Category: Conversation

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.

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Conversation
  • Machine Learning

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.

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Conversation
  • Education
  • Machine Learning
  • Multimodal
  • Natural Language Generation (NLG)
  • Peer-Tutoring
  • Peers
  • Virtual Peers

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.

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Conversation
  • Education
  • Machine Learning
  • Multimodal
  • Natural Language Generation (NLG)
  • Peer-Tutoring
  • Peers
  • Virtual Peers

Beyond Single‐Mindedness: A Figure‐Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences

Dingemanse, M., Liesenfeld, A., Rasenberg, M., Albert, S., Ameka, F.K., Birhane, A., Bolis, D., Cassell, J., Clift, R., Cuffari, E., De Jaegher, H., Novaes, C.D., Enfield, N.J., Fusaroli, R., Gregoromichelaki, E., Hutchins, E., Konvalinka, I., Milton, D., Rączaszek-Leonardi, J., Reddy, V., Rossano, F., Schlangen, D., Seibt, J., Stokoe, E., Suchman, L., Vesper, C., Wheatley, T. and Wiltschko, M. (2023), Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences. In Cognitive Science 47 (2023) e13230.

  • Conversation

Socio-conversational systems: Three challenges at the crossroads of fields

Clavel, C., Labeau, M., Cassell, J. (2022). Socio-conversational systems: Three challenges at the crossroads of fields. In Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

  • Conversation

“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).

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Conversation
  • Peer-Tutoring
  • Peers
  • Rapport

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.

  • Architectures
  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Conversation
  • Machine Learning

“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.

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Conversation
  • Rapport

“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

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

“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

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

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Conversation
  • Education
  • Multimodal
  • Peers
  • Verbal and Nonverbal

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)*]

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Conversation
  • Education
  • Multimodal
  • Peers
  • Verbal and Nonverbal

The Impact of Peer Tutors’ Use of Indirect Feedback and Instructions

Madaio, M. A., Cassell, J., & Ogan, A. (2017, June). The Impact of Peer Tutors’ Use of Indirect Feedback and Instructions. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2017[*Best Student Paper Nominee*]

  • Conversation
  • Direction-Giving
  • Education
  • Multimodal
  • Peer-Tutoring
  • Peers
  • Rapport
  • Social Skills
  • Verbal and Nonverbal

The Effect of Friendship and Tutoring Roles on Reciprocal Peer Tutoring Strategies

Madaio, M. A., Ogan, A., & Cassell, J. (2016, June). The Effect of Friendship and Tutoring Roles on Reciprocal Peer Tutoring Strategies. In International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (pp. 423-429). Springer International Publishing.

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

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*]

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Conversation
  • Education
  • Machine Learning
  • Multimodal
  • Peer-Tutoring
  • Rapport
  • Verbal and Nonverbal

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

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Conversation
  • Education
  • Machine Learning
  • Multimodal
  • Peer-Tutoring
  • Rapport
  • Verbal and Nonverbal

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.

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Conversation
  • Education
  • Multimodal
  • Peer-Tutoring
  • Rapport

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.

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Conversation
  • Education
  • Multimodal
  • Peer-Tutoring
  • Rapport

Towards a Model of Face-to-Face Grounding

Nakano, Y., Reinstein, G., Stocky, T., Cassell, J. (2003) “Towards a Model of Face-to-Face Grounding”Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. July 7-12, Sapporo, Japan.

  • Conversation
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Multimodal