no code implementations • 1 Apr 2024 • Zhonghao Shi, Ellen Landrum, Amy O' Connell, Mina Kian, Leticia Pinto-Alva, Kaleen Shrestha, Xiaoyuan Zhu, Maja J Matarić
Socially assistive robots (SARs) have shown great success in providing personalized cognitive-affective support for user populations with special needs such as older adults, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and individuals with mental health challenges.
no code implementations • 18 May 2023 • Leena Mathur, Maja J Matarić, Louis-Philippe Morency
We find that this body of research has primarily focused on enabling machines to recognize and express affect and emotion.
no code implementations • 31 Jul 2022 • Leena Mathur, Ralph Adolphs, Maja J Matarić
In our multicultural world, affect-aware AI systems that support humans need the ability to perceive affect across variations in emotion expression patterns across cultures.
Causal Discovery Cultural Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction +1
no code implementations • 17 Aug 2021 • Leena Mathur, Maja J Matarić
Our results motivate future work on unsupervised, affect-aware computational approaches for detecting deception and other social behaviors in the wild.
1 code implementation • 29 Jul 2021 • Leena Mathur, Micol Spitale, Hao Xi, Jieyun Li, Maja J Matarić
Our research informs and motivates future development of empathy perception models that can be leveraged by virtual and robotic agents during human-machine interactions.
no code implementations • 4 Mar 2021 • Micol Spitale, Maja J Matarić
Communication in both human-human and human-robot interac-tion (HRI) contexts consists of verbal (speech-based) and non-verbal(facial expressions, eye gaze, gesture, body pose, etc.)
Sentiment Analysis Robotics
no code implementations • 6 Feb 2021 • Leena Mathur, Maja J Matarić
Our subspace-alignment (SA) approach adapts audio-visual representations of deception in lab-controlled low-stakes scenarios to detect deception in real-world, high-stakes situations.