WASP Q&A by Alessandra Sciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt Please post your questions for the speakers en-us 2020-10-28 10:39:05 UTC 2025-11-18 07:20:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/704818717/ba71de854e414221d3f5c22c927d390c/Logo_Whisper_spesso.png Press + and add a "post it" here. Try out the system by saying Hi to all! alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/869080702 2020-10-28 10:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/869080702 Spotlight - Please leave below questions for any of them. alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/869094679 (1) Emma Hughson, Roya Javadi, Angelica Lim. Investigating the Role of Culture on Negative Emotional Expressions in the Wild.
(2) Janderson Ferreira, Agostinho A. F. Júnior, Yves M. Galvão, Bruno J. T. Fernandes. Empathy Path Planning.
(3) Leandro H. de S. Silva, Letícia Portela, Nathália R. C. da Silva, Agostinho A. F. Júnior, Bruno J. T. Fernandes. Non-verbal communication empathy assessment using extended OMG-Empathy dataset.




]]> 2020-10-28 10:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/869094679 Spotlight - Please leave below questions for any of them. alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/869096564 (1) Xiaojing Xu, Virginia R. de Sa. Pain Evaluation in Video using Extended Multitask Learning from Multidimensional Measurements.
(2) Kumar T. Rajamani, Srividya Rajamani. An Enhanced Speech Emotion Recognition System using Attention Network.
(3) Marco Matarese, Francesco Rea and Alessandra Sciutti. Shared perception in mutual visual orienting: A comparative study.
(4) Yuchou Chang. Human-Robot Shared Perception for Categorizing Object via Deep Canonical Correlation Analysis.
]]> 2020-10-28 10:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/869096564 Hi from the organizers! alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/869100536 Welcome to the Worshop on Affective Shared Perception!]]> 2020-10-28 10:52:59 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/869100536 Spotlight - Please leave below questions for any of them. alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/872900594 (1) Justin Heer, Jie Yan, Angelica Lim. Joyful or Nervous? A Dataset of Awkward, Embarrassed and Uncomfortable Smiles.
(2) Nikoletta Xirakia, Tayfun Alpay, Pablo Barros, Stefan Wermter. Multimodal Integration for Empathy Recognition.
(3) Matthias Kerzel and Stefan Wermter. Towards a Data Generation Framework for Affective Shared Perception and Social Cue Learning Using Virtual Avatars?
]]> 2020-10-29 12:51:44 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/872900594 Spotlight - Please leave below questions for any of them. alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/872906453 (1) Bukowski H. Tik M., Silani G., Ruff C.C., Windischberger C., & Lamm C.. From shared to distinct affects via rTMS/fMRI combined: Neuroenhancement of self-other distinction in empathy depends on dispositional empathic understanding.
(2) Stefano Rovetta, Zied Mnasri, Francesco Masulli, Alberto Cabri. Emotion detection from speech in dialog systems: advances and challenges.
(3) Finn Rietz, Alexander Sutherland, Suna Bensch, Stefan Wermter, Thomas Hellstr. WoZ4U: An Open Source Wizard-of-Oz Interface for the Pepper robot.

]]> 2020-10-29 12:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/872906453 Post below your questions for Yukie, as new post-it notes. alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/872911546 2020-10-29 12:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/872911546 Post below your questions for Ellen. alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/872970993 2020-10-29 13:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/872970993 Post below your questions for Ginevra. alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/872974254 2020-10-29 13:11:54 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/872974254 Hi to all! hbbukowski https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876706874 2020-10-30 15:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876706874 Hi to all! https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876794895 2020-10-30 15:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876794895 Hello! Thank you for organizing! https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876795661 2020-10-30 15:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876795661 Hello! https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876800826 Marco Matarese]]> 2020-10-30 15:34:18 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876800826 Hello everyone https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876801414 Janderson Ferreira]]> 2020-10-30 15:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876801414 Hello there! https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876807050 Angel over here]]> 2020-10-30 15:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876807050 Hi Everyone! https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876811202 2020-10-30 15:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876811202 Hi all https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876830027 2020-10-30 15:41:09 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876830027 Do you forsee any substantial change in the model to characterize elderly perceptual behavior? alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876838719 2020-10-30 15:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876838719 https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876844238 Have you explored the influence of executive functioning ?

]]> 2020-10-30 15:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876844238 https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876848363 how could the mechanism of hypo priors be carried to the action-perception loop in robots?]]> 2020-10-30 15:45:28 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876848363 Difference between learning predictive coding for adults and children? https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876848730 Paul Hemeren]]> 2020-10-30 15:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876848730 Hi https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876849884 2020-10-30 15:45:49 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876849884 will Dr. Nagai's keynote talk be available on the youtube channel as well? https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876854264 2020-10-30 15:46:46 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876854264 The idea of studying the effect of social context on neurotrasmitters is very interesting. Are you planning to study only dopamine or also other neurotrasmitters (e.g. serotonin)? https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876855475 Fabrizio Leo]]> 2020-10-30 15:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876855475 In case of a robot learning a task do you think it would be useful and possible to find the best level of prior knowledge the robot should use in the task? And how? https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876856334 Carlo Mazzola]]> 2020-10-30 15:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876856334 Just a comment: the hyperparameter H seems temperature in free-energy hypothesis. https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876861077 Koichi Hayakawa

]]> 2020-10-30 15:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876861077 https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876864794 You mentioned the social interaction might increase the dopamine. Do you have a hypothesis for the neural mechanism for this? For example, recognition of the face or eye contact in neocortex might stimulate VTA to produce more dompamine.]]> 2020-10-30 15:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876864794 https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876887437 In Patricia Kuhl's experiment on the "Is Speech learning gated by the social brain?" She reports an experiment where babies interacting with humans develop language, while babies watching the recording of the tutors cannot. ]]> 2020-10-30 15:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876887437 Question for (2) https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876935816 Thank you for the presentation!
I would like to know how did you model the comfortability of a path.]]> 2020-10-30 16:06:10 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876935816 For (1) which other expressions you believe should be considered beyond smile to detect a negative reaction in the partner? alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876992857 2020-10-30 16:18:15 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/876992857 Question by Anna Deichler alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877004209
How does the predictive coding framework handle multi-modal sensory inputs? Did you experiments deal with multimodal signals, or focused on a single modality, eg vision?

]]> 2020-10-30 16:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877004209 Question by Leticia Berto alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877010038  Did you consider the impact of the prior for the same activity but with different people (consequently, different behaviors)?]]> 2020-10-30 16:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877010038 For (2), what is the intuition behind using the SkipRNN? https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877010148 2020-10-30 16:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877010148 For (1) is there a particular reason for choosing a softmax activation function instead of a sigmoid, since the classification was binary? https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877017866 2020-10-30 16:24:22 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877017866 https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877019526 for (1) - in your future work, how would you extract information regarding the scene context?]]> 2020-10-30 16:24:47 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877019526 Overfitting Blender? https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877029047 Have you taken meassures (maybe some form of domain randomization) to mitigate overfitting to the generated blender visuals?]]> 2020-10-30 16:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877029047 For M. Matarese: How does the attention localisation module work? https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877102047 2020-10-30 16:44:33 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877102047 Does personalization take a role in this scenario?Adapting for each individual capabilities?Or in this scenario, a common and more general goal is necessary?If so, how do adapt the solution towards personalization? pabloalvesdebarros https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877186084 2020-10-30 17:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877186084 Do you believe that such type of training could be helpful for other clinical populations? alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877200228 2020-10-30 17:09:11 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877200228 Do you plan to study group training sessions? Do you think they could improve the individual outcomes? https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877223845 2020-10-30 17:15:01 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877223845 For (3): Really nice work! How did you model the intention module? lindalastrico https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877274740 2020-10-30 17:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877274740 For (4) you are currently leveraging EEG and robot vision. Are you considering also using other proxy of human vision? alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877309587 2020-10-30 17:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877309587 For (1) How would you believe the self-other distinction generalizes to interaction with other agents (e.g. robots)? Could this actually end up undermining empathy? alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877377110 2020-10-30 17:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877377110 For (3) question by Murat Kirtay (from the chat) alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877411383 Thanks for the presentation.Is there a public repository for the Pepper GUI?It would be great if you can share the repository. ]]> 2020-10-30 18:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877411383 For (2) are you considering integrating multimodal information, beyond speech alone, to increase consistency in emotion detection? alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877421270 2020-10-30 18:06:03 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877421270 Empathic behaviour could be applied as effectively in adult-robot interaction? alessandrasciutti https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877452295 2020-10-30 18:14:11 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877452295 pabloalvesdebarros https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877454626 To achieve such general empathic behavior, must the robot, or agent, also have its own intrinsic modeling of emotions, motivation, creativity...? ]]> 2020-10-30 18:14:50 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877454626 https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877461838 i have a question for the second study you presented with the empathic tutor - you mentioned also personalization and adaptation in the interaction, on which modality is this done in the interaction?
Ana Tanevska]]> 2020-10-30 18:17:00 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877461838 Do you think appearance is key? Or more higher-level characteristics, like intentionality, are required? https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877470969 2020-10-30 18:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandrasciutti/4wmyo558vrh43uqt/wish/877470969