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| Invited Speaker |
| This workshop will have as invited speaker Justine
Cassell. Justine Cassell is a professor in the departments of Communication
Studies and Computer Science at Northwestern University, where she is director
of the Technology and Social Behaviour track of the graduate program in
Media, Technology and Society. Cassell's research interests originated in
the study of human-human conversation and storytelling. Progressively she
became interested in allowing computational systems to participate in these
activities. This new technological focus led her to deconstruct the linguistic
elements of conversation and storytelling in such a way as to embody machines
with conversational, social and narrative intelligence so that they could
interact with humans in human-like ways (from
http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/justine/). |
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