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Presentation 2014-11-14 10:05
Automating Social Skills Training
Hiroki Tanaka, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda (NAIST), Hideki Negoro, Hidemi Iwasaka (Nara Univ. of Edu.), Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST) ET2014-61
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(in English) Social skills training is a well-established method to decrease human anxiety and discomfort in social interaction, and get appropriate skills. In this paper, we attempt to automate the process of social skills training by developing a dialogue system named ``automated social skills trainer," which provides the social skills training through human-computer interaction. The system includes a virtual avatar that recognizes user speech and language information and gives feedback to users to improve their social skills. Its design is based on conventional individual social skills training performed by human participants including defining target skills, modeling, role-play, feedback, reinforcement, and homework. Experiments measuring the relationship between social skill and speech and language features show that these features have a relationship with autistic traits. Additional experiments measuring the effect of performing social skills training with the proposed application show participants significantly improve their skill by using the system for 50 minutes.
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(in English) Social skills training / behavior detection / dialogue system / embodied conversational avatar / computer-based training / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 114, no. 305, ET2014-61, pp. 1-6, Nov. 2014.
Paper # ET2014-61 
Date of Issue 2014-11-07 (ET) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Date 2014-11-14 - 2014-11-14 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Osaka Prefecture University (Nakamozu Campus) 
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Topics (in English) Sessions for Young Researchers (Young Researcher Awards Selection) 
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Conference Code 2014-11-ET 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Automating Social Skills Training 
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Keyword(1) Social skills training  
Keyword(2) behavior detection  
Keyword(3) dialogue system  
Keyword(4) embodied conversational avatar  
Keyword(5) computer-based training  
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1st Author's Name Hiroki Tanaka  
1st Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
2nd Author's Name Sakriani Sakti  
2nd Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
3rd Author's Name Graham Neubig  
3rd Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
4th Author's Name Tomoki Toda  
4th Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
5th Author's Name Hideki Negoro  
5th Author's Affiliation Nara University of Education (Nara Univ. of Edu.)
6th Author's Name Hidemi Iwasaka  
6th Author's Affiliation Nara University of Education (Nara Univ. of Edu.)
7th Author's Name Satoshi Nakamura  
7th Author's Affiliation Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
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Date Time 2014-11-14 10:05:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
Registration for ET 
Paper # ET2014-61 
Volume (vol) vol.114 
Number (no) no.305 
Page pp.1-6 
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Date of Issue 2014-11-07 (ET) 


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