Robotic psychology: a PRISMA systematic review on social-robot-based interventions in psychological domains

M Duradoni, G Colombini, PA Russo, A Guazzini - J, 2021 - mdpi.com
Current technological advancements have allowed robots to be successfully employed in
the healthcare sector. However, the recently acquired ability of social robots to process …

Open-source robotic study companion with multimodal human–robot interaction to improve the learning experience of university students

F Baksh, MB Zorec, K Kruusamäe - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Remote, online learning provides opportunities for flexible, accessible, and personalised
education, regardless of geographical boundaries. This study mode also promises to …

LPC augment: an LPC-based ASR data augmentation algorithm for low and zero-resource children's dialects

A Johnson, R Fan, R Morris… - ICASSP 2022-2022 IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel linear prediction coding-based data augmentation method for
children's low and zero resource dialect ASR. The data augmentation procedure consists of …

Analysis of disfluency in children's speech

T Tran, M Tinkler, G Yeung, A Alwan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Disfluencies are prevalent in spontaneous speech, as shown in many studies of adult
speech. Less is understood about children's speech, especially in pre-school children who …

The JIBO Kids Corpus: A speech dataset of child-robot interactions in a classroom environment

NB Shankar, A Afshan, A Johnson, A Mahapatra… - JASA Express …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
balaji1312@ ucla. edu; amberafshan@ ucla. edu; ajohnson49@ ucla. edu; aurosweta99@
ucla. edu; alemartin@ ucla. edu; michaelni12@ ucla. edu; haewon@ mit. edu; mquint30 …

Towards Inclusive Low-Resource Speech Technologies: A Case Study of Educational Systems for African American English-Speaking Children

A Johnson - 2024 - escholarship.org
The potential of speech technology to improve educational outcomes has been a topic of
great interest in recent years. For example, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems …

[KİTAP][B] Speech Normalization and Data Augmentation Techniques Based on Acoustical and Physiological Constraints and Their Applications to Child Speech …

GJ Yeung - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Recently, adult automatic speech recognition (ASR) system performance has improved
dramatically. In contrast, the performance of child ASR systems remains inadequate in an …