Dr. Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne from Oxford University, UK mentioned that ‘creativity’ and ‘empathy’ are the two most important abilities for the 4th Industrial Revolution. Recently, many research activities to enhance ‘creativity and ‘empathy’ by applying AI are receiving great attention due to increased interest in these abilities.
H-Lab at the Department of Human ICT Convergence of SKKU (Advising professor: Jun Dong CHO) is working on developing a platform for enhancing empathy that helps to improve motivation of self-actualization. Throughout the convergence research activities on humanities and science, they are analyzing how ‘empathy’ helps to strengthen people’s social intelligence. Also, the center is developing a communication platform and smart appliances by using tangible/physical avatars, and virtual avatars.
“This is very original research which is difficult to find nationally and internationally. Our center will do our best to promote our research competence all over the world and to improve quality of life by enhancing empathic communication skills,” said Prof. CHO who established the ‘Human ICT Convergence’ department at SKKU.
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