Technical Tutorials

Tutorial Topic:

” Designing Conversational Human-AI Interactions”

Abstract

Conversational interfaces have been argued to have advantages over traditional GUIs due to having a more human-like interaction. The rise in popularity of conversational agents has enabled humans to interact with machines more naturally. There is a growing familiarity among people with conversational interactions mediated by technology due to the widespread use of mobile devices and messaging services such as WhatsApp, WeChat, and Telegram. Today, over half the population on our planet has access to the Internet with ever-lowering barriers of accessibility. This tutorial will showcase the benefits of employing novel conversational interfaces in the domains of Health and Wellbeing, Information Retrieval, and Crowd Computing. We will discuss the potential of conversational interfaces in facilitating and mediating the interactions of people with AI systems. The tutorial will include an interactive component to provide participants with an opportunity to build conversational interfaces.

Dr. Ujwal Gadiraju

Assistant Professor in the Software Technology department

Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

Tutorial Topic:

“Understanding emotion for depression and anxiety detection from text, audio and video using machine learning: a hands-on tutorial”

Abstract

Today mental health is a global concern among youth and working professionals. Due to social stigma, lack of awareness, and unavailability and inaccessibility of proper treatment. Artificial intelligence-based digital solutions have provided diagnosis, early detection, and therapy for many mental health illnesses like depression and anxiety in recent years.
This tutorial aims to provide theoretical and hands-on sessions for understanding emotion from text, audio and video using machine learning and deep learning for depression and anxiety detection.

Dr. David (Bong Jun) Choi

Professor in School of Computer Science and Engineering & School of Electronic Engineering

Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

Dr. Ajit Kumar

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

School of Computer Science and Engineering,

Soongsil University, South Korea