Bonjour,
c’est avec plaisir que nous vous convions à assister au prochain
exposé organisé dans le cadre du Colloquium d’Informatique
de Sorbonne Université [http://www.lip6.fr/colloquium/] intitulé :
Designing Bots, Virtual Humans, and Other Systems that Can Hold
up Their End of the Conversation
par Justine Cassell, professeur à Carnegie Mellon University.
L’exposé est ouvert à tous et aura lieu :
Mardi 15 mai 2018 à 18h
Amphi 15
Sorbonne Université, campus Jussieu
4, place Jussieu
Paris Vème (métro Jussieu)
Le séminaire sera en anglais.
Un cocktail est prévu à 17h15 en prélude à la conférence, devant
l’amphi 15.
Plus d’informations sur : http://www.lip6.fr/colloquium/
N’hésitez pas à diffuser l’annonce !
Bien cordialement,
l’équipe du Colloquium
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Hello,
in the context of the Colloquium d’Informatique de Sorbonne
Université [http://www.lip6.fr/colloquium/], it is our pleasure
to welcome Prof. Justine Cassell, from CMU, for a seminar entitled:
Designing Bots, Virtual Humans, and Other Systems that Can Hold
up Their End of the Conversation
It will take place on May 15, 2018, at 6 PM, in Amphi 15,
Sorbonne Université (Jussieu Campus),
4, place Jussieu,
Paris Vème (métro Jussieu).
The talk will be in English.
Prior to the seminar, there will be a cocktail at 17:15, in front
of Amphi 15.
More information at: http://www.lip6.fr/colloquium/
Feel free to share this announcement!
Best regards,
the Colloquium team
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Short bio:
Justine Cassell was faculty at the Media Lab from 1995 to 2003, and
was tenured there in 2002. She moved from the Media Lab to
Northwestern University, where she founded the Technology and Social
Behavior Doctoral Program and Research Center. Justine then moved to
Carnegie Mellon University, where she is currently Associate Dean of
Technology Strategy and Impact in the School of Computer Science, and
Director Emerita of the Human Computer Interaction Institute. Justine
co-directs the Yahoo-CMU InMind partnership on the future of personal
assistants. She received the MIT Edgerton Prize and Anita Borg
Institute Women of Vision award; in 2011, she was named to the World
Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on AI and Robotics, which she
subsequently chaired; in 2012, she was named an AAAS fellow; in 2016
she was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Scotland; and in 2017,
she was named an ACM Fellow. Justine has spoken at the World Economic
Forum in Davos for the past 6 years on topics concerning the impact
of AI and Robotics on society.
Abstract:
In today’s era of intelligent assistants of all kinds, a conversational
front end is a necessity. Particularly in the mobile and home domains
where users may be engaged in multiple tasks at the same time, and have
their eyes on something other than a screen, the ability to use
conversation to access services is particularly important. On the other
hand, most existent conversational user interfaces are really thinly
veiled search engines. The interaction between user and system couldn’t
be called a « conversation » by a long shot. In this talk I’ll discuss the
SARA (Socially-Aware Robot Assistant) project and, more generally, our
work around building socially-aware agents of all kinds, and therefore
how we intend to revolutionize the conversational front end of
intelligent personal assistants, pedagogical agents, homebots, and other
systems that interact with people repeatedly.