Avari is a virtual receptionist for the Computer Science department at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her components include background subtraction to detect a per...
In this paper, we present an automatic motherese detection system for the study of parent-infant interaction analysis. Motherese is a speech register directed towards infants and ...
— The study presented in this paper explores people perception of robots, with a particular focus on domestic use. We addressed issues related to positive and negative attitudes ...
‘Rich media’ is a term that implies the integration of all of the advances we have made in the mobile space delivering music, speech, text, graphics and video. This is true, b...
This paper introduces the application Second Messenger, a tool for supporting face-to-face meetings and discussions. Second Messenger uses a speech-recognition engine as an input ...