[eas_cs_seminars] 14th November 2017

[Luca Rossi]

Hi all,

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the speaker has to cancel next week's talk
(14/11). No talk is now scheduled to take place on that day, but please do
let me know if you have a guest that may be interested in using that slot
or if you want to give a talk yourself.

Best,
Luca



On 7 November 2017 at 11:05, Luca Rossi <l.rossi at aston.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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
>
> ===
>
> *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.
>
> ===
> --
> 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/>
>



-- 
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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