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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/artificial-intelligence-group/events/phd-defence-e
 motion-aware-and-human-autonomous-agents
LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West 2306C Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:PhD Defence: Emotion-Aware and Human-Like Autonomous Agents
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:NABIHA ASGHAR\, PHD CANDIDATE\n_David R. Cheriton School of Com
 puter Science_\n\nIn human-computer interaction (HCI)\, one of the technol
 ogical goals is\nto build human-like artificial agents that can think\, de
 cide and\nbehave like humans during the interaction. A prime example is a\
 ndialogue system\, where the agent should converse fluently and\ncoherentl
 y with a user and connect with them emotionally. Humanness\nand emotion-aw
 areness of interactive artificial agents have been shown\nto improve user 
 experience and help attain application-specific goals\nmore quickly. Howev
 er\, achieving human-likeness in HCI systems is\ncontingent on addressing 
 several philosophical and scientific\nchallenges. In this thesis\, I addre
 ss two such challenges: replicating\nthe human ability to 1) correctly per
 ceive and adopt emotions\, and 2)\ncommunicate effectively through languag
 e.
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