The affective computing approach of artificial intelligence has made it possible for machines to not only think, behave and communicate like humans, but also emote humans. This dimension AI is substituting human capacities due its benefits in diverse spheres life. While studies abound the comparison between terms their cognitive capacities, very few have focused on emotional aspect. study there...

A successful reciprocal evaluation of social signals serves as a prerequisite for social coherence and empathy. In a previous fMRI study we studied naturalistic communication situations by presenting video clips to our participants and recording their behavioral responses regarding empathy and its components. In two conditions, all three channels transported congruent emotional or neutral infor...

E orts to improve the user interface of technical information systems of growing perfor mance but also ever increasing complexity become more and more important Promising investigations include adaptive user interfaces and learning strategies in combination with image natural language speech and gesture processing Introduction The integration of computer and communication technologies o ers a c...

Human face-to-face communication is a little like a dance, in that participants continuously adjust their behaviors based on verbal and nonverbal cues from the social context. Today's computers and interactive devices are still lacking many of these human-like abilities to hold fluid and natural interactions. Leveraging recent advances in machine learning, audio-visual signal processing and com...

One way to gain an understanding of natural spoken language is to derive a constructive theory of it by building a language engine. The more nearly this artificial language engine simulates human linguistic behavior, the more of language it may be said to explain. A constructive theory of language must have two important features. It must capture known linguistic structure and it must express t...

Background: Observance of professional ethics by teachers and educators plays a very important role in creating a favorable ethical climate in the educational environment. Teachers' professional ethics have been discussed from numerous philosophical perspectives. In the meantime, one of the philosophers of existentialism who is particularly concerned with the issue of ethics in the human world ...