School Faculty to deliver keynote speech at IEEE International Conference
Dr Vinciarelli (School of Computing Science - University of Glasgow) will be keynote speaker at the IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications. His talk (see below for title and abstract) will cover recent results in Personality Computing, the field aimed at developing technologies capable to automatically predict and assess human personality traits.
The title of the talk is "Of traits and machines: when computers meet personality" and the abstract is as follows: "Personality is a psychological construct aimed at explaining the wide variety of human
behaviours in terms of a few, stable and measurable individual characteristics. In this respect,
any technology involving understanding, prediction and synthesis of human behaviour is likely
to benefit from Personality Computing approaches, i.e. from technologies capable of dealing
with human personality. After proposing a conceptual framework underlying the main Personality
Computing works proposed so far in the literature, this presentation will show a few examples
of how personality markers can be detected and used to predict the personality impressions
we convey. Furthermore, the talk will illustrate issues and challenges that still need to
be addressed in the field."