Purpose: Automated remote assessment and monitoring of patients' neurological and
mental health is increasingly becoming an essential component of the digital clinic and …

Dialogue systems have become recently essential in our life. Their use is getting more and
more fluid and easy throughout the time. This boils down to the improvements made in NLP …

Robotic applications have entered various aspects of our lives, such as health care and
educational services. In such Human-robot Interaction (HRI), trust and mutual adaption are …

This paper reports on progress towards building an online language learning tool to provide
learners with conversational experience by using dialog systems as conversation practice …

Rising unemployment has led to many discouraged job seekers. While the impact of job
seekers' motivation on interview performance is acknowledged in previous research, little …

Open-domain dialog systems have a user-centric goal: to provide humans with an engaging
conversation experience. User engagement is one of the most important metrics for …

Engagement represents how much a user is interested in and willing to continue the current
dialogue and is the important cue for spoken dialogue systems to adapt the user state. We …

This research develops a conversational robot that stimulates users' dialogue satisfaction
and motivation in non-task-oriented dialogues that include opinion and/or preference …

Multiple frameworks and models postulate an effect of job interview preparation on faking.
Two studies were conducted to examine if applicants' interview preparation is correlated …

Detection of engagement during a conversation is an important function of human-robot
interaction. The level of user engagement can influence the dialogue strategy of the robot …