Abstract. In this pilot study, a neural architecture for temporal emotion recognition from image sequences is proposed. The investigation aims at the development of key principles ...
We discuss the affective aspects of tutoring dialogues in an ITS -called INES- that helps students to practice nursing tasks using a haptic device and a virtual environment. Specia...
Dirk Heylen, Maarten Vissers, Rieks op den Akker, ...
The monitoring of emotional user states can help to assess the progress of human-machine-communication. If we look at specific databases, however, we are faced with several problem...
Anton Batliner, Christian Hacker, Stefan Steidl, E...
We describe an implemented system for the simulation and visualisation of the emotional state of a multimodal conversational agent called Max. The focus of the presented work lies ...
Christian Werner Becker, Stefan Kopp, Ipke Wachsmu...
Laughter is a powerful means of emotion expression which has not yet been used in speech synthesis. The current paper reports on a pilot study in which differently created types of...
Past attempts to model emotions for speech synthesis have focused on extreme, “basic” emotion categories. The present paper suggests an alternative representation of emotional ...
This paper describes an initial approach to emotional speech synthesis in Catalan based on a diphone concatenation TTS system. The main goal of this work is to develop a simple pro...
Analysis of student-tutor coaching dialogs suggest that good human tutors attend to and attempt to influence the motivational state of learners. Moreover, they are sensitive to the...
W. Lewis Johnson, Paola Rizzo, Wauter Bosma, Sande...