• Talk by Stacy Marsella: Engineering the Impact of Emotion on Human Beha

    From Tristan Miller@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 24 03:23:28 2023
    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):

    URL:
    https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84282442460?pwd=NHVhQnJXOVdZTWtNcWNRQllaQWFnQT09 Meeting ID: 842 8244 2460
    Passcode: 678868

    You can add this event to your calendar: https://www.ofai.at/calendar/2023-03-29marsella.ics

    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.


    --
    Dr.-Ing. Tristan Miller, Research Scientist
    Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
    Freyung 6/6, 1010 Vienna, Austria | Tel: +43 1 5336112 12 https://logological.org/ | https://punderstanding.ofai.at/

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  • From Tristan Miller@21:1/5 to Tristan Miller on Tue Mar 28 14:46:16 2023
    Greetings.

    On 24/03/2023 08.23, Tristan Miller wrote:
    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)


    Due to ilness, we have had to postpone the OFAI Lecture Series talk by
    Stacy Marsella, originally scheduled for 28 March 2023, until Wednesday,
    17 May 2023 at 18:30 CEST (UTC+2). We apologize for the short notice
    and look forward to welcoming you on 17 May!

    Regards,
    Tristan

    --
    Dr.-Ing. Tristan Miller, Research Scientist
    Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
    Freyung 6/6, 1010 Vienna, Austria | Tel: +43 1 5336112 12 https://logological.org/ | https://punderstanding.ofai.at/

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