Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a significant impact on a person's social, emotional,
and communication functioning. According to research, individualized instruction can …

Interest in affective computing is burgeoning, in great part due to its role in emerging
affective human-computer interfaces (HCI). To date, the majority of existing research on …

Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) techniques have found many applications where labeled
data is scarce and/or expensive to obtain. However, SSL suffers from various inherent …

Emotion-related feature extraction is a challenging task in speech emotion recognition. Due
to the lack of discriminative acoustic features, classical approaches based on traditional …

During the last decade, speech emotion recognition technology has matured well enough to
be used in some real-life scenarios. However, these scenarios require an almost silent …

In this paper, we focus on experience-based role play with virtual agents to provide young
adults at the risk of exclusion with social skill training. We present a scenario-based serious …

“Serious games” are becoming extremely relevant to individuals who have specific needs,
such as children with an autism spectrum condition (ASC). Often, individuals with an ASC …

Humanoid robots have in recent years shown great promise for supporting the educational
needs of children on the autism spectrum. To further improve the efficacy of such …

Only a few studies exist on automatic emotion analysis of speech from children with Autism
Spectrum Conditions (ASC). Out of these, some preliminary studies have recently focused …

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) find it difficult to detect human emotions in
social interactions. A speech emotion recognition system was developed in this work, which …