Berlin Brains: Objective Subjectivity

How Machines Learn to Understand People

We all experience the world in our own way: what bothers one person may go completely unnoticed by another. But if machines are to work together with us, they need to understand what we perceive and how we feel about it. If a video is supposed to deliver the right quality, a computer must recognize what we find disturbing. If an AI system is meant to help in a tense situation, it must detect rising stress or frustration before a conflict escalates. But human experience is subjective, so how can it be measured?

Sebastian Bosse and Birgit Nierula from the research group Interactive and Cognitive Systems at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute are working on making human inner experience readable for machines. To do this, they combine brain activity, body signals, and artificial intelligence. Together, they will discuss how subjective perception can be measured and where this technology is already being used, for example, in de-escalation training for security personnel.

Speaker:
Sebastian Bosse is Head of the Interactive and Cognitive Systems research group at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute.
Birgit Nierula is a researcher in the Interactive and Cognitive Systems research group at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute.

Moderation:
Jochen Müller

Information:
Berlin Brains is a joint event series organized by Urania Berlin, Stiftung Planetarium Berlin, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin, NeuroCure, Science of Intelligence, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, SFB 1315, TRR 295 ReTune, and TRR 384 IN-CODE.

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