Personality is a psychological construct aimed at explaining the wide variety of human
behaviors in terms of a few, stable and measurable individual characteristics. In this respect …

We present artificial intelligent (AI) agents that act as interviewers to engage with a user in a
text-based conversation and automatically infer the user's personality traits. We investigate …

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 …

Chatbots with personality have been shown to affect engagement and user subjective
satisfaction. Yet, the design of most chatbots focuses on functionality and accuracy rather …

We present a dialogue elicitation study to assess how users envision conversations with a
perfect voice assistant (VA). In an online survey, N= 205 participants were prompted with …

The World Health Organization recommends that employers take action to protect and
promote mental well-being at work. However, the extent to which these recommended …

Whenever we listen to a voice for the first time, we attribute personality traits to the speaker.
The process takes place in a few seconds and it is spontaneous and unaware. While the …

Whilst imbuing robots and voice assistants with personality has been found to positively
impact user experience, little is known about user perceptions of personality in purely text …

This paper reports preliminary experiments on automatic attribution of personality traits
based on nonverbal vocal behavioral cues. In particular, the work shows how prosodic …

Abstract The INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge aimed at a unified test-bed for
perceived speaker traits–the first challenge of this kind: personality in the five OCEAN …