Browsing Mathematics (Faculty of) by Supervisor "Hoey, Jesse"
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Affect Lexicon Induction For the Github Subculture Using Distributed Word Representations
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-06)Sentiments and emotions play essential roles in small group interactions, especially in self-organized collaborative groups. Many people view sentiments as universal constructs; however, cultural differences exist in some ... -
Affective and Human-Like Virtual Agents
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-29)In Artificial Intelligence (AI) one of the technological goals is to build intelligent systems that not only perform human level tasks efficiently, but can also simulate and exhibit human-like behaviour. As the emphasis ... -
Affective Sentiment and Emotional Analysis of Pull Request Comments on GitHub
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-15)Sentiment and emotional analysis on online collaborative software development forums can be very useful to gain important insights into the behaviors and personalities of the developers. Such information can later on be ... -
AlphaStar: Considerations and Human-like Constraints for Deep Learning Game Interfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-15)Games have historically been a fruitful area for artificial intelligence (AI) research, and StarCraft in particular has been an important grand challenge because of its strategic complexity, multi-agent dynamics, partial ... -
Analysis of Textual and Non-Textual Sources of Sentiment in Github
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)Github is a collaborative platform that is used primarily for the development of software. In order to gain more insight into how teams work on Github, we wish to analyze the sentiment content available via communication ... -
Classification and Decision-Theoretic Framework for Detecting and Reporting Unseen Falls
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-18)Detecting falls is critical for an activity recognition system to ensure the well being of an individual. However, falls occur rarely and infrequently, therefore sufficient data for them may not be available during training ... -
Continuous Affect Recognition with Different Features and Modeling Approaches in Evaluation-Potency-Activity Space
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-08)Emotions are an essential part of human social interactions. By integrating an automatic affect recognizer into an artificial system, the system can detect humans’ emotions and provide personal responses. We aim to build ... -
Design and Study of Emotions in Virtual Humans for Assistive Technologies
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-27)This thesis presents the design and study of emotionally aligned prompts given by virtual humans for persons with cognitive disabilities such as Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Our goal is to understand ... -
Effects of Personality Traits and Emotional Factors in Pull Request Acceptance.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-26)Social interactions in the form of discussion are an indispensable part of collaborative software development. The discussions are essential for developers to share their views and to form a strong relationship with other ... -
Hierarchical Task Recognition and Planning in Smart Homes with Partial Observability
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-12)Older adults with cognitive impairment have significantly burdened their families and the society due to costly caring and waste of labors. Developing intelligent assistant agents (IAAs) in smart homes that can help those ... -
Obedience-based Multi-Agent Cooperation for Sequential Social Dilemmas
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-14)We propose a mechanism for achieving cooperation and communication in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) settings by intrinsically rewarding agents for obeying the commands of other agents. At every timestep, agents ... -
Parlez-vous le hate?: Examining topics and hate speech in the alternative social network Parler
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)Over the past several years, many “alternative” social networks have sprung up, with an emphasis on minimal moderation and protection of free speech. Although they claim to be politically neutral, they have been a haven ... -
Personality Traits of GitHub Maintainers and Their Effects on Project Success
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)Online collaborative environments have become important virtual workplaces for developers to work on a common problem. GitHub is an example of such environment that hosts a wealth of open source software projects. Questions ... -
Predicting Repository Upkeep with Textual Personality Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-29)GitHub is an excellent democratic source of software. Unlike traditional work groups however, GitHub repositories are primarily anonymous and virtual. Traditional strategies for improving the productivity of a work group ... -
A Socio-Psychological Approach to the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-25)Affect Control Theory (ACT), as a model of human interaction, attempts to capture a part of the human psyche that tends to go overlooked in the study of Artificial Intelligence: the role of emotion in decision making. It ... -
The Unspoken Rules of Engagement: Understanding the Impact of Social Norm Violations in Human-Robot Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-18)As robots increasingly permeate diverse domains such as healthcare, education, service industries, and domestic environments, the significance of understanding and navigating human-robot interactions intensifies. This ...