Computational analysis of persuasiveness in social multimedia: A novel dataset and multimodal prediction approach

S Park, HS Shim, M Chatterjee, K Sagae… - Proceedings of the 16th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Our lives are heavily influenced by persuasive communication, and it is essential in almost
any types of social interactions from business negotiation to conversation with our friends …

Cicero-towards a multimodal virtual audience platform for public speaking training

L Batrinca, G Stratou, A Shapiro, LP Morency… - Intelligent Virtual Agents …, 2013 - Springer
Public speaking performances are not only characterized by the presentation of the content,
but also by the presenters' nonverbal behavior, such as gestures, tone of voice, vocal …

Prediction of depression severity based on the prosodic and semantic features with bidirectional LSTM and time distributed CNN

K Mao, W Zhang, DB Wang, A Li, R Jiao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Depression is increasingly impacting individuals both physically and psychologically
worldwide. It has become a global major public health problem and attracts attention from …

Self-reported symptoms of depression and PTSD are associated with reduced vowel space in screening interviews

S Scherer, GM Lucas, J Gratch… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reduced frequency range in vowel production is a well documented speech characteristic of
individuals with psychological and neurological disorders. Affective disorders such as …

[PDF][PDF] Investigating voice quality as a speaker-independent indicator of depression and PTSD.

S Scherer, G Stratou, J Gratch, LP Morency - Interspeech, 2013 - isca-archive.org
We seek to investigate voice quality characteristics, in particular on a breathy to tense
dimension, as an indicator for psychological distress, ie depression and post-traumatic …

The detection of depression using multimodal models based on text and voice quality features

H Solieman, EA Pustozerov - 2021 IEEE Conference of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The article proves the concept that an automatic diagnosis of depression can be achieved
using audio recordings of the individuals' voices. DAIC-WOZ database was used as a data …

Audiovisual behavior descriptors for depression assessment

S Scherer, G Stratou, LP Morency - Proceedings of the 15th ACM on …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
We investigate audiovisual indicators, in particular measures of reduced emotional
expressivity and psycho-motor retardation, for depression within semi-structured virtual …

Multimodal analysis and prediction of persuasiveness in online social multimedia

S Park, HS Shim, M Chatterjee, K Sagae… - ACM Transactions on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Our lives are heavily influenced by persuasive communication, and it is essential in almost
any type of social interaction from business negotiation to conversation with our friends and …

[PDF][PDF] Multimodal prediction of psychological disorders: Learning verbal and nonverbal commonalities in adjacency pairs

Z Yu, S Scherer, D Devault, J Gratch, G Stratou… - Semdial 2013 DialDam …, 2013 - core.ac.uk
Semi-structured interviews are widely used in medical settings to gather information from
individuals about psychological disorders, such as depression or anxiety. These interviews …

Determination of glottal open regions by exploiting changes in the vocal tract system characteristics

RS Prasad, B Yegnanarayana - The Journal of the Acoustical Society …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents an approach to determine the open phase region of a glottal cycle
based on changes in the characteristics of the vocal tract system. The glottal closing phase …