MACH: My automated conversation coach

UbiComp 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 697-706

  Hoque, Mohammed Ehsan ^a   Courgeon, Matthieu ^b   Martin, Jean Claude ^b   Mutlu, Bilge ^c   Picard, Rosalind W ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated feedback; Automated multimodal affect sensing and behavior recognition; Embodied conversational agents; Social training

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED FEEDBACK; BEHAVIOR RECOGNITION; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SKILLS TRAINING; UBIQUITOUS ACCESS; VISUAL FEEDBACK;

AUTOMATION; STUDENTS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84885191867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2493432.2493502     Document Type: Conference Paper

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