2024-11-19. "Data-driven AI for Multimodal Communication." Inaugural Webinar for the Multidata Project.
2024-09-06. "Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Co-Intelligence." Center for Policy Studies, Case Western Reserve University.
2024-07-21. Casa Antonio, Spiaggia dei Maronti, Isola d'Ischia, Provincia di Napoli, Italia.
2024-05-21. The Integrated Study of the Mind.
Center for Cognitive Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, & Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.
2023-12-16. 2023 International Conference on Multimodal Communication.
2020-12-12&13, China Standard Time. "Mistaking Our Futures." ICIMC2020: 2020 International Conference on Intercultural Multimodal Communication. Changsa, China.
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2020-11-25, 7pm GMT-6.
Story, Projection, and Parable: The Fabric of Meaning.
Why are we so innovative? Where do new ideas come from? Why are human beings so exceptionally good at innovation, leaving other species mentally in the dust? How can we hold onto new ideas once they are formed? This book explores the claim that the human spark, the source of innovation and the origin of ideas, was an advance that occurred in a particular kind of mental operation, which Turner calls blending. View the book talk.
Human communication is multimodal, involving language, co-speech gesture, interpersonal interaction, audiovisual components, affordances of the environment, media, and technology. Traditional text corpora have only just begun to include examples of multimodal communication. In this talk, we will look at theoretical and empirical aspects of computer-assisted research on a massive multimodal corpus of human language and communication. View the talk.
Human thought stretches across vast ranges of time, space, causation, and agency, and yet the machinery we have for producing these thoughts is highly local. How can we manage with local minds to construct, manipulate, and manage such vast and diffuse ranges of ideas? View the talk.