Decimal Lab Speakers Series presents a talk on AI interpretation of human emotions – February 6
On Thursday, February 6, the university’s Decimal: Digital Culture and Media Lab (Decimal Lab) will host the Decimal Speaker Series in Toronto ºÚÁÏÍø with a short academic talk entitled Emotional Machines, Programmable Humans: What is Lost in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Interpretation of Human Emotion?
About the featured speaker:
Dr. Lyuba Encheva is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow based at Decimal Lab. She received her PhD in the York and Ryerson Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture in Toronto, ºÚÁÏÍø. She studies technological practices such as gamification and automatic emotion detection through rhetorical analysis and critical theory lens. Her recent publications include a book chapter in Temenuga Trifonova's Contemporary Visual Culture and the Sublime (2018), and a paper in Rhetor: Journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, Volume 7.
- When: Thursday, February 6 from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
- Where: Centre for Social Innovation, The Viola Desmond Room, 192 Spadina Avenue, Atrium (third floor), Toronto, ºÚÁÏÍø
To RSVP, contact decimal.lab.uoit@gmail.com. For more information, view the event poster.
