AI Lecture Series Talk- Dr. Stacy Marcella - "Cognition and Emotion in Virtual Humans"

Dr. Stacy Marsella says about the lecture:

Virtual humans are autonomous virtual characters that can have a meaningful interaction with human users. They can reason about the environment, understand and express emotion, and communicate using speech and gesture. I will discuss the various application areas of virtual humans in education, health intervention, entertainment, where they can be in the role of a teacher, peer or competitor.  I will then go on to discuss how we design virtual humans with specific focus on the role of computational models of emotions.

About the speaker:

Dr. Stacy Marsella is a Research Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California and a Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute, where he heads projects on virtual humans, social simulation, interactive drama, emotions and theory of mind. For more information about Dr. Marsella's research and extensive publishing in the field of artificial intelligence, please visit his home page at: http://www.isi.edu/~marsella