing on Digital Personhood through the EPSRC
Being There Project (2013-2017) that aimed to investigate greater social
integration in public spaces, and to increase access to public spaces in
robot proxy forms. She is a Co-I in an industry-led project funded by
Innovate UK (2016 – 2018) that aims to enhance user experience in retail by
sensing people’s expressions of emotions. Dr Gunes is the President of the
Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC), and is the
General Co-Chair of ACII 2019 and the Program Co-Chair of IEEE FG 2017. She
is the Chair of the Steering Board of IEEE Transactions on Affective
Computing, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Affective
Computing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and Image and Vision Computing
journal. She is also a Guest Editor of the Frontiers in Robotics and AI’s
Research Topic on Affective and Social Signals for HRI and the Image and
Vision Computing Journal’s Special Issue on Best of FG 2017. Dr Gunes’
current research commitment is to embrace the challenges present in the
areas of health, equality and diversity to bring positive behavioural
change, and ultimately empower the lives of people through technology. She
is a member of the Cambridge Global Challenges Forum that aims to enhance
the contribution of University of Cambridge research towards addressing
global challenges and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

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Luca Rossi

Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Aston University
Web: http://www.cs.aston.ac.uk/~rossil/ <http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rossil/>
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