Negotiations@Media:
Over fifty first year MBA Sloan School students conduct a
face-to-face negotiation as part of their
class work. The mock negotiation involved a Middle Manager (MM)
applying for a transfer to a Vice President's (VP) division in a
fictitious company. Many aspects of the job were subject to negotiation
including salary, vacation, company car, division, and health care
benefits; these aspects were summed into an overall objective score
based on their market value. The participants got real time feedback
based on extracted speech features to help them improving the
instrumental outcome of the negotiations.
This project was carried out in collaboration with Prof. Jared Curhan
(Sloan).
Emotive Alert:
Emotive Alert is an HMM based approach for detecting dominant
emotions in voicemail messages. A large set of emotional utterances are
used to train eight emotion models in four axes: activation (calm,
excited), valence (happy, sad), urgency and formality. An emoticon is
sent to the user's cell phone representing the two most dominant
emotions when a new message is received.
This project carried out in
collaboration with
Zeynep Inanoglu.
SpeedDating:
Speed dating is relatively new way of meeting many potential
matches during an evening. Participants interact for five minutes with
their `date', at the end of which they decide if they would like to
provide contact information to him/her, and then they move onto the
next person. A 'match' is found when both singles answer yes, and they
are later provided with mutual contact information. Analyzing the tone
of voice and prosodic style we used four measures of social
signaling: activity level,
engagement, stress, and mirroring to predict how well a session
was.
AntiGroupWare:
AntiGroupWare, a software system that
will help to ameliorate group biases by allowing each group member to
vote anonymously from his or her own computer. With Anti-GroupWare,
people can express dissenting opinions without being identified as the
lone dissenter. More honest information is shared, and groups function
more as aggregates.