SSA Canberra invites you to its May branch meeting of 2023, which will feature Linh Nghiem from the University of Sydney present in-person (+streamed online) on Functional Shape Analysis of Empathic Accuracy
Time: Start at 5:45pm and finish by 7:00pm Canberra time.
Venue: Room 4.05 in Marie Reay Teaching Centre, Australian National University (MRTC ANU), or via Zoom. Please see the bottom of this event page for Zoom links.
Dinner: After the talk we will be holding a dinner at 7.15pm at Madam Lu Malaysian Restaurant, 20/42 West Row, Canberra (Madam Lu Malaysian Restaurant | Facebook).
If you are interested in attending the dinner, please let us know by 6pm Monday 29 May by entering your details at SSA Canberra Branch dinner attendance sheet or contacting Warren Muller (warren.muller@csiro.au ; 0407 916 868). Please regard this as a firm commitment, not just an intention. For withdrawals after the deadline, please remove your name from the sheet and phone or text Warren (0407 916 868).
NOTE: We are offering discounts to SSA early career and student members who attend dinner! For this meeting, dinners will be a fixed charge of $10 for student members and $20 for early career members.
Talk details
Speaker: Dr. Linh Nghiem, University of Sydney
Topic: Functional Shape Analysis of Empathic Accuracy
Abstract:
Empathic accuracy (EA) is the ability of one person to accurately understand the thoughts and emotions of others. A widely used computer-based paradigm to measure EA for a subject is to compare the subject’s continuous ratings of a target’s feelings with the ratings given by the target themselves. Nevertheless, current measures of EA are based only on pointwise comparison between the two curves. As a result, these measures are not reliable when misalignments occur in the observed curves, which arise commonly due to the nature of EA studies. In this work, we propose new measures for EA by accounting for the global shape of both the subject’s curve and the target’s curve, which motivate the use of time warping functions in modelling the observed curves. These warping functions are able to accommodate a wide range of misalignments and can be incorporated naturally into many statistical models of functional data with efficient estimation algorithms. We will discuss the new EA measures in social and musical EA studies.
Biography:
Linh Nghiem is a Lecturer in Statistics from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney. As a methodological and applied statistician, Linh is interested in developing novel statistical methodologies to address complex scientific questions using data. His current methodological interests are measurement error models, dimension reduction, and graphical models. On the applied side, Linh is collaborating with scientists to investigate human perception of music as well as how music can be used to improve social empathy among people in society.
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Topic: SSA Canberra branch meeting
Time: May 30, 2023 05:45 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
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