Computational models of human behavior are used in a wide range of
artifacts. The synergy between psychology and the engineering of these artifacts is the subject of "Engineering the Impact of Emotion on Human Behavior", a talk by Stacy Marsella of Northeastern University and the University of Glasgow. The talk is part of OFAI's 2023 Winter/Spring
Lecture Series.
Members of the public are cordially invited to attend the talk via Zoom
on Wednesday, 29 March at 18:30 CEST (UTC+2):
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Talk abstract: Computational models of human behavior are used in a wide
range of artifacts. At a large scale, social simulations are being used,
for example, to explore people’s response to a natural disaster. At a medium-scale, models of human decision-makers are being used to study
social technical systems such as the pharmaceutical drug supply
networks. At the individual scale, work on human-robot and human-agent interaction seeks to facilitate interaction by giving artificial agents
models of their human partners. At the extreme of modeling individual
human behavior, virtual replicas of humans are being crafted, facsimiles
of people that can engage people in face-to-face interactions using the
same verbal and nonverbal behavior people use. The designs of these
various models heavily leverage psychological theories and data.
Psychology and the social sciences, in turn, use these computational
artifacts as means to formulate, test, and explore theories about human behavior. In this talk, I will first give a brief overview of my group’s
work in social simulation, social technical systems, HRI and virtual
humans. Then I will exemplify the synergy between psychology and the engineering of these artifacts from the perspective of my group’s work
on developing and applying computational models of emotion.
Speaker biography: Stacy Marsella is a professor at Northeastern
University, USA, Khoury College of Computer Sciences with a joint
appointment in psychology and at the University of Glasgow, UK, Centre
for Social, Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience. Prior to joining
Northeastern, he was a research professor in the Department of Computer
Science at the University of Southern California and a research director
at the Institute for Creative Technologies. Previously, he held
positions at USC’s Information Sciences Institute and Bell Labs.
Marsella’s multidisciplinary research is grounded in the computational modeling of human cognition, emotion, and social behavior, as well as
the evaluation of those models. Beyond its relevance to understanding
human behavior, the work has seen numerous applications, including
health interventions, social skills training, and planning operations.
His applied work includes frameworks for large-scale social simulations
and a range of techniques and tools for creating virtual humans,
facsimiles of people that can engage in face-to-face interactions.
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