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Metaphors play a pivotal role in expressing emotions, making them crucial for emotional intelligence. The advent of multimodal data and widespread communication has led to a proliferation of multimodal metaphors, amplifying the complexity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Xingyuan Lu , Yuxi Liu , Dongyu Zhang , Zhiyao Wu , Jing Ren , Feng Xia

Internet memes are a central element of online culture, blending images and text. While substantial research has focused on either the visual or textual components of memes, little attention has been given to their interplay. This gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Aidos Konyspay , Pakizar Shamoi , Malika Ziyada , Zhusup Smambayev

Emotional expressiveness captures the extent to which a person tends to outwardly display their emotions through behavior. Due to the close relationship between emotional expressiveness and behavioral health, as well as the crucial role…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Victoria Lin , Jeffrey M. Girard , Michael A. Sayette , Louis-Philippe Morency

Humans use a host of signals to infer the emotional state of others. In general, computer systems that leverage signals from multiple modalities will be more robust and accurate in the same task. We present a multimodal affect and context…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Daniel McDuff , Kael Rowan , Piali Choudhury , Jessica Wolk , ThuVan Pham , Mary Czerwinski

Advances in data collection enable the capture of rich patient-generated data: from passive sensing (e.g., wearables and smartphones) to active self-reports (e.g., cross-sectional surveys and ecological momentary assessments). Although…

Movie story analysis requires understanding characters' emotions and mental states. Towards this goal, we formulate emotion understanding as predicting a diverse and multi-label set of emotions at the level of a movie scene and for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Dhruv Srivastava , Aditya Kumar Singh , Makarand Tapaswi

Empathetic Conversational Systems (ECS) are built to respond empathetically to the user's emotions and sentiments, regardless of the application domain. Current ECS studies evaluation approaches are restricted to offline evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Aravind Sesagiri Raamkumar , Siyuan Brandon Loh

Traditional psychological evaluations rely heavily on human observation and interpretation, which are prone to subjectivity, bias, fatigue, and inconsistency. To address these limitations, this work presents a multimodal emotion recognition…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kris Kraack

In recent years, short video platforms have gained widespread popularity, making the quality of video recommendations crucial for retaining users. Existing recommendation systems primarily rely on behavioral data, which faces limitations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shaorun Zhang , Zhiyu He , Ziyi Ye , Peijie Sun , Qingyao Ai , Min Zhang , Yiqun Liu

Virtual and robotic agents capable of perceiving human empathy have the potential to participate in engaging and meaningful human-machine interactions that support human well-being. Prior research in computational empathy has focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Leena Mathur , Micol Spitale , Hao Xi , Jieyun Li , Maja J Matarić

Behavioral cues play a significant part in human communication and cognitive perception. In most professional domains, employee recruitment policies are framed such that both professional skills and personality traits are adequately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Anumeha Agrawal , Rosa Anil George , Selvan Sunitha Ravi , Sowmya Kamath S , Anand Kumar M

Classification of human emotions can play an essential role in the design and improvement of human-machine systems. While individual biological signals such as Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Electrodermal Activity (EDA) have been widely used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Anubhav Bhatti , Behnam Behinaein , Dirk Rodenburg , Paul Hungler , Ali Etemad

Advertisements (ads) often include strongly emotional content to leave a lasting impression on the viewer. This work (i) compiles an affective ad dataset capable of evoking coherent emotions across users, as determined from the affective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Abhinav Shukla , Shruti Shriya Gullapuram , Harish Katti , Karthik Yadati , Mohan Kankanhalli , Ramanathan Subramanian

Emotions play a key role in human communication and public presentations. Human emotions are usually expressed through multiple modalities. Therefore, exploring multimodal emotions and their coherence is of great value for understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Haipeng Zeng , Xingbo Wang , Aoyu Wu , Yong Wang , Quan Li , Alex Endert , Huamin Qu

Empathy is a critical factor in fostering positive user experiences in conversational AI. While models can display empathy, it is often generic rather than tailored to specific tasks and contexts. In this work, we introduce a novel…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Erfan Shayegani , Jina Suh , Andy Wilson , Nagu Rangan , Javier Hernandez

We present an annotation approach to capturing emotional and cognitive empathy in student-written peer reviews on business models in German. We propose an annotation scheme that allows us to model emotional and cognitive empathy scores…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Thiemo Wambsganss , Christina Niklaus , Matthias Söllner , Siegfried Handschuh , Jan Marco Leimeister

Empathy is increasingly recognized as a key factor in human-AI communication, yet conventional approaches to "digital empathy" often focus on simulating internal, human-like emotional states while overlooking the inherently subjective,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jina Suh , Lindy Le , Erfan Shayegani , Gonzalo Ramos , Judith Amores , Desmond C. Ong , Mary Czerwinski , Javier Hernandez

Empathy requires perspective-taking: empathetic responses require a person to reason about what another has experienced and communicate that understanding in language. However, most NLP approaches to empathy do not explicitly model this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Jiamin Yang , David Jurgens

Most recent works on sentiment analysis have exploited the text modality. However, millions of hours of video recordings posted on social media platforms everyday hold vital unstructured information that can be exploited to more effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Kia Dashtipour , Mandar Gogate , Erik Cambria , Amir Hussain

Emotion cause analysis has received considerable attention in recent years. Previous studies primarily focused on emotion cause extraction from texts in news articles or microblogs. It is also interesting to discover emotions and their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Fanfan Wang , Zixiang Ding , Rui Xia , Zhaoyu Li , Jianfei Yu