A study shows that facial emotions are encoded in the brains of people with autism (ASD). Published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, the joint University of Trento-Stony Brook University study dismantles some beliefs about brain functioning in people with ASD and opens up new scenarios to improve their relational life. With machine learning, a representation of the neural models that each brain applies to decode emotions has been created. Riccardi (University...

The objective of the panel is to have a discussion on the challenges and opportunities of digital health. In the past century, health has been the domain where inventions and innovations have greatly impacted society. More recently the pace of innovation has increased in the technology sector. Advances in technology include novel devices, sensors and of course the whole gamma of AI algorithms and systems. These new systems can greatly help to reach a high level of...

Trento, December 12 2018 – Almost four million in funding to create an ambitious project: developing conversational artificial intelligence to support aging and active population. It is the overall budget of “Coadapt”, the international project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 program, in which the University of Trento will lead the research and development of  conversational artificial intelligence prototypes. A large part of...

Conversational Agents, Language Understanding Systems, Affective Computing and more. The SIS Lab realizes intelligent and conversational machine prototypes. In this selection we give an overview of the research challenges and applications.