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The Relationship Between Speech Features Changes When You Get Depressed: Feature Correlations for Improving Speed and Performance of Depression Detection
Fuxiang Tao, Wei Ma, Xuri Ge +2
This work shows that depression changes the correlation between features extracted from speech. Furthermore, it shows that using such an insight can improve the training speed and…
Handwriting and Drawing for Depression Detection: A Preliminary Study
Gennaro Raimo, Michele Buonanno, Massimiliano Conson +6
The events of the past 2 years related to the pandemic have shown that it is increasingly important to find new tools to help mental health experts in diagnosing mood disorders. Le…
Identifying synthetic voices qualities for conversational agents
M. Cuciniello, T. Amorese, G. Cordasco +6
The present study aims to explore user acceptance and perceptions toward different quality levels of synthetical voices. To achieve this, four voices have been exploited considerin…
A Naturalistic Database of Thermal Emotional Facial Expressions and Effects of Induced Emotions on Memory
Anna Esposito, Vincenzo Capuano, Jiri Mekyska +1
This work defines a procedure for collecting naturally induced emotional facial expressions through the vision of movie excerpts with high emotional contents and reports experiment…
A Preliminary Study on Aging Examining Online Handwriting
Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Enric Sesa-Nogueras, Josep Roure-Alcobé +3
In order to develop infocommunications devices so that the capabilities of the human brain may interact with the capabilities of any artificially cognitive system a deeper knowledg…
EMOTHAW: A novel database for emotional state recognition from handwriting
Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Anna Esposito, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy +2
The detection of negative emotions through daily activities such as handwriting is useful for promoting well-being. The spread of human-machine interfaces such as tablets makes the…
The EMPATHIC Project: Mid-term Achievements
M. I. Torres, J. M. Olaso, C. Montenegro +26
The goal of active aging is to promote changes in the elderly community so as to maintain an active, independent and socially-engaged lifestyle. Technological advancements currentl…
Seniors' acceptance of virtual humanoid agents
Anna Esposito, Terry Amorese, Marialucia Cuciniello +5
This paper reports on a study conducted as part of the EU EMPATHIC project, whose goal is to develop an empathic virtual coach capable of enhancing seniors' well-being, focusing on…