Introduction: Specific facial anatomy increases the risk of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA),
particularly with Polynesians. This group represent 37% of Australian National Rugby League …

We evaluate the performance of a spoken dialogue system that provides substantive dynamic
responses to automatically detected user affective states. We then present a detailed …

Motive and Objectives: My bioterrorist inspiration came from our discussion, a class ago,
about agroterrorism, which is defined as “the deliberate introduction of a disease agent, either …

We hypothesize that student affect is a useful predictor of spoken dialogue system
performance, relative to other parameters. We test this hypothesis in the context of our spoken …

We present a model for detecting user disengagement during spoken dialogue interactions.
Intrinsic evaluation of our model (ie, with respect to a gold standard) yields results on par …

Introduction: Mandibular advancement splints (MAS) are an improving therapy for obstructive
sleep apnoea (OSA). Evaluating MAS responders (AHI<10 with 50% reduction in AHI) is …

We examine the utility of speech and lexical features for predicting student emotions in
computerhuman spoken tutoring dialogues. We first annotate student turns for negative, neutral, …

This study presents an approach for developing more empirically motivated affective dialogue
tutorial systems. In particular, we use n-gram techniques from statistical natural language …

We use n-gram techniques to identify dependencies between student affective states of
certainty and subsequent tutor dialogue acts, in an annotated corpus of human-human spoken …

While human tutors respond to both what a student says and to how the student says it, most
tutorial dialogue systems cannot detect the student emotions and attitudes underlying an …