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SUMMARY:Socially-Aware Conversational Interfaces: Challenges and Perspecti
 ves
DTSTART:20221004T113000
DTEND:20221004T121500
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DESCRIPTION:Elisabeth André is a full professor of Computer Science and F
 ounding Chair of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Augsburg Univer
 sity in Germany.\nAbstract: Social interactions shape our human life and a
 re inherently emotional. Human conversational partners usually try to inte
 rpret (consciously or unconsciously) the speaker’s or listener’s socio
 -affective cues and respond to them accordingly. With the objective to con
 tribute to more natural and intuitive ways of communicating with machines\
 , an increasing number of research projects has started to investigate how
  to simulate similar behaviors in socially-interactive agents. In my talk\
 , I will present an overview of the state of the art in socially-interacti
 ve agents that expose a socially-aware interface including mechanisms to r
 ecognize a user’s socio-affective state\, to respond to it appropriately
  and to continuously learn how to adapt to the needs and preferences of a 
 human user. To this end\, I will focus on three essential properties of so
 cially-aware interfaces: Social Perception\, Socially-Aware Behavior Synth
 esis\, and Learning Socially-Aware Behaviors. I will also analyze the limi
 tations of current approaches and discuss directions for future developmen
 t.\n\nSpeaker Bio: Elisabeth André is a full professor of Computer Scienc
 e and Founding Chair of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Augsburg
  University in Germany. Elisabeth André has a long track record in multim
 odal human-machine interaction\, embodied conversational agents\, social r
 obotics\, affective computing and social signal processing. Her work has w
 on many awards including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz Prize 2021 of the 
 German Research Foundation\, with 2.5 Mio € the highest endowed German r
 esearch award. In 2010\, Elisabeth André was elected a member of the pres
 tigious Academy of Europe\, and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
  In 2017\, she was elected to the CHI Academy\, an honorary group of leade
 rs in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. To honor her achievements i
 n bringing Artificial Intelligence techniques to Human-Computer Interactio
 n\, she was awarded a EurAI fellowship (European Coordinating Committee fo
 r Artificial Intelligence) in 2013. In 2019\, she was named one of the 10 
 most influential figures in the history of AI in Germany by National Socie
 ty for Informatics (GI). Since 2019\, she is serving as the Editor-in-Chie
 f of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.\n 
LOCATION:RLC D1 661 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20D1%20661
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