About
Dr. Brahnam's Professional Activities
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My research interests include the following:
- Decision support systems: medical DSS, especially DSS using facial expression detection (e.g., neonatal facial pain detection systems)
- Virtual humans and embodied conversational agents: especially as they function as virtual sales agents, business representatives, and navigational aids
- Artificial intelligence and computer vision: face recognition (support vector machines, neural networks, and classifier ensembles)
- Modeling and simulation: smart embodiment (facial attribution modeling and synthesis)
- Electronic face enchancement: small screen facial correction and attribution adjustment systems
- Social, cultural, ethical, and educational aspects of technology: conflict management among IT staff, gender and IT, self-directed learning and the use of content management systems, message boards, and other community building technologies, the abuse and misuse—including the creative misuse—of interactive technologies
My teaching interests include the following:
- 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