Empathetic Conversational Agents: Utilizing Neural and Physiological Signals for Enhanced Empathetic Interactions
Conversational agents (CAs) are revolutionizing human-computer interaction by evolving from text-based chatbots to empathetic digital humans (DHs) capable of rich emotional expressions. This paper...
VR.net: A Real-world Dataset for Virtual Reality Motion Sickness Research
Researchers have used machine learning approaches to identify motion sickness in VR experience. These approaches demand an accurately-labeled, real-world, and diverse dataset for high accuracy and...
Wish You Were Here: Mental and Physiological Effects of Remote Music Collaboration in Mixed Reality
With face-to-face music collaboration being severely limited during the recent pandemic, mixed reality technologies and their potential to provide musicians a feeling of "being there" with their...
Large Language Models for Automatic Detection of Sensitive Topics
Sensitive information detection is crucial in content moderation to maintain safe online communities. Assisting in this traditionally manual process could relieve human moderators from...
Towards Immersive Collaborative Sensemaking
When collaborating face-to-face, people commonly use the surfaces and spaces around them to perform sensemaking tasks, such as spatially organising documents, notes or images. However, when people...
Synthesizing Affective Neurophysiological Signals Using Generative Models: A Review Paper
The integration of emotional intelligence in machines is an important step in advancing human-computer interaction. This demands the development of reliable end-to-end emotion recognition systems....
Putting Our Minds Together: Iterative Exploration for Collaborative Mind Mapping
We delineate the development of a mind-mapping system designed concurrently for both VR and desktop platforms. Employing an iterative methodology with groups of users, we systematically examined...
Prototyping a Virtual Agent for Pre-school English Teaching
This paper describes a case study and the insights gained from prototyping an Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) for English vocabulary building for Spanish-speaking preschool children. After an...
Seeing through the Eyes of AI: Situated Explainability in Augmented Reality
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) enables humans to understand and interpret decisions of AI models. Instead of having a black box, explainability supports humans in understanding AI...