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FIDO: Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations

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The FIDO Sensors team is creating wearable technology to allow working dogs to communicate. Assistance dogs can tell their owners with hearing impairments what sounds they have heard; guide dogs can tell their owners if there is something in their path that must be avoided. We will be demonstrating a variety of wearable sensors designed for dogs to activate.

Wristwash: towards automatic handwashing assessment using a wrist-worn device

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Ubiquitous Computing Group

Washing hands is one of the easiest yet most effective ways to prevent spreading illnesses and diseases. However, not adhering to thorough handwashing routines is a substantial problem worldwide. For example, in hospital operations lack of hygiene leads to healthcare associated infections. We present WristWash, a wrist-worn sensing platform that integrates an inertial measurement unit and a Hidden Markov Model-based analysis method that enables automated assessments of handwashing routines according to recommendations provided by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Prototyping and Testing Chatbots

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Public Design Workshop

Chatbots are one of the newest media in consumer-facing technologies. A chatbot can be defined broadly as any service that users interact with primarily through text. More and more companies and organizations are choosing to communicate with their users through bots. There are a couple reasons for this: one, the barrier to entry is relatively low since users don't have to download a new app or learn a new UI; and, two, since chatbots communicate primarily through text, a bot affords an organization the opportunity to add personality to their brand.

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Feb 20

Meet 2020 ICPC NAC Sponsors

Sponsors of the 2020 ICPC North America Championship are welcoming Georgia Tech students to meet with them on Feb. 20, from 12 to 5 p.m.
Feb 20

IPaT Thursday Think Tank: Future of Language Research

The science of language: linguistics, natural language processing, human language processing, and the role of language in society.
Feb 22-23

Georgia Tech Sports Innovation Challenge

A free 24-hour hackathon focused on innovation in sports and athletics.

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GVU News

Changing the Conversation: Georgia Tech Researchers Provide New Approach to Automated Story Generation

Research from Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing provides a novel approach that improves the combination of automated story generation with natural language.
Jill Watson Team Reaches Semifinals in IBM AI XPrize Competition

Jill Watson – Georgia Tech’s AI designed explicitly for answering student questions about specific courses - was named as one of 10 semifinalists in IBM’s AI XPrize competition.
Why asking an AI to explain itself can make things worse

MIT Technology Review, Jan 30, 2020