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Abstract

In this talk, I will present on the challenges involved in conducting experiments with humans in the field of computational intelligence and results on human-like intelligence. Examples will be drawn from a number of experiments that we conducted in my cognitive engineering laboratory. Some of these experiments were as complex as recording and analysing psycho-physiological, eye tracking, speech and language data, while others involved the use of machine learning methods to learn human behaviour. Whether we attempt to understand human behavior or build machines that are human-like, the validity of the results rest on our ability to overcome the challenges in human-based experiments. Biography Prof. Dr. Hussein Abbass is a Professor of Information Technology at the University of New South Wales, Canberra Campus, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Operational Research Society (UK), a fellow of the Australian Computer Society, and a Senior Member of the IEEE. Prof. Abbass is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, and three other journals. Prof. Abbass’s work integrates cognitive science, operations research and artificial intelligence. He was the General Chair of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence held in Brisbane June 2012, which is the Premier and Largest event by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.