Sheryl Brahnam's Professional Activities: About Page

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Dr. Brahnam's Professional Activities


		"Hello, my name is Sheryl Brahnam and this website presents a summary of my professional activities. Short lists of my research and teaching interests are provided below. Detailed documents are accessible above."

Decision support systems: medical DSS, especially DSS using facial expression detection (e.g., neonatal facial pain detection systems) and bioinformatics, especially protein classification and representation.
Artificial intelligence and computer vision: biometrics (face recognition; person re-identification; action classification; palm, fingerprint, ear identificatoin; texture descriptors; and general-purpose ensemble systems).
Modeling and simulation: smart embodiment (facial attribution modeling and synthesis).
Cultural and ethical aspects of technology: conflict management among IT staff; gender and IT; trauma studies; psychoanalysis and technology; anthropomorphism; presence; the abuse and misuse—including the creative misuse—of interactive technologies; feminist HCI; virtual reality psychotherapies; technologies of well-being; wearables; and experiments in new media and sound art.
Rhetoric and conversational agents: ethos as it applies to computer interfaces, especially conversational agents.

Management Information Systems
Decision Support Systems
Distance Education
Programming Languages: C++, JAVA, Visual Basic, PHP, MATLAB
Internet for Business: HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Content Management Systems, Virtual Sales Agents