[Colloq] Reminder: Talk Today

[Stacy Marsella]

Prof. Dr. Nicole Krämer will give a talk today on the socio-emotional effects of agents, robots and game characters  

Talk Time & Date: 11:00 am, Thursday, April 30, 2015

Location: 366 West Village H

Title:  Socio-emotional effects of agents, robots and game characters

Abstract: Numerous research endeavors have (often) successfully addressed the question how to implement emotions in virtual characters or robots. In parallel, more and more studies also focus on the emotional effects of artificial entities. The talk will summarize some of this research from a socio-psychological perspective. Additionally, our own studies on the emotions towards an artificial companion in a long-term interaction, on the emotions elicited when a robot is tortured as well as on emotional effects of game characters will be presented.

Bio: Nicole Krämer is Professor for “Social Psychology – Media and Communication” at the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She finished her PhD in 2001 at the University of Cologne with a thesis on socio-emotional effects of nonverbal behavior and computer animation as a method in communication research. In 2006 she received the venia legendi for psychology with the habilitation thesis on “Social effects of embodied conversational agents”. Her research interests include human-computer-interaction, social psychological aspects of social media, nonverbal behaviour and computer supported instructional communication.