Speaker Information

Chaona Chen

University of Glasgow

Position

Postdoc

Talk Topics: Keywords and/or titles (recommended)

Facial expressions, Cross-cultural communication, Data-driven methods, Emotion perception, Social robots, Conversational agents

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[Research interest] Chaona Chen is a postdoctoral Research Associate currently under the ERC-funded program ‘Computing the Face Syntax of Social Communication.’ Her research interest including to understand how facial expressions are used in daily conversation using the method of social psychophysics. She is also interested in developing facial expressions for social robots and improving human-robot interactions.

[Eduction] Graduated from the University of Glasgow with a Ph.D. entitled ‘The Dual Role of Culture on Signalling and Receiving Dynamic Facial Expressions’ in 2017. Before that, she studied Psychology and Philosophy in Wuhan University in China and graduated with a B.Sc. in Psychology (First Class) in 2013.

[Publications] Her publications can be found on Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=0S2ffSAAAAAJ&hl=en
Or please visit her website: https://chaonachen.wordpress.com/

[Contact email] chaona.chen@glasgow.ac.uk