Toward a Real-Time Automated Measure of Empathy and Dominance

Author

Varni, Giovanna ; Camurri, Antonio ; Coletta, Paolo ; Volpe, Gualtiero

Author_Institution

InfoMus Lab.-Dept. of Commun., Syst. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Volume

4

fYear

2009

fDate

29-31 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

843

Lastpage

848

Abstract

This paper presents a number of algorithms and related software modules for the automated analysis in real-time of nonverbal cues related to expressive gesture in social interaction. Analysis is based on phase synchronisation (PS) and recurrence quantification analysis. We start from the hypothesis that PS is one of the low level social signals explaining empathy and dominance in a small group of users. Real-time implementation of the algorithms is available in the EyesWeb XMI social signal processing library. Applications of the approach is in user centric media and in particular in active music listening (EUICT FP7 Project SAME).

Keywords

behavioural sciences computing; gesture recognition; real-time systems; EUICT FP7 Project SAME; EyesWeb XMI social signal processing library; active music listening; algorithms real-time implementation; dominance; empathy; expressive gesture; low level social signal; nonverbal cue; phase synchronisation; real-time automated measure; recurrence quantification analysis; social interaction; software module; user centric media; Algorithm design and analysis; Application software; Art; Biomedical monitoring; Data mining; Human computer interaction; Libraries; Real time systems; Signal processing algorithms; Software algorithms; Social signals; music; synchronisation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Science and Engineering, 2009. CSE '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5334-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3823-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSE.2009.230

Filename

5283210