Year: 2019

A model of social explanations for a conversational movie recommendation system

Pecune, F., Murali, S., Tsai, V., Matsuyama, Y., & Cassell, J. (2019). A model of social explanations for a conversational movie recommendation system. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1145/3349537.3351899

  • Architectures
  • Machine Learning

“You give a little of yourself”: Family support for children’s use of an IVR literacy system

Madaio, M. A., Kamath, V., Yarzebinski, E., Zasacky, S., Tanoh, F., Hannon-Cropp, J., … & Ogan, A. (2019, July). “You give a little of yourself” family support for children’s use of an IVR literacy system. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (pp. 86-98).

  • Literacy

Modeling the interaction between speech and gesture

Cassell, J., Stone, M., Douville, B., Prevost, S., Achorn, B., Steedman, M., … & Pelachaud, C. (2019, May). Modeling the interaction between speech and gesture. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society(pp. 153-158). Routledge.

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Gesture

Artificial intelligence for a social world

Cassell, J. (2019). Artificial intelligence for a social world. Issues in Science and Technology, 35(4), 29-36.

  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Social Skills
  • Verbal and Nonverbal
  • Virtual Peers

Faster responses are better responses: Introducing incrementality into sociable virtual personal assistants

Tsai, V., Baumann, T., Pecune, F., & Cassell, J. (2019). Faster responses are better responses: Introducing incrementality into sociable virtual personal assistants. In 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology (pp. 111-118). Springer, Singapore.

 

  • Architectures
  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Machine Learning
  • Virtual Peers

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

Goel, P., Matsuyama, Y., Madaio, M., & Cassell, J. (2019). “I think it might help if we multiply, and not add”: Detecting indirectness in conversation. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology(pp. 27-40). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9443-0_3

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Conversation
  • Verbal and Nonverbal

Categorical Timeline Allocation and Alignment for Diagnostic Head Movement Tracking Feature Analysis.

Ogihara, M., Hammal, Z., Martin, K. B., Cohn, J. F., Cassell, J., Ren, G., & Messinger, D. S. (2019, January). Categorical Timeline Allocation and Alignment for Diagnostic Head Movement Tracking Feature Analysis. In CVPR Workshops (pp. 43-51).

  • Autism
  • Computational Models of Behavior