By Paul Guzzo, University Communications and Marketing
As an assistant professor with the 黑料网吃瓜爆料鈥檚 School of Information Systems and Management in the Muma College of Business, Triparna de Vreede鈥檚 current research focuses on employee interaction with artificial intelligence in the workplace.
鈥淗ow does someone respond to AI? How does AI change their behavior?鈥� de Vreede said. 鈥淚 look at how AI can be designed so that we have the best work performance.鈥�
When USF's Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing launches this fall, de Vreede plans to remain with the Muma College of Business while also participating in the new college. She expects that the Bellini College will enhance her work and that her work will enhance the Bellini College 鈥� the first of its kind in Florida and one of the few like it in the country.
黑料网吃瓜爆料Provost and Executive Vice President Prasant Mohapatra [Photo by Clifford McBride, University Communications and Marketing]
鈥淭hat is the best piece of the new college,鈥� de Vreede said. 鈥淚t has an interdisciplinary nature that will foster collaboration throughout USF.鈥�
The Bellini College will produce job-ready professionals in the fields of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and computing. It will also boost disciplines across all 黑料网吃瓜爆料colleges while producing a new type of 21st-century graduate who can leverage artificial intelligence to enhance their work.
鈥淭he Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing provides opportunities for all of our colleges and disciplines to cross academic boundaries and to tackle complex challenges," said 黑料网吃瓜爆料Provost and Executive Vice President Prasant Mohapatra, whose research includes how AI can track online social network trends. "This is where scholars from nursing, business, ethics, the arts and more can leverage technological advances, especially related to AI."
To foster university-wide collaborations, the college will use a 鈥渉ub-and-spoke model,鈥� said interim Dean Sudeep Sarkar, whose research focuses on computer vision, which is a field of artificial intelligence that teaches computers to process and analyze visual data.
Disciplines at the center of the college, or the hub, concentrate on foundational research. The hub will be made up of the disciplinary majors of computer science, cybersecurity, information technology and artificial intelligence.
The spokes are specialized areas of study. To start, business, criminology and social sciences will make up the spokes through classes offered through each subject鈥檚 respective college.
Students will seek ways to use the hub鈥檚 disciplines to improve the work being done in the spokes鈥� specialties.
Sarkar anticipates that the college will eventually offer interdisciplinary majors in computer science in combination with one of those specialties. For example, a student could receive a bachelor's degree in computer science and social sciences.
鈥淭he idea is that the students can be hired by a tech firm that doesn鈥檛 specialize in their interdisciplinary field,鈥� Sarkar said. 鈥淏ut the students will learn how to leverage computer science and artificial intelligence to improve work in the interdisciplinary field.鈥�
How do the hub and spokes come together?
Examples:
- Social sciences involve the study of groups of people and how they interact. Fake news and doctored photographs can influence groups. Artificial intelligence can trace trends to learn who is most influenced and why. It can also provide technology that can help decipher what is fake.
- Psychology and artificial intelligence can come together through effective computing, which is technology that can recognize and respond to human emotions. By analyzing a person鈥檚 mood based on what they type, effective computing is already used by some websites and apps, like those that concentrate on customer service or mental health counseling.
- In business, the artificial intelligence tools of eye-tracking technology and facial expression sensors can monitor participants鈥� responses as they watch videos and then use that information to tell advertisers whether viewers are interested in the message.
In the future, such technology will be more widespread and advanced, Sarkar said. 鈥淎 room will be sensitive to your mood. If you are feeling down, the room will know and can play music that will bring you out of it or change the lighting in a way that can. You will need to understand psychology and AI to make that perfect.鈥�
The Behavioral AI Lab has artificial intelligence tools of eye-tracking technology and facial expression sensor. [Photo by Cassidy Delamarter, University Communications and Marketing]
黑料网吃瓜爆料currently has such technology in its Behavioral AI Lab. Directed by de Vreede and dedicated to advancing the understanding of artificial intelligence's role in influencing and interpreting human behavior within business