Conversational agents in therapeutic interventions for neurodevelopmental disorders: a survey

F Catania, M Spitale, F Garzotto - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDD) are a group of conditions with onset in the
developmental period characterized by deficits in the cognitive and social areas …

Agency of autistic children in technology research—A critical literature review

K Spiel, C Frauenberger, O Keyes… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Autistic children are increasingly a focus of technology research within the Human-
Computer Interaction (HCI) community. We provide a critical review of the purposes of these …

MSP-IMPROV: An acted corpus of dyadic interactions to study emotion perception

C Busso, S Parthasarathy, A Burmania… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the MSP-IMPROV corpus, a multimodal emotional database, where the goal is
to have control over lexical content and emotion while also promoting naturalness in the …

Paralinguistics in speech and language—state-of-the-art and the challenge

B Schuller, S Steidl, A Batliner, F Burkhardt… - Computer Speech & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Paralinguistic analysis is increasingly turning into a mainstream topic in speech and
language processing. This article aims to provide a broad overview of the constantly …

Behavioral signal processing: Deriving human behavioral informatics from speech and language

S Narayanan, PG Georgiou - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The expression and experience of human behavior are complex and multimodal and
characterized by individual and contextual heterogeneity and variability. Speech and …

Multitasking on a single device: Arousal and the frequency, anticipation, and prediction of switching between media content on a computer

L Yeykelis, JJ Cummings… - Journal of Communication, 2014 - academic.oup.com
This study measured arousal responses to multitasking by recording switches between
content on personal computers over a day. Results showed that switches occurred every 19 …

Detecting dementia through interactive computer avatars

H Tanaka, H Adachi, N Ukita, M Ikeda… - IEEE journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a new approach to automatically detect dementia. Even though some
works have detected dementia from speech and language attributes, most have applied …

Conversational agents: Theory and applications

M Wahde, M Virgolin - … Volume 2: Deep Learning, Intelligent Control …, 2022 - World Scientific
In this chapter, we provide a review of conversational agents (CAs), discussing chatbots,
intended for casual conversation with a user, as well as task-oriented agents that generally …

Perseverations of the academy: A survey of wearable technologies applied to autism intervention

RM Williams, JE Gilbert - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Combating Autism Act of 2006 and its reauthorization in 2014 produced
unprecedented interest in autism research. Computer Science researchers have devoted …

A systematic review and implementation of IoT-based pervasive sensor-enabled tracking system for dementia patients

PP Ray, D Dash, D De - Journal of medical systems, 2019 - Springer
Abstract In today's world, 46.8 million people suffer from brain related diseases. Dementia is
most prevalent of all. In general scenario, a dementia patient lacks proper guidance in …