no code implementations • EMNLP 2021 • Ishaan Grover, Matthew Huggins, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
Recent state-of-the-art approaches in open-domain dialogue include training end-to-end deep-learning models to learn various conversational features like emotional content of response, symbolic transitions of dialogue contexts in a knowledge graph and persona of the agent and the user, among others.
no code implementations • 29 May 2023 • Safinah Ali, Vishesh Kumar, Cynthia Breazeal
The game mechanics reward systems that are ethically developed or that take steps to mitigate potential harms.
no code implementations • 23 May 2023 • Jocelyn Shen, Maarten Sap, Pedro Colon-Hernandez, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal
The most meaningful connections between people are often fostered through expression of shared vulnerability and emotional experiences in personal narratives.
no code implementations • 21 May 2023 • Yubin Kim, Dong Won Lee, Paul Pu Liang, Sharifa Algohwinem, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
Accurately modeling affect dynamics, which refers to the changes and fluctuations in emotions and affective displays during human conversations, is crucial for understanding human interactions.
no code implementations • 19 May 2023 • Safinah Ali, Daniella DiPaola, Randi Williams, Prerna Ravi, Cynthia Breazeal
Generative AI tools introduce new and accessible forms of media creation for youth.
no code implementations • 19 Apr 2023 • Dong Won Lee, Yubin Kim, Rosalind Picard, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
As we move closer to real-world AI systems, AI agents must be able to deal with multiparty (group) conversations.
no code implementations • 10 Feb 2023 • Pedro Colon-Hernandez, Henry Lieberman, Yida Xin, Claire Yin, Cynthia Breazeal, Peter Chin
Contextualized or discourse aware commonsense inference is the task of generating coherent commonsense assertions (i. e., facts) from a given story, and a particular sentence from that story.
no code implementations • 28 Dec 2022 • Yubin Kim, Huili Chen, Sharifa Alghowinem, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
This work serves as the first step toward fully unlocking the potential of end-to-end video understanding models pre-trained on large public datasets and augmented with data augmentation and visualization techniques for affect recognition in the multi-person human-robot interaction in the wild.
no code implementations • 14 Dec 2022 • Kate Pearce, Sharifa Alghowinem, Cynthia Breazeal
As such, we propose the development of an open-source tool (Build-a-Bot) for students and teachers to not only create their own transformer-based chatbots based on their own course material, but also learn the fundamentals of AI through the model creation process.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2022 • Sigurdur Orn Adalgeirsson, Cynthia Breazeal
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) offer a promising world representation for autonomous agents, as they can model both transitional and perceptual uncertainties.
no code implementations • 10 Jun 2022 • Siyu Liu, Catherine Lu, Sharifa Alghowinem, Lea Gotoh, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
The prevalence of suicide has been on the rise since the 20th century, causing severe emotional damage to individuals, families, and communities alike.
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2021 • Zhuoyue Lyu, Safinah Ali, Cynthia Breazeal
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are a compelling way to introduce K-12 students to AI education using an artistic medium, and hence have drawn attention from K-12 AI educators.
1 code implementation • Findings (ACL) 2021 • Pedro Colon-Hernandez, Yida Xin, Henry Lieberman, Catherine Havasi, Cynthia Breazeal, Peter Chin
Retrofitting is a technique used to move word vectors closer together or further apart in their space to reflect their relationships in a Knowledge Base (KB).
no code implementations • 28 Jan 2021 • Pedro Colon-Hernandez, Catherine Havasi, Jason Alonso, Matthew Huggins, Cynthia Breazeal
In recent years, transformer-based language models have achieved state of the art performance in various NLP benchmarks.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2020 • Ravi Tejwani, Boris Katz, Cynthia Breazeal
Conversational AI agents are becoming ubiquitous and provide assistance to us in our everyday activities.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2020 • Ravi Tejwani, Boris Katz, Cynthia Breazeal
The migration of conversational AI agents across different embodiments in order to maintain the continuity of the task has been recently explored to further improve user experience.
no code implementations • 20 Aug 2020 • Huili Chen, Yue Zhang, Felix Weninger, Rosalind Picard, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Won Park
Automatic speech-based affect recognition of individuals in dyadic conversation is a challenging task, in part because of its heavy reliance on manual pre-processing.