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Analysis of the interaction between elderly people and a simulated virtual coach
(Springer, 2020-12)
The EMPATHIC project develops and validates new interaction paradigms for personalized virtual coaches (VC) to promote healthy and independent aging. To this end, the work presented in this paper is aimed to analyze the ...
Automatic Identification of Emotional Information in Spanish TV Debates and Human-Machine Interactions
(MDPI, 2022-02-11)
Automatic emotion detection is a very attractive field of research that can help build more natural human–machine interaction systems. However, several issues arise when real scenarios are considered, such as the tendency ...
Audio Embeddings help to learn better dialogue policies
(IEEE, 2021-12)
Neural transformer architectures have gained a lot of interest for text-based dialogue management in the last few years. They have shown high learning capabilities for open domain dialogue with huge amounts of data and ...
Perceptual borderline for balancing multi-class spontaneous emotional data
(IEEE, 2021-04-07)
Speech is a behavioural biometric signal that can provide important information to understand the human intends as well as their emotional status. The paper is centered on the speech-based identification of the seniors’s ...
Adding dimensional features for emotion recognition on speech
(IEEE, 2020-10-20)
Developing accurate emotion recognition systems requires extracting suitable features of these emotions. In this paper, we propose an original approach of parameters extraction based on the strong, theoretical and empirical, ...
Contrasting the Emotions identified in Spanish TV debates and in Human-Machine Interactions
(ISCA, 2020-03-24)
This work is aimed to contrast the similarities and differences for the emotions identified in two very different scenarios: human-to-human interaction on Spanish TV debates and human-machine interaction with a virtual ...
Ageing in the 21st century in Europe: social challenges and innovation opportunities to support elderly independency and wellbeing.
(2021-03-15)
This chapter describes the vision of the EMPATHIC project of social challenges and innovation opportunities to support elderly independency and well- being. Asanintroduction,wefirstidentifythemainchallengesthatresultfromthe ...
A Spanish Corpus for Talking to the Elderly
(Springer, 2020-10-25)
In this work, a Spanish corpus that was developed, within the EMPATHIC project (http://www.empathic-project.eu/) framework, is presented. It was designed for building a dialogue system capable of talking to elderly people ...
Audio Embedding-Aware Dialogue Policy Learning
(IEEE, 2022-11-30)
Following the success of Natural Language Processing (NLP) transformers pretrained via self-supervised learning, similar models have been proposed recently for speech processing such as Wav2Vec2, HuBERT and UniSpeech-SAT. ...
A multilingual neural coaching model with enhanced long-term dialogue structure
(ACM, 2022-07-12)
In this work we develop a fully data-driven conversational agent capable of carrying out motivational coach-
ing sessions in Spanish, French, Norwegian, and English. Unlike the majority of coaching, and in general
well-being ...