Category: Rapport

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

Using Temporal Association Rule Mining to Predict Dyadic Rapport in Peer Tutoring

Madaio, M., Ogan, A., Cassell, J. (2017). Using Temporal Association Rule Mining to Predict Dyadic Rapport in Peer Tutoring. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, 2017. (in press).

  • Education
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Machine Learning
  • Multimodal
  • Peer-Tutoring
  • Peers
  • Rapport
  • Social Skills
  • 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 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

  • Architectures
  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Implementation
  • Machine Learning
  • Multimodal
  • Natural Language Generation (NLG)
  • Rapport
  • Verbal and Nonverbal

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

Fine-Grained Analyses of Interpersonal Processes and Their Effect on Learning

Sinha, T., & Cassell, J. (2015, June). Fine-Grained Analyses of Interpersonal Processes and Their Effect on Learning. In Artificial Intelligence in Education (pp. 781-785). Springer International Publishing.

  • Education
  • Rapport

Towards a Computational Architecture of Dyadic Rapport Management for Virtual Agents. In Bickmore, Sidner & Marsella (eds.)

Papangelis, A., Zhao, R., Cassell, J. (2014) “Towards a Computational Architecture of Dyadic Rapport Management for Virtual Agents. In Bickmore, Sidner & Marsella (eds.)” Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8637, pp. 320-324.

  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Implementation
  • Rapport

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.

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Rapport

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.

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Multimodal
  • Rapport

Oh Dear Stacy! Social Interaction, Elaboration, and Learning with Teachable Agents

Ogan, A., Finkelstein, S., Mayfield, E., Matsuda, N., Cassell, J. (2012) “Oh Dear Stacy! Social Interaction, Elaboration, and Learning with Teachable Agents” in Proceedings of CHI 2012, May 5-10, 2010, Austin, TX. [PDF]

  • Education
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Peers
  • Rapport
  • Virtual Peers

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.

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Education
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Rapport
  • Virtual Peers

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.

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Machine Learning
  • Rapport

Brick by Brick: Iterating Interventions to Bridge the Achievement Gap with Virtual Peers

Rader, E., Echelbarger, M. Cassell, J. (2011) “Brick by Brick: Iterating Interventions to Bridge the Achievement Gap with Virtual Peers” in Proceedings of the CHI’11 Conference, May 9-12, Vancouver, BC

  • Culture
  • Education
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Peers
  • Rapport
  • Virtual Peers

Modeling Culturally Authentic Style Shifting with Virtual Peers

Cassell, J., Geraghty, K., Gonzalez, B., Borland, J. (2009) “Modeling Culturally Authentic Style Shifting with Virtual Peers” in Proceedings of ICMI-MLMI. Nov. 2-6, Cambridge, MA [PDF]

  • Education
  • Embodied Conversational Agents
  • Rapport
  • Virtual Peers

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.

  • Computational Models of Behavior
  • Multimodal
  • Rapport