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ORGANIZER:CN=Lutz Oettershagen:MAILTO:Lutz.Oettershagen@liverpool.ac.uk
DTSTART:20120821T150000
DTEND:20120821T160000
SUMMARY:School Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Elizabeth Sklar: Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems\n\nThis talk discusses my work with autonomous systems, and the ways in which\n\nhumans can interact with such systems. In particular, I focus on two research\n\nchallenges: (1) human as collaborator and (2) human as trainer. In the first\n\ncase, I look at human/multi-robot teams, where a human operator and a number\n\nof robots work together to address exploration problems.  The robots function\n\nas autonomous agents, and together with the operator, they share decision-making \n\nabout what to do in order to achieve system-level goals. Here, the robot team\n\nhelps the human explore regions that s/he cannot visit. In the second case, I\n\nlook at human-robot and, more generally, human-agent environments (e.g., games)\n\nwhere a human provides training examples for an agent to learn from. These can\n\nbe provided either directly, using on-line techniques such as Learning from\n\nDemonstration, or indirectly, using off-line techniques such as statistical\n\nmodeling of clickstream data. Here, the human helps the robot or agent learn\n\nhow to behave by showing the learner what to do. Results and current activities\n\nrelated to each challenge will be presented.\n\n \n\nBIO:\n\nElizabeth Sklar is an Associate Professor at the City University of New York\n\n(CUNY), where she holds joint appointments in the Dept of Computer Science at\n\nThe Graduate Center and the Dept of Computer and Information Science at\n\nBrooklyn College. She is Co-director of the CUNY Agents Lab and Director of the\n\nMultimedia Computing program at Brooklyn College. Dr Sklar received her PhD in\n\nComputer Science from Brandeis University in 2000. Her research interests\n\ninclude human-robot interaction, behavior modeling, and multi-agent simulation.\n\nShe has received funding from the US National Science Foundation and other\n\nsources to support projects that center around learning and interaction, in\n\nhumans and/or multi-agent systems, and for efforts to broaden the participation\n\nof female and under-represented minority students in computing disciplines. Dr\n\nSklar has published over 100 papers in refereed conferences, workshops and\n\njournals and has edited two books. She is a founding chair of RoboCupJunior and\n\nis currently on the Board of Directors for the International Foundation for\n\nAutonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS).\n\nhttps://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/research/seminars/abstract.php?id=293
LOCATION:Ashton Lecture Theatre
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