Intelligent user interfaces in digital games for empowerment and inclusion

Abstract

In the context of the development of Serious Games, this position paper sheds light on their possible use to support and enhance social inclusion through the presentation of three research projects in this domain. We first describe the context of our works and research. We then report on several events joining the scientific community that focused on the research on Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion. Last, we propose some results of our experience in this domain. The presented work particularly highlights the importance of user-centered design in interdisciplinary cooperation with psychologists, sociologists, vulnerable end users and the practitioners. We stress the relevance of progress beyond the state-of-the-art in recently focused areas of AI, such as, in computational theory-of-mind, in affective multimodal computing, in learning of socio-emotional skills, and in recovery of human attention processes. Typical examples are given to illustrate the projects' research results.

Is Deception Emotional? An Emotion-Driven Predictive Approach

“…However, as in every machine learning approach, the accuracy of these systems relies highly on the quality and quantity of the available data and annotation [13]. In addition to these factors, several studies investigated how emotions are influencing facial and vocal expression in a plethora of domains such as intelligent user interfaces [14], human-human interaction [15], human-robot interaction [16], human-computer interaction [17,18], assistive in-car systems [19] and automatic speech emotion recognition [20,21,22].…”