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A gaze-based method for relating group involvement to individual engagement in multimodal multiparty dialogue

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Catharine Oertel,

Giampiero SalviAuthors Info & Claims

ICMI '13: Proceedings of the 15th ACM on International conference on multimodal interaction

Pages 99 - 106

https://doi.org/10.1145/2522848.2522865

Published: 09 December 2013 Publication History

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This paper is concerned with modelling individual engagement and group involvement as well as their relationship in an eight-party, mutimodal corpus. We propose a number of features (presence, entropy, symmetry and maxgaze) that summarise different aspects of eye-gaze patterns and allow us to describe individual as well as group behaviour in time. We use these features to define similarities between the subjects and we compare this information with the engagement rankings the subjects expressed at the end of each interactions about themselves and the other participants. We analyse how these features relate to four classes of group involvement and we build a classifier that is able to distinguish between those classes with 71\% of accuracy.

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A gaze-based method for relating group involvement to individual engagement in multimodal multiparty dialogue
1. Applied computing
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ICMI '13: Proceedings of the 15th ACM on International conference on multimodal interaction

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DOI:10.1145/2522848

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