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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
LREC
2010
203views Education» more  LREC 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
MPC: A Multi-Party Chat Corpus for Modeling Social Phenomena in Discourse
In this paper, we describe our experience with collecting and creating an annotated corpus of multi-party online conversations in a chat-room environment. This effort is part of a...
Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, Aaron Broadwell...
IVA
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Searching for Prototypical Facial Feedback Signals
Embodied conversational agents should be able to provide feedback on what a human interlocutor is saying. We are compiling a list of facial feedback expressions that signal attenti...
Dirk Heylen, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Marion Tellier, ...
ACII
2005
Springer
14 years 3 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 11 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,...