From l.rossi at aston.ac.uk  Thu Jul  5 12:58:51 2018
From: l.rossi at aston.ac.uk (Luca Rossi)
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 13:58:51 +0200
Subject: [eas_cs_seminars] 10th July 2018
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Hi all,

This is a reminder of next week's seminar, where Prof. Deborah Richards (
http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~richards/) will give a talk titled "Virtual
Worlds and Intelligent Virtual Agents for Education, Training, Health and
Wellbeing". The seminar will take place on Tuesday the 10th of July, in
MB220, from 2pm to 3pm.

See below for more details.

Best,
Luca



On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 at 15:15, Luca Rossi <l.rossi at aston.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I know I'm sending this around way earlier than usual, but given the
> period in which the seminar will be held I thought an early notice (and
> several reminders...) may help to maximise attendance.
>
> Prof. Deborah Richards (http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~richards/) will
> give a talk titled "Virtual Worlds and Intelligent Virtual Agents for
> Education, Training, Health and Wellbeing" on Tuesday the 10th of July, in
> MB220, from 2pm to 3pm.
>
> I know many of us will be on leave in that period but I'd like to
> encourage you to participate if you're still around enjoying the
> notoriously glorious British summer.
>
> ===
> *Title*
> Virtual Worlds and Intelligent Virtual Agents for Education, Training,
> Health and Wellbeing
>
> *Abstract*
> This talk will look at the use of Intelligent Virtual Agents(IVAs) for
> social simulations with consideration of current goals, challenges and
> ethical issues related to their use. I will provide an overview of my
> research concerning IVAs and emotions, memory and teamwork for applications
> such as debriefing and reminiscing, border security officer training,
> scientific inquiry and science education, real estate assistance, museum
> guidance, behaviour/attitude change, empowerment and adherence to treatment
> advice.
>
> *BIO*
> Deborah Richards is a Professor in the Department of Computing at
> Macquarie University. Following 20 years in the ICT industry during which
> she completed a BBus (Comp and MIS) and MAppSc (InfoStudies), she completed
> a PhD in artificial intelligence on the reuse of knowledge at the
> University of New South Wales and joined academia in 1999. While she
> continues to work on solutions to assist decision-making and knowledge
> acquisition, for the past decade, her focus has been on intelligent
> systems, agent technologies and virtual worlds to support human learning
> and well-being.
> ===
>
> Best,
> Luca
> --
> 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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