Jesse Hoey
Professor
Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Dr. Jesse Hoey is a professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Research Interest
Professor Hoey works in artificial intelligence, affective computing, and health informatics. He is primarily interested in developing computational models of human interactions with machines, and in using these models to build artificially intelligent applications in healthcare. This research involves four main aspects. First, he works on decision theoretic planning, particularly on Markov decision processes (MDPs), and their partially observable counterparts, POMDPs. He is interested in learning these models from data, and on solving them, particularly for large state, action, and observation spaces. Second, he works on sensor-based recognition of human behaviour (including gesture, facial expression and gait/body posture) from dynamic sensor streams (including video). He is interested in task-oriented sensor stream analysis (e.g. computer vision), in which the goal is to optimise over the action/policy space for an automated agent.
Publications
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Christian Peters, Thomas Hermann, Sven Wachsmuth and Jesse Hoey Automatic Task Assistance for People with Cognitive Disabilities in Brushing Teeth - A User Study with the TEBRA System. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 5, 4, March, 2014
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Michelle E. Karg, Ali-Akbar Samadani, Rob Gorbet, Kolja Kuhnlenz , Jesse Hoey and Dana Kulic Body Movements for Affective Expression: A Survey of Automatic Recognition and Generation. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2014
