[Colloq] Talk Announcement - Stacy Marsella Today at 10:30

[Jessica Biron]

The College of Computer and Information Science presents: 


Stacy Marsella 

Title: Virtual Humans 
When: Today at 10:30am 
Where: 366 WVH 

Abstract: 
Virtual humans are autonomous virtual characters that can have 
meaningful interactions with human users. They can reason about the 
environment, understand and express emotion, and communicate using 
speech and gesture. I will discuss various application areas of 
virtual humans in education, health intervention and entertainment. I will then 
go on to discuss the design virtual humans with specific focus on their expressive capabilities. 

Bio: 
Stacy C. Marsella is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, Associate Director of Social Simulation Research at the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) and a co-director of USC’s Computational Emotion Group. His general research interest is in the computational modeling of cognition, emotion and social behavior, both as abasic research methodology in the study of human behavior as well as the use of these computational models in a range of gaming and analysis applications. His current research spans the interplay of emotion and cognition, modeling of the influence that beliefs about the mental processes of others have on social interaction and the role of nonverbal behavior in face-to-face interaction. He has extensive experience in the application of these models to the design of virtual humans, software entities that look human and can interact with humans in a virtual environment using spoken dialog. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and the steering committee of the Intelligent Virtual Agents conference. He is a member of the International Society for Research on Emotions (ISRE) and has published over 150 technical articles. Prof. Marsella received the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM/SIGART) 2010 Autonomous Agents Research Award, for research influencing the field of autonomous agents. 









Jessica Biron 
Administrative Assistant – Office of the Dean and CCIS Development 
College of Computer and Information Science 
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