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SUMMARY:EdTech\, the next frontier: Emotion-savvy autonomous robots as tea
 chers
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Arvid Kappas is professor of psychology and dean at Jacobs Uni
 versity Bremen.\nBio: Arvid Kappas has been conducting research on emotion
 s for over three decades. After obtaining his Ph.D. at Dartmouth College i
 n 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 Aust
 ria. 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 machine
 s\, particularly affective computing and social robotics. He was the presi
 dent 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 ANIMA
 TAS that focuses on advancing intuitive human-machine interaction with hum
 an-like social capabilities for education in schools.\nWhile technology ha
 s been an important part of education for decades\, recent developments in
  ICT have provided radical new technologies\, such as virtual- and augment
 ed 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 toge
 ther with teachers who plan and supervise the use of technology.\n\nHoweve
 r\, what if technology becomes the teacher? I will discuss potentials of a
 utonomous robots as teachers or tutors with examples from the EMOTE projec
 t. 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 lea
 rner with the goal to create a social relationship between learner and rob
 ot.
LOCATION:BC 410 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20410
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