Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
Fourth International Conference, ACII 2011, Memphis, TN, USA, October 9-12, 2011, Proceedings, Part I
Published on 18. October 2011
XXVII, 622 pages
978-3-642-24600-5 (ISBN)
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The two-volume set LNCS 6974 and LNCS 6975 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2011, held in Memphis,TN, USA, in October 2011.
The 135 papers in this two volume set presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 196 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on recognition and synthesis of human affect, affect-sensitive applications, methodological issues in affective computing, affective and social robotics, affective and behavioral interfaces, relevant insights from psychology, affective databases, Evaluation and annotation tools.
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Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
Fourth International Conference, ACII 2011, Memphis, TN, USA, October 9-12, 2011, Proceedings, Part I
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Content
- Title
- Preface
- Organization
- Table of Contents
- Invited Talks
- To Our Emotions, with Love: How Affective Should Affective Computing Be?
- Affect, Learning, and Delight
- Measuring Affect in the Wild
- Oral Presentations
- Affective Modeling from Multichannel Physiology: Analysis of Day Differences
- Introduction
- Day Differences and Non-stationarity of Affective Physiological Data
- Ensemble Approach for Classifying Physiological Data
- Measures, Methods, and Data
- Participants and Measures
- Procedure
- Feature Extraction and Classification Methods
- Results and Discussions
- Classification Results for Day Datasets
- Day Cross Validation Classification Results (Static Classifiers)
- Quantitative Analysis of Day Differences
- Winnow Algorithm Results
- Conclusions, Limitations and Future Work
- References
- The Dynamics between Student Affect and Behavior Occurring Outside of Educational Software
- Introduction
- Data Collection and Data Labeling
- Analysis and Results
- Overall Frequency of Behaviors and Affective States
- Transitions and Co-occurrences of Behaviors and Affective States
- Discussion and Conclusions
- References
- ikannotate - A Tool for Labelling, Transcription, and Annotation of Emotionally Coloured Speech
- Introduction
- Labelling Component
- Three Labelling Methods
- Temporal Characteristics of Emotion
- Labelling of Uncertainty
- Transcription and Annotation
- Transcription of Sentences
- Adding Annotation Features
- Output Formats
- XML File Format
- GAT Output
- Additional Tools
- PsychCreator
- ASRCreator
- Usability Tests
- Conclusion and Outlook
- References
- Being Happy, Healthy and Whole Watching Movies That Affect Our Emotions
- Introduction
- The Power of Emotions
- Emotional Impact of Videos and Movies
- Related Work
- The iFelt System
- User Study
- Conclusions and Perspectives
- References
- Investigating the Prosody and Voice Quality of Social Signals in Scenario Meetings
- Introduction
- Outline of the Methodology
- Acoustic Measures and Their Perceptual Correlates
- Perceptual Interpretation of Acoustic Measures
- Test-Running the Methodology on Controlled Data: NECA Vocal Effort Database
- Analysis of Meeting Data: AMI Meeting Corpus
- Dialogue Acts Analysis
- Speaker Roles Analysis
- Conclusions
- References
- Fast-FACS: A Computer-Assisted System to Increase Speed and Reliability of Manual FACS Coding
- Introduction
- Previous Work
- Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
- Automatic FACS Segmentation and Recognition from Video
- Fast-FACS
- Active Appearance Tracking
- Peak, Onset, and Offset Coding
- Learning a Metric for Onset/Offset Detection
- Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- Experimental Evaluations
- Inter-coder and Inter-system Agreement
- Accuracy of Estimated Onsets and Offsets
- Efficiency of Fast-FACS
- References
- A Computer Model of the Interpersonal Effect of Emotion Displayed in a Social Dilemma
- Introduction
- Background
- Models
- Evaluation
- Discussion
- References
- Agents with Emotional Intelligence for Storytelling
- Introduction
- Emotional Intelligence
- Related Work
- Conceptual Model
- Scenarios
- Summary and Future Work
- References
- "That's Aggravating, Very Aggravating": Is It Possible to Classify Behaviors in Couple Interactions Using Automatically Derived Lexical Features?
- Introduction
- The Corpus
- Methodology and Results
- Maximum Likelihood Classifier
- Classification on Reference Transcripts
- Audio Segmentation
- Classification on Audio Signal
- Lexical Significance
- Discussion
- References
- Predicting Facial Indicators of Confusion with Hidden Markov Models
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Corpus and Manual Annotations
- HMM Learning and Prediction of Student AU4
- Model Learning
- Prediction of AU4
- Discussion
- Hidden State Structure
- Limitations
- Conclusion
- References
- Recording Affect in the Field: Towards Methods and Metrics for Improving Ground Truth Labels
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Background
- Study Design
- Study Protocol
- Journaling Training
- Analysis
- Analysis of the Three Axis "In situ" Emotion Scores
- Improving Ground Truth through Triangulation of "In situ" and "End of Day" Ratings
- "In situ" and "End-of-Day" Combined Rating Analysis
- Extended Analysis: Assessing Evidence via Third Party Independent Raters
- Extended Analysis: Combining Third Party and Subject Ratings
- Conclusions
- References
- Using Individual Light Rigs to Control the Perception of a Virtual Character's Personality
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Individual Lighting Rigs
- Our Approach towards Lighting
- User Study
- Materials and Method
- Results
- Discussion and Conclusion
- References
- Call Center Stress Recognition with Person-Specific Models
- Introduction
- Background and Previous Work
- Physiological Stress and Skin Conductance
- Automatic Stress Recognition
- Study Design
- Proposed Method
- Support Vector Machines
- Changing Class Priors
- Selecting Training Samples
- Experimental Setting
- Results
- Conclusions
- References
- Are You Friendly or Just Polite? - Analysis of Smiles in Spontaneous Face-to-Face Interactions
- Introduction
- Spontaneous Face-to-Face Banking Dataset
- Participants
- Experimental Setup
- Facial Expressions Coding
- Research Questions
- Experiments
- Smile Annotation and Segmentation
- Duration and Timing
- Smile Dynamics: Rise, Sustain and Decay
- Velocity of Rise, Sustain and Decay
- Discussion and Conclusions
- References
- Multiple Instance Learning for Classification of Human Behavior Observations
- Introduction
- Proposed Approach
- Corpus
- MIL Using Diverse Density SVMs
- Feature Extraction
- Experiments
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Form as a Cue in the Automatic Recognition of Non-acted Affective Body Expressions
- Introduction
- Related Work
- The Affective Posture Recognition System
- Data Preparation
- Building the Training Set
- Building the Testing Set
- Low-Level Posture Description
- Testing Results
- Discussion and Conclusions
- References
- Design of a Virtual Reality Based Adaptive Response Technology for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Introduction
- System Design
- VR-Based Social Communication Task Module
- Real-Time Eye-Gaze Monitoring Module
- Individualized Adaptive Response Module
- Methods
- Participants
- Procedure
- Results
- Progression of VR-Based Social Communication Tasks
- Improvement in Behavioral Viewing Pattern
- Conclusion
- References
- Exploring the Relationship between Novice Programmer Confusion and Achievement
- Introduction
- Data Collection
- Data Labeling
- Model Construction and Data Relabeling
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusion
- References
- Semi-Coupled Hidden Markov Model with State-Based Alignment Strategy for Audio-Visual Emotion Recognition
- Introduction
- Feature Extraction
- Facial Feature Extraction
- Prosodic Feature Extraction
- Semi-Coupled Hidden Markov Model
- Model Formulation
- State-Based Bi-modal Alignment Strategy
- Experimental Result
- Conclusion
- References
- Associating Textual Features with Visual Ones to Improve Affective Image Classification
- Introduction
- Features for Emotional Semantics
- Textual Features
- Visual Features
- Experiments and Results
- Emotion Models
- Datasets
- Experimental Setup
- Results: Performance of Different Features
- Results: Performance of Different Combination Approaches on IAPS
- Results: Performance of Textual Features on Mirflickr2000
- Conclusion
- References
- 3D Corpus of Spontaneous Complex Mental States
- Introduction
- Motivation
- Contributions
- Related Work
- Corpus
- Methodology
- Data Acquisition
- Segmentation and Annotation
- Data Analysis
- Validation
- Analysis of Hand-Over-Face Gestures
- Discussion
- References
- Evaluating the Communication of Emotion via Expressive Gesture Copying Behaviour in an Embodied Humanoid Agent
- Introduction
- Related Work
- System Overview
- Video Analysis
- Expressive Behaviour Generation
- Movement Expressivity Mapping
- Experiment
- Overview
- Materials
- Procedure
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- References
- Multi-score Learning for Affect Recognition: The Case of Body Postures
- Introduction
- Multi-score Learning and Its Measurements
- Learning Methods for Multi-score Learning
- K-Nearest Neighbour
- Regression
- Artificial Neural Networks
- Multi-task Learning
- Multi-score Learning on Affective Posture: Results
- Conclusions
- References
- Multi-modal Affect Induction for Affective Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Introduction
- Methods
- Participants
- Apparatus
- Stimuli
- Design and Procedure
- Data Processing and Analysis
- Results
- Subjective Ratings
- Heart Rate
- EEG
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- References
- Toward a Computational Framework of Suspense and Dramatic Arc
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Dramatis Framework
- Reading a Story Element
- Searching for Failure
- Computing Likelihood of Escape
- Updating Suspense
- Knowledge Structure
- Example
- Discussion and Future Work
- References
- A Generic Emotional Contagion Computational Model
- Introduction
- Background
- Emotional Contagion (EC)
- Emotional Contagion Biases
- Related Work
- A Model for Emotional Contagion
- Contagion Filter
- Mood Updater
- Emotional Expression Filter
- Model Simulations
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Generic Physiological Features as Predictors of Player Experience
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Data Collection
- Games
- Participants
- Experimental Protocol
- Physiological Signals and Extracted Features
- Method
- Sequential Forward Feature Selection
- Neuroevolutionary Preference Learning
- Experiments
- Heart Rate Features
- Skin Conductance Features
- Conclusions
- References
- Guess What? A Game for Affective Annotation of Video Using Crowd Sourcing
- Introduction
- The Game
- Overview
- Game Play and Scoring
- Implementation Details
- Evaluation
- Data
- Labeling Pilot
- Main Experiment
- Results
- Discussion and Future Work
- References
- Modeling Learner Affect with Theoretically Grounded Dynamic Bayesian Networks
- Introduction
- Background
- Method
- Results
- Predictive Modeling
- Bayesian Networks
- Conclusion
- References
- Evaluations of Piezo Actuated Haptic Stimulations
- Introduction
- Methods
- Participants
- Apparatus
- Stimuli
- Procedure
- Data Analysis
- Results
- Discussion
- References
- The Relationship between Carelessness and Affect in a Cognitive Tutor
- Introduction
- Methods
- The Scatterplot Tutor
- Affect Observations
- Carelessness Detection
- Results
- Discussion and Conclusion
- References
- EmotionML - An Upcoming Standard for Representing Emotions and Related States
- Introduction
- Previous Work
- Syntax
- Design Principles: Self-contained Emotion Annotation
- Representations of Emotion
- Mechanism for Referring to an Emotion Vocabulary
- Meta-information
- References to the "Rest of the World"
- Time
- Representing Continuous Values and Dynamic Changes
- Vocabularies for EmotionML
- Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- Emotion-Based Intrinsic Motivation for Reinforcement Learning Agents
- Introduction
- Background and Related Work
- Intrinsically Motivated Learning
- Emotionally Motivated Learning Agents
- Affective Reward Features
- Experiments and Results
- Discussion
- References
- The Good, the Bad and the Neutral: Affective Profile in Dialog System-User Communication
- Introduction
- Relevant Work
- Dialog System Architecture
- Affective Profiles for a Dialog System
- Experimental Method
- Experimental Results
- Conclusions
- References
- Effect of Affective Profile on Communication Patterns and Affective Expressions in Interactions with a Dialog System
- Introduction
- Relevant Research
- Experimental Settings
- Overview of Dialog System Architecture
- Characteristic of the Participants
- Experimental Procedure
- Analysed Data-Set
- Applied Annotation Tools and Resources
- Effects of Affective Profile on Users' Communication Style
- Effect of Affective Profile on Users' Expression of Affective States
- Discussion and Outlook
- References
- Persuasive Language and Virality in Social Networks
- Introduction
- Virality as a Content Dependent Phenomenon
- Virality as a Multifaceted Phenomenon
- Dataset and Virality Metrics
- Experiments
- Discussion
- Dominant Word Classes in Viral Texts
- Related Work
- Conclusions
- References
- A Multimodal Database for Mimicry Analysis
- Introduction
- Mimicry Perception Conversation Recording
- Interaction Scenario
- Procedure
- Self-report of Participants
- Synchronized Multi-sensor Recording Setup
- Audio Channels
- Camera Views
- Audio/Video Synchronization
- Annotation
- Segmentation into Episodes of Interest
- Annotation within Segments
- Overview and Availability
- Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- Mood Recognition Based on Upper Body Posture and Movement Features
- Introduction
- Coding Body Posture and Movement
- Research Questions and Methodology
- Data Analysis
- Results
- Discussion
- References
- Emotional Aware Clustering on Micro-blogging Sources
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Problem Formulation
- The SentiTweetAlgo
- Experimentation
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- A Phonetic Analysis of Natural Laughter, for Use in Automatic Laughter Processing Systems
- Motivation and Related Work
- Annotation Scheme
- Laughter Phonetic Description
- Interpersonal Differences
- Phones Used
- Phone and Airflow Phases Duration
- Conclusion and Further Work
- References
- The Impact of Music on Affect during Anger Inducing Drives
- Introduction
- Method
- Participants
- Design
- Music Selection
- Anger Drive
- Dependent Variables
- Procedure
- Results
- Subjective Self-report
- Autonomic Variables
- Discussion and Conclusion
- References
- Unsupervised Temporal Segmentation of Talking Faces Using Visual Cues to Improve Emotion Recognition
- Introduction
- Proposed Method
- Histogram of Local Binary Patterns
- Integrated Gradient Histogram
- Time Series Data Segmentation
- Methods to Improve Emotion Recognition
- Experiments and Results
- Database
- Results
- Conclusions
- References
- The Affective Experience of Handling Digital Fabrics: Tactile and Visual Cross-Modal Effects
- Introduction
- Background: The Affective Experience of Handling Fabrics
- Experiment
- Protocol
- Analysis
- Results
- Conclusions
- References
- Ranking vs. Preference: A Comparative Study of Self-reporting
- Introduction
- Self-reporting
- Ranking
- Preference
- User Survey Case Studies
- System Instrumentation
- Self-reported Post-Experience
- The Playware Case Study
- The Maze-Ball Case Study
- Case Study Dissimilarities
- Results and Analysis
- H1 Test Statistic
- H2 Test Statistics
- Playware
- Maze-Ball
- Discussion
- References
- Poster Papers
- Towards a Generic Framework for Automatic Measurements of Web Usability Using Affective Computing Techniques
- Introduction
- Background
- Measuring Usability
- Proposed Framework
- Method and Data
- Primary Results and Discussion
- Conclusion and Future Work
- References
- Simulating Affective Behaviours : An Approach Based on the COR Theory
- Introduction
- Related Work
- Proposed Model
- Principle of the Model
- Definitions
- Architecture
- Needs and Behaviour Selection
- Computation of Behaviour's Payoff
- Individual Parameters Influencing Behaviours' Payoff
- Behaviour Selection and Need Value Update
- Directions for Evaluation Procedures
- Discussion and Future Work
- References
- Emotional Investment in Naturalistic Data Collection
- Introduction
- Simulated Car Driving
- Experimental Setup
- Subjects
- Procedure
- Discussion
- Remotely-Controlled Flying
- Experimental Setup
- Subjects
- Procedure
- Data Analysis
- Discussion
- Recommendations
- Location
- Scenario
- Secondary Task
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Conclusion
- References
- When Do We Smile? Analysis and Modeling of the Nonverbal Context of Listener Smiles in Conversation
- Introduction
- Nonverbal Context of Smiles in Human-Human Conversation
- Corpus
- Categories of Smiles
- The Nonverbal Context of the Smile Categories
- Discussion
- Predicting the Timing of Smiles in Human-Human Conversation
- Approach
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- References
- Emotional Cognitive Architectures
- Introduction
- Cognitive Criteria Meet Emotions
- Emotions and Emotional Learning Mechanisms in CELTS
- CELTS' Long Route (LR)
- CELTS' Short Route (SR)
- Expectation Codelets
- Is CELTS an Emotional Cognitive Architecture?
- Conclusion
- References
- Kalman Filter-Based Facial Emotional Expression Recognition
- Introduction
- Facial Features for Emotion Recognition
- State-Space Model For Emotion Recognition
- Model Overview
- Emotion Recognition
- Model Parameters Estimation
- Experiment Results and Evaluation
- Material
- Dimensionality of the Facial Emotional Expression Hidden States
- Recognition Performance
- Conclusion and Discussion
- References
- SARA: Social Affective Relational Agent: A Study on the Role of Empathy in Artificial Social Agents
- Introduction
- Related Work
- A Model for Empathy Regarding Social Penetration
- Empathic Appraisal
- Empathic Response
- User-Agent Interaction
- Evaluation
- Test Scenarios
- Design and Procedure
- Results
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Learning General Preference Models from Physiological Responses in Video Games: How Complex Is It?
- Introduction
- Case Studies
- MazeBall Dataset
- TORCS Dataset
- Physiological Features
- Cross Validation
- Affective Preference Model
- Linear Model LDA
- Non-linear Model Neuro Evolution
- Feature Selection
- Sequential Forward Selection
- Genetic Feature Selection
- Results and Conclusion
- References
- Towards Real-Time Affect Detection Based on Sample Entropy Analysis of Expressive Gesture
- Introduction
- Background
- Bounding Triangle
- Dynamic Expressive Behavior Analysis
- Entropy Measure
- Realtime Implementation
- Extracting Bounding Triangle Form Human Silhouette
- Extracting Dynamic Features: Smoothness and Symmetry Index
- Computing SampEn
- Output
- Conclusion
- References
- Predicting Learner Engagement during Well-Defined and Ill-Defined Computer-Based Intercultural Interactions
- Introduction
- The Link of Engagement to Learning
- Methodology
- Procedure
- Dependent Measures
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion and Recommended Future Research
- References
- Context-Independent Facial Action Unit Recognition Using Shape and Gabor Phase Information
- Introduction
- Feature Extraction
- Geometry-Based Features
- Appearance-Based Features
- Combination of Geometry-Based and Appearance-Based Features
- Feature Selection and Classification
- Experiments
- Conclusion
- References
- Conveying Emotion with Moving Images: Relationship between Movement and Emotion
- Introduction
- Related Work
- MPM
- Moving Effects of MPM
- Moving Effect Elements (Vertex Noise)
- Experiment
- Still Image
- Moving Effect
- Sound Data
- Moving Image
- Procedure
- Results
- Difference in Emotion Conveyed among Still Images
- Movement in Conveying Emotion
- Emotion
- Discussion
- Role of Elements
- Emotion
- Future Works
- References
- Hybrid Fusion Approach for Detecting Affects from Multichannel Physiology
- Introduction
- Background
- Multimodal Information Fusion
- Information Fusion in Affective Computing
- Data Collection: Participants, Sensors, Procedure
- Computational Model
- Feature Extraction, Selection and Classification
- Hybrid Information Fusion
- Results and Discussions
- Conclusion and Future Works
- References
- Investigating the Suitability of Social Robots for the Wellbeing of the Elderly
- Introduction
- Literature Review
- Focus Groups and Home Studies
- Results
- Conclusion
- References
- The Effects of Emotionally Worded Synthesized Speech on the Ratings of Emotions and Voice Quality
- Introduction
- Methods
- Participants
- Equipment and Physiological Measurement
- Stimuli
- Experimental Procedure
- Data Preprocessing and Analysis
- Results
- Ratings of Emotional Experiences
- Ratings of Voice Quality
- Electromyographic Responses
- Discussion
- References
- Evaluating a Cognitive-Based Affective Student Model
- Introduction
- Modelling User's Emotions
- Emotions' Inference
- Experiment Protocol
- Evaluation Results
- Discussion and Conclusions
- References
- Audio Visual Emotion Recognition Based on Triple-Stream Dynamic Bayesian Network Models
- Introduction
- Audio Visual Feature Extraction
- Audio Features
- Visual Features
- Triple Stream Asynchronous DBN (T_AsyDBN) Model
- Experiments and Results
- Conclusions and Future Work
- References
- Author Index
