Speaker: Prof. Kang Lee

Time: 20:00, 2 November 2022 (Wednesday) (Beijing time)

Tencent Meeting ID: 938-799-837

Password: 1102

Abstract

Part One: Introduction of OISE Program (University of Toronto)

The Applied Psychology Programme at UIC is associated with the prestigious OISE (Ontario Institute of Education Studies), which is a Master’s degree program at the University of Toronto (UT).  Through this overseas collaboration, UIC students are offered the opportunity to take two Major Elective courses of psychology offered from the UIC-OISE Program, so that they could engage students and professors from different cultures and discuss human development and research-based issues and topics.

Part Two: Talk

What if you had a way to use your phone to detect with 85% accuracy whether a person was lying?

For nearly 30 years, Professor Kang Lee has studied the development of lying in childhood. His research has led to a new imaging technique called transdermal optical imaging, which can detect facial blood flow on human faces and use this information to measure a variety of physiological and psychological states. Professor Lee's research on child lying has led to legal reforms in Canada regarding the treatment of child witnesses. In this talk, Professor Lee will discuss the major discoveries he has made about the development of lying in children, and how this research led to the invention of transdermal optical imaging and its potential contributions to the advancement of affective artificial intelligence for applications in security, marketing, education, and healthcare.

About Prof. Kang Lee

Dr. Kang Lee is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, and a professor at the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto. Dr. Lee is an internationally recognized authority on the development of lying in children. He has published over 320 scientific papers with over 20,000 citations and an H factor of 81. He is an editorial board member of "Developmental Science" and "Journal of Experimental Child Psychology”. Professor Lee's work has received worldwide media coverage in news outlets such as The New York Times, BBC, CNN and NHK, and his TED talk has received more than 14 million views.