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User Expectations of Conversational Chatbots Based on Online Reviews

Pearl Pu Faltings, Ekaterina Svikhnushina, Alexandru Placinta

Open-domain chatbots that can engage in a conversation on any topic received significant attention in the last several years, which opened opportunities for studying user interaction with them. Drawing from reviews of chatbots posted on Google Play, we exp ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Emotions in engineering education: Towards a research agenda

Roland John Tormey

This Work-in-Progress research paper describes preliminary work on a research agenda for emotions in engineering education. Emotions play an important role for teaching and learning in engineering education, but research on the topic is scarce. To spur res ...

IEEE2020

Individual change and self-tracking

Alexandre André Robert Rigal

The Quantified Self (QS) members explore the relation between self-tracking and individual change. Berger and Luckmann insists that individual change begins with a disruptive emotion. It continues with the public sharing of the story of the event. Then the ...

2020

The role of the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex in dorsomedial prefrontal-amygdala neural circuitry during positive-social emotion regulation

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Frank Scharnowski, Yury Koush, Gwladys Rey

Positive-social emotions mediate one's cognitive performance, mood, well-being, and social bonds, and represent a critical variable within therapeutic settings. It has been shown that the upregulation of positive emotions in social situations is associated ...

2020

Multi-Modal Recurrent Attention Networks for Facial Expression Recognition

Seungryong Kim, Jiyoung Lee

Recent deep neural networks based methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various facial expression recognition tasks. Despite such progress, previous researches for facial expression recognition have mainly focused on analyzing color recordi ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Despite human geographers’ growing recognition of the need to explore how digital technologies are increasingly co‐producing geographies, the methodological implications of such forms of data production are rarely discussed. This paper explores how smartph ...

2020

Brain networks for engaging oneself in positive-social emotion regulation

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Frank Scharnowski, Yury Koush

Positive emotions facilitate cognitive performance, and their absence is associated with burdening psychiatric disorders. However, the brain networks regulating positive emotions are not well understood, especially with regard to engaging oneself in positi ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2019

Modeling the Impact of Modifiers on Emotional Statements

Pearl Pu Faltings, Valentina Sintsova, Margarita Bolívar Jiménez

Humans use a variety of modifiers to enrich communications with one another. While this is a deliberate subtlety in our language, the presence of modifiers can cause problems for emotion analysis by machines. Our research objective is to understand and com ...

SPRINGER NATURE SWITZERLAND AG2018

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The relative location of human body parts often materializes the semantics of on-going actions, intentions and even emotions expressed, or performed, by a human being. However, traditional methods of performance animation fail to correctly and automaticall ...

2018

Evaluating the Sensitivity to Virtual Characters Facial Asymmetry in Emotion Synthesis

Ronan Boulic, Junghyun Ahn, Nan Wang

The use of expressive Virtual Characters is an effective complementary means of communication for social networks offering multi-user 3D-chatting environment. In such context the facial expression channel offers a rich medium to translate the on-going emot ...

Taylor & Francis2017