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SUMMARY:Lecture: \"Emotional Intelligence Technology and Aut
 ism\"
LOCATION:Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium\, Howe Hall
URL:http://www.lectures.iastate.edu/lecture/18586
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 nRosalind Picard is the author of Affective Computing\, a bo
 ok instrumental in starting a new field by that name. She is
  teaching machines to sense and respond more intelligently t
 o people's emotions and to behave in ways that make more exp
 ressive communication possible.\n--------------------\nPicar
 d is founder and director of the Affective Computing Researc
 h Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media L
 aboratory\, codirector of the Things That Think Consortium\,
  and leader of the new and growing Autism Communication Tech
 nology Initiative at MIT. She holds a PhD in electrical engi
 neering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institut
 e of Technology.\n\nSkills of emotional intelligence include
  the ability to recognize and respond appropriately to anoth
 er person's emotion\, and the ability to know when (not) to 
 display emotion.  This talk will demonstrate advances at MIT
  aimed at giving several of these skills to technology inclu
 ding mobile devices\, robots\, agents\, wearable & tradition
 al computers. I will present live demonstrations of current 
 technology\, including a system developed with el Kaliouby t
 o recognize cognitive-affective states in real time from a p
 erson's head and facial movements. This technology computes 
 probabilities that a person looks like he or she is concentr
 ating\, interested\, agreeing\, disagreeing\, confused\, or 
 thinking.  These states signal important information such as
  when is a good time to interrupt\, or when might be appropr
 iate to apologize for interrupting.  A wearable version of t
 his system is being developed for helping people who face ch
 allenges in reading real-time social-emotional cues.  I will
  describe several other new affective technologies that faci
 litate emotion measurement and communication\, and describe 
 applications in autism.\n\nPart of the Women in Human Comput
 er Interaction Series and the Women in STEM Series.\n\nConta
 ct: lectures@iastate.edu\nPhone: 515-294-9934
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