National Chengchi University
Department of Psychology
2025 Fall Academic Seminar Series
Speaker:
Dr. Miao Cheng, Assistant Professor
Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Japan
Title:
How Machine and Human Perceive Affective Cues from Human Whole-Body Motion
Date & Time:
Thursday, November 27, 2025
14:10 – 16:00
Venue:
Room 080101, Department of Psychology, Kuo Fu Building, National Chengchi University
All faculty members and students are warmly invited to attend!
Trained as a psychologist, I conduct psychophysical and neurophysiological experiments to investigate human minds. In this talk, I will present a series of studies examining how we express and perceive emotions through body movements. The findings of these studies serve as the foundation for industrial designs that facilitate interpersonal communication between real and cyber spaces. The goals of my presentation are to highlight the significant role psychologists play in interdisciplinary research teams and to encourage psychology students to embrace unconventional opportunities whenever they arise.
Dr. Miao Cheng received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Hong Kong. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication and the Interdisciplinary ICT Research Center for Cyber and Real Spaces at Tohoku University, Japan. Her research focuses on nonverbal communication, with particular interest in how social cues (e.g., emotion, friendliness, interpersonal impressions) are conveyed through body movements and eye behaviors. Her long-term research goals are to integrate cognitive science, neuroscience, human–computer interaction, and computational modeling to investigate how variations in nonverbal behavior influence both digital and face-to-face communication.
Speaker Webpage:
https://www.r-info.tohoku.ac.jp/en/951162ecc2250e4449ce117ea7cfdc86.html
