ICMI-MLMI

In this paper, we investigate how fantasy, curiosity and challenge contribute to the user experience in multimodal dialogue computer games for preschool children. For this purpose, an on-line multimodal platform has been designed, implemented and used ...

Technological advancements in recent years have been accompanied by a notable increase in research related to conversational child-machine interfaces. The technology has many applications from entertainment to education. In order to integrate this ...

In todays media-saturated world, students are consuming media both actively and passively. To facilitate active interaction with media, we address a specific kind of audiovisual media interaction in which we call a hyper-drama. We address hyper-drama ...

Children engage with the world with their whole bodies, and we suggest here that during dialect learning, as during other learning activities, technology be capable of responding in whole body ways. As the child becomes more engaged in a shared-reality ...

Autism is a major child development disorder with a prevalence of 1/150 in the US [22]. Although early identification is crucial to early intervention, there currently are few efficient screening tools in clinical use. This study reports a fully ...

We describe a novel evaluation system for the intelligibility assessment of children with CLP on standardized tests. The system is solely based on standard cepstral features in form of MFCCs. No other information like word alignments is used. So the ...

In this paper, we review: (1) the acoustic and linguistic properties of children's speech for both read and spontaneous speech, and (2) the developments in automatic speech recognition for children with application to spoken dialogue and multimodal ...

It is known that for effective child language development, the number of adult words heard and adult-child exchanges in the early phase (8--20 months) is important. Language development can be represented in terms of adult word count (AWC) and ...

In clinical practice, reading disorders are still evaluated perceptually. In order to alleviate this problem, we propose to use automatic speech processing techniques to classify reading disorders. Therefore, we recorded 38 children who were suspected ...

This contribution describes the robustness evaluation and optimization steps for a speech interface which is suitable for embedded language tutoring with special focus on children's speech. The baseline algorithms are derived from the pronunciation ...

This paper deals with the problematic of speaker variability in a task of pronunciation verification for the speech therapy of children and young adults in Computer-Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT) tools. The baseline system evaluates two different ...

Actual research on child-machine interaction indicate that children are specific with respect to various acoustic, linguistic [7], psychological, cultural and social factors. We wish to address the linguistic factor, focusing on the semantic knowledge ...

Automatic speech recognition is being used increasingly in a variety of applications. There is great potential for its use in educational applications for children. However, the accuracy of recognition of child speech is very low. There are probably a ...

The need for automatic recognition of a speaker's emotion within a spoken dialog system framework has received increased attention with demand for computer interfaces that provide natural and user-adaptive spoken interaction. This paper addresses the ...

This paper describes a computational model of language acquisition based on meaningful interaction between an infant and its caregivers. Learning takes place in an interactive loop between (virtual) caregiver and (virtual) learner who only uses general ...

We are running a parent-child learning project for constructing a multimodal child behavioral corpus. It is based on a learning environment where children and their parents regularly attend both guided lessons and have chances for free play. Among other ...

Emotion and stress/neutral detection based on an input audio stream has been a topic of interest in the literature with various applications. This paper reports on a preliminary study of stress/neutral detection based on naturalistic home environment ...

In this paper we present a strategy to design social videogames (from classic competitive ones) which allow parents to play with their children and have fun in spite of their different levels. A first tennis videogame (based on the classic Pong) which ...

According to the national syllabus set forth by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, or hence force MEXT for short, and implemented in senior high schools since the school year of 2003--2004 in Japan, every student is ...

In this paper the first version of a recording and evaluation system for an ongoing research project is presented: an automatic school enrollment screening test for children in preschool age. The screening test focuses on different aspects of the ...

This paper discusses a preliminary approach to matching child movements with robotic movements for the purpose of evaluating child upper limb rehabilitation exercises. Utilizing existing algorithms termed Motion History Imaging and Dynamic Time Warping ...

In this article we present a novel approach to reference verification, the problem of determining if a speakers utterance matches a specific reference (text) string. We will then discuss its application to a reading tracker system for childrens speech.