Engagement plays a key role in improving the cognitive and motor development of children
with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Sensing and recognizing their engagement is crucial …

Off-the-shelf, screen-based technologies like smartphones, tablets and iPads are used daily
in Indian households. However, there has been limited research discussing whether these …

Nonverbal vocalizations from non-and minimally speaking individuals who speak fewer than
20 words (mv* individuals) convey important communicative and affective information. While …

Purpose Non-verbal utterances are an important tool of communication for individuals who
are non-or minimally-speaking. While these utterances are typically understood by …

Natural language sampling (NLS) offers rich insights into real-world speech and language
usage across diverse groups; yet, human transcription is time-consuming and costly …

Speech remains a prevalent mode of communication powering various intelligent functions
in human-computer interaction applications, notably in Speaker/Person Identification (PID) …

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can affect individuals at varying degrees of intensity, from
challenges in overall health, communication, and sensory processing, and this often begins …

As minimally verbal autistic (MVA) children communicate with parents through few words
and nonverbal cues, parents often struggle to encourage their children to express subtle …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by
challenges in social communication, repetitive behavior, and sensory processing. One …

We propose AToM-Bot, a novel task generation and execution framework for proactive robot-
human interaction, which leverages the human mental and physical state inference …