Dr. Mehul Bhatt: Human-Centred Cognitive Computing: How can it assist and empower people?

On October 29th Dr. Mehul Bhatt from Faculty 03 will introduce us to the world of cognitive sciences and present his research about Human-Centered Computing: Human-Centred Cognitive Computing: How can it assist and empower people?

Humans can safely cross a road with moving cars around, and strategically navigate on busy streets. We can easily distinguish between someone suddenly falling down, and someone trying to comfortably sit down. In our socio-professional interactions, we can learn to interpret natural gestures and cues of other individuals, and accordingly organize our own behaviour. In essence, human cognitive capability excels and outperforms computers at everyday tasks involving commonsense perception and reasoning about space, actions, events, change, and interaction.
Human-centred cognitive computing aims to systematically develop theories, formal specifications, and computational models that capture human-like cognitive capabilities in everyday situations. Human-centered computing, with its emphasis on knowledge about people and their context, will be at the heart of next-generation collaborative cognitive systems and assistive technologies that empower humans in creative and productive tasks, knowledge discovery and perceptual data analyses, high-level control of autonomous systems etc.
With a focus on spatial cognition as a special case, this talk will introduce emerging research initiatives in human-centred cognitive computing, and present applications (e.g., in architecture design, smart environments, geography, robotics) where this research can directly impact our life. The talk will also present core open research concepts that need to be explored in the future.

Dr. Mehul Bhatt

FB 03, Cognitive Systems

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