Last SymSys Forum for the year: Crunchy brain food
As we head into Dead Week, get ready for the last Symbolic Systems Forum event of the quarter featuring David Wilkins in AI and Cognitive Science: ---
***SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM***
Learning to Recognize Facial Emotions:
Psychologists vs. Artists
David C. Wilkins
Symbolic Systems and CLSI
www.stanford.edu/~dwilkins
ABSTRACT: Psychologists and Artists have adopted very different approaches to the cognitive task of learning to recognize facial emotions. Psychologists teach mainly by showing classified example of faces, e.g., www.PaulEkman.com. Artists teach by the immersive experience of drawing live models, e.g., www.DrawTheFeeling.org. Which is better? This talk presents these different approaches and describes our efforts to identify metrics and design experiments to quantify the differences.
(A Symbolic Systems course on this topic is offered next quarter, and is described at www.stanford.edu/~dwilkins/symbsys210.pdf )
These are on the Stanford campus, open to the public, usually with a short "reception" after at which milling about and topical discussion is encouraged.
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Now playing: Yo-Yo Ma - Suite No. 3 In C Major, BWV 1009
http://foxytunes.com/artist/yo-yo+ma/track/suite+no.+3+in+c+major%2c+bwv+1009