Year: 2018

A User Simulator Architecture for Socially-Aware Conversational Agents

Jain, A., Pecune, F., Matsuyama, Y., & Cassell, J. (2018, November). A User Simulator Architecture for Socially-Aware Conversational Agents. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (pp. 133-140). ACM.

  • Architectures
  • Conversation
  • Machine Learning
  • Rapport

Predicting the temporal and social dynamics of curiosity in small group learning

Paranjape, B., Bai, Z., Cassell, J. (2018). Predicting the temporal and social dynamics of curiosity in small group learning. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED).

  • Conversation
  • Education
  • Machine Learning

A climate of support: A process-oriented analysis of the impact of rapport on peer tutoring

Madaio, M., Peng, K., Ogan, A., & Cassell, J. (2018). A climate of support: A process-oriented analysis of the impact of rapport on peer tutoring. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). https://doi.dx.org/10.22318/cscl2018.600

  • Conversation
  • Education
  • Peer-Tutoring
  • Peers
  • Rapport

Objective measurement of head movement differences in children with and without autism spectrum disorder

Martin, K. B., Hammal, Z., Ren, G., Cohn, J. F., Cassell, J., Ogihara, M., … & Messinger, D. S. (2018). Objective measurement of head movement differences in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Molecular autism9(1), 1-10.

  • Autism

Towards automatic generation of peer-targeted science talk in curiosity-evoking virtual agent

Paranjape, B., Ge, Y., Bai, Z., Hammer, J., & Cassell, J. (2018, November). Towards automatic generation of peer-targeted science talk in curiosity-evoking virtual agent. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents(pp. 71-78).

  • Architectures
  • Computer Games
  • Virtual Peers

Field Trial Analysis of Socially-Aware Robot Assistant

Pecune, F., Chen, J., Matsuyama, Y., & Cassell, J. (2018, July). Field Trial Analysis of Socially Aware Robot Assistant. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 1241-1249). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.

  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Evaluation
  • Implementation
  • Rapport
  • Social Skills

Socially-Conditioned Task Reasoning for a Virtual Tutoring Agent

Zhao, Z., Madaio, M., Pecune, F., Matsuyama, Y., & Cassell, J. (2018, July). Socially-Conditioned Task Reasoning for a Virtual Tutoring Agent. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (pp. 2265-2267). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.

  • Education
  • Implementation
  • Machine Learning
  • Peer-Tutoring
  • Rapport
  • Social Skills

Faster Responses are Better Responses: Introducing Incrementality into Sociable Virtual Personal Assistants

Tsai, V., Baumann, T., Pecune, F., & Cassell, J. (2018). Faster Responses are Better Responses: Introducing Incrementality into Sociable Virtual Personal Assistants. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology.

  • Architectures
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Evaluation
  • Implementation
  • Natural Language Generation (NLG)

“I think it might help if we multiply, and not add” : Detecting Indirectness in Conversation

Pranav Goel, Yoichi Matsuyama, Michael Madaio and Justine Cassell, International Workshop on Spoken Dialog System Technology (IWSDS 2018) (in press).

  • Conversation
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Implementation
  • Rapport

“I Think You Just Got Mixed Up”: Confident Peer Tutors Hedge to Support Partners’ Face Needs

Madaio, M., Cassell, J., & Ogan, A. (2017). “I think you just got mixed up”: confident peer tutors hedge to support partners’ face needs. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning4(12), 401-421.

  • Direction-Giving
  • Education
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Peer-Tutoring
  • Peers