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ACII
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Investigating Human Tutor Responses to Student Uncertainty for Adaptive System Development
We use a χ2 analysis on our spoken dialogue tutoring corpus to investigate dependencies between uncertain student answers and 9 dialogue acts the human tutor uses in his response ...
Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman
ACII
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The HUMAINE Database: Addressing the Collection and Annotation of Naturalistic and Induced Emotional Data
The HUMAINE project is concerned with developing interfaces that will register and respond to emotion, particularly pervasive emotion (forms of feeling, expression and action that ...
Ellen Douglas-Cowie, Roddy Cowie, Ian Sneddon, Cat...
ACII
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
I Know What I Did Last Summer: Autobiographic Memory in Synthetic Characters
Abstract. According to traditional animators, the art of building believable characters resides in the ability to successfully portray a character’s behaviour as the result of it...
João Dias, Wan Ching Ho, Thurid Vogt, Natha...
ACII
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Motion Capture and Emotion: Affect Detection in Whole Body Movement
Abstract. Bodily expression of felt emotion was associated with emotionspecific changes in gait parameters and kinematics. The emotions angry, sad, content, joy and no emotion at a...
Elizabeth A. Crane, M. Melissa Gross
ACII
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Stoop to Conquer: Posture and Affect Interact to Influence Computer Users' Persistence
RoCo, a novel robotic computer, has the capability to move its monitor in subtly expressive ways that respond to and promote its user’s postural movement. Motivated by Riskind’...
Hyungil Ahn, Alea Teeters, Andrew Wang, Cynthia Br...
ACII
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Entertainment Modeling in Physical Play Through Physiology Beyond Heart-Rate
An investigation into capturing the relation of physiology, beyond heart rate recording, to expressed preferences of entertainment in children’s physical gameplay is presented in...
Georgios N. Yannakakis, John Hallam
ACII
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Dynamics of Affective Transitions in Simulation Problem-Solving Environments
We analyze the antecedents of affective states in a simulation problem-solving environment, The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions, through quantitative field observations ...
Ryan Shaun Joazeiro de Baker, Ma. Mercedes T. Rodr...
ACII
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Children's Emotional Interpretation of Synthetic Character Interactions
Using synthetic characters to support children’s personal, social and emotional education requires that the emotional response elicited from the children is that desired by educa...
Lynne E. Hall, Sarah Woods, Marc Hall, Dieter Wolk...
ACII
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Facial Expression Synthesis Using PAD Emotional Parameters for a Chinese Expressive Avatar
Facial expression plays an important role in face to face communication in that it conveys nonverbal information and emotional intent beyond speech. In this paper, an approach for ...
Shen Zhang, Zhiyong Wu, Helen M. Meng, Lianhong Ca...
ACII
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Metaphor and Affect Detection in an ICA
We discuss an aspect of an affect-detection system used in edrama by intelligent conversational agents, namely affective interpretation of limited sorts of metaphorical utterance. ...
Timothy H. Rumbell, C. J. Smith, John A. Barnden, ...