We present the SimSensei system, a fully automatic virtual agent that conducts interviews to assess indicators of psychological distress. We emphasize on the perception part of the system, a multimodal framework which captures and analyzes user state for both behavioral understanding and interactional purposes.

Abstract There is a lack of data describing the pain experience Black men. This may be result social messaging that men are to project strength and avoid any expression emotion or vulnerability. avoidant behavior(s) however, often comes too late when illness/symptoms more aggressive and/or diagnosed at later stage. begins address two larger issues – willingness acknowledge seek medical attentio...

Assumptions about the importance of mothers’ time for children’s healthy development permeate policy debates over child care, maternal employment, and family leave. Studies consistently show that mothers’ time in particular activities with children relate positively to indicators of child well-being, but results are more mixed regarding associations between child outcomes and the sheer amount o...

an important problem in performance evaluations of irrigation systems is the difficulty of the determining share of structural and operational elements and determining improvement solutions. in most studies, the combined impact of structural and operational elements on the performance of irrigation systems is assessed. some researchers try to separate the effects of structural and operational e...

So far few studies have investigated the impact of season, associated exhibit attendance and ambient sound on zoo animals in general, yet there is increasing public concern that some of these factors may negatively impact zoo animals. A study on giant pandas at the San Diego Zoo Owen at el.1 investigated the impact of sound on adrenal and behavioral indicators of stress and found that louder so...

One challenge in phytoplankton ecology is to measure species-specific physiological responses to changes in environmental conditions. Of particular importance in this regard are harmful algal bloom (HAB) species such as the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium fundyense which typically inhabit coastal regions where they are not usually dominant. Within the Gulf of Maine, environmental factors, spec...

OBJECTIVES In this population-based cohort study, we assessed baseline risk factors for homelessness, including the role of service in the Iraq or Afghanistan conflicts, among a large cohort of recent veterans. METHODS Data for this study came from administrative records for 310,685 veterans who separated from active military duty from July 1, 2005, to September 30, 2006. We used survival ana...

Analysis of observable behavior in depression primarily relies on subjective measures. New computational approaches make possible automated audiovisual measurement of behaviors that humans struggle to quantify (e.g., movement velocity and voice inflection). These tools have the potential to improve screening and diagnosis, identify new behavioral indicators of depression, measure response to cl...

In this paper two key venues of investigation in game analytics are combined: behavioral profiling and social network analysis. Both venues of research are well developed but combined they permit pattern evaluation across player performance and networks. Here, competitive networks covering almost 3.5 million players of the hybrid online shooter game Destiny are developed and combined with behav...