Talk by Minha Lee (PhD student, Eindhoven University of Technology)

Minha Lee, a PhD student at the Eindhoven University of Technology, will give a guest talk in the lab this week.

Good-bye Tamagotchi, Hello Tellmegotchi

Conversational AI systems that integrate both cognition and emotion help us examine and cultivate our moral selves.  When we talk with (rather than talk to) technology, we engage in a conversation with ourselves through technology that serves as our mirror. Thus, future technology can be our moral mirror not when we ask what technology can do for us, but when we ask what we can do for technology as a method for exploring what we can do for ourselves. Designing technology to be as moral as a human can (or should) be requires a radical shift to interactional morality with technological others, starting with examining how artificial minds and emotions stand to change our own moral decisions, emotions, and self-perception.

About Minha

Minha Lee is a HCI researcher with a background in philosophy and digital arts. She is currently pursuing her PhD project on how dyadic interactions with technological entities shape us as moral beings at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.