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ACII
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The Properties of DaFEx, a Database of Kinetic Facial Expressions
In this paper we present an evaluation study for DaFEx (Database of Facial Expressions), a database created with the purpose of providing a benchmark for the evaluation of the faci...
Alberto Battocchi, Fabio Pianesi, Dina Goren-Bar
ITS
2010
Springer
176views Multimedia» more  ITS 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
A Time for Emoting: When Affect-Sensitivity Is and Isn't Effective at Promoting Deep Learning
We have developed and evaluated an affect-sensitive version of AutoTutor, a dialogue based ITS that simulates human tutors. While the original AutoTutor is sensitive to learners’...
Sidney K. D'Mello, Blair Lehman, Jeremiah Sullins,...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 7 months ago
Data-Driven Generation of Emphatic Facial Displays
We describe an implementation of datadriven selection of emphatic facial displays for an embodied conversational agent in a dialogue system. A corpus of sentences in the domain of...
Mary Ellen Foster, Jon Oberlander
GW
2009
Springer
292views Biometrics» more  GW 2009»
13 years 3 months ago
To Beat or Not to Beat: Beat Gestures in Direction Giving
Research on gesture generation for embodied conversational agents (ECA's) mostly focuses on gesture types such as pointing and iconic gestures, while ignoring another gesture ...
Mariët Theune, Chris J. Brandhorst
HCI
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Responding to Learners' Cognitive-Affective States with Supportive and Shakeup Dialogues
This paper describes two affect-sensitive variants of an existing intelligent tutoring system called AutoTutor. The new versions of AutoTutor detect learners' boredom, confusi...
Sidney K. D'Mello, Scotty D. Craig, Karl Fike, Art...