DS Coffee Klatch ft. Prof. Whitehill | Tuesday, Feb. 13 @ 2:00PM, UH520 | AI Systems for Automated Guidance to Students, Teachers, and Workers
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Sent on behalf of DS Council
Coffee Klatch will take place on Tuesday, February 13th @ 2:00PM in UH520. This week, Prof. Jake Whitehill will be joining us to give a 30min talk followed by a social/meet-greet. Please see details below regarding his presentation. We would love for you to join us!
Prof. Jake Whitehill
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
2:00PM – 3:00PM
Unity Hall 520
Title: AI Systems for Automated Guidance to Students, Teachers, and Workers
Abstract: Recent advances in machine perception and generative AI offer new possibilities to give students, teachers, and workers better feedback about how to improve their performance, and also to form productive collaborations with each other. In this talk I will present 3 projects in this vein: (1) Tracking and encouraging better collaboration among students in the classroom: New methods for speech recognition and speaker diarization can give students and teachers feedback about who is talking when, to whom, about what, in the challenging conditions of school classrooms, especially when multiple people may talk simultaneously. (2) Human-AI collaboration for motor & perceptual learning in the workplace: How can a computer vision system both assist workers in a recycling plant to work more efficiently, and to learn the task more effectively? What opportunities exist for mutual benefits between the AI and the workers? (3) Training teachers to probe more deeply: How can large language models capture teacher and student discourse and give teachers specific feedback about the quality of their teaching? These projects are joint work with Colorado University (CU Boulder) as well as Virginia Commonwealth University.