EP10: Online Education Gets a Social Boost with Artificial Intelligence
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 worki...
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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.
EP 9: Esports Have Arrived and It’s a Whole New Ball Game
So esports, or electronic sports, have arrived. Want proof? Recent ABC telecasts aired Overwatch videogame matches on Saturday mornings – prime time f...
EP8: Don’t Get Burned. Understanding Tech Adoption Among Firefighters
As far as first responder work goes, the firefighter profession tops the danger list. So can wearable computing tech help firefighters stay safer at e...
EP7: AIs and People Create Something Beautiful
A Georgia Tech group called the Expressive Machinery Lab is tackling a specific challenge in the artificial intelligence landscape - they have develop...
EP6: Video Game Developers React in Wildly Different Ways to AI-Enabled Software
People are going to have a wide variety of reactions to artificially intelligent systems when we start working with them regularly. In this episode, w...
EP5: Robot Able to Instantly Identify Household Materials Without Touching Objects
Robots are a rare sighting outside industrial settings. In the home, only the Roomba vacuuming robot rivals any of our incumbent appliances. Sure, our...
EP4: Smart Toys Reducing Time, Cost of Service Dog Training
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 t...
EP3: Battling Bias and Making Better Decisions Using Visual Data Interactions
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 ...
EP2: Computers Dissect Every Minute of HBO's Game of Thrones to Reveal the Show's Dominant Colors and Dialogue
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 th...
EP1: A.I. Agent Plays Frogger and Convinces Spectators It Knows What It’s Doing
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 ...