Semantic and data-driven hierarchies for personalized models of affect

When building personalized models of affect, hierarchical structures are important in creating levels of separation and sharing between models. Past studies have indicated that semantic hierarchies along demographic divisions perform well in estimating affect. This work focuses on comparing these semantic groupings to data-driven hierarchies. A key question is whether data-driven hierarchies can provide additional ways of understanding affect, outside of semantic boundaries. The experiments are conducted in the context of therapy sessions between personal robots and children with autism. The results reveal novel data-driven hierarchies that could grant better understanding of autism and facilitate more versatile interactions between child and robot.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Liu, Amanda Jin.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Ognjen Rudovic and Rosalind Picard.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121629

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/121629