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"Technologies for learning and well-being"
16:30-18:00 Tuesday 21 May
Venue: Keynes Hall, King’s College Cambridge
Digital technologies have made their way into all the aspects of our lives that, according to psychology, influence our well-being -- everything from social relationships and curiosity to engagement and learning. By bringing together research and methodologies well-established in psychology, education, neuroscience and human-computer interaction, we can begin to cultivate a new field dedicated to the design and development of technology that supports well-being and human potential. More specifically, in this seminar Professor Calvo will present a summary of our current projects on Affect and Learning technologies. This will be followed by an introduction to our Human-Computer interaction work aiming to support psychological well-being. The suggested HCI framework builds on the above mentioned disciplines, addressing intrapersonal factors of well-being such as motivation, engagement, reflective thought and mindfulness, interpersonal factors such as empathy, and extrapersonal such as altruism.
Rafael Calvo is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. He has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and has worked at universities in the US, Argentina and the UK, as well as being an Internet consultant on projects in several countries. He is the recipient of 5 teaching awards for his work on learning technologies, and the author of two books and many publications in the fields of learning technologies, affective computing and computational intelligence. In collaboration with Dorian Peters, Rafael is writing Positive Computing to be published by MIT Press in 2014.