EdTech, the next frontier: Emotion-savvy autonomous robots as teachers
Event details
| Date | 26.04.2018 |
| Hour | 09:15 › 10:00 |
| Speaker |
Arvid Kappas is professor of psychology and dean at Jacobs University Bremen. Bio: Arvid Kappas has been conducting research on emotions for over three decades. After obtaining his Ph.D. at Dartmouth College in the USA in 1989, he has lived and worked in Switzerland, Canada, the UK, and Germany, as well as holding visiting positions in Italy and Austria. He is a specialist in the scientific study of how people interact and communicate, specifically nonverbal communication and psychophysiology. Recently he has become interested in the interaction of humans and machines, particularly affective computing and social robotics. He was the president of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE) from 2013-2018, is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, as well as the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and in the executive committee of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing. One of his current research activities is with the EU-funded project ANIMATAS that focuses on advancing intuitive human-machine interaction with human-like social capabilities for education in schools. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
While technology has been an important part of education for decades, recent developments in ICT have provided radical new technologies, such as virtual- and augmented reality, networked learning platforms for individuals or large groups, or physically embodied devices that contribute to learning. Typically, such technologies are used, in schools, universities, or companies together with teachers who plan and supervise the use of technology.
However, what if technology becomes the teacher? I will discuss potentials of autonomous robots as teachers or tutors with examples from the EMOTE project. Specifically, I focus on the importance of emotional intelligence for such systems, with regard to using information about the affective state of the learner to modify didactics and providing affective cues to the learner with the goal to create a social relationship between learner and robot.
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