TOPICS :
- Architectures
- Authorable Virtual Peers
- Autism
- Computational Models of Behavior
- Computer Games
- Conversation
- Culture
- Dialect
- Direction-Giving
- Education
- Embodied Conversational Agents
- Evaluation
- Gender
- Gesture
- Implementation
- Leadership
- Literacy
- Machine Learning
- MOOCs
- Multimodal
- Narrative
- Natural Language Generation (NLG)
- Online Communities
- Peer-Tutoring
- Peers
- Rapport
- Social Skills
- Storytelling and Storylistening
- Survey Interviewing
- Trust
- Verbal and Nonverbal
- Virtual Peers
Conversational Grounding: Annotation and Analysis of Grounding Acts and Grounding Units
Mohapatra, B., Hassan, S., Romary, L., & Cassell, J. (2024). Conversational Grounding: Annotation and Analysis of Grounding Acts and Grounding Units. In Proceedings of LREC-COLING 2024, Turin, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
When to generate hedges in peer-tutoring interactions
Abulimiti, A., Clavel, C. & Cassell, J. (2023). When to generate hedges in peer-tutoring interactions. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), pages 572–583, Prague, Czechia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
How About Kind of Generating Hedges using End-to-End Neural Models?
Abulimiti, A., Clavel, C. & Cassell, J. (2023). How About Kind of Generating Hedges using End-to-End Neural Models?. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 877–892, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
“You might think about slightly revising the title”: Identifying hedges in peer-tutoring interactions
Raphalen, Y., Clavel, C. & Cassell, J. (2022). “You might think about slightly revising the title”: Identifying hedges in peer-tutoring interactions. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
A survey of neural models for the automatic analysis of conversation: Towards a better integration of the social sciences
Clavel, C., Labeau, M., & Cassell, J. (2022). A survey of neural models for the automatic analysis of conversation: Towards a better integration of the social sciences. arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.16891.
“By the way, do you like Spider Man?”-Towards A Social Planning Model for Rapport
Abulimiti, A., Cassell, J., & Ginzburg, J. (2021, September). “By the way, do you like Spider Man?”-Towards A Social Planning Model for Rapport. In SemDial 2021-25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue.
A novel multimodal approach for studying the dynamics of curiosity in small group learning
Sinha, T., Bai, Z., & Cassell, J. (2021). A novel multimodal approach for studying the dynamics of curiosity in small group learning. In International Conference on Spoken Dialog System Technology. https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/rfxwg
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.
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.
“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
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).
Curious Minds Wonder Alike: Studying Multimodal Behavioral Dynamics to Design Social Scaffolding of Curiosity
Sinha, T., Bai, Z., Cassell, J. (2017, September), “Curious Minds Wonder Alike: Studying Multimodal Behavioral Dynamics to Design Social Scaffolding of Curiosity”, In proceedings of 12th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (pp 270-285). Springer International Publishing
A New Theoretical Framework for Curiosity for Learning in Social Contexts
Sinha, T., Bai, Z., Cassell, J. (2017, September), “A New Theoretical Framework for Curiosity for Learning in Social Contexts”, In proceedings of 12th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (pp 254-269). Springer International Publishing [*Best Paper Nominee (Top 4.2% of all paper submissions)*]
Socially-Aware Animated Intelligent Personal Assistant Agent
Matsuyama, M., Bhardwaj, A., Zhao, R., Romero, O., Akoju, S., Cassell, J. (2016, September). Socially-Aware Animated Intelligent Personal Assistant Agent, 17th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
Socially-Aware Virtual Agents: Automatically Assessing Dyadic Rapport from Temporal Patterns of Behavior
Zhao, R., Sinha, T., Black, A., & Cassell, J. (2016, September). “Socially-Aware Virtual Agents: Automatically Assessing Dyadic Rapport from Temporal Patterns of Behavior”, 16th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) [*Best Student Paper*]
Automatic Recognition of Conversational Strategies in the Service of a Socially-Aware Dialog System
Zhao, R., Sinha, T., Black, A., & Cassell, J. (2016, September). “Automatic Recognition of Conversational Strategies in the Service of a Socially-Aware Dialog System”, 17th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
Exploring Socio-Cognitive Effects of Conversational Strategy Congruence in Peer Tutoring
Sinha, T., Zhao, R., & Cassell, J. (2015, November). Exploring Socio-Cognitive Effects of Conversational Strategy Congruence in Peer Tutoring. In Proceedings of 2015 Workshop on Modeling Interpersonal Synchrony, 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). ACM.
We Click, We Align, We Learn: Impact of Influence and Convergence Processes on Student Learning and Rapport Building
Sinha, T., & Cassell, J. (2015, November). We Click, We Align, We Learn: Impact of Influence and Convergence Processes on Student Learning and Rapport Building. In Proceedings of 2015 Workshop on Modeling Interpersonal Synchrony, 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). ACM.
Connecting the Dots: Predicting Student Grade Sequences from Bursty MOOC Interactions over Time
Sinha T., Cassell J. (2015, March), “Connecting the Dots: Predicting Student Grade Sequences from Bursty MOOC Interactions over Time” In Proceedings of 2nd ACM conference on Learning@Scale.
Towards a Dyadic Computational Model of Rapport Management for Human-Virtual Agent Interaction
Zhao, R., Papangelis, A., Cassell, J. (2014), “Towards a Dyadic Computational Model of Rapport Management for Human-Virtual Agent Interaction. In Bickmore, Sidner & Marsella (eds.)” Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8637, pp. 514-527.
Multimodal Prediction of Psychological Disorder: Learning Verbal and Nonverbal Commonality in Adjacency Pairs
Yu,Z., Scherer,S., Devault,D., Gratch,J., Stratou,G., Morency,L. and Cassell,J.(2013), “Multimodal Prediction of Psychological Disorder: Learning Verbal and Nonverbal Commonality in Adjacency Pairs”, in Proceding of 17th Workshop Series on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Dec 2013,Amsterdam, Netherland
Modeling ethnicity into technology: Using virtual agents to understand sociolinguistic variation
Finkelstein, S., Yarzebinski, E., Vaughn, C., Cassell, J. (2013) “Modeling ethnicity into technology: Using virtual agents to understand sociolinguistic variation”. in Proceedings of NWAV 42,, Oct 17- 20, 2013, Pittsburgh, PA.
Automatic Prediction of Friendship via Multi-model Dyadic Features
Yu,Z., Gerritsen,D., Ogan,A., Black,A. and Cassell,J.(2013) “Automatic Prediction of Friendship via Multi-model Dyadic Features”. in Proceedings of the 14th annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue.Aug 22-24 2013, Metz,France.
Rudeness and rapport: Insults and learning gains in peer tutoring
Finkelstein, S., Ogan, A., Walker, E., Muller, R., Cassell, J. (2012) “Rudeness and rapport: Insults and learning gains in peer tutoring” in Proceedings of ntelligent Tutoring Systems, Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Love Ya Jerkface!”: using sparse log-linear models to build positive (and impolite) relationships with teens.
Wang, W., Finkelstein, S., Ogan, A., Black, A., Cassell, J. (2012) “Love Ya Jerkface!”: using sparse log-linear models to build positive (and impolite) relationships with teens.” in Proceedings of the 13th annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2012), July 5-6, Seoul, Korea.
Knowledge Representation for Generating Locating Gestures in Route Directions
Striegnitz, K., Tepper, P., Lovett, A. & Cassell, J. (2008) “Knowledge Representation for Generating Locating Gestures in Route Directions” In K.R. Coventry, T. Tenbrink & J. Bateman (Eds.), Spatial Language and Dialogue (Explorations in Language and Space). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Reactive Redundancy and Listener Comprehension in Direction-Giving
Baker, R., Gill, A. & Cassell, J. (2008). “Reactive Redundancy and Listener Comprehension in Direction-Giving” Proceedings of SIGDIAL, June 19-20, Columbus, Ohio.
Coordination in Conversation and Rapport
Cassell, J., Gill, A. & Tepper, P. (2007) Coordination in Conversation and Rapport. Proceedings of the Workshop on Embodied Natural Language, Association for Computational Linguistics . June 24-29, Prague, CZ.
Body Language: Lessons from the Near-Human
Cassell, Justine (2007) “Body Language: Lessons from the Near-Human”. In J. Riskin (ed.) Genesis Redux : Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence . Chicago: University of Chicago Press., pp 346-374.
Trading Spaces: How Humans and Humanoids use Speech and Gesture to Give Directions
Cassell, Justine, Kopp, Stefan, Tepper, Paul, Ferriman, Kim & Striegnitz, K . (2007) “Trading Spaces: How Humans and Humanoids use Speech and Gesture to Give Directions.” In T. Nishida (ed.) Conversational Informatics. New York: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 133-160
Intersubjectivity in Human-Agent Interaction
Cassell, J., Tartaro, A. (2008) Intersubjectivity in Human-Agent Interaction. Interaction Studies 8 (3): 391-410
Knowledge Representation for Generating Locating Gestures in Route Directions
Striegnitz, Kristina, Tepper, Paul, Lovett, Andrew, & Cassell, Justine (2005) “Knowledge Representation for Generating Locating Gestures in Route Directions” . In Proceedings of Workshop on Spatial Language and Dialogue (5th Workshop on Language and Space). October 23-25, 2005; Delmenhorst, Germany
Social Dialogue with Embodied Conversational Agents
Bickmore, T., Cassell, J. (2004) “Social Dialogue with Embodied Conversational Agents”In J. van Kuppevelt, L. Dybkjaer, and N. Bernsen (eds.), Natural, Intelligent and Effective Interaction with Multimodal Dialogue Systems. New York: Kluwer Academic.
Negotiated Collusion: Modeling Social Language and its Relationship Effects in Intelligent Agents
Cassell, J., Bickmore, T. (2003) “Negotiated Collusion: Modeling Social Language and its Relationship Effects in Intelligent Agents”User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 13(1-2): 89-132