Background and Purpose: The present age of digitalization brings with it progress and new
possibilities for health care in general and clinical psychology/psychotherapy in particular …

Background The emergence of artificial intelligence-based chatbot has revolutionized the
field of clinical psychology and psychotherapy, granting individuals unprecedented access …

Social Signal Processing is the research domain aimed at bridging the social intelligence
gap between humans and machines. This paper is the first survey of the domain that jointly …

This paper describes a substantial effort to build a real-time interactive multimodal dialogue
system with a focus on emotional and nonverbal interaction capabilities. The work is …

This paper presents the SEMAINE API, an open source framework for building emotion‐
oriented systems. By encouraging and simplifying the use of standard representation …

In the future, an increasing amount of social robots will be found in our domestic
environments to support and facilitate everyday life. Especially in the context of assistive …

Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are advanced computational interactive interfaces
designed with the aim to engage users in the continuous and long-term use of a background …

The purpose of this strategy of inquiry is to understand how emotions influence gameplay
and to review contemporary techniques to design for them in the aim of devising a model …

Generating expressive synthetic voices requires carefully designed databases that contain
sufficient amount of expressive speech material. This paper investigates voice conversion …

As part of our work on anthropomorphic and zoomorphic interfaces for physical, interactive
objects we have conducted an exhaustive literature review spanning the disciplines of …