Depression is a serious mental disorder affecting millions of people all over the world. Traditional clinical diagnosis methods are subjective, complicated and require extensive participation of clinicians. Recent advances in automatic depression analy…
The exponential growth of the amount of subjective information on the Web 2.0. has caused an increasing interest from researchers willing to develop methods to extract emotion data from these new sources. One of the most important challenges in textual…
Previous studies have shown that eye activities, including blinks, can indicate the psychological state of an individual. However, almost all previous studies analyzing blinks merely concentrated on traditional descriptive statistics, which are unable …
The perceived distance of the camera from the subject of a filmed scene, namely shot scale, is a prominent formal feature of any filmic product, endowed with both stylistic and narrative functions. To measure how shot scale affects both lower and highe…
Facial expression recognition (FER) is crucial for social communication. However, current studies present limitations when addressing facial expression difference due to demographic variation, such as race, gender, and age, etc. In this article, we fir…
An Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) is a virtual character designed to interact with humans in the most natural way. In the recent years, ECAs have been deployed in various contexts, such as commercial consulting and social training. In the context …
Temporal distance (TD) is a type of psychological distance which shows how an individual construes past and future. It is not explored with empirical research as to how an individual’s focus on temporal distance (near-past, far-past, near-future…
Emotion recognition is a classic field of research with a typical setup extracting features and feeding them through a classifier for prediction. On the other hand, generative models jointly capture the distributional relationship between emotions and …
One of the most effective ways to improve quality of life in dementia is by exposing people to meaningful activities. The study of engagement is crucial to identify which activities are significant for persons with dementia and customize them. Previous…
For technology (like serious games) that aims to deliver interactive learning, it is important to address relevant mental experiences such as reflective thinking during problem solving. To facilitate research in this direction, we present the weDraw-1 …