XAI-PAC: Towards Explainable and Private Affective Computing
Jan 1, 2024
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Funding: SNF · January 2024 – January 2028
Wearable devices combined with AI methods can improve lives through affective computing, which tracks factors related to emotional states and stress for remote mental-health management. However, current AI methods are “black-boxed” and require vast sensitive data. The project addresses the need for explainable and privacy-aware affective computing.
Objectives
- Develop novel eXplainable AI (XAI) tools for affective-computing methods based on wearable sensor data with multimodal, interactive capabilities
- Develop privacy-aware ML methods for wearable sensor data, including privacy-aware personalization and domain-adaptation
- Fuse privacy awareness and explainability into a single integrated approach
Authors
Professor
Silvia Santini is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of USI since September 2016, where she co-leads the People-Centered Computing Lab together with Prof. Marc Langheinrich. From July 2014 until August 2016 she held an Associate Professor position at TU Dresden, where she led the Embedded Systems Lab. From October 2011 until July 2014 she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of TU Darmstadt, Germany, where she led the Wireless Sensor Networks Lab. From 2009 until 2011 she was a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Friedemann Mattern’s Distributed Systems Group at ETH Zurich, and from November 2010 until February 2011 she joined Leonidas Guibas’s research group at Stanford University as a visiting scholar. Silvia completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Friedemann Mattern at ETH Zurich in 2009, and graduated in Telecommunication Engineering (with honors) from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in May 2004.