In the health domain, the field of rehabilitation suffers from a lack specialized staff while
hospital costs only increase. Worse, almost no tools are dedicated to motivate patients or …

Sentiment analysis programs are now sometimes used to detect patterns of sentiment use
over time in online communication and to help automated systems interact better with users …

This paper presents an integrated view on a series of experiments conducted with an
affective dialog system, applied as a tool in studies of emotions and social processes in …

Non-verbal communication (NVC) makes up about two-thirds of all communication between
two people or between one speaker and a group of listeners. However, this fundamental …

Many on-line communities still rely on text messages as their privileged medium of
communication and we believe it will remain so even if it can be complemented by images …

This paper proposes a new emotional model for Virtual Humans (VHs) in a conversational
environment. As a part of a multi-users emotional 3D-chatting system, this paper focus on …

Interaction mediated through the Internet is changing the ways in which people connect,
communicate, and share information and emotions. At the same time, this enables studies of …

This article presents two studies conducted with an affective dialogue system in which text-
based system–user communication was used to model, generate and present different …

Non-verbal communication (NVC) is considered to represent more than 90 percent of
everyday communication. In virtual world, this important aspect of interaction between virtual …

Computer-mediated communication between humans is at the center of the formation of
collective emotions on the Internet. This chapter presents how interactive affective systems …