Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often face the challenge of detecting and expressing emotions. I.e., it's hard for them to recognize happiness, sadness and anger in other people and to express their own feelings. This difficulty produces ...

In this paper, we study the effectiveness of anchor models applied to the multiclass problem of emotion recognition from speech. In the anchor models system, an emotion class is characterized by its measure of similarity relative to other emotion ...

Automatic literacy assessment technology can help children acquire reading skills by providing teachers valuable feedback in a repeatable, consistent manner. Recent research efforts have concentrated on detecting mispronunciations during word-reading and ...

This paper presents a novel student model intended to automate word-list-based reading assessments in a classroom setting, specifically for a student population that includes both native and nonnative speakers of English. As a Bayesian Network, the ...

Conversational interfaces that incorporate animated characters potentially are well suited for educational software, since they can engage children as active learners and support question asking skills. In the present research, a simulation study was ...