Human AI: Modeling, Simulation and Analysis of Adaptive Human Mental, Social and Health-Related Processes

About

Mental, social, and health-related processes can all change and adapt over time with human behaviour. This course will present theories and findings from human-directed disciplines such as cognitive, social, health and neurosciences, to gain insight into underlying mechanisms and pathways of human processes. These causal pathways, can be modeled as networks. by the framework and the software provided. In the second week, an own project is addressed for a publication that can be finished later on in the course.

Human processes of all kinds are complex and adaptive. Mental, social, and health-related processes can all change and adapt over time with human behaviour. Thought-based processes can change as a result of learning, social interactions can evolve over time, and health-related processes are susceptible to change too.

This course will present theories and findings from a wide range of disciplines, including various branches of cognitive, social, health and neuroscience, to gain insight into underlying mechanisms of human processes that can be exploited in human AI modeling and simulation. The various scientific theories form a factual basis for modelling the processes. We can understand these often adaptive mechanisms through causal relations and causal pathways, which we can model as networks. Using this theoretical framework and the software provided, students can easily simulate a variety of scenarios.

Course leader

Jan Treur

Target group

Students or professionals interested to learn more on modeling and computer simulation of mental, social and health-related processes. This may concern Ph.D., Master or Bachelor students or any other types of interested students from any discipline. No programming nor modeling experience is needed.

Course aim

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

Identify different types of mental, social and health-related processes;
Understand how individual and social behaviour emerges from mechanisms known from Cognitive, Affective and Social Neuroscience, and from Cognitive and Social Sciences, and Health Sciences;
Design network models for adaptive mental, social and health-related processes;
Perform simulations based on these models using the provided Network-Oriented Modeling software environment.

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