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- demonstrationOctober 2023
An Adaptive Virtual Agent Platform for Automated Social Skills Training
- Takeshi Saga,
- Jieyeon Woo,
- Alexis Gerard,
- Hiroki Tanaka,
- Catherine Achard,
- Satoshi Nakamura,
- Catherine Pelachaud
ICMI '23 Companion: Companion Publication of the 25th International Conference on Multimodal InteractionPages 109–111https://doi.org/10.1145/3610661.3620662Interlocutors adapt their verbal and nonverbal behaviors as signs of engagement during face-to-face interaction. We aim to build engaging Socially Interactive Agents, SIAs, that can adapt their behaviors during interaction. With an adaptive behavior ...
- short-paperOctober 2023
4th Workshop on Social Affective Multimodal Interaction for Health (SAMIH)
ICMI '23: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Multimodal InteractionPages 816–817https://doi.org/10.1145/3577190.3616878This workshop discusses how interactive, multimodal technology, such as virtual agents, can measure and train social-affective interactions. Sensing technology now enables analyzing users’ behaviors and physiological signals. Various signal processing ...
- abstractNovember 2022
3rd Workshop on Social Affective Multimodal Interaction for Health (SAMIH)
ICMI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal InteractionPages 805–806https://doi.org/10.1145/3536221.3564030This workshop discusses how interactive, multimodal technology such as virtual agents can be used in social skills training for measuring and training social-affective interactions. Sensing technology now enables analyzing user’s behaviors and ...
- research-articleJuly 2022
Discourse Behavior of Older Adults Interacting with a Dialogue Agent Competent in Multiple Topics
- S. Zahra Razavi,
- Lenhart K. Schubert,
- Kimberly van Orden,
- Mohammad Rafayet Ali,
- Benjamin Kane,
- Ehsan Hoque
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS), Volume 12, Issue 2Article No.: 14, Pages 1–21https://doi.org/10.1145/3484510We present a conversational agent designed to provide realistic conversational practice to older adults at risk of isolation or social anxiety, and show the results of a content analysis on a corpus of data collected from experiments with elderly patients ...
- abstractOctober 2021
2nd Workshop on Social Affective Multimodal Interaction for Health (SAMIH)
ICMI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal InteractionPages 853–854https://doi.org/10.1145/3462244.3480975This workshop discusses how interactive, multimodal technology such as virtual agents can be used in social skills training for measuring and training social-affective interactions. Sensing technology now enables analyzing user’s behaviors and ...
- short-paperMarch 2021
Teleoperation Interface Usage in Robot-Assisted Childhood ASD Therapy
HRI '21 Companion: Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot InteractionPages 162–166https://doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3447151Therapist-operated robots can play a uniquely impactful role in helping children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) practice and acquire social skills. While extensive research within Human Robot Interaction has focused on teleoperation interfaces for ...
- short-paperDecember 2020
Objective Prediction of Social Skills Level for Automated Social Skills Training Using Audio and Text Information
ICMI '20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal InteractionPages 467–471https://doi.org/10.1145/3395035.3425221Although Social Skills Training is a well-known effective method to obtain appropriate social skills during daily communication, getting such training is difficult due to a shortage of therapists. Therefore, automatic training systems are required to ...
- short-paperOctober 2020
Social Affective Multimodal Interaction for Health
ICMI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal InteractionPages 893–894https://doi.org/10.1145/3382507.3420059This workshop discusses how interactive, multimodal technology such as virtual agents can be used in social skills training for measuring and training social-affective interactions. Sensing technology now enables analyzing user's behaviors and ...
- research-articleOctober 2020
A Virtual Conversational Agent for Teens with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Experimental Results and Design Lessons
- Mohammad Rafayet Ali,
- Seyedeh Zahra Razavi,
- Raina Langevin,
- Abdullah Al Mamun,
- Benjamin Kane,
- Reza Rawassizadeh,
- Lenhart K. Schubert,
- Ehsan Hoque
IVA '20: Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual AgentsArticle No.: 2, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3383652.3423900We present the design of an online social skills development interface for teenagers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The interface is intended to enable private conversation practice anywhere, anytime using a web-browser. Users converse informally ...
- research-articleOctober 2020
The Impact of Virtual Reality in the Social Presence of a Virtual Agent
IVA '20: Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual AgentsArticle No.: 23, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3383652.3423879In this work we test the hypothesis that interacting with an intelligent virtual character in Virtual Reality (VR) has a stronger impact compared to the same interaction in a traditional non-immersive platform, both in terms of presence and ...
- short-paperOctober 2018
Listening Skills Assessment through Computer Agents
ICMI '18: Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal InteractionPages 492–496https://doi.org/10.1145/3242969.3242970Social skills training, performed by human trainers, is a well-established method for obtaining appropriate skills in social interaction. Previous work automated the process of social skills training by developing a dialogue system that teaches social ...
- research-articleJuly 2018
A Generic Platform for Training Social Skills with Adaptative Virtual Agents
AAMAS '18: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent SystemsPages 1800–1802We present a versatile system for training social skills with interactive virtual agents reacting to the user's automatically assessed performance.
- research-articleApril 2014
Rich Nonverbal Sensing Technology for Automated Social Skills Training
Automated nonverbal sensing and feedback technologies, such as My Automated Conversation coacH (MACH), can provide a personalized means to better understand, evaluate, and improve human social interaction--for both practical and therapeutic purposes, ...
- research-articleMay 2012
Acquisition of social abilities through musical tangible user interface: children with autism spectrum condition and the reactable
CHI EA '12: CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing SystemsPages 745–760https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2212847This study assesses the potential of the Reactable, a musical tangible user interface, to help in the acquisition of social interaction abilities in children with Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC). With this purpose, nine children with ASC participated ...
- research-articleFebruary 2012
A computer activity to encourage facial expression recognition for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
iConference '12: Proceedings of the 2012 iConferencePages 478–479https://doi.org/10.1145/2132176.2132254Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) do not recognize emotions in context as quickly as children without ASD. This research explores the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the area of social skills education. The project ...
- ArticleJuly 2002
Virtual environments for social skills training: the importance of scaffolding in practice
Assets '02: Proceedings of the fifth international ACM conference on Assistive technologiesPages 104–110https://doi.org/10.1145/638249.638269Virtual Environments (VE's) offer the potential for users to explore social situations and 'try out' different behaviour responses for a variety of simulates social interactions. One of the challenges for the VE developer is how to construct the VE to ...