Affective Brain Lab Seminar: Rosalind Picard
08 February 2018, 5:30 pm–6:30 pm
This week's Affective Brain Lab talk will be given by Rosalind Picard from MIT Media Lab.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Affective Brain Lab
Location
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Seminar Room 313, UCL Experimental Psychology Department, 26 Bedford Way
TITLE: Affective Computing
SPEAKER: Rosalind Picard, MIT Media Lab *
Professor Rosalind Picard is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, co-director of the Media Lab's Advancing Wellbeing Initiative, and faculty chair of MIT's Mind+Hand+Heart Initiative. She has co-founded Empatica, Inc. creating wearable sensors and analytics to improve health, and Affectiva, Inc. delivering technology to help measure and communicate emotion. Picard is credited with starting the branch of computer science known as affective computing with her 1997 book of the same name. This book described the importance of emotion in intelligence, the vital role human emotion communication has to relationships between people, and the possible effects of emotion recognition by robots and wearable computers. Her work in this field has led to an expansion into autism research and developing devices that could help humans recognize nuances in human emotions.
* Speaker will be presenting via Skype