[4eyes] FW: [FACULTY] CS Talk: Norman I. Badler, June 12 @ 3:30

[Matthew Turk]

Even though it’s exam week, I hope many of you can come to Norm Badler’s talk on Monday at 3pm. Prof. Badler is a pioneer in computer graphics, human modeling and simulation, animated agents, and related areas. He’s also a UCSB graduate and is in town to give the commencement talk for the College of Creative Studies graduation ceremony on Sunday.

 

                Matthew

 

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Subject: [FACULTY] CS Talk: Norman I. Badler, June 12 @ 3:30

 

Computer Science Department Presents: 

 

Monday - June 12, 2017

3:00 - 4:00pm

CS Conference Room, 1132 Harold Frank Hall

Host: Matthew Turk

 

Stimulating People, Personality, and Thermal Responses

Norman I. Badler (University of Pennsylvania)

Simulating human activities in an urban setting requires a fundamental understanding of what human behaviors are likely, normal, or anomalous in such an environment. While many CG research groups are producing animated crowds of thousands of people, generally the agents are mostly just pedestrians wandering the traversable areas. Over the past decade we have been developing systems for animating data-driven, purposeful, functional individual agents. We developed open source software for Parameterized Behavior Trees, called ADAPT, which exploits "smart events" to drive agent behaviors. Our most recent work addresses the impact of personality type on individual movements, and environmental influences on human locomotion behaviors. 

Norman I. Badler is the Rachleff Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been on that faculty since 1974. Active in computer graphics since 1968 with more than 250 technical papers, his research involves developing software to acquire, simulate, animate and control 3D computer graphics human body, face, gesture, locomotion, and manual task motions, both individually and for heterogeneous groups. Badler received the BA degree in Creative Studies Mathematics from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1970, the MSc in Mathematics in 1971, and the Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1975, both from the University of Toronto. He directs the SIG Center for Computer Graphics and its two associated research components: ViDi, the Center for Digital Visualization, and HMS, the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation. Badler is the Founder and Director of the Digital Media Design BSE undergraduate program. He was the Cecilia Fitler Moore Department Chair of Computer and Information Science from 1990 to 1994, and during 2001 to 2005 he was the Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Penn.

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