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Drawing the Line: Where AI Guidance and Human Creativity Meet in Emotion-Driven Comic Storyboarding
Jocelyn Shen, Isabella Pu, Alessandro Briseño +5
While generative AI models can produce visually faithful artwork, they often fall short in conveying emotional authenticity--a key driver of human expression. In visual storytellin…
Words Like Knives: Backstory-Personalized Modeling and Detection of Violent Communication
Jocelyn Shen, Akhila Yerukola, Xuhui Zhou +3
Conversational breakdowns in close relationships are deeply shaped by personal histories and emotional context, yet most NLP research treats conflict detection as a general task, o…
Social Robots as Social Proxies for Fostering Connection and Empathy Towards Humanity
Jocelyn Shen, Audrey Lee, Sharifa Alghowinem +3
Despite living in an increasingly connected world, social isolation is a prevalent issue today. While social robots have been explored as tools to enhance social connection through…
EmpathicStories++: A Multimodal Dataset for Empathy towards Personal Experiences
Jocelyn Shen, Yubin Kim, Mohit Hulse +4
Modeling empathy is a complex endeavor that is rooted in interpersonal and experiential dimensions of human interaction, and remains an open problem within AI. Existing empathy dat…
HEART-felt Narratives: Tracing Empathy and Narrative Style in Personal Stories with LLMs
Jocelyn Shen, Joel Mire, Hae Won Park +2
Empathy serves as a cornerstone in enabling prosocial behaviors, and can be evoked through sharing of personal experiences in stories. While empathy is influenced by narrative cont…
Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives
Jocelyn Shen, Maarten Sap, Pedro Colon-Hernandez +2
The most meaningful connections between people are often fostered through expression of shared vulnerability and emotional experiences in personal narratives. We introduce a new ta…
Branching principles of animal and plant networks identified by combining extensive data, machine learning, and modeling
Alexander B Brummer, Panagiotis Lymperopoulos, Jocelyn Shen +7
Branching in vascular networks and in overall organismic form is one of the most common and ancient features of multicellular plants, fungi, and animals. By combining machine-learn…