A joint framework modeling personality and emotion for personality-consistent conversational agents, using contrastive learning to decouple emotion from semantic content. IVA 2025. …
A full-pipeline platform for interactive AI character experiences, demonstrated through Digital Einstein and deployed at scientific conferences, technology events, and public …
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Emerging Technologies demonstration describing the physical installation and AI integration of Digital Einstein at the Tokyo venue.
Systematic study of multimodal emotion recognition in natural human-chatbot interactions, evaluating text, acoustic, and behavioral signal fusion strategies. ICMI 2024.
A multimodal dialog act classifier integrating text and acoustic features for real-time classification in conversations with digital characters. CUI 2024.
Dynamic personality infusion for chatbots — modulating expressed Big Five personality traits at inference time to improve user engagement and interaction quality. CUI 2024.
A large-scale empirical characterization of the personality dimensions GPT-3 expresses during human-chatbot interaction, using Big Five psychometrics. Published in ACM IMWUT 2024.
Personality trait recognition from everyday smartphone typing dynamics in naturalistic conditions, using deep learning on keystroke patterns. IEEE Transactions on Affective …
Glyph-based visualization technique for representing multimodal affective state data, designed for intuitive perception and scalable display. EuroVis 2020.