The Future Belongs to the Curious: Towards Automatic Understanding and Recognition of Curiosity in Children

Nojavanasghari, Behnaz; Baltrušaitis, Tadas; Hughes, Charles E.; Morency, Louis Philippe

doi:10.21437/wocci.2016-3

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“…Previous research has suggested that curiosity may stimulate and sustain not only work-related behavior, such as job performance [19] and worker innovation [20], but also subjective well-being [45]. In support, in the field of neuroscience, it has been demonstrated that curiosity is associated with activity in the hippocampus, brain circuit, the lateral prefrontal cortex, and the caudate, which are recognized as areas partly responsible for creating memories or related to reward and pleasure [46,47]. Moreover, other research has demonstrated an association between curiosity and gray matter density in the precuneus [21] or frontal GMV [48].…”

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Association between Behavioral Ambidexterity and Brain Health

2020

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Appropriately handling and switching exploration of novel knowledge and exploitation of existing knowledge is a fundamental element of genuine innovation in society. Moreover, a mounting number of studies have suggested that such “ambidexterity” is associated not only with organizational performance but also with the human brain. Among these reports, however, there have not been any definitive MRI-based parameters that objectively and easily evaluate such ambidexterity. Therefore, an MRI-based index derived from gray matter volume, called the gray-matter brain healthcare quotient (GM-BHQ), was used to measure the association between ambidexterity and the entire human brain. For this purpose, 200 healthy adults were recruited as subjects to undergo structural T1-weighted imaging and to answer multiple psychological questionnaires. Ambidexterity was evaluated using two scales: the Curiosity and Exploration Inventory II and the Short Grit Scale, as exploration–exploitation indicators of curiosity and grit, respectively. Additionally, to enrich the understanding of these associations, three additional positive thinking scales were used—the General Self-Efficacy Scale, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, and the Life Orientation Test—to evaluate self-efficacy, self-esteem, and optimism, respectively. The authors discovered the GM-BHQ was weakly associated with curiosity, grit, and self-efficacy individually after controlling for age and sex. Furthermore, the GM-BHQ was directly associated with curiosity but indirectly associated with grit in the path model. However, no significant association was found between the GM-BHQ and the other outcome indicators (i.e., self-esteem and optimism). These results suggest that brain health is weakly associated with ambidexterity evaluated using psychological tests.

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“…They were analyzed with fourteen different behavioral indicators and multi modalities. A couple of educational areas seem to be significant with trait curiosity enhancing learning [15]. Similar eliciting of information as stated above is being studied as first person cues, third person cues and future oriented cues.…”

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Comparative Study of Curiosity among Sighted and Visually Impaired Students

Buvana¹

2022

IJMTS

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Purpose: Curiosity is the basis of learning anything new. Children possess heightened curiosity than adults. Several studies have explored the relationship between curiosity and motivation. This trait is also found to enhance learning in children. Does this trait have similar significance in visually impaired children as sighted children? This study aims to understand the difference between the two groups with the standardized Curiosity and Explorative Inventory (CEI-II.). Most of the learning is by observing and seeing. In the absence of this in visual impairment, the ability to become curious becomes limited. Embracing new ideas and learning them can provide insight to their open-mindedness. The explorative nature of curiosity renders in personal growth and personality development. This study opens up areas like motivation, personal growth, and approach to learning new things to be explored as potential areas for future researchers. Design/Methodology/Approach: This comparative study would be based on an equal number of participants of 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th standard groups of children who are sighted and visually impaired. Findings/Result: This study aims to determine the difference and relationship between curiosity levels of sighted and visually impaired school students. Originality/Value: Curiosity trait among visually impaired children compared to those of sighted children in an Indian context is being explored in this study. Paper Type: Comparative analysis based paper.

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“…Designing virtual agents have gained a lot of attention in the recent years where virtual agents have become more and more present in our everyday lives. They can be used for a variety of applications ranging from education [23] and training [24] to therapy [25]. We aim to endow an ECA with the ability to express different interpersonal attitudes depending on the interaction context.…”

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Leveraging the Dynamics of Non-Verbal Behaviors For Social Attitude Modeling

Dermouche¹,

Pélachaud²

2022

IEEE Trans. Affective Comput.

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An Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) is a virtual character designed to interact with humans in the most natural way. In the recent years, ECAs have been deployed in various contexts, such as commercial consulting and social training. In the context of social training, the virtual agent should be able to express different social attitudes in order to train the user in different situations, likely to occur in real life. Previous studies from psychology underlined the importance of considering the non-verbal behavior as well as its evolution over time, for efficient modeling of interpersonal attitudes. Inspired by these works as well as by advances from sequence mining, we propose to model attitude variation as a sequence of non-verbal signals, each being described by its starting time and duration. We demonstrate the efficiency of our model by integrating the sequences representing attitude variation in an ECA and assessing the obtained results based on the interpersonal circumplex, statistical tests and accuracy measures. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to study the relationship, in term of perception, between different attitude variations.

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The Future Belongs to the Curious: Towards Automatic Understanding and Recognition of Curiosity in Children

Cited by 7 publications

References 43 publications

Association between Behavioral Ambidexterity and Brain Health

Association between Behavioral Ambidexterity and Brain Health

Comparative Study of Curiosity among Sighted and Visually Impaired Students

Leveraging the Dynamics of Non-Verbal Behaviors For Social Attitude Modeling

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