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FLAIRS
2011
13 years 2 months ago
No Peanuts! Affective Cues for the Virtual Bartender
The aim of this paper is threefold: it explores methods for the detection of affective states in text, it presents the usage of such affective cues in a conversational system and ...
Marcin Skowron, Hannes Pirker, Stefan Rank, Georgi...
ICIP
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Utilizing affective analysis for efficient movie browsing
Because of the fast increasing number of movies and long time span each movie lasts, novel methods should be developed to help users browse movies and find their desired clips eff...
Shiliang Zhang, Qi Tian, Qingming Huang, Wen Gao, ...
ICAI
2009
13 years 8 months ago
The Utility of Affect in the Selection of Actions and Goals Under Real-World Constraints
We present a novel affective goal selection mechanism for decision-making in agents with limited computational resources (e.g., such as robots operating under real-time constraint...
Paul W. Schermerhorn, Matthias Scheutz
UMUAI
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
Automatic detection of learner's affect from conversational cues
We explored the reliability of detecting a learner's affect from conversational features extracted from interactions with AutoTutor, an intelligent tutoring system that helps...
Sidney K. D'Mello, Scotty D. Craig, Amy M. Withers...
IJMMS
2006
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13 years 10 months ago
Toward a decision-theoretic framework for affect recognition and user assistance
There is an increasing interest in developing intelligent human
Wenhui Liao, Weihong Zhang, Zhiwei Zhu, Qiang Ji, ...
IJMMS
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
Physiology-based affect recognition for computer-assisted intervention of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Generally, an experienced therapist continuously monitors the affective cues of the children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and adjusts the course of the intervention accord...
Changchun Liu, Karla Conn, Nilanjan Sarkar, Wendy ...
ITS
2010
Springer
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14 years 24 days 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,...
EATIS
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Ontology Based Affective Context Representation
In this paper we propose an ontology based representation of the affective states for context aware applications that allows expressing the complex relations that are among the af...
Kuderna-Iulian Benta, Anca Rarau, Marcel Cremene
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Antecedent-Consequent Relationships and Cyclical Patterns between Affective States and Problem Solving Outcomes
We explored the complex interplay between students' affective states and problem solving outcomes. We conducted a study where 41 students solved 28 analytical reasoning proble...
Sidney K. D'Mello, Natalie K. Person, Blair Lehman
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Cohesion Relationships in Tutorial Dialogue as Predictors of Affective States
We explored the possibility of predicting learners’ affective states (boredom, flow/engagement, confusion, and frustration) by monitoring variations in the cohesiveness of tutori...
Sidney K. D'Mello, Nia Dowell, Arthur C. Graesser