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Take a deep dive into human-focused technology and computing research in the GVU Center at Georgia Tech. Each episode focuses on a cutting-edge innovation, its impact, and how the experts pulled it off. In the GVU Center, we’re keeping the human in the loop.
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EP10: Online Education Gets a Social Boost with Artificial Intelligence from 2020-01-24T16:49:18
A new AI developed at Georgia Tech, the Jill Social Agent, was designed and launched in 2019 to explicitly connect students quickly and get them working together. The agent was developed in part as...
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EP 9: Esports Have Arrived and It’s a Whole New Ball Game from 2019-10-25T17:27
So esports, or electronic sports, have arrived. Want proof? Recent ABC telecasts aired Overwatch videogame matches on Saturday mornings – prime time for major sports specials – and the esports indu...
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EP8: Don’t Get Burned. Understanding Tech Adoption Among Firefighters from 2019-09-23T17:16
As far as first responder work goes, the firefighter profession tops the danger list. So can wearable computing tech help firefighters stay safer at emergency scenes or rescue the occasional cat in...
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EP7: AIs and People Create Something Beautiful from 2019-08-19T16:19
A Georgia Tech group called the Expressive Machinery Lab is tackling a specific challenge in the artificial intelligence landscape - they have developed public exhibitions where the AI agents are f...
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EP6: Video Game Developers React in Wildly Different Ways to AI-Enabled Software from 2019-07-29T18:55
People are going to have a wide variety of reactions to artificially intelligent systems when we start working with them regularly. In this episode, we discuss a new AI-enabled software system for ...
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EP5: Robot Able to Instantly Identify Household Materials Without Touching Objects from 2019-07-08T18:47
Robots are a rare sighting outside industrial settings. In the home, only the Roomba vacuuming robot rivals any of our incumbent appliances. Sure, our coffee maker may soon talk to us while brewing...
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EP4: Smart Toys Reducing Time, Cost of Service Dog Training from 2019-06-17T20:08
How do dogs get jobs? Well first they have to go to dog school, but not every dog makes the grade. Finding out if canines have the right temperament to become service animals or train for other job...
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EP3: Battling Bias and Making Better Decisions Using Visual Data Interactions from 2019-05-28T16:17
We lean on data a lot - in catching bad guys to making hiring decisions and even planning the weekly grocery list. But we’re biased creatures and can sometimes get it wrong the first time.
EP2: Computers Dissect Every Minute of HBO's Game of Thrones to Reveal the Show's Dominant Colors and Dialogue from 2019-05-14T01:20:10
Winter has arrived. The end of a pop culture era is here with the final episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones airing on Sunday. Fans of the show express their fandom in many different ways, but none qui...
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EP1: A.I. Agent Plays Frogger and Convinces Spectators It Knows What It’s Doing from 2019-04-29T21:14:33
Why did the frog cross the road? Georgia Tech’s newest artificial intelligence (AI) system plays the video game Frogger and can offer up explanations to human spectators about why it makes each mov...
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