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Facial expressions can detect Parkinson's disease: preliminary evidence from videos collected online
Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Taylor Myers, Ellen Wagner +3
One of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) is hypomimia or reduced facial expressions. In this paper, we present a digital biomarker for PD that utilizes the study of micro-ex…
Novel Computational Linguistic Measures, Dialogue System and the Development of SOPHIE: Standardized Online Patient for Healthcare Interaction Education
Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Taylan Sen, Benjamin Kane +5
In this paper, we describe the iterative participatory design of SOPHIE, an online virtual patient for feedback-based practice of sensitive patient-physician conversations, and dis…
Detecting Parkinson's Disease From an Online Speech-task
Wasifur Rahman, Sangwu Lee, Md. Saiful Islam +9
In this paper, we envision a web-based framework that can help anyone, anywhere around the world record a short speech task, and analyze the recorded data to screen for Parkinson's…
Discourse Behavior of Older Adults Interacting With a Dialogue Agent Competent in Multiple Topics
S. Zahra Razavi, Lenhart K. Schubert, Kimberly A. Van Orden +1
We present some results concerning the dialogue behavior and inferred sentiment of a group of older adults interacting with a computer-based avatar. Our avatar is unique in its abi…
Are you really looking at me? A Feature-Extraction Framework for Estimating Interpersonal Eye Gaze from Conventional Video
Minh Tran, Taylan Sen, Kurtis Haut +2
Despite a revolution in the pervasiveness of video cameras in our daily lives, one of the most meaningful forms of nonverbal affective communication, interpersonal eye gaze, i.e. e…
Dialogue Design and Management for Multi-Session Casual Conversation with Older Adults
S. Zahra Razavi, Lenhart K. Schubert, Benjamin Kane +3
We address the problem of designing a conversational avatar capable of a sequence of casual conversations with older adults. Users at risk of loneliness, social anxiety or a sense…
A Virtual Conversational Agent for Teens with Autism: Experimental Results and Design Lessons
Mohammad Rafayet Ali, Zahra Razavi, Abdullah Al Mamun +5
We present the design of an online social skills development interface for teenagers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The interface is intended to enable private conversation p…