From the 2 of 19 linked papers with an AI index.
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Does Listening Matter? Backchanneling and Nodding in AI Clone
Koji Inoue, Kazushi Kato, Tatsuya Kawahara +1
AI clones that imitate a specific person typically reproduce what the person says and how they sound, but not how they listen. We investigate whether adding multimodal listening be…
On the Structure of Address in Multi-Party Dialogue: From Discrete Labels to Continuous Levels
Taiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Divesh Lala +1
In multi-party dialogues between a dialogue system and multiple users, identifying to whom an utterance is addressed is a key challenge. Prior work has typically treated addressee…
Memory-Driven Self-Disclosure and Relational Turning Points: A Longitudinal Multimodal Study of Human-AI Interaction
Ryuichi Sumida, Mao Saeki, Masaki Eguchi +4
The paper reports a longitudinal study of a memory‑augmented conversational AI, showing how perceived memory and self‑disclosure shape user enjoyment over repeated sessions and how…
Real-time Generation of Listener Nodding via Prediction of Kinematic Parameters for Avatar Dialogue Systems
Kazushi Kato, Koji Inoue, Taiga Mori +2
The paper introduces a lightweight, real-time model that predicts both the timing and motion parameters of listener nodding for conversational avatars, using a dyadic attention net…
I Understand How You Feel: Enhancing Deeper Emotional Support Through Multilingual Emotional Validation in Dialogue System
Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Koji Inoue +1
Emotional validation - explicitly acknowledging that a user's feelings make sense - has proven therapeutic value but has received little computational attention. Emotional validati…
Paralinguistic Emotion-Aware Validation Timing Detection in Japanese Empathetic Spoken Dialogue
Zi Haur Pang, Yahui Fu, Yuan Gao +1
Emotional Validation is a psychotherapy communication technique that involves recognizing, understanding, and explicitly acknowledging another person's feelings and actions, which…