Hung-Hsuan Huang

Hung-Hsuan Huang

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18Years (2009-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 January 2009
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MRMatthias Rehm
Matthias Rehm
EAElisabeth André
Elisabeth André
NBNikolaus Bee
Nikolaus Bee
BEBirgit Endrass
Birgit Endrass
MWMichael Wissner
Michael Wissner
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8 June 2019
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MFMasato Fukuda
Masato Fukuda
TNToyoaki Nishida
Toyoaki Nishida

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SKSeiya Kimura
Seiya Kimura
KKKazuhiro Kuwabara
Kazuhiro Kuwabara
TNToyoaki Nishida
Toyoaki Nishida
In recent years, companies have been seeking communication skills from their employees. Increasingly more companies have adopted group discussions during their recruitment process to evaluate the applicants’ communication skills. However, the opportunity to improve communication skills in group discussions is limited because of the lack of partners. To solve this issue as a long-term goal, the aim of this study is to build an autonomous robot that can participate in group discussions, so that its users can repeatedly practice with it. This robot, therefore, has to perform humanlike behaviors with which the users can interact. In this study, the focus was on the generation of two of these behaviors regarding the head of the robot. One is directing its attention to either of the following targets: the other participants or the materials placed on the table. The second is to determine the timings of the robot’s nods. These generation models are considered in three situations: when the robot is speaking, when the robot is listening, and when no participant including the robot is speaking. The research question is: whether these behaviors can be generated end-to-end from and only from the features of peer participants. This work is based on a data corpus containing 2.5 h of the discussion sessions of 10 four-person groups. Multimodal features, including the attention of other participants, voice prosody, head movements, and speech turns extracted from the corpus, were used to train support vector machine models for the generation of the two behaviors. The performances of the generation models of attentional focus were in an F-measure range between 0.4 and 0.6. The nodding model had an accuracy of approximately 0.65. Both experiments were conducted in the setting of leave-one-subject-out cross validation. To measure the perceived naturalness of the generated behaviors, a subject experiment was conducted. In the experiment, the proposed models were compared. They were based on a data-driven method with two baselines: (1) a simple statistical model based on behavior frequency and (2) raw experimental data. The evaluation was based on the observation of video clips, in which one of the subjects was replaced by a robot performing head movements in the above-mentioned three conditions. The experimental results showed that there was no significant difference from original human behaviors in the data corpus and proved the effectiveness of the proposed models.

19 October 2016
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YIYuki Ida
Yuki Ida
KYKohei Yamaguchi
Kohei Yamaguchi
KKKyoji Kawagoe
Kyoji Kawagoe

4 December 2018
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MFMasato Fukuda
Masato Fukuda
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TNToyoaki Nishida
Toyoaki Nishida