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"I Didn't Know I Looked Angry": Characterizing Observed Emotion and Reported Affect at Work

With the growing prevalence of affective computing applications, Automatic Emotion Recognition (AER) technologies have garnered attention in both research and industry settings. Initially limited to speech-based applications, AER technologies now include analysis of facial landmarks to provide predicted probabilities…

Harmanpreet Kaur et al.University of Michigan

Design of Digital Workplace Stress-Reduction Intervention Systems: Effects of Intervention Type and Timing

Workplace stress-reduction interventions have produced mixed results due to engagement and adherence barriers. Leveraging technology to integrate such interventions into the workday may address these barriers and help mitigate the mental, physical, and monetary effects of workplace stress. To inform the design of a wo…

Esther Howe et al.Microsoft

MeetingCoach: An Intelligent Dashboard for Supporting Effective & Inclusive Meetings

Video-conferencing is essential for many companies, but its limitations in conveying social cues can lead to ineffective meetings. We present MeetingCoach, an intelligent post-meeting feedback dashboard that summarizes contextual and behavioral meeting information. Through an exploratory survey (N=120), we identified…

Samiha Samrose et al.University of Rochester

AffectiveSpotlight: Facilitating the Communication of Affective Responses from Audience Members during Online Presentations

The ability to monitor audience reactions is critical when delivering presentations. However, current videoconferencing platforms offer limited solutions to support this. This work leverages recent advances in affect sensing to capture and facilitate communication of relevant audience signals. Using an exploratory sur…

Prasanth Murali et al.Northeastern University

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Understanding Conversational and Expressive Style in a Multimodal Embodied Conversational Agent

Embodied conversational agents have changed the ways we can interact with machines. However, these systems often do not meet users' expectations. A limitation is that the agents are monotonic in behavior and do not adapt to an interlocutor. We present SIVA (a Socially Intelligent Virtual Agent), an expressive, embodie…

Deepali Aneja et al.Adobe

"Warm Bodies'': A Post-Processing Technique for Animating Dynamic Blood Flow on Photos and Avatars

What breathes life into an embodied agent or avatar? While body motions such as facial expressions, speech and gestures have been well studied, relatively little attention has been applied to subtle changes due to underlying physiology. We argue that subtle pulse signals are important for creating more lifelike and le…

Daniel McDuff et al.Microsoft

Optimizing for Happiness and Productivity: Modeling Opportune Moments for Transitions and Breaks at Work

Information workers perform jobs that demand constant multitasking, leading to context switches, productivity loss, stress, and unhappiness. Systems that can mediate task transitions and breaks have the potential to keep people both productive and happy. We explore a crucial initial step for this goal: finding opportu…

Harmanpreet Kaur et al.University of Michigan

Accessible Video Calling: Enabling Nonvisual Perception of Visual Conversation Cues

Nonvisually Accessible Video Calling (NAVC) is a prototype that detects visual conversation cues in a video call and uses audio cues to convey them to a user who is blind or low-vision. NAVC uses audio cues inspired by movie soundtracks to convey Attention, Agreement, Disagreement, Happiness, Thinking, and Surprise. W…

Lei Shi et al.Cornell University

Accessibility and assistive technologies

Circadian Rhythms and Physiological Synchrony: Evidence of the Impact of Diversity on Small Group Creativity

Circadian rhythms determine daily sleep cycles, mood, and cognition. Depending on an individual's circadian preference, or chronotype (i.e.,``early birds'' and ``night owls''), the rhythms shift earlier or later in the day. Early birds experience circadian arousal peaks earlier in the morning than night owls. Prior wo…

Eunice Jun et al.University of California Los Angeles

Groups and creativity

Managing Stress: The Needs of Autistic Adults in Video Calling

Video calling (VC) aims to create multi-modal, collaborative environments that are "just like being there." However, we found that autistic individuals, who exhibit atypical social and cognitive processing, may not share this goal. We interviewed autistic adults about their perceptions of VC compared to other computer…

Annuska Zolyomi et al.University Of Washington

Connecting and Reaching Out

Emotional Dialogue Generation Using Image-Grounded Language Models

Computer-based conversational agents are becoming ubiquitous. However, for these systems to be engaging and valuable to the user, they must be able to express emotion, in addition to providing informative responses. Humans rely on much more than language during conversations; visual information is key to providing con…

Bernd Huber et al.Harvard University

Paper Title	Authors	Research Topics
"I Didn't Know I Looked Angry": Characterizing Observed Emotion and Reported Affect at Work With the growing prevalence of affective computing applications, Automatic Emotion Recognition (AER) technologies have garnered attention in both research and industry settings. Initially limited to speech-based applications, AER technologies now include analysis of facial landmarks to provide predicted probabilities…	HK Harmanpreet Kaur et al.University of Michigan
Design of Digital Workplace Stress-Reduction Intervention Systems: Effects of Intervention Type and Timing Workplace stress-reduction interventions have produced mixed results due to engagement and adherence barriers. Leveraging technology to integrate such interventions into the workday may address these barriers and help mitigate the mental, physical, and monetary effects of workplace stress. To inform the design of a wo…	EH Esther Howe et al.Microsoft
MeetingCoach: An Intelligent Dashboard for Supporting Effective & Inclusive Meetings Video-conferencing is essential for many companies, but its limitations in conveying social cues can lead to ineffective meetings. We present MeetingCoach, an intelligent post-meeting feedback dashboard that summarizes contextual and behavioral meeting information. Through an exploratory survey (N=120), we identified…	SS Samiha Samrose et al.University of Rochester
AffectiveSpotlight: Facilitating the Communication of Affective Responses from Audience Members during Online Presentations The ability to monitor audience reactions is critical when delivering presentations. However, current videoconferencing platforms offer limited solutions to support this. This work leverages recent advances in affect sensing to capture and facilitate communication of relevant audience signals. Using an exploratory sur…	PM Prasanth Murali et al.Northeastern University
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Understanding Conversational and Expressive Style in a Multimodal Embodied Conversational Agent Embodied conversational agents have changed the ways we can interact with machines. However, these systems often do not meet users' expectations. A limitation is that the agents are monotonic in behavior and do not adapt to an interlocutor. We present SIVA (a Socially Intelligent Virtual Agent), an expressive, embodie…	DA Deepali Aneja et al.Adobe
"Warm Bodies'': A Post-Processing Technique for Animating Dynamic Blood Flow on Photos and Avatars What breathes life into an embodied agent or avatar? While body motions such as facial expressions, speech and gestures have been well studied, relatively little attention has been applied to subtle changes due to underlying physiology. We argue that subtle pulse signals are important for creating more lifelike and le…	DM Daniel McDuff et al.Microsoft
Optimizing for Happiness and Productivity: Modeling Opportune Moments for Transitions and Breaks at Work Information workers perform jobs that demand constant multitasking, leading to context switches, productivity loss, stress, and unhappiness. Systems that can mediate task transitions and breaks have the potential to keep people both productive and happy. We explore a crucial initial step for this goal: finding opportu…	HK Harmanpreet Kaur et al.University of Michigan
Accessible Video Calling: Enabling Nonvisual Perception of Visual Conversation Cues Nonvisually Accessible Video Calling (NAVC) is a prototype that detects visual conversation cues in a video call and uses audio cues to convey them to a user who is blind or low-vision. NAVC uses audio cues inspired by movie soundtracks to convey Attention, Agreement, Disagreement, Happiness, Thinking, and Surprise. W…	LS Lei Shi et al.Cornell University	Accessibility and assistive technologies
Circadian Rhythms and Physiological Synchrony: Evidence of the Impact of Diversity on Small Group Creativity Circadian rhythms determine daily sleep cycles, mood, and cognition. Depending on an individual's circadian preference, or chronotype (i.e.,``early birds'' and ``night owls''), the rhythms shift earlier or later in the day. Early birds experience circadian arousal peaks earlier in the morning than night owls. Prior wo…	EJ Eunice Jun et al.University of California Los Angeles	Groups and creativity
emoji_events Managing Stress: The Needs of Autistic Adults in Video Calling Video calling (VC) aims to create multi-modal, collaborative environments that are "just like being there." However, we found that autistic individuals, who exhibit atypical social and cognitive processing, may not share this goal. We interviewed autistic adults about their perceptions of VC compared to other computer…	AZ Annuska Zolyomi et al.University Of Washington	Connecting and Reaching Out
Emotional Dialogue Generation Using Image-Grounded Language Models Computer-based conversational agents are becoming ubiquitous. However, for these systems to be engaging and valuable to the user, they must be able to express emotion, in addition to providing informative responses. Humans rely on much more than language during conversations; visual information is key to providing con…	BH Bernd Huber et al.Harvard University