6 papers
AmbER: Dual Ambiguity-Aware Emotion Recognition Applied to Speech and Text
Jingyao Wu, Grace Lin, Yinuo Song +1
Emotion recognition is inherently ambiguous, with uncertainty arising both from rater disagreement and from discrepancies across modalities such as speech and text. There is growin…
Classifying Phonotrauma Severity from Vocal Fold Images with Soft Ordinal Regression
Katie Matton, Purvaja Balaji, Hamzeh Ghasemzadeh +7
Phonotrauma refers to vocal fold tissue damage resulting from exposure to forces during voicing. It occurs on a continuum from mild to severe, and treatment options can vary based…
When One Modality Sabotages the Others: A Diagnostic Lens on Multimodal Reasoning
Chenyu Zhang, Minsol Kim, Shohreh Ghorbani +4
Despite rapid growth in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), their reasoning traces remain opaque: it is often unclear which modality drives a prediction, how conflicts are re…
Resonance: Drawing from Memories to Imagine Positive Futures through AI-Augmented Journaling
Wazeer Zulfikar, Treyden Chiaravalloti, Jocelyn Shen +2
People inherently use experiences of their past while imagining their future, a capability that plays a crucial role in mental health. Resonance is an AI-powered journaling tool de…
Connecting through Comics: Design and Evaluation of Cube, an Arts-Based Digital Platform for Trauma-Impacted Youth
Ila Kumar, Jocelyn Shen, Craig Ferguson +1
This paper explores the design, development and evaluation of a digital platform that aims to assist young people who have experienced trauma in understanding and expressing their…
Cultivating a Supportive Sphere: Designing Technology to Increase Social Support for Foster-Involved Youth
Ila Kumar, Craig Ferguson, Jiayi Wu +1
Approximately 400,000 youth in the US are living in foster care due to experiences with abuse or neglect at home. For multiple reasons, these youth often don't receive adequate soc…