An acoustic analysis of shared enjoyment in ECA interactions of children with autism

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4485-4488

  Chaspari, Theodora ^a   Provost, Emily Mower ^a   Katsamanis, Athanasios ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

autism; embodied conversational agent; laughter; shared enjoyment; Social interactions

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; LAUGHTER; SHARED ENJOYMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

DISEASES;

EID: 84867602874     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288916     Document Type: Conference Paper

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