The University of Macau (UM) said in a statement on Thursday that its Institute of Collaborative Innovation (ICI) hosted the first Macau Forum on Emotional Artificial Intelligence last Wednesday, with the one-day event attracting around 200 attendees.
The statement said that the forum featured various keynote speakers and had brought together scholars from the computer science, robotics, cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, communication studies, and psychology fields, presenting the latest advancements in “affective computing and emotion-aware artificial intelligence (AI), and explored how innovative technologies can detect human emotions through verbal, non-verbal cues, and even brain signals”.
UM Rector Yonghua Song, aka Song Yonghua, said during his speech at the forum that with the advancement of technology, emotional AI is playing an increasingly important role in promoting mental well-being by providing emotional support. Research in this area is attracting increasing attention and will have an even greater impact on social life in the future, Song, as noted by the statement, said.
The statement said that practical computational, philosophical, and ethical challenges in developing emotion-aware AI systems to enhance human-AI interactions were addressed during the forum, with keynote speakers each presenting and tackling various topics.
Moreover, the statement said that research findings by UM scholars were also presented during the forum.
This handout photo taken on April 16 and released on Thursday by the University of Macau (UM) shows UM Rector Yonghua Song (aka Song Yonghua) delivering a speech during the on-campus Macau Forum on Emotional Artificial Intelligence.
