Empathic, Expressive, Advanced Virtual Coach to Improve Independent Healthy-Life-Years of the Elderly

Project Information

EMPATHIC

Grant agreement ID: 769872

DOI 10.3030/769872

Project closed

EC signature date 25 September 2017

Start date 1 November 2017

End date 30 April 2021

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Health, demographic change and well-being

Total cost € 3 999 800,00

EU contribution € 3 999 800,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA
Spain

Deliverables

Documents, reports (11)

D9.5 Report on Stakeholder inclusion

Project final report on Stakeholder inclusion

D8.4 Report on Dissemination Activities

This report will summarise all the dissemination activities performed by the project partners. A yearly report is expected from the Project Officer at M12, M24 and M36

D9.1 Project Management, Collaboration Infrastructure and Quality Assurance Manual

Internal collaborative web-based platform

D9.4 Reports on management of data acquisition, data protection and privacy / ethics

Project periodic report on technical development and use of resources

D4.2 User-state estimation and system decision final report

Final technical report on EMPATHIC’s user-state estimation and system decision final R&D accomplishments, including user needs, intention and psychological-state estimation, well-being personalised coaching-plan, emotional status identification & change over time, understanding the user: semantics, topic and goals, spoken dialogue system, and intelligent coach.

D3.2 Human sensing final report

Final technical report on EMPATHIC’s human sensing final R&D accomplishments, including dialogue acquisition and annotation, user recognition, ASR in various languages, speech and language emotion-features extraction, eye and gaze emotion-features extraction, and facial emotion-features extraction & head pose detection.

D7.1 Report on mid-Period EMPATHIC validation

Mid-period report on EMPATHIC mid-Period validation, including feedback on revisions to the original requirements analysis and specification definition

D8.3 Dissemination Plan

This plan will be the main resource for planning and coordination of dissemination activities of the partners

D7.3 EMPATHIC evaluation report

Evaluation report of the project’s combined results vs. the pre-defined evaluation metrics and KPIs

D7.2 Final Report on EMPATHIC validation

Final report on EMPATHIC Final validation, including final conclusions regarding the original requirements analysis and specification definition

D5.2 System reaction final report

Final technical report on EMPATHIC’s system reaction R&D final accomplishments, including vocabulary/scripting of the human/virtual-coach interaction, natural language generation with emotive speech synthesis, visual agent representation and combined natural/expressive spoken and visual output.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

D8.1 Project Public Website

A public web site will be set up. This web site will be the primary platform for the dissemination activities, including publishing information about the project goals, research, tasks and achievements

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

Effect of Attachment and Personality Styles on the Ability to Interpret Emotional Vocal Expressions: A Cross-sectional Study

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Alda Troncone
Published in: The Open Psychology Journal, Issue 13/1, 2020, Page(s) 300-309, ISSN 1874-3501
Publisher: Bentham Open
DOI: 10.2174/1874350102013010300

Advanced Assistive Technologies for Elderly People: A Psychological Perspective on Seniors’ Needs and Preferences (part A)

Author(s): Alda Troncone, Terry Amorese, Marialucia Cuciniello, Raffaele Saturno, Luca Pugliese, Gennaro Cordasco, Carl Vogel, Anna Esposito
Published in: Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, Issue 17/2, 2020, Page(s) 163-189, ISSN 1785-8860
Publisher: Obuda University
DOI: 10.12700/aph.17.2.2020.2.10

Ethical issues in assistive ambient living technologies for ageing well

Author(s): Francesco Panico, Gennaro Cordasco, Carl Vogel, Luigi Trojano, Anna Esposito
Published in: Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2020, ISSN 1380-7501
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-020-09313-7

Analysis of the sensitivity of the End-Of-Turn Detection task to errors generated by the Automatic Speech Recognition process

Author(s): César Montenegro, Roberto Santana, Jose A. Lozano
Published in: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Issue 100, 2021, Page(s) 104189, ISSN 0952-1976
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2021.104189

Emotion Recognition a Transdiagnostic Feature in Children and Adolescents with ASD and ADHD: The Humanitarian Perspective

Author(s): Aliki Economides, Yiannis Laouris and Anna Esposito
Published in: Journal of Childhood & Developmental Disorders, 2020, ISSN 2472-1786
Publisher: Insight Medical Publishing
DOI: 10.36648/2472-1786.7.1.99

Perceptual Borderline for Balancing Multi-Class Spontaneous Emotional Data

Author(s): Leila Ben Letaifa, M. Ines Torres
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 9, 2021, Page(s) 55939-55954, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2021.3071485

‘Not only faces’: specialized visual representation of human hands revealed by adaptation

Author(s): Massimiliano Conson, Francesco Polito, Alessandro Di Rosa, Luigi Trojano, Gennaro Cordasco, Anna Esposito, Marco Turi
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 7/12, 2020, Page(s) 200948, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.200948

Corrective Focus Detection in Italian Speech Using Neural Networks 

Author(s): Asier López-Zorrilla, Mikel deVelasco-Vázquez, Sonia Cenceschi, M. Inés Torres
Published in: Acta Polytechnica Hungarica, Issue 15/5, 2018, ISSN 1785-8860
Publisher: Obuda University
DOI: 10.12700/APH.15.5.2018.5.7

User-aware dialogue management policies over attributed bi-automata

Author(s): Manex Serras, María Inés Torres, Arantza del Pozo
Published in: Pattern Analysis and Applications, 2018, ISSN 1433-7541
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10044-018-0743-y

Detection of Sarcasm and Nastiness: New Resources for Spanish Language

Author(s): Raquel Justo, José M. Alcaide, M. Inés Torres, Marilyn Walker
Published in: Cognitive Computation, 2018, ISSN 1866-9956
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12559-018-9578-5

EMPATHIC: Empathic, Expressive, Advanced Virtual Coach to Improve Independent Healthy-Life-Years of the Elderly

Author(s): López Zorrilla, Asier; Velasco Vázquez, Mikel de; Irastorza, Jon; Olaso Fernández, Javier Mikel; Justo Blanco, Raquel; Torres Barañano, María Inés
Published in: Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, Issue 61, 2018, ISSN 1135-5948
Publisher: Sociedad Espanola para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural
DOI: 10.26342/2018-61-24

A Dialogue-Act Taxonomy for a Virtual Coach Designed to Improve the Life of Elderly

Author(s): Cesar Montenegro, Asier López Zorrilla, Javier Mikel Olaso, Roberto Santana, Raquel Justo, Jose Antonio Lozano, María Inés Torres
Published in: Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, Issue 3/3, 2019, Page(s) 52, ISSN 2414-4088
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/mti3030052

Elder user’s attitude toward assistive virtual agents: the role of voice and gender

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Terry Amorese, Marialucia Cuciniello, Maria Teresa Riviello, Antonietta M. Esposito, Alda Troncone, Maria Inés Torres, Stephan Schlögl, Gennaro Cordasco
Published in: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2019, ISSN 1868-5137
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12652-019-01423-x

Analysis of the interaction between elderly people and a simulated virtual coach

Author(s): Raquel Justo, Leila Ben Letaifa, Cristina Palmero, Eduardo Gonzalez-Fraile, Anna Torp Johansen, Alain Vázquez, Gennaro Cordasco, Stephan Schlögl, Begoña Fernández-Ruanova, Micaela Silva, Sergio Escalera, Mikel deVelasco, Joffre Tenorio-Laranga, Anna Esposito, Maria Korsnes, M. Inés Torres
Published in: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2020, ISSN 1868-5137
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12652-020-01983-3

Privacy‐preserving speaker verification system based on binary I‐vectors

Author(s): Aymen Mtibaa, Dijana Petrovska‐Delacrétaz, Jérôme Boudy, Ahmed Ben Hamida
Published in: IET Biometrics, Issue 10/3, 2021, Page(s) 233-245, ISSN 2047-4938
Publisher: The Institution of Engineering and Technology
DOI: 10.1049/bme2.12013

Book chapters (12)

Towards Socially and Emotionally Believable ICT Interfaces

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Eros Pasero
Published in: Progresses in Artificial Intelligence and Neural Systems, Issue 184, 2021, Page(s) 3-7, ISBN 978-981-15-5092-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-5093-5_1

Intelligent Advanced User Interfaces for Monitoring Mental Health Wellbeing

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Zoraida Callejas, Matthias L. Hemmje, Michael Fuchs, Mauro N. Maldonato, Gennaro Cordasco
Published in: Advanced Visual Interfaces. Supporting Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Applications - AVI 2020 Workshops, AVI-BDA and ITAVIS, Ischia, Italy, June 9, 2020 and September 29, 2020, Revised Selected Papers, Issue 12585, 2021, Page(s) 83-95, ISBN 978-3-030-68006-0
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68007-7_5

Ageing in the 21st century in Europe: social challenges and innovation opportunities to support elderly independency and wellbeing

Author(s): M. Inés Torres, J. Tenorio, G. Cordasco, E. González-Fraile, A. Esposito, M. S. Kornes, G. Chollet, B. Fernández-Ruinova
Published in: Digital Health Technology for Better Aging: A multidisciplinary approach, 2021, Page(s) 339-343, ISBN 978-3-030-72662-1
Publisher: Springer Nature

Tracking the Expression of Annoyance in Call Centers

Author(s): Jon Irastorza, María Inés Torres
Published in: Topics in Intelligent Engineering and Informatics, 2018, Page(s) 131-151
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95996-2_7

A Spoken Dialogue System for the EMPATHIC Virtual Coach

Author(s): M. Inés Torres, Javier Mikel Olaso, Neil Glackin, Raquel Justo, Gérard Chollet
Published in: 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology, Issue 579, 2019, Page(s) 259-265, ISBN 978-981-13-9442-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-9443-0_22

Seniors’ Acceptance of Virtual Humanoid Agents

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Terry Amorese, Marialucia Cuciniello, Antonietta M. Esposito, Alda Troncone, Maria Inés Torres, Stephan Schlögl, Gennaro Cordasco
Published in: Ambient Assisted Living - Italian Forum 2018, Issue 544, 2019, Page(s) 429-443, ISBN 978-3-030-05920-0
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05921-7_35

A Differentiable Generative Adversarial Network for Open Domain Dialogue

Author(s): Asier López Zorrilla, Mikel deVelasco Vázquez, M. Inés Torres
Published in: Increasing Naturalness and Flexibility in Spoken Dialogue Interaction - 10th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, Issue 714, 2021, Page(s) 277-289, ISBN 978-981-15-9322-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-9323-9_24

Investigating Perceptions of Social Intelligence in Simulated Human-Chatbot Interactions

Author(s): Natascha Mariacher, Stephan Schlögl, Alexander Monz
Published in: Progresses in Artificial Intelligence and Neural Systems, Issue 184, 2021, Page(s) 513-529, ISBN 978-981-15-5092-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-5093-5_44

Some Note on Artificial Intelligence

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Eros Pasero
Published in: Neural Approaches to Dynamics of Signal Exchanges, Issue 151, 2020, Page(s) 3-8, ISBN 978-981-13-8949-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8950-4_1

Seniors’ Appreciation of Humanoid Robots

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Marialucia Cuciniello, Terry Amorese, Antonietta M. Esposito, Alda Troncone, Mauro N. Maldonato, Carl Vogel, Nikolaos Bourbakis, Gennaro Cordasco
Published in: Neural Approaches to Dynamics of Signal Exchanges, Issue 151, 2020, Page(s) 331-345, ISBN 978-981-13-8949-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8950-4_30

Handwriting and Drawing Features for Detecting Negative Moods

Author(s): Gennaro Cordasco, Filomena Scibelli, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Anna Esposito
Published in: Quantifying and Processing Biomedical and Behavioral Signals, Issue 103, 2019, Page(s) 73-86, ISBN 978-3-319-95094-5
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95095-2_7

Facial Emotion Recognition Skills and Measures in Children and Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Author(s): Aliki Economides, Yiannis Laouris, Massimiliano Conson, Anna Esposito
Published in: Progresses in Artificial Intelligence and Neural Systems, Issue 184, 2021, Page(s) 435-475, ISBN 978-981-15-5092-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-5093-5_39

Conference proceedings (29)

Is Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Specific Learning Disorder linked to Impaired Emotion Recognition in Primary School Aged Children?

Author(s): Aliki Economides, Chiara Baiano, Isa Zappullo, Massimiliano Conson, Joulietta Kalli-Laouri, Yiannis Laouris, Anna Esposito
Published in: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS), 2020, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-7281-5871-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ichms49158.2020.9209413

Frontal Left Alpha Activity as an Indicator of Willingness to Interact with Virtual Agents: A pilot study

Author(s): Betul Tolgay, Mauro Maldonato, Carl Vogel, Gennaro Cordasco, Luigi Trojano, Anna Esposito
Published in: 2020 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2020, Page(s) 000185-000190, ISBN 978-1-7281-8213-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/coginfocom50765.2020.9237885

How Traders' Appearances and Moral Descriptions Influence Receivers' Choices in the Ultimatum Game

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Antonietta Esposito, Marilena Esposito, Filomena Scibelli, Gennaro Cordasco, Carl Vogel, Nikolaos Bourbakis
Published in: 2017 IEEE 29th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 2017, Page(s) 409-416, ISBN 978-1-5386-3876-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ictai.2017.00070

Behavioral Sentiment Analysis of Depressive States

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Gennaro Raimo, Mauro Maldonato, Carl Vogel, Massimiliano Conson, Gennaro Cordasco
Published in: 2020 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2020, Page(s) 000209-000214, ISBN 978-1-7281-8213-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/coginfocom50765.2020.9237856

Transfer learning in hierarchical dialogue topic classification with neural networks *

Author(s): Cesar Montenegro, Roberto Santana, Jose A. Lozano
Published in: 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2020, Page(s) 1-8, ISBN 978-1-7281-6926-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ijcnn48605.2020.9206680

Gender Identification through Handwriting: an Online Approach

Author(s): Gennaro Cordasco, Michele Buonanno, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Maria Teresa Riviello, Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Anna Esposito
Published in: 2020 11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2020, Page(s) 000197-000202, ISBN 978-1-7281-8213-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/coginfocom50765.2020.9237863

How Human Likeness, Gender and Ethnicity affect Elders’Acceptance of Assistive Robots

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Terry Amorese, Marialucia Cuciniello, Maria Teresa Riviello, Gennaro Cordasco
Published in: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS), 2020, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-7281-5871-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ichms49158.2020.9209546

Agent vs. Avatar: Comparing Embodied Conversational Agents Concerning Characteristics of the Uncanny Valley

Author(s): Markus Thaler, Stephan Schlogl, Aleksander Groth
Published in: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS), 2020, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-7281-5871-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ichms49158.2020.9209539

Measuring and Fostering Engagement with Mental Health e-Coaches

Author(s): Zoraida Callejas, David Griol, Kawtar Benghazi, Manuel Noguera, Gerard Chollet, María Inés Torres, Anna Esposito
Published in: Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2020, Page(s) 275-279, ISBN 9781450380027
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3395035.3425316

IberSPEECH 2018

Author(s): M. I. Torres, G. Chollet, C. Montenegro, J. Tenorio-Laranga, O. Gordeeveva, A. Esposito, C. Glackin, S. Schlögl, O. Deroo, B. Fernández-Ruanova, R. Santana, M. S. Kornes, F. Lindner, D. Kyslitska, M. Reiner, G. Cordasco, M. Aksnes, R. Justo
Published in: Proc. IberSPEECH 2018, 2018
Publisher: ISCA
DOI: 10.21437/iberspeech.2018

Impairments in decoding facial and vocal emotional expressions in high functioning autistic adults and adolescents

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Italia Cirillo, Antonietta M. Esposito, Leopoldina Fortunati, Gian Luca Foresti, Sergio Escalera, Nikolaos Bourbakis
Published in: 2020 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2020), 2020, Page(s) 667-674, ISBN 978-1-7281-3079-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/fg47880.2020.00055

The EMPATHIC Project: Building an Expressive, Advanced Virtual Coach to Improve Independent Healthy-Life-Years of the Elderly.

Author(s): Brinkschulte, Luisa & Mariacher, Natascha & Schlögl, Stephan & Torres, M & R, Justo & Mikel Olaso, Javier & Esposito, Anna & Cordasco, Gennaro & Chollet, Gerard & Glackin, Cornelius & C, Pickard & Petrovska-Delacrétaz, Dijana & Hmani, Mohamed & Mtibaa, Aymen & A, Fernandez & D, Kyslitska & Fernandez-Ruanova, Begoña & J, Tenorio-Laranga & M, Aksnes & O, Gordeeva.
Published in: Conference: Innovative Lösungen für eine alternde Gesellschaft – Konferenzbeiträge der SMARTER LIVES 2018, 2018, Page(s) 36-52
Publisher: Pabst Science Publishers, University of Innsbruck

Data generation approaches for topic classification in multilingual spoken dialog systems

Author(s): C. Montenegro, R. Santana, J. A. Lozano
Published in: Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments - PETRA '19, 2019, Page(s) 211-217, ISBN 9781-450362320
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3316782.3316792

Power Poses Affect Risk Tolerance and Skin Conductance Levels

Author(s): Davide Saggese, Gennaro Cordasco, Mauro N. Maldonado, Nikolaos Bourbakis, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Anna Esposito
Published in: 2018 IEEE 30th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 2018, Page(s) 1033-1039, ISBN 978-1-5386-7449-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ictai.2018.00159

Emotional faces of children and adults: What changes in their perception

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Antonietta M. Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Mauro Maldonato, Carl Vogel, Nikolaos Bourbakis
Published in: 2018 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2018, Page(s) 000099-000104, ISBN 978-1-5386-7094-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/coginfocom.2018.8639963

Emotion Detection from Speech and Text

Author(s): Mikel de Velasco, Raquel Justo, Josu Antón, Mikel Carrilero, M. Inés Torres
Published in: IberSPEECH 2018, 2018, Page(s) 68-71
Publisher: ISCA
DOI: 10.21437/iberspeech.2018-15

Goal-conditioned User Modeling for Dialogue Systems using Stochastic Bi-Automata

Author(s): Manex Serras, María Inés Torres, Arantza del Pozo
Published in: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, 2019, Page(s) 128-134, ISBN 978-989-758-351-3
Publisher: SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications
DOI: 10.5220/0007359401280134

The EMPATHIC project - mid-term achievements

Author(s): M. I. Torres, N. Dugan, M. Irvine, N. Glackin, C. Pickard, A. Esposito, G. Cordasco, A. Troncone, D. Petrovska-Delacretaz, A. Mtibaa, M. A. Hmani, J. M. Olaso, M. S. Korsnes, L. J. Martinussen, S. Escalera, C. Palmero Cantariño, O. Deroo, O. Gordeeva, J. Tenorio-Laranga, E. Gonzalez-Fraile, B. Fernandez-Ruanova, A. Gonzalez-Pinto, C. Montenegro, R. Santana, A. Vázquez, R. Justo, J. A. Lozano, S.
Published in: Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments - PETRA '19, 2019, Page(s) 629-638, ISBN 9781-450362320
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3316782.3322764

Euskaraz hitz egiten ikasten duten makina autodidaktak

Author(s): López Zorrilla, Asier; De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel; Justo Blanco, Raquel
Published in: IkerGazte, 2019, Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: Udako Euskal Unibertsitatea (UEU)

Iruzurrezko portaeren detekzioa crowd motako etiketazioan

Author(s): De Velasco Vázquez, Mikel; López Zorrilla, Asier; Justo Blanco, Raquel
Published in: IkerGazte, 2019, Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: Udako Euskal Unibertsitatea

Sentiment analysis with genetically evolved gaussian kernels

Author(s): I. Roman, A. Mendiburu, R. Santana, J. A. Lozano
Published in: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference on - GECCO '19, 2019, Page(s) 1328-1337, ISBN 9781-450361118
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3321707.3321779

The Dependability of Voice on Elders’ Acceptance of Humanoid Agents

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Terry Amorese, Marialucia Cuciniello, Maria Teresa Riviello, Antonietta M. Esposito, Alda Troncone, Gennaro Cordasco
Published in: Interspeech 2019, 2019, Page(s) 31-35
Publisher: ISCA
DOI: 10.21437/interspeech.2019-1734

Elders prefer female robots with a high degree of human likeness

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Terry Amorese, Marialucia Cuciniello, Ilaria Pica, Maria Teresa Riviello, Alda Troncone, Gennaro Cordasco, Antonietta M. Esposito
Published in: 2019 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Consumer Technologies (ISCT), 2019, Page(s) 243-246, ISBN 978-1-7281-3570-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/isce.2019.8900983

Seniors’ ability to decode differently aged facial emotional expressions

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Terry Amorese, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Maria Ines Torres, Sergio Escalera, Gennaro Cordasco
Published in: 2020 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2020), 2020, Page(s) 716-722, ISBN 978-1-7281-3079-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/fg47880.2020.00077

Can Spontaneous Emotions be Detected from Speech on TV Political Debates?

Author(s): Mikel deVelasco Vazquez, Raquel Justo, Asier Lopez Zorrilla, Maria Ines Torres
Published in: 2019 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2019, Page(s) 289-294, ISBN 978-1-7281-4793-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/coginfocom47531.2019.9089948

Handwriting and Drawing Features for Detecting Personality Traits

Author(s): Anna Esposito, Terry Amorese, Michele Buonanno, Marialucia Cuciniello, Antonietta M. Esposito, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Maria Teresa Riviello, Alda Troncone, Gennaro Cordasco
Published in: 2019 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2019, Page(s) 79-84, ISBN 978-1-7281-4793-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/coginfocom47531.2019.9089985

EEGs as potential predictors of virtual agents’ acceptance

Author(s): Betul Tolgay, Silvia Dell'Orco, Mauro N. Maldonato, Carl Vogel, Luigi Trojano, Anna Esposito
Published in: 2019 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2019, Page(s) 433-438, ISBN 978-1-7281-4793-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/coginfocom47531.2019.9089944

Emotional virtual agents: How do young people decode synthetic facial expressions?

Author(s): A.Esposito, T. Amorese, M. Cuciniello, G. Cordasco
Published in: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Technology Enhanced Learning Environments for Blended Education (teleXbe2021), 2021
Publisher: CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)

Contrasting the Emotions identified in Spanish TV debates and in Human-Machine Interactions

Author(s): Midel de Velasco, Raquel Justo, Leila Ben Letaifa, M. Inés Torres
Published in: IberSPEECH 2021, 2021, Page(s) 51-55
Publisher: ISCA
DOI: 10.21437/iberspeech.2021-11