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Language Models with Body Language: Advancing Gesture Selection for Virtual Humans
As part of our summer research series, spotlighting early-career scientists advancing the frontiers of human–AI interaction, we’re pleased to share...
Investigating Emotional Reasoning and Appraisal Bias in LLMs
BYLINE: Ala N. Tak, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Assistant, Affective Computing Group As a PhD candidate...
On Understanding Humans Through Machines: A Journey into Multimodal Affective Computing
Kevin Hyekang Joo is an AI researcher at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (USC ICT), and a PhD student in the Thomas Lord Department of...
Designing With Empathy in the Age of AI
BYLINE: —Kaelyn Ellison, Graduate Student, DePaul University, HCI Researcher & Design Intern, USC ICT If you had told me a few years ago that...
Bridging Play + Purpose Via Human-Centered AI
ICT is running a series of articles to highlight the work of our Undergraduate Researchers. In this essay we hear from Jaehyuk Choi, who is working...
Navigating the Human Machine: Engineering, Design, and Decision-Making
Dr. Deniz Marti joined USC ICT in March 2023, after a postdoctoral Pedagogy Fellowship at Harvard University, and will take up her first faculty...
Honoring 250 Years of the U.S. Army
By Dr. Randall W. Hill, Jr, Vice Dean, Viterbi School of Engineering, Omar B. Milligan Professor in Computer Science (Games and Interactive Media),...
On Crafting Personalities with Code (IVA ‘25)
By Bin Han, PhD student, Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering As a PhD student in Computer Science at USC’s Institute for Creative...
Presenting Personalized Adaptive Learning Systems for AI Upskilling at FLAIRS-38
BYLINE: Andrew Leeds, Technical Support Lead, USC Institute for Creative Technologies Last month at the 38th International FLAIRS Conference, I had...