Affective Computing – bringing humans and machines closer through emotions
API • May 2021
Affective Computing – bringing humans and machines closer through emotions
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Affective Computing – bringing humans and machines closer through emotions
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Research have shown that emotions play an integral role in decision making, cognition, perception, learning and more. If we want our computers to be intelligent and be able to interact with us we need to ensure that they are able to recognize, understand and express emotions. This is the basic assumption of the field of Affective Computing. In this talk I will give an overview of Affective computing and how it can be applied in order to make our interaction with machines more suitable to us as humans.

Language
English
Level
Beginner
Length
33 minutes
Type
online conference
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About the speaker
Håkan Silfvernagel
Manager AI and Big DataMiles AS
Håkan holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and in addition, he holds a Master’s degree in Leadership and Organizational behavior. He has also taken courses on university level in psychology, interaction design and human-computer interaction. He has 19 years’ experience of software development in various positions such as developer, tester, architect, project manager, scrum master, practice manager and team lead. Håkan is also part of the local chapter of the Norwegian .NET User Group Oslo (NNUG). Currently Håkan is working as Manager AI and Big Data at Miles AS, a Norw
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Language
English
Level
Beginner
Length
33 minutes
Type
online conference