This paper presents a motivational system for an autonomous robot which is designed to regulate human-robot interaction. The mode of social interaction is that of a caretaker-infa...
Supporting students in the acquisition of argumentation skills is an important goal of educational technology. However, there has not been much work done towards developing generi...
Frank Loll, Niels Pinkwart, Oliver Scheuer, Bruce ...
The Companions project is a 4 year, EU funded Framework Programme 6 project involving a consortium of 16 partners across 8 countries. Its aim is to develop a personalised conversa...
Abstract. Systems for keyword and non-linguistic vocalization detection in conversational agent applications need to be robust with respect to background noise and different speak...
In the present work we address the problem of phone duration modeling for the needs of emotional speech synthesis. Specifically, relying on ten well known machine learning techniqu...