Introducing an emotion-driven assistance system for cognitively impaired individuals

Simone Hantke, Christian Cohrs, Maximilian Schmitt, Benjamin Tannert, Florian Lütkebohmert, Mathias Detmers, Heidi Schelhowe, Björn Schuller

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Abstract

Mental, neurological and/or physical disabilities often affect individuals’ cognitive processes, which in turn can introduce difficulties with remembering what they have learnt. Therefore, completing trivial daily tasks can be challenging and supervision or help from others is constantly needed. In this regard, these individuals with special needs can benefit from nowadays advanced assistance techniques. Within this contribution, a language-driven, workplace integrated, assistance system is being proposed, supporting disabled individuals in the handling of certain activities while taking into account their emotional-cognitive constitution and state. In this context, we present a set of baseline results for emotion recognition tasks and conduct machine learning experiments to benchmark the performance of an automatic emotion recognition system on the collected data. We show that this is a challenging task that can nevertheless be tackled with state-of-the-art methodologies.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputers Helping People with Special Needs - 16th International Conference, ICCHP 2018, Proceedings
EditorsKlaus Miesenberger, Georgios Kouroupetroglou
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages486-494
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783319942766
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event16th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2018 - Linz, Austria
Duration: 11 Jul 201813 Jul 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10896 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2018
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityLinz
Period11/07/1813/07/18

Keywords

  • Affect
  • Disabilities
  • Speech and emotion recognition
  • Speech-driven assistive technology

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