The Human-Centric AI Podcast

Dr. Rana el Kaliouby and Graham Page from Affectiva talk with iMotions Vice President Of Product Management, Olee Jensen, about the launch of iMotions’ new online data collection tool. This last year, many organizations have been forced to pivot and incorporate new technologies into their businesses as a result of the pandemic. Media analytics researchers that previously gathered data from in-pers...

Today’s episode features Imat-uve CEO Hans Peter Schlegelmilch as well as software engineer Dennis Boghoff. Imat-uve is an innovative, independent development and engineering company based in Germany.  The company has an innovation team who develops new product concepts. One such concept they are working on is around fragrance diffusing, using a person’s emotional and cognitive state (via Aff...

Today’s episode features Affectiva CSO Andy Zeilman moderating a panel of experts: Dr. Bryan Reimer, Research Scientist at MIT, Caroline Chung, Senior Business Development Manager at Veoneer, and Richard Schram, Technical Director at Euro NCAP. This panel explored how AI and computer vision can improve the comfort, health and wellbeing of not only the driver, but also back seat passengers. They al...

This episode features Affectiva Chief Strategy Officer, Andy Zeilman. Andy leads our automotive revenue growth strategy, as well as co-runs finance and operations with our COO. He has diverse experience in investment banking, product management and business development. Prior to Affectiva, he led the  Enterprise OEM sales team at Nuance.  Based on his ongoing conversations every day with...

Today’s episode features Affectiva CEO Dr. Rana el Kaliouby moderating a panel of experts: Dr. Bryan Reimer, Research Scientist at MIT, Caroline Chung, Sr. Business Development Manager at Veoneer, and Richard Schram, Technical Director at Euro NCAP. This panel explored how AI and computer vision can aid in child presence detection, seat belt detection, seat configuration, airbag deployment, and mo...

Today’s episode features Paige Guge, Design Researcher at Vidlet and Affectiva’s Media Analytics Account Director, Alex Duckett. Paige is a trained researcher experienced in utilizing a multi-methodological approach to research, with an expertise in qualitative design. Alex is an experienced client partner across blue chip and startup clients alike. He supports clients through on-boarding, trainin...

Today’s episode features Lizi Pritchard, Associate Director at the Australia-Based research and analytics agency, Nature. Lizi is fascinated by human cognition and behavior, which is what drove her to pursue a career in market research. After her first market research role at Kantar Millward Brown in 2013, she’s now an experienced quantitative researcher with a track record of helping clients grow...

Today’s episode features Stefan Hamerich, Director of Product Management at Cerence. Cerence is the global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the automotive world. As an innovation partner to the world’s leading automakers, it is helping transform how a car feels, responds and learns. Its track record is built on more than 20 years of knowledge and more than 350 million car...

Consumer rating agencies like Euro NCAP can influence the prioritization of vehicle safety systems, especially as it relates to how OEMs and Tier 1s shape their roadmap. Starting in 2020, Euro NCAP is proposing rewarding driver monitoring systems to mitigate the very significant problems of driver distraction and impairment. Listen to this panel of automotive experts discuss how today’s systems ne...

Today’s episode features Affectiva CEO Dr. Rana el Kaliouby interviewing Daren Poole, Global Head of Creative, Insights Division at Kantar.  With ever-changing government responses to the global pandemic, people’s attitudes towards COVID-19 are in flux. It’s difficult for brands to determine the right messages and creatives that are authentic, empathetic and thoughtful. On top of that, budget...

In this special Affectiva Asks podcast episode , Affectiva CEO Dr. Rana el Kaliouby interviews Manal Ramsis, General Manager of Affectiva's Cairo Office. Rana and Manal talk about the genesis and importance of the Affectiva Cairo location (as well as its advantages), the ins and outs of leading an international team, and how to effectively promote cross-cultural collaboration. Read more at the epi...

Today’s episode features an interview with Affectiva Data Acquisition Manager, Ryan Abbott. At Affectiva, we collect a lot of real world automotive video data of people in vehicles, which fuel the training and testing of our deep learning algorithms. During our interview, Ryan covered our approach to automotive data collection, how that process evolved with the pandemic, and even some fundraising...

Today’s episode features Affectiva CEO Dr. Rana el Kaliouby interviewing Sean Batir, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at BMW as part of her Virtual Girl Decoded Book tour.  Every day, there are more and more exciting developments in the automotive industry, with a lot of automation driving change in this space. Traditionally, the focus has been on what's going on outside of the vehicle. At Af...

In our latest Affectiva Asks podcast episode , we feature Terence Scroope, Vice President of Insights and Solutions at Unruly. We spoke about some of the recent research work he has done, especially around gender stereotypes in US advertising, ads surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement, and much more. Read more at the blog here: https://blog.affectiva.com/balancing-long-term-brand-effects-and...

Today’s episode features Dr. Ned Sahin, Founder and CEO of Brain Power. Dr. Sahin has a PH.d in cognitive neuroscience from Harvard, he has a Master’s from MIT, an Undergrad degree from Williams College and spent some time at Oxford. He was also recently featured in Affectiva CEO Dr. Rana el Kaliouby's book, Girl Decoded, as early on in her career, Rana had explored how her Emotion AI technology c...

This episode features a number of guests from Affectiva CEO Dr. Rana el Kaliouby’s virtual book tour. What is a Virtual Book Tour? Rana launched her book “Girl Decoded” in April 2020, in the midst of the COVID pandemic: so all of her planned book promotional events and travel were (rightfully) cancelled.  Yet we wanted make the most out of this by creating a standing Virtual Book Tour, where...

Today’s episode features John Pelliccio, Head of Product Communications, Automotive Systems at Bose Corporation. During the interview, he talks to us about his background, the challenges auto manufacturers face with regard to audio within the vehicle, and how understanding something as simple as audio can make a huge difference in your automotive experience. 

We have a very special episode featuring Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, Co-Founder and CEO of Affectiva. Rana is also an AI Thought Leader, machine Learning Scientist, and now a published author. During the interview, she talks to us about her background and personal journey co-founding Affectiva, her new book, “Girl Decoded” which launched this month, and some of her personal stories around leadership - i...

One of the hardest things for marketers to understand is how people feel. This is quite difficult because we don't think about how we feel as we're feeling it. We have been conditioned to give rational reasons for “why” we do things. And for those providing feedback to ads in focus groups or through surveys, people often say what they wish were true, or what they think the surveyor wants to hear.&...

In our latest Affectiva Asks podcast , we talk about human-centric AI with six speakers at Affectiva’s 2019 Emotion AI Summit: Rudina Seseri of Glasswing Ventures, Dr. Cory Kidd of Catalia Health, Dana Lowell of Faurecia, John Suh of Hyundai CRADLE, David Woessner of Local Motors, and Terah Lyons of The Partnership on AI.

In our latest Affectiva Asks podcast , we interview Affectiva Senior Product Manager Abdelrahman Mahmoud. During the interview, he talks to us a bit about his background in software engineering, what he sees as challenges within the automotive industry and how Affectiva’s Human Perception AI technology aims to enhance the occupant experience in next generation vehicles . Download this eBook to lea...

Today’s episode features Dr. Jessica Wilson, Senior Product Specialist at iMotions. During the interview, she talks to us about how commercially available tools in neuroscience can help you define human behavior for yourself, how iMotions and Affectiva are working together, as well as a teaser of her upcoming technical workshop at the Emotion AI Summit, “ More Data, Better Data: Defining Human Beh...

Today’s episode features Danny Lange, VP of AI and Machine Learning at Unity. During the interview, he talks to us about his work with car companies at Unity, some of the projects and challenges he has seen OEMs and Tier 1s encounter, and his thoughts around technical hurdles to overcome around the design of autonomous vehicles. Learn more about Unity's work in automotive here: https://unity.com/s...

Today’s episode features our CEO Dr. Rana el Kaliouby interviewing Lisa Feldman Barrett, distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, where she focuses on the study of emotion and she directs the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Lab. During their interview, they discuss Dr. Barrett’s background, her recent research paper on challenges Inferring Emotion from Human Facial Mov...

Today’s episode features Dr. Joe Dusseldorp, a plastic surgeon who works with conditions involving the facial nerve. During our discussion, he explains how he has worked with physicians to put together a program using AI to help patients suffering from the loss of facial movement on one side of the face. His research was also just published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal - read the...