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Recently, the NLP community has shown a renewed interest in lexical semantics in the extent of automatic recognition of semantic relationships between pairs of words in text. Lexical semantics has become increasingly important in many natural language applications, this approach to semantics is concerned with psychological facts associated with meaning of words and how these words can be connected...
This research presents a version of a simplified algorithm for face expression analysis based on a novel approach which targets to determine emotional valence and intensity using a reduced number of eight Facial Characteristic Points and two type of textures in the face for a better processing time, as an alternative for statistical pattern recognition which characterize the most of the nowadays software...
If you are part of a faculty meeting, a committee, or a learning community of instructors, you will sooner or later hear the same conversation — the conversation that begins with complaints about students. The attributions about lack of engagement, focus on grades, or the entitlement of this generation are common, and though typically unexamined such complaints are not completely ungrounded. This...
In medical institutions, communication between a doctor and a patient or between persons has been regarded as more important. However, it may be difficult for infants, elderly persons or disabled persons to communicate directly their intentions. In this case, an unexpected trouble may occur by the discrepancy of mutual understandings. Therefore, it is thought that it is necessary to prevent discrepancies...
This special session takes the form of a guided discussion, using a hands-on flow visualization exercise as focal point. Our goals are 1) to foster conversation and document ideas about how the aesthetic qualities of engineering topics can be used to deliberately draw the emotional engagement of students; 2) to gauge how the FIE community currently views the aesthetics of engineering, and brainstorm...
Using the posts of Tianya Forum as the data source and adopting the socio psychology study results on societal risks perception, we analyze the challenges and feasibility of the document-level multiple societal risk classification of BBS posts. To effectively capture the semantics and word order of documents, a deep learning model as Post Vector is applied to realize the distributed vector representations...
Readers' continuance use is the basis for the development of mobile reading. This paper conducted an empirical research on mobile readers' continuance intention. The mobile readers are categorized into four groups: information readers, culture readers, recreation readers and research readers. Structural equation modeling is employed to empirically identify the factors that influence the main three...
This Study explores the outcome of an investigation to evaluate the importance of autonomous learning (AL, hereafter) as a means of motivation. However, the aim of this study is to ascertain the perspective towards AL. The result of this study presents the effect of AL on students' performance. The procedure of this study is based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative: (1) sixty students...
We propose the rules for robotic cooperation to be used by a group of robots for solving practical tasks in indoor environments. The formalism is inspired on the theory of social learning models for human beings that is traditionally developed in Psychology and Education fields. Our model can be used for coordination of the group, as for, allowing assimilation and accommodation of knowledge through...
Existing literature has shown that games and virtual reality can help motivate people thus keeping them engaged for longer. Nonetheless, in most approaches the design of games or virtual reality for rehabilitation purposes tend to apply a basic motivational approach that focuses on the general population of game players. Recent research shows that individuals can be motivated quite differently and...
Emotional signaling plays an important role in negotiations and other social decision-making tasks as it can signal intention and shape joint decisions. Specifically it has been shown to influence cooperation or competition. This has been shown in previous studies for scripted interactions that control emotion signaling and rely on manual coding of affect. In this work we examine face-to-face interactions...
It matters for affective computing to have a framework that brings key points about human emotion to mind in an orderly way. A natural option builds on the ancient view that overt emotion arises from interactions between rational awareness and systems of a different type whose functions are ongoing, but not obvious. Key ideas from modern research can be incorporated by assuming that the latter do...
Emotional intelligence has been positively associated with social competence. In addition, attentional responses to emotional information have been associated with psychological characteristics related to mental health. In this study, we used the Microsoft Kinect platform as a tool to examine relationships between responses to emotional information in a gameplay environment and psychological factors...
We recently demonstrated that the gaze sequences produced by infants during an habituation event predict their looking times to both the habituation and (one of two) posthabituation test events [1]. Specifically, we trained a simple recurrent network (SRN) to predict infants' habituation gaze sequences. Sequences that were easier for the SRN to learn were associated with shorter looking times at the...
This study addresses the roles of self-regulation, co-regulation, and socially shared regulation in computer supported collaborative learning environment. An empirical study was conducted with 19 groups of university students working on computer virus prevention tasks. The results indicated that self-regulation, co-regulation, and socially shared regulation occurred during collaborative learning....
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of using a smartphone application in a Communicative Language Teaching context. Specifically, a web-based application called Let's Talk was designed to facilitate an Information Gap activity in an English language class. Participants were assigned to an experiment group using Let's Talk or a control group using textbooks to practice English conversation...
This study explores the causal relationship between supervisor feedback environment and employee's creative performance, and the moderation of creative personality. Hierarchical regression analysis of a sample of 203 supervisor-employee dyads demonstrated that significant causal relationship exists between the supervisor feedback environment and creative performance, and the relationship between the...
We are currently interested in the study of core concepts: playfulness, imagination, creativity. In here we are looking at existing theoretical perspectives on these concepts, trying to understand the relationships between them, to identify unanswered questions. While trying to put into evidence the relationships between these concepts for the study of creative processes, we aim at designing future...
This work aims to present engagement indicators in support of educational research. It is known that the difficulty of engagement of students remains one of the biggest challenges faced by teachers. Usually the research show indicators or engagement variables in order to see if there was any change in the context of its interventions in the teaching process mediated by technology or not. The method...
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have been used as the means for a variety of applications, like employment system, e-Commerce and CRM system. In these applications, social influence acts as a significant role, affecting people's decision-making. However, the existing social influence evaluation methods do not fully consider the social contexts, like the social relationships and the social trust between...
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