You're Invited To Learn About Human Interaction With Self Driving Cars At Cornell Tech Faculty Roosevelt Island Community Conversation With Professor Wendy Ju Thursday October 10

You're invited to learn about human interaction with self driving cars.

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The Cornell Tech Faculty Roosevelt Island Community conversation begins a second year on Thursday October 10 with a presentation by Professor Wendy Ju on:

Interaction With Automation:

According to Cornell Tech

Where did this $^@#$! Autonomous Car Learn to Drive? Addressing Cross-cultural differences in Autonomous Car Design.

About this Event

Today’s autonomous cars are designed to follow the letter of the local law, but do not adapt to regional variations in driving behavior. At scale, this lack of adaptation can cause accidents and cost lives. Wendy Ju will talk about recent and on-going research to understand how cross-cultural differences should inform the design of autonomous cars.

About Wendy

Wendy Ju is an Assistant Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science field at Cornell University. Her work in the areas of human-robot interaction and automated vehicle interfaces highlights the ways that interactive devices can communicate and engage people without interrupting or intruding. Dr. Ju has innovated numerous methods for early-stage prototyping of automated systems to understand how people will respond to systems before the systems are built. She has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and a Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT.

This event is FREE and open to the public.

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More about Professor's Ju's work with self driving cars here:

... To date, Ju has carried out most of her experiments around Stanford. She has found that people there are pretty nonchalant when they encounter robots. “A lot of people are very pro-technology and they also work in technology so they’re very much like, ‘Oh yeah, this is happening now,’” she said.

Having recently moved to New York City, she is curious to find out whether people will behave differently or the same way. One of her first projects at Cornell Tech will explore how people interact with a troupe of chair robots -— essentially chairs that can reconfigure themselves in a space. She will also carry out further on-road experiments with ghost drivers....

and this CBS Sunday Morning report on self driving cars.



Buckle up.

The first 2018-19 Roosevelt Island Cornell Tech Faculty community conversation was with Professor Serge  Belongie on Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Augmented Reality. Watch the video here.

The second 2018-19 Roosevelt Island Cornell Tech Faculty community conversation was with Professor Nicolai Dell on Creating Tech For Underserved Communities. Watch the video here.

The third 2018-19 Roosevelt Island Cornell Tech Faculty community conversation was with  Professor Mor Naaman on Tech, Media & Democracy. Don't have video of that presentation.

The fourth 2018 -19 Roosevelt Island Cornell Tech Faculty community conversation was with Professor James Grimmelman on Law, Technology and the Sealand Data Haven. Watch the video here.

Am very much looking forward to this year's Roosevelt Island Cornell Tech faculty community conversation starting this Thursday.